A/N: Sorry it has been so long since I have updated. I have had no inspiration what-so-ever, or time. I'm sorry. I hope this is a good chapter though, I hope you all enjoy it.
Oddmoonbi
The Same Yet Different
Usual Disclaimers Apply
Jess walked through the halls of Chilton High, making his way to his locker and looking for his friend. He turned a corner and saw Tristan leaning up again his locker with a large grin on his face. Jess gave him a questioning look as he approached their lockers.
"Do I have to ask what you done last night? Or should I ask who?" Jess simply stated as he opened his locker.
Tristan just kept his grin in place, and arms folded in front of him.
"Oh come on man tell me. What's got you so happy on this Monday morning?" Jess started pulling books out of his locker and putting books in.
Tristan finally stood up off of the locker. "Well Friday I went back to the diner."
Jess stopped, his smile turned into a concerned frown. "When? And Why? He put his bag down and shut his locker, then faced Tristan.
"To see her, she's one of those hard to get girls. I like that." Tristan's smile got bigger.
"Well what about Paris?" He was worried about Rory, he hadn't seen her all weekend and Tristan wasn't the type of guy for her. Especially after what she had told him about her last boyfriend. What an ass.
"Paris is unreachable for a guy like me though. Rory, Rory isn't."
"Well what if I told you that she was?"
Tristan raised an eyebrow then punched Jess in the shoulder. "You like her don't you? Ha, ha! Hey man that's cool, I'll back off; let you play your game. After all you saw her first."
"No, I don't like her and I don't want to play my game." Jess looked confused.
"Yea sure Jess." Tristan smiled at him. "Ah hey there's the bell, we better get to class. I'll see you at lunch." Tristan left Jess standing at his locker.
Stars Hollow.
Jess slowly waded through the crowd from the bus stop. Ever since his conversation with Tristan he had been thinking about Rory. He didn't understand why but she wouldn't leave his mind. He kept wondering if Rory thought he had sent Tristan back to talk to her. He really hoped not. I hope she's not mad at me, I would never hurt her.
He paused, stopped dead in his tracks. Jess shook his head, closed his eyes and sighed. I don't like her; I'm just letting Tristan get in my head. He started walking again, he needed to talk to her, make sure she knew he had nothing to do with Tristan's actions.
As Jess approached Luke's he kept trying to figure out what he would say to her. But he wasn't sure why this was so important. He sighed and opened the door to the diner. It wasn't that busy, his mom must still be at the Inn because he didn't see her anywhere. He walked up to the counter looking for Luke.
Luke walked out from the kitchen. "Hey Jess, whatcha need?"
"Hey Luke, I was wondering if you've seen Rory today?"
"Yea she left for school this morning, but I haven't seen her since."
"Ok thanks." Jess turned and left the diner, he knew exactly where she was.
As Jess approached the bridge, he saw her sitting on the edge with her feet hanging off, right above the water. He paused just a moment at the end of the bridge. She was reading a book, but he couldn't tell what book it was. She looks beautiful with that sun on her. Jess shook his head realizing what he was thinking about Rory. He started towards her onto the bridge. "Hey Rory."
Her head popped up from her book to see who had disturbed her. "Oh hey Jess," She closed her book and set it beside her just as he sat down. "So what did you learn in school?"
Jess just look at her. "Enough for one day."
Rory smirked. "Really? I figured you would still want to be up there right now."
Jess's cheeks turned a little red, he lowered his head. "Anyway," he looked back at her. "I kinda wanted to ask you about something."
Rory's eyebrow rose. "Ok."
"It's about Tristan."
Rory turned her head towards the water. "I hope that scum bucket didn't ask you to try and hook us up?" Rory glanced back at him. She wasn't ready for another relationship, not after Dean. But for some reason, one she couldn't understand, she felt funny around Jess. Her heart always sped up. She found him interesting, and the more she learnt about him the more she wanted to know.
Jess shook his head and grinned. "No he didn't, but I think he was going to."
"Was going to? What stopped him?"
"What do you mean?" Jess looked at her, confused.
"Well, you said he was going to. What made him change his mind?"
"Oh, I did."
"And how did you do that if you 'thought' he was going to ask you to hook us up?"
"I… I just did." Jess said, not wanting to tell her their conversation.
"Uh huh." Rory turned back to look at the sun's rays on the water, she knew there was more to it but she wasn't going to press him.
"But I wanted to tell you that I had nothing to do with him going back to the diner Friday night. I didn't even know about it until this morning." Jess said his last sentence in an apologizing voice.
Rory just laughed.
"What?" Jess asked, a little tiffed.
"Nothing. I knew you didn't." She stood up, and grabbed her book. Figuring it was about time to head to the diner.
Jess stood up beside her, "Ok good then. I just wanted you to know that."
Rory grinned; she brought her hand up to his cheek then gave it a pat. "You're so cute." She started past him. Her face went white, as did Jess's. I can't believe I just said that.
Jess turned and watched her walk off.
Gilmore Residence.
"Mom." Jess set his bag down by the door as he walked into the house. "Mom you home? Hello, Mom what's that smell? Hello?"
"Yea, yea in here!"
Jess ran into the kitchen only to be greeted by a black cloud of smoke. "Mom what in the world is going on? Where are you?"
"I'm over by the sink. I tried to cook something in the oven."
"Well what happened?" Jess made his way through the smoke to find Lorelai.
"It didn't turn off when the meat was done." Lorelai was rinsing the pan off in the sink.
"What?"
"The oven just stayed on. Stupid piece of garbage, we're going to look at new ones tomorrow."
"Mom you didn't set the timer?"
Lorelai turned to him. "For what?"
"The timer on the oven to let you know when the food is ready."
"There's a timer?" Lorelai ran over to the oven. "Show me a damn timer."
Jess walked over behind her and turned a little knob just a little. "I set it to ring in one minute."
"Uh huh sure." Lorelai leaned up again the oven.
RING
Lorelai jumped up off the oven. "Oh my gosh it really exist!"
Jess rolled his eyes and went into his bedroom, leaving his mom bewildered by the oven.
Just a few minutes later Lorelai came running into his room. "So, what's up? How was school?"
"Mom you do realize that my door was shut."
"Not anymore."
"Yea because you came through my shut door and left it open. I could have been naked."
Lorelai smiled, "Oh don't worry sweetheart, I've seen your naked body enough in my lifetime." She casually looked around his room, then her eyebrows raised, she quickly looked back at him. "What exactly would you be doing in here naked?"
"Uh, changing."
"You take off all your clothes then put on new ones?"
"School was good." Jess quickly changed the subject, knowing the previous one was going no where good.
"Dirty!"
"How was that dirty?"
"Well if I would have had a daughter it would have been like Britney Spears music video. But since you're a guy it just makes it a little weird."
"I just hope you're not picturing me in that." Jess pulled out his books and started his homework.
"Hey you wanna go to Luke's?"
Jess shut his books, "Yup."
They both headed out to Luke's. Lorelai was in a mood to pick at Luke, and Jess really wanted to see Rory. Even though he had just seen her, he didn't understand what it was about her that made her stay in his thoughts all day long. But he hoped to discover it soon.
"Here's your jacket mom. Let's go."
