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The strangest things

Chapter Eleven

'Dean! What are you doing, if you haven't forgotten you're with Rory.' Lane's voice was thunderous, Dean jumped to his feet and stumbled backwards a little, not know how to act. He looked down at his feet unable to come up with an adequate reply, though as it happened he didn't have to, Ally was up on her feet and walked towards Lane, both girls stood staring at one another.

'Rory doesn't love Dean!' Ally said placing her hands on her hips.

'And how would you know that?' Lane demanded.

'I've seen the way she looks at my brother, how she talks to him. She's in love with Jess, and Dean deserves someone better than her.' Ally shouted.

'What! You've lost your mind. Rory doesn't love Jess, she loves Dean, you know her boyfriend, and even if she did have feelings for Jess is this really the way to deal with it.' She looked over at Dean.

'She's never around, and when she is she's angry at me for something or she's distracted. I don't deserve to be treated that way.' Dean said angrily, joining the two girls.

'You think Rory deserves you going behind her back like this. She would never do anything like this.' Lane snapped back.

'Shows what you know, right now Rory is off goodness knows where with Jess, she ran into the diner and pulled him out and they drove away together.' Ally said triumphantly.

'Jess is her friend. Just because they are hanging out together doesn't mean anything is going on.' Lane replied.

'This is none of your business.' Dean snapped, she looked at him with all the anger she felt towards him right now.

'You talk to Rory tonight or I will.' Lane said before storming off down the street. She needed to talk to Rory.

*

Rory pulled up in her driveway two hours later, feeling guilty for shouting at her mum and Dean, and for running off, even if she did have a good time while she was out, she wanted to make things right. But as she got out of the car she was greeted by Lane rushing to her side.

'Hey, are you ok?' Rory asked, locking her car.

'Um yeah, I just have to ask you something and I want you to remember that I am your best friend and we never lie to each other.' Lane said trying to keep her nervousness out of her voice.

'Ok…?' Rory led Lane to the porch steps and sat down next to her. 'What is it, you're freaking me out.'

'Someone may have mentioned to me today that you might be in love with Jess, I wanted to know if it's true.' Lane looked Rory in the face and saw the shock there.

'Who? Who said that?' Rory asked.

'It doesn't matter, just please tell me it's not true so I can relax.' Lane replied. Rory looked away.

'Lane…' There were tears in her voice which made Lane worry, surely it couldn't be true, and yet Lane's thoughts interrupted with Rory's next words. 'I don't know what to say.'

'Just tell me the truth.' Lane begged.

'I'm falling in love with Jess.' Rory admitted. 'Nothings happened though!'

'Rory! You have a boyfriend.' Lane said shaking her head.

'I know, but I push my feelings for Jess aside, I tried to ignore them and thought that if I just worked hard on my relationship with Dean then they'd go away. But then you asked me about it and it hit me full force that I am falling in love with him. I know I'm such a terrible person, but I didn't mean for this to happen. I guess I lied to myself enough to start believing it was true.' Rory shook with tears, and Lane wrapped her in a hug.

'You're not a terrible person. You can't help who you fall in love with, but you do need to tell Dean.' Lane said firmly. Rory nodded her head and dried her eyes.

'So you're really in love with Jess?' Lane couldn't quite believe it.

'I'm not quite in love yet, but it's rapidly heading that way. I don't know how to explain it, he just makes me feel special. Whenever I see him my heart starts racing, and I can't catch my breath, and I think about him all the time, every time I hear him name my pulse flutters.' Rory said leaning back against the railings. Both girls looked up as the door opened.

'I thought I heard voices. What are you girls doing out here?' Lorelai asked.

'Just a little girl talk.' Lane replied, not sure if Lorelai knew everything, and doubting that she did.

'Uh mum there's something I need to tell you.' Rory said seriously. Lorelai nodded and sat down cross legged on the porch.

'Go ahead.'

'First I wanted to tell you that I'm so sorry for how I acted this afternoon.' Rory said looking down at her hands. 'And I wanted to tell you that I'm breaking up with Dean tonight.'

'Honey why?' Lorelai asked, not expecting this to be the reason for the girl talk.

'Because I'm falling in love with someone else.' Rory admitted, she glanced up to see how her mum was taking this. Lorelai stared at her daughter.

'Jess?'

'Yeah.'

'I see. Rory are you sure about this? Dean has been so good to you, and you know what I think of Jess.' Lorelai said choosing her words carefully, hoping to avoid another fight.

'I am sure, believe me I've tried to push these feelings aside but I can't they are there and there's nothing I can do about that. It's only fair that I break things off with Dean, even if Jess doesn't feel the same about me.' Rory said.

'Oh I don't think you have to worry there, you may still be just falling for him, but he's fallen. Jess is entirely in love with you.' Lane said truthfully, she'd suspected it for a while, but now she was certain of it, she'd just not realised that Rory felt the same. 'And I can't tell you why, but I think you're doing the right thing getting rid of Dean.'

'Why?' Lorelai and Rory asked together, despite Lane telling them that she couldn't say why.

'I can't say. You need to talk to Dean about that.' Lane said.

'No please Lane, just tell me, I'd rather hear it from you so I can process whatever it is.' Rory begged.

'Fine, but if he asks you didn't hear it from me.' Lane said firmly. 'I caught him this afternoon about to kiss Ally.'

'What!' Lorelai yelled furiously. 'That little…'

'Mum it's ok.'

'Ok? How can this be ok?' Lorelai asked.

'Because I've been treating him terribly, and I can hardly be angry at him for this, when I've fallen in love with someone else.' Rory shrugged. Both Lane and Lorelai started smiling. 'What?' Rory asked.

'You just said fallen in love, not falling.' Lane replied.

'Did I?' Rory smiled a little, resting a hand on her cheek.

'Yeah you did.' Lorelai nodded.

'Ok so I love Jess.' Rory said breathing out slowly. She jumped to her feet. 'I need to go and break up with Dean.' She added still smiling a bit, backing away from the porch.

'You need to what?' Dean's voice caused her to pause in her tracks, she looked fearfully at her mum and Lane, she'd never broken up with someone before and she hadn't planned it to go this way. She turned to look at Dean.

'Uh Dean, we need to talk.' Rory said nervously.

'So I hear! Did Lane tell you, is that why you're doing this, because I'm sorry. We can work this out.' Dean said panicking.

'No it's not because of that, Dean.' She took his hands in hers. 'I don't want to hurt you, but things haven't been working between us for a while.' Rory said softly.

'We can fix it.' Dean said catching her gaze and holding it, but Rory looked away tears threatening to fall.

'No. Dean we can't fix things this time, it's better we both move on now.' She pulled her hands from his grip.

'Move on.' He shook his head. 'You mean you like Jess.'

'Dean, I didn't plan this.' Rory apologised. 'But yeah I've got feelings for Jess, nothings happened though.'

'Is that a dig at me for almost kissing Ally?' Dean asked.

'No it wasn't but there you go see, you said you love me and want to work things out, but you've obviously got feelings for Ally.' Rory replied backing up a little.

'Yeah well at least she likes me back.' Dean yelled.

'Fine then, be with Ally!' Rory almost laughed.

'You think this is funny?'

'What are you trying to save Dean, you're holding onto us, but there's nothing left, you like Ally and I'm in love with Jess. There is no us anymore, so what are you clinging onto?' Rory questioned.

'I don't want you with him!' Dean yelled.

'What? So you're fine with us breaking up as long as I don't date Jess.' Rory said looking at him in disbelief.

'Yeah, even if that means staying with someone I don't love anymore.' He let slip out.

'Well you don't have a say. You're not my boyfriend anymore.' Rory shouted, going back over to her mum and Lane. He stood staring for a few minutes before storming off, walking towards the diner her stormed inside.

'What's wrong?' Ally asked, at his side in seconds.

'Rory broke up with me.' Dean said angrily. Jess' head snapped up on hearing that, the whole diner stopped and looked at Dean, all trying to work out what had happened, Jess didn't stick around long.

'Luke I'm taking a break.' He shouted.

'You've only just got back.' Luke shouted after him but it was too late Jess had run from the building towards the Gilmore's house.

A/N- Sorry it took me so long to write this. Hope you like, please review.