Sorry it took so long to get back to the chapter, if it took long.
I know some of you were saying I shouldn't ask what the readers want, and just write. I know exactly where this story is going and how it will end, but the point of the question was, for this chapter, like, would option a for the first one have been too soon, along with option a for the second. I've learned my lesson for another show I used to write for. It was a message board, so people could comment directly and I could respond instantly, and I wound up losing my focus. I just was wondering if I'd have been rushing the story (I mean, I already am, its only been a day and they like each other, come on, so not relativistic, even in the Perfect World of Literati) Anyway,…
LLFOREVER - If you'd still ike to beta, email me, its in my profile, yours didn't have one, other wise I would've just emailed this to you…
Okay, so story….
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Chapter 4: Too much or Not Enough?
I'll admit, we may Not
Get along from time to time.
Too much could be bad,
Or it could be not Enough.
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Rory found it hard to move when she awoke. The leather jacket she was still wearing was holding her a happy hostage. Knowing it was wrong, she deeply inhaled his scent. There was something about him that made her feel so… free. She could be her with no false pretenses.
As her alarm was set to go off in a few minutes, she took the time to reminisce over the past 18 hours of her life. She didn't remember getting to her house from the bridge, but it didn't really matter. She knew Jess got her home, as she wasx still in his jacket.
As her alarm sounded, bringing her out of her dream world, Lorelai pounded on the door whining about coffee.
"I'll be right out mom!" Rory called through said door.
"Hurry! I'm dying!" Lorelai whined over reacting as usual. Rory rolled her eyes, rolling out of bed. In order to get dressed, she needed to remove the jacket, which she did, shrugging it onto the bed. She slipped on her uniform. Next, she brushed and scrunched her hair, as it was still damp, leaving it in loose waves. She was about to grab the jacket to put on, when Lorelai cried,
"RO-RIIIII!" Bringing her away from the jacket, and out the door. She grabbed her bag, and the two were off to Luke's, leaving a certain hoodlum's jacket on her bed.
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Jess spent most of the night cleaning, attempting to keep his thoughts off the amazing Rory Gilmore. In 18 hours, he'd managed to keep her from killing herself, have her open up to him, and the scariest of all, he opened up to her. It amazed him that she was able to do this to him. He wasn't good with words, or explaining himself. He could explain anything a normal person said or wrote, but he couldn't explain his own thoughts and feeling. With Rory, though, it all came naturally. It scared to no end because she had something no one had in a very long time: the potential to hurt him. True, he'd hurt himself, but that helped him not be affected by other people's stupidity. Rory, however, she could hurt all on her own. He never believed in love at first sight/meeting, but he was slowly being to believe in fate.
Walking down the stairs to the diner, his thoughts were still of Rory. 'Fuck, I could definitely be falling love. And that is NOT supposed to happen!' As he thought this, he moved the curtain, his throat closed, and his pants restricted. There with her mother, stood the object of his thoughts in a school girl uniform that he was sure was altered. She looked amazing, and it took a lot to stop fantasizing about her.
Slipping behind the counter, he pulled out a book, leaning on the counter to read.
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When Rory saw Jess, she smiled brightly. When he slipped behind the counter and just started reading, she felt saddened. 'Maybe yesterday was a fluke, like he was just being nice.'
"LUUUUKKE! We require the elixir of life!" Lorelai went on to beg Luke for coffee. At their table. Rory took a different approach. She approached the boy at the counter.
"Hey." She said with an unsure smile.
"Hey." He gave her a half smile, trying to look as if he wasn't just dreaming about taking her out of her uniform.
"Can I have some coffee?"
"Isn't your mom getting you coffee?" He wondered.
"Her and Luke will be flirting too much, and by the time I get coffee, I'll be on my way to school, and stinky bus, Chilton, and no coffee equals bad day."
"I see. Anything else?"
"When its Friday and we have to go to Friday night dinners, ugh!"
"I meant to eat?" Jess laughed lightly as Rory blushed. It was cute. 'Damnit!' Jess swore in his mind.
"Oh, um, danish please."
"Sure."
Jess returned with a to-go cup and a danish.
"Smart man, cause I have to go." She'd seen Dean crossing the street, and wanted to get out of there before she was accused of something.
"Will you be here after school?"
"I have a Franklin meeting, but Mom and I'll be here for dinner."
"Right, later."
"Yup. Oh, and Dodger…" She smiled as Jess tried desperately to fend off a smile. Last night wasn't some weird dream. He handed her the book she wanted.
"Bye."
"Bye."
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Unfortunately Rory ran into Dean just outside the diner. Rory said good-bye to her Mom and Luke, and it slowed her down.
"Morning." Dean greeted, kissing her lightly.
"Morning." She kissed him back, while staring over his shoulder at Jess, who was smirking at her. She smiled back.
"So, what did Jess give you?"
"Oh, he borrowed my book yesterday, and I need it for school."
"Oh."
"Why, what did you think?"
"I, I don't know."
"Don't trust me?"
"No, I…"
"Whatever, my bus is here." Rory walked away feeling very satisfied. She'd made Dean stumble, feel like the idiot. Today would be a good day, so she thought.
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Jess stood mindlessly in the book store. Rory wasn't due back for another hour, so he thought he'd get a book. Unfortunately, the store was so spastic, he didn't find anything he liked. Opting to head to Hartford to find a book, Jess trudged back to the Diner.
"Hey, Luke, can I use your truck?"
"Do you have a legit license, and where are you going?"
"Yes, and Hartford."
"Why?"
"Book."
"Why?"
"Read."
"Why?"
"Luke…"
"I've been spending too much time with Lorelai. Here." Luke handed Jess his car keys.
"I have my cell phone. Thanks for that by the way." Jess called as he left the diner.
Luke had bought Jess a cell phone that morning, and activated it and everything. Jess looked at him oddly, but took the device anyway.
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Rory mumbled profanities as she walked out of Hell, or Chilton Prep, where it was down pouring. It was 6:19, and she was supposed to be home over and hour ago. Rory walked to the bus station just in time to get splashed by the departing buses rear tires. Now covered in icky ground water, soaking wet, and missing her last bus, Rory was pissed.
Stupid Paris kept them over to finish the paper. It wasn't due for another two days, but 'They might need to change something before that, better to have it done than cramping the night before!'
As Rory stood trying to get cell service and plotting Paris' death, lightening struck, and thunder sounded.
"Ugh!" She walked back to the school, but with her current luck, she was locked out of the building.
"Great, fucking great!" She screamed at no one.
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After deciding nothing good was to be found, Jess left the book store he was at. As soon as he was outside, his cell phone rang. Confused to what it was until he felt his pocket shaking, he pulled out the stopped device, while cursing not having his jacket.
"Hello?" He said irritated as he saw it said Diner.
"Hi, Jess?"
"No, Santa Claus."
"Okay, it is you. Um, Lorelai's stuck at the Inn, I'm stuck here, since you have my car, so could you stop by the High School and see if Rory's there, still?"
"Uh, sure, where is it?" Jess was jumping on the inside, which scared as well as scarred him. Luke gave him the directions to Chilton, and told him to make it as fast yet safe as possible. The roads were flooding, and getting dangerous, but they needed to get Rory home.
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It was starting to flood and Rory was getting annoyed more and more by each second. She was freezing because in her infinite stupidity forgot her jacket. Or Jess' jacket. She smiled for a second, before she started pacing. She thought she heard tires screeching, but didn't bother to look. Six cars had already passed her. When she heard,
"Hey." From the sexy, husky, yet, comforting voice, she spun around.
"JESS!" She through her arms around his neck, hugging him tightly. "Why are you here?"
"I was in Hartford, your Mom called Luke, Luke called me. Said to see if you were still here."
"Thank god!"
"Let's go."
"Okay." Rory and Jess ran to the car, getting soaked even more in the process.
Jess turned the heat all the way up, and Rory shed her wet blazer, leaving her in the almost transparent white top. Jess' jeans constricted for the second time that day because of her and that uniform.
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"Shit, I can't drive in this." Jess said about 10 minutes later.
"What do you mean? What are we supposed to do, we can't stop!" Rory said getting worried.
"We'll have to pull off at that exit." He said nodding to the sign saying exit 17A.
"We'll get lost!"
"Would you rather get lost or killed?"
"Getting lost could get us killed!"
"We'll be fine." Jess left no room for argument by pulling of at the exit.
Once parked in a CVS parking lot, he called Luke.
"Luke's Diner."
"Hey, it's me. I got Rory, but we had to get off the road, the flooding is too bad."
"Can I speak to Rory please?"
"Sure." Jess handed over the phone. "Hello?"
"Rory?"
"Yes?"
"Would you be okay, if I told Jess to drive to a hotel and stay there until the storm lets up?"
"Yes, no problem."
"Alright, gimme back to Jess." Rory handed over the phone. "Go to a hotel, I'll call you back in a little while."
"O…kay?"
"Bye." Luke hung up.
"So, uh, you're okay with that?"
"Yup."
"Okay, then."
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Rory and Jess wound up getting a one bed room, Jess opting to sleep on the floor, that way it would be cheaper. Now they were trying to dry off, as they were soaked again. Jess was officially hating her uniform, wishing it wasn't there at all…
"Hey, Rory…"
"Yes, Dodger?"
"Could you take off your uniform…."
"What!"
"No, um, I mean, like is there something else you could put on, because you're kind of distracting…."
"And what are you doing that I'm distracting you?" She crossed her arms under her chest, pushing her small breasts up a bit.
"Umh…"
"Nervous, Jess?"
"I 'd be the one nervous if I were you."
"And why is that?"
"Because you don't know me that well, we're alone in a hotel room, and you're in a soaked, partially see through school girl uniform."
"Oh…" Rory said quietly blushing, looking down. Silence filled the room.
"So, how's your wrist?"
"Better. I think.."
"Lemme see." Rory walked over to the bed where Jess was sitting. She plopped down next to him. He was holding her wrist, massaging it much like h had the other times, only this time, Rory felt this weird tingle at his touch. It was a good tingle, and excited tingle. A tingle she felt the need for, but never the tingle itself. As she processed, she realized Jess was turning her on.
"Jess…" She half moaned, placing her head on his shoulder.. Shocked by her tone, he looked at. Her eyes were closed, and she look so innocent, but when she started rubbing her thighs together, he knew other wise.
Feeling himself get aroused, he moved away from her.
"Sorry, I wasn't paying attention." Rory stammered before running into the bathroom.
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