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Summary: Jess shows up at Richard and Emily's vow renewal. Luke has something to say about it. Rory is less than happy. Lorelai has to deal with Christopher. And the day is definitely not everything Emily hoped it would be.

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A/N: Just for the sake of my sanity, lets say Rory already talked to Chris about the first time Lorelai kissed him, but Lorelai doesn't know yet that he's there.

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Lorelai ran outside just in time to see the tail lights of the jeep disappear from view. "Shit!" She stomped her foot and the heel broke off her shoe, causing her to lose her balance and fall over on the lawn. "God damn it!" She yelled as she picked up her heel. She stood up and took her shoes off "Could this day get any worse?" She spun around when she heard some one chuckling. "Apparently it can."

"That was graceful." Jess pushed himself off the wall he was leaning on.

"I don't have time for this, Jess." She started to walk back inside, but stopped at Jess's voice.

"Rory left."

"What?"

"She just left with Luke."

"Wonderful. Could today suck slightly more." She said more to herself than him.

"Well, actually…"

"Shut up. Do you have a car?"

"Yea, why-"

"Good. You're driving me back to Stars Hollow. Let's go."

"Am I?"

"Jess. Please."

He nodded. "Alright. C'mon."

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Rory leaned her head against the glass of her window and sighed. Why did seeing Jess suddenly make her feel guilty about what happened with Logan. Sure, she knew it shouldn't have happened at her grandparents' vow renewal, but she hadn't regretted it until she ran into her ex-boyfriend. Why did he always have to walk back into her life when she was finally getting it together? She closed her eyes and tried to will the look on Jess's face when she ran into him to disappear from her mind.

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Luke looked over at Rory when he heard her sigh, and shook his head. He watched her for a minute, before breaking the silence. "Rory."

She turned to look at him. "Yea?"

"You alright?"

"What? Oh, yea. I'm great." She lied. "Peachy."

"No, you aren't. You don't use words like 'peachy' when you're okay."

"Sure I do. I use fruit words all the time. Like…umm…orange."

"Rory."

"I don't know. I just…After the thing with Logan-"

"Logan?"

"The guy in the room."

"Oh."

"Yea. So after we left the dressing room, Logan took off and after I came out of the bathroom, I ran into Jess."

Luke shook his head. "I thought he left."

Rory's jaw dropped. "You…you knew he was there?"

"I'm sorry, Rory. I told him to leave and I thought he did. I didn't think you'd see him."

She gave him a fake smile. "It's okay. It's not your fault. It's just…every time he shows up I get-"

"Rory." He interrupted her. "You don't have to…"

She nodded and put her head back on the window.

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"So, ah, why were you at my parents' wedding?"

Jess looked over at Lorelai. "Well, you know how I love weddings." He smirked.

Lorelai shook her head. "Luke saw you didn't he? That's why he ran off."

Jess pulled the car into a plaza and turned off the engine. "Lorelai…"

She looked at him questioningly. "Jess?"

"I think you need to know something."

"Okay. And what is that?"

"Luke is a coward. Alright? The guy has been in love with you for years, and he's too much of a coward to tell you but I think you should know because if there is a chance that you feel the same way then Luke deserves to be happy. Coward or not, he should have his chance to be happy."

"Wow." She nodded. "I did not know you knew that many words."

"Yea…wait, what?"

"C'mon kid." She got out of the car and started walking to the diner in the plaza.

He grabbed the keys and chased after her. "Lorelai. What are you doing?"

In the minute it took him to get inside, she already got a table and a cup of coffee. He watched her take a sip of her drink, then slid into the booth, across from her. "What are we doing here?"

"I don't know about you, but I'm drinking this really awful coffee." She said, taking another sip.

"Lorelai…"

She put her cup down and leaned on the table. "Jess, Luke and I have been together since about a week after your mom's wedding."

Jess nodded slowly. "Huh. So my whole speech…"

"Unnecessary? Yea."

"Yea."

"So," She took another sip of her coffee. "What were you really doing at my parents' wedding…renewal…why were you there?" He answered with a pointed look in her direction. "Rory. Right." She almost felt bad for him when she thought about walking in on Rory and Logan. Almost. "You broke her heart."

"Well, it went both ways."

The waitress walked over, effectively cutting off Lorelai's response. "Hey, what can I get you guys?"

"Oh." Lorelai said. "Umm, just some more coffee for me. A lot more. You know what, do you have a vat?"

"Nothing for me." Jess said.

"What are you talking about?" Lorelai asked once the waitress was gone.

"Rory didn't tell you what happened at her dorm?"

She shook her head. "She told me that you showed up. She wouldn't say what happened."

"Well, it's not my place to tell you. If Rory didn't want you to know, then it's probably for good reason."

"Jess, do you really want to find out what happens when people withhold information from Lorelai Gilmore?"

"Nothing. It was my own fault. No way she was gonna trust me after what I did." He was now talking to himself. "I walked out. Just because I walked out on my whole life, it doesn't mean she could do it."

"You asked her to run away with you?" Her voice stopped his rambling.

He had no idea how she could figure that out from his random babbling, but from all the babbling she does he's not that surprised. "Yea."

"You really think either of you would have been happy?"

He put his head in his hands then looked up at Lorelai. "Why are you being civil to me?"

"Cause you gave me the Luke speech." She gave him a huge grin. "You love him."

He just glared at her.

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When Luke pulled up in front of the Gilmore house, he turned the engine off and looked over at Rory. She was facing away from him so he couldn't tell if she was awake of not. He hated to disturb her, but he couldn't let her sit in the car all night. "Rory."

She shifted a little and mumbled incoherently, but didn't wake up. Luke smiled a little as he walked to the passenger's side, lifted Rory's sleeping form into his arms, and carried her into the house.

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"Stop!" Lorelai yelled at Jess just as he was about to pass the diner.

He slammed on the brakes. "What?"

"I wanna go to Luke's."

He pulled in across the street from the diner. "There you go. Your coffee in exchange for my mental health."

"That's what happens when you associate with Gilmores." She got out of the car and started towards the diner, but stopped when she realized Jess wasn't following. "Well come on. I'm hungry."

Jess rolled down his window. "What?"

"I'm hungry. Luke's not here. So you need to cook for me."

Jess rolled his window back up and got out of the car. "We were just at a diner. Why didn't you eat there?"

She grabbed her key out of her purse and opened the door. "Because," She said, turning around to look at Jess. "Then I would have had to pay for it. And here I can get you to make it for free."

He walked inside and immediately went behind the counter to start the coffee maker. "You're in a pretty good mood for someone whose boyfriend just walked out on her."

"Yea. Hi. I have this really good idea where we don't talk about that. Thanks." She sat at the counter and put her coat on the stool next to her. "Pie please."

"Apple or cherry?" He grabbed a plate and a knife and looked at her expectantly.

"Or?"

"Right. What was I thinking?" He put a good sized piece of each on her plate and handed it to her, along with a fork. "Enjoy." When she just sat there he raised an eyebrow then realized what he forgot. "Coffee." He flipped the mug in front of Lorelai over and filled it to the brim. "Is that everything?"

She looked at her pie and coffee, then up at Jess. "Could you get me a pony?" She asked sweetly.

"Eat your pie."

She sighed dramatically. "Fine." She took a bite of the pie. "Be that way."

"How long is this gonna take? Because it's…" He looked at his watch. "Wow. One o'clock."

She grabbed his wrist. "Oh my God." She dropped his arm and looked up at him. "I'd say time sure flies when you're having fun, but…ya know. It's you." She shrugged. "You can head upstairs if your tired. I'm all set down here. Got my pie. Got a whole pot of coffee. I'm good."

He nodded and refilled her coffee. "Goodnight."

"Night Jess." Once he was upstairs she laid her head on the counter and sighed.

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Rory yawned as she rolled over to look at her bedside clock. 3:34. She climbed out of bed and looked curiously at the suit she had on, before she remembered falling asleep on the drive back with Luke. She quickly changed into her pajamas, then decided to go upstairs to check on her mother. She quietly opened the door and jumped a little when she saw Luke asleep at the kitchen table. She crouched down next to him, wondering how he could possibly be comfortable then shook her head and went back to her room, knowing that if Luke was asleep on the table then Lorelai wasn't home. After shutting her door, she pulled out the top drawer of her dresser and dumped all the books in there onto her bed. She then climbed back under her comforter and reached for one of the books. She opened to the first page and smiled at the tiny, cramped handwriting in the margins.

A/N: I have been off from school for the last few days so I had time to write, but I have to go back tomorrow. Therefore I probably won't update for a couple days. Sorry, but my education comes first. Casey