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Chapter 3: Dealing and Arrival
The opening of her door didn't even stir Lorelei from her drained place now on her living room couch. It did however catch Sookie's as she was going through a few of Lorelei's old photo albums of when she and Rory lived at the Independence Inn.
"Hello" rounded the voice of Max Medina as he slowly and with caution presided into the virtually quiet house.
"Don't talk to loud Max, she fell asleep about ten minutes ago." Sookie said walking over to Max and ushering him quickly into the kitchen.
"What do you mean Sookie, Rory came screaming at me to get over here, what the hell is going on?" He yelled his frustration of the situation getting the best of his usually calm demeanor.
"Wait, Rory already saw you? How long ago was that?" Sookie got off the subject well but she was now really worried about Rory.
"She's not home?" He asked clearly shocked that the teenager hadn't made it home before him because he hadn't seen her in about three hours. She looked upset and angry but he thought for sure she'd be home by now. Something must have happened to her.
"No we have to find her Max, before Lorelei finds out she's missing or she'll go off the deep end more then she has already." Sookie said tapping her head trying to think of where the seventeen year old girl would be.
"You go out and check, I'll hold down the fort if she decides to show up ok?" Max looked toward the living room let out a sigh and went out to sit with Lorelei and upon closer inspection he noticed the tear stains straining along her cheeks.
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Rory was surrounded by the fear that her boyfriend had caused her. She had told Jess at the spur of the moment where she was both vulnerable and scared. Jess was now holding her as she wept into his trademark leather jacket. She had been holding in the tears for nearly a week and once she started in on them she couldn't stop.
"Jess" she said shakily as she lifted her head from his chest, her mind was racing with every move she made. "I…" Jess put a finger to her lips and he helped her stand.
"You don't have to tell me Rory, only if you want." Rory was grateful the pressure was off but for some reason she couldn't explain, she wanted to tell him, everything.
The idea of him finding out how Dean was so close to hurting her beyond repair tore her heart to shreds without intent. The one thing she wanted was for him to know but for him to find out, would mean that he knew more about then her own mother or even Lane.
She sat for a while just looking straight into the amazingly hypnotizing eyes of a guy she had only met a few days ago and yet she had just told him her biggest secret. She took a deep breath and pulled at the sleeve of his jacket to get him to sit back down. "Rory," Jess began but Rory beat him to it pressing her lips lightly to his.
"Don't ask," she said pulling away from his lips. Though she missed the feeling of his lips caressing on hers she needed to say what she could to him. "Ok, I think I can do this. It was a little over a week ago and I was hanging out with" Rory gulped "Dean and we watching a movie at his place." She wiped a stray tear that had gotten free of her eye and continued "it was going normal and then when the main character had just gotten into bed with his girlfriend Dean began to kiss me. I was still engrossed in the movie so he started pushing me into the house seeing as how I was a little distracted by the movie so…" Rory began to cry as the next part came out as a small whimper "I didn't even notice what he was doing until he started hiking my skirt up my leg to…" Rory couldn't finish as fresh tears spilled down her face this time with out even trying to stop them.
Jess knew what was going to come out of her mouth next and he really didn't need to hear it, he had a pretty good image of it in his already and he was beyond ready to knock Dean's block off. He had intentionally hurt Rory and he just saw it that she couldn't bare to talk about it anymore.
As his mind was racing he didn't hear Rory start up again and this time with renewed courage. "…I kicked him, and he fell to the ground and he couldn't even stand up. I took the opportunity to run but he caught me by my leg and put me in a choke hold. I couldn't breath and I think I passed out, because the next second I was in the alleyway behind Luke's with my clothes ripped and tossed in every which direction.