California Curse

Summary: 5 years after Jess leaves for California Rory gets a job in Venice Beach for a national newspaper. She has a perfect relationship with her boyfriend Chase, but when she runs into Jess will things change?

Pairings: R/C,R/J and a little L/L

Rating: G

Disclaimer: I don't own anything related to Gilmore Girls although I wish I owned Milo.

A/N: This is my first Fan Fiction story so please tell me how I'm doing in your reviews and let me know about any errors in spelling or anything else.

*Thanks for all your reviews I really appreciate it helps a lot.

And now the moment you've all been waiting for……..

Chapter 10 - I Love You

"Rory!"

Rory turned away from Chase "Jess" She looked back at Chase who had an angry look on his face. "Chase I …. I can't, I'm in love with someone else, and I think I just realized who it is. I'm so sorry."

"I can't believe this!" Chase yelled storming down the isle and out the doors.

"Rory….." Jess walked up to her "I love you"

"I love you too Jess" she replied giving him a long passionate kiss.

"Hey everyone who wants to stick around, the foods outside!" Lorelei yelled standing up.

Rory and Jess slowly made their way out of the church but were stopped Lorelei and Luke.

"Jess I can't believe that you did that!" Luke yelled

"Luke calm down" Lorelei said taking his hand

"Luke it's ok didn't you hear what I said to Chase?"

"Yeah I guess."

"Hey lets go eat." Lorelei said walking out of the church, followed by Luke, Jess, and Rory.

"Rory!" Lane yelled running up to her and Jess.

"Hey Lane." She replied as Lane started pulling her away from Jess. "I'll be back, hopefully. If not come look for me." she told Jess smiling back at him.

"Ok" he said catching up to them to give her a quick kiss.

"I can't believe he did that! I always wanted to see someone stop a wedding." Lane continued excitedly.

"Yeah"

"Did you see Chase's face when he stormed out of the church? He looked really funny."

"I'm sure he did, but can we not talk about him?"

"Oh yeah sorry"

"Lane eat!" Mrs. Kim called.

"I have to go, I'll talk to you later."

"Bye Lane." Rory said turning to look for Jess. She saw her mom and Luke and started walking towards them. "Mom, I'm going to go change really quick."

"Ok" Lorelei replied with a mouthful of food.

Rory got home and threw on a pair of jeans and light blue tank top, she looked in the mirror and debated whether to change her hair form the curled messy bun it was in or let it down. She decided to leave it so she hurry and look for Jess. She walked out the door and headed for the gazebo where Jess, Luke and Lorelei were seated.

"Hey" she said walking up to them.

"You hungry babe?" Lorelei asked.

"Yeah the foods great." Luke chimed in.

"Yeah I'm going over there right now, I just wanted to see if you guys wanted anything."

"Umm… bring me more coffee." Lorelei told her

"Ok I'll be right back." Rory said walking down the steps

"I'll come with you." Jess replied standing up and following her.

"Jess?" Rory turned toward him and pulled him to a stop.

"Yeah?"

"I love you"

"I love you too." he replied giving her a long kiss "Hey lets get food and eat it on the bridge."

"Ok, wait what about my moms coffee?"

"She can get it." He said pulling her towards the food.

"Fine."

Rory and Jess got their food and sat down on the bridge.

"So about the article you had to do on me…"

"You'll let me?" Rory asked.

"Yeah sure," he replied "We'll go over it later."

"Thank you."

"So where's your apartment in California?"

"Right down the road from your place."

"Oh… That's good."

"Yeah that's one of the reasons I liked it." Rory stated. There was a long pause of silence before she spoke again. "So what book do you have with you." she asked remembering he always carried one.

"On The Road"

"How many times have you read that?"

"Too many to count" he replied with a smirk. "Why you wanna read?"

"Yeah" she moved closer to him so she could read the book.

**Luke's**

Lorelei was sitting at the counter, complaining to Luke about how Taylor was going to confiscate the food for the wedding, when Rory and Jess walked in hand-in-hand.

"Hey babe" Lorelei said turning towards the door.

"Hey mom, Luke coffee?" Rory asked sitting down

"Sure but I really think that you should get her home to get sleep before she goes from talking about Taylor, to talking about Kirk, to complaining about some other thing which will lead to her remembering some crazy story about me." Luke replied setting down a cup.

"Ooo like that time Mia came to visit and she told us about how you were a trekie!" Lorelei screamed

"Take her home please!" Luke yelled.

"Yes sir Captain Kirk" Rory said smiling.

"You can't stop her now Luke. You kind of brought it upon yourself mentioning how she would go from one thing to another then to some crazy thing about you." Jess stated.

"True." Rory added.

"Hey when do you have to get back to California?" Lorelei asked turning to Rory and Jess.

"Umm… not for a week" Rory replied.

"Ok"

Rory took her coffee off the counter and motioned for Jess to join her at a table, before asking Luke for a paper and pencil. She then took a seat directly across from Jess.

"So Mr. Mariano, what will you next book be about?" Rory asked in a professional voice as Jess started to laugh. "Shut up and answer the question." she said reaching across the table hitting him playfully.

"Ok, it's kind of going to be a sequel, to my last book, 'The Year Life Began'. It's going to get more in depth with my current relationship with the main character."

"Ok so-"

"Nope, I'm telling anymore." Jess interrupted her.

"Oh please." Rory whined.

"Nope"

"Fine!"

"Fine" Jess agreed, standing up and slipping into the seat next to Rory. She turned to face him, looking into his coffee, brown eyes and leaned in to kiss him. He took his hand off the back of the seat where he set it and cupped her face as he deepened the kiss.

"Ahem." the two broke apart and looked in the direction of the noise, and saw Lorelei. "Rory if you two are done sucking face, we can go home." She said with a strait face.

"Ok" Rory replied looking at Jess to let her out of the booth.

"I'll see you tomorrow?" he asked getting up.

"Yeah" she said following him. She gave him one last kiss and headed out of the diner with her mom.

"So your over Chase huh?"

"There wasn't really anything to get over. I mean I think I realized today that I only loved Chase because I wanted someone to love, who loved me."

"You could love me" Lorelei said acting sad.

"I do love you. I guess what I'm trying to say is I loved Chase for the wrong reasons."

"Oh"

"Yeah"

"So you love Jess huh?"

"Yeah I really do."

"For the right reasons I'm guessing?"

"Yeah definitely….. All the right reasons" Rory replied squeezing her moms hand.

"Good I'm glad your happy" Lorelei replied smiling.

**Luke's 3pm 1 week later**

Lorelei and Rory were seated at the counter, discussing when Rory could visit again, or when Lorelei could visit her, When Jess walked out of the back with a bag full of clothes that he brought from California.

"Hey" he said walking up to Rory and giving her a small kiss.

"I can't believe your leaving me again Rory!" Lorelei yelled

"Mom we went over this already, I'm not discussing when we can visit again!"

"Fine!" Lorelei replied drinking the rest of her coffee. "I'm done so we an head out, Luke we're leaving!"

"Ok" he yelled coming out of the back . "Bye Rory" he said giving her a hug. "See ya Jess" he turned to him and gave him a quick hug. Then turned to Lorelei. "Are you sure you don't want me to come, just incase you cant stop crying like last time?" he joked.

"No! I'll be fine!" Lorelei yelled giving him a short kiss. "Lets go kiddies" she continued pointing to the door.

"Bye Luke" Rory and Jess said exiting the diner.

**Next Day Rory's Apartment**

Rory woke up at 10 she quickly took a shower and got dressed so she could start on her article for the paper. She tried to write but couldn't. 'I need coffee' she thought getting up from the kitchen table to fix her hair. A few minutes later she was on her way to the bookstore. As soon as she got there she ordered a large coffee and looked trough the books. ' 'Understand This' sounds good.' She thought reading the summary. She paid for the book and started home, while thinking about ways to write her article. 'I have to think of something, the article is due later today'

She got home and quickly started writing. Three hours later at 3:30 she finally completed the article. She reread it, then decided to call Jess to see what he thought. She picked up the phone, but set it right back down, remembering he had a meeting with some guy from his publishing company. 'Oh well, he'll just have to read it in tomorrows paper.' she thought heading out the door in the direction of her office to drop off the article.