I am so, so, so, so sorry for the lack of an update. Like I am sorry times a hundred. It turns out that it is a lot harder for me to write during vacation. I go back to school on the 11th so updates should pick up around then.

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So...here is the chapter that you all have been waiting for. The Rory/Jess interaction. I hope that I did it justice. I decided to break up the dinner into two different chapters, so this is not the only chapter about the dinner.

Disclaimer: For the thousandth time, I DO NOT own Gilmore Girls.

Rory could not believe her luck. When she had met Danielle earlier in the day, she had really liked her. She seemed nice and they got along really well. The girl had mentioned her boyfriend briefly, but the subject was forgotten after her phone call with Ellie. Now, he was here and she was shocked.

"You have got to be kidding me," she said in disbelief, "You are her boyfriend?"

"Um...yeah," he answered nervously, obviously this encounter was a surprise to him as well.

"I can't believe this!" Rory exclaimed, "Out of all the men in the world, it just had to be you."

She started to stand up, but Logan grabbed on to her forearm. Rory turned to look at him and he raised his eyebrow at her. The two of them had a short, silent conversation. Logan had noticed that Rory's outbursts were attracting the attention of the other people in the restaurant.

"Rory..." he warned when she did not back down.

She sighed and took a couple deep breaths before sitting down again. The brunette looked up at her ex-boyfriend and his girlfriend. Jess looked extremely uncomfortable, while Danielle just looked downright confused.

"Well, are you two going to sit or are you guys just going to stand there?" Rory asked in defeat.

The couple seemed surprised for a moment and they took their seats hesitantly. The entire table was silent, except for the sounds of Stephanie and Finn who were stifling their laughter. They knew the entire history between Rory and Jess.

Dani had enough of the awkward silence, so she spoke up, "What in the world is going on here?"

Stephanie couldn't help herself, her giggles broke through and she could not stop.

"Why are you laughing?" Danielle asked helplessly.

"You really have no idea do you?" Stephanie said through her incessant giggles.

"Stephanie..." Rory groaned, embarrassed by her best friend's behavior.

Because nobody else was answering her questions, Danielle turned towards her boyfriend, "Jess, tell me exactly what is going on, right now."

Jess looked like a deer caught in the headlights," Um...well, me and Rory kind of...know each other. Like we really knew each other."

"What do you mean you know each other? I have known you for over a year and I have never seen nor heard of her."

"Okay, just calm down. People are starting to stare," Rory tried to keep Danielle from raising her voice any higher.

The other girl just looked lost, "Please, just tell me why Stephanie is laughing and why you look as if you are about to kill someone. I am starting to feel like an idiot, like there is something right in front me that I should be getting, but I don't."

Rory rolled her eyes, "Me and Jess used to date a long time ago."

"Yes, a long, long time ago," Jess assured his girlfriend.

"You guys used to date..." Danielle said slowly, "How is the even possible? The two of you come from two completely different worlds."

"We didn't used to. The two of us lived in good ol' Stars Hollow, Connecticut."

The brunette chuckled, "I guess I don't exactly seem like the small town girl type."

"No, not exactly."

"The truth is that I am way more of a small town girl than a city girl."

"Really? Because you look...rich. Not that that's a bad thing, but you know people don't usually associate being rich with small towns."

Danielle glanced around the table again.

Stephanie still had a giant grin on her face, the other unfamiliar faces were smiling also, and Jess was still looking extremely uncomfortable.

She heard Stephanie whisper, 'This is way better than a soap opera,' to the guy sitting next to her.

Before Rory could explain herself, the waiter came over to take their orders. Hoping to end this very awkward dinner as soon as possible, Danielle just ordered her favorite dish. As soon as the waiter was gone, she focused her attention back on Rory. By the look on her face, Dani knew that she was expecting a whole lot of questions.

"So, are you going to explain or what?"

"Well, it depends. Do you want the long version or the short and sweet version?"

"Let's go with the short and sweet version. I have a feeling that the long version is going to take up a lot of my time."

Rory sighed, "Both of my parents come from very wealthy families. My mom got pregnant with me when she was sixteen and refused to marry my dad. She hated feeling trapped and she was never one to follow the rules. Also, she hated the world that her parents loved and thrived in. So when she graduated high school, she took me and ran away to Stars Hollow. I grew up in a potting shed slash maid's quarters, while my mom worked as a maid for the local inn. Fast forward a couple years and she actually owns her own inn and I have graduated from Yale. Everything in between is just her working extremely hard to get me where I am today and, towards the end, us getting help from my grandparents, much to my mother's complete and utter disgust."

Dani sat there soaking in all of the information that her new friend had just revealed to her. What she still did not quite understand was how Jess fit in to the equation. She had conveniently skipped over anything regarding any boyfriends of hers.

It was not that she felt threatened, Rory seemed perfectly happy with her family and disgusted with Jess, but she just didn't understand the situation. Anybody who knew her knew that she hated being out of the loop.

Attempting to get more answers, Danielle focused on Jess, "So, you two dated. For how long?"

Rory scoffed, "Now that is the interesting part of the story. We had been dating for about nine months, then one day he is just gone. His uncle told my mom to tell me that he had gone to California to live with his estranged father after he flunked out of high school. I did not hear a word from him until almost a year later, when he showed up back in Stars Hollow for his mother's wedding."

"What?"

"Danielle..." Jess tried to diffuse the situation before she got mad at him for his past mistakes, "I was young and stupid and very angry. Don't get upset with me because of what I did in my past. I was a different person when I was younger."

Rory crossed her arms over her chest, "Yeah, don't ruin your relationship with him because of me. That was a long time ago and I got over it. There is no need for you to get all worked up about it."

During the conversation between the three people, the rest of the gang had stayed silent. The only exception being the occasional giggle or chuckle that escaped their lips. Now, Finn decided to speak up to ease some of the tension.

"So love, are you going to introduce us to your friends?" he directed the question at Rory.

She giggled at his oh-so-subtle attempt at changing the subject, "Okay Finn. You have heard of Jess and that is his girlfriend, Danielle."

"Hello love. Nice to meet you," he looked at Jess, "And mate, I have heard plenty about you."

Talking over Finn, Rory continued with the introductions.

"Danielle, Jess, the Australian is Finn. He is Shannon's boyfriend. The guy next to Stephanie is Colin, her husband," she gestured towards the guy sitting next to her, "And this is my husband, Logan."

Everybody said their hellos and then they were interrupted again by the waiter. He had brought out all of their food. Exhausted by the revealing conversation, the table of eight dug into their food. For a little while, the only sounds that could be heard were the sounds of everyone chewing. Eventually the conversation picked up again and they stayed far away from the topic that they were previously talking about, in order to keep the level of awkwardness down.

Jess watched as his girlfriend fit in so easily with his ex-girlfriend and her friends. He could not understand how she could. He guessed that it had something to do with her line of work. Photographing all of those fancy weddings, being around all of those rich people, must have rubbed off on her a little bit.

He never liked wealthy people. Most of them felt as if they were better than everyone else just because they had money. Jess had first-hand experience with it in the form of his dinner with Emily Gilmore. She had put on an act and pretended to be pleased by her granddaughter's choice of a boyfriend, but he saw right through it. Those types of people were the reason why he had decided to always just look out for himself and nobody else.

It scared him to see that Danielle was able to be amongst them so easily. The thoughts reminded him to harshly to his previously life. Jess knew that he could not control his girlfriend. As much as she clung to him, she was fiercely independent as well. He definitely could not tell her what to do or who to hang out with and a part of that worried him. Who knows what Rory would tell her about him and his past. All he knew was that the rest of the week was going to be very interesting, starting with the rest of the awkward dinner.

Did you guys like it? I wasn't crazy about it, but I felt that you guys were owed an update so I just went with it. This half of the dinner was mainly the explanation part, for Danielle's sake. The next chapter will be more of Rory and Jess. (Or Rory being really pissed off at him...). Again, this is a Rogan story, just in case any of you were confused.

If you have not been able to tell, I made Rory kind of bitter when it came to her past with Jess. I also said that she was over it, but obviously anyone would still feel hurt by it, right? In my opinion, I think she has every right to be, but that's just me. Tell me what you think...

Review? Please? It would make me happy and motivated and I would absolutely love to hear what you guys think! :)

If by chance you live in a part of the world where it is already 2010, then Happy New Year! I hope that you guys have a good one. For me it is 5:22 PM over here where I live. Oh, and I hope everyone had a happy holiday!