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Rory walked up the stairs of an apartment complex in New York. She had to shake it out of Luke, but he eventually gave up Jess' address. The complex wasn't fancy, but it wasn't bad.
Boldly she knocked on the door. No one answered. Just as she was about to leave a dark haired, petite girl, with green eyes walked up behind her.
"Hi. Can I help you?" She was about 5'4", wearing baggy black pants with many pockets and zippers, and a leather jacket that was a little big, and obviously belonged to a boyfriend.
"Maybe, I'm looking for Jess Mariano. Do I have the wrong apartment?"
"No, this is the right apartment. But he's at work right now. Was he expecting you?" The girl unlocked the many locks on the door to the apartment.
"No he wasn't. I can just come back. Can you tell him that Rory came by?"
"He'll be home within an hour, you can just hang here for awhile. Come on in. I'm Elizabeth by the way, but everyone calls me Ellie." Ellie put her hand out.
"Rory." Rory shook her hand.
"Come in, really."
"Are you sure? Do you usually let people you've never met into your apartment?" Rory didn't really want to come in, but Ellie seemed nice.
"All the time." Ellie saw the look on Rory's face. She was obviously not really in the mood for jokes. She looked a bit nervous. "I'm kidding. You don't look like a serial killer, or drug dealer, and Jess knows you, so just come in. I don't bite either."
"Okay." Rory stepped into the apartment and closed the door behind her while Ellie headed to the kitchen taking off her coat to reveal a well fitted Radio Clash t-shirt.
"Do you want something to eat? We've got pop tarts, and… no well that's pretty much it."
"I'm fine thanks."
Ellie was like Rory in a way. She was shorter and not as curvy, but there was something about her. Some kind of innocence, which is one of the things Jess liked about her. She was beautiful, hot, smart, innocent but not shy and scared like Rory. She had long dark brown curly hair that she wore in a ponytail right now, and bangs. She had good taste in music obviously by her t-shirt, and she read a lot. She was like Rory 3.0. But dressed different clearly indicated by her baggy black emo pants, converse, dark eye liner, band t-shirt, and leather jacket which Rory was pretty sure belonged to Jess.
"Okay." Ellie took a bottle of water out of the fridge and headed for a plastic bag she dropped on the way in. She pulled out a clock in the shape of a cute cow.
"What's that?"
"Oh, it's my new alarm clock. Jess broke our other one this morning."
Rory was visibly hurt at the word "our" used by Ellie. I mean she knew that Ellie was probably Jess' girlfriend, but when she confirmed it, a bit of her confidence about getting Jess back disappeared.
Ellie saw the look on Rory's face and knew that Rory had to be an ex-girlfriend. One that probably was still in love with Jess and intended to tell him that.
Ellie bit her bottom lip out of habit. She came up with this habit about a year back when she met Jess to replace the one that had left white scars on her left wrist. "It moo's." Was what Ellie said as a lame attempt to break the awkward silence.
"That's cute." Was all Rory could muster as a response. Then the lock on the door jiggled and Jess came through saying.
"I need two aspirin." He turned to see Rory awkwardly standing in his living room. "Make it three."
A/n: Muahahaha. Cliffie! I know, I'm the evilest person alive. Not really, but I hope you liked it, and you can tell me what you think, or that your socks smell, preferably what you think, in a review. I love em, and they inspire me to write faster for the love of my reviewers. Okay, so the point is to please review!