Disclaimer:  I own nothing but the story idea.

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It has been a few months since he left and everything was good. I started Yale, Mom and Sookie are almost ready to open The Dragonfly, everything was great. But all that changed last Friday.

I walked into Doose's to pick up some stuff, Mom and I were having a movie night. I picked up everything I needed, Red Vines, Ice cream, all the essential junk foods for movie night at the Gilmore house. I started to check out but then noticed that I forgot something.  "Can you watch this stuff for me I just need to run and grab something real fast?" I asked the cashier. I walked back toward the aisle that I needed but as I rounded corner there he was...Jess.


"Jess," I said completely shocked to see him standing right in front of me.


"Rory," He said almost as shocked as I was to see him.

We just stood there staring at each other for a while but I decided to break the silence.


"So how have you been?"  I asked.


He picked up a box and stared at it like it was the most interesting thing he had ever seen.  "Good," he said still not talking his eyes off of the box.


"Well that's good, I'm glad," I said still shocked to see him there and also a little upset that he couldn't even look me in the eyes to talk.


"Yep," he said squirming a little now, probably wanted to leave.


"Well I should get going; my mom is waiting for me," I told him.

So that is what I did.  I left the market in such a hurry I didn't even stop to get any of my bags.


When I got home Mom was sitting on the couch watching T.V.


"Hey, what took you so long, how much stuff did you get?"

That's when she turned around and saw me.

"Mom," I said starting to cry as she hurried over to me and pulled me into a big hug.


"Aww, Sweetie what happened?" she asked as she led me over to the couch.


"He's back," I told her trying to stop calm down.


"Who's back?" she asked a little confused.


"Jess...Jess is back.  I ran into him at the market."


"Ohh," she said a little shocked.  "Did he say anything to you?"


"No, I asked him how he was and all he said was 'good' and he wouldn't even look me in the eyes he picked up a box and just stared at it like it was the most fascinating thing he had ever seen." I told her now starting to cry again.

"Oh, Sweetie," she said as she put a pillow on her lap for me to lay my head down.

Mom ordered us a pizza and I just lay there and cried.  I didn't want to but I just couldn't help it. "Why did he have to come back!"