See, I said there might be some Dave and Lane stuff in here. Shocked aren't you? Of course you are my wonderful fan-fiction fanatics. By the way, the last chapter had a song by the White Stripes. If you don't know who they are, you are missing out on an awesome band.

Disclaimer: (Begs on her knees) Could we work out a compromise? You pay for my college education and I will keep writing for free to express the superiority that you have over me? I guess not. Oh well, I don't own any part of Gilmore Girls and I am writing this just to promote my love for the show. So here's another thing you can have as payment if you wish, a hair tie. It's a black, elastic hair tie. The list is getting there, and to think I'm not done emptying my pockets yet! Oh and I don't own any part of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Just promoting them as well, but if they want something from a poor college kid, there is some hair from the hair tie. It's pretty!

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Scene fades back to Rory's room as she is attempting to write a Graduation speech. Maybe she shouldn't have studied so much, she thought to herself. Then I wouldn't be in this mess. She sipped the escence of life, known as coffee to the rest of the world. Then there was a loud moan.

"Why can't I think?" Rory began to wonder to herself. Why did Jess have to leave now, when the entire world seemed to be caving in on her. She felt herself being pulled into a dark abyss. Unable to swim to the ledge and escape. She leaned back in her chair now and looked out the window. Suddenly there was a knock on the door.

"Sweetie, I'm hungry. Could we go and get some food?" It was her mother, and she was having hunger pains already. Rory really didn't feel like leaving her room today. She felt safe there, like if she stayed there long enough everything bad would go away.

"Oompa, Loompa, Doompa-de-do. I have another riddle..." Lorelai began to sing. Rory could only imagine the next things out of her mother's pop- culture obsessed self.

"Fine. Give me a moment to check my e-mail and then we can run off to some secluded buffet." After saying this she heard a small sound from outside her door. It sounded as if someone was slowly releasing the air from a balloon but it was only her mother excited about eating.

Rory signed onto AOL, still wondering where the little man was running to in such a hurry. "You've Got Mail!" Of course she had mail, she hadn't been online in three days. As she looked through and sorted out the junk mail from the non-junk mail, she couldn't help but notice the one.

To: Rory Gilmore From: Jess Mariano

Subject: I'm sorry

Dear Rory, That's the best I could do in trying to come up with an awarding winning opening. What do you think? By now, you know I am gone. When you probably read this, if you ever do assuming you hadn't already deleted it in anger, I will have found my father. Rory, I am in Venice Beach. I didn't know how to tell you that I was leaving, because I didn't want to see you cry. You mean too much to me, and I know you are questioning that last statement but please continue to read. I'm not graduating Rory. I failed, and in order for me to even receive a diploma I have to go to summer school and pass. I'm not that kind of person Rory, and you know it. The only thing I have ever been dedicated to other than searching for the supposed, "Great American Novel," is you. I have never felt more at home than with you. Be that as it may, I still wanted family. Wanted to know why my father left me and more. I know Luke said something to him about seeing me when he came to Stars Hollow. It's the kind of thing he would do. Please do not blame yourself for my absence. I will return someday. I love you Rory Gilmore and always will. Graduate and smile, for me.

Love, Jess

Rory couldn't believe what she was reading. Jess had left her to find his father. Not to find him though, because apparently he already found him, but to be with him. She didn't know what to think by the e-mail's contents. There was a knock on her door once more.

"What do you get when Lorelai doesn't eat?"

"I'm coming. If you can't wait a few more minutes I don't know how you'll ever survive the car ride," Rory shouted to her mother on the other side of the door.

"I'll sing along to whatever is on the radio. karaoke in the Gilmore car," Lorelai shouted back.

Rory shut off AOL and just sat there staring at the screen a moment. Why didn't he tell her first? If he really loved her, why didn't he just explain himself to her sooner?

"I'm getting really impatient. If you don't hurry I will be forced to sing "Wind Beneath My Wings," and I promise you, it won't be pretty."

Rory grabbed her purse and opened her door.

"Sing it mom, and I promise that graduation you will have to sit next to Grandma from the moment you come in, until the moment when I come back after marching back inside the school. Even if I have to super glue the seat."

"You wouldn't dare."

"Whose child am I?"

Lorelai stopped and thought about this for a moment, playfully. "Well if you're mine, you will do it."

"I'm hungry now. See what you did!" Rory groaned as she flew down the stairs and out to the car.

"No my fault you took so long." Lorelai replied.

As she made her way to the car, Lorelai saw a familiar figure standing on her porch.

"Rory, go start the car. I will be there in a minute."

"Okay." Rory replied and ran off. She needed time to herself anyways, and this was the quickest way to achieving her goal.

As Lorelai looked around for a moment, she noticed the man kept playing with his hands in a very nervous like manner.

"Luke?"