A/N Sorry about the delay, but I'm back!! I promise!! Soooo...please review away!!!!

Disclaimer: Gilmore Girls is still not mine

Rory didn't know where to go. After walking around aimlessly for about an hour, she finally settled on the bridge. The only one who would disturb her there would be Jess and since they were avoiding each other, he probably wouldn't come.

Once she was comfortable, she finally allowed herself to think about what she had seen. Why were they so happy? Even if he hadn't asked for a divorce yet, they were having problems weren't they? At breakfast they had seemed like they did when they first got married, nauseatingly in love. How could Dean act like that knowing he had slept with another woman?

She pulled out her cell phone and read the text message from earlier that morning. 'Good morning! I love you!' "He does," she said aloud to herself, "I know he does." Tears were flowing freely down her face now.

"You okay?" The voice scared her so much she almost dropped the phone into the water.

"God Jess, you shouldn't sneak up on people on a bridge."

A smirk appeared on his face before returning to his concerned expression. "You didn't answer my question, are you okay?"

"Why does it matter to you, you don't care about me, remember?" She cringed when she heard the words leaving her mouth. Okay so maybe I'm still bitter about being wrong, she admitted to herself.

Jess sadly shook his head. "Rory, just because I'm not looking to you for a relationship doesn't mean I don't still care about you as a person. You know this, don't take your anger at Dean out on me."

She froze. How does he know about Dean? Oh God, he knows about Dean. Beginning to panic, her eyes darted around for an escape from this conversation. She began to stand.

"I know, you probably didn't want me to know about that, and you probably aren't supposed to know that I know about that. But Rory, as someone who has already screwed up more times in his life than you ever will, maybe I'm not such a bad person to talk to about it."

Sighing, she sat back down, deciding that he had a point. She still refused to look at him. She couldn't, she knew he could read her too well.

"Or if you don't want to talk, we could just sit. We could read." He offered her a book.

Back at the diner, Lorelai had just arrived for her afternoon coffee. Seeing that she wasn't her usual happy self, Luke asked her to come upstairs.

"Are you okay? You seem really upset today."

Lorelai sighed. It's just all this stuff with Rory. She saw Lindsay and Dean having breakfast this morning. She wanted to go to Al's, I guess to avoid Jess and I'm guessing that Dean picked there to avoid her. Anyway they seemed really happy and Rory just kind of ran out. So now she's all upset and she can't talk to me about it because I reacted so horrible in the first place. God Luke I just don't understand when things got so complicated. It's just such a bad time because I'm so happy about us but I don't want to be too happy in front of her and then I'm just so worried about what she's going to do. She doesn't know how to handle things like this."

Luke wiped a tear from her eye and kissed her forehead. "It's all going to be okay. Don't worry about anything. She's a smart girl and if things get to rough, she knows she can always turn to you. You are an amazing mother. As for us, we can take things slow until this blows over. Don't worry."

"Thank you for being so great."

Dean and Lindsay were lying in bed. He had the day off and after a great morning, they had found that they couldn't keep their hands off of each other. Dean couldn't believe how much better things had been getting.

"Today was great."

Lindsay turned to look at him. "Yes. It really was. I'm so glad we're trying at this. It seems to be making such a difference. I love you so much."

"I love you too. I really don't want to move right now."

"Well I need to go take a shower, care to join?"

Dean smiled. "Moving doesn't seem so hard anymore." They both headed towards the bathroom laughing.

Jess and Rory had been sitting on the bridge each quietly reading for an hour. Finally she spoke.

"Dean wouldn't lie. If that's what you think, he wouldn't do it. He's Dean, he's dependable, honest, he's safe. And.. and I didn't screw up. We're going to be together. This morning, he ..he was just pretending. You know so she didn't make a scene."

Somewhat surprised by her outburst Jess looked at her silently for a moment. "What about this morning?"

"I saw them having breakfast. They were at Al's. They looked really happy and it freaked me out. But I mean, they're not going to fight in public right? They have to be nice to each other in public."

"I don't know Rory. I don't really know the whole situation." He didn't want to upset her more.

"I love him. He loves me. They're getting a divorce and we're going to be together. It's simple. I mean, he told me he loved me this morning right before breakfast so he hasn't changed his mind."

She still wouldn't meet his eyes with her own. She didn't have to. He knew what he would see. He knew all about the uncertainty, the fear. He remained silent. There was nothing he could say that would make her feel better because he would not allow himself to lie to her anymore.

"He hasn't told her yet. He hasn't told her about the divorce, or about us. I could tell. Why hasn't he told her yet?"

It was then that she finally looked at him. Tears filled her eyes. The question had such a simple answer but he was not willing to say it. "Rory, that's something that you are going to have to ask him." The tears began to spill and she crawled timidly into his arms.

When Jess returned to the diner later Luke appeared exhausted. "You okay Luke? You want me to close up?"

"Do you mind? Dealing with a super stressed Lorelai takes a lot out of you."

Jess smirked. "Hey I had to deal with the daughter, I think that's a lot more work."

"You talked to Rory?" Luke was surprised, but relieved that she had someone to talk to after what he heard about the morning.

"Yeah we read more than talked, but there was some talking involved. More on her part. I figured I better keep my opinions to myself on this one."

Luke smiled. "I'm fine to close. Listen someone from the SAT's called you the numbers on your bed."
Jess headed up the stairs and grabbed the phone. Why would they be calling him? Did they think he cheated or something? Did they lose it? They better not have, he actually studied for once.

"Hello? SAT Scoring and Reporting office, how may I help you?"

"Hi, this is Jess Mariano returning Robert Alsanda's call."

"Hold please."

After about a minute of horrible hold music, the call was finally picked up.

"Mr. Mariano?"

"Yes?"

"Hi this is Robert Alsanda. I had just called you earlier today to commend you on an astonishing job on your test."

"Huh. I did that good that I get a phone call?"

"Mr. Mariano, you got a perfect score. College recruiting time has just begun and I have a feeling you are going to find yourself in very high demand. Congratulations."

"No shit. Your serious?"

A laugh was heard on the other end of the phone. "Absolutely."

"Wow, thanks." He hung up the phone and stared at it for a couple minutes.

"It doesn't bite you know."

"Luke."

"So what was that all about?"

"Oh um that... nothing... it was just..."

"Well? I never heard of them calling with grades before so what happened?"

Jess turned to face Luke, still somewhat shocked. "I got a 1600. A perfect score."

Luke was elated. "Alright!" The two men hugged.