"I wanted to see you again!", Jess answered but turned to Rory, ignoring her mother.
"So charmingly as always!", Lorelei murmured and tried to calm down Paul Anka, who barked at Jess. At the same time her attention lied on her daughter, who still fixed Jess disbelievingly.
"I thought, I had clearly expressed myself", Rory pressed quietly out, her eyes nearly closed. Jess had frequently proven that he was sensitive like a horn ox, but why could he not leave her alone, why did he not understand her? Was his imaginative power so limited that he could not imagine that she did not want to see him?
"You expressed yourself clearly. But I had to see you again! I considered everything again and I cannot forget this night!" He walked self-assured a step toward her. When he noticed that she back-yielded, he stopped.
"Jess! What are you doing here?", now also Luke came into the room. He had two filled plates in his hands and looked from one person to the other.
"Hey Luke… Rory, let us talk about everything again!", Jess only addressed Rory who was grown silent. So many thoughts were in her head and for a short moment she did not know how to react.
"Rory? Please!", beseeching the black haired man looked at her with his brown eyes. For a short moment Rory thought about the situation and then stood carefully up.
"Let us go out!" She did not feel pleased to discuss the situation in front of the eyes of her mother and Luke. She wanted that Lorelei got to know everything by her daughter and not by Jess. Because of this reason she followed her ex-boyfriend outside and walked slowly down the stone stairs. Irresolutely she looked on the soil and waited that he made the beginning. He had come to her. Instinctively she felt the views of the interior remained and wished to be elsewhere. When she looked up for short while, she saw in his face sadness, but nevertheless also self-assertion. She could not react so fast at all, when she felt his gentle lips on her ones and when he actually pulled her slim body. In vain she tried to resist only briefly, but under his sensitive kiss, her defence sagged together. Only when they separated slowly from each other, her mind got clear again. Half-heartedly, but with a short applauding noise her hand slammed against his cheek and "Asshole!" slipped out of her mouth. "What was that? What are you doing here? Can't you leave me alone?…", more and more question gush from her lips, while Jess rub with a distorted face his cheek. Before she had terminated her speech, he packed her at her shoulders and shook Rory carefully.
"Rory, I love you!" By his words it grew silent. Shocked she stared at him. What had she only done? While he had her still firmly in the grasp and despair tears dripped down her cheeks. "But I do not love you!", she answered with a trembling voice. "I absolutely do not believe you!" He released his grasp, gave her still another short kiss on the mouth, which she did not answer, and turned away. With his hands in his pockets he walked away. While he became smaller and disappeared in the darkness of the street, Rory cried.
She did not grasp the period, which she spent before Luke's Diner. Only the vibrating mobile phone in her trouser pocket brought her back to reality. She had calmed down, but when she saw the name of her lover on the blinking display, she could not hold any longer. Sobbing she sagged in herself together and only the supporting arms of her mother helped her not to fall down on the soil.