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Jess. I am glad to hear that because I have really started to write my
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That night Rory dreamed many strange and wonderful dreams, none that she would fully remember the next day...........
.................In one, she was in a museum and the swirls of Starry Night were moving and she reached out and felt the swirling yellows and blues like warm soothing water.
.................In another, she was in Miss Patty's dance studio and her mother, Dean, Lane and her grandparents were watching her on stage. She was wearing a pink sparkling costume and a jazz hat while listing off the states in alphabetical order and their corresponding capitols. When she got to Texas, she couldn't remember if it was Austin or Houston. Rory hesitated and she saw Dean shake his head disapprovingly.
.................In the next, Rory was running from the man in the dark long leather jacket. She ran through Chilton and through Stars Hollow. She screamed and fell and ran again. And people watched her run, their faces expressionless. No one stopped to help her. Rory looked around for someone to save her, anyone, but it was if no one even saw her.
..................In the last, was Rory and Jess were swimming in white cotton sheets in a huge bed, not hers and not his. His hands and lips were everywhere and she could feel the beads of sweat forming on her, so real. She stood from the bed and saw they were in an empty apartment, a studio apartment. Smiling, Rory slowly unzipped the back of the black dress she was wearing and let it drop to the floor. She stood in white cotton panties and bra unembarrassed before Jess who sat up in the bed smiling at her. Then Rory undid the back of her bra and let it slide forward. Jess cocked his head to the side, still smiling, nodding to her panties. He said something then, something like "Not quite there yet" or "We're almost there." And although it was unromantic, the way he said it made Rory laugh, in her dream, and she took off her panties and flung them at him before crawling in the bed and letting him explore completely.
When Rory awoke it was dark and she felt an unfamiliar form against her. It took her a few moments to remember that it was Jess' hand clasped in hers and his breath warming the back of her neck. She felt him move and sit up and heard the rustling of the sheets.
Then she realized that there was a ringing, that there was a ringing noise that woke both of them up.
"Rory, it's your phone."
Her mind was muddled and inconsequential thoughts streamed through her head in fuzzy incomplete sentences. Things like tooth brushes, Chinese food, warm skin, the names of the paintings they saw, who was the author of Geek Love? Didn't Jess tell her to read that? Or did he say it lacked conviction? Or was that Alice Munro? Was it?
"Huh?"
"Your phone." Jess nudged Rory softly while speaking to her, "Your phone is ringing."
"Oh." Rory scrambled out of bed lacking all grace and picked up her phone on the very last ring. "Hello." Rory's voice was scratchy and deep. She looked over to Jess who was sitting up in bed, looking at her.
A shiver ran down Rory's thighs and the hair on the back of her neck stood up. Déjà vu.
"Rise and shine sweets!" The voice in the phone said cheerfully.
"Mom?" Jess arched his eyebrows realizing who was on the phone.
"Correct. Now you're probably wondering why I am calling at this ungodly hour. And probably also wondering where the phrase 'ungodly' came from. I know I am."
"It's five o'clock in the morning. I can't handle this." Rory ran a hand through her head and walked back to the bed.
"Start handling....." Feeling cold and still partly asleep Rory crawled into the bed and underneath the covers still listening. ".....I called to tell you I am about fifteen miles from the Big Apple as we speak."
"What?"
"That's right. I couldn't sleep because of a certain blue eyed daughter and so in my sleepless state I decided to take a walk. And a walk turned into a drive around the block, and then the block turned into the interstate."
"So you're telling me that you are in a car, driving to New York City at this very second."
"That is correct." Rory looked at Jess as she spoke. Jess sighed deeply, expressionless.
"And that you have been driving all night."
"Yes, but if you cut my arm off right now I would probably bleed coffee. So put Jess on the phone so he could give me directions." Rory handed Jess the phone and he knew that he would have to give Lorelai directions. He lied back down on the bed.
"Lorelai."
"Jess."
Jess gave her the best directions he could. Being very specific and ignoring Lorelai's sarcasm and comments. He was too tired and too preoccupied with the fact that Rory was lying next to him. He hated that she was leaving. When Jess hung up the phone and handed it to Rory he turned on his side so that he could face her.
"It will take her an hour to get here with traffic and everything," Jess said softly. Rory turned her head and looked at him.
"Okay." She was expressionless.
"Are you freaking out about last night?"
"No, I am freaking out about going home."
"Any regrets?"
"None." Rory smiled reassuringly and then a few doubts crossed her mind. Why would Jess ask that unless he had doubts of his own? "Do you have any regrets?"
"Nope." Jess inched closer and threw his arm around Rory.
"Good," Rory said smiling and clasping Jess' hand with hers.
"Good." Jess nuzzled his head into the curve of Rory's neck and closed his eyes.
"Jess, we need to get up or we will just fall asleep again."
"Good."
"And if we fall asleep again, then my mother will call and she will be outside, then I will leave and we won't have a chance to have the morning after talk."
"Not good."
"Right. So we need to get up. You could cook me breakfast and make me coffee, wouldn't that be a good way to start the day?"
"Good."
"You know, due to this little adventure I am finding all sorts of new information about you which I find very interesting." She waited for Jess to say something, when he didn't she added, "Like you are not a morning person."
"It's not even technically morning yet. It is still night." Jess' voice was muffled.
"Get up, sleepy-head." Rory lightly tapped his side.
"Ugh, don't ever call me that again."
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Rory and Jess sat on the stoop of his apartment building, the sunlight peeking behind and around the tall buildings. Rory was still wearing Jess' clothes, with a new red hoodie, because she told him she was cold. Jess sat next to her in jeans and a jacket. A brown paper bag with handles and Rory's back pack sat on the step beneath them. The bag held Belinda and Rory's clothes.
Rory and Jess seemed unaware of the people walking up and down the stairs every few minutes. And of the people passing them on the street who would occasionally look over and stare at the teenage couple up so early on a Saturday.
"You have to promise me," Rory said looking at Jess intently.
"Rory, c'mon."
"Promise me, Jess." She put her coffee down and took his hand. "Promise me that you'll come to Stars Hollow."
"I promise, alright. And I am a man of my word." Jess leaned in and kissed her softly.
"You better or I will just come back here and track you down."
"I kinda like the sound of that." Jess leaned in again, and kissed her earnestly. He enjoyed the sweet warm feeling of her mouth and her soft lips. This time the kissing lasted for a while until Rory pulled away again.
"How long until you think you will come to Stars Hollow?"
"Well, I gotta talk to Luke and my mom.....so.....a couple of days."
"Call me tonight?"
"Are you sure you'll be able to speak on the phone? I thought you were going to be grounded and banished from all of humanity for months and months." Jess smirked.
"Just call me." Rory looked away and towards the street. Jess leaned into her neck. Nuzzling her known weak spot while holding her hand. Rory sighed as he placed light butterfly kisses on her soft skin of her neck. This was how they will be for now on, she thought.
"I will," Jess said softly into the bent of her neck. He kissed the side of her face, slowly going to her lips.
"Bring lots of quarters."
"I plan to." Then they really kissed. Long and softly, their tongues moving achingly and lovingly in and around their mouths. Rory closed her eyes tightly and imagined herself away from the stoop and the city, back to Stars Hollow where she felt they belonged. Jess felt her hands moving to his hair, and he loved the feeling of it.
They heard a honk of a horn and broke away knowing who it was. Rory recognized the jeep coming towards them and saw her mother behind the wheel. Suddenly she was filled with a bundle of nerves and her stomach turned over.
Rory was reminded that she had betrayed her mother, her best friend.
They stood and walked to the curb as the jeep slowed and stopped in front of them. Jess held the bags as Rory opened the door to the jeep. Lorelai said, "Wow, you know this place is about as friendly as Afghanistan."
"Hi, mom." Rory didn't smile, she couldn't. She was too afraid. Jess sensed this change around her mother and stood behind Rory.
"Hello sweets." Lorelai smiled at her frightened daughter. She wore jeans and a stretchy red long sleeved top. She looked to the boy standing behind Rory, "Hello Jess."
"Lorelai." Jess nodded.
"I have to say your directions were very good." Lorelai's tone was light and bubbly. It was unnerving for Rory and Jess, who expected sarcasm and hostility.
"It was no problem." Jess shrugged.
"Okay, so are you ready to go?" Lorelai did not move behind the wheel of the car.
"Yep."
"Alright let's go."
"Okay." Rory turned to Jess and hugged him, surprisingly. Her small arms, in his clothes, wrapped around his back and Jess slowly responded to the hug. And he closed his eyes, avoiding Lorelai's stare. "Bye," Rory whispered into to Jess.
"Bye," Jess felt like an idiot having nothing else to say.
He watched Rory get into the car and shut the door. He even stood on the street as the jeep drove away and turned the corner. He knew that it was the beginning of something else. Not only did he know he would go to Stars Hollow, but he wanted to. He couldn't wait to be, really be, with Rory. Jess felt nervous about the whole thing, which was strange because he rarely felt nervous about anything. He turned and walked back inside his apartment.
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"So...." Lorelai said to her daughter while stopped at a red light.
"First and foremost, I want to say how terribly upset and sorry I am about all this. I really am. I have written an extensive list on ways you can punish me so that I can-"
"Enough on how sorry you are. I got it. You're sorry." Lorelai looked at her daughter briefly then at the road. "Tell me about last night with you and Jess."
That night Rory dreamed many strange and wonderful dreams, none that she would fully remember the next day...........
.................In one, she was in a museum and the swirls of Starry Night were moving and she reached out and felt the swirling yellows and blues like warm soothing water.
.................In another, she was in Miss Patty's dance studio and her mother, Dean, Lane and her grandparents were watching her on stage. She was wearing a pink sparkling costume and a jazz hat while listing off the states in alphabetical order and their corresponding capitols. When she got to Texas, she couldn't remember if it was Austin or Houston. Rory hesitated and she saw Dean shake his head disapprovingly.
.................In the next, Rory was running from the man in the dark long leather jacket. She ran through Chilton and through Stars Hollow. She screamed and fell and ran again. And people watched her run, their faces expressionless. No one stopped to help her. Rory looked around for someone to save her, anyone, but it was if no one even saw her.
..................In the last, was Rory and Jess were swimming in white cotton sheets in a huge bed, not hers and not his. His hands and lips were everywhere and she could feel the beads of sweat forming on her, so real. She stood from the bed and saw they were in an empty apartment, a studio apartment. Smiling, Rory slowly unzipped the back of the black dress she was wearing and let it drop to the floor. She stood in white cotton panties and bra unembarrassed before Jess who sat up in the bed smiling at her. Then Rory undid the back of her bra and let it slide forward. Jess cocked his head to the side, still smiling, nodding to her panties. He said something then, something like "Not quite there yet" or "We're almost there." And although it was unromantic, the way he said it made Rory laugh, in her dream, and she took off her panties and flung them at him before crawling in the bed and letting him explore completely.
When Rory awoke it was dark and she felt an unfamiliar form against her. It took her a few moments to remember that it was Jess' hand clasped in hers and his breath warming the back of her neck. She felt him move and sit up and heard the rustling of the sheets.
Then she realized that there was a ringing, that there was a ringing noise that woke both of them up.
"Rory, it's your phone."
Her mind was muddled and inconsequential thoughts streamed through her head in fuzzy incomplete sentences. Things like tooth brushes, Chinese food, warm skin, the names of the paintings they saw, who was the author of Geek Love? Didn't Jess tell her to read that? Or did he say it lacked conviction? Or was that Alice Munro? Was it?
"Huh?"
"Your phone." Jess nudged Rory softly while speaking to her, "Your phone is ringing."
"Oh." Rory scrambled out of bed lacking all grace and picked up her phone on the very last ring. "Hello." Rory's voice was scratchy and deep. She looked over to Jess who was sitting up in bed, looking at her.
A shiver ran down Rory's thighs and the hair on the back of her neck stood up. Déjà vu.
"Rise and shine sweets!" The voice in the phone said cheerfully.
"Mom?" Jess arched his eyebrows realizing who was on the phone.
"Correct. Now you're probably wondering why I am calling at this ungodly hour. And probably also wondering where the phrase 'ungodly' came from. I know I am."
"It's five o'clock in the morning. I can't handle this." Rory ran a hand through her head and walked back to the bed.
"Start handling....." Feeling cold and still partly asleep Rory crawled into the bed and underneath the covers still listening. ".....I called to tell you I am about fifteen miles from the Big Apple as we speak."
"What?"
"That's right. I couldn't sleep because of a certain blue eyed daughter and so in my sleepless state I decided to take a walk. And a walk turned into a drive around the block, and then the block turned into the interstate."
"So you're telling me that you are in a car, driving to New York City at this very second."
"That is correct." Rory looked at Jess as she spoke. Jess sighed deeply, expressionless.
"And that you have been driving all night."
"Yes, but if you cut my arm off right now I would probably bleed coffee. So put Jess on the phone so he could give me directions." Rory handed Jess the phone and he knew that he would have to give Lorelai directions. He lied back down on the bed.
"Lorelai."
"Jess."
Jess gave her the best directions he could. Being very specific and ignoring Lorelai's sarcasm and comments. He was too tired and too preoccupied with the fact that Rory was lying next to him. He hated that she was leaving. When Jess hung up the phone and handed it to Rory he turned on his side so that he could face her.
"It will take her an hour to get here with traffic and everything," Jess said softly. Rory turned her head and looked at him.
"Okay." She was expressionless.
"Are you freaking out about last night?"
"No, I am freaking out about going home."
"Any regrets?"
"None." Rory smiled reassuringly and then a few doubts crossed her mind. Why would Jess ask that unless he had doubts of his own? "Do you have any regrets?"
"Nope." Jess inched closer and threw his arm around Rory.
"Good," Rory said smiling and clasping Jess' hand with hers.
"Good." Jess nuzzled his head into the curve of Rory's neck and closed his eyes.
"Jess, we need to get up or we will just fall asleep again."
"Good."
"And if we fall asleep again, then my mother will call and she will be outside, then I will leave and we won't have a chance to have the morning after talk."
"Not good."
"Right. So we need to get up. You could cook me breakfast and make me coffee, wouldn't that be a good way to start the day?"
"Good."
"You know, due to this little adventure I am finding all sorts of new information about you which I find very interesting." She waited for Jess to say something, when he didn't she added, "Like you are not a morning person."
"It's not even technically morning yet. It is still night." Jess' voice was muffled.
"Get up, sleepy-head." Rory lightly tapped his side.
"Ugh, don't ever call me that again."
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Rory and Jess sat on the stoop of his apartment building, the sunlight peeking behind and around the tall buildings. Rory was still wearing Jess' clothes, with a new red hoodie, because she told him she was cold. Jess sat next to her in jeans and a jacket. A brown paper bag with handles and Rory's back pack sat on the step beneath them. The bag held Belinda and Rory's clothes.
Rory and Jess seemed unaware of the people walking up and down the stairs every few minutes. And of the people passing them on the street who would occasionally look over and stare at the teenage couple up so early on a Saturday.
"You have to promise me," Rory said looking at Jess intently.
"Rory, c'mon."
"Promise me, Jess." She put her coffee down and took his hand. "Promise me that you'll come to Stars Hollow."
"I promise, alright. And I am a man of my word." Jess leaned in and kissed her softly.
"You better or I will just come back here and track you down."
"I kinda like the sound of that." Jess leaned in again, and kissed her earnestly. He enjoyed the sweet warm feeling of her mouth and her soft lips. This time the kissing lasted for a while until Rory pulled away again.
"How long until you think you will come to Stars Hollow?"
"Well, I gotta talk to Luke and my mom.....so.....a couple of days."
"Call me tonight?"
"Are you sure you'll be able to speak on the phone? I thought you were going to be grounded and banished from all of humanity for months and months." Jess smirked.
"Just call me." Rory looked away and towards the street. Jess leaned into her neck. Nuzzling her known weak spot while holding her hand. Rory sighed as he placed light butterfly kisses on her soft skin of her neck. This was how they will be for now on, she thought.
"I will," Jess said softly into the bent of her neck. He kissed the side of her face, slowly going to her lips.
"Bring lots of quarters."
"I plan to." Then they really kissed. Long and softly, their tongues moving achingly and lovingly in and around their mouths. Rory closed her eyes tightly and imagined herself away from the stoop and the city, back to Stars Hollow where she felt they belonged. Jess felt her hands moving to his hair, and he loved the feeling of it.
They heard a honk of a horn and broke away knowing who it was. Rory recognized the jeep coming towards them and saw her mother behind the wheel. Suddenly she was filled with a bundle of nerves and her stomach turned over.
Rory was reminded that she had betrayed her mother, her best friend.
They stood and walked to the curb as the jeep slowed and stopped in front of them. Jess held the bags as Rory opened the door to the jeep. Lorelai said, "Wow, you know this place is about as friendly as Afghanistan."
"Hi, mom." Rory didn't smile, she couldn't. She was too afraid. Jess sensed this change around her mother and stood behind Rory.
"Hello sweets." Lorelai smiled at her frightened daughter. She wore jeans and a stretchy red long sleeved top. She looked to the boy standing behind Rory, "Hello Jess."
"Lorelai." Jess nodded.
"I have to say your directions were very good." Lorelai's tone was light and bubbly. It was unnerving for Rory and Jess, who expected sarcasm and hostility.
"It was no problem." Jess shrugged.
"Okay, so are you ready to go?" Lorelai did not move behind the wheel of the car.
"Yep."
"Alright let's go."
"Okay." Rory turned to Jess and hugged him, surprisingly. Her small arms, in his clothes, wrapped around his back and Jess slowly responded to the hug. And he closed his eyes, avoiding Lorelai's stare. "Bye," Rory whispered into to Jess.
"Bye," Jess felt like an idiot having nothing else to say.
He watched Rory get into the car and shut the door. He even stood on the street as the jeep drove away and turned the corner. He knew that it was the beginning of something else. Not only did he know he would go to Stars Hollow, but he wanted to. He couldn't wait to be, really be, with Rory. Jess felt nervous about the whole thing, which was strange because he rarely felt nervous about anything. He turned and walked back inside his apartment.
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"So...." Lorelai said to her daughter while stopped at a red light.
"First and foremost, I want to say how terribly upset and sorry I am about all this. I really am. I have written an extensive list on ways you can punish me so that I can-"
"Enough on how sorry you are. I got it. You're sorry." Lorelai looked at her daughter briefly then at the road. "Tell me about last night with you and Jess."