Title: Just waiting
Chapter 7: Gone and returned.
Summary: This story is sometime between the arrival of Jess to Stars Hollow and the break up of Rory with Dean, there are also some difficulties, and I think it's completely different from the program, although it's not an AU, so please read it! I'm not very good with the summaries!
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters of Gilmore Girls; they are all property of the WB, except the characters that I create and that don't have to do anything with the original story so please don't sue me!
A/N: Hey guys! I already had this chapter written, so I was just waiting for reviews, I hope it didn't take me too long to update, but I'm still having problems with the internet so, please be patient with the next chapter! I hope you'll enjoy this chapter!! Trust me it's going to be fine!!
Ps. Please don't mind the grammar mistakes, they're mean! ;)
Miriam )
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Someone grabbed Jess by his shoulders and made him turned around punching the left side of his face, thing that made him lost his balance and took a few steps aside. Jess was going to reply when Rory stopped him putting her arm on his, Jess looked up at her but she wasn't looking back, she was looking at the person in front of them.
"Dean!" said Rory immediately after Dean punched Jess, she was thinking frenetically trying to find an excuse for what she had almost done. How could he punch Jess?! What she was going to do?! How could she?! She had a boyfriend for God sake! "Why did you do that?!"
"WHY DID I DO THAT?! WHY THE HELL DO YOU THINK I DID THAT?! YOU HAVE ME LIKE AN IDIOT WAITING FOR YOU TO COME AND BUY A STUPID TUX FOR THE FREAKING PARTY!"
"Oh Dean, I completely forgot!" Rory was trying desperately to explain herself and she didn't know what to do with the bags of books in her hands. That was the evidence!
"BULLSHIT! DO YOU THINK I'M STUPID?!" Dean said while pointing with his finger at Rory. "MISS PATTY SAW YOU! SHE CAME TO ME TO GIVE ME HER SORRYS AND TO TELL ME THE SURPRISING NEW THAT WE WEREN'T TOGETHER ANYMORE, THAT YOU WERE WITH JESS! BUT FUNNY 'CAUSE I DIDN'T KNOW WE'D BROKEN UP!"
"Dean! I can explain! Is not what you think! They're wrong...!"
"YOU CAN EXPLAIN?!" said Dean exasperatedly, walking to face her. "CRAP RORY, DON'T LIE! I SAW YOU WERE GOING TO KISS HIM!"
Rory remained silent.
"SEE!" said Dean moving his hands frenetically while he took a couple of steps back.
Again silence.
"WHY RORY?! WHY?!" asked Dean walking in circles. "I TRUESTED YOU! THE DAMN HELL I DO!"
"I'm so sorry Dean..." said Rory trying to calm him down, she was an idiot! She had a wonderful boyfriend and she just dumped it all!
"NO RORY! I KNEW THERE WAS SOMETHING BETWEEN YOU TWO!" said stopping and looking directly at her. "ME BEING STUPID AND NAÏVE WAITING FOR YOU IN YOUR HOUSE WHILE YOU'RE HERE WALKING AND HOLDING EACH OTHER AROUND TOWN!"
"Man, she can explain you..." said Jess that until then had been watching them argue, he still wanted to punch Dean but was more interested to know what was going to happen next, he didn't understand why he said that, he was mentally regretting it, he wanted to be with the girl!
But it was too difficult seeing Rory like that, so hurt.
"YOU DON'T EVEN DARE TO SAY A WORD!" replied Dean angry, and Jess remained silent for the sake of the two.
"Please, Dean just listen to me," said Rory trying to hold his hand, but he moved it pretty quickly.
"No, Rory..." he said calming down a little. "You don't have to say anything, it's over, it's over since the day you preferred him than me."
"Dean..." said Rory trying to suppress the tears that wanted to fall down from her eyes. "Please,"
"Goodbye Rory, have a good life." And with that he was gone.
Rory stood there watching him walked away; he wasn't going to return, at least to her. How could she?! She'd let go a good boyfriend, a sweet and caring boyfriend, and then she turned around and found Jess, he was very different of Dean, but she knew he was the same sweet and caring when he want to be, she knew she liked him, but did he? She suddenly began to think about her mom and about what so many times Dean had told her, 'you're just another conquest to him... he is going to hurt you' she now felt like an idiot, what if they were right, what if he was just playing with her? She let him touch her heart; she let him do whatever he wanted! But then, she thought about it, it wasn't what he wanted, it was what she wanted! He never made her do anything she didn't want to, they only were friendly with each other in a flirting way, but it wasn't in purpose, it was natural!
Jess watching her like that, wanted to do or say something, but he didn't know what was good to say or how he was supposed to act, so he decided to go for the simpler way.
"Are you okay?"
Rory thought about it, was she okay? No, she wasn't, she felt terrible and so confused. She shocked her head in a negative answer, never meeting his eyes; she felt the tears in the border of her eyes.
"Do you want to go home?" he asked again, what he was supposed to say?! I'm happy that your boyfriend is now your ex-boyfriend?!
"Yeah," she answered still looking at the ground, she didn't feel like talking, what was she doing still there? Why didn't she run away from the people staring at her? She needed to get out of there and quickly! She needed her mom... her mom! What was she going to say?! Damn!
Jess saw her anxiousness and waiting the worst, he asked her quickly.
"Do you want me to walk you home?" his voice sounded concerned.
"Whatever," she said shrugging and looking at the bag in her hands while she began to walk out of the square, where all had happened.
Jess reacted fast and began to walk by her side. People around restarted their previous assignments and continued with their jobs while they removed their eyes from Jess and Rory, that in seconds were walking out of the square and in direction of the Gilmore' house.
"I'm sorry," Jess said suddenly, he felt like the cause of that pain. Why didn't he let the girl alone?!
"Sorry for what? You weren't the one with the boyfriend." Said Rory with an 'It doesn't matter' tone.
"I know, but I shouldn't have been going between you two."
"It's okay, he was right, it was over since a long time, It's just...we didn't want to see it."
"So..., it's over...?" asked Jess for a last confirmation.
"Seems like that." Replied Rory, she was having a very difficult time trying to hold her tears, she didn't want to cry in front of Jess, she wasn't going to do that.
"Rory..."
But she couldn't hear the rest, because in that precise moment she couldn't hold the tears anymore and she cried, she cried for all that had happened, and Jess was shocked, she took him by surprise, he had never seen a girl cry! He had seen her mother a couple of times, but mostly the kind of cry when you pinched your finger with something, or when you cut and it hurts, but a girl crying for pain in her heart, never.
Rory had stopped walking and had putted her hands in her face covering it from Jess and the world. He could hear her sniffed and saw her body shacking lightly. He slowly began to reach for her and for the first time they were hugging, mostly Jess hugging Rory, because she was still covering her face with her hands; Jess putted softly his arms around her back, and made her rest her head in his chest while he removed sweetly her hands off her face and putted them around his waist. Now they were holding each other. Jess tightened his arms around Rory and with one hand began to caress her head and her hair; Rory had stopped crying and was sniffing softly.
Jess was impacted when she looked up at him for the first time since everything had happened. He couldn't describe her eyes; they were so beautiful and full of pain, and something more he didn't recognize, anyone had never looked at him with that in their eyes, what was that? Was it hate? No, it wasn't hate, he could tell when someone hated him, so, what was it? He didn't know but he was charmed by it, just looking at her, her cheeks pinks and wets, her lips red and sponges, her skin pale like marble; he couldn't sustain it anymore, he wanted to touch her face and say it. She needed to know before it was too late and Rory and Dean were together, again.
"Rory..."
"Yeah?" asked Rory keeping her eyes in his.
"I like you."
Rory was going to replied, when all of her doubts returned again, words of her mother and Dean played one and another time in her head, she wanted to say she liked him too, but the thought about the fact that she had just broken up with Dean didn't let her do it, he had been her first love, she had love him, she was sure of that, but then that love had just finished, and then there was Jess taking his place...
But it was too late for her, before she could do anything the terrible words that were hunting her escaped from her mouth, she didn't mean it.
"I don't."
Jess was taken aback, he'd thought she liked him too, and now this. "Oh." Was his short answer, he looked at the ground and removed his arms around Rory taking a step back, loosening her grip around him, he was hurt.
Rory wanted to hit her head very bad, why she always had to screw up everything? Why she had to be so stupid?! For once in her life, why didn't she do the right thing? She had hurt two persons in one day without counting her mother, but lately she had been very confused about what she wanted...
She desperately had tried to fix her words, but it was too late, he was quicker than her and soon he was saying bye.
"See you around, Rory." Said, walking out of the path of the Gilmore house.
"Jess..." but he was gone, just like Dean was gone, another person to the list of persons that had walked out of her life, and only because of her.
It was a quarter to six when she'd entered her house, her mom wasn't there, but there was a message in the answering machine, it was from her, she was letting Rory know that she was going to be a little late tonight and instead she was going to pick up the videos and carrying home a pizza. Rory just felt like crying again, it had been very comfortable being in Jess' arms and now just because she had the smart idea of open her mouth, she lost what she could have.
She threw the bag of books that they had bought that afternoon, and sitting on the couch she, again, began to cry and didn't stop until the time her mother arrived home, and she just stopped crying because she didn't had more tears in her eyes, she was exhausted.
Lorelai was concerned to find her daughter that way, she had carried home pizza and videos, and she was expecting to have a pretty happy night, but somewhat she found the opposite, and even worse that she had thought any love situation of her daughter could be, it was a girl with a two times broken heart.
She soon made Rory tell her what was going on, and Rory slowly but precisely told her everything, since Jess offering himself to hang out with her until the time they arrived her house and he told her he liked her. Lorelai sweetly and understanding that there was nothing more to do with the Dean situation, took her daughter in her arms and made her rest her head on her lap; she was going to be fine.
The rest of the night passed slowly, they ate some pizza and watched one of the three videos that Lorelai had bring home. Rory had calmed down a little an was thinking more reasonably; she found herself lying in her bed, it had being a lot of time since she went to bed, she couldn't sleep, she just couldn't stop thinking about what had happened.
Lorelai had understood about the Dean and Jess situation, she also comforted her daughter and told her that things where going to be okay, she wanted Rory to be happy, and if she was happy with Jess she was going to support her, no matter what she thought about him, just with the condition that if Rory had problems she could come to her. She wanted her daughter to count with her; she didn't want to be like her own mother when she was 16.
Rory was happy to have such a wonderful mother, but now she had other things to worry about, she had to fixed things with Jess! because she liked him, the damn hell she did! But he was hurt and it wasn't going to be too simple, she had to think, she had to tell him!
Rory turned her head to the clock she had in her desk, almost three o'clock, she was going to tell him now!
Rory was trying to figure out how she was going to make Jess hear her without waking Luke up. She was outside of Luke's dinner, and was walking by the street under Luke's window. She didn't want to knock at the door of the dinner, she didn't want to scared Luke; knocking at their window was the most effective way, she also had to remember the people that lived around and were sleeping, she didn't want to scared them, she had to be very quiet, but first she had to find a rock or something; ugh, it was more complicated that in the movies! She didn't know if Jess slept close to the window, so she wasn't going to wake Luke up by mistake, she didn't want to!
Like after five minutes of looking around, she finally found a little rock and tried to hit the window with it, but it didn't go too far, it was soon at her side. She took it again and this time, the rock had almost touched the frame of the window. The third time, she threw the little rock and she could hit the window, she was happy for it! But still didn't happen anything, tired she began to yell Jess name in a high whisper.
"Jess..." nothing happened.
"Jess..." again nothing.
"Wake up! You have to sleep like rock if you don't hear all the noise I'm doing!" again nothing.
She was beginning to look for another rock, when someone from the window called her.
"Rory...?" a sleepy voice asked.
Turning her head she found Luke looking at her while he tried to figure if it was her or not.
"Hey, Luke, sorry for waking you up..."
"Are you okay? Where is your mother?" asked Luke realizing that it was night and that Rory was knocking at his window. "What's wrong?"
"Don't worry Luke; my mom is fine, I'm so sorry for waking you up like this, but... I want to talk with Jess..."
"Jess?"
"Yeah..."
"But it's like three in the morning..."
"I know Luke I'm very sorry, but I really need to talk with him..."
"Did he do something...? Did he hurt you?!" Luke was having problem to process her words, Rory wanted to speak with Jess at three in the morning? That kid was always a problem.
"No Luke, I'm okay, in fact I was the one who hurt him..., so, please can you wake him up...?"
"Fine..., wait a minute... he sleeps like rock..."
Luke disappeared from the window and soon there was a grumpy guy with messed hair and a sleepy face looking down at Rory, he looked adorable.
"Rory...?" Jess asked trying to understand what did Luke told him.
"Hey Jess... sorry for waking you up."
"What are you doing here...? It's three in the morning.... Is something wrong?" now he seemed very awake and looked at Rory with concern.
"I'm fine, it's just... I'm sorry I told you I didn't like you, that's a big lie, because I like you, I really like you, and I was just scared and I didn't know what to say, I hope you still want to hear it..."
"Rory it's three in the morning..."
"I know..."
"You came here at three in the morning to tell me that...?" asked Jess with a frown on his forehead.
"Yeah... "
"Why didn't you wait until the morning, I'll be completely awake, you know?"
"I know, I'm sorry, it's just that ... I wanted to tell you before it was too late..."
"Yeah, but It's too early..."
"Are you mad?" she interrupted him, Rory was trying to read his face, but it was too dark for see it.
"No, no, I'm just trying to understand what you're saying... but, I'm happy you're here, I really like you, too." He was leaning in the frame of the window and looking down at Rory, he was smiling, he was happy to hear she liked him; just a few hours earlier he had think that he didn't have any chance to be with Rory, but now he had.
Rory was smiling too, she had been afraid that he'll say he didn't like her anymore, or that he had changed his mind, but heard from his mouth that he still really liked her made her unimaginably happy. The last few hours, she'd been crying mostly because of Dean, but then when she accepted that she didn't love Dean anymore, her tears had been because of Jess, she'd made a mistake and now she had corrected it.
"Well, I think I should be going... my mom doesn't know that I'm here..." began Rory a little nervous, she didn't know what's going to happen next, she hadn't think about it.
"Yeah, I should probably go too... Luke is supposed to open the dinner in a couple of hours... so..."
"So... uhm... I'll go then..." she turned around and began to walk out to the street, 'say something, say something' she said to herself, she wanted to know what were they now, friends, a couple, what?
"Uhm, Rory?" said Jess when Rory began to walk away. He had to say something; he wanted to know what about them, were they together?
"Yeah?" said Rory turning around and looking up to the window; Jess looked like if he was going to fall, he was leaning a lot on the edge of the window.
"I'll see you at the dinner? A cup of coffee will be waiting for you..." his voice sounded anxious and nervous, this surprised Rory.
"Of course...I'll see you in a few hours... night, Jess." said Rory smiling warmly at him, and waving at him while she began to walk away.
"Good night, Rory." He said while watching her go, and when she was out of his sight, he returned to his bed with a big satisfied smile.
Luke, that had been listening all they'd said, was lying in his bed a little confused, wasn't Rory with Dean anymore? She liked Jess? Where's the world going to end? He was surprised to hear them saying that they liked each other, he didn't know that his nephew what's the kind of guy that liked girls like Rory, that made him happy; since Jess had arrived to Stars Hollow, he had been just problems, and now he had fall for Rory, the most polite and nice girl in town. Well, well, well, it'll be very interesting to see how everything was going to end.
Rory had walked to her house, and soon she was leaning through the window and lying on her bed, she was so happy! She'd lost two persons in one day, one was gone and the other had returned, and she was very happy with the person that had returned.
A/N: Hey! What do you think? Happy? It was time for a little of action here, so I decided that it was time to write more interaction between Jess and Rory, so I hope you liked it, I already had this chapter written, I was just waiting for some reviews, so tell me what you think about it! Good, bad? Sucks? Fine? Tell me!! I'm dying here to know!! Just send me a review!! Please!!!!!!! I know it'd been too long, but I had been a little busy with school and homework, but I hope you guys didn't forget this story!!!
Miriam. )
