A/N: Ok, this time, I haven't updated in a long time. Sorry, I had to finish TDST and write some stories. But now, here I am, updating the story that hasn't been updated in so long. Now, despite what some people asked, it will remain a songfic story, but I'm gonna try to write a lot more of writing than the song lyrics. Now, I was planning on having another song for this chapter, but that would cause a big gap of what happened in a month, so I thought of this song to go in between! Now read this, but don't forget to review please! I've had over 2,000 hits and only, like...well, I can't remember how many reviews, but it was definitely less than 1,000. So REVIEW!

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My Happy Ending: Chp 6

8th World Wonder

Rory lazily got up from her childhood bed, crawling to the kitchen for her morning coffee. She realized it was still early and knew her mother would definitely not be up yet. Her thoughts couldn't help but drift to Jess, and how this was the first weekend back from Yale. She was excited to see him, especially after an exhausting week. Going to school with Paris was one thing, but living with her was crazy.

Woke up early this morning, made my coffee like I always do.
Then it hit me from nowhere, everything I feel about me and you.
The way you kiss me crazy, baby you're so amazing.

She started thinking about how almost exactly a week ago, her, her mom, Jess and Luke were all helping her move into Yale.

"Move the damn matress!" Jess snapped at Luke, his arms tired.

"Hey, they're the ones blocking the door!" Luke snapped back, throwing his head quickly in the direction of Rory and Lorelai, who were starting around at the room in awe.

"Wow...so this is where you're going to live for the next four years..." Lorelai breathed out, purposely taking her time in blocking the two diner men.

"Move." Jess growled from the doorway.

"Tsk tsk, you shouldn't be rude to your girlfriend." Rory chided.

"Yeah, when my arms fall off and I look like a freaking war veteran, remind me that again." His voice dripping with sarcasm.

"Ha ha." Lorelai dryly said as they went on to the room with Rory's initials on the door.

Then when they had to leave.

"Bye Luke." Rory gave him a small smile. Lorelai and Jess hovered still.

"Mom..." Rory said as they both hugged tightly.

"Promise to call me."

"I'm coming home this weekend." Rory reminded.

"As much as you can."

"I'll send a current photo of me so you remember what I look like."

"Don't joke," Lorelai said, squeezing her daughter again. Rory hugged her back. "Bye mom..." she said quietly as she kissed her cheek.

"Bye Rory..." Lorelai gave a small smile as she left the room.

Rory turned to Jess. "So..." he dragged the word out.

"So..." Rory repeated, stepping closer to him. He cupped her face as he kissed her deeply.

"I'll see you next week?" Rory softly asked after they pulled away.

"I'll call..." Jess said, stroking her right arm with his fingers. They kissed again like a cliqued goodbye.

"Bye..." she gave him a last peck before he left.

"Bye..." he said back, following the same path as his uncle and her mother.

Rory went to her room that was recently furnished and sat on her bed. For a long time, she just sat there, then she picked up her cell phone.


"So the guy says that it's a real throw! Get it, throw?" Lorelai laughed at the cheesy joke she made, then gave a sigh. God, she was really bored without Rory. She looked at Luke, who was blankly staring at the road, and then to Jess, who held a book in his hands but was staring out the window.

"God, I know why you're spacing out, but why are you?" She said to Luke. Both snapped out of their thoughts with a confused 'What?'

"Never mind..." Lorelai shook her head. Both were lost in their thoughts again.

Jess was thinking about Rory. Luke was thinking about his screwed up summer.

Luke robotically pulled up to the diner just as a ringing sound came from somewhere in the car.

"That's my phone..." Lorelai said quickly, wondering where she dropped it. She looked on the floor,but it was unseen.

"Jeez, you'd think you'd have a more unique ringtone..." Jess mumbled under his breath as he searched on the floor as well. "Found it." Hesaid quickly, picking it up, and seeing it was Rory, answering it.

"Hello?" He answered.

"Jess?" Rory's voice sounded shaky, like she was going to or had been crying.

"Rory, are you ok?" Jess said, to which Lorelai and Luke turned around in their seats.

"Come back..." she breathed quickly. "Please..." she pleaded.

"I'mcoming..." Jess replied. Lorelai understood the conversation, but Luke was completely baffled.

"She wants me to-" Jess started after he hung up the phone.

"Go." Lorelai replied, getting out of the car and heading over to Luke's door. Jess scrambled out of the car as Lorelai dragged Luke out. "Ow, jeez," Lukesaid at Lorelai yankinghim out of his seat. "Baby." She quickly murmured under her breath.

"But-" Jess started again, confused at why Lorelai would be sending him off to her daughter without supervison or something.

"GO." Lorelai said louder and clearer this time, throwing the keys to Jess. She knew Jess loved her daughter. As Jess mumbledsomething that soundedlike 'thanks', he got in the car and started to drive off.

"She better still have her virginity when you come back!" Lorelai called after the car, which got some attention from the wandering townsfolk.

"Aw jeez..." Luke mumbled, trying to get that image from his head.


Seven days and seven nights of thunder,
The waters rising and I'm slipping under.
I think I fell in love with the 8th world wonder.

Rory stood at the gate of her dorm building, looking for a familiar dark-haired boy. Jess came walking up to her with a playful smirk on his face, and Rory threw her arms around him, kissing him fiercely. Jess dropped the book he held in his hand and wrapped his arms around her as well.


Rory smiled at the counter, pouring herself a cup from the fresh pot she'd just made. She headed back to her room and picked up the latest book she was reading, the one Jess had given her a week ago. This was the 8th time she was rereading it, this time she was more analyzing the notes Jess had scribbled into the margins.

Rory tossed and turned in bed, glancing at Paris's bed, then at her alarm clock. She felt slightly babyish for not being able to sleep away from home. After all, she'd done it all summer in Europe, and the summer before, in Washington DC. She turned over again and told herself to sleep. Not that it worked, because when you tell yourself to sleep, it just makes it harder to. She had too many things to do the next day to be sleepless.

She rolled over again and tried to sleep. Unable to, she sat up, looking at the phone.

Rory got up and picked it off the bedside table, dialing a familar number quickly.

As it rang, her first thought was that she hoped Luke didn't pick it up.

After about 10 rings, a voice picked up.

"What the hell do you want?" Jess's voice wearily said.

"You sound like my mother..." Rory giggled helplessly, realizing that was similar to how her mother answered the phone in the middle of the night.

"Why are you calling so late?" Jess asked sleepily, to tired to acknowlege the comment.

"Cause I can't sleep..." Rory said in a logical tone.

"So you decided to call your boyfriend at-" there was a pause where Rory guessed Jess was looking at the clock,"three in the morning?"

"Yes. Now will you read to me?" She asked.

"You're insane..." Jess grumbled dryly.

"Yet you love me for it..." Rory teased with a grin.

Jess groaned. He sat up and picked a book off the table. "Vonnegut?" He asked.

"Hemingway." Rory replied.

Rory heard him cough, and there was no doubt that if life was a sitcom, Jess would be spitting soda out his nose.

"You want to listen to Hemingway?" Jess said in disbelief.

"I'm sorry, you must still be half asleep. I only want it to cure my insomia..." Rory grinned and knew Jess was rolling his eyes.

"Jeez..." Jess said, and he did roll his eyes.

"Now you sound like Luke," Rory teased.

Jess rolled his eyes again and let out an annoyed sigh as he searched for a book through his mess on the floor. He picked up The Old Man and The Sea and opened the thin book to the first page.

"He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. In the first forty days a boy had been with him. But after forty days without a fish the boy's parents had told him the old man was now definitely and finally salao..."

By the time Jess was on page 26, he heard a light breathing sound, and hung up the phone.

Rory fingered the pages, smiling at them. She heard footsteps and looked up to see her mom entering the kitchen.

"Ahh, my angel, you made coffee," Lorelai sighed, looking to Rory as she poured herself a cup.

"Morning mom." Rory smiled and got up.

"Good morning my sweet Siddalee." Lorelai grinned, kissing the younger Gilmore's cheek. "So, what are your plans for today?"

"Umm...morning, you, afternoon, you, and tonight I've got a date with Jess."

I guess that I'm just falling deeper into something I've never known.
But the way that I'm feeling, makes me realize that it can't be wrong.
You're love's like a summer rain, washing my doubts away.

Rory unlocked the dorm and threw her bag down, exhausted at the first day. She looked around and found it strangely quiet. She heard footsteps in her room and opened the door, ready to collapse on her bed.

She looked up and smiled at the sight. Jess was looking through her bookshelves. "Left a few at home, huh?" He said, not looking away from the shelves.

"Hey..." Rory smiled, as Jess wrapped his arms around her and kissed her.

"Hey..." he said after they broke away, leaning their foreheads together.

"What are you doing here? How did you get in here?" Rory raised her eyebrows.

Jess held up a bag from Luke's and a coffee. "Omygod, my savior," she gasped, taking the cup and drinking it, forgetting about his break in.

"I knew you wanted me just for my coffee," Jess smirked. Rory ignored him and started at the burger and fries in the bag.

"How was your first day?" Jess asked, sitting on her bed with a book in his hands.

"Good." Rory replied, forgetting she was chewing, and covering her mouth and blushing.

"What are you, two?" Jess teased. Rory smacked his arm.

"For that, I'm taking the book." Jess smirked, standing up with the book in his hand.

"Noo! I need to finish it! I'm not done!" Rory whined, reaching for the book.

"I'll give it back to you when I'm done reading it." Jess teased her, looking through the book.

"Thief..." Rory mumbled in a playfully angry voice.

"They don't call me Dodger for nothing..." he teased.

Seven days and seven nights of thunder,
The waters rising and I'm slipping under.
I think I fell in love with the 8th world wonder.

The two Gilmores entered the diner, holding some bags. They sat at a table and threw their bags on top of it.

"Movie night?" Luke asked the two of them as he came up and poured them coffee.

"More like movie day..." Lorelai said, referring to how Rory would be busy that night.

"Ah..." Luke nodded. "So, what'll it be?"

"Cheeseburger and fries...ooh, and some pie!" Lorelai grinned.

"Make it two!" Rory said as Luke nodded and headed into the kitchen.

Jess came from out of the storage room and headed over to his girlfriend. "Hey..." he greeted.

"Hey..." Rory smiled as he bent down to give her a kiss.

"Movie night?" He asked with a raised eyebrow.

Lorelai and Rory turned to each other. "Wow, that was freaky."

"Yeah, total deja vu..." Lorelai replied, looking at Jess like he had two heads. Jess raised an eyebrow, but Lorelai moved along the conversation.

"We would have a movie night today, but Rory has a hot date tonight..." she teased.

"Oh, really?" Jess joked, playing along.

Rory rolled her eyes at the game. "Yes. Dark, mysterious, brooding." She described Jess, who smirked.

"Sounds like just your type." Jess said.

"Yeah, smart too." Rory smiled playfully.

"Ew, ok, I just ordered my lunch, so get out of here before I lose my appetite,"Lorelai covered her eyes.

Jess rolled his eyes and went back to the counter.

Rory glared playfully at her mother. "You scared him away..." she said in a whiny voice.

"Yeah, well," Lorelai picked up her coffee,"I tend to do that," she said, taking a sip.

It's only been a week, but it's coming over me.
It's making me believe that you're the one for me.

"Now what?" Lorelai asked as the last movie,Airplaneended.

Rory shrugged. Lorelai looked up at the ceiling and tapped her finger on her chin, as if in deep thought. "I'm seeing..." she dramatically said. "Another movie..." She waved her hands around in a melodramatic way. "Oh wait, you only have an hour until your date."

The younger Gilmore narrowed her eyes at the elder. "What are you getting at?" She raised an eyebrow.

"Nothing, nothing..." Lorelai put her hands up in defense. "Just...you know. You're always freaking out this time about what to wear."

Rory sat back onto the couch. "Well, I'm going to try and be more calm and relaxed." She calmly said, leaning further into the cusions.

"Really?" Lorelai doubted with a smile.

"Yes. That's what college has taught me this week." Rory said, trying to stop her mother's constant teasing. Lorelai leaned back as well. "Sure..." she said sarcastically. They sat calmly for a few minutes when Rory jumped up.

"I knew I shoulda bet money!" Lorelai exclaimed happily.

"Oh, stop!" Rory ran into her room and started freaking out about what to wear.

Seven days and seven nights of thunder,
The waters rising and I'm slipping under.
I think I fell in love with the 8th world wonder.

An hour and 15 minutes later, the doorbell rang, and Rory, who had just finished getting ready, scrambled out her room. This was only their second date since they'd gotten back together after all.

"Look calm!" Lorelai called from the kitchen, and Rory took a minute to take a breath.

She opened the door, and Jess stood their smirking when he saw she was outta breath. "Hi..." she smiled at him, and Jess smiled back at her. "Hi," he said back.

"God, stop being so mushy. It's sickening," Lorelai said as she passed by the doorway. Rory turned and threw a glare at her.

"She sure knows how to kill a mood," Jess joked, leaning against the door frame.

"Yeah, she's the mood-killing queen," Rory grinned widely at him. He leaned close and kissed her deeply.

"Ah! Blind, blind!" Lorelai came up again from nowhere, holding a coat.

"God!" Jess exclaimed in exasperation at Lorelai interrupting them. Rory blushed a light pink. "Mom..." she whined. "I was trying to give you this jacket. Goes better with the skirt." Lorelai explained.

"Thanks..." Rory mumbled.

"We should get outta here before she decides to come with us..." Jess murmured into her ear and Rory laughed slightly. "Bye mom..." Rory kissed her mother's cheek. Jess gave a quick goodbye, and Lorelai watched them leave. She felt nervous about the whole thing last time too, because she knew her daughter was in college now, and was an adult.

Seven days and seven nights of thunder,
The waters rising and I'm slipping under.
I think I fell in love with the 8th world wonder.

"So, you've been keeping this all a secret." Rory pressed in the car. "Where are we going?" She asked for the 50th time that week.

"Surprise," Jess said, a smirk on his face.

Rory whined and pleaded to know, but Jess wouldn't cave.

Seven days and seven nights of thunder,
The waters rising and I'm slipping under.
I think I fell in love with the 8th world wonder.

As they pulled up into a parking lot, Rory turned to look where they were parked in front of. A large bookstore sat there and Rory turned to Jess with a big smile.

He smiled back at her as they went inside. "This looks amazing!" Rory said to Jess. He wrapped his arm around her waist as she gave him a quick hug and rushed them off to the classics center.

Seven days and seven nights of thunder,
The waters rising and I'm slipping under.
I think I fell in love with the 8th world wonder.

"Where'd you find that place?" Rory asked as they climbed into the car.

"I was bored while you were at Yale." Jess responded.

"Awww, you missed me," Rory teased.

Jess rolled his eyes playfully but gave a small smirk.

"They did a pretty good 48 hours," Jess referred to the band that had played The Clash songs.

Rory shifted the books on her lap to the floor as they started the drive home. "Guns of Brixton." She said with a small smile.

Jess gave her a glance. "Our song," he remembered.

She grinned widely. "Yeah...they played that good..." she added. "I had fun," she mentioned.

Jess smiled again. "Me too..."

Rory leaned over and kissed his cheek, smiling.

A/N: Hope you liked it! No lie, I read Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea, and by the time I was on page 26, I found myself nodding off. Seriously, it's true. God that guy's boring, I didn't make it through chapter 5 of A Farewell to Arms. Ok, well, I'm going to try and update the next chapter as soon as possible people, ok. I'm so happy cause I put in references into my chapter, which I find really hard to do. Where are they and where are they from? Tell me and you get a cookie. Ok, ok, I only put one reference. At least, only one that didn't have where it was from in the chapter. Hey, wanna know a secret? I'll tell you a secret. The next chapter's song is Lifehouse's YOU AND ME. Does that help you with what's gonna happen next, cause I think the songs also tell a story, and I refuse to actually tell you what happens in the next chapter.