`*~ These Are Days ~*`

Author: Genevah

Rating: R

Pairing: Rory/Jess

Disclaimer: I claim to own nothing.

Summary: Tweaked 'Teach Me Tonight' to my own likings. *Warning. Insane amounts of fluff o'nutters in this story… please read with caution* Oh… and it's definitely a Literati, anything else would be uncivilized!

A/N: Hey there all you lovely, beautiful people who reviewed… thanks for hanging in there and here's to hoping you stay around for more!

`**~// Jess' Room — Sunday Morning \\~**`

Jess was fully covered with his blanket from head to toe, blocking any light from entering his happy fort. He slowly came to from his slumber, having had one of the best sleeps he'd ever had in his young life. He wanted to spend the rest of the day under his warm fort, but there was one thing missing that could make everything perfect… Rory. Cuddling with Rory under his blanket would make it complete. Jess slowly uncovered his head, his eyes adjusting to the morning rays. If anyone walked in on him at that very moment, they would have seen the content smile that had over-taken his face. He closed his eyes again remembering the events of last night

*SMACK*

Luke had quietly walked over to Jess' side of the room noticing the strange curve that had taken form on Jess' lips. Is he smiling? He took a closer look. He is smiling- sick little punk. Luke smacked him in the face with one of the pillows that had landed on the floor.

"What the-?" Jess cried out, furiously removing the pillow covering his face, wondering who the hell had the nerve to interrupt his thoughts.

"Get up. I need some help downstairs." Luke grunted and went downstairs to the diner.

Jess went back to the safe haven under his blanket and laid there for a few more minutes, trying to reclaim his previous mood.

Where was I?... Ah yes, kissing Rory Gilmore.

"Jess! I mean it. Get up!" Luke bellowed from the apartment door.

Damnit. Can't a guy have some quiet time to himself every once in a while? Geeze.

He gave up and threw the covers off of him. He looked at it another way—he might as well get up because Rory might be downstairs at this very moment eating breakfast. Jess actually felt butterflies in his stomach thinking about it. He jumped in the shower, dressed, spent a little extra time with his hair, and headed downstairs to the diner.

He emerged from behind the curtain, carefully scanning the diner for that certain girl, only to find that other girl… Shane. There was no way of avoiding her; she was sitting at the counter.

Huh. I seem to have forgotten about her.

Getting up from her stool she walked behind the counter to where Jess stood.

"Hey." She quickly said before she caught him off guard with one of her so-called mind blowing kisses. "What happened to you last night, I thought you were coming over?"

"Rory?" He heard Lorelai call out to her daughter as she walked out of the diner. She and Rory had just walked into the diner in time to witness the kiss.

Looking out the window, Jess saw Rory storming away from the diner.

Shit. He wanted to run after her. He will run after her.

"I'll be back." He hollered to Luke. He glanced at the blond before him and then walked past her not saying a word.

"Jess? Where're you going?"

"I'll be back in a minute, just wait here." Jess told Shane.

Lorelai took a seat at the counter in front of Luke.

"What was that all about?" Luke asked.

"Well my friend, a certain daughter of mine and a certain nephew of yours seem to have certainly gotten together."

"What?" Luke's eyes widened at the thought of Rory with Jess. He was smitten with the idea.

"Yep."

"Jess and Rory?"

"Uh-huh."

"Rory and Jess?"

"Yes. Put them in any order you want and they'll still be together."

"Oh my God… that's great." He was utterly astonished.

Lorelai nodded.

"Wow, I can't believe this. Rory with Jess." Luke genuinely smiled. "This is great." He brought himself down from his cloud and back to Lorelai. "Don't you think this is great?"

"Yeah, I think it's about time."

Luke turned to Shane sitting at the far end of the counter obviously out of earshot of hearing anything they had just said.

"Well what about her?" He said lowering his voice even though she couldn't hear them anyway.

"I'm pretty sure… no I'm positive she'll be out of the picture by the end of today."

"Oh. Poor girl."

They both shrugged.

`**~// Stars Hollow Town Square \\~**`

Jess saw Rory speed walking down the side walk and called her to make her stop.

"Rory!" He jogged to catch up to her. She was a speedy little thing.

She turned around. "Oh hey Jess." She gave him a fake smile. She thought she had stealthily walked out of the diner without being seen by him.

"I'm sorry." He said sincerely.

"For what?"

"Rory, I know you saw it."

"Oh um… right… it." She sighed.

"Believe me I had no idea she was going to kiss me like that."

"Oh no, it's okay." She lied of course.

"It's okay?" Jess was confused.

"I mean no it's not okay, but… I don't know… what do you want me to say? That I don't mind seeing you and Shane kissing. I just thought that… " She stared at the sidewalk.

"Rorrry." He sang and chuckled at the same time. "I totally forgot about Shane. I'm breaking it off with her today."

She furrowed her brows. "How could you forget about Shane?"

"How could you forget about Tristan?"

"Point taken." She looked back up at him and smiled. "Ya know, I've never been the other woman before."

"Well now you can add that to your list of accomplishments." He couldn't stand being around her that long and not have kissed her yet. He leaned in, but she held him back with her hands firmly planted on his chest.

"What do you think you're doing?" She giggled.

"What does it look like I'm doing?" He said flirtatiously and leaned in again, but again she held him back.

"Jess."

"Rory."

"It doesn't feel right." She toyed.

"What do you mean it doesn't feel right? It's your duty to kiss me. You are after all the other woman." He said slyly.

"Jess."

He chuckled. "What? You're driving me crazy."

"Good."

"You're mean." He gave her his best puppy dog eyes.

"So did you want to hang out tonight?" She asked shyly.

"Of course."

"Okay, well, do you still get off at six?"

"Yeah."

"If you want you could come over and we could figure out something to do tonight."

"Alright, I'm down for that."

"Just do what you have to do first…"

He knew exactly what she was implying. "Right, it's done." He assured her.

"Okay then… it's settled."

"Uh-huh." He grinned at her.

"I guess I'll see you later." She started to walk off, but Jess gently grabbed her hand, interlocking it with his. She turned around and fell right onto Jess' lips.

He kissed her gently while she begged every nerve in her body to help her pull away, although not exactly knowing why she would ever want to pull away. She brought her free hand up to his face and stroked his cheek, letting herself enjoy the kiss. He pulled her into him wrapping his free arm around her.

As soon as the kiss began it had ended.

"Hey tell my mom to bring me back a coffee and a strudel." She said as she broke out of the kiss, leaving Jess a bit unsatisfied.

"O Kay."

"Bye." She smiled and released herself from his grip and walked away from him. He stood and watched her walk a couple feet.

"Mean I tell ya!" He yelled to her.

`**~// Gilmore Home \\~**`

Rory knew she should review for her Lit test early since Jess was coming over later on that night. From past experience she expected him to stay for a while. She looked at the clock; it was eight thirty- too early to call Tristan. She needed to apologize for last night. She couldn't believe she had forgotten about him, but being with Jess made it seem like they were in their own little world… just the two of them.

Rory couldn't believe it… she and Jess were finally getting somewhere. Just yesterday they weren't even talking, but now they're together together.

She kissed him. She kissed him. She'd fantasized, even dreamed what it would be like to kiss him so many times before and the real thing certainly didn't compare to the thoughts she conjured up in her little head. His lips were surprisingly soft, maybe even softer than her own. His kiss was gentle and feeling, so unlike Dean's. Now that she thought about it, compared Dean's with Jess', Dean really wasn't that good a kisser. His kisses were more like plain smooches, kinda like how older people would kiss. But with Jess… she could literally feel how much he wanted her… how much he needed her.

So this is how it feels to kiss someone you're truly in lo-

The thought of love and Jess scared her. The love thing with Dean was a simple kind of love. She may have once felt it, but it became mechanical and lost its true meaning somehow. But with Jess… she deeply cared about him and for him. It was the kind of care that she only held for the people who meant the utmost to her. She felt that Jess could easily be one of them. Could she possibly love Jess so early into their relationship? A small smile formed on her lips as another realization set in. Jess was her boyfriend.

A couple hours went by as she studied, thought about Jess, studied some more, and thought about Jess again. She looked at the clock and saw that it was a good enough time as any to call Tristan.

"Hello?"

"Tristan?"

"Rory. Nice of you to remember me," he joked.

"Tristan, you don't know how awful I feel. I am so so sorry, I can't believe I ditched you like that. That was so rude of me. I'm a bad person-"

"Rory." He interrupted her quickly. From experience he knew she could go on and on. "It's alright."

"No it's not. I'm gonna make it up to you. I promise. I'm so sorry."

"Don't worry about it, seriously. So how'd it go…"

"Well… it seems that Jess and I are together."

"Seems?"

"He still has to break up with his girlfriend." Rory told him, a little ashamed.

"Wow."

"What?"

"You stole someone's boyfriend. That's not very nice Rory." He teased.

"I'll have you know she stole him from me first."

"If that helps you sleep at night."

"She did!"

"Okay."

"I'm still sorry Tristan. How can I make it up to you?" She thought quickly. "Ooo I know, you can come over for movie night, your choice of course, and I'll pick up all the junk we can stuff our faces with. How's that sound?"

"Well I said it was alright, but if you insist." How could he turn down an offer from Rory.

"Yes. I insist Tristan; you don't understand how terrible I feel. Please just let me do this."

"Alright. I'm not a hard sell, just tell me when."

"Good, thank you. We'll shoot for this weekend maybe. I'll let you know."

He wanted to ask her if Jess was joining in on the festivities. That would definitely be fun. Note the sarcasm please.

`**~// Luke's Diner — Sunday Late Afternoon \\~**`

Luke watched as Jess refilled every single customer's cup in the diner with coffee - even those who weren't even drinking coffee. Rory had already taken affect on Jess - the kid had a certain glow radiating off of him and Luke found it quite entertaining.

"Jess." Luke called from behind the counter. He had a suspicious smile painted on his face. He had waited all day for Jess to tell him about Rory, but he didn't fess up anything… but that was to be expected.

"Yeah." Jess was refilling the last cup of coffee on his rounds. Although his mouth wasn't smiling, his eyes sure were. He couldn't hide it from Luke either.

"Come here a sec."

Jess walked behind the counter placing the coffee pot back on the warmer. "What?" He said warily, noticing his uncle's unusual smirk.

Luke chuckled a bit. "What's goin' on with you? Are you high or something?" He joked.

"What?"

"Let me have a look at you." Luke leaned into Jess, paying close attention to his eyes.

"What do you think you're doin'?" Jess backed away from him, trying to regain his personal space.

"Eh well, you're not high."

"What? Of course I'm not high. Geeze, what the hell is wrong with you? Have you gone insane?" Jess was starting to get irritated.

"Me? I'd like to ask you the same question."

"Whatever." Jess tried to shrug him off. He was ruining his euphoric mood. "I'm out."

"You just took your break an hour ago."

"I'm not takin' a break. I'm done for the day." He held his watch up to his uncle. "It's six o'clock." He said matter-of-factly.

"Oh, right. Well, where you goin'?"

"Out."

Ah geeze, not this again. It was always the same routine. "Out where?"

"Out," and out went Jess.

`**~// Gilmore Home: Evening \\~**`

"So… I'm glad we don't have to hate you anymore." Lorelai told Jess who was sitting next to her on the couch.

Rory had fallen asleep earlier while reading a book and had woken up when Jess arrived. She was in her room getting dressed.

"Me too."

"I'm not going to give you the 'if you hurt my daughter speech' cause frankly you should already know what I'm capable of, right?"

"Uh-huh."

"I was a little iffy about you in the beginning as you know, but I've seen the way you are around her. And I must say… I can see that you are quite taken with my daughter."

Jess faintly blushed. He uncomfortably scratched his temple and ruffled his hair.

"And… she's quite taken with you too."

Jess inwardly smiled, he was happy… genuinely happy for once in his life.

"I'm sooo sorry." Rory trotted over to the two seated on the couch. "I can't believe I fell asleep."

Lorelai stood up. "So you guys wanna order pizza?"

Rory looked at Jess to get the go ahead and she did.

"Ok, pizza it is." She grabbed the cordless and went into the kitchen to leave the budding spuds alone.

Rory sat next to Jess leaving a big gap between them.

"So…" She said nervously. She couldn't believe that Jess was hers… to hug, to kiss, to touch… she looked over at him and noticed the huge space between them. When I can actually do all those things is still up for debate.

"So." He replied equally nervous.

Silence stuffed the air with uneasiness. And butterflies filled their stomachs.

"Alright pizza's on its way." Lorelai said as she walked into the room. The two looked to her, one pleading while the other… well the other was unreadable.

Lorelai sensed what was going on. "Uh, okay, I'll be upstairs. Call me when the pizza gets here." And she was gone in a heartbeat.

Rory couldn't believe her mother had just left her like that. Did she not get the pleading look? She clasped her hands and glanced at Jess. "So."

Jess lightly laughed. "I think we've already covered the so's."

"Right… so…" She smiled realizing that she said it again. "How'd it go with Shane."

"Well you know, it's the same every time I break up with a girl, she yelled and screamed and cried her eyes out."

Rory smirked at him.

"What, you don't believe me?" He laughed at her expression. "Oh I get it. I'm not crying material huh."

She suddenly felt bad, that was entirely not what she meant. She felt the need to explain herself, "No I-"

"I'm kidding Rory. She took it alright I guess. I didn't really have to do much seeing as though she saw us kissing."

"Wow, are you serious? Now I feel bad."

"You haven't really gotten the whole other woman act down have you?"

"Looks that way doesn't it? It's all very new to me. I think I may need more practice," she stated.

"Oh yeah?"

"Mmhumh."

"Well you better get to it. I hear Kirk's seeing someone at the moment." He teased.

The two shared a knowing smile. They finally were back to how they were before… only this time they didn't have to hide how they really felt. Alls' well…

A/N: This may turn into an R so be prepared and those of you who aren't of age you might have to stop reading! ;( Review pwease!