As they walked up the driveway to the solid wood font door, they were both in deep thought. Rory thought about what was going to happen, why Jess had wanted to come in, and why she'd said yes.

She led Jess up the dimly lit staircase. "My room's this way."

"I know", he responded shyly.

"Oh, right. You were here earlier."

"Yeah." This was the Rory he knew. The apprehensive, jumbled, but brilliantly amazing Rory.

They walked inside her room. Jess picked up the pillow they'd left on the floor from earlier. "We still need this?"

Rory blushed. "I think we're good."

They sat on her bed. More silence. Jess wasn't a fan of silence.

"You, uh...you never answered my questions before", he said.

"Jess, come on."

"Please, I'm not looking to fight. I just need to know what happened. What happened with you and your mom?"

"How did you-"

"Luke's got a bigger mouth than you'd think."

"I never would've guessed."

"So, what's happening there?"

"I don't know."

"Rory."

"I Just know she has something against Logan. That's what started this."

"Started what?"

"It's like a rift, a hiatus."

"That sucks."

"Completely." Rory was staring at her palms. "But why does it matter to you? You always hated my mom."

"And she always hated me, but I don't hate you, and I don't want to see you upset."

"Right, right. Rumor has it you love me. You love me so much that you wanted me to go somewhere away from here with you."

Jess sighed. He puffed out his cheeks and let the air deflate slowly. "That was a long time ago, Rory."

Rory's eyes were shimmering. Jess stared at them for a very long time before he realized that they were wet with tears in the corners of her eyes.She smiled, though, trying to hide the tears. After a minute, though, her smileturned into an odd lopsided frown.

"So, you...you don't love me anymore?"

Jess could feel a drop of sweat roll down his forehead. The walls of the room that was so small to behin with seemed to be cosing in on him. His words were choked - quiet and timid.

"I uh..I still...I still love you."

Rory's responsewas just as quiet, if not quieter. "Oh."

"I'm sorry. I'm really sorry." Jess's hands covered his mouth. How could he have let those words escape?

"Don't apologize", Rory said, lifting her head. She was smiling for real now.

Jess raised an eyebrow. "Really?"

"I think I still love you, too."

"You said you were over me."

"I could never be over you, Jess."

"What about Logan?"

"What about him?"

"Don't think he'd be concerned that you're up here with your ex-boyfriend all alone?"

"Ex-boyfriend?"

"I hate that word."

"Me too."

Rory was gradually inching closer to Jess. He pretended he didn't notice, but his mind was raging with thoughts. Thoughts of disbelief, thoughts of happiness, thoughts of sadness. Sad memories, painful memories.

"Why did you come back?" Rory pressed on.

"I missed you", he replied.

Within minutes, Rory had Jess's clothes off. Jess had Rory's clothes off. The lights were dimmed. The mood was set. The time was right.

Right, so the ending of that was pretty stupid. I'm not actually going to go into detail, so I figured this is the best way to describe it in so many words. Please review!