"Well, yeah. What are you smirking at? I was just saying-" He pulled me toward him and I stopped speaking, the air pushed out of my lungs.
"I was smirking at how you seem to know everything, and yet you haven't noticed me looking at you like that for weeks." He looked me in the eye for a single second more, and then he kissed me.
I saw stars.
Ch 2.
Softly, more gently than anybody, even I, could expect from Jess, he kissed me. I had never been kissed quite that way before. Slowly, my mind registered everything that was happening and I pulled him closer, took the kiss the tiniest bit deeper, then pulled away.
He looked across the street and backed a step away. I looked in the direction he had and saw Doose's Market, where Dean worked.
Jess took my hand and led me into the park, where I tripped over the merry-go-round and fell.
"It's really dark in here." I said, rubbing my knee.
"Yeah, I know, I like it, don't you? No one can see us in here."
I looked in the direction of his voice, slowly gaining my vision as my eyes adjusted. He was smiling again as he helped me up.
He grasped my hand and pulled me deeper, towards the swings, and we sat. He leaned in a little closer, as if he was about to kiss me again, and he paused.
"You do know we're defying every rule in the best friends manual? And I still have a boyfriend?" He smiled and nodded.
"I'll take the risk"
"You always have"
And he kissed me again.
The next morning
"Rory? Time to get up! You're gonna be late!" Mom yelled from downstairs.
"Okay!" I got up and went downstairs for breakfast, surprised to see Luke and Jess in the kitchen. "Um...hey..."I hugged Luke and stood awkwardly in front of Jess for a minute before sitting down to an omelet.
"What are you guys doing here?"
Luke tossed some keys to Jess. "It saves gas if you two ride to school together, and Jess has a car now, so he has agreed to drive you. Problem?" He said at the shocked look on my face.
"No, i just...didn't know Jess could drive." I looked at him and smirked. "Payed attention for once in your life?"
He laughed. "Do you want a ride or not?" He looked at me, and I knew he was thinking of the night before.
"Yeah, I guess that could work. Saves gas, right Mom?"
"Definately, and since you and Jess are kind of close now"
"The best of friends."
"Then you should go ahead and ride with him." She looked at me, then looked at Jess, who I looked at at the same moment. He was looking at me. She looked back at me and I looked at her. She smirked.
"So, Prom is coming up." She looked meaningfully at me. "You going to go with Dean?"
"Um...yeah, he asked me last night..." I looked down at my omelet, which was getting cold. I poked at it.
Unless I break up with him...