"Wow! Just... Wow," Lorelai said to Rory the next day over the phone. "Paris and Tristan. Wow!"

"I know. I just can't believe that she didn't tell me. I mean, I know now, so thats good, but still. I wish I could have seen my own face when I saw them making out in the hallway. Jess said that it was a sight to see. I was floored, Mom. You have no idea. I mean, Paris and Tristan. Tristan didn't like Paris at all at Chilton and now they're shacking up in my apartment. I mean, me and Jess went there so that she wouldn't have to be alone. Apparently she wasn't alone. This is insane, but I am happy for her," Rory finished her rant and took a deep breath, sitting back in Jess' bed. Jess was in the kitchen getting them both some water.

"I'm happy for her too. Paris needed a boyfriend, and from what you tell me, it sounds like Tristan is treating her well, which is also good," Lorelai said. "Oh, I have news!"

"More news. We're on a roll today," Rory said as Jess walked back into his room with two bottles of water and nothing but his boxers on. "What is it?"

"Me and Luke have doctor's appointment tomorrow and we're going to find out the sex of the baby hopefully."

"Mom, that's great," Rory said honestly. Rory and Lorelai spoke for a few more minutes while Jess played with Rory's hair. "OK Mom. I should get going, I have to go to work. I love you and call me the second you find anything out. I love you," Rory said into the phone.

"I love you too, honey. I'll call you the second I find anything out. Tell everyone that I say hi." They hung up their phones and Rory looked over at Jess who had stopped playing with her hair.

"You're going to work?" He asked as she kissed his nose and took a sip of water.

"No, but I couldn't tell Mom where I really was. I didn't think that you'd want her to know about our crazy night last night."

"Well, I wouldn't. So what was her big news?"

"Oh, her and Luke have a doctor's appointment tomorrow and they might find out the sex. I hope it's a boy."

"You want her to have a boy? You? You'd rather have a brother than a sister? That doesn't seem like something you'd want," Jess told her, before pulling her into his body.

"Well, don't you think that there are enough Gilmore girls?" Rory asked into Jess' chest.

"It wouldn't be a Gilmore. It'd be a Dane," Jess pointed out into Rory's hair.

"The baby will still have Gilmore blood in them. But I want to have a brother, because I think that Stars Hollow has way too much estrogen over testosterone. Not too mention, I don't know anything about little boys, so a little brother would enlighten me."

"OK, I understand that I guess. When do you plan on going to see your mom and Luke?" Jess asked.

"Well, I have to go either before or after Sarah and Dave get home. I have to be here for her, so that Paris doesn't kill her for leaving with no goodbye. I think that I should probably go before she comes home, two weeks is a long wait. I'll go maybe Friday night and surprise her."

"Friday? Cool," Jess told her. "Want me to go with you? I mean, don't think of it as a normal thing, but since it's a surprise and it involves my cousin/my girlfriend's baby sibling, I could make an exception this one time." Rory smiled and kissed Jess hard on the lips and he responded with full force.

"Jess you are amazing. I totally want you to come. I was thinking of asking you, but I wasn't sure that you'd want to go. I thought that you'd make up a horrible excuse. I love you, I love you, I love you," she said before kissing him more passionately. He reveled in her kiss and found his hands running up and down her nearly bare back and her hands rested on his bare chest.

He regretfully pulled away for breath, but rested his forehead on her cheek and kissed it. She laid down on the bed and he followed suit and laid down next to her. "I love you too."

"I know. Are you sure that you're OK coming?"

"I'm positive. It was my suggestion. Maybe this time we can stay in the same building, maybe even... heaven forbid, the same room," Jess smiled slyly.

"I'm sure that could be arranged," Rory told him. She leaned over his head and gently put her lips against his and smiled, pulling away. "You know, it's after noon, maybe we should get out of bed."

"Out of bed?" Jess asked amused. "You were the one who got us into bed... multiple times."

"Yes, and now I'm the one suggesting that we get out of bed. We now have packing in our very near future. I also think that we should go and see Paris and Tristan, maybe have a real conversation."

"OK, fine," Jess said getting out of bed. "I have to take a shower first. Care to join-" he was cut off by Rory brushing past his body and running into the bathroom, waiting for him to follow. He did follow, with a grin spreading quickly across his face.

Rory and Jess emerged from his bedroom fully dressed forty-five minutes later. Their hair was dry and they were just about ready to go. "Rory, do you know where my belt is?" Jess asked as he looked around the small living room.

Rory smiled when she found it, thrown into the even kitchen. It must have been where it had landed when she took it off of him and threw it the night before. "Here you go," she said, as she brought it over to him. He looked at it and then smirked at her and gave her a short, but sweet, kiss.

"What would I do without you?" He asked as he thread his belt through the belt loops.

"You know? That's something that I don't care to think about," she told him. He smiled at her while she grabbed her purse. "Ready?"

"Yeah. Hopefully Paris and Tristan are done by now. It's already one o'clock. It's also a Thursday. Paris doesn't go into work until three, so who knows what they're doing."

"Well, if they are doing something out in the open, it wouldn't be your fault if you saw it. It is your apartment too." She nodded and he took her hand in his and they left his apartment. They walked onto the street in a comfortable silence, and to her apartment in a comfortable silence, her head was on his shoulder by the time they reached it.

"Are you sure it's safe to go in there?" Rory asked as they walked up the stairs of her apartment building, getting her keys out of her purse.

"I would think so. I hope so, anyways." Rory nodded and put her keys in the lock and turned them. Her and Jess walked into the door to see Paris and Tristan laying down in the couch, watching TV. "Hey."

"Oh, hey Jess," Paris said lifting her head off of Tristan's chest. "Hey Rory."

"Hi," Rory said back, smiling, sitting down on the arm of the couch.

"Mary, Jess. Nice to see you again," Tristan said. After the pleasantries were exchanged, Jess pulled Rory off of the arm of the couch so that he could sit down.

"Um?" Rory asked, annoyed. Jess smiled at her and pulled her onto his lap. "Ah." She laid her cheek against his and they all watched TV quietly until the phone rang. "I'll get that," Rory told them, getting off of Jess' lap and grabbing the phone. "Hello?"

"Rory! Hey, it's Sarah! What's up?"

"Hey Sarah. Nothing really, we're just watching TV. How's California? How's Dave?"

"It's amazing here. Dave is great. And who are 'we'?"

"Oh, me, Jess, Paris, and..." she said trailing off, looking at Paris for an OK. Paris nodded and kissed Tristan on the cheek. "Tristan."

"Tristan? Who the hell is Tristan?" Sarah asked, now confused and completely out of the loop.

"It's an old friend from Chilton that me and Paris knew. Also, Paris' new boyfriend," Rory told her, sitting back onto Jess' lap, catching him off guard and causing him to sigh in slight pain. 'Sorry,' she mouthed.

"Wait. What? Paris and boyfriend? Tristan as in blond kid who was in love with you? Paris has a boyfriend that's in love with you?"

"No Sarah. Tristan does not love me, nor did he ever... that I know of." This caused Tristan and Jess to laugh and Paris to throw them both angry faces and they stopped abruptly.

"And yes, Paris has a boyfriend. I don't know for how long, so don't ask."

"Wow, that's a lot to take in. Is she happy?"

"I think so. She seems it."

"I seem what?" Paris asked from her place on the couch.

"Happy," Rory told her.

"Oh, yeah. I am."

"She is," Rory relayed back to Sarah.

"Good. Well, I should get going. Me and Dave need to get some breakfast. I love you guys and I'll see you soon!" And with that, Rory and Sarah hung up their phones.

"She said that she loves us all and she'll see us soon," Rory told them and threw the phone onto the coffee table.

"Well she better. She didn't even have the decency to say goodbye to me."

"Paris, she left you a message because you didn't answer your phone. She called you for an hour. I told her to leave you a message and I would tell you in person."

"You never told me in person," Paris told her, now sitting up, Tristan was also.

"I was a little bombarded with the current situation at hand," Rory told her, gesturing towards Paris and Tristan.

"OK, guys. Calm down," Tristan said from his place on the couch. "All is well. Paris knows that Sarah meant to say goodbye and Mary does too. We're all on the same page. Well, except for me, because I have no idea who this girl is, but that's off topic."

"How long have you two been together anyways?" Jess asked, somewhat out of the blue, wrapping his arms around Rory's waist when he felt her tense when Tristan called her Mary.

"A few weeks," Paris told them.

"It's been good," Tristan chimed in, pulling Paris into a hug.

"It seems it," Rory gave her opinion. "Tristan?"

"Yeah?"

"What is my name?" Rory asked, wanting to make sure that Tristan wasn't all that dumb.

"Rory," he answered, proudly. "But I prefer Mary."

"OK, I was just making sure that you knew," Rory said to him. Jess loosened his grip around her waist as they sat quietly watching TV again. He swiftly moved from the arm of the couch to the cushion without lifting his butt, he just slid him and Rory down. Rory made sure to tighten his grip again by pulling his arms around her. She turned to smile at him and kissed him on the nose and then tenderly on the lips. "I'm going to go pack," she said to Jess. "Me and Jess are going to see Luke and my mom. They have a doctor's appointment tomorrow and they might find the sex of the baby out. Me and Jess are going to surprise them," she explained to Tristan and Paris.

"Yeah, Paris told me that your mom was married and pregnant. Tell her I say congratulations," Tristan told Rory, now looking at her and Jess instead of the TV. "OK?"

"Will do," Rory said, standing up off of Jess. She looked at him with a question in her eyes and he got up and followed her to her bedroom.

"Packing, right," they heard Paris mumble as they closed the door.