An: Thank-you everyone for your reviews, they make me happy. Now I know there isn't much Rory and Jess loving going on at the moment in this story but with great love can come great sacrifice so yeah. Anyway I'm glad to hear people like it and reading it, if you have any suggestions etc please let me know. :)
ProFfeSseR- Sorry I haven't spoken to you for ages, I hope you have a good time on your trip and I will talk to you later. Thanks for the review.
Disclamer: I have borrowed some lines from the shows of which I own nothing, I'm just boring them.
Chapter 3 – Anywhere but here
Lorelai, Rory and Emily all sat around the table on the lawn, being civil enough to one and other. Rory and Lorelai were still mad at each other from their previous argument, and Emily seemed to have slightly gotten over the fact that Lorelai tried to set her up with well her husband.
"Lovely weather isn't?" Emily admired trying to muster up some conversation.
"Yes it is" Lorelai replied.
"Yes Lovely" Rory replied duly.
"Well, I don't see any reason to put this off any longer. Girls, I have something to say that may shock you, but unfortunately there's nothing I can do about that now. Lorelai, Rory, Richard and I have separated" She announced
"Duh" Lorelai commented unphased by the revelation.
"What?" Emily asked confused.
"We already knew mum"
"Rory didn't" defended Emily.
"Well I mean I didn't know know" said Rory cautiously.
"Why would you tell her?" exclaimed Emily turning on Lorelai.
"She's smart, she goes to Yale, she figured it out for herself' Lorelai exclaimed unbelievingly.
"Rory, if you need to talk about this to try to understand why this is happening, then by all means, do not ask your mother" Said Emily exasperatedly
"I'm sorry about the split up, Grandma" said Rory sincerely.
"Well, what's done is done. I'm moving on. And to celebrate the next stage of my life, I'm going to Europe by myself for the very first time since I was in college. I'm leaving tonight"
"Tonight? That's fast" said Rory disbelievingly.
"Well, I wanted to leave quickly, so I called my travel agent and insisted that he put me on tonight's plane to Paris no matter what. He finally managed to bump someone from a church group, and I've got my seat, and I'm leaving at 10:00. And, Rory, my offer to you still stands" she said looking at Rory hopefully.
"What offer?" Rory asked confused.
"My offer to escort you around Europe this summer"
"Oh. No Thanks Grandma, thank-you so much for the offer though" Rory smiled polity at her Grandmother, she caught the eye of her mother and quickly turned away.
"Actually I'm not feeling very well would you please excuse me?" Rory asked hurriedly getting up.
"Of corse dear, you need to go and rest" said her Grandmother. Rory nodded avoiding her mothers gaze.
"Thanks for lunch" she said quickly, kissing her grandmother on the cheek goodbye.
Rory walked home in a haze, she really missed Jess, and she wasn't really sure why she had freaked out so much before. I love Jess, this thought made her smile. She stoped in her tracks and headed away from her house, instead in the direction on the diner.
Unbeknown to each other as Rory was heading away from the Gilmore house a certain dark haired boy was approaching it.
He slowly climbed up the steps, his bag slung over his shoulder.
'Knock knock' he waited but there was no answer. Maybe it was easier this way. Jess pulled a neatly folded piece of paper out of his jacket pocket and slid it half under the door, the letters RO visible from the outside. He sighed before turning and walking away, away from the home of the girl he loved.
Rory hurriedly walked to the diner she was determined to see Jess, to say sorry and that she loves him. She almost flung open the diner door, causing Luke to look up abruptly.
"Luke, where is he?" she asked urgently.
"Who? Jess?" Luke asked confused.
"Yes" Rory said
"He left for Maine about 5 minutes ago" Luke replied.
Rory stoped. "Maine?" she echoed.
"Yeah he went to help his mum and TJ" Luke replied, though Rory hardly heard a word he said, he'd left her again and that's all she heard.
"Rory are you ok?" he asked
"Yeah I'm fine" she replied distantly and with that she turned around and walked back out of the diner.
Now some might say it was a freak of nature others might say it was fate, but today happened to be a windy day in Stars Hollow, so the letter that was earlier slid under the front door of the Gilmore house, addressed to Rory never reached her, the wind picked up that letter repositioning it among the shrubbery in their front lawn.
Rory stormed away from the diner, on a new mission now. How could he do that? How could he leave again? She reached the Inn in record time, she rounded the corner and saw her Grandmother about to get into her car.
"Grandma!" Rory called as she ran towards her and her mother who was standing next to the car. Both women turned at the sound of Rory's voice.
"Grandma!" Rory yelled again as she reached the two women.
"Rory what is it dear?" her Grandmother asked panicked. Rory was still trying to regain her breath, Gilmore's did not usually run.
"I was 'breath' wondering 'breath' if your offer for Europe 'breath' still stands?" she finished, breathing heavily.
"Why yes of corse it does. Rory are you coming?" Emily asked excitedly.
Lorelai was glaring at Rory in disbelief. Rory nodded her head, ignoring her mother.
"Yes I am"
"Oh that is just wonderful! I'll call Ralphie right away and tell him to bump another Baptist. We'll have a wonderful time, you and I. It'll be just like "Gigi." Lorelai, I'm gonna use your phone"
"What was that?" Lorelai asked Rory once Emily had left.
"I'm going to Europe with Grandma" replied Rory her voice small and her eyes glued to the ground. Lorelai studied her daughter for a minute.
"I can't believe this!" she almost yelled.
"What?" Rory looked up at her mother.
"He did it again, he left you again didn't he" she exclaimed, her arms flaying around
Rory's eyes fell to the ground again, giving Lorelai all the answer she needed.
"I cannot believe that idiot…" Lorelai started to rant but was cut off by Rory who finally looked up.
"He's not...an idiot" she looked at her mother, she couldn't talk to her about Jess without her going off the handle, she would give him a chance, not that he deserved one at the moment.
"I can't talk to you at the moment, tell Grandma I've gone home to pack" and not for the first time that day she turned around and walked away.
Lorelai walked into the diner later that night she had just come from wishing Rory and her mother off at the airport and she desperately needed coffee. She spotted her coffee king and walked up to the counter.
"Hi" she said, tilting her head to one side, her smile un controllable at the sight of Luke now, she had this giddy happy feeling in her stomach when she saw him, or was that just the coffee cravings…no this was deeper.
"Hey" he said, his insides feeling a similar thing to hers, minus the coffee reference.
"Coffee?" she asked hopefully. Luke grunted, then smiled and turned around to fetch the coffee cup.
The sad feelings Lorelai had been feeling all the way back from the airport was starting to resurface as Luke grabbed a mug and filled it with coffee.
Luke noticed her face turn sad.
"Is everything all right?" he asked concerned. Lorelai smiled a little at his concern.
"I've just come from the airport, Rory's gone to Europe for the summer with my mother" she emphasises the last two words.
"Oh"
"Yeah, we had a fight and now she's gone for the summer" she sighed and sipped her coffee.
"Who you and your mother?" Luke asked whipping the counter.
"No me and Rory"
"Wow you guys never fight" said Luke
"Yeah I know and I hate it" Lorelai said sadly. So she sat in the diner sipping her coffee, thinking of a line from Pride and Prejudice, which was a strange thing for her to think of but Rory had made her watch the BBC miniseries version and now all she could think of was this line.
"I can't bare to think that he is out in the world and thinking ill of me" i know what you mean ElisabethPretty please review :)