A/N Very important*** The dialogue and views used in this story are in no
way a tool to portray behaviors of any group of people living anywhere. The
dialogue is used to help get the characters emotions across. Sorry if it's
out of context but it's what I at this time could do. And yes it's sad but
it's gotten to the point that I feel I need to justify my writing, I in no
way meant to offend anyone with previous material, but again if you don't
like it exit my story there's no need to attack me for it. I hope you enjoy
this chapter its much longer, I like it I put a lot into and I'm proud of
it. Thanks for all the positive support. Here's the story:
*Evening: Beach: Jess has taken Rory down to walk along the coast.
"Wow." Rory muses.
A soft smile plays at the edge of Jess' lips as he stares at Rory.
Rory continues, "This is amazing, look at that sunset."
"Yeah." Jess replies.
Rory turns to him, "You're crazy if you don't come out here every night."
Jess shrugs, "Sometimes I do, but you know when you see it everyday....."
Rory shakes her head, "No, I don't think I could get tired of this."
Jess smirks, "You know what I don't get tired of?"
Rory frowns "Jess....."
Jess laughs hollowly, but amusedly, "Not that........I was going to say you."
Rory blushes shamefully, "Oh."
"God, your mind really has gone to the gutter, what are they teaching you at that college?"
Rory looks down at her feet, mesmerized as they emerge out of the sand with every single footstep.
"I was trying to be romantic." Jess barks playfully.
Rory stops walking, turning towards Jess.
"But then you had to go and ruin the mom----"
Rory interrupts Jess with a kiss.
Rory pulls away a smile emanating across her face.
Jess licks his lips, "You've been here nearly 6 hours.....you'd think we'd be on more than our 3rd kiss." Jess smirks raising an eyebrow at her.
Rory takes Jess' hand as they begin to walk again.
Silence consumes them as the waves crash loudly around them
"I lie it here." Jess says suddenly.
"I know." Rory replies quietly.
"But it does have one disadvantage, one thing that if I could I'd change in a second."
Rory catches on instantly but plays along, "Oh yeah?
"Yeah.
"What's the disadvantage?
"I never realized how good Luke's burgers were until I got here, man if I could just get those sent here I'd be a content man."
Rory frowns swatting jess' arm.
Jess puts his arm around her pulling her close to him.
Rory sighs contently as jess' kisses the top of her head.
"So read anything worthy lately?"
Rory shakes her head, "Not really, but......"
And once again they were off on one of their detailed literary discussions/debates. Jess defending his newly discovered love of Henry David Therou.
*An hour later:
"Look, all I know is he wrote some pretty interesting points and anyone who sets the woods on fire, observes as everyone else but himself tries to salvage the place, and then proceeds to write it all down has some major genius insanity going on." Jess says hoarsely.
Rory shivers in his arms, "You want to go back?" Jess asks.
Rory nods.
*10 minutes later: Rory and Jess approaching the housing project.
Rory stops abruptly in front of the walkway.
Jess turns back, a strange look on his face, "Ror?"
Rory shuffles her feet.
"What?" Jess asks simply.
"Why are you acting like this?"
Jess scoffs, "Like what?"
"Like you care." Rory says seriously.
"Wh-I-I'm your boyfriend, aren't I suppose to care?" Jess replies, astonished.
"I don't mean it like that." Rory sighs, put a hand to her forehead, "I just mean, you're so unlike yourself nice, sweet to you're dad's girlfriend, playful with her daughter, thoughtful."
Jess shoves his hands in his pockets and shrugs, "I don't know, maybe I figured if I screwed up here I'd have nowhere else to go." Jess bites back, "Or maybe I just thought I'd try and adapt to Lorelai's list of requests for the perfect boyfriend for her daughter."
"Look I shouldn't have brought it up ok let's not fight, I just, you're just freaking me out a little bit."
"Why?"
"Because, I don't understand how you can just act like this here, but the whole two years you were in Connecticut you barely said three words to anyone and it was a chore to get you to do anything."
Jess runs a hand through his hair, "I don't know, Rory I really don't.......but either way I thought you'd be happy, I mean this is what you and your mom wanted right?"
Rory shakes her head, "No."
Jess glares at her.
"Maybe my mom, but never me, ok maybe I wanted you to be a little bit nicer towards my mom and Luke but I could put up with the other stuff, I never wanted you to change completely."
Jess takes his hands out of his pockets, "Well I haven't, just adapted a bit."
Rory nods.
"So what now?"
Rory shrugs.
"Do you hate me? Are we breaking up come on I'm not the one who had the little outburst."
Rory laughs, "I don't hate, I'm just not sure, I definitely don't want to break up with you, I just needed to say what I had to say and I need some time to adjust. "
"Ok."
Rory approaches Jess, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to ruin this trip."
Jess smirks, "Who said you ruined it yet, you've still got 7 more days to screw it up.
Rory hugs Jess uncontrollably.
"Come on, let's go up." Jess says leading Rory towards the door.
*Rory and Jess enter the apartment.
"There you are." Sasha greets. "There's chicken and potatoes in the fridge for ya."
"Thank you." Rory says meekly.
"Gosh, you're a shy one." Sasha grins, "Well if you'll excuse me I've got a 7 year old waiting on the next chapter of Harry Potter"
Sasha walks away.
"Oh and Jess, I set up a bed for you on the couch."
Jess makes a small noise.
Sasha takes a step back smiling sweetly, "Well you weren't going to ask this lovely lady to take the couch were you."
Jess pretends to be upset, "Absolutely."
Sasha shrugs and walks away, "Be nice Jessie."
Rory begins to giggle.
"Stop it, or you really will be sleeping on the couch." Jess smirks.
*Jess' room: Rory is sitting on Jess' bed, already in her pajamas one of her legs dangling off the side. Jess is sitting across from her directly facing her. He leans in and kisses her slowly. Rory wraps her arm around his shoulders. Jess deepens the kiss, his hand traveling under her shirt.
Rory pushes his hand away.
Jess pulls out of their embrace, and raises an eyebrow at her.
"Child in the next room." She says simply.
"She's a sound sleeper." Jess leans in again.
"Jess." Rory moans.
Jess sighs exasperated.
Rory smiles, "It's late."
"Yeah so?"
"Well, the sooner we go to bed, the sooner we get up and everybody else goes to work."
Jess smirks, "Goodnight."
Rory kisses him goodnight.
As soon as he exits she undoes his blankets, gets comfortable, and flips off the light falling into a comfortable sleep.
*1am:
Rory gets up to go to the bathroom
The window to Jess' room opens, cadence enters quietly, mechanically slipping into bed.
Rory reenters the room, not bothering to turn on the light, she slips into bed as cadence puts her arm around her thinking she's Jess. Rory's body clams up. With out a word she reaches for the light.
"Oh my God!" Rory exclaims quietly as Cadence comes into view.
Cadi remains unaffected, still half asleep.
Rory jumps out of bed.
"W-what are you doing here?"
"I was sleeping."
"I-In my boyfriend's bed."
"Yeah, so."
"Is this a normal thing, does this happen often?" Rory asks, her eyes bulging out.
Cadence shrugs, "Gees don't have a calf, it's not like anything's happened."
Rory mutters incoherently.
"Look, Suzy Q I swear Jess hasn't touch me.......believe me it's not that he hasn't had the opportunity......."
Rory cuts her off reaching for her capris that are hanging on the door.
Cadence sighs, "What are you doing?"
"I-I can't stay here." Rory replies pulling on her pants.
Cadence laughs hollowly, "Where you going to go? This isn't Connecticut you know."
"I don't care, I just can't be here." Rory says harshly tears forming in her eyes.
"You're so touchy."
Rory makes a small noise, pull a shirt over her head..
"You know what your problem is?" Cadence doesn't wait for a response, "You're too conservative, I mean really what did you think, that Jess would move thousands of miles away and wait around 6 months until the next time he could touch you? It doesn't work like that honey."
Rory turns her back on cadence, picking up her purse; she stumbles on one of Jess' sneakers. She eyes it harshly kicking it loudly against the wall before leaving.
Rory moves quietly but quickly through the hallway stopping in front of the couch to look at jess momentarily.
She huffs loudly heading for the door.
"Ror?" Jess asks in a sleepy stupor.
Rory walks out slamming the door behind her.
Jess falls off the couch, breaking his wall with his face. Jess rubs his jaw gathering himself on the hard wood floor. Jess' eyes adjust to the darkness focus on a single beam of light emulating from his bedroom.
Jess moves slowly towards it.
His bedroom door creaks open.
"Rory?" He whispers unaware of what has happened.
"Try again." Cadence says sharply bringing her knees to her chest.
"Where's Rory."
"Flew the coup."
"Damnit." Jess curses.
"Look it's all my fault."
Jess doesn't have to ask he a can tell what happened.
"Come on, the ol' brother in law showed up tonight.........I can't sleep there it's too loud."
Jess shakes his head.
"I figured she'd be shacked up in Lily's room, I had no idea she'd be in here."
"Oh God, and she left just like that."
"well......." Cadence says, suddenly becoming mean.
"What did you do?" Jess asks harshly.
"I may have egged her on........but I just told the truth, I told her nothing happened."
"Don't you see that that doesn't matter to her, she doesn't care about that, oh man she's got to hate you."
"She was pretty angry."
Jess glares at her, "Why? Huh why'd you have to fucking pull this? Rory, Rory is not like us, she doesn't understand the kind of stuff we've been through.........and she shouldn't have to."
"Why do you protect her, she was going to find out about the real world sooner or later."
"It didn't have to be today."
Cadence is becoming hurt, "Who are you to judge that."
"No one. I'm no one, but the point is that I'm her boyfriend, I've experienced enough shit for the both of us, besides it's not like she hasn't had stuff to deal with."
"Not like us." Cadence fights back.
"So?"
"How can you be with someone who doesn't know your whole life story? What makes you tick............I bet she doesn't even know what your middle name is."
"It doesn't matter."
Cadence scoffs, "Of course it does."
"I love her." Jess says raising her voice.
"Of course you do." Cadence says quietly.
"She's the only one who matter to me, do you understand that?"
Cadence stands up, and heads the window, "Yeah I understand, I understand that I'm never going to be good enough to live up to miss pretty pretty princess"
"What?"
"Nothing." Cadence starts to climb out the window.
Things suddenly click for jess, "I had no idea."
"Bullshit, you had to."
Jess sighs, "No.........I just thought....."
"What, what did you think?"
Jess' voice catches in his throat, "I thought we were looking out for each other."
Tears gather in Cadence's eyes, "And that's it."
Jess nods, regretting his inability to grasp concepts simply.
"I'm sorry" He says truthfully.
Cadence searches Jess' face, and with a sigh responds, "I know."
Jess runs his hand through his hair.
Cadence swallows hard, trying not to let Jess see her cry, "Well you better go find her...........it's late and she has no clue where she's going."
Jess nods, looking up at Cadence he replies, "You going to be ok?"
Cadence sighs, "No, but who cares anyway."
"I do." Jess says sharply.
Cadence nods, "I'll check Main Street and the back roads, you check out the boardwalk and stuff."
"Ok." Jess says.
Cadence climbs out the window.
"Hey Cadi?"
She pops her head back in, "Yeah?"
"Thanks."
"Don't mention it.......really don't."
*Else where. The boardwalk is dimly lit with orange light, the temperature has cooled, and the smell of rain is fresh in the air, a cool breeze moves harshly past Rory's face.
She walks swiftly babbling incoherently, her mind reeling.
"Hey baby." A snide voice says from behind.
Rory's body stiffens.
"What's a pretty one like you doing out here alone at night?"
Horror struck Rory backs away, "I-I'm not alone."
"Looks that way to me."
"I-I'm with my boyfriend."
Where is he?"
Rory stumbles backward, her feet stumbling onto the sand, uh waiting for me, uh somewhere else. Rory continues staggering backwards out of the light. As long as she keeps going the scary offender can't touch her. And right now the pitch-dark beach is her safest bet.
"Come back her, I'm sure I can give you what I know you want just come into the light.
"No" Rory squeaks, starting to run.
A few minutes pass, as soon as Rory is sure that her assailant is long gone, she allows her knees to give in, but she continues to make her way through the sand crawling slowly and as quietly as humanly possible.
*Jess walks taking large strides cursing at himself. "Asshole, fu---"
"Care to invest in the future?" A sly voice says.
Jess sighs, "Beat it."
"I've got some choice stuff."
Look pal, I don't want anything form you, I just want to find my girlfriend." Jess barks at the drug dealer.
In the bleak orange light the wiry man's face twists into a wicked smile, "Skittish Brunette?"
Jess's muscles tighten, "You've seen her?"
"Seen her, had an intimate conversation with her.
Jess curses, "I swear to God if you touched her......"
The man points a bony finger out towards the beach, "She's out there."
Jess stumbles backward not wasting another minute.
*5 minutes later: Jess is combing the beach screaming Rory's name.
*Far off: Rory sobs, frightened and alone. She lifts her head, imagining that someone is calling her voice.
Rory tries to shake the voices out of her mind. Two different ideas nag her, driving her to deeper, longer tears.
The dark scares her, more than anything she wants Jess there with her, but on the other hand she wants just as much to never see him again. Rory's tears sting her cheeks as thunder sounds.
Another moment and the rain will begin to fall.
Rory shifts her body, lying flat on her back, she closes her eyes praying for sleep, no that she could get any, but hoping, for the sooner she falls asleep the sooner she wakes up to daylight, the question plaguing her mind however, is if the daylight will make any difference.
As she shifts herself again she hears that faint imaginary voice calling her name "Rory....."
A/n Ok taking a bit darker tone, sorry if it's not to your liking. But please read and review. Oh and I finished my paper everyone say woo hoo!
*Evening: Beach: Jess has taken Rory down to walk along the coast.
"Wow." Rory muses.
A soft smile plays at the edge of Jess' lips as he stares at Rory.
Rory continues, "This is amazing, look at that sunset."
"Yeah." Jess replies.
Rory turns to him, "You're crazy if you don't come out here every night."
Jess shrugs, "Sometimes I do, but you know when you see it everyday....."
Rory shakes her head, "No, I don't think I could get tired of this."
Jess smirks, "You know what I don't get tired of?"
Rory frowns "Jess....."
Jess laughs hollowly, but amusedly, "Not that........I was going to say you."
Rory blushes shamefully, "Oh."
"God, your mind really has gone to the gutter, what are they teaching you at that college?"
Rory looks down at her feet, mesmerized as they emerge out of the sand with every single footstep.
"I was trying to be romantic." Jess barks playfully.
Rory stops walking, turning towards Jess.
"But then you had to go and ruin the mom----"
Rory interrupts Jess with a kiss.
Rory pulls away a smile emanating across her face.
Jess licks his lips, "You've been here nearly 6 hours.....you'd think we'd be on more than our 3rd kiss." Jess smirks raising an eyebrow at her.
Rory takes Jess' hand as they begin to walk again.
Silence consumes them as the waves crash loudly around them
"I lie it here." Jess says suddenly.
"I know." Rory replies quietly.
"But it does have one disadvantage, one thing that if I could I'd change in a second."
Rory catches on instantly but plays along, "Oh yeah?
"Yeah.
"What's the disadvantage?
"I never realized how good Luke's burgers were until I got here, man if I could just get those sent here I'd be a content man."
Rory frowns swatting jess' arm.
Jess puts his arm around her pulling her close to him.
Rory sighs contently as jess' kisses the top of her head.
"So read anything worthy lately?"
Rory shakes her head, "Not really, but......"
And once again they were off on one of their detailed literary discussions/debates. Jess defending his newly discovered love of Henry David Therou.
*An hour later:
"Look, all I know is he wrote some pretty interesting points and anyone who sets the woods on fire, observes as everyone else but himself tries to salvage the place, and then proceeds to write it all down has some major genius insanity going on." Jess says hoarsely.
Rory shivers in his arms, "You want to go back?" Jess asks.
Rory nods.
*10 minutes later: Rory and Jess approaching the housing project.
Rory stops abruptly in front of the walkway.
Jess turns back, a strange look on his face, "Ror?"
Rory shuffles her feet.
"What?" Jess asks simply.
"Why are you acting like this?"
Jess scoffs, "Like what?"
"Like you care." Rory says seriously.
"Wh-I-I'm your boyfriend, aren't I suppose to care?" Jess replies, astonished.
"I don't mean it like that." Rory sighs, put a hand to her forehead, "I just mean, you're so unlike yourself nice, sweet to you're dad's girlfriend, playful with her daughter, thoughtful."
Jess shoves his hands in his pockets and shrugs, "I don't know, maybe I figured if I screwed up here I'd have nowhere else to go." Jess bites back, "Or maybe I just thought I'd try and adapt to Lorelai's list of requests for the perfect boyfriend for her daughter."
"Look I shouldn't have brought it up ok let's not fight, I just, you're just freaking me out a little bit."
"Why?"
"Because, I don't understand how you can just act like this here, but the whole two years you were in Connecticut you barely said three words to anyone and it was a chore to get you to do anything."
Jess runs a hand through his hair, "I don't know, Rory I really don't.......but either way I thought you'd be happy, I mean this is what you and your mom wanted right?"
Rory shakes her head, "No."
Jess glares at her.
"Maybe my mom, but never me, ok maybe I wanted you to be a little bit nicer towards my mom and Luke but I could put up with the other stuff, I never wanted you to change completely."
Jess takes his hands out of his pockets, "Well I haven't, just adapted a bit."
Rory nods.
"So what now?"
Rory shrugs.
"Do you hate me? Are we breaking up come on I'm not the one who had the little outburst."
Rory laughs, "I don't hate, I'm just not sure, I definitely don't want to break up with you, I just needed to say what I had to say and I need some time to adjust. "
"Ok."
Rory approaches Jess, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to ruin this trip."
Jess smirks, "Who said you ruined it yet, you've still got 7 more days to screw it up.
Rory hugs Jess uncontrollably.
"Come on, let's go up." Jess says leading Rory towards the door.
*Rory and Jess enter the apartment.
"There you are." Sasha greets. "There's chicken and potatoes in the fridge for ya."
"Thank you." Rory says meekly.
"Gosh, you're a shy one." Sasha grins, "Well if you'll excuse me I've got a 7 year old waiting on the next chapter of Harry Potter"
Sasha walks away.
"Oh and Jess, I set up a bed for you on the couch."
Jess makes a small noise.
Sasha takes a step back smiling sweetly, "Well you weren't going to ask this lovely lady to take the couch were you."
Jess pretends to be upset, "Absolutely."
Sasha shrugs and walks away, "Be nice Jessie."
Rory begins to giggle.
"Stop it, or you really will be sleeping on the couch." Jess smirks.
*Jess' room: Rory is sitting on Jess' bed, already in her pajamas one of her legs dangling off the side. Jess is sitting across from her directly facing her. He leans in and kisses her slowly. Rory wraps her arm around his shoulders. Jess deepens the kiss, his hand traveling under her shirt.
Rory pushes his hand away.
Jess pulls out of their embrace, and raises an eyebrow at her.
"Child in the next room." She says simply.
"She's a sound sleeper." Jess leans in again.
"Jess." Rory moans.
Jess sighs exasperated.
Rory smiles, "It's late."
"Yeah so?"
"Well, the sooner we go to bed, the sooner we get up and everybody else goes to work."
Jess smirks, "Goodnight."
Rory kisses him goodnight.
As soon as he exits she undoes his blankets, gets comfortable, and flips off the light falling into a comfortable sleep.
*1am:
Rory gets up to go to the bathroom
The window to Jess' room opens, cadence enters quietly, mechanically slipping into bed.
Rory reenters the room, not bothering to turn on the light, she slips into bed as cadence puts her arm around her thinking she's Jess. Rory's body clams up. With out a word she reaches for the light.
"Oh my God!" Rory exclaims quietly as Cadence comes into view.
Cadi remains unaffected, still half asleep.
Rory jumps out of bed.
"W-what are you doing here?"
"I was sleeping."
"I-In my boyfriend's bed."
"Yeah, so."
"Is this a normal thing, does this happen often?" Rory asks, her eyes bulging out.
Cadence shrugs, "Gees don't have a calf, it's not like anything's happened."
Rory mutters incoherently.
"Look, Suzy Q I swear Jess hasn't touch me.......believe me it's not that he hasn't had the opportunity......."
Rory cuts her off reaching for her capris that are hanging on the door.
Cadence sighs, "What are you doing?"
"I-I can't stay here." Rory replies pulling on her pants.
Cadence laughs hollowly, "Where you going to go? This isn't Connecticut you know."
"I don't care, I just can't be here." Rory says harshly tears forming in her eyes.
"You're so touchy."
Rory makes a small noise, pull a shirt over her head..
"You know what your problem is?" Cadence doesn't wait for a response, "You're too conservative, I mean really what did you think, that Jess would move thousands of miles away and wait around 6 months until the next time he could touch you? It doesn't work like that honey."
Rory turns her back on cadence, picking up her purse; she stumbles on one of Jess' sneakers. She eyes it harshly kicking it loudly against the wall before leaving.
Rory moves quietly but quickly through the hallway stopping in front of the couch to look at jess momentarily.
She huffs loudly heading for the door.
"Ror?" Jess asks in a sleepy stupor.
Rory walks out slamming the door behind her.
Jess falls off the couch, breaking his wall with his face. Jess rubs his jaw gathering himself on the hard wood floor. Jess' eyes adjust to the darkness focus on a single beam of light emulating from his bedroom.
Jess moves slowly towards it.
His bedroom door creaks open.
"Rory?" He whispers unaware of what has happened.
"Try again." Cadence says sharply bringing her knees to her chest.
"Where's Rory."
"Flew the coup."
"Damnit." Jess curses.
"Look it's all my fault."
Jess doesn't have to ask he a can tell what happened.
"Come on, the ol' brother in law showed up tonight.........I can't sleep there it's too loud."
Jess shakes his head.
"I figured she'd be shacked up in Lily's room, I had no idea she'd be in here."
"Oh God, and she left just like that."
"well......." Cadence says, suddenly becoming mean.
"What did you do?" Jess asks harshly.
"I may have egged her on........but I just told the truth, I told her nothing happened."
"Don't you see that that doesn't matter to her, she doesn't care about that, oh man she's got to hate you."
"She was pretty angry."
Jess glares at her, "Why? Huh why'd you have to fucking pull this? Rory, Rory is not like us, she doesn't understand the kind of stuff we've been through.........and she shouldn't have to."
"Why do you protect her, she was going to find out about the real world sooner or later."
"It didn't have to be today."
Cadence is becoming hurt, "Who are you to judge that."
"No one. I'm no one, but the point is that I'm her boyfriend, I've experienced enough shit for the both of us, besides it's not like she hasn't had stuff to deal with."
"Not like us." Cadence fights back.
"So?"
"How can you be with someone who doesn't know your whole life story? What makes you tick............I bet she doesn't even know what your middle name is."
"It doesn't matter."
Cadence scoffs, "Of course it does."
"I love her." Jess says raising her voice.
"Of course you do." Cadence says quietly.
"She's the only one who matter to me, do you understand that?"
Cadence stands up, and heads the window, "Yeah I understand, I understand that I'm never going to be good enough to live up to miss pretty pretty princess"
"What?"
"Nothing." Cadence starts to climb out the window.
Things suddenly click for jess, "I had no idea."
"Bullshit, you had to."
Jess sighs, "No.........I just thought....."
"What, what did you think?"
Jess' voice catches in his throat, "I thought we were looking out for each other."
Tears gather in Cadence's eyes, "And that's it."
Jess nods, regretting his inability to grasp concepts simply.
"I'm sorry" He says truthfully.
Cadence searches Jess' face, and with a sigh responds, "I know."
Jess runs his hand through his hair.
Cadence swallows hard, trying not to let Jess see her cry, "Well you better go find her...........it's late and she has no clue where she's going."
Jess nods, looking up at Cadence he replies, "You going to be ok?"
Cadence sighs, "No, but who cares anyway."
"I do." Jess says sharply.
Cadence nods, "I'll check Main Street and the back roads, you check out the boardwalk and stuff."
"Ok." Jess says.
Cadence climbs out the window.
"Hey Cadi?"
She pops her head back in, "Yeah?"
"Thanks."
"Don't mention it.......really don't."
*Else where. The boardwalk is dimly lit with orange light, the temperature has cooled, and the smell of rain is fresh in the air, a cool breeze moves harshly past Rory's face.
She walks swiftly babbling incoherently, her mind reeling.
"Hey baby." A snide voice says from behind.
Rory's body stiffens.
"What's a pretty one like you doing out here alone at night?"
Horror struck Rory backs away, "I-I'm not alone."
"Looks that way to me."
"I-I'm with my boyfriend."
Where is he?"
Rory stumbles backward, her feet stumbling onto the sand, uh waiting for me, uh somewhere else. Rory continues staggering backwards out of the light. As long as she keeps going the scary offender can't touch her. And right now the pitch-dark beach is her safest bet.
"Come back her, I'm sure I can give you what I know you want just come into the light.
"No" Rory squeaks, starting to run.
A few minutes pass, as soon as Rory is sure that her assailant is long gone, she allows her knees to give in, but she continues to make her way through the sand crawling slowly and as quietly as humanly possible.
*Jess walks taking large strides cursing at himself. "Asshole, fu---"
"Care to invest in the future?" A sly voice says.
Jess sighs, "Beat it."
"I've got some choice stuff."
Look pal, I don't want anything form you, I just want to find my girlfriend." Jess barks at the drug dealer.
In the bleak orange light the wiry man's face twists into a wicked smile, "Skittish Brunette?"
Jess's muscles tighten, "You've seen her?"
"Seen her, had an intimate conversation with her.
Jess curses, "I swear to God if you touched her......"
The man points a bony finger out towards the beach, "She's out there."
Jess stumbles backward not wasting another minute.
*5 minutes later: Jess is combing the beach screaming Rory's name.
*Far off: Rory sobs, frightened and alone. She lifts her head, imagining that someone is calling her voice.
Rory tries to shake the voices out of her mind. Two different ideas nag her, driving her to deeper, longer tears.
The dark scares her, more than anything she wants Jess there with her, but on the other hand she wants just as much to never see him again. Rory's tears sting her cheeks as thunder sounds.
Another moment and the rain will begin to fall.
Rory shifts her body, lying flat on her back, she closes her eyes praying for sleep, no that she could get any, but hoping, for the sooner she falls asleep the sooner she wakes up to daylight, the question plaguing her mind however, is if the daylight will make any difference.
As she shifts herself again she hears that faint imaginary voice calling her name "Rory....."
A/n Ok taking a bit darker tone, sorry if it's not to your liking. But please read and review. Oh and I finished my paper everyone say woo hoo!