A/N Trust me I'm a major Dean fan, far before Jess, but I had to throw him in, let me know if you're mad…
Rory had to get back to classes, on the 3rd, so the next morning she said goodbye to Dean and drove back to Yale. The wedding was under 2 weeks away and Rory was growing very excited. Lorelai and Luke had waited a long time for this, and they both deserved to be happily married together.
The only thing that Rory was a little nervous about was seeing Jess. She loved Dean, and things were going really well, but Jess had a reputation for ruining things. Rory just tried to push that thought aside and went on to her classes, working hard during her last semester of college. The next weekend, she went home to help with last minute wedding details, and of course to calm down her mother, who was freaking out.
She went back to Yale, and planned to miss school Friday to prepare for the wedding with her mom. Thursday afternoon, when she was in her dorm packing for the weekend the phone rang. It wasn't Dean, or Lorelai, Luke or Marty, in fact it was someone she least expected.
"Hello." Rory picked up the phone.
"Hey." A deep voice answered her.
There was silence for a brief moment. "Jess?" She questioned.
"Yeah." He said.
"Why did you-" Rory was cut off.
"Luke told me. Luke warned me. About you and Dean."
"Oh." She replied not knowing what was going to come next.
"I love you." He took a deep breath. "But I don't want to screw things up. This is going to sound very unlike me, but even though I feel you should be with me I've realized you want to be with him. You're happy around him. Dean and I don't always- well never- see eye to eye on things, but he cares about you. He can be there for you. Stability is something that you need. It is one thing that I can't supply you with." A long silence fell. "I won't go to the wedding, if that's what you want. I want to, but well it's your choice."
Rory smiled. For a moment she was relieved, but then she thought. Her mom was right. She should be able to see Jess. Hearing Jess' voice, was nice, she had missed him. But she had confidence that she loved Dean enough, that she could see him and not be tempted. "No." She said. "You should come. It means a lot to Luke." Once again there was silence. "And it's always nice to see a friend."
"Bye." Jess said and he hung up the phone.
Rory wasn't so naïve and she was still worried. Jess was pretty unpredictable, did he really mean what he said? Was he really not going to mess this up? Rory hoped so, but she went back to worrying the entire drive into Stars Hollow. Before she went over to Lorelai's, she stopped by Dean's place. Seeing him, reassured her and she told him about the call. She didn't want to start off like old times, with Jess being nothing but a mystery.