A/N thanks to all that reviewed.don't stop now! Tehe.
Chapter 2 Dancin'
She didn't get it, how could she be late? **Take a deep breath Ror. come on, its only like a week, it could just be the stress of this wedding. Yes, that's it it's the stress of the wedding** she thought to herself. She wouldn't let this get to her. Just then Jess came home.
"Hey Rory."
"Hi." She said getting up and plastering a smile on her face that defiantly wasn't there moments ago. She couldn't tell Jess that, **oh no, he'd worry, he'd just go crazy, he doesn't really need to know, not yet anyway. Its not even a baby so why tell him something so unimportant.** Rory thought to herself.
A Hand waved across her face. "Rory. . . hello. . .anyone home?"
"Huh? What?"
"I've been asking you how your day was like 10 times and you were kinda dazing off there."
"Oh sorry, I was just thinking, my days gone fine, called Lane, worked on paper. How was your class?" She asked trying to act as nothing even remotely life altering had happened to her.
"It was fine, same old thing." He said taking her hands in his. "What do you want to do tonight?" he asked.
"Oh I don't know. Did you have anything in mind?"
"Nothing really, Tristan just wanted to go out tonight, you know. . . to Dancin'."
"That club?"
"Yea. That one." He responded, he said it like he was explaining this to a five year old, very slowly and annunciated. In there area there weren't very many clubs, so they usually went to the same one. So asking if it was "that club" was a bit weird. [a/n I have NO IDEA how many clubs there are. Just work with me here! Thanks]
"Hush you," she said "I don't know." She wasn't in the mood for clubbing tonight.
"Please Rory."
"You said yes already didn't you?"
"Maybe." He said smiling guiltily.
"JESS"
"Come on Rory, we haven't done anything with Tristan for a long time, I don't want to neglect him."
"He's not a puppy Jess, he can go and find other friends. Were not neglecting him anyway we did something with him just last Wednesday."
"Rory, going to the same lecture as him does not qualify as doing something with him!"
"Fine, we'll go. You win!"
"You get to meet his new girlfriend." Jess taunted after her as she walked back over to her laptop.
Rory immediately perked up and turned around. "NEW GIRLFRIEND?"
"uh huh"
"WOOHOO this is going to be FUN!" she squealed enthusiastically, and ran to her room to, and get ready.
"Oh uh," Jess said slowly and headed towards the shower.
~*~15 minutes later~*~
"COME ON JESS YOU'VE BEEN IN THERE FOR HOURS!!" Rory yelled through the door, and then started to pound on it.
"I HAVE NOT, I'VE BEEN IN FOR 15!" he yelled back at her.
"JESS I NEED TO SHOWER!"
"SO DO I!"
"HURRY UP WILL YOU?"
"OR YOU COULD JUST JOIN ME GILMORE."
"IF I 'JOINED' YOU THEN WE'D NEVER LEAVE THE HOUSE AND THEN I'D NEVER GET TO MEET TRISTANS NEW GIRLFRIEND, THEN I WOULDN'T GET TO MAKE FUN OF HIM TILL HIS NEXT NEW GIRLFRIEND AND THAT WOULDN'T BE ANY FUN!"
"FINE! I'LL BE OUT IN LIKE 5 MINUTES, NOW STOP BANGING ON THE DOOR." After a few moments of silence. "THAT'S WHAT YOU HAVE ME FOR!" He responded smirking to himself.
"OH WIPE THAT SMIRK OF YOUR FACE MARIANO." She yelled back [all the yelling was due to the fact that they were talking through a wooden door, and the sound of the shower! Not b/c they were mad or anything like that.]
5 minutes later jess walked out of the shower and told Rory to go and get in and hurray up. 20 minutes later Rory got out of the shower and went to her room to get ready. 45 minutes after that she was all done, while Jess was watching TV for the past hour waiting for her.
"You ready."
"Yea." She said he turned around she looked amazing. She was wearing a corduroy mini skirt, with a hemp belt and a white T-shirt that in tan said "wish you were here", with a pair of cork tan sandals. Her hair was down and flowing over her shoulders, she wore sparkly gold eye shadow and a bit of lip gloss.
"Wow." Was all that Jess could breath out.
Rory smiled and blushed slightly. After all these years Jess could still make her blush. "You don't look so bad your self Dodger." He was wearing a lose pair of jeans and a tight black shirt with his sleeves rolled up, his hair its usual mess. "I think I won't be aloud to leave your side tonight, someone just might steal you away from me."
"That goes both ways, why would I want someone else when I have some one so stunning now?"
"That and Trixie." She smiled, as did he.
"Right, and Trixie." He leaned down and kissed her. "You look amazing baby."
"Thank you." she smiled "Now COME ON I want to meet Tristan's new girlfriend." She said dragging jess out the door, as he just managed to grab the keys of the counter.
"Rory Calm down this is TRISTAN'S date not yours. Don't embarrass him to much, I think he might actually like this one."
"Ha fat chance. He doesn't seem to like ANY one. I don't know what were going to do, he's a great guy, but all he seems to want are one night stands."
"I know, maybe its deeper than you," he thought for a moment then added "Or I could understand." He pulled her closer and put his arm around her waist. "Tristan has so many secrets, so many things he doesn't tell anyone. I don't know how he does it."
"I see your point." She looked down. "I just. . . I want him to have what we have. He deserves it."
"I know Rory, I know." He kissed the top of her head. "We're lucky, really lucky."
"Most defiantly" she looked up. "I love you."
"I love you." They got into their car and drove off. They reached Dancin' and looked around for Tristan's newest BMW. They saw him pull up in the spot a few cars down from their own.
"Hey Tristan." Rory said walking towards him and giving him a hug. "Haven't seen you in a while."
"Yea I know, looking hot by the way Ror.," he said smirking at her. "Keep your eye on this one Jess!"
Jess walked forward. "Oh you know I will." He said as they did the weird guy handshake thing that should have a name!
"Who me?" Rory said look up at them with big eyes, trying to pull of an innocent look while twirling a strand of hair around her finger.
"Yes you!" Tristan replied, and then as if he remembered something "I'd like you both to meet my girlfriend Lisbeth." A girl around their age came from around the car, she was about 5'5 with curly red hair to her shoulders. She had big green eyes and was wearing a black mini skirt with a shimmery green halter top, with chunky black sandals. She didn't look like one of Tristan's usual one night stands. In fact she was the exact opposite of them, except she was also very pretty. **Hmm maybe Jess was right, maybe Tristan Does really like her** Rory thought to herself.
"Hi" Rory said nicely. "I'm Rory, and this is Jess."
"Hi." Jess replied.
"Hi" Lisbeth answered.
An uncomfortable silence passed. "So, shall we get to the club then?" Tristan asked.
"Sure, sounds good." Jess responded, pulling Rory along by her hand. They got inside and sat at a table.
"Rory want anything to drink?" Jess asked getting up from the table.
"I'll have a coke."
"Lisbeth do you want anything?"
"Coke sounds good." She replied. Her voice was sweet almost young, but not over doing it so it seemed fake.
"Tris. Want to help me carry all that."
"Oh yea, right." He got up with a "be right back" and followed Jess.
"So how long have you and Tristan been going out" Rory asked turning her attention away from the dancing couples to Lisbeth.
"Officially?" she asked.
"Yea."
"About a month." She replied, twirling a lose curl around her finger and watching it spring back.
"That's cool."
"Yea, so, how long have you and Jess been together."
"Since our senior year of high school."
"Oh wow!" Lisbeth replied "That's a LONG time."
"Yea I know." Rory replied.
"Are you getting engaged any time soon?" The girl inquired. She took a liking to Rory, she seemed really nice, and easy to talk to unlike some of the people she had met through out her life, who were all fake and smiles. She sighed softly.
"Yea, actually we're getting married in about 3 weeks."
"That's soo exciting, I can't wait to get married one day."
Rory smiled at her, she liked this girl, really different then the usual bimbo's Tristan picked out. "Maybe one day you and Tristan might."
"I don't really know. I mean Tristan's a GREAT guy, but we've only been together for a month."
"Good point." Rory said nodding her head. "Where are those two anyway. They left over 15 minutes ago."
MEANWHILE. . .
"She's cute." Jess commented nodding back towards their table.
"Yea she is." Tristan replied. "And sweet, and nice, and smart, and." he trailed off with a goofy smile on his face.
"You like her a lot don't you man?" Jess inquired.
"Yea, I do. I don't know the last person that I actually liked."
"Rory?" Jess asked
"Yea, Rory." Tristan replied. They both knew, both had an unspoken agreement, both learned to live with it. Rory was Jess's and Tristan was happy for him. Since that day at Chilton when he found out about Jess and Rory he didn't want to date anyone. No one matched Rory's standards, she was one of the best. He settled for the tall blonde bimbos, who could be used for a good night of sex. Other than that he didn't want to see them.
"How'd you find this one?"
"Had a class together. Started talking, one thing lead to another and I asked her out for some coffee and she accepted."
"She's a lot like Rory isn't she?"
"As close as you can get with out stalking her." He replied smiling.
"Well, as long as your happy."
"I am."
"That's good." Jess looked over to the table again. "She's cute."
"Back off you have one, don't take the other." He said laughing, but deep down inside he wasn't laughing.
"Wouldn't dream of it." Then the bartender gave them the drinks they paid and went back to the table.
"Would you two lovely ladies like to dance?" A guy asked from behind them, he reeked of Vodka, and could barley stay standing.
"No not really. We're just waiting for our boyfriends to come back." Lisbeth replied
"It wont hurt you none to dance." He replied, his speech starting to slurred. "It's not like I'm asking you to have a 3-some, or something like that." He continued.
"Could you leave us alone now?" Rory asked, although it was more of a statement then a question.
"Now that's not all to polite is it miss." The guy asked pulling Rory off of her seat to a standing position. "All I asked for was a dance."
"And I already declined, now would you let go of me?" She asked her voice getting higher, she was panicking where were Jess and Tristan.
"No, I don't think I will, not until I get a dance."
"ACTUALLY I think you'll let go now." Came Jess voices as he punched the guy in the face. The man stumbled backward, but got up quickly and ran into Jess and punched him in the stomach. Jess stood back up and kneed the guy in the stomach, then pushed him back into the table. He recovered quickly and hit Jess in the nose the shoved him back into chairs.
Rory was standing behind the two grown men as they fought into much shock to say anything. Tristan was holding Lisbeth and keeping her away from the fight. He most likely got caught up in watching them fight to realize in what position Rory was standing. As jess got shoved back into the chairs she got knocked over and pushed pack and fell on her wrist. She heard a snap but thought nothing off it.
"RORY!" Tristan yelled as he ran over to where she was lying. "Are you ok?"
"Yea I'm fine. Could you just break them up, I don't want Jess to be black and blue for the wedding." Rory said calmly.
Tristan got up and walked over to the guys that where beating each other and separated them with the help of the bartender. "OK that's enough, your done here OUT!" The bartender shouted at the man as he pointed towards the door. "I told you to leave once and I damn well don't want to tell you this again, one more time and I swear you'll get locked up faster then you can say 'another shoot' you got that!?" He took the man, pulled him by the collar out the door, and shoved him outside.
"Rory are you okay?" Jess asked now noticing that his fiancé was lying on the floor.
"I'm ok, how are you?" She asked reaching up and gently touching Jess's face. He winched slightly. "Sorry."
"That's ok, I'm fine." He took Rory's hand and pulled her to her feet.
"Ouch."
"What? What is it Rory? Are you ok?"
"My wrist, I don't know what's wrong with it I think I broke it again though, I heard it snap."
"I can't believe I broke your wrist. TWICE!" He exclaimed.
"Oh baby, you didn't break it, this wasn't your fault."
"Come on, I'm taking you the hospital. We can get you checked out." All four of them walked out of the bar and towards their cars.
"I'm so sorry this had to be cut short Tristan, I was really looking forward to it. How bout we do something tomorrow, go out to dinner, somewhere that no one can get into a fight at."
"Dinner it is, we'll swing by your place at around 7 then?"
"Sounds good." Rory smiled at the couple. "It was great meeting you Lisbeth."
"You too."
"Ok, well I need to take this one to the hospital." Jess said. "So we'll see you tomorrow. Bye."
"Bye." They walked off towards their car.
"I liked her." Lisbeth said to Tristan as they got into the car.
"She's a good person."
"You loved her didn't you?" Lisbeth asked quietly looking into his big blue eyes.
"Yes I did."
"I'm sorry."
"Don't be, I'm not. She's happy now, and. . ." he reached over and tucked some hair behind her ear. "so am I." He leaned over and gave her a soft kiss.
"Good, I am too." She smiled at him and kissed him back. "Lets go home and watch a movie."
"Sounds good." He started his car and drove out of the parking lot.
~*~*~*~IN Jess's car~*~*~*~
"I'm so sorry." Jess repeated for the umpteenth time.
"Baby, its fine, I'm fine. How are you?" She looked over as his eyes began to swell. "I should be the one apologizing for starting this."
"Its not your fault the jerk was hitting on you."
"I know, but I still feel that I should be held responsible."
"Why hold anyone responsible?" Jess asked as he pulled into the hospital parking lot. He ran over to Rory's side of the car and opened the door for her.
"You do know I'm capable of opening a door on my own?"
"I'm trying to be helpful."
"I know you are." She reached up and gave him a soft kiss. "Thank you."
"Your welcome"
They walked into the hospital and waited in the ER for at least a half hour before a doctor could see them. Rory's wrist had swollen as had most of Jess's face.
"So." The doctor asked as he sat down. "What happened here?" He asked picking up Rory's hand.
"Umm we were in a club, and a fight started and I got pushed backwards and I heard my wrist snap."
"Ok, we'll have to get the X-Rayed" He said feeling her wrist. He then looked over to Jess. "I'm going to take a guess here, you were in the fight."
"Yes." Jess replied. He was 23 years old, but at the moment he felt like he was 17 years old and had crashed Rory's car, and any minute would be sent back to live with Liz in New York.
"Well other than some minor swelling you'll be fine. Ice that over night, and the bruising will go down with in a few weeks."
"WEEKS!?" Rory asked in shock.
"Yes why?" the doctor asked, shocked about Rory's outburst.
"How long will he be bruised?"
"NO longer then 3 weeks."
"DAMNIT!" She said really loudly. Jess smirked, Rory didn't swear often it was cute.
"I'm going to have to ask you not to swear miss." The doctor said.
"I'm sorry, its just.that we have our wedding in 3 weeks and I don't want him having bruises all over his face on our wedding day." She responded.
"I'm sure he'll be fine by then. Your wrist on the other hand I'm not to sure about. So how about we get that X-Rayed?" He smiled at the young girl. "Now it's a precaution, are you pregnant?"
"I. . .Well. . ." Jess was so confused why was she stalling. "I'm not sure." She finally replied.
Jess looked at her in shock, but she didn't dare look up at him.
"We'll go and get you a test ma'ma, come this way." Rory got up and followed the doctor out of the room. Leaving Jess just standing there dumb founded. Rory took the test and was lead back to her room, the doctor said that he'll be right back with the results and she should just stay put.
"Well.?" Jess asked looking over as Rory entered.
"We don't know yet."
"How could you not tell me."
"I don't know, I wasn't sure myself I just found out that I was late earlier today. I think its just stress and everything. I don't want to risk it though. I'm sorry I didn't tell you earlier." Rory broke down in tears, she wasn't sure why she was crying, Jess didn't seem mad, just surprised, maybe it was telling him, maybe it was hurting her wrist, maybe it was seeing his poor bruised face. She really hadn't the slightest idea.
"Its ok baby, its ok." He said going up to her and hugging her. "We'll make it through this, I promise" He whispered. Rory looked up into his eyes, although one was already turning color they never lied to her, he'd always be there for her, they'd make it through together.
"Ms. Gilmore?" The doctor asked coming in.
"Yes?" She said letting go of Jess but still holding on to his hand and squeezing it. He squeezed back gently."
"Its safe, your not pregnant." Rory let out a breath she didn't know she was holding as did Jess. "Now lets go get those X-Rays." Rory got up and followed the doctor out of the room. When they both left Jess sat there thinking to himself **I could have been a daddy, my baby could have just been pregnant. We had the chance of being parents. Would it really have been that bad?** he sighed softly to himself.
Rory came in not long after that and the doctor said he'd be around shortly. Rory sat back down on the bed that they had and jess walked up to her standing between her thighs. He just stood there for a while not saying anything just looking at her. He reached over at tucked a stray strand of hair behind her ear. "It wouldn't have been that bad." He said softly.
"I know."
"I want kids."
"I do too. I just don't know if I'm ready."
"Are we going to have kids?"
"Yes, just not now."
Jess reached over and stroked her cheek. "I love you baby, I love you so much."
"I know." She pulled him down and gave him a gentle kiss. "At least I'll never have to be nervous about telling you I'm pregnant now." She smiled at him. "You'll be happy!"
"You never have to be nervous over telling me anything."
"I know." She looked around. "What if I had an affair with some other guy."
"Then HE should be nervous if I find out, 'cause I'll beat the shit out of that guy Rory." He smiled at her. "You do realize that right?"
Rory smirked at him. "SO, what did you think of Lisbeth?"
"She was cute. She seemed nice; I didn't really get to know her all that well."
"I liked her too, she seemed really nice."
"What's more important is that I think Tristan really liked her."
"Yea, they've been together a whole month. Well, officially anyway."
"Don't make fun, everyone has to start somewhere."
A/N WOW that did take a long time for me to post and I'm so extremely sorry, but I have finals and I was really busy. But its kinda really long so I'm sure that it was worth and, and school ends on Monday for me so that will make it easier for me to post. [until I get a job anyway] unfortunately for this chapter I don't have a beta reader. But I will for the rest of them.
Speaking of Beta readers Jayde if you read this E-mail me at Sweetytweety103@hotmail.com to make sure we're in contact and I'll send you the next chapter. Thank you all so much for waiting. I love you all
XoXo Sasha
Chapter 2 Dancin'
She didn't get it, how could she be late? **Take a deep breath Ror. come on, its only like a week, it could just be the stress of this wedding. Yes, that's it it's the stress of the wedding** she thought to herself. She wouldn't let this get to her. Just then Jess came home.
"Hey Rory."
"Hi." She said getting up and plastering a smile on her face that defiantly wasn't there moments ago. She couldn't tell Jess that, **oh no, he'd worry, he'd just go crazy, he doesn't really need to know, not yet anyway. Its not even a baby so why tell him something so unimportant.** Rory thought to herself.
A Hand waved across her face. "Rory. . . hello. . .anyone home?"
"Huh? What?"
"I've been asking you how your day was like 10 times and you were kinda dazing off there."
"Oh sorry, I was just thinking, my days gone fine, called Lane, worked on paper. How was your class?" She asked trying to act as nothing even remotely life altering had happened to her.
"It was fine, same old thing." He said taking her hands in his. "What do you want to do tonight?" he asked.
"Oh I don't know. Did you have anything in mind?"
"Nothing really, Tristan just wanted to go out tonight, you know. . . to Dancin'."
"That club?"
"Yea. That one." He responded, he said it like he was explaining this to a five year old, very slowly and annunciated. In there area there weren't very many clubs, so they usually went to the same one. So asking if it was "that club" was a bit weird. [a/n I have NO IDEA how many clubs there are. Just work with me here! Thanks]
"Hush you," she said "I don't know." She wasn't in the mood for clubbing tonight.
"Please Rory."
"You said yes already didn't you?"
"Maybe." He said smiling guiltily.
"JESS"
"Come on Rory, we haven't done anything with Tristan for a long time, I don't want to neglect him."
"He's not a puppy Jess, he can go and find other friends. Were not neglecting him anyway we did something with him just last Wednesday."
"Rory, going to the same lecture as him does not qualify as doing something with him!"
"Fine, we'll go. You win!"
"You get to meet his new girlfriend." Jess taunted after her as she walked back over to her laptop.
Rory immediately perked up and turned around. "NEW GIRLFRIEND?"
"uh huh"
"WOOHOO this is going to be FUN!" she squealed enthusiastically, and ran to her room to, and get ready.
"Oh uh," Jess said slowly and headed towards the shower.
~*~15 minutes later~*~
"COME ON JESS YOU'VE BEEN IN THERE FOR HOURS!!" Rory yelled through the door, and then started to pound on it.
"I HAVE NOT, I'VE BEEN IN FOR 15!" he yelled back at her.
"JESS I NEED TO SHOWER!"
"SO DO I!"
"HURRY UP WILL YOU?"
"OR YOU COULD JUST JOIN ME GILMORE."
"IF I 'JOINED' YOU THEN WE'D NEVER LEAVE THE HOUSE AND THEN I'D NEVER GET TO MEET TRISTANS NEW GIRLFRIEND, THEN I WOULDN'T GET TO MAKE FUN OF HIM TILL HIS NEXT NEW GIRLFRIEND AND THAT WOULDN'T BE ANY FUN!"
"FINE! I'LL BE OUT IN LIKE 5 MINUTES, NOW STOP BANGING ON THE DOOR." After a few moments of silence. "THAT'S WHAT YOU HAVE ME FOR!" He responded smirking to himself.
"OH WIPE THAT SMIRK OF YOUR FACE MARIANO." She yelled back [all the yelling was due to the fact that they were talking through a wooden door, and the sound of the shower! Not b/c they were mad or anything like that.]
5 minutes later jess walked out of the shower and told Rory to go and get in and hurray up. 20 minutes later Rory got out of the shower and went to her room to get ready. 45 minutes after that she was all done, while Jess was watching TV for the past hour waiting for her.
"You ready."
"Yea." She said he turned around she looked amazing. She was wearing a corduroy mini skirt, with a hemp belt and a white T-shirt that in tan said "wish you were here", with a pair of cork tan sandals. Her hair was down and flowing over her shoulders, she wore sparkly gold eye shadow and a bit of lip gloss.
"Wow." Was all that Jess could breath out.
Rory smiled and blushed slightly. After all these years Jess could still make her blush. "You don't look so bad your self Dodger." He was wearing a lose pair of jeans and a tight black shirt with his sleeves rolled up, his hair its usual mess. "I think I won't be aloud to leave your side tonight, someone just might steal you away from me."
"That goes both ways, why would I want someone else when I have some one so stunning now?"
"That and Trixie." She smiled, as did he.
"Right, and Trixie." He leaned down and kissed her. "You look amazing baby."
"Thank you." she smiled "Now COME ON I want to meet Tristan's new girlfriend." She said dragging jess out the door, as he just managed to grab the keys of the counter.
"Rory Calm down this is TRISTAN'S date not yours. Don't embarrass him to much, I think he might actually like this one."
"Ha fat chance. He doesn't seem to like ANY one. I don't know what were going to do, he's a great guy, but all he seems to want are one night stands."
"I know, maybe its deeper than you," he thought for a moment then added "Or I could understand." He pulled her closer and put his arm around her waist. "Tristan has so many secrets, so many things he doesn't tell anyone. I don't know how he does it."
"I see your point." She looked down. "I just. . . I want him to have what we have. He deserves it."
"I know Rory, I know." He kissed the top of her head. "We're lucky, really lucky."
"Most defiantly" she looked up. "I love you."
"I love you." They got into their car and drove off. They reached Dancin' and looked around for Tristan's newest BMW. They saw him pull up in the spot a few cars down from their own.
"Hey Tristan." Rory said walking towards him and giving him a hug. "Haven't seen you in a while."
"Yea I know, looking hot by the way Ror.," he said smirking at her. "Keep your eye on this one Jess!"
Jess walked forward. "Oh you know I will." He said as they did the weird guy handshake thing that should have a name!
"Who me?" Rory said look up at them with big eyes, trying to pull of an innocent look while twirling a strand of hair around her finger.
"Yes you!" Tristan replied, and then as if he remembered something "I'd like you both to meet my girlfriend Lisbeth." A girl around their age came from around the car, she was about 5'5 with curly red hair to her shoulders. She had big green eyes and was wearing a black mini skirt with a shimmery green halter top, with chunky black sandals. She didn't look like one of Tristan's usual one night stands. In fact she was the exact opposite of them, except she was also very pretty. **Hmm maybe Jess was right, maybe Tristan Does really like her** Rory thought to herself.
"Hi" Rory said nicely. "I'm Rory, and this is Jess."
"Hi." Jess replied.
"Hi" Lisbeth answered.
An uncomfortable silence passed. "So, shall we get to the club then?" Tristan asked.
"Sure, sounds good." Jess responded, pulling Rory along by her hand. They got inside and sat at a table.
"Rory want anything to drink?" Jess asked getting up from the table.
"I'll have a coke."
"Lisbeth do you want anything?"
"Coke sounds good." She replied. Her voice was sweet almost young, but not over doing it so it seemed fake.
"Tris. Want to help me carry all that."
"Oh yea, right." He got up with a "be right back" and followed Jess.
"So how long have you and Tristan been going out" Rory asked turning her attention away from the dancing couples to Lisbeth.
"Officially?" she asked.
"Yea."
"About a month." She replied, twirling a lose curl around her finger and watching it spring back.
"That's cool."
"Yea, so, how long have you and Jess been together."
"Since our senior year of high school."
"Oh wow!" Lisbeth replied "That's a LONG time."
"Yea I know." Rory replied.
"Are you getting engaged any time soon?" The girl inquired. She took a liking to Rory, she seemed really nice, and easy to talk to unlike some of the people she had met through out her life, who were all fake and smiles. She sighed softly.
"Yea, actually we're getting married in about 3 weeks."
"That's soo exciting, I can't wait to get married one day."
Rory smiled at her, she liked this girl, really different then the usual bimbo's Tristan picked out. "Maybe one day you and Tristan might."
"I don't really know. I mean Tristan's a GREAT guy, but we've only been together for a month."
"Good point." Rory said nodding her head. "Where are those two anyway. They left over 15 minutes ago."
MEANWHILE. . .
"She's cute." Jess commented nodding back towards their table.
"Yea she is." Tristan replied. "And sweet, and nice, and smart, and." he trailed off with a goofy smile on his face.
"You like her a lot don't you man?" Jess inquired.
"Yea, I do. I don't know the last person that I actually liked."
"Rory?" Jess asked
"Yea, Rory." Tristan replied. They both knew, both had an unspoken agreement, both learned to live with it. Rory was Jess's and Tristan was happy for him. Since that day at Chilton when he found out about Jess and Rory he didn't want to date anyone. No one matched Rory's standards, she was one of the best. He settled for the tall blonde bimbos, who could be used for a good night of sex. Other than that he didn't want to see them.
"How'd you find this one?"
"Had a class together. Started talking, one thing lead to another and I asked her out for some coffee and she accepted."
"She's a lot like Rory isn't she?"
"As close as you can get with out stalking her." He replied smiling.
"Well, as long as your happy."
"I am."
"That's good." Jess looked over to the table again. "She's cute."
"Back off you have one, don't take the other." He said laughing, but deep down inside he wasn't laughing.
"Wouldn't dream of it." Then the bartender gave them the drinks they paid and went back to the table.
"Would you two lovely ladies like to dance?" A guy asked from behind them, he reeked of Vodka, and could barley stay standing.
"No not really. We're just waiting for our boyfriends to come back." Lisbeth replied
"It wont hurt you none to dance." He replied, his speech starting to slurred. "It's not like I'm asking you to have a 3-some, or something like that." He continued.
"Could you leave us alone now?" Rory asked, although it was more of a statement then a question.
"Now that's not all to polite is it miss." The guy asked pulling Rory off of her seat to a standing position. "All I asked for was a dance."
"And I already declined, now would you let go of me?" She asked her voice getting higher, she was panicking where were Jess and Tristan.
"No, I don't think I will, not until I get a dance."
"ACTUALLY I think you'll let go now." Came Jess voices as he punched the guy in the face. The man stumbled backward, but got up quickly and ran into Jess and punched him in the stomach. Jess stood back up and kneed the guy in the stomach, then pushed him back into the table. He recovered quickly and hit Jess in the nose the shoved him back into chairs.
Rory was standing behind the two grown men as they fought into much shock to say anything. Tristan was holding Lisbeth and keeping her away from the fight. He most likely got caught up in watching them fight to realize in what position Rory was standing. As jess got shoved back into the chairs she got knocked over and pushed pack and fell on her wrist. She heard a snap but thought nothing off it.
"RORY!" Tristan yelled as he ran over to where she was lying. "Are you ok?"
"Yea I'm fine. Could you just break them up, I don't want Jess to be black and blue for the wedding." Rory said calmly.
Tristan got up and walked over to the guys that where beating each other and separated them with the help of the bartender. "OK that's enough, your done here OUT!" The bartender shouted at the man as he pointed towards the door. "I told you to leave once and I damn well don't want to tell you this again, one more time and I swear you'll get locked up faster then you can say 'another shoot' you got that!?" He took the man, pulled him by the collar out the door, and shoved him outside.
"Rory are you okay?" Jess asked now noticing that his fiancé was lying on the floor.
"I'm ok, how are you?" She asked reaching up and gently touching Jess's face. He winched slightly. "Sorry."
"That's ok, I'm fine." He took Rory's hand and pulled her to her feet.
"Ouch."
"What? What is it Rory? Are you ok?"
"My wrist, I don't know what's wrong with it I think I broke it again though, I heard it snap."
"I can't believe I broke your wrist. TWICE!" He exclaimed.
"Oh baby, you didn't break it, this wasn't your fault."
"Come on, I'm taking you the hospital. We can get you checked out." All four of them walked out of the bar and towards their cars.
"I'm so sorry this had to be cut short Tristan, I was really looking forward to it. How bout we do something tomorrow, go out to dinner, somewhere that no one can get into a fight at."
"Dinner it is, we'll swing by your place at around 7 then?"
"Sounds good." Rory smiled at the couple. "It was great meeting you Lisbeth."
"You too."
"Ok, well I need to take this one to the hospital." Jess said. "So we'll see you tomorrow. Bye."
"Bye." They walked off towards their car.
"I liked her." Lisbeth said to Tristan as they got into the car.
"She's a good person."
"You loved her didn't you?" Lisbeth asked quietly looking into his big blue eyes.
"Yes I did."
"I'm sorry."
"Don't be, I'm not. She's happy now, and. . ." he reached over and tucked some hair behind her ear. "so am I." He leaned over and gave her a soft kiss.
"Good, I am too." She smiled at him and kissed him back. "Lets go home and watch a movie."
"Sounds good." He started his car and drove out of the parking lot.
~*~*~*~IN Jess's car~*~*~*~
"I'm so sorry." Jess repeated for the umpteenth time.
"Baby, its fine, I'm fine. How are you?" She looked over as his eyes began to swell. "I should be the one apologizing for starting this."
"Its not your fault the jerk was hitting on you."
"I know, but I still feel that I should be held responsible."
"Why hold anyone responsible?" Jess asked as he pulled into the hospital parking lot. He ran over to Rory's side of the car and opened the door for her.
"You do know I'm capable of opening a door on my own?"
"I'm trying to be helpful."
"I know you are." She reached up and gave him a soft kiss. "Thank you."
"Your welcome"
They walked into the hospital and waited in the ER for at least a half hour before a doctor could see them. Rory's wrist had swollen as had most of Jess's face.
"So." The doctor asked as he sat down. "What happened here?" He asked picking up Rory's hand.
"Umm we were in a club, and a fight started and I got pushed backwards and I heard my wrist snap."
"Ok, we'll have to get the X-Rayed" He said feeling her wrist. He then looked over to Jess. "I'm going to take a guess here, you were in the fight."
"Yes." Jess replied. He was 23 years old, but at the moment he felt like he was 17 years old and had crashed Rory's car, and any minute would be sent back to live with Liz in New York.
"Well other than some minor swelling you'll be fine. Ice that over night, and the bruising will go down with in a few weeks."
"WEEKS!?" Rory asked in shock.
"Yes why?" the doctor asked, shocked about Rory's outburst.
"How long will he be bruised?"
"NO longer then 3 weeks."
"DAMNIT!" She said really loudly. Jess smirked, Rory didn't swear often it was cute.
"I'm going to have to ask you not to swear miss." The doctor said.
"I'm sorry, its just.that we have our wedding in 3 weeks and I don't want him having bruises all over his face on our wedding day." She responded.
"I'm sure he'll be fine by then. Your wrist on the other hand I'm not to sure about. So how about we get that X-Rayed?" He smiled at the young girl. "Now it's a precaution, are you pregnant?"
"I. . .Well. . ." Jess was so confused why was she stalling. "I'm not sure." She finally replied.
Jess looked at her in shock, but she didn't dare look up at him.
"We'll go and get you a test ma'ma, come this way." Rory got up and followed the doctor out of the room. Leaving Jess just standing there dumb founded. Rory took the test and was lead back to her room, the doctor said that he'll be right back with the results and she should just stay put.
"Well.?" Jess asked looking over as Rory entered.
"We don't know yet."
"How could you not tell me."
"I don't know, I wasn't sure myself I just found out that I was late earlier today. I think its just stress and everything. I don't want to risk it though. I'm sorry I didn't tell you earlier." Rory broke down in tears, she wasn't sure why she was crying, Jess didn't seem mad, just surprised, maybe it was telling him, maybe it was hurting her wrist, maybe it was seeing his poor bruised face. She really hadn't the slightest idea.
"Its ok baby, its ok." He said going up to her and hugging her. "We'll make it through this, I promise" He whispered. Rory looked up into his eyes, although one was already turning color they never lied to her, he'd always be there for her, they'd make it through together.
"Ms. Gilmore?" The doctor asked coming in.
"Yes?" She said letting go of Jess but still holding on to his hand and squeezing it. He squeezed back gently."
"Its safe, your not pregnant." Rory let out a breath she didn't know she was holding as did Jess. "Now lets go get those X-Rays." Rory got up and followed the doctor out of the room. When they both left Jess sat there thinking to himself **I could have been a daddy, my baby could have just been pregnant. We had the chance of being parents. Would it really have been that bad?** he sighed softly to himself.
Rory came in not long after that and the doctor said he'd be around shortly. Rory sat back down on the bed that they had and jess walked up to her standing between her thighs. He just stood there for a while not saying anything just looking at her. He reached over at tucked a stray strand of hair behind her ear. "It wouldn't have been that bad." He said softly.
"I know."
"I want kids."
"I do too. I just don't know if I'm ready."
"Are we going to have kids?"
"Yes, just not now."
Jess reached over and stroked her cheek. "I love you baby, I love you so much."
"I know." She pulled him down and gave him a gentle kiss. "At least I'll never have to be nervous about telling you I'm pregnant now." She smiled at him. "You'll be happy!"
"You never have to be nervous over telling me anything."
"I know." She looked around. "What if I had an affair with some other guy."
"Then HE should be nervous if I find out, 'cause I'll beat the shit out of that guy Rory." He smiled at her. "You do realize that right?"
Rory smirked at him. "SO, what did you think of Lisbeth?"
"She was cute. She seemed nice; I didn't really get to know her all that well."
"I liked her too, she seemed really nice."
"What's more important is that I think Tristan really liked her."
"Yea, they've been together a whole month. Well, officially anyway."
"Don't make fun, everyone has to start somewhere."
A/N WOW that did take a long time for me to post and I'm so extremely sorry, but I have finals and I was really busy. But its kinda really long so I'm sure that it was worth and, and school ends on Monday for me so that will make it easier for me to post. [until I get a job anyway] unfortunately for this chapter I don't have a beta reader. But I will for the rest of them.
Speaking of Beta readers Jayde if you read this E-mail me at Sweetytweety103@hotmail.com to make sure we're in contact and I'll send you the next chapter. Thank you all so much for waiting. I love you all
XoXo Sasha