AN: Heh, cliffie. You know what that reminds me of? ;) Replace the Cl with a St. :D Dirty!
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Me: Gilmore Girls, be my valentine!
GG: No.
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Rory stared at Jess, mouth agape. "What? I thought Patty said you had some sort of interview…" Why would he stay on campus? "Jess!" she yelled and dropped her fry.
Jess adopted a goofy grin, "Yes?"
"Don't you play dumb with me. I know you better than that. Tell me exactly what happened!"
"Keep eating," he said and pointed to the fallen fry. "Maybe you'll refrain from talking with your mouth full." Rory stuck out her tongue, partially chewed fry and all. "Or maybe not."
Rory continued eating while they sat in silence. She was almost done with her burger before Jess started talking. "I couldn't tell you before, or you'd insist to come with me. Like you said, we know each other too well. I needed to do it on my own."
"You still haven't told me exactly what you did… You should know better to leave this up to my imagination," she said and finished her meal. She focused all her attention on Jess.
"What do you think happened?"
"Jess…" she said in a warning tone.
"Okay, I had to at least try," he said and stood up. "It seems that whenever we talk about anything important…"
"I understand," Rory said and grabbed her jacket before they headed out of the apartment. They left the closed diner and headed to the bridge. They always talked there, no matter the time or the weather. Jess sat down on the side of the bridge with his legs hanging over. Rory couldn't help but remember the first time they talked out there; they were both so different now.
Rory sat down behind Jess, instead of beside him. She wrapped an arm around his waist and leaned into his back. His body moved with his breath, she could feel him sigh.
"I talked to the dean," he said and shifted his body. Rory leaned back away from him and he turned around. "I have to look at you."
"Why?" she asked quietly.
Jess held her hands and looked into her eyes. "Because…I wouldn't have been able to do this without you. I wouldn't be here; I wouldn't be doing something with my life. I was in college in New York. I tested out of most of my remaining high school classes, which I wouldn't have done if you hadn't reminded me how smart I was all the time. I started at City University and transferred to SUNY. The whole time…I knew it was because of you. Who else told me I could actually be something? It was only you."
Tears rolled down Rory's cheeks and he wiped them away. She couldn't believe he was telling her all of this. "Me?"
"Don't play dumb with me, I know you better," he said, mimicking her earlier statement. "You sure are your mother's daughter."
Rory started to cry harder. "Oh Jess…What does this mean?"
"I don't know…I won't find out for a month or so."
"But, if you're accepted?" she leaned towards him and rested her head against his. "Then…?"
"Then I'd be going to Yale," Jess said and she could hear the pride in his voice. "With you."
Her tear-stained mouth turned up into a smile. "I always wanted you to go to college. I secretly hoped you'd go to Yale with me, we'd be the smartest people there."
"There's my Rory, humble as ever," he said and hugged her. They stayed in the hug for a few minutes but Rory started to shiver. "Let's go back to the apartment." He stood up and offered a hand to help her up.
Rory stood up and tried to figure out what direction to go. One would take her home, where her car and all her things were, where her mother was. The other took her back to the diner, with Jess. "Shouldn't I go home?" she asked, not sure what answer she wanted to get. "I don't have anything with me."
Jess grasped her hand and pulled her to him, "Come with me, we'll call Lorelai when we get there so she won't worry. And if she does worry…we'll just bribe her with coffee."
"Ah, coffee…Every Gilmore Girl's weakness," they laughed and headed back to the diner and its accompanying apartment. I'm so happy.
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"Hello, the lovely Lorelai Gilmore speaking," Lorelai said when she answered her cell when she saw Luke's Diner come up on the caller ID.
"You can't be Lorelai Gilmore," Rory said, startling her mom, "Because I am Lorelai Gilmore!"
They both laughed, drugged up feminism sure had its ups. "What's up Ror? Finally decided to tell Mommy you were back in town? Or did you just want me to visit with your car?"
"I thought you needed some more bonding time. We've had 21 years; it's only been around for 2. It's lonely!"
"So what's up?" Lorelai asked, ignoring her daughter's wit. "I take it you're at Luke's?"
"Yes, I'm with Jess."
"Well I'd hope so, because if you weren't, you'd be with Luke…"
"Ew! Mom!"
Lorelai could sense Rory's cringe across town. "Yeah, that was pretty bad. Would you rather me remind you that you and Jess will soon be related?"
"Stop it! I just wanted to tell you I was okay and I'd be staying here. You get more quality time with the car."
Lorelai smiled, "Thanks honey, you know I would've called you eventually. I can only take so much car-time."
"And you worry about me."
"More than you could possibly know. Have a good night. Shopping tomorrow? Since you're playing hooky already?"
"Sure, meet me here for coffee."
"Wouldn't miss it for the world. The coffee, not you," Lorelai joked. "See you then."
"Bye Mom," Rory said and hung up.
Lorelai went back into the living room where she left Luke to watch TV while she talked on the phone. It was only ten at night and he already looked like he was about to fall asleep. "What's on?" she asked and joined him on the couch.
"Crap."
"Uh huh, what have you been watching?"
"Nothing."
"Uh huh," Lorelai grabbed the blanket that was draped over the back of the couch and intertwined her body with his. She carefully took the remote from him and soon realized he wasn't joking when she finished flipping through the channels and not one decent show was on.
Lorelai looked up at Luke, who had begun to snore. She curled up with him and thought of how relaxing it was to be with the man she loved when unknown to her, Rory was doing and thinking the exact same thing across town.
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I dunno when you peoples will get this, but I do know that I am a hardcore Disney addict and I can proves it! So what, wanna fight about it? Kay, I'll stop with the semi-obscure TV references.
My birthday went well. Lotto tix, two gift cards, a candle, cute cards, and something still unknown (it was left on a nightstand) later, I am happy. The best gift is yet to come, my boy bought me something and it'll arrive sometime on Monday. Color me pink, I do not for the life of me know what it is. He always gets me perfect gifts though. This is getting posted at like 2am my time, and I'm officially slap happy. FARTS.
Review please, you guys have been so good at reviews. The most I've gotten on a single chapter is 9, I'm really really hoping for 10. That'll just be SO cool! I never really give you enough time to get 10 on one chapter, but I'm going to try. You should know what that means. Enjoy, review, and remember...farts are funny, poop is not.
