Chapter Two:

"Mom! I'm home!" Rory's voice rang out as she dropped her bags on the floor, and closed the door behind her.

Walking into the living room, she saw her mother hanging up the phone. Rory saw the expression on her face. "Anyone important, mom?" She asked as she hugged her.

Lorelai hugged her back. "No one, sweetie. Just a wrong number."

"Whatever," Rory shrugged. "So what's on the agenda for tonight?"

"Well, your father called, and said he has a surprise for you, but that's not for a few days. So, I thought we'd have video night. Er'go our videos," she pointed to the coffee tabled piled with rented videos and junk food of all sorts, "and of course, snacks."

"Of course," Rory agreed, checking out the titles of the videos. She picked one up. "This one first."

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If only he'd waited a few minutes. Then maybe she would've answered. He wasn't sure if Rory had told Lorelai about his calls to Rory right before the summer had started, so he wasn't sure if Lorelai knew it was him. And if she did, would she tell Rory? Most likely. Maybe not. Jess doubted Rory had his number out here, unless she had asked Luke for it, which he knew she hadn't. And right as he was hanging up, he heard Rory's voice in the background. He didn't even know why he had just called her. What would he have said? "Guess who?" And he didn't expect she'd be happy to hear from him.

She was moving on, so was he. She didn't need him in her life, and he sure as hell didn't need her in his.

Liar, Jess thought. Once again, Jess makes a mistake. He wondered what she had even seen in him, why she had broken up with Dean for him.

Later that night, Jess, Jimmy. Sasha and Lily ate dinner together. Jimmy had a bottle of beer with him like he always did whenever they ate dinner, Jess noticed.

"I can't wait to go on the GirlScout Thanksgiving trip," Lily babbled on excitedly.

Me neither, Jess thought as he shoved a forkful of food in his mouth. He noticed her looking at him and he grunted in response.,

"Lily, sweetie, you remember how Nana died last year?" Sasha asked her daughter, who nodded. "Well, Aunt Bessie is having Thanksgiving at her house. I'm sorry, but we're not going on the Thanksgiving trip. We're going to Thanksgiving at Aunt Bessie's."

Jess grimaced. Just what he wanted, spending Thanksgiving at some stranger's home. Jess had never met Bessie and her familly, they lived in Colorado. But maybe he could go snowboarding. "So we're going to Colorado then, huh?" He asked. He wished he hadn't said anything as soon as he saw a look come over Sasha's face.

"Well, ah, son-," Jimmy began, but Jess interrupted. "Whatever, forget it, I'm cool," he shrugged.

"It's not that we don't want you with us,Jess," Sasha told him, "but Bessie has a full house and there won't even be an extra inch to budge. Her house is very small. I'm sorry. You can go visit your mother or somebody, right?"

"Yeah," Jess lied, and looked down at his plate.

That evening, Jess got ready to go out in the bathroom, and as he was heading toward the stairs, he overheard Sasha on the phonr. He halted in his tracks as soon as he heard his name.

"No, Jess isn't coming. We told him that you were holding it at your house, and he believed us. Your lodge is the perfect place for Thanksgiving, it's pretty big...no, I don't hate Jess. He's just been here for several months, and I was hoping by now he'd move out. Far away. I'm just kind of sick of the kid..."

Jess had heard enough. He stomped down the stairs and out of the house. Hands in his pockets, he had nowhere to go. No one wanted him, least of all Jimmy and Sasha. Well, he wasn't sure what Jimmy wanted, but he assumed he was on the same page as Sasha. Jess hadn't expected the family to become like the Brady Bunch, but he'd had no clue that he was unwanted.

Once he was several blocks away, he turned into an alley, and, sitting down, Jess Mariano put his head in his hands and started to cry.

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