Disclaimer:I do not own Eight O'Clock at the Oasis , which is basically the episode that I'm using a lot of the plot of. I do not own the Gilmore Girls or anyone resembling the Gilmore Girls. I do own my boycott --or lack thereof-- of Gilmore Girls since my Jessiepooh has left, but that's not going well, because every week I boycott I tend to accidentally watch it. So what do you know, I don't even own the boycott.
A/N: *peeks out from behind a rock* Hello? *echo* Anyone out there? *echo* Okay, I know I haven't updated this story since...um, last May. Wow, I do suck. But I had major writer's block and very few people liked this story anyway, so I figured I'd try to go with whatever stories weren't giving me writer's block, and this one gave me a little break through. And again, if you're someone who just started reading this story, you're probably not even reading this, because of the lame-o first chapters.
Thank you to everyone who has reviewed, because I now have a new respect for you after having to skim this story before I could continue writing. And I'm going to do you a favor because you probably forgot what this story was about and it's too painful to actually read it all again.
*takes deep breath*
-----Recap-----
Rory went to Washington D.C. and came back to an unfriendly Jess who just so happened to get a trashy new girlfriend. Her name? Oh, Shane, yes, like Come Back....
Rory decides to avoid Jess. Shock. Then Dean and Rory break up after she accidentally says "I love you Je-" to Dean. Hehe, it makes me laugh just thinking of it. Sorry.
Shane and Jess break up and she and Dean form sort of a "Girl Power!" team. But hey, at least Jessica Kiper would've gotten to speak in my portrayal other than to say "That girl's a freak."
Then Rory and Jess meet up...guess where? You're right. The bridge. Then they kissed and I made a really corny Avril Lavigne reference from Rory.
Lorelai doesn't like Jess.
Then after chapter two the story is magically not so corny.
Lane asks Rory if she's really dating Jess. Rory says yes.
Rory's afraid Jess is jealous of Dean, but as far as we can see, he's not. There's a cute-ish Jess scene in chapter five where Rory calls him sweet and he of course denies it.
Rory slips and says "I happen to lov- to like my boyfriend" when she's talking about Jess. Rory an Lorelai have a friendly fight (yes, that's an oxymoron) about it. Lorelai finds Jess' name written in that "i'm in love" manner in Rory's notebook and not Dean'sd, which is a pointless little fact, but still. Then Rory finally tells Lorelai that she kissed Jess at Sookie's wedding.
Rory calls Jess Dean (playfully) and then Lorelai and Jess have friendly hateful banter about it. Luke plants the forgotten objects upstairs and Lorelai still likes Dean and doesn't like Jess.
---* lets breath out*---
There, you're caught up now. If you have spare time to kill just skip the first two chapters and skim the other ones. Otherwise it's realy not important and you can just read from here!
Oh, and rebma1, thank you so much for loving the story! *hugs you* And for reading and reviewing the story so long after I updated *blush*
Oh, and Alece(if you're still reading this), don't worry, I'm not sure if I'll make anything out of the Jess not being comfortable with Rory and Dean thing, but if it gets to be too much of a problem he'll probably just tell her. Not too much of a problem...maybe...I'm mean. *cries*
And as for the whole updating sooner thing...*blushes and points* Um, look! there's Milo! *runs away*
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"Okay, I still say we should've gotten Al's too," Mom said as we checked the mail.
"Mom, we got pizza and Chinese."
"But Al's would be the perfect addition, then we could eat something from everywhere."
"We didn't order Sandeep's."
"Uh, that's because it's Sandeep's."
"Sandeep's is insulted. I'm going to go shred some more cheese on the pizza while it's still warm," I told her.
"Okay," she nodded.
A few minutes later she came into the house.
"Hide!!"
"What?" I asked, walking in to see what she was talking about.
"We have a new neighbor."
"We do? How?"
"Beanie Morrison moved! This weird guy moved in and he just gave me a million chores to do while he goes on a business trip."
"Really? What kind of chores?"
"Oh, you know, laundry, mending, feeding the big, fat cat, maybe talking to some mice if I get the time."
"Uh huh. What really?"
"Watering his lawn and his African violet."
"That's a million?"
"He just met me and he gave me chores."
"Poor thing, come eat some pizza, you'll feel better."
"You're patronizing me."
"Yes, I am."
"Stop."
"I'll try."
**
The next morning we walked into Luke's.
"I can't believe you didn't think my joke was funny."
"Sorry, but it really wasn't. I liked the one about the cow who moooved better."
"But that one was dumb."
"My point exactly."
"Cruel, cruel girl," Mom said, shaking her head.
"Coffee will make you feel better."
"You're right! Luke, can you come give me some coffee? But don't give Rory any until she admits my joke was funny."
"I thought you said I wasn't supposed to lie to you."
"She's cruel AND she throws my good life lessons back in my face. I may cry."
"Please don't, there's enough crying in this diner for one day," Luke said.
"He seems on edge," Mom said.
"He does," I agreed.
"Did the dry cleaner lose your favorite flannel shirt?" Mom asked.
"Look at these people, they come in here every Saturday morning, and they bring every kid in Stars Hollow- all their's!"
"Um, okay," Mom said.
"They look for toys, they never find the toys, but they look anyway. Half way through the goofy guy dancing with the yellow duck will drop something, then he'll bend down to pick it up and bump his head on the table. The kid will laugh so hard it won't be able to catch its breath."
"Well, it's probably a very funny visual." Mom nodded.
"Then the guy will smile and go back to looking for the toy, he'll find the toy, but the kid won't care about they toy. Then they'll continue to do that, try to find a toy. Don't they understand the kid doesn't want the toy? Apparently not, because they will continue to do it."
"Wow, Luke's in a ranting mood," I remarked.
"They have to go. I can't handle this anymore. It's not worth the 85 cents for the iced tea."
"Wow, iced tea is only 85 cents?" Mom asked.
"Not the point."
"Right, sorry."
"I can't go over there, will you go over there?"
"Um, no. You have the problem with the family, you get rid of the family."
"Fine, I'm going over to tell them that they have to leave."
"You do that." Mom took a sip of her coffee.
"What is she doing?" Luke whipped around back to us.
"Giving the diner a peep show," Mom said, amused.
"This is ridiculous! They really have to go."
"Well, go tell them."
"I can't go over there," he said.
"Why not?"
"Because...she's....You go."
"What?"
"You're a woman, you go."
"What? No, this isn't my diner."
"I bet he'd give it to you if you got her out," I said.
"You have the same woman parts, you could go over there and not be afraid of it."
"Luke's afraid of woman parts," Mom told me.
I smiled, "So I hear."
Just then Jess came down the stairs. He apparently saw the woman breast feeding.
"Oh geeze!" Jess covered his eyes and quickly turned around, bumping into the wall and going back upstairs.
Mom grinned. "Jess is afraid of woman part, too. I feel so much better about you dating him now."
**
Mom had to go to work so Jess and I decided to rent a movie and get some take-out.
"No, we are not renting Ed Wood again," Jess said.
"Why not?"
"Because it makes me think of a film by Kirk."
"No," I said.
"Yes."
"This story's gonna grab people. It's about this guy, he's crazy about this girl, but he likes to wear dresses. Should he tell her? Should he not tell her? He's torn, Georgie. This is drama," I quoted Ed Wood.
"Stop."
"I have more, I can quote you to death."
"I will jump through the window."
"Pull the string! Pull the string!"
"Let's compromise and get Saturday Night Fever," he suggested.
"Can your heart stand the shocking facts of the true story of Edward D. Wood Jr.?"
"Rory, stop."
"You're the ruler of the galaxy! Show a little taste!"
"Okay, fine, we'll rent Ed Wood."
I grinned. "I knew you'd see it my way."
"Manipulator."
"We'll do Saturday Night Fever tomorrow if you want to."
"Why do you get to make the rules?"
"Because you need rules, I'm already a good girl."
"So you want me to be a good girl?"
"No, I want you to be a good boy."
"Are you sure you have the right boyfriend?"
I smiled and leaned into his arm. "I couldn't be more sure."
He kissed me on top of the head. "Just checking."
**
The next morning Mom was running late.
"Rory! Have you seen my purple shirt with the frige things that I- oops."
"That you what?"
"You didn't happen to stop by the dry cleaner, did you?"
"To hang out by the suits?"
"Yeah, they're your homies."
"I don't have homies and if I did have homies they wouldn't be suits."
"Oh, now you don't like suits?"
"Is there a point to this ridiculous conversation?" I asked.
"Yes, actually there is. I have to go to the dry cleaners because I forgot that I took my shirt there when I spilled the coffee on it and now I have to go and I can't do the crazy guys grass. Will you do it? You'll be my favorite daughter."
"I'm your only daughter and I don't have time."
"Rory, please, I have to go to the dry cleaner or I'll have to go to work shirtless. Sure the guy clients would probably increase but the female half would all boycott me and throw things at me and we are not that kind of place."
"Jerry Springer?"
"Exactly, all I need to do is find out I'm really not my parents' daughter and I'm set."
"Fine, I'll do it. But only because I don't want to see Jerry Springer in Stars Hollow."
"Thank you, you're my favorite daughter," she grinned.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. You owe me."
"I do, but now I have to go. Bye, have a good day at school, make sure you wear a shirt!" she called as she left.
**
"Okay," I mumbled to myself, "he said to just give it a twist." I turned the handle and on came the water. "That wasn't so hard," I said as I walked back to the house to grab my bookbag before I could turn the water back off and rush to the diner for some coffee.
I grabbed my bookbag and sat it down so it wouldn't get wet. I turned it but instead of turning off it turned on more. "Agh!" I covered my head. "You were not supposed to do that," I told it as I tried to turn it off. It turned on even more and sprayed my bookbag. I rabbed my bookbag and looked around. It was not going to turn off.
I ran into the center of town to look for someone. I ran into the diner.
"Jess?" I called out, getting a few odd glances from people who wondered about my drenched attire.
"He left already," Dean said from the counter.
"Where's Luke?" I asked.
"I'm not sure, he wasn't here when I got here."
"Great."
"What's wrong?" he asked, glancing at my clothes.
"The sprinkler is stuck and it won't turn off and of all the times for Jess to be puntual this was not one of them."
Dean got up and came over to me. "I can turn it off for you."
"Oh. Um...okay, thanks."
"No problem, where is it?"
"My neighbor's house," I replied.
"Okay, come on," he said, opening the door for me.
"Oh, thank you." I walked out the door.
"Your bookbag's wet."
"I'm glad I thought to get the waterproof one, this way nothing should be ruined. And my mom thought that was a stupid feature."
He chuckled. "Rory Gilmore, always prepared."
I smiled. "Always. Unless there's a mean sprinkler that won't turn off."
"Well, I'm there for that."
I smiled slightly uncomfortably. "Yeah, or Jess."
"Either way." He shrugged. "Unless he leaves an hour early for school."
I scowled slightly to myself. "I'm sure he has a good reason."
"Oh, I'm sure he has a great one," Dean said.
"Probably a project or something," I added. "Or maybe a test he needed to study for before class."
"I'm sure that's it."
I nodded thoughtfully, "Yeah, that's it."
"So, which way to the sprinkler?"
"Oh, Beanie Morrison's old place."
"Beanie Morrison moved?" Dean asked, surprised.
"Yeah, not long after I got back from Washington."
"Oh. Well, that would explain why I didn't know."
"Yeah," I said almost sadly. "It would."
"Anyway, let's get that sprinkler turned off," he said, bringing the light mood back up as we entered the driveway.
"Right. Sprinkler." I nodded. "Yeah, let's do that."
He went over and gave the sprinkler a little twist. "There, all better."
"Huh, it wasn't supposed to be that easy. It must not like me."
He smiled. "I'm sure it does, it just likes being difficult."
I smiled. "Well, thank you for helping," I said.
"Anytime," he nodded.
I nodded too."Well, I should get in the house and change."
"And I should get to school."
"Yeah. Well... thanks."
"You're welcome," he said before leaving.
I turned around and walked back toward the house with a sigh. Why would Jess go to school so early? He doesn't like school, why would he go an hour earlier than he already had to?
****
A/N:Okay, so, I know, I know, I completely murdered a great Literati moment. I hate myself for it too. I even considered rewriting it or changing the ending to somehow bring Jess back into it. I had a cute little dialogue idea and all. *pout* But I'm dumb. And I put Dean in. And that's bad. And if I don't get reviews anyway I'm going to write a Narco chapter!..Okay, that was another one of my bad jokes. No, really. So review or the floppy haired non-wonder will ...have flopppy hair! Hehe, maybe I could write that he decided to get a haircut. Sorry, now I'm just rambling. PLEASE REVIEW or I'll keep Jess for myself! *gives Jess a hug* Review and I'll share!
A/N: *peeks out from behind a rock* Hello? *echo* Anyone out there? *echo* Okay, I know I haven't updated this story since...um, last May. Wow, I do suck. But I had major writer's block and very few people liked this story anyway, so I figured I'd try to go with whatever stories weren't giving me writer's block, and this one gave me a little break through. And again, if you're someone who just started reading this story, you're probably not even reading this, because of the lame-o first chapters.
Thank you to everyone who has reviewed, because I now have a new respect for you after having to skim this story before I could continue writing. And I'm going to do you a favor because you probably forgot what this story was about and it's too painful to actually read it all again.
*takes deep breath*
-----Recap-----
Rory went to Washington D.C. and came back to an unfriendly Jess who just so happened to get a trashy new girlfriend. Her name? Oh, Shane, yes, like Come Back....
Rory decides to avoid Jess. Shock. Then Dean and Rory break up after she accidentally says "I love you Je-" to Dean. Hehe, it makes me laugh just thinking of it. Sorry.
Shane and Jess break up and she and Dean form sort of a "Girl Power!" team. But hey, at least Jessica Kiper would've gotten to speak in my portrayal other than to say "That girl's a freak."
Then Rory and Jess meet up...guess where? You're right. The bridge. Then they kissed and I made a really corny Avril Lavigne reference from Rory.
Lorelai doesn't like Jess.
Then after chapter two the story is magically not so corny.
Lane asks Rory if she's really dating Jess. Rory says yes.
Rory's afraid Jess is jealous of Dean, but as far as we can see, he's not. There's a cute-ish Jess scene in chapter five where Rory calls him sweet and he of course denies it.
Rory slips and says "I happen to lov- to like my boyfriend" when she's talking about Jess. Rory an Lorelai have a friendly fight (yes, that's an oxymoron) about it. Lorelai finds Jess' name written in that "i'm in love" manner in Rory's notebook and not Dean'sd, which is a pointless little fact, but still. Then Rory finally tells Lorelai that she kissed Jess at Sookie's wedding.
Rory calls Jess Dean (playfully) and then Lorelai and Jess have friendly hateful banter about it. Luke plants the forgotten objects upstairs and Lorelai still likes Dean and doesn't like Jess.
---* lets breath out*---
There, you're caught up now. If you have spare time to kill just skip the first two chapters and skim the other ones. Otherwise it's realy not important and you can just read from here!
Oh, and rebma1, thank you so much for loving the story! *hugs you* And for reading and reviewing the story so long after I updated *blush*
Oh, and Alece(if you're still reading this), don't worry, I'm not sure if I'll make anything out of the Jess not being comfortable with Rory and Dean thing, but if it gets to be too much of a problem he'll probably just tell her. Not too much of a problem...maybe...I'm mean. *cries*
And as for the whole updating sooner thing...*blushes and points* Um, look! there's Milo! *runs away*
****
"Okay, I still say we should've gotten Al's too," Mom said as we checked the mail.
"Mom, we got pizza and Chinese."
"But Al's would be the perfect addition, then we could eat something from everywhere."
"We didn't order Sandeep's."
"Uh, that's because it's Sandeep's."
"Sandeep's is insulted. I'm going to go shred some more cheese on the pizza while it's still warm," I told her.
"Okay," she nodded.
A few minutes later she came into the house.
"Hide!!"
"What?" I asked, walking in to see what she was talking about.
"We have a new neighbor."
"We do? How?"
"Beanie Morrison moved! This weird guy moved in and he just gave me a million chores to do while he goes on a business trip."
"Really? What kind of chores?"
"Oh, you know, laundry, mending, feeding the big, fat cat, maybe talking to some mice if I get the time."
"Uh huh. What really?"
"Watering his lawn and his African violet."
"That's a million?"
"He just met me and he gave me chores."
"Poor thing, come eat some pizza, you'll feel better."
"You're patronizing me."
"Yes, I am."
"Stop."
"I'll try."
**
The next morning we walked into Luke's.
"I can't believe you didn't think my joke was funny."
"Sorry, but it really wasn't. I liked the one about the cow who moooved better."
"But that one was dumb."
"My point exactly."
"Cruel, cruel girl," Mom said, shaking her head.
"Coffee will make you feel better."
"You're right! Luke, can you come give me some coffee? But don't give Rory any until she admits my joke was funny."
"I thought you said I wasn't supposed to lie to you."
"She's cruel AND she throws my good life lessons back in my face. I may cry."
"Please don't, there's enough crying in this diner for one day," Luke said.
"He seems on edge," Mom said.
"He does," I agreed.
"Did the dry cleaner lose your favorite flannel shirt?" Mom asked.
"Look at these people, they come in here every Saturday morning, and they bring every kid in Stars Hollow- all their's!"
"Um, okay," Mom said.
"They look for toys, they never find the toys, but they look anyway. Half way through the goofy guy dancing with the yellow duck will drop something, then he'll bend down to pick it up and bump his head on the table. The kid will laugh so hard it won't be able to catch its breath."
"Well, it's probably a very funny visual." Mom nodded.
"Then the guy will smile and go back to looking for the toy, he'll find the toy, but the kid won't care about they toy. Then they'll continue to do that, try to find a toy. Don't they understand the kid doesn't want the toy? Apparently not, because they will continue to do it."
"Wow, Luke's in a ranting mood," I remarked.
"They have to go. I can't handle this anymore. It's not worth the 85 cents for the iced tea."
"Wow, iced tea is only 85 cents?" Mom asked.
"Not the point."
"Right, sorry."
"I can't go over there, will you go over there?"
"Um, no. You have the problem with the family, you get rid of the family."
"Fine, I'm going over to tell them that they have to leave."
"You do that." Mom took a sip of her coffee.
"What is she doing?" Luke whipped around back to us.
"Giving the diner a peep show," Mom said, amused.
"This is ridiculous! They really have to go."
"Well, go tell them."
"I can't go over there," he said.
"Why not?"
"Because...she's....You go."
"What?"
"You're a woman, you go."
"What? No, this isn't my diner."
"I bet he'd give it to you if you got her out," I said.
"You have the same woman parts, you could go over there and not be afraid of it."
"Luke's afraid of woman parts," Mom told me.
I smiled, "So I hear."
Just then Jess came down the stairs. He apparently saw the woman breast feeding.
"Oh geeze!" Jess covered his eyes and quickly turned around, bumping into the wall and going back upstairs.
Mom grinned. "Jess is afraid of woman part, too. I feel so much better about you dating him now."
**
Mom had to go to work so Jess and I decided to rent a movie and get some take-out.
"No, we are not renting Ed Wood again," Jess said.
"Why not?"
"Because it makes me think of a film by Kirk."
"No," I said.
"Yes."
"This story's gonna grab people. It's about this guy, he's crazy about this girl, but he likes to wear dresses. Should he tell her? Should he not tell her? He's torn, Georgie. This is drama," I quoted Ed Wood.
"Stop."
"I have more, I can quote you to death."
"I will jump through the window."
"Pull the string! Pull the string!"
"Let's compromise and get Saturday Night Fever," he suggested.
"Can your heart stand the shocking facts of the true story of Edward D. Wood Jr.?"
"Rory, stop."
"You're the ruler of the galaxy! Show a little taste!"
"Okay, fine, we'll rent Ed Wood."
I grinned. "I knew you'd see it my way."
"Manipulator."
"We'll do Saturday Night Fever tomorrow if you want to."
"Why do you get to make the rules?"
"Because you need rules, I'm already a good girl."
"So you want me to be a good girl?"
"No, I want you to be a good boy."
"Are you sure you have the right boyfriend?"
I smiled and leaned into his arm. "I couldn't be more sure."
He kissed me on top of the head. "Just checking."
**
The next morning Mom was running late.
"Rory! Have you seen my purple shirt with the frige things that I- oops."
"That you what?"
"You didn't happen to stop by the dry cleaner, did you?"
"To hang out by the suits?"
"Yeah, they're your homies."
"I don't have homies and if I did have homies they wouldn't be suits."
"Oh, now you don't like suits?"
"Is there a point to this ridiculous conversation?" I asked.
"Yes, actually there is. I have to go to the dry cleaners because I forgot that I took my shirt there when I spilled the coffee on it and now I have to go and I can't do the crazy guys grass. Will you do it? You'll be my favorite daughter."
"I'm your only daughter and I don't have time."
"Rory, please, I have to go to the dry cleaner or I'll have to go to work shirtless. Sure the guy clients would probably increase but the female half would all boycott me and throw things at me and we are not that kind of place."
"Jerry Springer?"
"Exactly, all I need to do is find out I'm really not my parents' daughter and I'm set."
"Fine, I'll do it. But only because I don't want to see Jerry Springer in Stars Hollow."
"Thank you, you're my favorite daughter," she grinned.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. You owe me."
"I do, but now I have to go. Bye, have a good day at school, make sure you wear a shirt!" she called as she left.
**
"Okay," I mumbled to myself, "he said to just give it a twist." I turned the handle and on came the water. "That wasn't so hard," I said as I walked back to the house to grab my bookbag before I could turn the water back off and rush to the diner for some coffee.
I grabbed my bookbag and sat it down so it wouldn't get wet. I turned it but instead of turning off it turned on more. "Agh!" I covered my head. "You were not supposed to do that," I told it as I tried to turn it off. It turned on even more and sprayed my bookbag. I rabbed my bookbag and looked around. It was not going to turn off.
I ran into the center of town to look for someone. I ran into the diner.
"Jess?" I called out, getting a few odd glances from people who wondered about my drenched attire.
"He left already," Dean said from the counter.
"Where's Luke?" I asked.
"I'm not sure, he wasn't here when I got here."
"Great."
"What's wrong?" he asked, glancing at my clothes.
"The sprinkler is stuck and it won't turn off and of all the times for Jess to be puntual this was not one of them."
Dean got up and came over to me. "I can turn it off for you."
"Oh. Um...okay, thanks."
"No problem, where is it?"
"My neighbor's house," I replied.
"Okay, come on," he said, opening the door for me.
"Oh, thank you." I walked out the door.
"Your bookbag's wet."
"I'm glad I thought to get the waterproof one, this way nothing should be ruined. And my mom thought that was a stupid feature."
He chuckled. "Rory Gilmore, always prepared."
I smiled. "Always. Unless there's a mean sprinkler that won't turn off."
"Well, I'm there for that."
I smiled slightly uncomfortably. "Yeah, or Jess."
"Either way." He shrugged. "Unless he leaves an hour early for school."
I scowled slightly to myself. "I'm sure he has a good reason."
"Oh, I'm sure he has a great one," Dean said.
"Probably a project or something," I added. "Or maybe a test he needed to study for before class."
"I'm sure that's it."
I nodded thoughtfully, "Yeah, that's it."
"So, which way to the sprinkler?"
"Oh, Beanie Morrison's old place."
"Beanie Morrison moved?" Dean asked, surprised.
"Yeah, not long after I got back from Washington."
"Oh. Well, that would explain why I didn't know."
"Yeah," I said almost sadly. "It would."
"Anyway, let's get that sprinkler turned off," he said, bringing the light mood back up as we entered the driveway.
"Right. Sprinkler." I nodded. "Yeah, let's do that."
He went over and gave the sprinkler a little twist. "There, all better."
"Huh, it wasn't supposed to be that easy. It must not like me."
He smiled. "I'm sure it does, it just likes being difficult."
I smiled. "Well, thank you for helping," I said.
"Anytime," he nodded.
I nodded too."Well, I should get in the house and change."
"And I should get to school."
"Yeah. Well... thanks."
"You're welcome," he said before leaving.
I turned around and walked back toward the house with a sigh. Why would Jess go to school so early? He doesn't like school, why would he go an hour earlier than he already had to?
****
A/N:Okay, so, I know, I know, I completely murdered a great Literati moment. I hate myself for it too. I even considered rewriting it or changing the ending to somehow bring Jess back into it. I had a cute little dialogue idea and all. *pout* But I'm dumb. And I put Dean in. And that's bad. And if I don't get reviews anyway I'm going to write a Narco chapter!..Okay, that was another one of my bad jokes. No, really. So review or the floppy haired non-wonder will ...have flopppy hair! Hehe, maybe I could write that he decided to get a haircut. Sorry, now I'm just rambling. PLEASE REVIEW or I'll keep Jess for myself! *gives Jess a hug* Review and I'll share!