Jess reached Rory's apartment first and waited a few seconds for her. When she approached her door, she had her keys in her hand, but before she opened it she looked at Jess. "I love you," she said softly.
"I love you too," Jess said, curious as to why she said it so randomly.
"That's good to know. It's always good to know when someone loves you. You know, that's why Dean broke up with me that first time we dated," Rory explained.
"What are you talking about?" Jess was even more curious about why she would bring up Dean like she had.
"Well, the first time that he told me he loved me, I didn't tell him that I loved him back. I never told you this?"
"Never. How long were you guys broken up for?"
"We got back together a couple of months before you came to town," Rory told him. He nodded, becoming uncomfortable with where the conversation might be headed.
"Then what happened with you guys?" He asked her, even though he was uncomfortable, he became interested in the story.
"What do you think happened?" She asked him, amazed that he didn't know. He shrugged and she continued. "You happened. He saw that I had fallen for you and then he dumped me at the dance marathon."
"I remember the dance marathon, I just wasn't sure of how things were in between."
"We were OK for a while, but he knew better. He knew that I had feelings for you and he suspected that you had feelings for me and then... Well, you know."
"I do know." He nodded after he said this. They watched each other closely before he leaned into her and kissed her. They pulled apart and smiled at each other. "I am starving."
"OK, jeez," she said to him, jokingly. She put her key in the lock, but the door was already unlocked, so she took it out and opened the door. "She's not here," she said.
"Where do you think she is?" Jess asked.
"I have no idea. She's usually home by now, and if not, she'd call or leave a note or something. She'd at least lock the door." Rory was getting a little worried, but not enough that Jess would notice.
"Oh well. She's a big girl. Talk to her tomorrow, see what's up. But I say again... I'm starving. Get me food."
"OK, I will," Rory said before picking up her phone. "Wait, what do you want?"
"I don't care. Just something that will fill the void. What do you want?" Jess asked as he sat down on the couch and pulled Rory down with him.
She looked at him before answering. "Indian, but I know that you won't... so, pizza?" He nodded and kissed her lightly on the lips. She dialed the familiar number to the pizza place and ordered two large pizzas with everything.
"Two large pizzas with everything? I'm not your mother," Jess pointed out. "I don't eat nearly as much as you two."
"Well, then me and Paris will have leftovers and we won't have to cook or buy anything for a couple of days. That is if Paris ever comes home." She leaned into him and he pulled her closer to him.
"Paris will come home. Paris will be OK, and if she's not then we'll figure something out at the time. You don't have to worry yet. Let's just, you and me, have some fun. We know how to have a good time," Jess hinted at her. She nodded into his chest and he kissed the top of her head. "Well, after the food comes and we eat."
"Jess, I get it you're hungry. It will be here in like twenty minutes. Breathe," Rory said looking into his eyes. She smiled at him playfully and was about to speak, but was cut off by his kiss. They sat next to each other, making out for a few moments, and when they pulled apart when they needed air, she spoke. "Why do you always do that?"
"I have no idea what you're talking about," he told her, obviously lying.
"Yes you do. I mean, I'm not complaining. You always cut me off before or during I am saying something."
"Rory, I know you, and I know the silly obsolete things that come out of your mouth after you say something that you mean or that is serious."
"OK, yes, that is for the most part true." She smiled at him. "But... what if I were, I don't know, about to propose to you, Jess? What then? Then I would have forgotten about it and you'd never know that I was about to ask you to marry me."
He smiled at her, before leaning down to whisper in front of her face. "Where you about to propose to me?" He asked, already knowing the answer.
"Well, no. But, if I were going to, then you'd never know." He pulled his face away from hers and nodded his head, smirking. "Fine, don't stop cutting me off, you'll never know the end of my thoughts." Just then the buzzer went off, signaling that there was someone down stairs, waiting to come up. She walked over to the intercom. "Hello?"
"Pizza." She buzzed up the pizza guy as Jess watched her wait for a knock. She waited a few moments and opened the door as soon as she heard it. "Two larges with everything?"
"Yes. Thank you, have a nice night," Rory said as she gave him the money. He smiled and nodded before turning to walk away.
"Finally," Jess said, laughing, from where he sat on the couch. Rory brought over the pizzas and set them down on the coffee table. She went to the kitchen and picked up a handful of napkins, before joining Jess on the couch. "I'm sorry."
"Don't be. I was just kidding... sort of. I really don't mind the kissing because... well, I obviously enjoy kissing you, but aren't you ever a little curious about what I have to say when you cut me off?"
"Sometimes. But when I interrupt you in the middle of the sentence, I only do that when I know what you're about to say, honestly. Now I am curious about what you were about to say when we were talking about pizza and food. So... what were you going to say?" Jess asked between bites of pizza.
"No... no way. It's too late now. And besides, it was silly and obsolete. It had no real relevance to the conversation. And I wasn't going to propose, it wasn't important, honestly," she added the 'honestly' mocking him, but meant the rest, and he nodded at her.
"OK," he said. They sat in silence for a few minutes, eating pizza. Jess was already on his third piece. "Hey Rory?" He asked as he finished it and sat back in his seat.
"Hmm?" She asked, still eating her own third piece of pizza.
"I think that somebody's outside the door. I'll go check," he told her.
"OK, just look through the peephole."
Jess did what he was told and gasped. He looked back at Rory who was just finishing her piece of pizza and was unaware of the gasp. "Rory. Come here."
"What?" She asked getting off of the couch and walked to the door, looking out of the peephole. What she saw more than amazed her, she wanted to throw throw the door open. "Open the door."
"Rory, no. leave them alone. They're not hurting anybody. They're just making out. We do it all of the time, and no one purposely interrupts us, although we have been inadvertently interrupted more than enough times," Jess said, looking out of the peephole one last time before going into the kitchen and pulling out a water. Rory was still watching Paris and her 'friend' making out.
"Jess, I know him."
"You've met him before? You never told me that Paris had a boyfriend."
"I didn't tell you because I didn't know," Rory told him, now walking over to her couch.
"Then how do you know him?" Jess asked, joining her at the couch and putting her arm around her.
"It's Tristin," Rory told him, walking out of his grasp and back to the door. Before she could reach it, though, Paris and Tristin came barging in, ripping each other's jackets off. Rory turned around and Jess started laughing, causing the two to stop in their tracks and look at both Rory and Jess.
"Mary!" Tristin shouted and gave her a friendly hug, not returned.
"Hi Tristin. Hi Paris."
"Rory, what are you doing here? I thought that since Dave and Sarah were gone that you'd be staying at Jess' place."
"Clearly," Jess said from the couch. He stood up and walked over to Tristin, his hand held out. "I'm Jess, Mary's boyfriend." Tristin shook his hand with a smile and a nod, but Jess was smacked in the chest by Rory.
"I'm Tristin. We all went to high school together," Tristin explained, putting his arm around Paris and she cringed in embarrassment, but didn't pull away.
"Nice to meet you." Tristin nodded in agreement and looked at Rory and Paris who were staring at each other with an unreadable gaze in their eyes.
"Did you go to Chilton?" Tristin asked, ignoring the girls.
Jess laughed at this. "No. I went to Stars Hollow High," Jess explained.
"Oh, so you knew Rory back then too? That's cool. I've only been to Stars Hollow a couple of times to rehearse for an act from Romeo and Juliet. I played Romeo and Mary here played Juliet."
"Oh, so you guys have a history. Kissing on stage. Nice," Jess said, he was being sarcastic.
Paris finally broke her gaze from Rory and looked at Jess. "No, Romeo here was sent off to military school that night."
"Yeah, we only kissed that one time at Madeline's party," Rory added dumbly. Paris and Jess' mouths gaped and Tristin started laughing quietly and Rory realized what she had just done and before she could say anything, Paris was kissing Jess. She just got out of Tristin's arms and kissed him hard on the lips.
"PARIS!" Rory and Tristin yelled in unison. Jess didn't kiss back, but it took him a few seconds to pull away and when he did, he started laughing.
"Paris what the hell was that?" Tristin asked as Paris stood next to him again.
"What? You can kiss Rory, but I can't kiss Jess?" Paris asked innocently.
"Paris," Rory started. "That was like nine years ago. I had just broken up with Dean and he had just broken up with Summer. It was a moment of weakness. And it's not like I did it in front of you. Jeez, Paris, you can't just go and kiss Jess, he's an innocent bystander, I didn't even know him when it happened." Rory was yelling by the end of her rant.
"OK, so I'll go kiss Dean. Does he know about the kiss?" Paris was also yelling. Tristin and Jess were now standing to the side of them, ready to break up a fight if need be.
"No! And I don't care if you go and kiss Dean, I don't talk to Dean. Go, go kiss Dean!"
"Um, no. Don't go kiss Dean," Tristin said from the side. "I hate Dean. I really hate Dean."
"Ha, who doesn't?" Jess asked.
"Oh, so you know Dean?"
"Yeah. He and Rory were together when I moved to Stars Hollow. It took them awhile to break up before I won her." Tristin nodded and smiled, grateful that anyone but Dean won anything.
"Jess, I am not a prize. You didn't win me, I chose you," Rory told him. "Now back to you, Paris. Why didn't you tell me that you had a boyfriend? You didn't even have to tell me that it was Tristin. You just decided against telling me. Why? You were the first to know that me and Jess had gotten back together, and you still would have been even if you didn't walk in on us."
"Rory, I didn't tell him that we lived together or even that we were friends. I know that you have a history. I was threatened, OK? I was scared," Paris told her, looking anywhere but at the people in front of her.
"I'm with Jess. I love Jess. Me and Jess are moving to Connecticut in a few months. Why would you be afraid of something between me and Tristin? That's crazy and practically a decade in the past. We've obviously both moved on, thank God. No offense, Tristin."
"Don't worry about it. Paris we can head to my place, if you want."
"No, don't worry about it guys," Jess told them. "Me and Rory can go back to my place. We can just put the pizza in the fridge and we'll be gone." Jess turned around to the coffee table and picked up the pizza boxes.
"Sorry Rory," Paris said.
"Sorry Paris. I shouldn't have yelled at you, it was stupid," Rory told her. Paris nodded and Tristin pushed her to Rory and the two hugged as Jess walked back to the group.
"I'll see you tomorrow and we can talk," Paris said walking out of Rory's hug and into Tristin's tight embrace.
"Definitely. Hey Paris?"
"Yeah?" Paris asked, now leaning her back into Tristin's chest, practically mirroring Rory and Jess.
"Does Sarah know about you guys?" Rory asked, afraid of what the answer might be.
"Ha, like I'd ever tell her anything before I tell you. That's good Rory." Rory sighed and pulled Jess by his hand out of the apartment.
"Bye guys," Rory and Jess both said before they closed the door behind them.
So...? Tristin... what do you think? I was going to make it Logan, but don't think that I'd know how to write him. Tell me your thoughts!