At work, the man asks her where she went last night. She tells him that they forgot their bibles and he looks at her quizzically. She explains that she felt bad so they went home. He doesn't quite understand. He tells her that wasn't necessary.
Rory meets with Jess in the storage room. She holds him close and tells him that she can't go to the motel with him today. He is disappointed because she had said she could. She tells him she needs to take care of something. He asks her what she needs to do. She tells him that somebody knows about them.
Jess asks Rory if they are ever going to go away together. He is beginning to think she doesn't understand him.
Rory tries pushing Jess away by telling him that maybe she doesn't understand him.
A knife in his heart; he fell in love with Rory because she understood him. Now she is trying to take that away from him. He doesn't know what he would do with himself without Rory.
In his anger, he knocks a box onto the ground.
He yells to her that she does understand him, she just doesn't want to admit it, and he's just too intense for her. He doesn't care if someone found out. This is the perfect opportunity for them to run away together, he says he knows what it's like to come home to a prison everyday, and they can get away from that. Together.
She tells him it's much easier for him to run away from everything, but she is married. He says he doesn't care, and tells her that she can't just give up.
Tears begin to form in her eyes and she tells him to quiet down or he is going to get them caught. He is sick of how fucking afraid she is all the time.
Rory turns around and walks away.
Jess tells her to wait and asks her not to give up on them. She agrees.
She tells him she will see him tomorrow, and he wishes her luck on whatever it is that she needs to take care of. She thanks him for understanding.
Rory arrives at Paul's house.
He tells her he wants to show her something. He hands her a wedding picture of herself he has out, and tells her that he is in shock.
Paul begins sharing the story of his life to Rory. He explains that he loves Dean and he loves her, and he has always wanted to find a girlfriend like her and to be a guy like Dean.
He starts to talk about giving up on his dream of being Dean. Last week when he saw Rory and Jess, a door that had always been closed to him, swung open in his face.
He heard Rory making love to a man that was not Dean.
He hated Rory for poisoning the well of idealism from which he had drunk for so long. Rory was no longer Paul's image of perfection; she was just a liar and a whore.
He loved Rory for opening his eyes and releasing him from the bitter chains of envy that bound him to Dean. Dean was no superman, just a fool, and that was beautiful to Paul.
Paul felt that there was one thing that would solve both of their problems.
He whispered his solution in Rory's ear.
She tells him that she refuses to sleep with him. Paul tells her that this is his chance for liberation. She tells him there is no way, he says that if she doesn't, he is going to tell Dean what he knows because he's his best friend and he can't keep him in the dark about something like this.
Rory needs to decide if she wants to break her husbands heart.
Rory pulls her pants off and lies down in Paul's bed. She leaves her shirt on and remains limp while Paul fucks her. He yells out her name, and she just stares at the ceiling. When he is through, he promises that Dean will not find out about any of this.
Rory suddenly sits up and claims she saw someone out the window; she thinks she saw Jess.
Paul tells her she is paranoid and that nobody is going to find out about any of this and everything is going to be alright. She quickly gets out of his bed and pulls her clothes on. Paul thanks her and she goes on her way.
That evening she is watching TV, and she agrees to go with Dean to the doctor during her lunch break tomorrow. Dean appreciates this and asks her why she hasn't said anything about the TV being fixed.
Rory does her best at faking a smile and thanks him weakly.
The next day at work, Rory boss approaches her and asks her where Jess is because he didn't come into work. He says he's only asking her because he knows that Rory and Jess are friends. Rory denies this fact.
Her boss is confused and reminds Rory that she eats lunch with Jess every day. She denies this too. He gives her a questioning look and tells her to have Jess call him if she happens to run into him.
Rory gets in her car to meet her husband at the doctors office on her lunch break. She screams when she discovers a sobbing, drunk, Jess, in her passenger seat.
He calls her a hooker. He followed her to Paul's house, and saw what she did. He wants to know how many guys she has gotten with, maybe every guy in the state.
She tries to explain the situation that Paul was going to tell Dean if she didn't sleep with him.
Jess begins to break down, pulling on his hair grunting that he is all alone. Rory tells him to get a hold of himself. He continues crying and they agree to meet after work. He won't get out of her car and she opens the door and pushes him out into the parking lot.
He tells her that he can't share her.
Rory drives to meet Dean, who brought Paul as well. Dean is called into the office leaving Rory and Paul in the waiting room. Paul tells Rory she looks nice. Rory tells him to shut up.
The Doctor calls Rory in the office. He needs Rory's help to get his sperm sample. Rory's stomach begins to hurt and her breasts feel sore. She begins to think she may be pregnant.
In the car with Rory after work, Jess is still crying and still drunk and he explains to her that sometimes he thinks that things can't get any worse than they already are, but they can get worse. Even when he thinks he's hit rock bottom, he hasn't and he just keeps falling.
Rory passes the stand that is selling the strawberries, and gasps at the thought of Lisa while Jess is listing off things that could happen when you think your life can't get any worse.
Jess can't calm down. Jess is in agony. Jess reminds her that she hates her life. Rory acknowledges that she is depressed, but he is really depressed. Jess takes Rory's face in his hand.
Jess tells her as long as it is just the two of them he will do whatever she wants. He will steal money from his parents; they can run away together. He begs her not to forsake him. He sobs into her chest. She promises.
She promises this to someone whom she now realizes, is at best a child, and at worst a demon.
She decides that she's going to need to ditch Jess. She stops at the strawberry stand, and buys a small container of strawberries.
She puts them in Jess's lap. Jess begins talking about their plan of escape and of starting a new life as he eats the strawberries. He tells her they're sweet. He continues talking about their plan and everything he would do for her.
She feels guilty. She hits the strawberries out the window claiming she saw a bug in them.
A/N: Thanks for reading! Please review! I think the next chapter will be the last. : )