A/n: I dont even wanna think about how long ive been away for. But im back! SOOOOOOO sorry for the long long LONG hiatus! i feel horrible. Thank you to everyone whose reviewed though! it means a ton!

Chapter 5: Stars Hollow High

Walking the way over to Luke's wasn't that hard. Thinking about what I was going to say, that was hard. By the time I stepped into Luke's diner I had the entire speech in my head and I was ready to spew it.

Although, I wasn't really sure if that's how you went about doing things like this; telling someone you liked them was a complicated process. A process that I was re-thinking.

"Rory, take a seat I'll be right with you." Luke called from behind his counter.

I nodded and walked to the counter not able to feel my legs. Without noticing my legs had turned numb and it wasn't from the walking.

Luke started to piur me a cup and I watched the brown liquid splash around the cup.

"Where's Jess?" I suddenly asked.

Luke shrugged, "around here somewhere, why?"

I bit my lip and shrugged, "school stuff."

"Do you want me to tell him you were looking for him?"

I shook my head looking at my cup.

"Can I get this to go, actually?"

Luke nodded and got a styrofoam cup out of a stake.

He poured the coffee in and handed it to me. I gave him the amount of money he needed and I walked out of the restaurant. I wasn't sure wither to be relieved that I didn't have to go through with it or annoyed that he wasn't there. And maybe I was a little hurt too.

I had a week to clear out all of my stuff from Stars Hollow High. That's what the letter told me. In a little more then a week I would be in one of the most prestigious schools of the country.

My insides were twisting with excitement.

As I lay on my bed looking up at the ceiling on a dreary Thursday night I heard a tapping on the window. I glanced across the room and nearly jumped out of my skin when I saw who it was.

"What are you doing?" I whispered opening the window for him.

He smirked at me and looked around my room as he walked in.

"Luke told me you stopped by, I wanted to get back to you."

I looked at him suddenly my insides began twisting in nervousness. He looked down at me and smiled, something on my facial expression must have been funny looking. My insides melted, a soft warm sensation running through them.

"Oh." I said helplessly.

He walked over to my bed and sat on it. I was vaguely wondering if he was gonna kick off his shoes.

"So..." he started to say then was interrupted by me.

"I'm leaving."

He looked at me confused. "Leaving?"

"Yeah...I'm transferring schools."

"Oh." Jess murmured.

He sounded a little dejected.

"Why?" he asked after a long pause.

"My dream is to get into Harvard."

"How very Elle Woods of you." He quipped.

I shot him a look.

"My dream is to get into Harvard and Chilton is my way in. I applied there last May and I just got the acceptance letter. I'm going there."

"Are you moving...?" Jess asked slowly.

I shook my head smiling. "Nope. I'm staying in good Ol' Stars Hollow. I'm just moving schools."

"Is that all?" he asked a smirk forming on his lips.

I nodded my throat going dry.

"So your just moving schools? Your not leaving, right?"

I nodded again.

"Then what's the big deal?" he asked getting up and walking towards me.

I opened my mouth to say something. To say what, I wasn't sure because when he was so close to me everything kinda flew out of my head. I made a few noises as he looked at me amused then finally I closed my mouth and looked into his deep brown eyes.

I was suddenly overcome with the feeling and the need to wrap my arms around him and touch our lips together. It would be totally uncharacteristic if I did that, however.

I wasn't an irrational person.

I thought out everything.

Maybe that's why I did it. Because I wanted to act out, act irrational. It was like something had taken over my mind and body making me lean in and kiss this boy. Our lips touched and suddenly I knew what to do, despite never having kissed a guy before. The entire thing just felt right. It felt right being in my room kissing him. And it felt right placing my hand on his cheek. I didn't even object when his tongue pushed through and did a little dance with my tongue.

"Rory! Have you seen the phone I need to make a phone call?"

I jumped to the other side of the room when I heard my mothers voice penetrate my door.

"H-have you checked the sofa!" I called back.

My voice was slightly raspy and my eyes were on Jess who was breathing as hard as I was.

"Found it!" mom yelled back as my heart beat raced to the max. I stepped closer to Jess and he to me.

"Maybe...maybe you should go." I said quietly biting my lip.

He nodded. "That's probably best."

I nodded waiting for him to leave. But not wanting him to. It felt as if we were staring at each other for ages and then finally he slipped back through the window and was gone.

There was no trace that he was there.

It may have all just been a dream, but I knew it wasn't.

My heart was beating way too fast for it to just have been a dream.

Friday.

It was my favorite day of the week.

It was also my last day.

Today was my last day at Stars Hollow High.

It wasn't a huge lose though. I was still going to be seeing these people all the time. We all lived in the same town. I hadn't seen Jess all morning until I went to English.

He was sitting in his usual place and I sat right next to him wondering if maybe last night was a dream. But then he looked at me and I knew it wasn't. I smiled at him and he smiled almost shyly back at me. I went through the motions of that period and when we finally got to talk I turned and talked to him.

"Hey." I shyly greeted.

"Hey yourself."

"How are you?" I asked biting the inside of my cheek.

He shrugged, "not good and not bad."

"Oh."

We were quiet as everyone else chatted around us.

"So..." I started to say.

He smirked at me. "So...I heard that you like horror movies."

I blushed and shrugged.

"Occassinally. I kinda like all movies."

"Well, this really good horror movie just came out. You know, if you not too scared you should come and see it with me."

I smiled, "really?"

"yeah...you know, if you want to do something tonight we can see it?" Jess asking me out was almost like seeing a more vulnerable open side of him.

I didn't realize how much I enjoyed that side until he let me see it.

I nodded eagerly. "I would love to."

He nodded slowly his lips turned up into a half smile.

"Cool."

Then the bell rang and we separated.

The rest of the day I was thinking about my so-called date with Jess. I didn't really pay attention in my classes either which was uncharacteristic of me, but I just kept telling everyone it was Friday a day that everyone should be uncharacteristic for. Finally the final bell had rung and I was almost bouncing out of the school.

Then I remembered I had to clean my locker out since it was my last day and everything. As I took down the posters and pictures I had put up since getting my locker Freshman year I continuously imagined my date with Jess tonight.

Was it even a date, or was it a friends thing? Was this a good sign or a pity sign? I hoped I wasn't expecting too much. What if our movie tastes differ too much? I thought about all of this as I loaded my box up and closed my locker for the last time.

I started walking across the hallway too busy thinking about all of the things I could mess up on tonight that I didn't see a tall dark shadow looming right in front of me.

"Sorry." I replied automatically.

The guy apologized and helped me clean up.

"It's my fault. I wasn't looking where I was going."

I looked at him and awkwardly shifted my weight as he held 'Rosemary's baby' and 'The Fountainhead' by Ayn Rand.

"Yeah..." I said wondering if I should mention that he was holding my books. He was also looking at me, but in a different way.

"Sorry but...those are mine." I said nodding at my books since my hands were full.

"Oh. Sorry." The guy said handing me everything back.

"Yeah..." I said smiling awkwardly at him then trying to get around him to leave.

"I just moved here, I'm Dean by the way."

"Rory." I said biting the inside of my lip and trying to be polite.

"Rory. That's an unusual name. I just moved here from Chicago."

"Oh."

"It's a lot different."

"I bet."

A long silence pursued.

"See you around." he said smiling at him.

I nodded and tried to muster a smile back. I wasn't really concentrated on him though, my mind was too giddy for tonight.

(A/n: how was it?)