Hey, guys. Sorry for the lack of updates recently, but I've had a lot on my plate. So, I've decided that today you will get more than one update, how many, I have absolutely no clue. It kind of depends on how fast I can type and if I have an internet connection all day. Please enjoy.

The next day Rory heard a knock on her hotel room door. She hadn't gotten a call from Jess yet, so it couldn't be him. Her curiosity got the best of her in the end and she opened the door. To her surprise, it actually was Jess.

She threw her arms around his neck and hugged him like she'd never hugged him before. She did all this while exclaiming, "Jess!!! I didn't think you'd show up this early, and especially without a phone call. Let me get dressed and we can leave."

"Okay. Do whatever you need to. I'll still be here when you're done. I promise."

With that she grabbed some clothes out of her suitcase and went into the bathroom to take a shower and get dressed. After she fixed her hair and put on some makeup she walked out of the tiny bathroom and found Jess sitting on the bed watching TV.

When he heard her come out of the bathroom he looked up. "Wow. You look absolutely beautiful."

"Thanks, but it's only jeans and a blouse."

"I don't care, you still look good," he said, making Rory blush.

When Jess said this there was a momentary pause as what he said sunk in.

"So, shall we go?" Rory asked him.

"Yes, let's get going. Although I have the entire afternoon off so we could just hang out and not just do lunch."

"Whatever you want to do is fine with me."

They walked out the hotel room and into an elevator. They didn't say a word to each other the entire way down to the lobby. Finally they were in the lobby and didn't feel like they were locked in a private room with a million opportunities for intimate moments to happen.

Jess led the way to a little diner that he had discovered his first week in Phily. It reminded Rory of Luke's back home. This made her miss her mom even more than she had the morning before after she hung up.

Jess was the first one to speak, Rory was glad for this because she didn't really know how to start this conversation.

"So, how are things going for you and the blond guy, Logan I think was his name?"

"Yeah, that was his name. Things between he and I are…… nonexistent right now."

"What happened to make that relationship stop?"

"He asked me to marry him."

"I thought you were happy with him."

"At the time, I was. But, when he asked me to marry him, it took me almost a week to come up with my answer. It should have been that when he asked me I should have said yes automatically to him if I really truly did love him. I took so long to answer him that at my graduation he actually gave me an ultimatum. He said it was all or nothing at the time. I wasn't ready to get married just yet. I had just been offered this job and Logan was going to be in California as far as I can remember."

"What do you mean, as far as you can remember?"

"When he gave me that ultimatum, I knew my answer was no. As soon as I said no to him, I made so much effort to forget him, that includes his plans after my graduation."

"OK. I won't ask you anything else pertaining to him if you don't want to talk about it."

"Thanks, I would really appreciate that."

They sat in silence for a while. Neither knowing what to say.

Finally Rory spoke, "So, have you talked to Luke recently?"

"No, I haven't really had a reason to call and obviously he doesn't either or he's just too busy, which I can't imagine that he would ever be too busy to pick up the phone and call his one and only nefew."

"You might want to call him pretty soon if you don't hear from him in the next twenty-four hours because he's got some pretty big news."

"You know something don't you?"

"I talked to my mom yesterday and she was practically jumping up and down from all the excitement."

"I can't possibly think of anything that would have your mom going nutso but have something to do with Luke at the same time."

"Okay, I can't keep this secret from you because well, you're going to eventually be my step cousin."

Rory let that statement sink in for a few seconds before saying, "Jess, are you okay?"

"I just never thought that Luke would ever actually take me seriously."

"What are you talking about?"

"When I lived with him back when I was seventeen, I would always tease him about having a crush on Lorelai."

"Wow, I never thought that you would take your uncle's feelings into consideration when you would be so sarcastic."

"Maybe I was actually being serious but didn't want anybody to know."

"Okay, now I'm lost in our own conversation. For an author you sure can't keep a straight train of thought."

"I do better when I have pen and paper or my laptop."

"Does it bother you any that you've been in love with your future cousin for like seven years now?" Rory blurted out. She instantly regretted even opening her mouth to speak at all. She knew this was a sensitive subject. She didn't even like bringing it up with her mom.

"Rory, like I said last time we saw each other, it's what it is. It's in the past and you can't change the past."

"I guess you're right." She was surprised that he had seemed to accept this so easily. "If you could, would you ever go back and change anything?"

"I would like to think I would, but in hindsight, everything that I did in the past led me to where I am now. I would like to think that the one thing that I would ever change is the fact that I ever went to California to track my father down. If I hadn't done that, maybe we would have had a chance."

"Do you honestly believe that?"

"Why shouldn't I?"

"Do you ever think that if you had stayed that we would have made it? I mean, sure things were going good, but you were flunking out of high school and I was going to Yale. I always end up thinking that even if you hadn't left, then I would have ended up with somebody at Yale. That we would have broken up because I was embarrassed to have a high school drop out for a boyfriend. I always cared too much what other people thought."

"Maybe you're right. I never really thought about it like that. I mean, look at where we both are now. You're actually a journalist, granted you're not an overseas corespondant, but you're following the next possible president of the united states around the country until he either wins, loses, or you get tired and go back to Stars Hollow. And I'm a published author working in the publishing house that publishes my own books. I guess we would have ended eventually. I just never wanted to think of that possibility."

"I have absolutely no regrets. I wouldn't even change the fact that I started dating Logan and didn't break up with Dean sooner."

Jess decided to change the subject, "So, your mom and Luke? What's going on there?"

"Oh, well the other night apparently Luke proposed to my mom. Guess what she said."

"I'm going to go with yes."

"Exactly. Then she called me at like eight a.m. yesterday and asked m e to be her maid of honor, so of course I'll have to find a date."

"So, have they set a wedding date yet?"

"I didn't think to ask. I'm sure that she'll call sometime today and let me know and I will pass that on to you."

Just as she said this both their phones started to ring.