Those Quirky Gilmores Chapter Eight: This Kiss

Rory sat in class later that day and heard her beeper going of in her purse. She checked the number and smiled. It was Jess. The events of last night kept reeling in her mind as if she couldn't really believe it, as if it wasn't real. She didn't do things like that. She wasn't aggressive, well not about boys. She hadn't risked her heart in the chance of getting it hurt before. Well, except when she told Dean she loved him for the first time, but he had said it first. She never just put herself out there to feel vulnerable, but she liked it. It made her feel alive and it was exciting, and Jess brought out that girl in her. She loved that about Jess, he made life interesting and exciting in her otherwise quiet world. He stirred things up. With Dean it was make-out, watch movies, make-out, talk about… what DID they talk about? But with Jess it was, books, movies, picnics, sleigh rides, snowmen, car rides, magic tricks, fake murder scenes and on and on.

"Miss Gilmore!" she snapped out of her Jess stupor to find the teacher standing next to her.

"Yes?" she felt the heat in her face rise as she looked around to see the class looking at her.

"Miss Gilmore the use of electrical equipment is forbidden from the classroom area." The teacher said sternly looking down on her.

"Yes," Rory began feeling more embarrassed. "Sorry, it won't happen again." She quickly put her beeper away and began paying attention.

When she got off the bus, she began walking to the inn but stopped when she felt a tap on the shoulder.

"So do you always ignore people waiting for you at the bus stop?" Jess asked from behind her.

She smiled at the sound of his voice and turned. "I find that any distractions from the bus to the Inn weaken my goal that is to actually reach my destination, being the Inn."

"Oh I get it, I'm a distraction." Jess said with mock offense.

"If it makes you feel better you're better then most other distractions. Like Kirk, he's just an annoying distraction. And Miss Patty, she's an annoying distraction. The trees, now they're nice distractions…"

Jess cut her off with a kiss. Rory looked at him with surprise.

"What was that for?" she asked.

"I was trying to distract you from talking about distractions."

"Nice distraction." She said and suddenly realized that he just kissed her and was automatically nervous. She wrapped her arms around her waist and dragged her eyes to the ground.

After a little bit Jess asked, "so is everything ok?"

"Yeah," she answered.

"So then why are you suddenly starting a love affair with the contents of the ground?" he asked with some amusement and confusion.

"Um… I just…" she tried.

"No I get it." He said, seemingly coming to some conclusion he didn't like.

She shot her head up and looked at him. "No Jess, it's not… it's just… well…"

"Listen, I thought we came to some sort of I don't know consensus last night about something, I guess I was wrong." He said and started to walk away.

She grabbed his arm and pulled him into a kiss. When she pulled away she said, "What I was TRYING to say was that I was just shocked at the spontaneity. It wasn't bad, not at all, just wow…." She said trying to catch her breath.

"Sooo you're saying…. You like spontaneity?" he said with an eyebrow raised.

"I'm saying I like spontaneity, and this." She said as she kissed him.

Theme song: First Kiss by They Might Be Giants

The morning
Alarm rings
I'm asleep but she's talking to me
She's walking 'round wearing all of my clothes
But we decided long ago
We'd build a time machine and go

How 'bout another, first kiss kiss kiss yeah
I want another first kiss

Other women were to sentimental
Always worrying about their hair
Got tired of wasting all my time
now I'm not worrying at all

How 'bout another, first kiss kiss kiss yeah
I want another first kiss kiss kiss yeah
I want another first kiss

The clock rings,
she's waiting,
I could tell you we belong together
I could tell you you belong with me
But we've run out of things to say
And we'll be happy anyway, so

How 'bout another first kiss kiss kiss yeah
I want another first kiss kiss kiss yeah
I want another first kiss.