Disclaimer: I own nothing except a couple of bad puns and some other stuff.

A/N: Hmm, this chapter's going to be a bit shorter than the others and I'm sorry for that. Oh! And I just want to make clear that I will not have Rory blame her sleeping with Dean on Jess coming back. I hate that. I also want to thank everyone who reviewed. You have no idea how much your reviews mean to me. On that note:

Elizabeth Theresa : Thank you for pointing out she wouldn't know after only a week. I realized that after I posted the chapter but I left it because I was too lazy to rewrite it. Anyways, I'm glad you still enjoy the story if I did mess it up a bit!

Now on with the story!

Rory settled as best they could on Jess' beat up old couch. They sat in silence for a few minutes while Rory figured out how to start. Jess knew better than to try and rush her with this especially if he wanted the whole story. After about 10 minutes she began.

"I guess the whole thing started a few months ago. I had been playing telephone tag with my mom all week so I hadn't gotten to talk to her. I had just been forced practically to drop one of my classes because I got a D on my paper. I failed, I let my grandfather down. I was taking the same workload he did and I let them down. So after I had to drop the class, I went back to Stars Hollow to talk to my mom, but I couldn't find her and I was running around and I went to the inn, and Dean was working on construction for the inn. So I asked Tom but Mom wasn't there, and Dean was there and he asked me what's wrong and I told him and he sat there and comforted me while I cried even though I was a horrible to him and I never even went to his wedding, because Luke told me not to, but Dean didn't know that and he thought I was just snubbing him but he was still so nice. Then when I was on Spring Break with Paris we saw Madeline and Louise and we were all drunk and one of them, I don't remember who, called Dean and I left him a voicemail and then he called me back and we talked. Then the night you came I was on this horrible date and the guy was horrible so I made him leave and I was just stuck there by myself, so I called Dean and he came and got me and brought me back to the dorm and then you showed up." Rory paused for a moment, to wipe her eyes, because she'd been crying since the second sentence, and because she wanted to steal a glimpse and Jess. When she did she saw that he looked concerned and all his anger from earlier seemed to have disappeared. Taking a deep breath she continued. "Then it was the opening night of Mom's inn and I was at home and Dean was there and everything just kind of... happened. Dean was always in the right place at the right time. He was Dean. Safe, predictable, caring Dean."

Jess had moved over to Rory's side of the couch and was holding her. "It's gonna be okay Rory. Just calm down, everything's going to be fine."

"No! It's not. I slept with Dean, and he's married. Oh my God, I'm the other woman. I'm a homewrecker; I should be wearing a big red A on my shirt."

"Shhh, Rory, it'll all be alright."

"And Mom! She doesn't even know where I am! I just left her a note telling her not to worry, but of course she will. How could I do that to her? And do that to Lindsay? Lindsay was always so nice to me. She bought me a Mark Twain magnet. I need to call my mom and tell her where I am."

"You are not a horrible person Rory. You never have been. You are the nicest person I know and always try to do what's best. I'll call your mom for you. Is that okay?" Rory nodded.

All of Rory's crying and worn her out and she was in a kind of drunken state, where she was half asleep and wasn't really sure what she was saying, and wasn't sure whether she was saying it out loud or not.

"You know, I never thought that Dean would be my first. When we were dating, I never even thought about having sex with Dean. Not once, which seems strange but it's true. Mom and I both thought you were going to be my first. She got really freaked out when I told her I was thinking about it. Dean shouldn't have been my first. It should've been you."

Rory drifted off to sleep and left a very confused Jess all to himself.

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Ring, ring.

Someone was calling the house. Was it Rory? Lorelai raced to answer the phone.

"Rory?"

"Close, but no cigar."

"Who is this?" Lorelai narrowed her eyes suspiciously at the phone, but then remembered the person on the other side of the line couldn't see her.

"It's, um... Jess."

"JESS!"

"Yeah, that's right."

"Listen Jess, Rory, told me about your visit to her dorm. She's not here, and even if she was I wouldn't let her talk to you. She's over you Jess, she doesn't want anything to do with you anymore. I don't want you hurting her, or interring with her life anymore.Just get over her and leave us all alone."

"Rory wants nothing to do with me?"

"That's right."

"If she wants nothing to do with me then why is she at my apartment asleep on my couch?"

Click.

Lorelai heard the dial tone but still stood there grasping the phone. Her mouth formed a big 'O' of surprise and her eyes had widened in shock.

Rory was with Jess? This was definitely not what she expected.