Lora and Jess had spent the rest of the year studying, taking exams, celebrating her birthday over a weekend in Australia and now the entire group was heading to the Hayden mansion for Christmas.
Every main society family was in attendance and yet Lora and Jess were the number one topic, not many of the guests knew about Jess or his financial situation, so for them to see the expensive rings on Lora's finger surprised them.
Jess had fun through the night winding up people who braved the unknown to talk to him, he kept up with every topic they raised and surprised them yet again with how smart he was and his attendance at Yale.
Marty however tried to fade into the wall, Louise however refused to let that happen and dragged him onto the dance floor, he was however overlooked thanks to Lora and Jess and their appeal to the masses.
When Lora and Jess finally arrived home they crashed onto the couch and even the thought of moving made Lora groan.
The main benefit of the night was the missing Lorelai who had not been invited to attend, which was a huge blessing to the young couple.
After Christmas and New Year and their one year anniversary was over the couple threw themselves back into school and the LDB and their friends.
Jess somehow managed to finish another book and was considering letting his identity out after graduation, Lora was dancing for fun, writing her online paper for the bookstore and was thinking of ways to ask Jess about starting a family after graduation.
Word reached the group of Lorelai's engagement to Alex, and they were bummed out about having to attend the party, the only good thing about the party was that it was being held in the country club, they could escape early and go to the pub to unwind.
The night of the party Lora and Jess arrived exactly on time and from the second they entered the room all eyes were on them, after all Lora was the daughter.
Lora treated the party like other social events she was polite and kind, she laughed and smiled and danced with Jess and her friends, she managed to make an appropriate speech when pushed to do so by the other guests and after the correct socially acceptable time was up she left with the group.
Later that night the entire group could be found sprawled around Lora and Jess' living room talking and laughing about the time they had spent together.
Marty learnt more about the group and was freaked out when Finn performed his passion of the christ on the coffee table butt naked, Lora took a video of it while Jess took pictures and both grinned at each other.
They got back into school work and exams and most of the group forgot about the Finn video and pictures, until the end of the school year LDB event where the couple managed to sneak an edited copy of it into the stack of film clips to be shown on a projector for the entire current and past LDB members to see, a different edit also managed to make its way onto the internet, this one had all the visible faces cut out and a cross shape covering Finn's junk.
Lora and Jess spent the break from school working on the bookstores and checking on the bar in Philly, they also discussed starting a family and Jess showing his face as a book author after graduation.
They started their second year rested and ready for the craziness to start and start it did with Lora getting tripped over in the quad by a bimbo who was pissed she was with Jess.
The bimbo then tried to make her believe Jess had spent the school break with her at her house in California, when Lora just laughed in her face she slunk away while the coffee cart guy helped her up and made sure she was ok.
The story spread and after Jess was heard laughing at the story as well the gossips of Yale forgot about it.
Lora was then given a book to read in her lit class, Life and Stuff by J.M. Simms. She giggled while her teacher raved on and on about the book, she just opened the cover and read the dedication 'To my wife, you are my life and stuff' she had also edited this book and knew it almost as well as Jess did.