Disclaimer: I own Sam.
The next morning, Rory woke up earlier than usual. She sat up in bed, in her pajamas, and started making a list of things she wanted to do that day.
"Number one," she said to herself, "clean the house. Number two: go get laundry done. Number three: go out for a special breakfast. Number four: stop at the bookstore. Number five: go to the park. Number six: stop at the store to get ice cream and movies. All done."
"Hey," said Sam, surprised, "I didn't know people were up at this ungodly hour."
"Well, I thought that since it's my weekend I should plan a few things to do and actually enjoy this time away from hell (school)."
Sam nodded as she pulled her robe tighter around herself and crossed her arms.
"You feeling okay?" Sam asked.
Rory breathed deeply and said, "Ya know, I think I'm doing fine. I mean, I'm doing better than I expected.."
Sam nodded again as she said, "Well I hope you have a good day, I'm gonna go out for breakfast with Will, the guy I went out with not so long ago..."
"Oh, I see, well have fun..."
Sam waved Rory bye and Rory got out of bed.
After Rory finished vacuuming, she rolled it up and stopped shortly to look out on her patio; saw how bare it was, so she decided that she wanted flowers out there. Rory made a note for that to be done later. In no time did Rory finish cleaning the apartment.
When Rory finished doing laundry, she went back to her apartment to clean up for the rest of her day.
It was about 10:41 when Rory finished and she checked her list. The next thing to do was to go out for breakfast.
After breakfast Rory stopped off at the bookstore, she bought a few books that she thought she had but were somehow lost. The next thing was to go to the park. Driving down the road, she looked to her left and saw Central Park.
"Nu- uh! After watching home alone 2, I don't want to go there!" she said to herself.
She kept driving and came around to Washington Square Park. She was reluctant to go at first, but she was tired of driving and just wanted to sit on the grass. Rory parked her car and walked to a nicely flourished piece of ground with grass.
She was lucky; she had a tree to give her shade. She sighed in a peaceful kind of way; she had found comfort. She pulled out one of the books she bought and started reading it. It happened to be 'Animal Farm', by George Orwell. She nearly got through half the book when she grew tired of reading so she put the book down.
Glancing around the park she noticed how green the grass was and made a self comment about how rare it is to find such green grass. She pondered upon her last comment and said to herself, "Okay, goin' a little crazy there.."
Her eyes roamed across the grass to a park bench and there sat lazily but HIM. All of the rage Rory had bottled up inside started to bubble again. He took a glimpse, away from his book in hand, of the park too and his eyes met hers.
All the ire that was kept hushed inside of her was quite evident in her eyes, as the two exchanged silent glares.
He wasn't too far away to shout to, but he wasn't too close either. Rory was rather thankful for this, because she didn't know what she would do if he were any closer to her. He stood to leave and started shaking his head.
"Always running away!" Rory shouted to him.
He turned around to face her; she was about 10 feet away. His eyes were burning with anger, as were hers.
"Beats stickin' 'round here!" he said, shrugging it off.
She started walking away when he yelled, "No one asked you to leave!"
"Well no one asked me to stay either!" she shouted back
"So stay!" he said, shrugging again.
"I don't want to!" Rory shouted, crossing her arms.
"Hey, it's a pretty big park, we can dominate different ends!..."
"I'm fine thank you!" She said as she turned on her heel to leave.
"Haven't changed at all!.." he shouted.
"Thank you for the update, but neither have you.. genius.."
Then all of a sudden, he started laughing!
'Why the hell is he laughing?!' Rory asked herself.
He was laughing hysterically. What is with this guy?!
Rory looked around, wiped her face, and pulled back her hair.
"Why are you laughing?" she asked him as she drew herself closer to the man who was practically rolling on the ground, laughing.
This was not like him, he was not one to just burst out laughing in mid argument. Who is this?!
"Get up! People are looking at you!" she hissed.
As his laughing subsided, he stood to dust himself off.
Rory crossed her arms, expecting one hell of a reason as to why he was laughing like a mad man.
"I'm sorry, that was just too funny to resist!" he said, chuckling.
"What...?" She asked, confused.
"Just the two of us, arguing about who should stay or who should go... it was just too funny!" he said, the last line almost tasted like sarcasm.
"Are you being sarcastic?" she asked, not sure if he really was.
"No..." he said, almost sounding offended.
"Oh, I could never tell if you were or not..."
"Whatever.." he said going back to being angry.
'and just when I thought that he wasn't being such a sour baby!' Rory said in her head.
"What the hell are you? Bipolar?!" Rory shouted.
He continued to walk away.
"Wow, he really is...!" Rory said to herself, mockingly of course.
She ran up to his side to stop him. She sighed as he looked at her expectantly.
"Can we just... talk?....." she asked him.
He stood there as if he were timing her.
Just then a car drove by blasting Rooney's Sorry, Sorry: "I'm sorry sorry for making your life a living hell.."
"Ironic, isn't it..." Rory said with her hands on her hips. She looked at Jess and he rolled his eyes.
"What do you want from me?" he asked, agitation spilling from his lips.
She grabbed held of his arm and said, "For you to say sorry.."
Jess suddenly looked nervous, he was never one for apologizing; especially to a girl he once dated. But Rory was different, he didn't just date her, he loved her- loves her; he still loves her.
He stared into her eyes and saw how much pain he had caused her. He knew how much pain he caused her, it was just actually seeing it for the first time that struck him down.
He shoved his hands in his pockets and looked way off into the distance. The second he looked away, Rory pulled his face towards hers. He could still feel her touch on his check and sighed as it felt as though it seared his skin like acid.
He looked her straight in the eyes and said, "I'm sorry... Really I am.... I never, ever; in an infinite amount of years, meant to hurt you.."
Rory smiled a sad smile and he hugged her. Jess wasn't being like himself and part of her thought that this was a good thing and the other part didn't know what to think about it, or him. It took a while, but she hugged him back.
Closing her eyes, his scent took her so back- back to the times when life wasn't so difficult and all you had to worry about was if you were going to fail your Spanish test or ace it. Opening her eyes to the present, she smiled as she thought, 'this is one test I aced..'
He held her for the longest time and she was so comfortable in his arms. Everything sunk in so fast it was like a rush of blood to the head; she missed him so much. They both pulled away, but still holding onto each other. Jess smiled a sincere smile; something she had rarely seen in the past.
He swept back the loose ends of her hair that danced around her face. The whole situation felt surreal; surreal in the sense that it felt like a fairy tale. Something that you could never in a thousand years dream about, but when you do dream about it, you want to hold on to it, tightly, because it's your dream and you had it for a reason and that reason is because you had it coming- almost like fate. There are certain times where life gives you a chance to choose your fate and sometimes it's taken completely out of your hands. But when you do get to choose your fate, you can only hope for the best and that's what Rory did, hope for the best.
"Can I ask you something?" Rory said in a voice so soft that a mouse could hear her best. "Did you.. did you stop, you know.. loving me?"
He smiled at her curiosity and said, "Rory, there wasn't a day where I stopped THINKING about you!"
She smiled and hooked arms with him. She started guiding him down the sidewalk.
"Hey do you have any plans as of right now?" Rory asked.
"Not that I know of..." said Jess.
"Do you maybe wanna come to a flower shop with me?"
"Flowers?" Jess asked, completely confused.
"Mm, for my patio. It looks really bare so I wanted to put flowers out on it.."
"You do know that flowers require nurture right?"
"Hey! How hard is it to water flowers everyday?"
Jess looked questionably at her.
"Well it isn't!" she said, defending herself.
"Okay, okay," he said, putting his hands up in resistance.
"To the flower shop?" she asked.
"To the flower shop!" he said with determination.
They waltzed down the sidewalk, abandoning the car and enjoying each other's presence, to the flower shop.
When they came across one, Rory walked up to the front of the shop and saw that in a line were petunias, roses, lilies, gardenias, tulips, daisies, and so much more.
The gardenias smelt beautiful; it would be hard to describe their scent. Jess came up behind her and lightly pressed the small of her back. His touch was so electrifying that she shot up, in an instant. She turned to face him and said, "What're your favorite flowers?"
He looked deep in thought and responded with, "I don't think I have a favorite flower."
"Hmm, well I suppose now is as good as any time to find out, right?"
"I guess.." he said, nodding.
She took hold of his hand and led him to the section of just the lilies. He stopped and looked at her. She said, "Your thoughts?"
Jess took a step closer to the lilies, they were stunning; their colors meshed fantastically, but it wasn't worth the throne of favoritism.
He stood straight and turned to face her.
"The results?" she asked.
"Not for me," he said, shrugging it off.
Rory nodded and led him to the section just for tulips. Their bulb like figure was simple; yet displayed such elegance. The pastel colors were beautiful and Jess had decided that this was it; it was this one.
"These, I like these!" said Jess.
"Okay, okay! Calm down there!" said Rory, chuckling.
Jess smiled, as did Rory. She said, "Pick a color.."
".. pink and yellow."
Rory said, "Hmm, very girly colors from a man such as yourself.."
Jess stood straight and responded, "I'm not saying I like the colors, I'm saying it would suit you. Because that's why we're here, to pick out flowers for your patio."
Rory nodded and said, "Ahuh, okay... Whatever you say...."
Jess crossed his arms as Rory picked a pot of pink and yellow tulips. She walked back to the gardenias and said to Jess, "can you pick one of them up." He did and they walked to the cashier. Rory paid for the flowers and when she walked out of the shop with Jess in tow, they walked back to her car.
After Rory had placed the flowers in her car, she turned to Jess and said, "So... What-a... what do we do now?.."
"I.. (sigh). whatever you want."
'Here we go again! Ladies and gentlemen, the world famous indecisive man!'
"(Sigh) Jess, what do YOU want to happen?"
"Honestly, I don't know.. I really don't know..."
Rory nodded and said, "When you do know, I'll be at that tree over there everyday at 4 o' clock, waiting 'till next week Friday..."
"An ultimatum?! That's rich, really that is!" Jess said.
"Well, I'm not going to wait for forever, Jess!"
"Fine!"
"Fine!"
With that he walked away and along with him he brought dismay (A/N: didn't mean for that to rhyme, hehe).
Rory pulled herself into her car and sat there, just staring straight ahead at that tree. It would be a bittersweet road to unwind to, but if it were worth it to talk to him again, it would be worth it to wait.
And so she did...
HOOKAY, REVIEW TIME!! I WORKED HARD, AS DO MANY AUTHORS WHEN THEY MAKE A CHAPTER FOR THEIR STORY... SO PLEASE, PLEASE REVIEW!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
NEXT CHAPTER WILL FEATURE: JESS AT THE RESTAURANT HE WAS IN WHEN HE SAW RORY, REA WILL COME UP TO HIM TO TAKE HIS ORDER AND HE'LL BACK AWAY, FEARING VERBAL ABUSE.. THEN LATER, TRYIN NOT TO GET TO THE NITY GRITY OF THE DETAILS HERE, JESS COMES TO RORY'S SCHOOL WHERE SHE WORKS..MUCH DRAMA IS SUPPOSED TO BE INTENDED, IT MIGHT CHANGE THOUGH......
The next morning, Rory woke up earlier than usual. She sat up in bed, in her pajamas, and started making a list of things she wanted to do that day.
"Number one," she said to herself, "clean the house. Number two: go get laundry done. Number three: go out for a special breakfast. Number four: stop at the bookstore. Number five: go to the park. Number six: stop at the store to get ice cream and movies. All done."
"Hey," said Sam, surprised, "I didn't know people were up at this ungodly hour."
"Well, I thought that since it's my weekend I should plan a few things to do and actually enjoy this time away from hell (school)."
Sam nodded as she pulled her robe tighter around herself and crossed her arms.
"You feeling okay?" Sam asked.
Rory breathed deeply and said, "Ya know, I think I'm doing fine. I mean, I'm doing better than I expected.."
Sam nodded again as she said, "Well I hope you have a good day, I'm gonna go out for breakfast with Will, the guy I went out with not so long ago..."
"Oh, I see, well have fun..."
Sam waved Rory bye and Rory got out of bed.
After Rory finished vacuuming, she rolled it up and stopped shortly to look out on her patio; saw how bare it was, so she decided that she wanted flowers out there. Rory made a note for that to be done later. In no time did Rory finish cleaning the apartment.
When Rory finished doing laundry, she went back to her apartment to clean up for the rest of her day.
It was about 10:41 when Rory finished and she checked her list. The next thing to do was to go out for breakfast.
After breakfast Rory stopped off at the bookstore, she bought a few books that she thought she had but were somehow lost. The next thing was to go to the park. Driving down the road, she looked to her left and saw Central Park.
"Nu- uh! After watching home alone 2, I don't want to go there!" she said to herself.
She kept driving and came around to Washington Square Park. She was reluctant to go at first, but she was tired of driving and just wanted to sit on the grass. Rory parked her car and walked to a nicely flourished piece of ground with grass.
She was lucky; she had a tree to give her shade. She sighed in a peaceful kind of way; she had found comfort. She pulled out one of the books she bought and started reading it. It happened to be 'Animal Farm', by George Orwell. She nearly got through half the book when she grew tired of reading so she put the book down.
Glancing around the park she noticed how green the grass was and made a self comment about how rare it is to find such green grass. She pondered upon her last comment and said to herself, "Okay, goin' a little crazy there.."
Her eyes roamed across the grass to a park bench and there sat lazily but HIM. All of the rage Rory had bottled up inside started to bubble again. He took a glimpse, away from his book in hand, of the park too and his eyes met hers.
All the ire that was kept hushed inside of her was quite evident in her eyes, as the two exchanged silent glares.
He wasn't too far away to shout to, but he wasn't too close either. Rory was rather thankful for this, because she didn't know what she would do if he were any closer to her. He stood to leave and started shaking his head.
"Always running away!" Rory shouted to him.
He turned around to face her; she was about 10 feet away. His eyes were burning with anger, as were hers.
"Beats stickin' 'round here!" he said, shrugging it off.
She started walking away when he yelled, "No one asked you to leave!"
"Well no one asked me to stay either!" she shouted back
"So stay!" he said, shrugging again.
"I don't want to!" Rory shouted, crossing her arms.
"Hey, it's a pretty big park, we can dominate different ends!..."
"I'm fine thank you!" She said as she turned on her heel to leave.
"Haven't changed at all!.." he shouted.
"Thank you for the update, but neither have you.. genius.."
Then all of a sudden, he started laughing!
'Why the hell is he laughing?!' Rory asked herself.
He was laughing hysterically. What is with this guy?!
Rory looked around, wiped her face, and pulled back her hair.
"Why are you laughing?" she asked him as she drew herself closer to the man who was practically rolling on the ground, laughing.
This was not like him, he was not one to just burst out laughing in mid argument. Who is this?!
"Get up! People are looking at you!" she hissed.
As his laughing subsided, he stood to dust himself off.
Rory crossed her arms, expecting one hell of a reason as to why he was laughing like a mad man.
"I'm sorry, that was just too funny to resist!" he said, chuckling.
"What...?" She asked, confused.
"Just the two of us, arguing about who should stay or who should go... it was just too funny!" he said, the last line almost tasted like sarcasm.
"Are you being sarcastic?" she asked, not sure if he really was.
"No..." he said, almost sounding offended.
"Oh, I could never tell if you were or not..."
"Whatever.." he said going back to being angry.
'and just when I thought that he wasn't being such a sour baby!' Rory said in her head.
"What the hell are you? Bipolar?!" Rory shouted.
He continued to walk away.
"Wow, he really is...!" Rory said to herself, mockingly of course.
She ran up to his side to stop him. She sighed as he looked at her expectantly.
"Can we just... talk?....." she asked him.
He stood there as if he were timing her.
Just then a car drove by blasting Rooney's Sorry, Sorry: "I'm sorry sorry for making your life a living hell.."
"Ironic, isn't it..." Rory said with her hands on her hips. She looked at Jess and he rolled his eyes.
"What do you want from me?" he asked, agitation spilling from his lips.
She grabbed held of his arm and said, "For you to say sorry.."
Jess suddenly looked nervous, he was never one for apologizing; especially to a girl he once dated. But Rory was different, he didn't just date her, he loved her- loves her; he still loves her.
He stared into her eyes and saw how much pain he had caused her. He knew how much pain he caused her, it was just actually seeing it for the first time that struck him down.
He shoved his hands in his pockets and looked way off into the distance. The second he looked away, Rory pulled his face towards hers. He could still feel her touch on his check and sighed as it felt as though it seared his skin like acid.
He looked her straight in the eyes and said, "I'm sorry... Really I am.... I never, ever; in an infinite amount of years, meant to hurt you.."
Rory smiled a sad smile and he hugged her. Jess wasn't being like himself and part of her thought that this was a good thing and the other part didn't know what to think about it, or him. It took a while, but she hugged him back.
Closing her eyes, his scent took her so back- back to the times when life wasn't so difficult and all you had to worry about was if you were going to fail your Spanish test or ace it. Opening her eyes to the present, she smiled as she thought, 'this is one test I aced..'
He held her for the longest time and she was so comfortable in his arms. Everything sunk in so fast it was like a rush of blood to the head; she missed him so much. They both pulled away, but still holding onto each other. Jess smiled a sincere smile; something she had rarely seen in the past.
He swept back the loose ends of her hair that danced around her face. The whole situation felt surreal; surreal in the sense that it felt like a fairy tale. Something that you could never in a thousand years dream about, but when you do dream about it, you want to hold on to it, tightly, because it's your dream and you had it for a reason and that reason is because you had it coming- almost like fate. There are certain times where life gives you a chance to choose your fate and sometimes it's taken completely out of your hands. But when you do get to choose your fate, you can only hope for the best and that's what Rory did, hope for the best.
"Can I ask you something?" Rory said in a voice so soft that a mouse could hear her best. "Did you.. did you stop, you know.. loving me?"
He smiled at her curiosity and said, "Rory, there wasn't a day where I stopped THINKING about you!"
She smiled and hooked arms with him. She started guiding him down the sidewalk.
"Hey do you have any plans as of right now?" Rory asked.
"Not that I know of..." said Jess.
"Do you maybe wanna come to a flower shop with me?"
"Flowers?" Jess asked, completely confused.
"Mm, for my patio. It looks really bare so I wanted to put flowers out on it.."
"You do know that flowers require nurture right?"
"Hey! How hard is it to water flowers everyday?"
Jess looked questionably at her.
"Well it isn't!" she said, defending herself.
"Okay, okay," he said, putting his hands up in resistance.
"To the flower shop?" she asked.
"To the flower shop!" he said with determination.
They waltzed down the sidewalk, abandoning the car and enjoying each other's presence, to the flower shop.
When they came across one, Rory walked up to the front of the shop and saw that in a line were petunias, roses, lilies, gardenias, tulips, daisies, and so much more.
The gardenias smelt beautiful; it would be hard to describe their scent. Jess came up behind her and lightly pressed the small of her back. His touch was so electrifying that she shot up, in an instant. She turned to face him and said, "What're your favorite flowers?"
He looked deep in thought and responded with, "I don't think I have a favorite flower."
"Hmm, well I suppose now is as good as any time to find out, right?"
"I guess.." he said, nodding.
She took hold of his hand and led him to the section of just the lilies. He stopped and looked at her. She said, "Your thoughts?"
Jess took a step closer to the lilies, they were stunning; their colors meshed fantastically, but it wasn't worth the throne of favoritism.
He stood straight and turned to face her.
"The results?" she asked.
"Not for me," he said, shrugging it off.
Rory nodded and led him to the section just for tulips. Their bulb like figure was simple; yet displayed such elegance. The pastel colors were beautiful and Jess had decided that this was it; it was this one.
"These, I like these!" said Jess.
"Okay, okay! Calm down there!" said Rory, chuckling.
Jess smiled, as did Rory. She said, "Pick a color.."
".. pink and yellow."
Rory said, "Hmm, very girly colors from a man such as yourself.."
Jess stood straight and responded, "I'm not saying I like the colors, I'm saying it would suit you. Because that's why we're here, to pick out flowers for your patio."
Rory nodded and said, "Ahuh, okay... Whatever you say...."
Jess crossed his arms as Rory picked a pot of pink and yellow tulips. She walked back to the gardenias and said to Jess, "can you pick one of them up." He did and they walked to the cashier. Rory paid for the flowers and when she walked out of the shop with Jess in tow, they walked back to her car.
After Rory had placed the flowers in her car, she turned to Jess and said, "So... What-a... what do we do now?.."
"I.. (sigh). whatever you want."
'Here we go again! Ladies and gentlemen, the world famous indecisive man!'
"(Sigh) Jess, what do YOU want to happen?"
"Honestly, I don't know.. I really don't know..."
Rory nodded and said, "When you do know, I'll be at that tree over there everyday at 4 o' clock, waiting 'till next week Friday..."
"An ultimatum?! That's rich, really that is!" Jess said.
"Well, I'm not going to wait for forever, Jess!"
"Fine!"
"Fine!"
With that he walked away and along with him he brought dismay (A/N: didn't mean for that to rhyme, hehe).
Rory pulled herself into her car and sat there, just staring straight ahead at that tree. It would be a bittersweet road to unwind to, but if it were worth it to talk to him again, it would be worth it to wait.
And so she did...
HOOKAY, REVIEW TIME!! I WORKED HARD, AS DO MANY AUTHORS WHEN THEY MAKE A CHAPTER FOR THEIR STORY... SO PLEASE, PLEASE REVIEW!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
NEXT CHAPTER WILL FEATURE: JESS AT THE RESTAURANT HE WAS IN WHEN HE SAW RORY, REA WILL COME UP TO HIM TO TAKE HIS ORDER AND HE'LL BACK AWAY, FEARING VERBAL ABUSE.. THEN LATER, TRYIN NOT TO GET TO THE NITY GRITY OF THE DETAILS HERE, JESS COMES TO RORY'S SCHOOL WHERE SHE WORKS..MUCH DRAMA IS SUPPOSED TO BE INTENDED, IT MIGHT CHANGE THOUGH......