Dean stepped inside the shop, "Hey thanks Taylor, this means a lot to me" "No problem, anything to help you and Rory" Taylor replied as Dean watched Rory walk down the street. Once Rory was out of sight Dean left the market and walked across the street to the candle store. He picked out several, then left making his way to the flower shop.
Rory arrived home a few minutes after leaving, wondering what Dean's plans were. She remembered that school was tomorrow and decided to get in some real studying this time.
Dean went back to his house and made sure everything was ready.
Rory grieved over having to see Tristan tomorrow at school, she hated how he called her Mary.
Dean hopped in his parents car and made his way to the Gilmore house.
Rory decided to change out of her 'Casual wear' into something nicer.
Dean parked the car and made his way up to the steps of Rory's home.
Rory answered the door, hair slightly curled, wearing a navy blue 'flowy skirt' as Lorelei might have called it, a matching tank top, and some similar blue sandals. "Wow Rory, you look amazing" Dean said commenting on how utterly amazing she looked, she look his breath away. "Thank you" she softly whispered. Dean took her hand and led her to the car, he opened the door for her and they drove off.
Dean's house wasn't far from Rory's and it took them merely five minutes to get there (A/N: Not a fact, just made up…). Dean kept looking over at Rory, who sat peacefully in the seat next to him. Once parked after the quick, and silent ride, Rory finally asked, "It doesn't look like anyone is home, where is everyone?" "Oh my parents are out, and Clara managed to do a 'Study night' with her friend Kim, like any studying will even cross their minds, I'm sure they will be up all night talking about all the 'hot guys' that they will see tomorrow" Rory laughed. She wondered why she never really did that.
They finally exited the vehicle. Dean led her to the door and she started a conversation. "Did you know that cats spend 70 percent of their day sleeping and 15 percent grooming?" "What do they do the other 15 percent of the time?" "I'm not sure, you know the neighbors, they spent about 10 minutes yesterday telling me 'little known facts' about cats, and not only house cats, domestic cats too, like the lion, tiger, leopard, and Jaguar all don't purr… isn't that strange?" "Yes extremely" Dean said sarcastically. "Oh and that the nose of a cat, is similar to a fingerprint of a human, there are none the same!" Dean laughed at her sudden amazement and poured them each a coke. "Oh and calico cats, they are almost ALWAYS female" Dean laughed again and handed her the coke; he leaned in and quickly kissed her on the cheek. She blushed, of course.
Dean grabbed her free hand and led her to the backyard, Rory continued on about cats, "Oh and you know that cats have five more vertebrae than humans ha-" Rory stopped, Dean looked over her face waiting for a reaction, Rory stood staring at what was before her, nearly a hundred candles were lit and set outside all around a table that had but a single rose sitting on a napkin. Rory turned her face towards his, amazement in her eyes, "Dean…" she said softly, "Rory don't worry about it, I figured since that time you cooked me dinner after our Donna Reed fight, that this would make up for it." "Oh Dean…" she said speechless, she was glad she had dressed up. "Dean, this is more than I could ever ask for, this is ten times better than what I did for you, you didn't have to do all of this!" "but I wanted to" Dean said squeezing her hand. Rory dropped her hand to her side and settled herself at the place with the rose. Dean moved to the seat next to her and smiled. "What?" she asked. "Nothing." "Well, so what exactly IS all of this" "Well, considering I can't cook a thing, this is more of a 'Chatting area' but if you get hungry we can always order Chinese or Pizza or something, I figured we could talk under the stars…" Rory looked up, surprised at the extraordinary amount of stars in the sky, "I've never seen that many in my life!" "Yeah, I checked it on the internet, clear skies, cool weather, this is the perfect night" Dean wished he hadn't said that last part, it seemed too, hinting at sex, which was not what he intended, he just wanted to spend a night alone with Rory, maybe make out a bit, but sex was definitely not on his agenda.
She looked down, he knew that was too sex related. "Whoa didn't mean that," he said trying to get her out of her shy mode. "I didn't… I mean… I never thought…" "It's okay, once the words came out of my mouth I knew it sounded a little more than what I anticipated" Dean couldn't get over the fact that if they were to have sex, that there was a huge possibility that he could be her first, and she wouldn't be his, then again, this was the outcome of dating a younger girl, although they hadn't discussed this matter yet, he figured Rory would bring it up when it was important. "What are you thinking?" Rory said after several moments of silence. "About how beautiful you are." "No I mean really" "Nothing, its not important" "You aren't having dirty day dreams now are you?" she said raising an eyebrow. "No, no, of course not… just thinking" "About what!?" she asked impatiently. "It's just, well, I think its time that I know… or if you'd tell me, err…" "Are you asking if I'm a virgin?" she said with a straight face, practically reading his mind. "Well, yes, but for informational purposes only" "Of course, and yes, I am, are you? Just for informational purposes only of course" she joked. He laughed, "If you want me to be honest, no I'm not". Her face didn't seem to change emotion, almost as if she expected that answer. "But it was foolish of me and it's not like you know her" "Did you love her?" she asked, obviously interested in this subject (A/N: not sex as the subject, the girl!!) "I thought I did," Dean said gazing up at the stars. "Oh"
Out of nowhere Rory managed to scoot her chair over, then lean into the first kiss of the night. He brought one hand up to her cheek and placed the other on the small of her back, he pulled her closer. Rory placed her hands on his shoulders and deepened the kiss. Surprisingly, Dean was the one who broke it, just as it was getting passionate. "Rory, I don't know if I can do this." "Huh?" she said hurt, "No I mean not us, I just, I think things are going a little fast, Rory you're sixteen, there are things that you may not be ready for…" "Oh you mean sex right? Am I too young and naïve too handle something like that… is that what you are saying Dean, because if it is than just say it!" she said getting angry, she hated when people let things like age get in the way of things, her body may be sixteen years old, but she was much more mature than that, she decided to say just that, "My body may be sixteen years old, Dean, but I am much more mature than that" she said standing up. "Rory, don't do this, I don't mean that, and yes you are much more mature for your age but Rory, if you want the truth, I think you're just too damn shy to handle it" She blinked back the tears and said, "Who said I wanted to have sex with you in the first place?" Rory said more in a statement way, then stormed out of his house and began walking home, leaving Dean confused and upset. And Rory was left vulnerable.