Disclaimer: In this chapter I own Sam and Reanne.
A/N: I made the quote up... It was a last minute thing to tie up the chapter. Oh and mild language in this chapter, mild.
Rory decided that she was going to wear black fitted pants that kind of flare out at the ends with a white silky turtleneck top with no sleeves. She wore black sandals to match. Reanne and Rory took Sam's car; Sam drove to a nearby pub/dance club. Even in Rory's college days, she's never gone clubbing before.
When they found a place that looks fairly suitable, they parked the car. The three walked into the club without any trouble at all.
"I'm gonna go use the bathroom, I'll be right back," said Rory. Samantha and Reanne both nodded. Rory left for the bathroom and Sam and Rea seated themselves at the counter.
Sam was looking around the room, when she spotted a familiar face, one so familiar that it was that person, that same person that broke Rory's heart. Sam started to worry, for Rory's sake at least. He was in a corner on the other side of the room with a red- head pressed against him. (A/N: no offense to red- heads for whatever reason and I didn't want to make her blonde because that's so cliché).
"What's wrong?" Rea asked.
"See that man in the corner?"
"Yea? He's cute, too bad he's obviously taken.."
"Ha! That man is Rory's ex! I think she still loves him too! I always see her in the love seat with a picture of him folded in her hand."
"Well what're we gonna do?" asked Rea.
"I guess we just keep her away from that corner...."
"But if she sees him, she'll be so crushed!"
"We can only hope she doesn't see him.."
"She doesn't see who?" asked Rory, returning from the bathroom.
"Oh, this girl out there," Rea pointed to the mass of people dancing in the center of the room. "We hope she doesn't see this lame- ass guy who's trying to get phone numbers from every girl there!"
"I see, well I hope we don't run into him!" said Rory.
"Yea, hope we don't run into him..." said Sam, looking off to the corner.
Rory turned to the bartender and asked him for a strawberry daiquiri, no alcohol.
Rea could no longer take the sight that had been engraved in her mind; she needed to get him the hell out of here. So while Rory and Sam sat at the counter drinking and small talking, Rea took it upon herself to kick his sorry ass out.
"Be careful!" said Sam.
"Be careful?" Rory asked; she over heard that one line.
"Oh, I'm gonna do a little mingling," said Rea.
"Yea, and I'm saying to be careful of that guy that wants every girls phone number!"
"Oh yea, be careful! And don't let anyone give you a drink!" said Rory.
"I swear, I promise I'll be good!" said Rea, and it was this sentence that had a double meaning: 1, she'll BE good and 2, she'll be good- she most certainly will be good. On her best behavior- no commotion whatsoever!
Sam nodded and Rea walked and shoved herself into the heap of people jostling themselves in. Sam didn't want Rory to think that there was anything in particular going on so she started making conversation with her.
"So, how's work, I feel like I don't even know you anymore!" said Sam.
Rory chuckled and said, "So you wanna know how well work is going when you feel like you don't know me anymore?"
"Hey, it's a start!"
Rory laughed and said, "Well it's no different than it always is. Still got that Boston Public-esque feel to it..."
"Ah, so we're in that area now, are we!"
"Yea, but I think my best class would have to be the juniors.."
"Well that's good!"
"Yea... Why the sudden interest in my work?"
"I just wanted to know, is all," said Sam.
Rea made it to the back of the room, to the corner that HE was doing his dirty work in. She stood to the side trying to listen to the conversation they were having.
"One dance," she said, "I promise I don't bite..."
"Uh, no sorry, I don't dance... And that's good that you don't bite!" said Jess.
"Oh come on, what's one dance gonna do to ya?"
"One too many things."
"Fine," the woman said, and she crossed her arms.
Jess sighed and looked away. He shoved his hands in his pockets as the red- head slid her arms around Jess. You could almost see him freeze in that moment.
Rea needed to get in there. But what the hell was she going to say? Suddenly she found something that someone as ditzy as her would love to hear.
Rea ran over to the two and turned to the red- head, only to say, "Omigosh, did you know that Justin Timberlake is here?!" She hoped it would work- please let it work.
"Really?! Where??" said the red- head.
"The last I saw him, he went that way!" said Rea as she pointed out the door.
She ran out the door and started calling, "Justin! Justin!"
Everyone around her looked at her weird. Rea laughed.
"Um, thanks?" said Jess.
Rea shook her head and said, "And now it's your turn to disperse."
"Excuse me?" Jess asked in disbelief.
"You heard me!"
"Well last I checked I heard that this place was open to the public!"
"Yea, well last I checked, I heard you broke that girls heart!" said Rea as she pointed over to Rory.
Jess's eyes went big as he sighed and leaned back on the wall.
"Now you can do yourself and her a favor, by leaving."
Jess shook his head.
"Just leave it a clean cut mister!" said Rea warningly.
He continued to shake his head. (A/N: ya know, the way he shakes his head and has those puckered lips..hehe)
"Just go! You have no idea what she'll do if she sees you! You don't know how hung over she is about you! It's borderline pathetic, but for the pain you've caused her, I say it's just as expected! But hey, what do I know, I'm just another face in the crowd..."
"No, you go! And did it ever occur to you that I could be a little hung over her?! No, it didn't! I'm not the one going around preaching about the pain I've caused her, I know what kind of pain I caused her- I did it!!"
Rea stood there taking it all in.
"So you go, and you leave and you think about how evenly spread out this pain and anger is!"
"You are unbelievable!" Rea said in a low and scornful voice.
"No, you are! You come here and you tell me to leave just because you think that there'll be a little drama over something that is so ancient history its got dust over it?!"
"Hey, she's my friend and I'm only looking out for her!"
"Like you said, you're just another face in the crowd.."
Rea shook her head and walked away.
Sam saw how stormy Rea's eyes looked and said to Rory that she'd be right back. Rory nodded and turned to her drink and smiled. She frowned, all of a sudden and said to the bartender, "Fill er up!"
Back where Sam and Rea were, Rea was going off on a tangent. She was screaming about how insensitive he is and that he has a lot of issues.
"Hey, hey, thanks for letting China know about this problem..." Said Sam trying to hush her.
"Oh, sorry," Rea said in a lower voice. "So now he's just gonna stay there and pout!"
"Well, no.. I think your speech got to him... Look.." Sam said as she pointed to Jess walking out of the room.
They were relieved that he was gone and were so caught up, that they didn't realize Rory had seen him walk out.
They both walked back to Rory and smiled.
She tried, really she did, she tried so hard to smile. But she couldn't... How can she?! She just saw the one person she least expected to see!
Sam and Rea looked sympathetically at her as she stood up and sped out of the room; leaving Rea and Sam worried.
They followed her outside to where she caught up with Jess.
Rea and Sam both stood back and waited while she went off to yell at Jess, because that's what it looked like.
Rory yanked Jess to the side and said in a low tone, "Hey, it's nice to see you again."
"There's no need to be sardonic, Rory..." Jess said, glancing from side to side at the people whom were staring at them.
"Really? 'Cause I think I deserve to be sardonic, I mean it's not too far from being sarcastic, but hey it's right up there!"
"You're rambling..."
"Yea well let me ramble damnit! You..." she said shaking her head and smiling so mockingly that you couldn't tell if she was angry or not, "You are incredible.." she said and walked away.
They both parted and left the after taste of hate wafting through the air.
Better to have tasted the resentful bite of hate then to have kept it all inside.
Rory walked back to her friends and sighed sadly.
"Come on, lets go home.." Said Sam.
Rory nodded and started walking. She glanced back at him and felt that at least part of her let out a lot of the anger she had kept rotating in her mind.
Sam dropped Rea off at her apartment and then drove herself and Rory to their home.
Rea sighed as she busted open the crappy door, "What a night...."
"Yea, what a night..." said Rory. "I just.. I can't believe him! He just makes me so angry that I just wanna scream!"
"It's okay if you do, I'll just tell the neighbors you saw a spider..." said Sam quietly.
"No, it's okay..." said Rory as she laid down on the couch.
"I'm gonna go to sleep now," said Sam walking into her room. Rory nodded.
Rory went into her room and pulled out a box from underneath her bed. She opened it with caution and started to pull things out. Ticket stubs, movie passes, small wrappers with sentimental value, and many other things.
She pulled out several books; the one that meant the most to her was Howl, by Allen Ginsberg.
It was a rush of memories that hit her at that very moment; she didn't want to forget him or any of the things he did for her. She bent her head and leaned against her bed. She walked over to the window and sat in the loveseat. She stared out at world; it was awake and living in every moment, something she hadn't done since he left her.
She opened her window and in rushed a gust of air. Rory breathed it all in and soon fell asleep.
She was just a dreamer watching life pass her by, nothing else matters.
You can never care about anything and it wont matter; you can never care about yourself and then nothing else matters.
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A/N: I made the quote up... It was a last minute thing to tie up the chapter. Oh and mild language in this chapter, mild.
Rory decided that she was going to wear black fitted pants that kind of flare out at the ends with a white silky turtleneck top with no sleeves. She wore black sandals to match. Reanne and Rory took Sam's car; Sam drove to a nearby pub/dance club. Even in Rory's college days, she's never gone clubbing before.
When they found a place that looks fairly suitable, they parked the car. The three walked into the club without any trouble at all.
"I'm gonna go use the bathroom, I'll be right back," said Rory. Samantha and Reanne both nodded. Rory left for the bathroom and Sam and Rea seated themselves at the counter.
Sam was looking around the room, when she spotted a familiar face, one so familiar that it was that person, that same person that broke Rory's heart. Sam started to worry, for Rory's sake at least. He was in a corner on the other side of the room with a red- head pressed against him. (A/N: no offense to red- heads for whatever reason and I didn't want to make her blonde because that's so cliché).
"What's wrong?" Rea asked.
"See that man in the corner?"
"Yea? He's cute, too bad he's obviously taken.."
"Ha! That man is Rory's ex! I think she still loves him too! I always see her in the love seat with a picture of him folded in her hand."
"Well what're we gonna do?" asked Rea.
"I guess we just keep her away from that corner...."
"But if she sees him, she'll be so crushed!"
"We can only hope she doesn't see him.."
"She doesn't see who?" asked Rory, returning from the bathroom.
"Oh, this girl out there," Rea pointed to the mass of people dancing in the center of the room. "We hope she doesn't see this lame- ass guy who's trying to get phone numbers from every girl there!"
"I see, well I hope we don't run into him!" said Rory.
"Yea, hope we don't run into him..." said Sam, looking off to the corner.
Rory turned to the bartender and asked him for a strawberry daiquiri, no alcohol.
Rea could no longer take the sight that had been engraved in her mind; she needed to get him the hell out of here. So while Rory and Sam sat at the counter drinking and small talking, Rea took it upon herself to kick his sorry ass out.
"Be careful!" said Sam.
"Be careful?" Rory asked; she over heard that one line.
"Oh, I'm gonna do a little mingling," said Rea.
"Yea, and I'm saying to be careful of that guy that wants every girls phone number!"
"Oh yea, be careful! And don't let anyone give you a drink!" said Rory.
"I swear, I promise I'll be good!" said Rea, and it was this sentence that had a double meaning: 1, she'll BE good and 2, she'll be good- she most certainly will be good. On her best behavior- no commotion whatsoever!
Sam nodded and Rea walked and shoved herself into the heap of people jostling themselves in. Sam didn't want Rory to think that there was anything in particular going on so she started making conversation with her.
"So, how's work, I feel like I don't even know you anymore!" said Sam.
Rory chuckled and said, "So you wanna know how well work is going when you feel like you don't know me anymore?"
"Hey, it's a start!"
Rory laughed and said, "Well it's no different than it always is. Still got that Boston Public-esque feel to it..."
"Ah, so we're in that area now, are we!"
"Yea, but I think my best class would have to be the juniors.."
"Well that's good!"
"Yea... Why the sudden interest in my work?"
"I just wanted to know, is all," said Sam.
Rea made it to the back of the room, to the corner that HE was doing his dirty work in. She stood to the side trying to listen to the conversation they were having.
"One dance," she said, "I promise I don't bite..."
"Uh, no sorry, I don't dance... And that's good that you don't bite!" said Jess.
"Oh come on, what's one dance gonna do to ya?"
"One too many things."
"Fine," the woman said, and she crossed her arms.
Jess sighed and looked away. He shoved his hands in his pockets as the red- head slid her arms around Jess. You could almost see him freeze in that moment.
Rea needed to get in there. But what the hell was she going to say? Suddenly she found something that someone as ditzy as her would love to hear.
Rea ran over to the two and turned to the red- head, only to say, "Omigosh, did you know that Justin Timberlake is here?!" She hoped it would work- please let it work.
"Really?! Where??" said the red- head.
"The last I saw him, he went that way!" said Rea as she pointed out the door.
She ran out the door and started calling, "Justin! Justin!"
Everyone around her looked at her weird. Rea laughed.
"Um, thanks?" said Jess.
Rea shook her head and said, "And now it's your turn to disperse."
"Excuse me?" Jess asked in disbelief.
"You heard me!"
"Well last I checked I heard that this place was open to the public!"
"Yea, well last I checked, I heard you broke that girls heart!" said Rea as she pointed over to Rory.
Jess's eyes went big as he sighed and leaned back on the wall.
"Now you can do yourself and her a favor, by leaving."
Jess shook his head.
"Just leave it a clean cut mister!" said Rea warningly.
He continued to shake his head. (A/N: ya know, the way he shakes his head and has those puckered lips..hehe)
"Just go! You have no idea what she'll do if she sees you! You don't know how hung over she is about you! It's borderline pathetic, but for the pain you've caused her, I say it's just as expected! But hey, what do I know, I'm just another face in the crowd..."
"No, you go! And did it ever occur to you that I could be a little hung over her?! No, it didn't! I'm not the one going around preaching about the pain I've caused her, I know what kind of pain I caused her- I did it!!"
Rea stood there taking it all in.
"So you go, and you leave and you think about how evenly spread out this pain and anger is!"
"You are unbelievable!" Rea said in a low and scornful voice.
"No, you are! You come here and you tell me to leave just because you think that there'll be a little drama over something that is so ancient history its got dust over it?!"
"Hey, she's my friend and I'm only looking out for her!"
"Like you said, you're just another face in the crowd.."
Rea shook her head and walked away.
Sam saw how stormy Rea's eyes looked and said to Rory that she'd be right back. Rory nodded and turned to her drink and smiled. She frowned, all of a sudden and said to the bartender, "Fill er up!"
Back where Sam and Rea were, Rea was going off on a tangent. She was screaming about how insensitive he is and that he has a lot of issues.
"Hey, hey, thanks for letting China know about this problem..." Said Sam trying to hush her.
"Oh, sorry," Rea said in a lower voice. "So now he's just gonna stay there and pout!"
"Well, no.. I think your speech got to him... Look.." Sam said as she pointed to Jess walking out of the room.
They were relieved that he was gone and were so caught up, that they didn't realize Rory had seen him walk out.
They both walked back to Rory and smiled.
She tried, really she did, she tried so hard to smile. But she couldn't... How can she?! She just saw the one person she least expected to see!
Sam and Rea looked sympathetically at her as she stood up and sped out of the room; leaving Rea and Sam worried.
They followed her outside to where she caught up with Jess.
Rea and Sam both stood back and waited while she went off to yell at Jess, because that's what it looked like.
Rory yanked Jess to the side and said in a low tone, "Hey, it's nice to see you again."
"There's no need to be sardonic, Rory..." Jess said, glancing from side to side at the people whom were staring at them.
"Really? 'Cause I think I deserve to be sardonic, I mean it's not too far from being sarcastic, but hey it's right up there!"
"You're rambling..."
"Yea well let me ramble damnit! You..." she said shaking her head and smiling so mockingly that you couldn't tell if she was angry or not, "You are incredible.." she said and walked away.
They both parted and left the after taste of hate wafting through the air.
Better to have tasted the resentful bite of hate then to have kept it all inside.
Rory walked back to her friends and sighed sadly.
"Come on, lets go home.." Said Sam.
Rory nodded and started walking. She glanced back at him and felt that at least part of her let out a lot of the anger she had kept rotating in her mind.
Sam dropped Rea off at her apartment and then drove herself and Rory to their home.
Rea sighed as she busted open the crappy door, "What a night...."
"Yea, what a night..." said Rory. "I just.. I can't believe him! He just makes me so angry that I just wanna scream!"
"It's okay if you do, I'll just tell the neighbors you saw a spider..." said Sam quietly.
"No, it's okay..." said Rory as she laid down on the couch.
"I'm gonna go to sleep now," said Sam walking into her room. Rory nodded.
Rory went into her room and pulled out a box from underneath her bed. She opened it with caution and started to pull things out. Ticket stubs, movie passes, small wrappers with sentimental value, and many other things.
She pulled out several books; the one that meant the most to her was Howl, by Allen Ginsberg.
It was a rush of memories that hit her at that very moment; she didn't want to forget him or any of the things he did for her. She bent her head and leaned against her bed. She walked over to the window and sat in the loveseat. She stared out at world; it was awake and living in every moment, something she hadn't done since he left her.
She opened her window and in rushed a gust of air. Rory breathed it all in and soon fell asleep.
She was just a dreamer watching life pass her by, nothing else matters.
You can never care about anything and it wont matter; you can never care about yourself and then nothing else matters.
HEY, HEY IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN!! REVIEW!! I WAS QUITE OVERWHELMED AT ALL THE GOOD PRAISES I WAS GETTING FOR THIS STORY! THANKS SO MUCH; IT MEANS A LOT TO ME! REVIEW, REVIEW!! PLEASE AND THANK YOU!