Jess smiled contently as he gathered an armful of books and headed out the door.

"Bye Dylan!"He called.

"See ya tomorrow Mariano!"his elderly employer called back.

Jess walked 3 blocks to his apartment and took the 4 flights of stairs up to his floor. As he walked down the hall he made out a form lying in front of his door.

He nudged it gently with his foot and unlocked the door.

"Jess!"she leapt up and hugged him. She grabbed some of his books and helped him carry them inside.

"What are you doing here?" he asked her.

"I wanted to see you."

"And?"

"And at work today we got in some new stuff and I wanted to play it for you."

"Stick it in." Jess nodded towards his large stereo system.

"Jess!"she gasped in horror as she opened the 6 disc changer.

"What?" he asked and moved over to her.
"XTC?"

"What?" Jess shrugged." They're good."

"They are good. I agree completely. They just don't seem like you."

"Charli, please." he rolled his eyes.

"Sorry, I forgot. I'm not allowed to classify you." she rolled her eyes at her boyfriend of 8 months.

"What have we got?" he asked and grabbed the cases.

"The first 3 are old ones but we just got them in. The last one is new." she explained and hit play.

"The Cure, The Beatles, The Black Eyed Peas, and Mixed Up."

"What's mixed up?" she asked. She was dancing to a Black Eyed Peas song.

"The band is called Mixed Up."

"I know!" she called back over the music." Want a soda?"

"No thanks." he called as she danced into the kitchen. He switched the music to Messed Up's CD and then flipped open the case to see the picture of the band. He stopped the second he opened it.

"Charli, what do you know about Mixed Up?"

"Nothing. Kaycee likes them though." she called as she came back in." Why?"

"Cuz I know them."

"Who?"

"Mixed Up. Lane, Zach, Brian, and Dave. I thought Dave quit but apparently he's back."

"You know these people?" she was shocked.

"They're from Stars Hollow. Rory and I used to sit in on their practices all the time. I mean, okay no more Rory talk."

"Why do you never talk about her?"Charli asked suddenly.

"She's so screwed up Charli. She used to be this great girl. Not as great as you but she was great. She loved movies, books, music, anything weird and was brilliant. She was on her way to Harvard."

"What happened?"Charli turned down the music and sat beside Jess on the overstuffed chair.

"She met Logan Huntzberger."

"Huntzberger? The newspaper guy?"

"His son."

"Oh, and then her?"Charli asked. She slurped her coke loudly.

"Knock it off. Then his dad, the newspaper guy told Rory she didn't have what it took to be a journalist."

"And she wanted to be?"

"It was her dream."

"Good dream. Then what happened?"

"She dropped out of Yale and-"

"I thought she was at Harvard."

"No, she went to Yale."

"Didn't get into Harvard?"

"She got in. She just chose Yale."

"Oh."Charli paused a moment and slurped her soda."Go on."

"Stop that before I take it. Anyways she dropped out of Yale and had this huge fight with her mom and they aren't talking or something."

"Wow."Charli sighed.

"Did I mention the part where she had an affair with her married ex-boyfriend?"

"Wow."Charli said again.

"Yeah."

"you're lucky I'm normal."

"Yeah right. you? Normal? Anything but."

"Hey!"she smacked his arm.
"I like you not normal. Don't worry."he grinned and turned the music back up watching as she got up to dance some more.