Disclaimer: I don't own Gilmore Girls

"So Jess where are you from" I asked.

"Rory" he glared.

"I missed you" I told him.

"I know" he nodded.

It was a new year and we were starting over. It was all good right? WRONG!

"So you guys are friends now" mom processed.

"Yup just friends" I sighed.

"Is that good" Pairs joined everyone else at the kitchen table.

"No" I said.

"I'm leaving" Tristan picked the worst time to announce that.

"Randomness but ok bye see you later" I rolled my eyes.

"I might not be back" he stood up.

"Whoa sit down" I pushed on his shoulder "where are you going?"

"North Carolina my plane leaves in two hours I got to go" he walked out the door.

"Great just great" I pounded on the table.

Lane ran into the house "I'M GOING ON TOUR."

"Great just great two friends down three more to go" I walked into my room.

"I'll be back before you know it" she knocked on my door or so I thought I looked out my window and saw that it was actually Jess knocking.

"What are you doing" I opened the window.

"Talking to you" he said "come for a walk with me"

I grabbed my coat and crawled out the window.

We got to the bridge and I grabbed a tree branch and hung on.

"Rory that's new" Jess pointed to my wrist.

I gasped and without thinking covered my wrist and fell. I was holding my leg.

"Ror are you ok"

"Fine" I got up.

"Rory why…"

"You were gone and no one was there anymore. I know that mom and Luke and Lane and Dave and Paris and Tristan were there too but I needed you and I thought that you didn't love me anymore or that you never were just pitying the messed up girl."

"Rory I'll always love you, you know that right."

"If you love me then why are we just friends" I cried.

"Because you deserve better"

"You are better"

"No I'm not Rory I don't even know why I came back I love you but I can't be with you"

"So this is how our story ends" I asked.

He nodded.

"This is it we're over we're done not even friendship"

"Good Bye Rory Gilmore"

"Good Bye Jess Mariano"

He walked off the bridge. He walked out of Stars Hollow. He walked out of Connecticut. He walked out of my life forever. I eventually moved on with my life. I haven't had a boyfriend since he left. I've been on dates but that's pretty much it. Tristan came back after he heard about Jess leaving. Lane and Dave got back from their tour. I graduated from Yale and I got a job at the New York Times. I'm moving into my apartment tomorrow.

I think about him everyday. I have his picture on my nightstand. The day he left I wrote on his wall in my blood "We will meet again." The words remain in the apartment above the diner as a reminder to me that I'll see him again. People say after he left I fell again. I don't know if I believe them but what I do know is that the recurring nightmare that I've had ever since he left could be their proof. He haunts my dreams. He haunts me all the time. I won't dwell in the decreasing portion in my brain that he occupies and I won't wander into the increasing portion of my heart that he fills. Our story may not be over but this book is done. Retired and old

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Ok this story is done and although the ending might make you believe that there will be a sequel there will not. I think I've done all I can do with this story. Thank you to all who took time out of their busy lives to read my story.