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Ch. 4

Rory stood up, knocking her chair over in the process, and ran out of the restaurant. As she jogged down the street, she debated in her head where she should go. If I go home, she thought, I might run into him. It's not like I can never go back there, though. No, I need to go somewhere else. Somewhere that's calm. Immediately, she knew where to go. The book store. It calmed her down no matter what.

The moment she walked into the quaint store, she felt better. This store was her favorite book place ever. It was small, but had the greatest books. She could go and just browse the shelves for hours and still find new things. She was looking around when she came upon a huge book display. When she saw what it was, she stumbled to the nearest chair and fell into it.

It was a display for Meant to Be...Well, Hopefully and on it was a huge picture of who else, but Jess. If there had been any doubt in her mind that it wasn't him who wrote it, it was definitely gone now. It's really him, she told herself. He wrote about me in a book. He told the whole world why he left me before he told me. I want to see him but I can't, I don't have the courage. I can't stay here. I can't cry in a book store.

She got up and walked out, the tears in her eyes threatening to leak out and fall down her face. I'm so stupid. Why am I going to cry? It's been five years since he left. He shouldn't upset me anymore. But he does. As she walked down the street, she tried to think of someplace, anyplace to go so that she didn't have to go home. She didn't figure anything out, though, so she headed in the direction of her apartment.

When she got there, she hesitated before walking through the doors. She walked in quickly and went straight to the elevators. When she got on, Mike immediately noticed how upset she looked.

"Wow, are you okay, Rory? What happened?"

"Nothing," Rory sniffed and attempted to smile at him, "I'm fine, don't worry."

"Well, I don't want to push so okay. Sorry Rory, but we have to stop at this floor to pick someone up." Rory nodded at this and covered her face, rubbing her head and wiping her eyes. "Hello Mr. Mariano," Mike said. "I can take you down to the lobby but first I need to take Ms. Gilmore here up to the tenth floor."

Rory froze. Mr. Mariano? She slowly lifted her head and looked at the man standing there, staring at her. "Rory?" he whispered, barely audible. "Uh, hey."

Tears started welling up in Rory's eyes again. "Hi Jess." She could barely get the two small words out of her mouth. He just stared at her, shock written all over his face. Rory couldn't hold it in anymore. She started sobbing uncontrollably.

"Rory, are you okay?" Mike said, looking confused.

"Ror," Jess tried to touch Rory's hand that was over her eyes but she pushed him away. "Ror, please don't cry. Please. I just--" he didn't know what to say.

"Um, Rory, we're to your floor," Mike informed her. "Do you want me to walk you to your door?"

"Don't worry about it, Mike. I'll take care of it. I don't need to go to the lobby anymore." Jess led Rory off the elevator and after the doors closed, he spoke. "Rory, please just talk to me."

Rory snapped, all the pent up frustration from the past five years exploding. "Talk to you? Why should I talk to you? You're the one who left five years ago with no explanation and you tell me to talk? Leave me alone Jess."

"Rory, please, you don't understand. Please don't be mad. I know I was an asshole, but you wouldn't understand if I told you. I guess it was just easier not to."

"Jess, I know why you frickin' left me. It would've been nice if you would've told me yourself so I didn't have to read about it in your stupid book."

With that, Rory walked into her apartment and slammed the door, leaving Jess standing there, hating himself.

A/N: Hey guys, thanks for reading. Sorry if there are typos, I typed that really fast. Was this chapter good? I'm not so sure I like it. Again, thanks so much for reviewing I love getting them and please review some more. Come on, just push that little button. hehe thanks. Oh, and don't worry, it will end how it's supposed to.