Chapter 1
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Chapter 1


Rory was sitting on the bridge, her feet dangling over the edge with her ankles crossed. Her hands were intertwined on her lap and tears kept dripping off of her face onto her knee, she cursed herself for wearing her mothers vintage dress, the water stains mixed with the makeup that got caught up in the water trail would be a pain in the neck to get out, God she couldn’t believe that tear drop stains were the only thing that was on her mind after all that had happened that night.

Earlier everything had been perfect. Her perfect mom, Dean the world champion in boyfriending, and they were so very close to removing Kirk from his reign as Dance Marathon Champion, that was until the heel broke. Her mom was in the middle of a rant session on the unfairness of her new shoes breaking the first time that she wore them (no matter that they were made in 1943, this was the first time that she had worn them) when she informed Rory that she would have to hold herself up on the floor while Luke fixed her shoe. Rory cursed herself again, she could have held herself up for ten minutes, and she knew it, she was just being lazy, and since she had informed her mom that if she left her alone she would promptly and completely voluntarily fall to the floor, therefore disqualifying her and her mom from the marathon. Her mom, of course, was too absorbed in beating Kirk so that he would cry like a little girlie to even dream of giving up, that she found a solution the problem, she called Dean over to hold Rory up. 

It had been almost ten minutes, and her mom would be back any second now, why did she have to mention Jess? She knew that Dean hated Jess, she should have just avoided the topic, she again internally kicked herself, she had been doing a lot of that tonight. Well apparently Dean saw a little jealousy in Rory’s tirade against Shane because when she and Jess started yell Dean abruptly broke it off with Rory, saying that he knew what was going on, it was obvious that Rory was into Jess, and it was plainly reciprocated, so he was sick and tired of telling himself that it was all fine between them, and Rory should just go and be with Jess. He was yelling so loud…and what hurt the most was that she knew he was right. Everything he said, he was completely and utterly correct, and Rory couldn’t take the fact that she had hurt Dean, She knew she didn’t love him, but she never wanted to hurt him. And to make it worse, this wasn’t how she wanted it to end between them, she wanted it to be on her terms, and she wanted to explain herself and tell Dean that she had indeed once loved him. She didn’t want all of the screaming and yelling, and she especially didn’t want all of the screaming and yelling to take place in with the entire town playing audience.

Rory shifted and sniffled, she looked at her reflection in the water, and for some reason that she couldn’t entirely explain, she recognized the girl staring back. She had expected to see a girl who she was foreign to, someone completely unrecognizable, because the girl she expected had lied to her boyfriend and herself for months, she was supposed to feel terrible and guilty, and it didn’t stop there, she had also lied to her mom, and to Luke, the town…and Jess. Oddly enough, the girl she saw was feeling…relieved. She was happy to be able to be honest to everyone, starting with herself.  OK, deep breath, and now she let the walls down, and all of this unexpected emotion came through, along with another wave of tears. She loved Jess, that was all that emotion boiled down to, she had loved him since the moment he suggested climbing through her window and bailing on dinner almost a year and a half ago.

The bridge creaked, Oh God. Oh no. No, she wasn’t ready to be honest with him yet, but at the same time part of her was longing for it, that was why she had chosen this spot to run to, the bridge was kind of her and Jess’ unofficial spot, she knew he would find her there. That was where they had had their picnic, and where Jess had gotten pushed in the lake by Luke. The bridge creaked again as he took another step forward and stopped. Rory looked away as Jess searched for words. He finally settled with “Dean’s a jerk,” ‘that was weak’ he thought, she obviously already came to that revelation on her own, so he decided to back his statement up “The guys a total jerk” o yea, this was going well, it was just he had so much he wanted to say, ok one more time “Yellin at you like that, breaking up in front of everybody. Guys a total jerk” He rolled his eyes, knowing he was definitely not making progress, it was her turn. “No hes not….he was right” Jess froze He was right??? Rory thought he was right? Maybe her perception of him was different then he assumed. Rory decided continue, not noticing Jess’ hesitation “Everything he said, all those things about you and me, all those things about me…sniffle…lying to him, and messing with his head…he was right” and with that she looked at him. ‘Wow’ he thought he wasn’t sure what to say, he was toying with some possibilities when Rory, obviously thinking he was hesitating said “Well, wasn’t he?” Jess was still speechless “Fine! He was right about me then, now go away” and she looked at her shoes, a lone tear rolled down her face and dripped into the water.

“He was right…about….about everything” it was so easy, why couldn’t he just say that to begin with? She looked at him “So, what now?” She asked. “So your definitely broken up with Dean?” he asked “Yea, definitely broken up with Dean” she almost whispered it “Ok, I gotta go take care of something now” he said. And that was it.

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