Author's Note: Now I couldn't possible have a New York City Rory and Jess
fic without meeting some of Jess' old buddies. I know it's a bit cliché,
and in most fics poorly written but I hope you like my version of some of
Jess' old friends. So without further adieu, ladies and Gentlemen I'd like
to introduce you to Tyler and Eddie.
Rory stood in the shower letting the beads of water hit her in the face and fall down her body. She washed her arms and legs again with the Ivory soap creating hundreds of tiny bubbles on her body only to be washed away moments later. Her fingers and toes were wrinkled and she knew it was time to get out. That she had been in there too long, but Rory was scared of what was going to happen when she did.
Rory was spending the night with Jess. She would be sleeping in his bed though he would not.
She wasn't ready for sex. Rory knew that. But she didn't want a situation to occur where she would have to ask Jess to stop, telling him no. It hurt to think about it.
Dean. She was still with him. Although now she realized she should have just broke up with him when he got back from visiting his grandmother. Although, there had been no formal declaration that her and Jess would be together. They hadn't even talked about it at all. Jess had left Stars Hollow, and Rory knew she couldn't ask him to move back, she didn't want that. In her head he would tell her he wanted to move back all on his own and he loved her and that he always had and then they would kiss and kiss.
But reality was too apparent to ignore.
Rory stayed in the shower, her mind reeling.
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Jess was cleaning the dishes that had been piling up during the week and putting them neatly in the dishwasher. He made his, and his mother's, bed and set the clothes that Rory was going to wear neatly on top. He washed the counters quickly and tried to make the kitchen have some resemblance of a clean and sanitary place where people ate and conversed.
He noticed that she had been in there a while.
Probably wanted to wash away the man who corned her in the bathroom, he thought while stacking the magazines on the coffee table. Either that or avoid him, a thought that Jess did not like. There was a knock on the door and Jess grabbed a twenty dollar bill that he hid in a cookie jar for special occasions, like Rory surprising him in New York and headed to the door.
Chef Chan's got here quick, Jess thought.
He looked through the eyehole and inwardly groaned.
Holy shit.
Fuck me.
God Dammit.
"We know you're in there." Another couple pounds on the door. "My mom saw you come in like a half hour ago. Open this fucking door." Jess sighed and reviewed his options. He could still here the shower running. Quickly he opened the locks and opened the door to the two teenagers standing behind it.
"Took you long enough Mariano," Tyler said as he brushed his way pass Jess and into the apartment.
"Yeah Mariano." Eddie always repeated whatever Tyler said in some form or another and followed Tyler inside.
"To what do I owe this pleasure guys?" Jess heard the shower click off and he felt his throat tighten.
"Can't a few old friends just drop by? Haven't really seen you around lately." Tyler wore baggy jeans and a zipped up army green hoodie. He had dyed his hair brown to black which he could barely tuck behind his ear and he had a lip piercing.
"Just hangin." Jess shrugged his shoulders.
"Well you never call or return calls. Here I feel like a fucking fat chick on prom night." Tyler smiled at his own joke and Eddie laughed. Eddie was about the height of Jess but a bit chunky. He wore green camo pants and a gray t-shirt over a black long sleeved t-shirt. His naturally mousy brown hair was shaved. He looked like he would be in the military.
"Well I hate to put you in that mind frame." Jess cocked his head to the side and did not smile.
"No need to give me this attitude when I came here to take you out tonight. You have been away from the city too long my friend. There is a party and its supposed to be cool."
"Lots of people. Maggie, Phoebe, Jenny, Justin, all of Randy's friends. It's in some girl's step-dad's cousin's boyfriend's loft or something. I don't fucking know." Eddie rolled his eyes and Jess knew then that he was stoned. He looked at Tyler in the eyes but he seemed straight.
"Yeah it sounds like a sure thing," Jess said sarcastically.
"Oh it's happening."
"Well I hate to disappoint but I don't really feel like going out tonight."
"Don't really feel like going out?" Tyler phrased it as a question.
"Nope."
"What the fuck Jess?! Ever since you got back you've been acting like this. Now there's a fucking party and its going to be cool."
"I mean what else are you doing?" Eddie gestured to the seemingly empty apartment.
As if some perfectly directed play Rory opened Jess' door and appeared to the three male teenagers. She paused in the hallway seeing the other people in the apartment and continued with an unsure expression on her face. She was wearing Jess' gray baggy sweat pants and a black Ramones shirt. It was obvious to all that she had just got out of a shower and was wearing Jess' clothes.
"Oh I didn't know there were people here." She smiled self consciously and looked at Jess who expressed nothing, which Rory took for bad.
"Rory these are my friends Tyler and Eddie." Rory stuck her hand out and shook Tyler's hand then Eddie's. "Tyler lives in the building and Eddie lives like a block away." Rory wanted to appear cool if these really were Jess' friends, and then realized that her hair was wet and that she was indeed wearing Jess' clothes. She didn't realize that Tyler and Eddie never formally shook hands with anybody, and that she had already shown them what she truly was, an innocent.
"Nice to meet you." She smiled shyly and the boys smiled back, broadly.
"Rory, such a sweet name." Tyler looked Rory over and back to Jess who remained stoic.
"Indeed." Eddie stared only at Rory but she was not uncomfortable. She just thought they were friendly.
"You wouldn't happen to be from that small town that Jess got shipped off to, would y?" Tyler's face was overly expressive.
"It's called Stars Hollow." Jess looked only at Tyler. He knew him well and knew what he was capable of doing.
"Yes I'm from Stars Hollow." Rory smiled again nervously and looked up at Jess, looking at Tyler.
"And you're visiting Jess for a long romantic weekend?"
"Just for tonight." Rory's hands went to her hair, in dark wet strings. She tossed a matted portion from her neck and shook her head. The gesture made Jess wince inwardly, she had no idea what she was doing.
"Do you have any plans for this lovely evening?"
"Um......well.........." Rory looked at Jess for her answer. She didn't want to go out with these people. And the immediate reason was she didn't have any clothes. If Jess wanted to that was what she would tell him, her excuse for not going out already handy.
"I told you already we were staying in." Jess directed it to Tyler.
"Because there is this party." Tyler looked at Rory and ignored Jess.
"And its supposed to be cool." Eddie finally joined the conversation.
"So what do say Rory? Wanna come party with us?" Tyler smiled and it sorta unnerved Rory. It was the same smile that the man in the bathroom had given her. He had wanted something from Rory and she had been completely at his mercy. The memory made her stomach turn over. Tyler's smile showed Rory that this guy was mean and that she was suddenly very uncomfortable. She looked at Jess who was watching her, and she silently hated him for not jumping in.
"Um.....well we ordered Chinese food and I just want to chill tonight."
"We could chill." Tyler still looked at Rory and Jess thought about punching him. About just throwing a right hook and knocking his smile on its ass.
"We're very good at chilling." Eddie looked at Jess, knowing the effect this was having on him.
"It's our specialty really." Tyler smiled again, and Rory folded her arms across her chest. She didn't like being the center of attention.
"The lady has spoken guys." Jess wanted them to leave. He knew Rory was getting uncomfortable and he was screwing things up.
"Sorry." Rory smiled, glad that Jess finally said something. In a different room a ringing noise carried to where everyone was standing. It was muffled but everyone of them recognized the sound.
"Someone's cell phone." Tyler looked at Rory knowing it was hers somehow.
"It's mine." Rory turned and hurried back to Jess' room quickly only to pick up the phone on the last ring.
"Hello." Rory breathed deeply.
"Oh god, why are you breathing that hard?"
"Mom, I was in the other room and I hurried in here." Rory took a few tentative steps and shut the door softly. She didn't want those boys to know she was talking to her mother and she definitely didn't want her mother to know Jess' friends were there. Rory sat down on the bed, her cell phone pressed to her ear yawning.
"So talk to me. What the latest update in the Rory and Jess saga?"
"How much time do you got?"
Rory stood in the shower letting the beads of water hit her in the face and fall down her body. She washed her arms and legs again with the Ivory soap creating hundreds of tiny bubbles on her body only to be washed away moments later. Her fingers and toes were wrinkled and she knew it was time to get out. That she had been in there too long, but Rory was scared of what was going to happen when she did.
Rory was spending the night with Jess. She would be sleeping in his bed though he would not.
She wasn't ready for sex. Rory knew that. But she didn't want a situation to occur where she would have to ask Jess to stop, telling him no. It hurt to think about it.
Dean. She was still with him. Although now she realized she should have just broke up with him when he got back from visiting his grandmother. Although, there had been no formal declaration that her and Jess would be together. They hadn't even talked about it at all. Jess had left Stars Hollow, and Rory knew she couldn't ask him to move back, she didn't want that. In her head he would tell her he wanted to move back all on his own and he loved her and that he always had and then they would kiss and kiss.
But reality was too apparent to ignore.
Rory stayed in the shower, her mind reeling.
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Jess was cleaning the dishes that had been piling up during the week and putting them neatly in the dishwasher. He made his, and his mother's, bed and set the clothes that Rory was going to wear neatly on top. He washed the counters quickly and tried to make the kitchen have some resemblance of a clean and sanitary place where people ate and conversed.
He noticed that she had been in there a while.
Probably wanted to wash away the man who corned her in the bathroom, he thought while stacking the magazines on the coffee table. Either that or avoid him, a thought that Jess did not like. There was a knock on the door and Jess grabbed a twenty dollar bill that he hid in a cookie jar for special occasions, like Rory surprising him in New York and headed to the door.
Chef Chan's got here quick, Jess thought.
He looked through the eyehole and inwardly groaned.
Holy shit.
Fuck me.
God Dammit.
"We know you're in there." Another couple pounds on the door. "My mom saw you come in like a half hour ago. Open this fucking door." Jess sighed and reviewed his options. He could still here the shower running. Quickly he opened the locks and opened the door to the two teenagers standing behind it.
"Took you long enough Mariano," Tyler said as he brushed his way pass Jess and into the apartment.
"Yeah Mariano." Eddie always repeated whatever Tyler said in some form or another and followed Tyler inside.
"To what do I owe this pleasure guys?" Jess heard the shower click off and he felt his throat tighten.
"Can't a few old friends just drop by? Haven't really seen you around lately." Tyler wore baggy jeans and a zipped up army green hoodie. He had dyed his hair brown to black which he could barely tuck behind his ear and he had a lip piercing.
"Just hangin." Jess shrugged his shoulders.
"Well you never call or return calls. Here I feel like a fucking fat chick on prom night." Tyler smiled at his own joke and Eddie laughed. Eddie was about the height of Jess but a bit chunky. He wore green camo pants and a gray t-shirt over a black long sleeved t-shirt. His naturally mousy brown hair was shaved. He looked like he would be in the military.
"Well I hate to put you in that mind frame." Jess cocked his head to the side and did not smile.
"No need to give me this attitude when I came here to take you out tonight. You have been away from the city too long my friend. There is a party and its supposed to be cool."
"Lots of people. Maggie, Phoebe, Jenny, Justin, all of Randy's friends. It's in some girl's step-dad's cousin's boyfriend's loft or something. I don't fucking know." Eddie rolled his eyes and Jess knew then that he was stoned. He looked at Tyler in the eyes but he seemed straight.
"Yeah it sounds like a sure thing," Jess said sarcastically.
"Oh it's happening."
"Well I hate to disappoint but I don't really feel like going out tonight."
"Don't really feel like going out?" Tyler phrased it as a question.
"Nope."
"What the fuck Jess?! Ever since you got back you've been acting like this. Now there's a fucking party and its going to be cool."
"I mean what else are you doing?" Eddie gestured to the seemingly empty apartment.
As if some perfectly directed play Rory opened Jess' door and appeared to the three male teenagers. She paused in the hallway seeing the other people in the apartment and continued with an unsure expression on her face. She was wearing Jess' gray baggy sweat pants and a black Ramones shirt. It was obvious to all that she had just got out of a shower and was wearing Jess' clothes.
"Oh I didn't know there were people here." She smiled self consciously and looked at Jess who expressed nothing, which Rory took for bad.
"Rory these are my friends Tyler and Eddie." Rory stuck her hand out and shook Tyler's hand then Eddie's. "Tyler lives in the building and Eddie lives like a block away." Rory wanted to appear cool if these really were Jess' friends, and then realized that her hair was wet and that she was indeed wearing Jess' clothes. She didn't realize that Tyler and Eddie never formally shook hands with anybody, and that she had already shown them what she truly was, an innocent.
"Nice to meet you." She smiled shyly and the boys smiled back, broadly.
"Rory, such a sweet name." Tyler looked Rory over and back to Jess who remained stoic.
"Indeed." Eddie stared only at Rory but she was not uncomfortable. She just thought they were friendly.
"You wouldn't happen to be from that small town that Jess got shipped off to, would y?" Tyler's face was overly expressive.
"It's called Stars Hollow." Jess looked only at Tyler. He knew him well and knew what he was capable of doing.
"Yes I'm from Stars Hollow." Rory smiled again nervously and looked up at Jess, looking at Tyler.
"And you're visiting Jess for a long romantic weekend?"
"Just for tonight." Rory's hands went to her hair, in dark wet strings. She tossed a matted portion from her neck and shook her head. The gesture made Jess wince inwardly, she had no idea what she was doing.
"Do you have any plans for this lovely evening?"
"Um......well.........." Rory looked at Jess for her answer. She didn't want to go out with these people. And the immediate reason was she didn't have any clothes. If Jess wanted to that was what she would tell him, her excuse for not going out already handy.
"I told you already we were staying in." Jess directed it to Tyler.
"Because there is this party." Tyler looked at Rory and ignored Jess.
"And its supposed to be cool." Eddie finally joined the conversation.
"So what do say Rory? Wanna come party with us?" Tyler smiled and it sorta unnerved Rory. It was the same smile that the man in the bathroom had given her. He had wanted something from Rory and she had been completely at his mercy. The memory made her stomach turn over. Tyler's smile showed Rory that this guy was mean and that she was suddenly very uncomfortable. She looked at Jess who was watching her, and she silently hated him for not jumping in.
"Um.....well we ordered Chinese food and I just want to chill tonight."
"We could chill." Tyler still looked at Rory and Jess thought about punching him. About just throwing a right hook and knocking his smile on its ass.
"We're very good at chilling." Eddie looked at Jess, knowing the effect this was having on him.
"It's our specialty really." Tyler smiled again, and Rory folded her arms across her chest. She didn't like being the center of attention.
"The lady has spoken guys." Jess wanted them to leave. He knew Rory was getting uncomfortable and he was screwing things up.
"Sorry." Rory smiled, glad that Jess finally said something. In a different room a ringing noise carried to where everyone was standing. It was muffled but everyone of them recognized the sound.
"Someone's cell phone." Tyler looked at Rory knowing it was hers somehow.
"It's mine." Rory turned and hurried back to Jess' room quickly only to pick up the phone on the last ring.
"Hello." Rory breathed deeply.
"Oh god, why are you breathing that hard?"
"Mom, I was in the other room and I hurried in here." Rory took a few tentative steps and shut the door softly. She didn't want those boys to know she was talking to her mother and she definitely didn't want her mother to know Jess' friends were there. Rory sat down on the bed, her cell phone pressed to her ear yawning.
"So talk to me. What the latest update in the Rory and Jess saga?"
"How much time do you got?"