Disclaimer: Still don´t own them …sadly ...

Our apartment, what a joke.

I made my way to the New York Times headquarters in a daze. While I was waiting for someone to greet me, Caitlin, one of Rory's co-workers saw me and came over. Actually I saw her first, and it seemed like she was gonna avoid me, but she realized I already had seen her.

"hey jess, Rory's not here!"

"yeah, I figured, I just wanted to talk to her boss or anybody who could tell me more about ….!" I was cut off ."look, Jess, Rory is sorry about what happened, she didn't mean to hurt you, really, it was just … she had too much to drink and Steven started hitting on her, I mean, she tried to stay out of it, but she is human after all, wow, I would not have thought she had told you yet." she looked at me knowingly.

"what do u mean? she…I was wondering if anyone knew about her assignment in London" I trailed off, not being able to continue. I felt like I had to throw up. She couldn't mean, I mean, that's just fucking impossible. I shook my head not wanting to speak to her anymore. I knew she hated Rory with a passion and all, but what did she mean by " Rory is only human"

" oh my, did I say something wrong?" she clasped her hand over her mouth….

"you didn't know that Steven and her slept together? I'm sorry, I shouldn't have told you!" in this moment I wanted to punch her, really hard. My legs started to give out under the weight that has been laying on my shoulders for the last couple of weeks. My vision started to blur, I thought I was fainting. Rory cheated on me ? My Rory cheated on me? And she couldn't tell me ?

Was that the reason she was leaving?

I left the building without any other word spoken. I heard enough, but still, I couldn't believe it. Rory wouldn't cheat, now would she ?

I got into the next elevator not caring if he went up or down. Suddenly I felt very exhausted. Should I believe that woman ? I mean after all she hated Rory's guts. Ever since Rory got promoted, she was after her. I made up my mind. I had to talk to Rory.

Easier said than done….

Here I was sitting in "our" apartment, the cordless phone in my lap. I looked down at my hands and realized they were shaking. I dialled the number. I gasped when I heard someone answer on the other end.

"this is Paris", the person said.

"hey Paris" my voice was strong and indifferent.

"I was wondering if I could talk to Rory, she's staying with you, right ?"

"hold on a second, jess" she said my name really loudly, of course she wanted to make sure, Rory had heard her. I listened to them talking in low voices. I couldn't make out a word though.

"hey jess" I was shocked to no end when Rory suddenly was on the phone. Voice all clear and confident. I sensed the anger rising inside of me, how could she be the one giving me the cold shoulder ? Why was it me suffering and apparently not her ?

"jess ?" I snapped out of my thoughts when I heard her impatient voice.

"huh, I was wondering if I could ask you a question …" I could hear her sigh.

"o ok", she was trying to hide it, but I caught her voice trembling slightly.

" you know", I was starting to get angry again.

" there is a funny story, you wanna hear it ? Well, here we go.. Once upon a time there were a boy and a girl, they were happy, they were in love. I mean all that fairytale crap… you know what I mean, right ? After all you made me read the Brothers Grimm. Well, but this story is slightly different. It doesn't end with a " and they lived happily ever after" but it ends with a " and one fine day, she sleeps with another guy, and"

I couldn't finish my rant, because I heard her sobbing over the phone. I couldn't care less in that very moment. I was hurt damnit.

" does that sound familiar to you at all ? I mean with you being really into all kind of Literature. I can't remember the title, oh no, now I do… it's called…"

Suddenly I felt bad. What if Caitlin had lied to me? I kinda hoped she had.

But when I heard the next sentence, all my hope was gone.

"I'm so so sorry, Jess. I didn´t mean to ."

I felt as if my world was coming to an end. Wow, she did it. God, how much do I hate surprises!

"did it mean anything to you ?" I didn´t even know what hit me, when I heard her answer.

" yes!"

sorry, it´s short. i had some trouble posting my story because ff . net doesn´t seem to like me :-) anyway, i hope you liked this chapter, i know where i´m going with this story, so don´t worry... you know what you have to do ... you know you want to :-)