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It had been a week since that fateful night. We had done it again only once since then. Yeah, we enjoyed it, we are human, but it wasn't the focal point of our relationship.

We sat on the window seat, reading. It was raining, once again. Rory got up, to go to the drink machine.

"Do you want anything?" She asked me.

"Yeah," I looked up at her, "A ding-dong."

"Dirty," she sneered.

I laughed, "Just get me a coke or something.

She came back, a few minutes later with a coke and an orange soda. She handed me the coke, but didn't come sit down. I looked up at her.

"Jess, do you know what day it is?"

I didn't know what she was talking about. "Um…" I stuttered.

"Jess, it's the nineteenth. Of June. It's the nineteenth of June." She was getting worked up.

Realization washed over me. The Dragonfly was opening in about a week. Rory needed to be home, with her mom.

"Wow, you learn something new everyday." I paused, stroking my chin in false confusion, "Gee, I wonder what it'll be tomorrow?"

"Jess, I need to go home."

By now I had given up trying to read. I stuck my mark back in the book, casting it aside. I flipped it towards the wall, but it fell of the seat with a thud. "Home?" I asked.

"Yes, home, Star's Hollow. My home," she explained, as if to a child.

"Star's Hollow?"

"Jess!"

"Okay, Okay," I gave in, "Yes, I know home, Star's Hollow. I remember the place."

"So…" she asked.

"So," I started, knowing what I should say, "when do you want to leave?"

She made a squeally sound, and started walking toward me. "Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Jess. I love you, love you, l-o-v-e you!" She now stood right in front of me. I sat up straight. She tuned to start packing, but I moved first. I grabbed her hips, and pulled them down so that she was sitting on my lap.

"Really?" I asked. "Just how thankful are you?"

She smirked, kissing my lips. She pulled away and began to kiss and bite my neck, pinching it as she went a long.

I went on, "Because, as we all know, there is thankful, and then there is thankful. How thankful would you say you are?"

She went on, but stopped, touching her lips to my neck, so that I could feel her lips form every word on my neck. "Jess, now, I'm doing some of my best work here, and you're talking right through it."

I just smiled, pulling her closer to me.

"Je-es?"

I awoke the next morning to Rory sitting on the bed, legs tucked under her, fully clothed, bouncing up and down.

She shook me until my eyes popped open, and I pushed her down, so that her head hit the pillow next to mine. "Don't you ever sleep?" I asked.

She bounced back up, like a cat toy, and continued to shake me. She looked at me like I was crazy. "Nosiree-bob. Not today. Today is a wonderful day," she started, finally hopping off the bed, if only to pull back the blinds. "it's isn't raining or anything, a perfect day for driving, with the top down, duh."

"What time is it?" I moaned.

"Seven-thirty. What other time would it be?"

Ignoring the last part, I went on, "How many cups have you had?"

"Only one!"

"Plus?" I asked.

"Seven, but they don't count because I added sugar."

"Eight!" I was surprised. "How long have you been up? How can you have had time to drink eight cups of coffee?"

"Only three hours, not that long." She went on, ignoring the look of astonishment. "Look, we're all packed, all out stuff is in the car, all we have to do is check out." I looked at her, disbelievingly. "What?" she asked, "I laid out some clothes for you first.

I jumped out of the bed, cocking one eyebrow. "You did what?"

"Well I had to put everything else in the car," she explained.

I sighed, pulling on the clothes she had left for me. I went into the bathroom, and she yelled after me. "Five minutes!"

I came out the bathroom, opened the door for her, and followed her out.

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"Look Jess! Look, the sign."

"Welcome to Star's Hollow," I read.

Six days had passed since we left San Francisco. We had taken it a little slowly on the way back. We spent a day in New York, though not really on the way back, remembering the day Rory skipped school to come see me.

Now we pulled up in front of Luke's. I swallowed hard, nervous. She covered my hand with hers. "Come on," she whispered, opening her door.

We walked in, hands still entangled, and the place went silent. Patty picked up her cell phone, raising it to her ear, but Babette pushed it back down, mouth hanging open. Lorelei, sitting at the counter, back to the door, was the only one who hadn't noticed us, that is, until she saw Luke's face.

"Luke?" she asked.

Luke's face was frozen in a look of shock and anxiety. "Jess…" he started.

Lorelei perked up. "Jess?" she asked, spinning around on her stool. "Rory!" she yelped, jumping.

"Mom," Rory beamed, momentarily letting me go to hug her mother. She let go, and Rory stood back next to me again, alleviating my uneasiness.

"Luke," I said, staring at him. "Lorelei," I nodded.

"Kidnapper," she scowled. I felt like something inside of me was about to explode, expanding beyond the limits of my flesh, but then she cracked a smile, and even laughed a little. "Hello Jess."

There was a long awkward silence, in which everyone remained, staring at us. Finally, Rory spoke up. "Um, Mom, Luke, could we, me and Jess, possibly talk to you, um, upstairs," she asked, motioning to the gawking crowd.

"Oh, uh, yeah," Luke nodded motioning up the stairs. He paused, "Caesar?"

"Got it," Caesar yelled back.

We sat upstairs, in the apartment. Luke sat on a chair, opposite the sofa, on which me and Rory sat, next to Lorelei.

"He showed up at my dorm," Rory explained. Luke nodded. "We went to San Francisco," she went on.

"I knew that," he said.

I spoke up, "We came back for the opening," I said to them both, "like we promised."

"We see," Lorelei noted.

Another awkward silence. Luke sighed, "It's nice to have you back, Jess." And the tension was broken.

We all got up, Luke and Lorelei started to walk towards the door. Lorelei turned towards us, "Rory, you said it was me time, remember?"

"I know," Rory said cutely. "Can I say goodbye?" They went down.

"I kind of promised her that I would hang out with her once we got back," Rory explained.

"I know," I told her, pulling her towards me, "I was there."

"Right…" she lost her train of though as I leaned in to kiss her. She pulled away. "I got to go," she said, kissing me again. "I'll try to see if I can get us a room together at the opening."

I nodded as we went downstairs. I went behind the counter to help Luke, and Rory joined Lorelei.

"Bye Luke," Lorelei called, as they walked out the door. "Jess."

"So Mom," I heard Rory say before the it shut, "Let's cram a month of movies into one night okay?"

Lorelei put her arm around Rory's shoulder, beaming. "You are my kid."

I couldn't help but smirk.

"What?" Luke came up behind me.

"Nothing."

Three hours later, sat at the diner, book in hand, about to start closing up. Right as I began to walk over to lock the door, Patty walked in.

I sighed, pulling out the order pad. "Welcome to Luke's, how may I help you?" I said with fake enthusiasm.

"Jess, nice to see you back in town," Patty said with cheap allure. "But I do have one question. What exactly are your intentions?"

"I'm sorry," I said, continuing on with my act, "but I'm afraid we're all out of that. Maybe you'd like a piece of pie, maybe some iced tea. We've got Lemon."

"Well okay then, be like that," she said, turning around to leave. "Don't screw it up," she teased. I shuddered when she left, and hurried to lock the door.

I locked up, and went upstairs. Luke was already up there, shuffling some papers at his desk. I stopped behind him and cleared my throat. "Um…Luke?"

He answered, without turning around, for which I was extremely grateful; it made what I had to say easier. "Yeah Jess?"

I breathed out through my news, trying to settle my nerves. "Thanks. For everything, for the book, for letting me stay here…again. And…I'm sorry. For everything…that I did." I paused; there was silence. "I know I messed everything up, not just wit her, I'm trying to fix it."

There was a long pause. "Don't worry about it."

I went back to my 'room' and went laid down with a book.