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This chapter is written from Lorelai's point of view, as she starts reading Jess' book.

I had some struggles while writing this chapter ( 'cause I keep writing on future chapters all the time…) and it is rather short, but hope you'll enjoy it!

Later the same night Lorelai crawls up in bed next to Luke with Jess' book in her hands. Staring at the front cover of the book as if she was afraid to open it she bites her lower lip.
"Luke." She whispers, nudging him softly. Half asleep he mutters something incomprehensible in response.
"Luke." She says again, a bit louder this time.
"Mmm." He answers turning his body towards her, his eyes still closed.
"Luke." She says again, nudging him a bit harder. "I'm scared."

His eyes shots open, looking at her as if he's prepared to protect her from any kind of danger.
"What?" He says with a worried look on his face. He sees the book in her hands and calms down. "It's not a thriller." He says and stretches his arm out hugging her hip as she sits next to him.
"You sure?" She says, stroking his arm. "'Cause I'm scared that there's a mean old witch in this fairytale, or an evil queen, summoning all of her villagers to drive the rebellious, but yet noble, prince out of town, deeming both him and his princess to live unhappily ever after."

Luke sighs and sits up next to her.
"First of all, no matter how hard it is, I think you should read the book, 'cause Rory was right, there are sides of Jess that you never saw, partly because you didn't want to see them and partly because he didn't want to show them to you." He leans over and kisses her cheek and cups her face in his hand as he continues. "Second of all, it's my conviction that the prince left because he wanted to meet with his father, the hot-dog king, and make sure he would never inherit his crown, the evil queen and her villagers was of less importance in that decision."

She looks at him with distrust, still not fully believing that it is not her fault that Jess had left.
"Look." He says, fixating her eyes with his. "Read the book. If there really is an evil queen in there, we'll deal with her together."
"Easy for you to say, I bet you're described as the fairy godmother." She says and pouts.
Luke sighs.
"Just read it, and keep the freak out on hold until there's actually something for you to freak out about."
She nods and he kisses her before lying back down in the bed.

Taking a deep breath she opens the book and starts reading. After reading only a few pages she puts the book down again and draws her breath. He wrote her a book. A real book. Rory loves books and reading and he wrote her a book – for her to read. A book not only to her, but also about her. She takes another deep breath. A book is not something you write in an afternoon, it's not like a love letter that you could just scrabble down because something happened that made you miss that certain person for a moment. A book takes months to write, or maybe years, she's not sure. Judging by the thickness of this book, years sound most accurate. She picks the book up again and continues reading.

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"My father left the second I was born and my mother fell head over heels in love with a new man every other month. A man that would, of course, end up leaving her heart-broken until the next Prince Charming came along." The old man sighed deeply. "She really thought that every man that came along was the one, the great love, and let me tell you, when you've seen enough great loves disappear without a trace, taking your TV, or your grandmother's jewelries with them, you kind of start losing faith in love." The old man said with a sad smile. "I had never seen true love, other than in books or movies, I didn't think it existed in real life, until I met this girl."

With the tears burning behind her eyes Lorelai takes a deep breath and pauses her reading. He didn't think love even existed until he met Rory. He didn't think it existed. He had never dreamed of finding that one person, of being overwhelmed with love, because he didn't think it existed – until he met Rory.

Maybe she had judged him too hard. God knows, it couldn't have been easy growing up with Liz. Even though Lorelai liked Luke's sister, she wasn't the most stable person in the world. And the thought of having grown up with a steady line of TJ's passing through your life, that couldn't have been easy. He was a nice man, but just a tad bit weird, and not someone you could ever imagine raising a teenager – and to think that TJ actually was the better of all the men that had passed through in Liz' life, it makes her shiver.

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After reading about the first time she and Jess met, Lorelai puts the book down with a sigh of relief. He hadn't described her as the evil queen…yet. He had actually described the situation with an unexpected objectivity. He even soothed that feeling of guilt that not even talking to Rory had managed to ease.

"I can't blame her.", he had written. The adult Jess, the Jess that had written the book, had looked back on himself as a teenager and stated that he couldn't blame the girl's mother for not liking him. The relief she feels is enormous.

He had changed, he was no longer that sulky teenage boy who believed the world was out to get him. He had grown, he had matured into a man that was capable of looking back at his mistakes and learn from them.

She had changed too. She as well could look back at her mistakes and learn from them. In their first meeting, he wasn't the only with the wrong attitude. The rift between her and Jess had been as much her fault as it had been his. Maybe it was even more of her fault, after all, she had been the adult and she should have known better. He had been a teenager going through a though time.

She sighs. The meeting with Jess had damaged her self image. When Rory was a kid, she had always been the fun mom. The mom who threw amazing birthday parties, the mom who always had time to come up with funny games and plays, the mom who all of Rory's friends adored and loved.

When Rory became a teenager she was the cool mom. The mom who still remembered what it was like to be a teenager, the mom you could always talk to, the mom who felt more like a friend than an adult.

And then came this tormented teenage boy, a boy who, no doubt was going through a though time in his life and she tried to be the cool mom but he looked at her like he would any other adult; with distrust and hostility. It had hurt her more than she was willing to admit at the time.

There will be a short bit with Lorelai reading, or at least talking about the book, in the next chapter, and I have planned for one more chapter with Lorelai's thoughts and feelings when finished reading the book. If you have any suggestions or thoughts – please share them with me, I'm having severe issues coming up with thoughts for Lorelai as she reads the book...

Any specific moment in the history of Jess and Rory you think she should get an insight to? A side of Jess that you feel she should see? Any thoughts or suggestions are more than welcome, 'cause I would really like to make another chapter with her reading, 'cause I know there should be more things going on in her mind while she reads, but I just can't seem to come up with any...