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Rory was sitting on a kitchen stool doing her homework when Lorelai appeared "hey – why are you in here studying?"
"The boys are doing boy things so this is the emptiest place that I can't hear the Xbox, there's enough space and I'm comfortable."
"So the boys are playing Xbox?"
"mmm. Michael's in there with them. Did you know he was coming home?"
"He mentioned it but didn't set it in stone."
Rory nodded and kept writing but Lorelai pressed on "so you and Jess huh?"
Rory almost dropped her pen. "I don't know what …what?"
Lorelai smirked "well let's start with the basics. Hrmm…has he asked you out."
Rory made a quiet chocking noise "why would he do that."
Lorelai made a 'well duh' face "well because the two of you have the hots for each other."
"What?"
"The hots – you know a thang. An interest. A fancy. A desire. An attraction. You are keen on him and he is dreaming about you. ….so is that a no on him asking you out?"
"Yes that's a no."
"So have you kissed?"
It took Rory a moment or two before she mumbled a no. but the silence was long enough to have Lorelai squealing and jumping up and down and have Rory embarrassed.
"oh my God mum!"
"And his living here or how much longer? Think about all the moments that could happen. Meeting out by the fridge in the middle of the night in your little intsy bitsy pajamas. Walking in on each other half naked – better not me fully naked or ill have something to say about it. Flirting over dishes. Longing looks and footsie over diner. …" after slowly trialing off with the many possible moments between the two she proclaimed "oh the possibilities!" before kissing her daughter on the head telling her to take a break and pouring herself a coffee Lorelai wandered back out of the room and greeted their older son Mike.
Rory slumped onto the couch between the boys a half hour later and took a sip of Mikes drink.
Jess looked over at Rory once the two blondes had left the room, controller still in hand "verse me?"
Rory looked up from the magazine she had been flicking through "oh no it's …fine."
"No come on" he sad holding a second controller in front of her
She chuckled slightly and raised an eyebrow "no seriously I'm fine…here with my Cosmo….you carry on."
"Oh come on. You don't have to beat me or anything. Just play. It's not like it'll drain your brain in the first five minutes. That takes years"
She smiled slightly and scooted closer to the centre of the couch before taking the controller off of him.
After a half hour Jess put down the controller and leant back in the couch stretching his arms.
Rory smiled and turned in her seat crossing her legs so that she was facing Jess. "So I beat you huh?"
"So you've played before huh?"
Rory let out a laugh "did you think I could grow up in this house and not? I mean I know I'm the wall flower with a book to most people but seriously I grew up with guys there was no way I could survive without knowing a guy trait. Now while I can't play…well any sport I can do this."
"Huh."
"Mmm." She looked around looking for a distraction as she attempted to not think about their almost kiss; however, it didn't work well for her. As not long after she was returning his stare silently. Rory blushed and it her lip with a mantra of 'stop thinking about it. Stop thinking about him.' rolling through her head. However the mantra wasn't working either as they'd both begun to lean in. her blush became deeper and she tried to think of another distraction from staring at Jess with his deep eyes and perfect lips. Deep eyes and perfect lips – yep the not thinking about him was really doing her good. Well at least she wasn't thinking of him naked right? Oh god now she was thinking about him naked. Another distraction another distraction "soo…"
Jess quirked an eyebrow and his breath tickled the side of her face. "Mmm?"
"humm." And with that his lips were on hers. And his deep eyes were watching her. And her mantra was speedily replaced with 'oh my God. We're kissing. Oh my God.'
However as her mouth parted and his hand came to her cheek, and hers to his hair her mantra disappeared altogether without her knowledge.
When air became necessary they separated but stayed close enough that his breath continued to tickle the side of her face and his hand stayed on her cheek, rubbing gently. His other one came to brush the hair out of his face and she began to blush again, chewing her lip slightly and becoming even redder once she heard the noise of protest that was momentarily caught in his throat.
"Soo?" she tried again
"Mmm?" was again the only response she got
Rolling her eyes she questioned "are we just going to continue repeating this conversation all night?"
Again his eyebrow raised and he rubbed her cheek lightly "you have a problem with repeat performances?"
Her eyes darted to his lips and she begun to respond "you know what? Now that I consider it there's really nothing wrong with-" stopping short as his lips reconnected with hers.
They'd pulled back and were sitting there silently as Jess rubbed her hand until Tristan walked in and sat the other side of Jess obliviously "ok I'm done with Mike – I'm ready to beat your ass now." Jess let go or Rory's hand but stayed in close proximity as he picked up his controller and made a smart ass comment to Tristan. He turned Rory's way to pick up the controller that shed dropped while they were kissing and paused to wink at her. Shed begun biting her lip and her could tell she was thinking about it. He quietly brushed some hair out of hr face before adding a quiet "we good?"
She smiled slightly and brushed some more hair out of her face "brilliant"
He nodded at the assurance and handed her controller to Tristan as she picked up her Cosmo and lent into Jess' side where she stayed until tea. Later that night she was lying on the couch reading when Mike and Tristan walked in. "want to come with us?"
"No thanks?"
"Oh come on. Little sis." Mike encouraged jokingly "my treat."
"But I'm reading."
"We're all going – why don't you spend some time goofing off with us?"
"nah. I don't really feel like watching movies. You guys go. I'll stay here. Well go out to lunch tomorrow and goof off – I promise."
"Are you wallowing or something?"
"I just don't feel like going."
Both boys nodded and sat on the coffee table in front of her as Tristan asked "what happened?"
"Nothing. Why do you assume nothing happened?"
"Because you guys were weird before. So what happened? You tell him you liked him? You kissed? He asked you out? What?"
She rolled her eyes and looked up from her book "not that it has anything to do with me wanting to stay home but yes we have kissed why?
"And what you freaked? Thanked him? Apologized? Ran? Come on Rory you've had moronic moments before? Did he say something stupid? You can tell us?" mike pushed.
"I didn't run. Nothing."
"Nothing as in it was an accident? Nothing as in you froze or nothing happened once you kissed?"
She sighed and stuck a finger in her book resting it on her chest "we kissed. We attempted conversation. We kissed again. We smiled. Tristan walked in the room. We kept smiling and sitting there. There was no running. Not stupid irrelevant greetings. Then we had tea. And now I'm reading. Anything else?"
"So there's really nothing wrong?" Tristan asked disbelieving
"Oh my God! Nothings wrong. Go to the movies. Have fun! I'll see you tomorrow."
There parents had gone out long ago so once the others had gone out to a movie Rory was left by herself. After finishing a chapter she pulled herself off of the couch and had a shower. A half hour later, with damp hair and pajamas on she was sitting on the couch again, the pixies playing in the background and a book in hand. However as time wore on she became aware that she wasn't really the only one in the house as she could hear noises coming from the kitchen. Holding her book tight she walked through the house to find Jess "I thought you went to the movies?" she asked taking him by surprise and causing him to turn around and face her. He shook his head and indicated to one of the stools before questioning "wasn't really in the mood. I thought I was the only one here though?"
"Same."
"Want some food?"
She nodded slightly and put her book down as she got her self comfortable
"Burger ok?"
"When would it not be." She replied jokingly.
He smiled slightly and pulled out a fry pan as she dug through the fridge before exclaiming "oh mum brought pie!"
He stopped adjusting the flame "you still want a burger?"
She scoffed "of course I still want a burger. Who do you think I am?" once shed put the pie on the kitchen bench and pulled out the ice cream flicking on the radio. My-My Kind of Girl was playing after bobbing to the beat for awhile and eating a few scoops of ice cream she turned to Jess "have you read please kill me?"
"Yeah. You?"
She nodded silently as she ate some more.
"So what did you think?"
"I think the harshness of it is great. I mean you can actually visualize Iggy as this broken down addict, you can see Patty Smith as Nico with poetry. It's all there for you in vivid colors daring you to call it overdone."
Jess nodded a slight smile playing on his lips "although you can kind of tell Patty Smith was a whore and Iggy was on some pretty harsh and varied stuff with out the book. I mean the deaf guy with his back to them can tell Iggy was fucked over."
She laughed slightly in agreement. "Although I did think that there was a bit to much about Lou Reeds sex life in the first chapter or so but…"
"Either that or Lou Reed had a bit to much of a sex life." He contributed as he picked up the other fork and took a bite of the pie.
She laughed again and nodded her head "that's probably a little more accurate."
They continued on oblivious to their surroundings or the time until Lorelai bounced through the door. She grinned at Rory "huh. I guess it happened quicker that I thought it would."
She paused in confusing until her mother continued in a breathy girly voice "oh it's just so hot and I'm just so parched – I guess ill go down stairs and get a drink in my itsy bitsy pajamas. But it won't matter because no one else is home or anything." She paused to bring a hand to her mouth in shock "oh what's this? Why Jess I didn't know you were up. Fancy us meeting like this. Me in my little pajamas and you looking all kissable down by the fridge at one in the morning."
She was cut off by Lorelai "MUM!"
Lorelai giggled and returned to her normal voice "talk in the morning. Your dad and I are going to bed." She raised an eyebrow "have a good night."
Rory blushed and looked down, however this made the slight pink on her cheeks become a deeper red as she realized that she was in fact in itsy bitsy pajamas. She had sat here in itsy bitsy pajamas for hours. She had sat in front of Jess oblivious to her itsy bitsy pajamas for hours now, talking normally, as though she weren't in said pajamas, laughing as though she wasn't in said pajamas. She thought about kissing him while in said pajamas in front of him. Biting her lip she looked back up to his enquiring eyes. And then glanced at the clock. It was in fact one. She slipped off her stool and tried to subtlety pull her little black bottoms down a little further, as she said good night. Jess smirked slightly while she hadn't realized she was sitting in front of him in a clash top and little shorts he most certainly had. And as she turned to leave but hesitated looking back he also realized that it was a sight that he would not forget for quiet some time.
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