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Gilmore House- Evening

Jess puts the rejection letter underneath the stack of mail. He thumbs through the rest of the mail and sees a large envelope addressed to Rory Gilmore. He checks the return address. He smiles.

He helps Rory up and leads her to her bed. He tucks her in and kisses her cheek before writing her a note to cheer her up and heading home.

Gilmore House- Morning

Rory wakes up to the large envelope on her floor with a post-it note stuck on it with Jess's scrawled writing, "Congrats Rory."

She picks up the envelope and examines it.

She slowly rips open the package and pulls out the contents.

"Congratulations! You have been accepted to Columbia University."

Rory gets out her list of colleges she applied to. She crosses Harvard off. She circles Columbia. None of the colleges on the list are left unmarked. Aside from a few safety schools, Columbia is the only school she was accepted to in her first tier. Looks like she is moving to New York.

She gets ready and goes to find Jess and to thank him for being so supportive, and being the best boyfriend she could ever ask for.

She arrives at Luke's and Luke tells her to head upstairs, per Jess's request.

She knocks. Jess swings the door open and hands her a sheet of paper. Tears form in her eyes. She is noticing how emotional she is lately, and she's not sure what to blame it on.

Even with her tears she starts to passionately kiss her boyfriend.

Columbia would like to congratulate Jess Mariano on being accepted to this Ivy League.

They were into the same college. The one Rory had already decided she would love to go to, and Jess's top choice from the beginning.

Moving to New York? Scary. Moving to New York with Jess? Perfect.

There is not one person she'd rather have as her personal tour guide in New York, and this time it can last for more than a day.

College will be perfect.

Jess is perfect for her.

Rory is perfect for him.

"Looks like we can go to the same college after all," Jess tells Rory while wearing the largest grin.

"It's a dream come true," Rory tells him.

"You are. I love you, Rory."

Rory locks eyes with Jess, and the tears start flowing. Hearing him say that, like he means it, to her. It's amazing. She's been waiting for it. Once she had said it, it had just been sort of floating between them, but now he has reciprocated. Her turn.

"I love you too." He pulls her close and they stay molded together as one.

Eventually they pull apart and Jess kisses her tear stained cheek.

"Wanna spread the news?" Rory asks.

"Yeah. What are the chances Luke and Lorelai are both downstairs?"

"I'd say pretty good."

"Let's go."

They walk hand in hand down the stairs. As predicted, Lorelai is sitting sipping her coffee on a stool, talking to Luke as he is walking around the diner taking orders and delivering food.

"Mom. Luke."

They look up. They see Rory and Jess holding hands.

"We have something important to tell you both."

Lorelai looks at Luke, and he looks like he has just seen a ghost.

"Jess… I swear…" Luke starts.

Jess laughs. "Luke, she's not pregnant."

"What?" Rory asks him.

Luke's face returns to normal.

"Oooh," Rory understands, "that's right. I'm not pregnant. And we're not getting married."

"Rory, get on with it," Jess pleads.

"Well, you both know that we have been getting our college acceptance, and rejection letters back."

"Yes… we know…" Lorelai responds to Rory.

Rory takes a deep breath.

"Oh geez. We're going to Colombia." Jess explains.

"Rory? What happened to Harvard?" Lorelai asks.

"I didn't get in," Rory answers.

"What? What are you talking about? I can make some calls! You are going to Harvard!"

"Mom, I want to go to Colombia. I get to move to New York. With Jess."

"Jess… how the hell did you get into Colombia? How much did you lie on your application?" Luke asks.

Jess just laughs. "Don't worry about it, Uncle Luke, I'm in. I'm going to Colombia. With Rory."

Jess squeezes Rory's hand tighter, and they look at each other and peck.

"Alright you two…"

"That's enough…"

The couple smiles. They only recently decided that they were in love. Love. Wee!

Lorelai stands up and opens her arms to Rory.

"That's really great, Hun. I'm so happy for you!"

"Thanks Mom." They embrace each other.

Luke puts out his hand to Jess. "Congrats Son."

Jess takes it. "Thanks Luke."

Jess's cell phone rings, the opening lick to Iron Man plays and he answers.

"Hey Mom…" he sounds bored. "How's the trip going?… That's good… Yeah, call me when you arrive at the airport, It'll take me about twenty minutes to get there… Yeah, have a safe flight… okay, around noon tomorrow… great… goodbye."

Jess looks at Luke. "Why did you ever give her my cell phone number?"

Luke smiles. "So she can get a hold of you anytime. See, now she doesn't call me as much."

"Great. Thanks."

"No problem. And now you get to pick her up."

"Get to? Have to."

Luke just shrugs and goes back to work.

Jess looks at Rory. "Come with me?"

R: "Tomorrow?"

J: "Yeah."

R: "Sure."

J: "I'll pick you up at 11:00. We can check out a mall close to the airport. Books, food, anything you want."

R: "Sounds good."

J: "Good."

Morning- Food Court

Jess and Rory sit at a table looking at their trays and empty plates, with a little bag of books at each of their feet.

"Are you sure your phone is working?" Rory asks.

"I think so. Call it."

Rory pulls her phone out and dials his number. It rings. She flips her phone shut.

It's working.

"It's 2:00." Rory reminds him. They are both well aware of the time, and of the fact that Liz is late. Not unlike Liz, but she isn't answering her phone, and she is late, and they don't know what to do, and she is late.

Jess sighs and drops his head into his hands and runs his fingers through his hair. Rory twirls the same strand of hair through her fingers, one of her many nervous habits.

"What should we do?" Jess asks.

"You know what? Maybe she lost her cell phone. We should go to the airport and see if her plane is delayed or if it has landed. Maybe we can page her there or something. It'll all work out, let's go."

"Okay, good idea. Thanks for being calm. You're right. Everything will work out."

Once inside the airport, they asked someone at the information desk about the flight Liz is on.

The woman studies Jess for a moment.

"I am very sorry, there was an unexpected problem with the engine. Since they were over miles and miles of ocean, there was nowhere they could land to safety."

"What are you telling me?"

"I'm so sorry. The plane… fell… into the ocean."

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