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A/N: Ok so I feel horrible again. I said I would write a lot over my break but I ended up having a drama filled break. SO SORRY! I have been working hard on this chapter though. Never had any of this in the story before but I wanted to add more so I created this. Hope you all enjoy!

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Chapter 14: Love & A Dance Off

Rory's POV

It was once again Monday, which meant I had to go to school again. I really wished the weekend could have lasted forever. After the performance on Friday Jess and I hung out like old times. Paris, Lane, Zach, and Jamie also joined us. Zach and Jamie were well let's just say really shocked to find out I was Rose Maylie. Or I guess you could now say was Rose Maylie. After hanging out on Friday Lane, Paris and I headed back to my house for our girl's weekend, which was something I really needed. We had tons of fun watching movies on Saturday, with my mom of course can't have a movie night or movie day I guess without her. Sunday though I think was my favorite because that day we decided was all about music, which besides reading is my passion. So we spent the day listening to music and I even played some songs for them. We then just turned on some music and danced around, yeah another one of my passions dancing. Lane and Paris were really good dancers too and so we ended up making some dances to random songs we played. I was having so much fun that I was sad when they both had to leave.

So now here I am getting ready for school. I couldn't help but laugh at myself when I looked down at my outfit. I seemed to have picked a music theme for it. I had music note t-shirt, music note earrings, a music note necklace, my music note backpack, skinny jeans, black converse, a leather jacket, and a pair of ray-bans. It was May now so the jacket I probably didn't need but it completed the outfit. (A/N: Outfit on Profile.)

Once I was dressed I walked out to the kitchen and saw my mom their smiling.

"Rory are you ready I need some coffee."

"Like you haven't already had three cups while I was getting ready." I said with a smile. "Let's get you to Luke's for your much needed coffee."

"Gasp! How dare my own daughter make fun of me? To think I took care of you all these years."

"I had my fair share of taking care of you too." I said with a laugh. "And did you really need to say gasp instead of actually doing it?"

"It made it more dramatic." She said with a wave of her hand as she headed out the door.

We continued our banter on the way to Luke's. Once we entered and approached the counter I looked around searching for Jess only to come up empty.

"Looking for lover boy?" My mom said with a smile.

"Could you say it any louder?"

"Of course I can. You looking for…"

"Don't you dare finished that sentence." I said interrupting her as I covered her mouth with my hand.

"You are no fun this morning. I think we need to get you some coffee. Oh Luke! Me and mini me need some coffee!"

Not too long after Luke came out from the kitchen with a stern expression.

"Really Lorelai, you don't need to shout."

"Of course I do because if I didn't things just wouldn't be right in the world."

"Here's your coffee. Now please no more shouting." He said placing a cup of coffee in front of her. "Good morning Rory." He said as he placed a cup of coffee in front of me.

"Good morning Luke. Thanks." I said with a smile.

"No fair I didn't get a good morning. I just got yelled at. This isn't fair! You are playing favorites." My mom said with a pout.

Luke just shook his head poured her more coffee and went to serve more customers.

"So nice flirting you did there." I said with a smile.

"I did no such thing." My mom said as she turned her attention to her coffee.

"You so were. When are you and Luke going to realize that you were meant to be together?"

"What is in that coffee of yours because I think you have gone crazy."

"Trust me mom. If you went up to Luke right now and asked him out he would say yes." I said smiling.

"I totally agree with that statement." Jess said as he came out for behind the curtain.

"See Jess agrees with me here." I said as I smiled at Jess.

"That's no fair he agrees with you all the time? You guys are ganging up on me. You set this up didn't you?"

"We don't agree all the time and we certainly did not set this up." Jess said with a small smirk.

"Seriously mom just ask him when he comes back."

"Fine! But this is useless."

We were all silent after that. I just turned to Jess and smiled as I sipped my coffee. It wasn't long until Luke approached the counter and filled my mom's coffee up again.

"That's your last refill for this morning." He said as he was about to turn and leave.

"Hey Luke I have a question for you."

"OK Lorelai what is it?" He said looking confused.

"Would you like to go out this weekend?" She said looking down at her coffee.

"Sure. I'd like that Lorelai." He said with a small smile and then left to the kitchen to get some orders.

"I have a date with Luke." She whispered quietly. And I could see the small smile forming on her face.

"Told you." I said with a smile.

"Thanks kid. Thanks Jess. You two better be headed for school now." She said smiling as she was staring off towards the kitchen.

"Bye mom. I'm so happy for you." I said as I gave her a kiss on the check.

"Bye Lorelai." Jess said as he picked up his bag and followed me to the door.

"I can't believe that actually happened." I said turning to Jess as we started walking towards school.

"Oh come on it was going to happen sooner or later." He said turning to look at me.

"I know that but it was kind of not how I imagined them getting together."

"Did you except it to be like a fairytale?" He said with a little smirk.

"You're a jerk." I said as I smacked his chest.

"Hey! That's not nice." He said as he put a hand over where I had smacked him. I just laughed a little and stuck my tongue out at him. "Very classy Gilmore."

"You know it Mariano."

"So how did you imagine Luke and your mom getting together to be like?"

"I really don't know. I guess I just thought it would be more romantic. Every girl would love to be asked out in some romantic way."

"Does that also carry over for you? Do you imagine being asked out in a romantic way?" He asked looking at me.

"It would be nice." I said as I keep my gaze straight ahead.

"Hmm."

"Yep." I said popping my p.

"Ok then." He said then mumbled something that I couldn't hear.

"What did you say?" I asked looking at him.

"Nothing." He said quickly. "So excited for the wonderful world we call school."

"Oh yes because it is just the highlight of my life."

"Someone is excited." He said with a giggle.

"Oh yes I am just jumping for joy inside." I said as I opened the door to school.

"I can just feel the excitement bouncing off of you." Jess said as he followed me inside school.

"Oh yes I know I just give of excitement rays with my joy of school." I said as I walked to my locker.

"Cause you have school sprit sprit!" Jess said in a high pitch voice.

"You are so funny." I said as I held back a laugh. I decided to distract myself from laughing by opening my locker.

"Come on it isn't that bad."

"Oh yes it is." I was going to say something more but something stopped me. I looked away from my locker and noticed that most of the students were staring at me. "Jess is it just me or is everyone staring."

He looked away from me and also took a look around the hall. "Nope they are defiantly staring at you."

"Why would they be staring at me?" I whispered to him.

"Well maybe because they probably all know you are Rose Maylie." He whispered back.

"What?"

"You do remember revealing you were her right? Or did you forget? Do you have amnesia!" Jess said as he acted panicked.

"Jess." I said smacking him on the arm. "You know I remember it. I am just shocked they all know so quickly."

"Rory, this is Stars Hollow everyone probably knew far before today."

"True true." I said turning back to my locker.

"You're freaking out aren't you?" Jess said as he leaned on the locker next to mine.

"Well yeah I created Rose so that people would like me for me. But now that I have revealed I am Rose I am a little scared to see how everyone will react." I said quietly looking in my locker to avoid looking at Jess.

"Rory." Jess said as he reached and turned my head so I was facing him. "You've got nothing to worry about. You are so talented so it's not like anyone can say you're not. Anyways you've got some pretty awesome friends to help support you."

"Yeah Lane, Paris, Zach, and Jamie are really great friends." I said with a small smile as I remained looking at him.

"Aren't you forgetting someone?"

"Nope not that I can think of." I said still smiling.

"Once again Gilmore you have hurt me." Jess said as he placed him hand over his heart.

"You know you're my friend Jess so stop acting so offended." I said with a small laugh.

"Good." He said with a quick smile.

"Rory!" I heard from behind me and I turned to find Lane and Paris rushing towards me. Zach and Jamie were not far behind them.

"Hey guys." I said with a smile as I closed my locker and leaned against it.

"How are you doing?" Lane asked.

"Just fine. It's a little weird having everyone stare at me. But I've got my friends so that's all that matters right." I said and turned to give Jess a quick smile and turned my attention back to Lane.

"Right Rory we will always be here." Paris said as she leaned against Jamie who had his arm around her waist.

"Well we better be headed to class we were late this morning. Talk to you later though Rory." Lane said as she gave me a hug and grabbed Zach's hand as they walked to class.

"Yeah see you later Rory. Don't worry about anyone." Paris said.

"You got Jess to protect you if you need some too." Jamie said with a wink. And with that him and Paris were off to class.

"Well shall we." Jess said offering me his arm.

"We shall." I said as I linked our arms.

As I started to walk with Jess I noticed that everyone still stared at me. It was so strange. I am not use to people staring. No one seemed to ever take the time to care for me here so this was just strange. I had enough of seeing everyone stare I decided to hide myself, which was probably a bad idea also because my hiding consisted of me hiding my face against Jess.

"You ok?" Jess whispered.

"Yeah just don't wanna see all the staring." I said as I removed my head. "Sorry."

"Don't be." Jess said with a small smile. "You can hide again if you would like."

And so I did.

…. Just before PE …..

The day had passed by pretty much the same. Everyone was still staring. People started whispering but no one ever approached me. I was fine with that. Jess and everyone else keep my mind off of everything making me laugh and have fun all day. They even helped me avoid me worst nightmare all day. But with it now being PE I knew I wasn't going to be able to avoid her.

I was at my locker with Paris, Jamie, and Jess waiting for Lane and Zach so we could all walk to PE together. We normally didn't do this but I was avoiding PE as long as I could. Soon Lane and Zach appeared so we were all headed to PE.

"You ok Rory?" Jess said walking next to me as Lane and Zach walk together in front of us and Jamie and Paris walked in front of them.

"Yeah just not looking forward to the cheerleaders and their evil leader."

"Don't worry we are all there for you Rory." Jess said as he put his arm around my shoulder and pulled me closer.

"Thanks Jess."

"No Problem Rory."

Jess didn't let me go until we entered the gym room and had to go our separate ways to get dressed. It felt so right being in his arms. I wanted to stay that way but sadly the world isn't that kind.

"So what was up with you and Jess?" Lane said with a smile as we walk towards the girls' locker room.

"Nothing he just asked if I was ok."

"He had his arm around you a very long time. He didn't seem to happy that he had to let you go just now either." Paris said crossing her arms.

"He was just comforting me because I am not happy that I will be seeing the wicked witch. That's all." I said as I walked to my gym locker and opened it.

"You keep thinking that." Lane and Paris said together.

We didn't say anything after that. We got changed quickly and went to wait on the bleachers. As we exited the locker room we say that Jamie, Zach, and Jess were already sitting down so we hurried over and sat next to them. Wee talked for a while before a teacher entered. This was defiantly not our gym teacher.

"Hey everyone so Mr. Knight had to go home for an emergency so you won't have your regular PE class." Everyone cheered hearing this. "You all will have to stay here though for the period you guys can't be dismissed early." This only made everyone groan. "You are all free to do what ever you want this period. As long as you stay in this room." And with this the teacher left.

Most people seemed to just turn to people around them and start talking. Some guys seemed to want to play some basketball but they must have decided not to because they all just sat back down. I keep looking around and I noticed that Crystal and her cheerleaders were gone. I knew they were here earlier. I wonder where they went?

"Rory." Zach said.

"Huh…yeah." I said now turning towards him.

"What's on your mind?" Jamie asked.

"Nothing just was seeing what everyone was doing. The I noticed Crystal and the cheerleaders are gone." I said.

"They probably are in the locker room fixing their make-up and hair." Paris said with a small laugh.

"I wouldn't disagree there." Jess said.

We all started talking and laughing and just having fun. But that all ended soon enough.

"Hey Bory!" I turned and saw Crystal and the rest of her group in their cheerleading outfits. So that is where they went. I am really confused though.

"What Crystal." I yelled as I stayed where I was.

"So you think you have actual talent now that you say you are Rose Maylie." Crystal said putting air quotes around Rose Maylie.

"What do you want Crystal." Jess yelled before I could say anything.

"I just want Rory to prove to us she has talent." Crystal said in a fake sweet voice as she battered her eyelashes at Jess.

"I don't have to prove anything to you Crystal." I said.

"Oh is little Bory scared." Lindsey said.

"I am not scared of any of you."

"Then prove it." Crystal said.

"And how will I prove it?" I asked.

"A dance off of course." Crystal said with a smile.

"How will this prove my talent? I'm a singer." I said.

"So you saying you won't do it?" Crystal said her smile growing.

"I never said that. I just don't understand your thinking. But then again that isn't really anything new." I said and the gym filled with OoooOOoo's.

"So you up for a dance off then." She asked.

"I'm not scared of you so yeah I'm in." I said as I got up and walked down the steps towards her.

"Ok me and my girls will go first." Crystal said as she pushed past me and set up her iPod. Once her had it set up her and the rest of the cheerleaders lined up and got ready. Crystal nodded her head and someone hit play. I had to hold back a giggle and I looked up in the bleachers and saw my friends doing the same. I quickly looked back to Crystal and the cheerleaders to see they were dancing now. To what you may ask. Well 'Hey Mickey' of course. Such a cliché song for cheerleaders to dance to. I watched as they danced through the whole song. They weren't that great and I didn't know why everyone loved them so much. They weren't that great at cheerleading but as I look at their uniforms I now knew the reason. (A/N Outfit on profile). I kept watching as the kept doing stupid cheers. How was this a dance of they were cheering not dancing. Crystal keep smiling evilly at me as if she thought I was scared. (A/N: I have The Hey Mickey music video on my profile. Just image them cheering like that.) Thankfully they soon finished. People cheered for them but I think they only did because they were still scared of Crystal.

Crystal smiled and approached me. "You're turn Bory."

"Well I think since you weren't alone that it is only fair that I have some back up too." I said. "Lane, Paris come on down here. And Lane bring my iPod will you. Also Jess will you come down so you can start the song." Without any question Lane, Paris, and Jess came down the bleacher steps.

"Whatever Bory. They aren't going to help you any." Crystal said smiling evilly still.

"Whatever Crystal if you would excuse me I have to actually go dance now." I said with a smirk.

"Ok what are we doing Rory." Paris asked.

"Showing Crystal she ain't all that." I said with a small laugh. "Got my iPod Lane?"

"Yeah here." She said handing it too me.

I picked the song I wanted and showed them. "You guys remember our dance to this right?" I asked. They both nodded as they had big grins on their faces. "Good." I said as I walked over to Jess. "Just hit play when I nod my head at you Jess. Thanks." I said with a smile as I handed him my iPod.

"No problem Rory. Anything for you." He said with a small smile. I gave him a quick hug and left him to get it ready.

I hurried off to join Lane and Paris and we got ready. I nodded my head towards Jess and he hit play. The intro to 1, 2 Step by Ciara started playing. (A/N Also have this video on profile because Ciara is awesome at dancing. Image that the video was never out in this story and they made up moves and danced like her. Rory is like Ciara and Lane and Paris our the back-up dancers.) As the intro played we faced away from the bleachers and swayed our hips from side to side. Once Ciara's voice came in though we turned around and started our routine. As we started dancing I couldn't help but sing softly along to the song, it's in my blood. No one could her me but I am guessing they could see I was singing along. As I danced I noticed that everyone was enjoying us. Zach didn't take his eyes of Lance and Jamie didn't look away from Paris. Yeah no one knew we could dance. I looked and saw that Crystal had an expression that was a cross between shock and angry. I just smiled and continued dancing. I also couldn't help but notice that Jess was staring at me the whole time. As the song was coming to an end I danced a little by myself as Paris and Lane stood near me. Once we finished everyone started cheering loudly. It clearly showed that we won. I smiled and Crystal started to approach me.

"You may have won this time but just watch you back Bory." She said and with that she turned and walked towards the locker room.

I smiled as turned to see that Lane and Paris were gone I looked and saw they were now with Zach and Jamie. As I looked I noticed everyone was back to what they were doing before the dance off.

"Wow." Jess said. I just now noticed he was standing by me the whole time since we finished.

"So what did you think besides wow?" I asked with a laugh.

"You really wanna know?"

"Yeah I want your honest opinion." I said looking at him.

Jess walked so he was closer to me and leaned to whisper in my ear. "I thought you were pretty sexy out there."

I blushed and looked down. "Thanks." I said quietly.

"No problem Rory. You are pretty sexy all the time though." He said with a wink. "I never knew you could dance like that though."

"Yeah I never danced a lot on stage. I want too more though. Dancing is another passion of mine."

"Well you defiantly need to stick with it." Jess said with a smile. I once again blushed. "Well let's go join the others." He said as he grabbed my hand. Which only caused me to blush more.

We joined the rest of the group. Lane and Paris gave me a look. I just gave them a look back saying I would tell them later. We all joked and laughed the rest of the period. Jamie and Zach compliment me on my dancing which they were also shocked about. I knew though that they weren't watching me they were watching Lane and Paris. As everyone talked I looked around and saw that Crystal and the cheerleaders were back. Crystal was glaring and she gave me another evil smile and I knew that she was up to something. I just shook my head and turned back to my friends. As they continued talking a snuck a look at Jess. When I did I noticed he was also looking at me. He smiled at me and then turned to join in on the conversation. I looked at my friends who were laughing and teasing each other and knew that no matter what Crystal has planned for me I could get through it with them.

A/N: I kinda hate the ending for the chapter but oh well. Lol Hope you all enjoyed reading. I really hope I can get the next chapter out soon. I promise to be better at updating. Thanks so much for reading. Please review if you would like I love reading them. Thanks again. Oh also wanted to say I have nothing against Cheerleaders I just liked the cliché of them being cheerleaders lol.

Songs from chapter:

Mickey by Toni Basil

1, 2 Step by Ciara