KK, so this is the next chapter, I'm not gonna babble like I usually do at the beginning of stories and chapters. Not because I don't wanna annoy you, but because I wanna go ahead with the story! Lol j/k.

Disclaimer: nothing. I depress myself every time I type that.

Rating: T, that will NEVER get any higher. Because my mother is capable of reading these.

Now, on with the story!

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"So, when do you think he'll get here?"

"Rory?"

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"Wh...What are you do..doing here?"

"Dude, why do you think sh'e here?" Cory said with a look that said 'You gotta be friggin kidding me'.

"Aw, shut up."

"Can we, um, talk?" Rory said praying that he wouldn't totally kick her out. I mean, after all, SHE turned HIM down. Hopefully, she hadn't come all this way to make an absoloute fool of herself.

"(pauses) Sure." he said with a look of disbelief on his face. "Come on"

"(with a sigh of relief) Okay." She would follow him, she just prayed he wasn't one of the drug dealers in the building. She smiled at that.

He led her to the roof. That's right. The roof. She had seen in movies where they would go up to the roof to 'talk' or 'think', but she never thought that you could ACTUALLY go up there. He stood staring at her, he kept screaming to himself Don't wake up, Don't wake up, Don't wake up, But she was as real as he was, which was much more realistic and down to Earth unlike the old Jess he used to be.

The part that shocked HER the most, was that he wasn't wearing his old leather jacket. She just knew he would be buried with that thing. But he was wearing a blue jean jacket. Thank God he wasn't wearing jeans with it. He was actually wearing Kakis. That's right, the trademark preppy pants. And the funny thing was, he actually looked good. He didn't look uncomfortable like he always used to, he looked prepared for anything she was about to say.

"Why are you here?"

Wow, where did this come from? He had never been the 'cut to the chase kind of guy', he had always been the 'beat around the push and 100 percent avoid the subjest kind of guy'. "Why do YOU think I'm here?"

"I don't know, that's pretty much why I asked."

Damn, so much for beating around the bush. "I did something, that made me realize ... that ... I wanted to be with you."

"What happened?"

Jeez, she hated that he was so damn calm. She wanted him to be just as uncomfortable as she was. But in the end, he helped her relax a little bit. "Um, that doesn't matter."

"Apparently, it does."

She looked off into the distance. She felt like she could see forever. She just wanted to fly out to forever and get away from having to tell him ... that ... what she did.

"Something happened, that never should have. This is just one of those times where I REALLY want a time machine."

He laughed. Wow. he had always been afraid to laugh in front of other people. And when he laughed, he hadn't seemed to hesitate at all before he did it.

"What's so funny?"

"When I was seventeen, this would have been a smack in the face from me, but I just want to let you know that this is a compliment; But you sounded just like your mother right then."

"Wow, Jess Mariano, giving a compliment, I thought it was possible, now I know it is."

"Come on Rory, what happened?"

"I ... I ... I don't want to tell you."

"Rory, if I'm able to own up to the fact that I came to your dorm and asked you to 'Come away with me', I think you can own up to whatever you did." He paused, "You have everything Rory, I tryed to take that away from you. I'm glad you said no." She looked up at him. Shit. She knew she shouldn't have come here. He was over her.

"I, I think I should go."

"No" He grabbed her arm, she looked into those brown eyes and immediatly froze. "You were what I wanted. You still are. But you were at Yale! What would have happened if I were at all capable of pulling you away from that! You would have lost your dream and wondered for the rest of your life what would have happened if you had stayed! And I'm not gonna let you wonder!"

"Well you're letting me wonder now!" she said pulling herself away from him.

"What the hell are you talking about!"

"I'm talking about the fact that the reason I came here is because I'm gonna wonder what would happen if we went our seperate ways!"

"Oh"

There was an awkward silence. Finally he decide to break it. "So... why are you here?"

"I'm here to tell you that, if you really love me you won't make me leave my home."

"I wouldn't have done that in May, but I would have been able to. Now, I have a life. I can't just pick up and leave. I have a job. You have school. Neither of us can sacrifice that."

"But there must be something we can do"

"I know there is, but I just don't know what that is roght now."

"I can't stay much longer"

"Why not?"

"You're from out of town aren't you?"

"Huh?"

"Ask Cory"

"Huh?"

"It's New York, I can't stay out late in New York. I could get mugged or something. I need to go to my hotel."

"Wait, let me give you the address of where I work"

He pulled out a notebook from his back pocket. She noticed there wasn't a book in there.

"Come by tomorrow. I'll be working from 7 to 4."

"I never thought I would hear you say that sentence."

"Seriously, come by."

"I will."

"So, I'll talk to you later?"

"Yea, you will."

"You better go, with all those muggers and serial killers out there."

"And drug dealers, don't forget drug dealers."

"Yea, them too."

"I'll see you tomorrow."

"You're gonna have to tell me what happened at some point."

"I know, but that doesn't mean I'm not gonna avoid it"

He laughed "Ok, bye Rory."

"Bye Jess."

She turned and walked to the door. Who was this guy? She hoped she still loved this amazing person he'd become.

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