"Mom, I need to talk to you."
Lorelai took a bite of her food, "Do you think if I had a dream where I cooked a bunch of fabulous meals I could recreate them in real life?"
Rory sighed, "Mom! I said I need to talk to you."
"Oh yeah, sorry. Go on."
"When I went to go get my purse out of Jess's car earlier, I saw a letter and it was addressed to me."
"What? Why would Jess have a letter for you in his car?"
"Do you think if I knew that I would be sitting here talking to you?"
"Well aren't we happy today!" Lorelai said with a smile
"Look, I don't know what to do! Do I ask him about it?"
"Honey, if he hasn't told you about it yet then there's a reason. Maybe it's from a long time ago or maybe he's going to give it you later today. I think you should let it go."
"I can't just let it go! Jess has a letter for me in his car! How do you let something like that go?"
"Fine, ask him about it."
"I'm too afraid; it would go back into weird mode between us."
"I don't think you're afraid of asking Jess about the letter, I think you're afraid of finding out what's in the letter."
"I honestly don't know what I'm afraid what!"
Lorelai nodded, "Yeah well you better figure it out because here is super boy now."
Rory looked up and saw Jess coming back through the door. Rory walked back over to her chair and sat down just as Jess was nearing. "Tessa good?" Rory asked as Jess took his seat.
"Uh, I don't really know how good it can be when your living next to the toilet but she made some serious threats on my life if I came back so, yeah she's good."
Sookie suddenly ran over to their table from out of the kitchen. "I need opinions and I need them now! Good? Bad? Tasty? Not so tasty?"
Lorelai smiled, "Sookie it's amazing so stop worrying! Right Luke?
Luke looked up a little bit confused, "Huh?" Lorelai kicked him from under the table. He winced in pain, "Oh! Yeah, it's good. Its great actually." he gave Lorelai a glare and she just bit her lip to hide her laughter.
Sookie nodded, "Okay, well I'm going to go see how everybody else feels. See you guys later!"
Luke threw his hands up in the air, "What in world was that for?"
Lorelai shrugged, "Pure enjoyment mostly"
Luke rolled his eyes, "Yeah well never do that again. I think you literally bruised my ankle."
Rory laughed at the two's banter. She looked over at Jess and saw him also smirking at the two. As she watched Jess, she realized that for the first time in a long time, she was seeing the true Jess. Underneath all his rough and tough layers there was a good kid who really did care. Rory sat her hands on the table, "I'm glad you came Jess."
Jess smiled, "Yeah?"
"Yeah."
He nodded before saying, "Me too." Rory returned his smile and then faced her mother who was calling her.
"Hey Rory get out your camera would you?" Lorelai said "I really want to take some pictures!" Rory handed her the camera and Lorelais face lit up like a little child, "Fun! Now, you and Jess get together."
Jess immediately objected, "I don't do pictures."
Lorelai rolled her eyes, "Everybody does pictures! Now come on!"
"No really, that's okay. Wouldn't you rather take a picture of butterfly or something?"
Rory laughed, "Jess, its one picture that will sit in my camera for eight months because nobody actually goes to develop them. One picture!"
Jess sighed, "Fine! One picture and that's it! He moved his chair closer to Rory's. Without looking, Jess sat his hand on the table right on top of Rory's. It took a moment for both of them to realize that their hands were touching. Jess quickly lifted his hand up before giving an awkward, "Sorry."
Rory, who all the sudden felt just as awkward squeaked out, "It's okay." Lorelai snapped the picture and they both shuffled their chairs away from each other. Rory found herself staring at her hand. It felt all tingly, like it had fallen asleep. She concluded that it was a good tingle and even brushed over the tingly area with her other hand. She stopped suddenly realizing how idiotic she looked at that moment.
Rory glanced over at Jess and fortunately he had not seen her strange interaction. Why would she even get a tingly feeling over Jess's touch? Rory found a few answers floating around in her head but quickly dismissed them.
-Two hours Later, Markers Hall-
Lorelai looked over her cards and yelled, "Goldfish!" Luke grabbed a card from the pile. "Your turn Rory."
Rory turned to Jess, "Are you sure you don't want to play?"
Jess lifted his head from his book, "Can we play something with a higher maturity level then of a four year old?"
"Of course not!"
"Then I think I'm good with my book."
"Party pooper!"
"Be happy! You managed to get Luke to play."
Lorelai smirked, "And all it took was a threat to bruise his other ankle!"
Jess looked over at Rory, "Is something wrong with your hand?"
"What?"
"You keep touching it."
"I do?"
"Yeah."
Rory felt her cheeks change color, "I didn't even realize I was doing that. Sorry."
Jess laughed, "Its okay. Hey, I think it's your turn."
Rory nodded, "Yeah I think it is too." She turned back to her game of cards. Rory wondered if there was a nearby wall she could bang her head into. She would even settle for a paper bag to hide under.
A/N: I liked this chapter for some reason. Sorry if its a little short!I wanted to update you know? I also always find grammar mistakes after I post and feel too lazy to go back and change so I apologize! I looked this over a little better then the other chapters so I hope its okay. Reveiw time:
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