The sound of shoes hitting the ground in a quick walk was new for Rory. After yesterday she was totally drained for energy. Just as soon as she placed her head on the pillow she fell asleep. Now it was morning and the first sunbeams found their way through the curtains. Usually Rory woke up early, but now she was just too tired. When she finally opened her eyes, it was 10 in the morning. "Oh no!" she jumped out of bed, and found her working cloths; a very elegant suit. She hurried out the door and ran down the street. She tried to get a cab, but they just drove past her.

"Perfect!" she sighed. She couldn't get late for her job, she was new in the business. She looked up while she kept walking. She still couldn't believe that she was actually living in New York now. Suddenly Rory bumped into somebody. She lost her purse and ended up on the ground.

"Hey, what the hell are… Rory! Is that you?" Rory looked up and two beautiful eyes caught her attention. It couldn't be, could it? It was hard to believe that after six years apart from each other, they suddenly met in New York.

"Are you okay?" He put a hand out, and helped her up.

"Hi… Dean…" She looked into the ground while she said it.

"So what are you doing here?" he asked softly. She took a deep breath and then she faced him, her first love.

"I live here, and actually I have to go. Work's calling, you know." Rory mumbled, she really didn't have time to chit-chat as her mother would call it. Dean laughed a little and handed her, her purse.

"On a Saturday?" He asked. Rory's mouth slipped open. Saturday? That didn't make any sense to her at all. She didn't work Saturdays, but did that mean that she had the whole day of? Suddenly she realized that he was actually telling her the truth, and she was the one that had mixed the days up.

They walked down the street heading towards a Starbuck's Coffee. They both ordered a cup, and then sat down at a bench in a park. The coffee didn't taste, as it should, if Rory was the one to decide. She has grown up with a mum, that couldn't live without coffee. She had always learned that coffee had to be from "Luke's", nothing else was "right". None of them said anything; they were both waiting for the other one to start a conversation.

"So, how are things in Stars Hollow?" Rory drank a bit of the coffee before she answered.

"Fine, just fine. Well, I haven't been there in a month now, so who knows. Maybe Taylor's dead?" They both laughed a bit to that comment.

"So you live in New York now? That's great, I mean it's a great city, and it's even greater with great people." Dean nodded slowly. He was still the same person as he was six years ago, but he was more grown, they both were. It was hard for Rory to believe what they had done back then. "The textbook definition of a perfect moment." Was what she said. Now it sounded so strange. She remembered how she had insisted to be an adult. "I'm not a kid! I'm nineteen!" The fight she had had with her mother was so long ago, but now, when Dean; a person from her past, was sitting beside her, she was reminded of it all.

"So… how long have you lived here?" Dean's question came as an explosion for her.

"Hm… Two months I think." He nodded, and then turned his attention back to the coffee.

Rory entered her flat late that night. The first thing she did was sitting taking a glass of water. She just needed to clear her mind and think everything over that had happened this night. She was totally confused, and had no idea about which parts of it, that had actually happened. Maybe it had all been a dream. If she had just know what would happen in a few weeks.

When she woke up the next morning, she felt completely empty, having no idea about what to do. She got up when her phone rang.

"Rory here" she mumbled.

"Still asleep, huh?" It was her mother.

"Yeah… Well, no not anymore. Maybe I should call you 'Wake up' instead of mum?" They both laughed a bit. Rory opened her fridge and found something that could be eaten.

"How's NY? And by the way, then you should come home for the town meeting. Taylor has a big announcement to make, God knows what!" Rory heard Lorelai chuckle, and she knew that this wasn't a private conversation any longer. Lorelai wasn't single anymore, and she hadn't been that for six years now.

"Now York is great… Well, I better get going, busy day lie ahead."

As she hung up she wondered if she should tell her mother about the meeting with Dean, or that he was back in her life, not exactly as a boyfriend but just as a friend. I so she thought. They had agreed to meet in Central Park around noon and then spend the rest of the day together. She looked at the clock it was only ten. Still two hours to go. She sat down by her computer and started writing at the article she had to finish. She was almost done, but there was still small adjustments to add here and there. One hour past and she was done. She smiled a little, 'cause for the first time since she got the job she was actually happy with her work. After shutting the computer down she started to look all of her clothes through, but there was nothing that would fit the "occasion". Suddenly her she remembered the time her mother was totally lost when she and Luke just got back together and how she needed a back-together-with-Luke dress for her back-together-with-Luke date. So Rory decided to do some last-chance-shopping. She ran outside and down the street towards the closest shop. Inside she looked around and when she looked up she suddenly starred at a shop assistant.

"Can I help you? Looking for anything specific?"

"Uh well…"

"Maybe you should try this one" The shop assistant was suddenly standing with a light-blue dress-looking this in her hands.

"It will make your eyes stand out and it will look great with these white jeans"

Rory just nodded and soon she was walking out of the shop with a bag in her hand. Somehow it all fit her perfectly and when she put in on back home she was happy with herself. A rare thing and then two times in one day. Thirty minutes to noon. She wandered down the streets and easily got a cab.

"Central Park" she said and soon she was standing there. The sun was shining bright and the birds were all welcoming the spring gladly. A perfect day was what it was. She sat down on a bench and waited. Only five minutes later she suddenly felt somebody sit down beside her and when she turned around he was there.

"I'm fifteen minutes early and you're earlier. I should've known, I mean you're Rory Gilmore, and I guess you haven't changed."

"I'm not that early, am I? Well, I didn't expect the cab to drive here without traffic problems, but it seems like everything is just floating for me today."

"Floating?"

"Yeah, everything happens the way I wants them to."

"Well, we should get started"

"Started?"

"Rory, we haven't talked in six years. The last time I saw you, you were nineteen now you're 25."

"Oh like that."

"So what have you been doing the past six years?"

"Yale, yacht…"

"More details"

"Well I had this boyfriend, Logan Huntzburger…" Rory saw how uncomfortable Dean felt when he heard the name. Logan had been there the evening Dean broke up with Rory for the third time, at her grandparents house.

"Well, I stole a yacht with him."

"You did what?"

"I stole a yacht and then I dropped out of Yale, and then led to a major fight with my mom and…"

"You dropped out of Yale and had a major fight with your mom? I'm lost!"

"Yeah, I understand. But that's years ago now. I returned to Yale, graduated and then broke up with Logan. Short after I started dating this guys called James and then we got engaged."

"Engaged? So you're married?"

"No, we never got that far. I'm my mother's daughter, if you remember that Max guy, my teacher at Chilton. My mom broke up with him too."

"So you broke up with him?"

"Three days before the wedding." Dean just nodded and then they both fell silent. Rory suddenly remembered how scared she'd been and then she just said stop. She remembered how she went to her mother and Luke's house in the middle of the night and then she started to cry and ramble about everything.

"Three days…"

"Yup… What about you?"

"Well… I've been living in New York for three years now. Pretty soon after we… the party at your grandparents house I moved back to Chicago and I lived there for around three years before I moved here. I've been doing some studying and…"

"You went back to school?" Rory cut him off.

"Yes I did, and I graduated and now I'm a dentist."

"Dentist? I thought you wanted to design clothes?"

"I'm working on it."

"Oh okay. Great, good."

They were just sitting like that for a while, having no idea about what to say. It was all a little awkward, but still it felt right.

"So… Well, I asked you about Stars Hollow yesterday."

"Yes you did. By the way I talked to my mother and she didn't mention anything about Taylor being dead, so I think he's still alive."

"What about your mother? How's she doing?"

"Probably better than ever, though she's not exactly happy about the fact that she's over 40. Her and Luke got married and now they have a daughter. Laura, she's 3."

"Wow…" was all Dean could say. Suddenly it felt like they were out of topics and there they sat for almost an hour without saying a word. Rory still somehow felt save and happy in an indescribable way. Maybe they could make it work this time… Maybe…