A/N: Sorry, I know, I needed like ages for this chapter, but this is only the translation ( the original is in german) and this fanfic already has 15 capters, it's just, that the translating is sooo boring ;) But keep reading and reviewing, I bet it woul make te translating a little less boring for me.

Chapter 2: Shoes, postcards and a letter

Rory was sitting in her hotel room in Italy. In front of her laid some postcards. All of them were still blank. At first she wrote the one for her Grandparents. That was easy. Some words about the great weather and the beautiful sights were enough. Even for Lane's postcard she didn't need long. But then there was the postcard she wanted to send Dean. He was so depressed at the day she had left, and she wanted to cheer him up a little. But there also had been this sudden smile on his face, which Rory made think. Finally she wrote:

Dear Dean,

I'm in Italy, and it's really beautiful here. I hope you feel better and you're not upset about Lindsay any more. She's not worth it! I'm glad I will be in Stars hollow again soon, maybe we can do something together then, you know, as friends. I really missed you, as a friend!

Bye, Rory

Rory read the card a couple of times and thought about whether she should send the card or not. But she couldn't think of a reason against it. So she pasted some stamps to the cards and put them on the drawer.

Somehow she had the feeling she forgot something, or someone. Lorelai wanted to write the card for Luke, but there wasn't anybody else she should write, was they?

Suddenly Lorelai bursted into the room.

"Hey Sweetie, did you finish the cards?"

Rory got the cards she laid in the drawer before and handed them to Lorelai

"All here."

"Ok, then I have a great idea. First we put these cards into some mailbox and then, we go to this little cute Café I just found. They have this amazing Coffee there, almost better than Luke's!"

"How many cups have you had already?"

"Doesn't matter, come on!"

So Lorelai pulled Rory out of the hotel room. A couple of minutes later they sat in front of the café and talked. About the countries they've already been to, about the sights and a lot more.

"Do you remember this French shop, were all the people stared at me? I still don't know why.", Lorelai told

"Oh I can tell you why, you probably said the only words you know in the French language."

"Yeah I did, so what?" but then Lorelai looked very abashed. "Rory, what does 'Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?' mean?"

„Oh no, you didn't do that!" Rory laughed out loud. „I just ask myself you many french you asked if they would sleep with you."

„No one, what do you think…oh", Lorelai suddenly was quiet, but then she also began to laugh. „So what, new country, new luck!"

Rory waved for the waiter to get another cup of coffee, when something on the other side of the road took her breath away. There he was. Jess.

He was just standing there, staring at her. Then a bus passed, and when it was gone again, Jess also was gone.

Oh my god, I'm getting hallucinations!

„Hey, earth to Rory!", Lorelai tried to get Rory attention.

„What?", she asked startled.

„I asked if you want to come to the shoe store over there."

„Ehm, no, I just sit here for a little while and enjoy the sun and the coffee.

"Ok then, later!" Lorelai took her purse and went over the street to the shoe store.

Rory knew who she forgot. But she so wanted to forget him. She didn't want to be awake at night, just because she couldn't stop thinking of him.

Jess hurt her so much, why couldn't she just forget him?

Rory took a pen and a piece of paper out of her purse and began to write.

A letter, a letter to him. She wrote everything down, everything she felt, everything she wanted him to know. She wrote that he wanted him to come back, back to her, that she wanted to be happy with him again. After she was finished, she folded the letter and put it in her purse. She wouldn't send it to him, but it was a help to write it. Hopefully everything would be over soon. She had to pull herself together. She wanted to find someone new, someone who would treasure her, someone who loved her. Soon she would go to Yale. She would meet so many new people there. She wouldn't have time anymore to think of people, who weren't worth it.

Especially, to think of him.

Rory put some money on the table and went back to the hotel. She wouldn't let anything or anyone destroy herself!

Lorelai

Man, these shoes are pretty, I bet Luke would like them, too.

Lorelai just treid on a pair of shoes, when she realized what she just had done. She had thought of Luke.

And then Lorelai remembered Rory's words shortly before they started their trip. Were She and Luke really supposed to be together? Luke was her best friend, but was there really more? Lorelai had to have noticed something over all these years. She remembered the looks Luke gave her sometimes.

She would talk to him, immediately when they were back in Stars Hollow. Lorelai didn't know about what yet, but she definitely would talk to him.

But for some reason, Lorelai was a bit afraid to see Luke again. If really everybody thought he was in love with her, what did they think about her?

Lorelai never had thought about Luke as more as a friend, but now she liked this idea.