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Rory´s POV:

Riiiiiiiiiing, Riiiiiiiiiiiiing. I groaned as the telephone started ringing! For a split second I panicked, thinking that I had overslept, but when I heard Jess's incoherent mumbling next to me and after a reassuring look at my alarm clock I finally grasped the fact that it was still in the middle of the night. Who would be calling me that late, well early actually. Again I sensed panic rising in my chest as I expected the worst scenario. I pictured my mom lying in a hospital bed, Luke outside in the waiting area trying to call me desperately. Jess on the other hand felt nothing but interrupted in his well needed sleep as he tightened his grip on my waist and told me to go back to sleep. By then I was wide awake, but I had yet to get my body moving. Pick up the phone, pick up the phone, my mind was telling me, while Jess repeated his former comment. I turned around and pinched Jess in the chest softly.

"Jess, wake up. Maybe it's important, and I don't wanna pick it up, because I am scared of who may be on the other line. What if something happened to my mom or Luke? I mean, you see it all the time in the movies. People get called in the middle of the night and that means something terrible must have happened, and I don't want anything terrible to…." I took a deep breath and continued with my ranting.

"Please Jess, just pick it up. You are the more stable one in this relationship and I believe you wouldn't want me to faint, right? Because then you would have to carry me, and let me tell you, I ate a lot today." I sighed as I noticed that Jess had popped his eyes open. I locked my eyes with him and silently convinced him to help me out of my agony.

He rubbed his eyes and mumbled something under his breath that sounded like,

"Jeez, breathe, Ror´." But at the same time noticed that Jess was getting irritated as well.

He reached over me and took the phone from the nightstand.

"Lo?" He sleepily greeted whoever was on the other line. He then proceeded to nod a couple of times and said some " yeah´s" and "sure´s" and finally handed me the phone. At that moment I was sure that he would be jumping off the bed, telling me to grab my stuff and that we had to go down to the hospital.

"It's your mom, and I have absolutely no idea what she's babbling about. Have fun!" He smirked at me and gave me a quick kiss on my nose before he snuggled back into his pillow, covering his head with the blanket as if he wanted to block out the world around him.

Shaking I took the phone from his hands and feared the worst.

"Mom?" I asked almost inaudibly. Apparently Mom took this as a sign that she could start rambling.

"Oh favorite daughter of mine. I am so glad that you are home." I nodded sarcastically and glanced at the clock on the wall. 3:45 am. Where else should I be?

"So, I was watching Sleepless in Seattle tonight, you know the scene where she hides in the closet with her phone when it hit me. Bang! I am getting married in a month and I am not prepared. Not. At. All. So I went to sleep, because you know me, whenever things get tough I try to sleep them out, but I woke up every couple of minutes and started leaving messages on our answering machine, you know the same way I did when I was opening the Inn? "I decided not to tell her that I had actually no idea of what she was talking about. And the fact that I still didn't have a clue what Sleepless in Seattle had to do with all of this, was bothering me too somehow.

"Anyhow," she continued in a speed that made my head dizzy.

"Luke got pissed along the way, because naturally our phone wouldn't stop ringing, because I called our house line from my cell, so he suddenly got up and unplugged the phone, now he's downstairs, sleeping on the couch. Ah you should see this, it's adorable. He's lying there, the phone cord tightly clutched to his chest. If I wasn't that mad at him for unplugging the phone, I'd join him on the couch, but well, that's not the point. The point is, that I am getting married and I am freaking out and I needed to get this all off my chest. So, what do you say? "

Mom took a deep breath and waited for my opinion on these aspects. I looked at Jess's sleeping form and sighed. Sometimes I wish I had a sane mother. I swallowed, trying to wet my mouth as I wrecked my brain to come up with something to say.

"Huh!" I did not just say that! I heard Mom chuckle on the other line and rubbed the sleep from my eyes.

"You know, I think this is a really bad time to transform into Jess, honey!" I shook my head.

"Mom, it's in the middle of the night and you just totally took me by surprise. I don't know what to say, but how about we discuss this all at, well how do I put this? At a more human time?" Mom started fake sobbing.

"Ah, my baby already abandons me, although I squeezed her out of my…"

"Mom, please don't finish this sentence! I'm begging you here!" I exhaled loudly and continued.

"Mom, how about Jess and I come to Stars Hollow tomorrow? It's Friday, and then we have the whole weekend to discuss things, deal?" I heard a clicking sound on the other line and I imagined that this would be my mom's earrings banging against the phone.

"I know there was a reason I gave life to you." I chuckled and lay back down, subconsciously taking Jess's arms to put it around my waist. (Where it belonged)

"See you tomorrow, Mom. I love you."

"Love you, too! Sleep tight. I hope I didn't wake you up." With that the line went dead and sighing I snuggled deeper into Jess's sleepily warm body.

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"Okay, I might have been dreaming all this, but did you mother call in the middle of the night?" Jess was standing in front of the bed, his hair still wet from the shower while he was shaving his face. I pulled the blanket over my head and groaned.

"Yeah, that's why I couldn't get back to sleep and now I am tired." Jess chuckled and threw his towel at me.

"You're always tired!" Suddenly he stopped in his tracks and took a closer look at his razor.

"Rory?" He asked in a stern voice. I knew what was about to come.

"Yeah?" I sweetly replied and appeared from underneath my fort.

"Did you use my razor again? It's blunt!"

"Maybe?" Jess raised an eyebrow.

"Maybe?" I nodded and took my hands up in surrender.

"Well, what can I say, I didn't have any razorblades left and I needed to shave my legs so badly, so I took the easiest way out. Plus, you know, it's for your pleasure as well." I smiled what I thought was pretty seductively.

"And I like you facial hair, you don't need to shave on daily basis." Jess smirked at me and went back to the bathroom where I could hear him wash his face off the shaving cream.

When he entered the bedroom again I decided to drop the former subject and get back to the subject at hand.

"Mom was freaking out about the wedding, and well, that's why we're going to Stars Hollow today." Jess glared at me with wide eyes.

"Did you just say "we"?" I nodded and stuck out my tongue.

"Why do I have to go as well? She's your mom." I sighed dramatically and got up slowly, taking the blanket with me, because I was just not ready to leave my warm cocoon.

"Because you would miss me too much?" Jess shook his head, smirking.

"Nice. Try again!" He came over to me and leaned down, locking his eyes with mine.

"Because I would miss you too much?" Jess leaned down even further and I was already feeling the sensation of his lips on mine, but instead of kissing me he whispered in my ear.

"Exactly." I laughed out loud and grabbed the collar of his shirt.

"Kiss me already?" Jess happily obliged and kissed me deeply. When he finally pulled back he rolled his eyes and said:

"You depend on me too much!" I raised an eyebrow.

"That's a bad thing how?" Jess looked at me for the longest time and finally replied huskily.

"Not a bad thing at all." I smirked and got up from the bed.

"Now, go away, I need to take a shower." I wrapped his towel around my body and made my way to the bathroom, all the way to the aforementioned destination I was feeling Jess's eyes roaming my body.

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"Mom!" I exclaimed happily and jumped out of the still running car. I ran up to my mom on the sidewalk and hugged her really tightly.

"Rory, I am so glad you are here! Luke is simply no help at all. He's giving me the silent treatment all day." She pouted dramatically and I wondered silently how a man could actually resist this pout.

"Hey Lorelai." Jess greeted my mom and to my surprise, mom went over to him and hugged him. If I had been surprised that wouldn't even come near to the expression Jess had on his face. Total horror, but despite his uncomfortable feeling, he patted mom's back and returned the hug halfheartedly. Mom pulled away and looked embarrassed.

"That didn't happen!" she glared at Jess and he smirked slightly.

"Well, what can I say? The Gilmore Girls simply can't resist my charm. I am sorry, Rory. I didn't want you to find out like this, but your mom simply doesn't have any self-control!"

"Smartass!" Was my mom's comment on that as she turned around on her heels on her way to the diner. I went over to Jess and took his hand into mine. Beaming I told him:

"Ah, you're growing on her. Something all the other guys didn't quite achieve although I have been longer with them." Jess wrinkled his forehead and looked at me while we were entering the diner.

"All the other guys, huh?" I grabbed a donut from the counter and sat down next to Jess. Happily I took a bite before replying.

"Oh yeah, at first she loved Dean, this deep affection fainted along the way naturally, because let's face it, She wasn't too fond of him at the end. Then I dated a couple of guys, she really didn't like, but she tolerated it, because and I quote "every girl needs a bad boy once in a while". Todd, on the other hand, oh my, you should have seen her face when she first met him. It nearly screamed, Rory what are you doing? It all went downhill by the time I started dating Logan, who she hated with a passion!" I swallowed and took in Jess's expression. It went from open mouthed to wide eyes to sheer disgust.

"When the hell did we start talking about our ex´s?" Jess asked me accusingly. I tilted my head to one side and noticed that Jess was clutching his cup of coffee pretty tightly.

"Don't know? A couple of minutes ago?" I didn't know what came over me, but since this whole Cat fiasco, I couldn't stop thinking about the fact that I nearly didn't know anything about Jess's past relationships. Clearly, it wasn't the best time, well even location to bring this up, but it just left my mouth without really having considered the consequences. It had hit me a couple of nights ago, when I had been thinking that maybe Jess could be the one, that I had come to the conclusion, that we both deserved to know what had happened in our lives concerning significant others before the two of us had met.

"Rory? Didn't take your pills this morning?" Although I expected a sarcastic comment from Jess, it stung, because the minute I brought it up, Jess's defense walls had been up.

"No, I took the white one, and the pink one, but now that I think about it, I think I forgot the blue one. I always confuse them. Was the blue one the one to make those voices go away or was it the white one?" Jess sighed and closed his eyes for a second.

"You want to do this now? And why? There's really no need to discuss this, is there?" I shook my head, still munching my donut.

"This place is as good as any, and yes I think we need to talk about this." Jess rubbed the back of his nose and dropped his head.

"Why is it that you always have to bring up the complicated things when we are actually good? Why don't you just bring this up when we're already fighting? Spares us from yet another fight, because we already would be fighting." Jess's logic actually made no sense to me.

"What makes you think that this is gonna end up in a fight?" I asked my voice full of confusion.

"Couples need to talk about that kind of stuff." I continued as if I just had finished a Dr. Phil book.

"But why now? Why here?" Jess looked at me with half closed eyes, as if he wanted to avoid direct contact.

"Why not?" Very mature, Rory! But I couldn't help it.

"Luke does know everything about Mom's past relationships." Jess head shot up.

"Because he was right there, Rory!" Well, Jess had a point.

"Dave knows all about Lane's past relationships!" I stated happily, trying to make a point.

"Because she hadn't been in a relationship before Dave, because, well Henry really doesn't count!" I couldn't help but smile at the tiny details Jess remembered. Like Henry.

"Reader's digest version?" Jess suddenly asked, apparently tired of arguing about this subject.

I nodded and took his hand into mine. I shot a glance at my mom who was sitting at the counter, talking with someone or the other on her cell phone.

"Okay, Clara, when I was fifteen. My mother never met her. Diana, when I was fifteen, my mother never met her. I think then there are a couple of girls I don't even remember clearly, but my mother never met them either. First real relationship: Madelen, she was Swedish. We lasted about six months; my mother met her once, but couldn't remember because she was stoned at the time. Shall I go on?" I sat there and stared at Jess. It's not that I expected him to be innocent, but he was reciting his story as if it didn't mean a thing to him. I decided to be brave.

"Jess, that sounds cold, as if they didn't even mean a thing to you." He shrugged his shoulders and replied.

"Maybe they never did mean a thing to me?" He asked, but it was more a statement than a question.

"Did you know that Dean broke up with me because I wouldn't tell him that I loved him?" Jess shook his head.

"Yeah, the funny thing is that now in retrospect he was my first love. You know the teenaged kind of way. And after our second breakup, I think we just wanted to make it work again, sadly I broke up his marriage along the way." Jess interjected.

"You can't break up a functional relationship. It takes two to tango!" I nodded slightly. Here I was sitting with my serious boyfriend, who I was living with at the moment, talking about past relationships, and it was that very moment that it occurred to me that Jess was more than my boyfriend, he was my friend. Although I could tell that he felt uncomfortable discussing these things with me, he did it for me. He sacrificed a part of him. For me. I squeezed his hand softly and leaned in to peck him on the lips.

"Interrogation over?" He asked relieved. I nodded and rested my hands on his chest.

"For now at least!" Jess sighed heavily but proceeded to kiss the crown of my head.

"Glad we had the talk then, now come on. Didn't you want to talk to your mom? I'm gonna go look for Luke." He stood up and went behind the counter and up the stairs. Smiling I made my way over to the counter and greeted Caesar who was covering for Luke apparently.

"Hey mom?" Mom closed her cell and took a deep breath.

"The flowers are ordered. The dress is hanging in my closet, the invitations are sent out and I asked Sookie to cater for us. Check, check, check, check!" I laughed and wrapped my arms around her.

"So, what do you need me for?" I chuckled.

"You, beautiful daughter of mine, need to keep me sane." Apparently Jess had heard the last comment as he descended the stairs, Luke trailing behind him.

"Yeah, right! Good luck with that!" I glared at Jess and overdramatically placed a hand over my heart. Mom started giggling as she approached Luke to greet him.

"Hey grumpy! You okay?" Luke smiled slightly, and gave her a quick kiss, still not comfortable with public displays of affection.

"Tired, but okay. But the phone stays unplugged!" He replied in a stern voice. Mom saluted:

"Yes, Sir!" Now it was my turn to giggle and I shot Jess a look that said: Oh no, we are not sleeping in the same house as them! We started chatting about unimportant things and the more we talked the more I enjoyed the atmosphere that was growing between us. We were a family and even Jess actually participated in the conversation, even sometimes not by throwing in sarcastic remarks. The bell above the door interrupted our gathering and announced a new customer. Instantly I turned around to see who dared to interfere in this family reunion, but what I saw actually made my jaw drop. Mom who had turned around as well, tensed up; Luke had gone into the storage room to get some more coffee but when he reemerged his jaw dropped as well. The only one totally unaffected by this customer was Jess, who just was surprised by our behavior. He leaned close to me and asked:

"Who's that?" No, not now. Why does he always appear when things are actually working well for us? Three voices interrupted the sudden silence in the diner : Luke's, Mom's and mine:

"Dad!"

"Chris"

"Christopher!" And no one in the diner could actually have guessed who the most affected one by this surprise visitor was.

I am evil, I know! Cliffhanger, my first actually in this story. Why don't you tell me what you think? Thanks for taking the time and please don't forget to drop a note! Thank you!