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Chapter Three: What to do

Rory and Jess left the bookstore with little smiles and waves and went separate directions. Rory headed home and Jess headed to Luke's.

As Rory walked home, her thoughts went to the events that happened that day. First, she couldn't stop thinking about Jess, and then seeing Tristen. Then Rory had a weird thought. Had Tristen even left? she thought. She was totally confused. True, she hadn't really noticed him. But then again, lately with Dean and her mom and grandparents and school work, she hadn't really had time to think about her surroundings. She still felt horrible about her lying to Dean to leave and follow Jess to a book store. She was just being polite right? Rory headed up the steps to her light blue two story house.

Rory opened her the door and headed inside to get ready for the Friday Night Dinner.

Jess opened the door to Luke's diner and saw the guy that was kissing Rory talking to Luke.

"You sure they didn't come? She said that she was meeting Lorelei. I have her sweater." The boy lifted up a dark blue sweater with the Chilton insignia on it, with a worried look on his face.

Luke shook his head, "I haven't seen them Dean. Maybe they went straight home. It is Friday. They probably have dinner with her grandparents"

Dean's face suddenly freed from the look of worry. He smiled. "Maybe that's it. You know Lorelei."

Luke looked behind Dean and saw Jess. "Hey Jess, have you seen Rory or Lorelei?"

Jess knew that he had seen Rory. They had more then "saw" each other. But pretty boy couldn't know that he wanted Rory. "No, Luke. But I wasn't actually looking for any Stars Hollowians today," he said with a smirk and headed up stairs.

"Whose he," Dean asked looking up at Jess back running up the stairs.

Luke looked at Dean and said, " You don't want to know. He's my sister's son and she sent him here with me because he has been getting into trouble and she couldn't take it and decided to put Jess in my care."

Dean laughed, "sorry man. Well, I gotta go. I'll call Rory later." He looked up one last time at the stairs where Luke's nephew had just run up with a weird feeling. A feeling he didn't like.

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Rory didn't look forward to Friday Night Dinners, but she didn't exactly despise them either. But that night went without a hitch. Which was incredibly surprising. Rory, Lorelei, Richard and Emily Gilmore all ate, drank and talked like civilized people without one fight.

Rory was feeling pretty good about this as they drove back into Stars Hollow. Rory looked out the window and saw Jess walking alone on the dusky Stars Hollow streets. Rory looked at her mom. I wonder if I can get out of this car.

"Hey, mom? Can I go to Doose's market? I need to pick up some, uhm, feminine products. Yeah that's it", Rory said hoping that Lorelei would accept this lame excuse. Lorelei smiled at Rory thinking that she was going to meet Dean. She was close, at least with her lying and wanting to meet a boy.

Lorelei stopped the car, " Sure honey. You go right ahead and go to Doose's market." Even though it's closed.

Rory got out of the car, and waved at her mom and waited for her to turn the corner. Then she broke out into a run.

Jess was walking down the almost dark street alone, when he felt someone grab him by the arm. He looked around and saw a very flushed and out of breath Rory.

Both faces broke into smiles. "Hey, Jess. What are you doing out here all alone?" Rory asked,. " Just thinking about things. And what is a Catholic School girl doing out side when it's past her bed time," Jess said with a small smile that was turning into an even bigger smile. Rory playfully hit him on the arm and they started to walk down the street. There wasn't many places to go in Stars Hollow. They walked and sat down on a bench.

"Can I ask you something?" Rory asked looking sideways at Jess. Jess nodded and then looked at Rory with curiosity. " Well, why are you in Stars Hollow? Are you that bad of a kid?"

Jess wasn't really sure how to answer that. He had never done anything THAT bad. Liz was such a flake that she couldn't handle a little teen angst. "Well, I didn't do anything that bad. My mom is kind of a flake and she decided that when the things get a little hard she has to send me to my Uncle Luke's. I never wanted to come to Stars Hollow. I thought that all of you would be incredibly, I don't know. Superficial and all neighborly and Stepfordy. But, my thoughts have changed for a few people", he said. He looked at Rory and he realized how pretty she was. Her blue eyes twinkled in the street light and her dark brown hair contrasted with her blue eyes.

Rory and Jess looked at each other in silence for a while. Rory looked at Jess and said in an almost sad voice, " I have a boyfriend, Jess. I cant do this."

Jess looked at her and felt him want her even more. "I know, Rory, I know." He looked at her one last time, touched her hair lightly and walked got off the bench. HE waved a small, sad little wave and walked off to Luke's.

As Jess walked away, he thought to himself, I wasn't supposed to fall for anyone. I wasn't supposed to even LIKE anyone. I have been here a total of two days. This is not how it was supposed to be.

As Rory watched Jess walk away, she wiped a small tear. She couldn't do this. Not to Dean. She stood up, looked at Jess one last time and walked the opposite way to her house.

What to do, Rory and Jess thought to themselves. What to do?