Hello it's me! Yay updates. Spring break so I can update some stuff yay! Soo….here you go.

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Rory stood in front of the mirror in her bedroom; she surveyed herself in the mirror. She was wearing the long blue silk dress she wore at Logan's parents' anniversary party, the one that had silk straps along the back. She didn't bother with her hair, she just pinned it halfway up, and messed with it until it looked fine to her. She had talked to jess earlier on the phone he wouldn't tell her much, only he needed her and to wear a nice dress and be ready by 6:30, it was 6:24.

As she was walking out of the bedroom she switched off the light, when the buzzer went off. She pulled up her skirt and trotted towards the intercom, pressed down the button and spoke "come up" she turned to look at herself in the she suddenly realized what she was missing. She shuffled into the dark bedroom when there was a knock on the door "come in" she yelled from the room. She went to the dresser were her small jewelry box was, she pulled up the black velvet lid and there among her bracelet's and earrings were the two necklaces; laying right next to each other , competing for its own space in the box. Without thinking she quickly grabbed one and clipped it on. She entered the room and there was jess standing by the door in what looked like the same tux he wore at the wedding, his collar hung out and an untied bow tie hung around his neck.

"Do I look ok?" she said while struggling into her shoes.

"Yeah perfect" he opened the door "ready?"

"Yeah"

As he walked out he said over his shoulder "I like your necklace" she stopped confused, she shuffled backwards to look in the mirror and she realized she was wearing the one jess had given her. A weird vibe went over her but she shook it off, quickly grabbed her coat and bag and closed the door.

She quickly entered his car and they drove off. "Could you please tell me what this is about?"

"Alright, see I have a small job on the side, free lance nothing special."

"Yeah but why are we dressed like this"

"You'll see." They drove silently for a few minutes and after a 20 minutes they pulled up to a hotel, there were limos everywhere, hummers to stretchers, and various young people in formal wear.

"Where are we?" she asked looking about the window at the young happy couples laughing taking pictures.

"I told you you'll see" he said putting the car in park. He got out and went to his trunk. As she got out she saw him pull out two black bags and a tripod. She followed him towards the entrance, they weaved through hundreds of young people and they cam to a desk; he reached into his pocket and flashed what looked like a press badge. She followed him once more until they came to what was labeled "the gold room" they stopped short in front of the sign. "Wait I don't get it" She looked at him setting all his stuff down in a corner he began rummaging through one of his bags. "What all this for?"

"I work for a newspaper" he explained simplywhile taking the lens cap off of a camera, he stood up as he hung it around his neck "I'm a photographer"

She looked around and began to notice other photographers and interviewers passing through the doors. "See the reason is this school is fairly new and they make a big deal about everything, the opening, the renovations and this" he pulled out a white card on a lanyard and tossed it to her, "This is why I'm here"

"but why am I here?"

"That's were you come in" she realized it was a press badge. "When they assigned this to me I originally had a partner, but she couldn't be here, so I said that I knew someone who would do a way better job and that id take care of it" she gave him a look, she was still a little confused, he must have seen that on her because he gently motioned her towards the door he opened it a little and motioned her too look. She peaked out and she saw hundreds of high school students dancing and talking and laughing, there was a DJ and a refreshment table. He leaned over her and whispered to her "and this is why you're here"

She backed up and looked at him "Are you taking me to the prom?"

"In a way" he said and reached into one of the bags and took out a note pad and a pen

"What do you say?" she looked down at him and at the press badge in her hand and nodded happily. She hung the lanyard around her neck eagerly and grabbed the note pad but he stopped her "wait I forgot something" she turned around and saw he was holding a plastic box containing a white corsage. She switched the pad under her right arm and let him slip the corsage onto her opposite wrist. They nodded at each other in approval and followed each other into the banquet hall.

For the rest of the night, she interviewed students, chaperones, couples, groups of friends. And surprisingly she was having fun. When she was finished she found a chair in a corner and just watched the festivities. She began to think back to the dance at Chilton with dean. Then she began to think about her own prom and how it would have went. She looked down and fingered the white petals of the rose that, after tonight, still looked as fresh as it probably had when it was picked. As she did this she noticed she wasn't wearing her ring. She began to panic, her heart felt like it nearly stopped. She looked around on the floor around her then began to search frantically in her bag; she stopped and tried to calm down. She closed her eyes and tried to remember when she last had it.

She wore it when she was on the phone; she took it off before she got in the shower. Se put it back on when she got dressed. As she went through her mental notes jess came up to her "hey what's wrong"

She began searching through her purse again "my ring I can't find it" she said begging to panic even more.

"Ok, its gotta be here somewhere" he looked around "here well split up ill look ever here and you retrace your steps" she got up and practically went to every spot she had been that night. The whole time she kept muttering to herself how stupid she was. After at least a half hour of failed searching she gave up. She sank into a chair and put a hand to her face. How could she lose her ring? She knew it was too big; she was so stupid how she could be so stupid?

Right as Rory was on the verge of tears there was something quickly slipped onto her finger. She quickly pulled her hand away from her face and she saw her ring on her finger. She stared at it confused and a little weirded out she stared at it once more then looked up and there was jess standing over her. "Found it" he said simply.

"Where?" she said almost amazed.

"A chaperone had it, one of the kids found it on the floor, your lucky they didn't keep it." She didn't reply for a long second, she just stared at him, and then almost lightening quickly she practically jumped and wrapped her arms around him.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you" she repeated over and over. He didn't say anything though, he couldn't. She suddenly pulled back once she realized what she had done, nothing bad it was only a hug but it was still a little awkward.

It was weird that she had hugged him. They hadn't really touched in almost forever it seemed. In the back of his mind half of him never wanted her to let go. If he did she might disappear, it reminded him of a dream he'd once had, she was there and in a second she was gone. 'Stop' he cursed himself he was being stupid 'stop acting like a girl' he told himself.

"Hey lets get out of here, its late ill take you home" he said after an awkward silence.

"Alright" she said quietly. When they reached the car she stopped. "Wait lets do something it's not that late."

"Ok what do you want to do?" he asked.

"I don't care"

They ended up going to see a movie. Some dumb love story that had come out that year and instead of watching it they spent the whole time commenting and making fun of the people in the movie ads well as people in the theater telling them to be quiet. On the way home they mostly joked and commented about the movie still. They were still laughing when he walked her to her door. "I mean seriously all those "romantic stories" are the same, boy meets girl, boy loses girl…" he trailed off trying to be serious

"Boy find girl again but girl is engaged or dieing" she added laughing

"Then boy and girl meet up then they make out in the rain" he added fighting laughter, they both got quiet

"Then one dies" the both stood quietly then broke out laughing even harder

"That's what I said I'm all "oh now one is going to say they are dieing…and he did"

"Then the guy behind us is all 'shhhhhh your ruing it'" she imitated a mans voice while giggling

"And I think he was the only guy in there" jess said talking through hysteria. They laughed together. It was nice Rory thought to herself she hadn't laughed this much in along time. She actually hadn't gone out like this in a long time. They reached her door and she pulled out her keys "that was fun" she said trying her hardest to calm down "oh thanks again for finding it"

He waved his hand "don't mention it" he began to walk back to his car

"So maybe we can get together again?"

"Sounds good" was all he said as he disappeared around the corner. She smiled to herself as she shuffled up the stairs to the apartment. She was still laughing to herself as she opened the door, and when she was slipping off her coat the phone rang. She quickly kicked off her shoes and dove onto the couch "hello" she said breathlessly from laughing and having to run to the phone.

"Ace"

"Oh hey"

"You sound tired did you just get home?"

"Uh yeah"

"Oh I tried calling your phone but you didn't answer"

"Oh sorry. I went out with a…friend"

"Oh its nothing, I'm glad you're having fun without me" he pretended to sound hurt.

"Oh stop you baby" she said playfully

"So did you wear your new necklace?"

"Uh" she fingered the blue pendant around her neck "yeah I'm wearing a new necklace"

"That's nice I bet it looks nice, well I gotta go ok, just called to see what you were doing and to say good night"

"Ok"

"Good night"

"good night" she hung up the phone, she felt slightly guilty, its not like she lied to him he asked her questions and she simply answered then, he didn't ask for specifics, she told herself, as she got she got up from the couch and shuffled to bed.

Ok there ya go. I'm so happy I made it longer yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy woooooooo go me (does a little happy dance) so tell me what you think k. R&R