I'll see you in Washington

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Chapter 7

Jess is gone. He's already left and I slept right through it. God, I'm such an idiot. He's really gone.

Rory stood in Jess's old room's open doorway and she looked around at its emptiness. "And now the journey begins…" She muttered to herself before stepping out into the hallway and back to her own room.

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Rory sat staring at the phone, willing it to ring. This had been going on for the past five minutes. She'd begun her little game just after she finished the book Jess had left in her room that particular night that she didn't want to go into at the moment. She knew that if she did she would lose all rational thought and fall into JessLand. She'd loved the book and really wanted to talk to him about it if the damn phone would just ring! She was getting frustrated and finally she picked it up and dialed the number long ago memorized.

"Hello?" Came his gruff, familiar voice. He sounded tired, like his day had been too long.

"Hey." Rory replied. Jess sat up at her voice.

"Hey." He said again, his voice considerably gentler.

"How are you?" She asked.

"I'm ok. You?" He replied.

"I'm doing good. Sorry I was asleep when you left. I did want to say goodbye, it's just, well, I had a hard time going to sleep last night so…"

"Hey, it's fine, I get it." He assured her.

"Ok, good. Hey you know that book, Never My Own you left in my room the, umm, other night?" She asked.

"Hmm, sorry Rory, I can't remember that night. Do you think you could specify it a little more?" He asked. He could practically see her blush through the phone and he smirked to himself.

"Two nights ago? You came to my room and…" She trailed off there.

Jess paused, making it sound like he was in deep thought.

"Nope, sorry, not ringing a bell. What exactly did we do when I came to your room? Maybe that'll help me remember." He said, loving every second of this.

"Jess! You know which night I'm talking about!" She cried. He laughed at her annoyance and how easy it was to fluster her before finally leaving the topic alone.

"Yes Rory, I know the book. What about it?" He conceded

"Well, I just read it, and it's really good." She replied

"Ok. Care to add on that?" He asked.

"Well, I thought it was really fascinating how he truly lived through his sister, the concept is totally unique, of course him committing her suicide in the end was probably one of the saddest things I've ever read."

"Yeah, Burton is a genius when it comes to originality." Jess noted.

'Jess? Jess, where the hell are you? I need you to close up today. Who are you on the phone with?' Luke yelled as he walked into Jess's room.

"Why do you care?" Jess asked.

"I have never seen you on the phone before." Luke said, baffled.

"Well mark the date and time." Jess said sarcastically.

"I need you downstairs to help close up."

"Fine."

"Now Jess."

"Fine." And with that Luke stepped out of the room and returned to the diner.

"A sneak peak into the wonderful life of Jess Mariano, everybody, hold tight, we might be able to grab him for a quick interview, after the break." Rory said in a television announcer voice.

"Well, I gotta…."

"Go, I got it. Call me tomorrow ok?" Rory asked.

"Okay." Jess replied before hanging up and trudging out of the apartment.

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Rory had spent the entire day helping a stuffy old woman organize her files. Apparently this was 'practice for an internship in the real world, so she could have a real sense of what it's like out there'. The only thing Rory was sensing was exhaustion and a headache. She had been lying on her bed in the hot room doing nothing since she got back, which was 45 minutes ago. She could read a book but all her books were on the other side of the room and to get them she would have to move, which she was currently incapable of doing. She wondered when he was going to call. It was 7:30, so that meant the diner would be closed by now. Slowly, Rory forced herself off the bed and picked up Wuthering Heights, the first book on her pile. After getting ¾ of the way through, she realized she couldn't keep her eyes opened and so she went to sleep, without a call.

This went on for three days, Rory missing him and waiting for him to call, but the call never coming. Rory didn't want to be that girl. The girl that waited and waited for him to call and then as soon as he bothered to make an appearance, forgave him immediately. Finally Rory decided to do it herself. Of course, she got the machine. "Hey Jess, it's me. Please call." Rory said before hanging up. She made it as vague as possible so if Luke heard the message first he wouldn't know it was her. Another two days she waited. She wasn't going to do this. She grew angrier every time she looked at the phone. Finally, on the 6th day of no call, Rory dialed the number her eyes had been longing to see in the caller ID box each day herself.

"Luke's"

It was him.

"Jess." Rory said.

"Yeah?" He answered. Was this Rory, he wondered.

"You never called." Yup, It was Rory. He tried desperately to think up a good excuse.

"Yeah, well, things have been pretty busy here and…" He hopelessly failed.

"Jess, if you can't handle something as simple as a phone call to your girlfriend then I doubt you can handle a real relationship. I've been sitting here, waiting for the nonexistent call, I called you three times, I asked you to call twice and I left a message, but still-no call. It hurts Jess. You know what, this was a mistake. Everyone was right. This was all a big mistake. Sure, I liked you but I didn't have to act on that. I'm…I'm sorry Jess, I just…can't do this. I'll see you in Stars Hollow." And then Rory hung up, leaving Jess speechless and leaving Rory crumpling up in a little ball on the floor by her bed. She threw everything away for him and now…-now he's gone.

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2 weeks gone and it was D-day! Time to go home! Finally she could see Lorelai, and get Luke's coffee and sleep in her own bed. Two weeks was enough to get over a guy. She was sure of it. She was definitely over Jess. Now she was free to be guy-less for a while. Rory checked once last time to make sure she had everything in her bag before saying her goodbyes to her room and her building and the memories it had made. What happened in Washington, stays in Washington.

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"Jeez, you sure are perky this morning." Luke noted as Lorelai came bouncing in to the diner.

"Quick, Quick, Quick! Coffee, Coffee, Coffee!" She ordered.

"Why the rush?" Luke asked as he filled a mug with coffee and slid it over the counter to her. Jess was standing over in the corner, taking people's orders.

"I have exactly 32 minutes to go pick up Rory, giving me 2 minutes for coffee!" And which three quick gulps, Lorelai emptied her mug and rushed out. Luke stared after her, astounded. Jess had frozen when he'd heard Rory's name. Rory was coming back today? Oh, crap. Could he deal with that? Probably not. Why hadn't he just goddamn called? No, he had to ruin the one chance he'd ever have to be with Rory because he was to busy being lazy. Rory was coming home today. Won't that be fun?

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"Oh, and we have to go to Luke's cause they got a new Special's board and he's totally weird seeing this omelet thing up there now in these totally cool bubble letters though also kind of depressing. So here we are. Welcome home baby!" Lorelai babbled. They were parked right in front of Luke's. This did not go unnoticed by Rory. Luke's equals Jess. Jess. But she was over him right? Right.

This mini pep talk was going on in Rory's head right now and she finally stepped out of the car. She was definitely over him, she told herself. They two girls stepped into the diner and Rory breathed in the familiar smell. Home sweet home, she thought to herself. After scanning the crowed seating at the tables, she looked up towards the counter and immediately locked eyes with a certain someone she had just been telling herself she was over. In that one moment when their eyes met, Rory felt every emotion physically possible to feel in one moment. She felt like a ton of bricks and been dropped on her head, all the air had been sucked out of her, she was floating in midair, and had just been placed in a furnace. No, she was definitely not over him.

AN. Ok it is late, I am tired, and my eyes are bloodshot. Time to go to bed. Hope you like this chapter. Remember when I said there was no Shane in my summary? Well, I'm keeping that. In my world, Shane doesn't exist. Reviews are the love of my life! I have passed the line of want and now truly need you to-what's that word ladies and gentlemen? That's right-REVIEW!

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