A/N: Well, I must admit I was kind of sad when I saw there weren't more reviews, but then again the last chapter was kind of intense – which I don't usually write – so maybe it sucked. I don't know. Lol. But of course thanks to those who did review, you guys are awesome with a big A! And since it didn't get so many reviews, I thought I would give you all a personal comeback.
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Chapter 5: Pulling a 'Rain Man'
If Jess had any doubt about the fact that the fight had been serious and that she truly cared about Finn, it quickly faded away as he saw none other than Rory Gilmore running toward him like he was just a big cup of coffee, calling out her name.
"Rory," he said smiling as she stopped, panting like an idiot. "Am I seeing things or did you just run?"
She held her hand to her chest and took a deep breath. "Oh God," she mumbled when she was finally able to speak. "I actually ran to stop you from doing something idiotic, like speaking to Finn, and then you already have!"
Jess raised an eyebrow. "How do you now I spoke to him?"
"Besides the fact that you are standing less than five feet from his dorm-" she began and gave him a look. "-there's the fact that you are smirking, and you, Jess Moody Mariano, only smirk when you just pissed someone off."
"So little faith you have, my friend. Have you ever thought about the chance that he isn't even in his room? Maybe at the pub?" He shrugged, then added, "After all, if he isn't an pathetic drunk then I don't know what he is."
"Jess," she warned, her voice dangerous and her eyes narrowed. "What the hell did you say to him? I really don't need you making things worse. You know, if it wasn't for you-"
"-Oh no," Jess interrupted her and shook his head. "You can blame me for many things, but not this. I didn't ask you to keep our friendship a secret, you did. And I sure as hell didn't tell you to keep April a secret."
She sighed and closed her eyes briefly. "I know," she answered quietly. "This is not your fault, but I meant what I said Jess. If you really are my friend, then just back off for now."
"You want me to leave." It was more a statement than question.
Rory nodded her head slowly. "I really appreciate you and April coming to visit me, but right now is just not a good time," she explained. "You are going to be in Stars Hollow for a while, right? Maybe we can see each other next weekend?"
Slightly smiling, Jess nodded his head. "Sure, I figured it would be a good time to visit Luke, with the wedding and all... Well, I'll try to rip April away from those Ritchie Rich wannabe's."
"Don't mock, they are nice people," Rory told him.
"They might be," Jess said nonchalant and shrugged. "But I don't really care. See you next weekend Rory."
She nodded and gave him a faint forced smile as she turned around and walked to Finn's dorm. "Oh, but Jess," she said and turned around, looking him in the eye. "If you did anything to hurt Finn or make things worse, don't bother hold your schedule free for me next weekend."
Jess simply smirked and turned around. "I'll be seeing you," he promised, his back still to her.
Rory sighed deeply, not quite sure if she should be relaxed or worried by Jess' nonchalant way of acting. Shaking her head, she decided to let it go for now, she had more important things to take care of.
She turned to the door and looked at it closely with widened eyes, as if it held the answer to all of her questions.
"God damn it!" She groaned and ran a hand through her hair. Slowly she lifted her hand and knocked on the door, but got no response. After several tries, she got annoyed and simply opened the door and went inside.
Neither Logan nor Colin was home, it looked like, but she could hear low music coming from Finn's room, the depressing tunes of 'How to be dead' by Snow Patrol.
"Finn?" she said quietly and opened the door to him room.
She saw him immediately, lying on his bed with a bottle of whisky or rum in his hand, she wasn't really sure, a painted look on his face. It didn't surprise her much, if he wasn't at the pub, he was at home, getting shit-faced. It was his way of handling things.
"Finn," she said again and slowly slipped in the door, closing it quietly behind her.
First now he seemed to notice her and sat straighter up in the bed, his eyes questioning, but also softening a little.
She went to his stereo and turned off the music and then walked to his bed, but didn't sit down. "Are you drunk?" she asked quietly, motioned with her head to the bottle in his hand.
He looked down at it for a few seconds, then shook his head. "You know me, one of my great qualities is I can drink 12 beers, or in this case, half a bottle, and still only be tipsy," he joked half-heartedly as he put down the bottle.
She nodded her head and smiled nervously. "I'm sorry," she blurted out and took a seat next to him on the bed, her hands tapping her thighs nervously. "I am, please believe me. I should have told you about everything. I was just confused. I mean, I knew you would be mad about the Jess thing, but I needed to be friends with him. Maybe you don't understand that and never will, but I do. I couldn't be mad at him, we had to make up. If not for me, then for mom and Luke. Think of how weird things would be if we were still 'enemies'. I just had to," she rambled, her hands in the air as she desperately tried to make Finn understand.
"Rory, I-" Finn tried to say but was interrupted by Rory.
"And April… That is even worse, she is my sister and I didn't tell you. I was confused, I couldn't understand and I really needed to understand it before I told you. And you are probably thinking 'understand what?'" she said in a mockingly manly voice. "But it's not every day you find out that you have a sister, stepsister. But I should have told you, I know. But things were complicated and I weren't thinking clear, my mind was clouded. Please just forgive me Finn. I am so so so sorry."
"Rory," Finn said with a sight, a faint smile on his lips. "It's okay, I understand."
Rory lifted an eyebrow and frowned slightly. "You do?"
"Yeah, you just explained it to me and I get why you hit it. You wanted to deal with it yourself and you were right, had you told me about Jess I would have been mad and had you told me about April there's a big possibility I would have freaked out, and you didn't need that. I was just a little… hurt," he admitted.
"I know and I'm so so so-"
"-If you say 'so' once again I'm not sure that I can resist the desire to strangle you," Finn teased her.
Rory laughed and nodded her head. "You got it, no more saying 'so'." She paused and then added, "After that one of course."
"You are a strange little creature."
"Well, thank you!" she said in a proud voice, making Finn shake his head. "So, we are good now?" she asked, once again serious.
"We are good now," he assured her.
Her smile brightening and she quickly threw her arms around him. "God, I missed you Finn!" she said sincerely. "And don't even try joking about the fact that it has been less than an hour since we last talked."
"Wouldn't dream of it," he said and hugged her tightly to him. "Plus, I completely understand. I'm brilliant, who can be away from me for too long?"
Rory let go of him and slapped him playfully. "Sometimes I wonder why I'm even friends with a drumhead like you."
"Because of my hot body?" Finn asked and lifted his eyebrows. "My amazing charm? Or my sexy smile? It's hard to pick, isn't it?"
"Maybe because, despite your strange humour and ridiculous ego, I love you?" she said, almost asked.
Finn shrugged nonchalant. "Maybe," he said dryly, then cracked a smile. "And you know I love you too, even if you are a seriously overanalyzing weird bookish creature. And that nice petite body of yours doesn't hurt either."
"Aw, my heart is melding at your romantic words," Rory mocked and held a hand to her heart. "Come here," she said and leaned forward and quickly pecked his lips. When she pulled back she found Finn staring strangely at her. "What?"
His greenish eyes drifted from hers to her lips, and she felt a sudden ache in her chest.
Almost automatically, as if they had no control over their bodies, they moved closer until there weren't much space between. Emerald shining eyes met blue sparkling eyes and slowly, carefully, they leaned closer until their faces were less than two inches apart.
"Finn?" Rory asked slowly, her eyes quickly looking up at his eyes then back down to his inviting lips.
He didn't say anything, he barely looked like he even heard her. Instead he leaned in and softly laid his lips on hers, giving her a sweet, almost innocent kiss. She didn't respond at first, frozen from surprise and shock. But slowly as she began to realize what was happening, she began to move her lips.
Finn's hand found the back of her head and he pulled her closer to make the kiss deeper, greater, as he slowly licked her lower lip, asking for permission. She gave it to him and opened her mouth slightly as her tongue met his.
It should have felt weird, strange to kiss your best friend, but all that were on their minds was the great pleasure they both felt. The kiss was intense, fulfilling and so god damn hot that both their minds were spinning.
Just as Rory was about to snaked her arm around Finn's waist, they heard the sound of a door opening. They quickly pulled apart as both of their head snapped to the door, waiting for it to open. It didn't happen, but instead they heard laughter from the common-room, one they recognized as Colin's.
Rory looked back at Finn, her eyes wide and her mouth open, at loss for words.
"Um," she began hesitating, hoping he would continue but unfortunately he didn't. "Well, I think… I got to go." She hurried up from the bed and smoothed out her shirt, avoiding eye-contact with Finn.
He cleared him throat and slowly nodded his head. "Yeah, all right," he said quietly, his hand nervously playing with his dark hair. "So, I'll see you soon?" He looked at her questioning and raised an eyebrow.
"De-de-definitely," Rory stuttered and mentally slapped herself. "Bye," she said at last and offered him a weak smile and then quickly walked out of the room, quietly closing the door behind.
"Oh God," Finn groaned and buried his head in his hands.
His door quickly flung opened and he lifted his head, hoping to see Rory. Instead he saw Colin and Logan, looking at him questioningly.
"What do you want?" he snapped.
"Rory looked kind of upset. Are you still fighting?" Colin asked, ignoring his friend's attitude.
"Why?" he asked, crossing his arms over his chest. "What do you care? You don't even know Rory."
Logan raised an eyebrow. "If you haven't noticed, we-" he began as pointed to Colin and himself. "-are your best friends. Could it be that we actually care about you?"
"How kind of you. But everything is just peachy."
Colin and Logan shot each other a look, but didn't say anything as they went out the door and closed it soundly behind them.
Letting out a sight, Finn grabbed his flask of alcohol and laid back on his bed. "Here we go again," he mumbled as he took the first sip.
For the second time that day, within one hour, Rory found herself running. Though this time she wasn't running to Finn, more like running away from him.
"Wow Rory," Joe, the coffee-guy, said as he saw her running toward the coffee-stand. "Where is the fire? Other than the one that is burning in my heart for you, babe."
She shook her head sadly. "Sorry Joe, but I don't have the energy to come up with some smart comeback," she said and she began searching for her money.
"It's serious then. Well, this is on me, feel better," he said and handed her a cup. "The usual; one large black coffee."
"Thanks Joe, I owe you." She gave him a sincere smile and went to sit on the nearest bench. She took a quick sip of her coffee and moaned in pleasure before pulling out her phone and hitting the familiar number.
"Hello?" a groggy voice answered.
"That's how you are answering the phone?" Rory asked shocked. "And here I was calling you to whine about my problems, sounds like you are even worse off. What happened?"
"Well, my darling daughter, my new fiancé got a call from Lane. Apparently Kirk-"
"-Oh that is not good," Rory interrupted.
"You got that right kid. Apparently Kirk was making some trouble at the diner and Lane and Caesar didn't know what to do." There was a sight on the other end. "So our weekend had to come to an early end, since Luke was desperately needed."
"What did Kirk do?" Rory asked interested.
"Complained over a slightly pornographic omelette Caesar made," Lorelai said dryly. "Kirk could see things on it that I don't even dare think. Let alone tell me innocent kid about."
"Mom, you do realize I'm not a virgin?" she said quietly so nobody else could hear her.
"But you are like a virgin," Lorelai protested.
"I swear to God if you start singing 'Like a virgin' I'm hanging up right now," Rory threatened.
Lorelai sighed dramatically, but said nothing.
"Thank you!" Rory said with a smile. "So, I never knew Kirk had such a dirty mind!"
"Well, he always did like running around the town nude or just being naked in general. That should have been the first sign," Lorelai said. "But you called, ready to whine about something. Is Finn still mad?"
"No," Rory began slowly and shook her head. "We… Made up." She cringed at the double-meaning.
"So what's the problem?"
"We… made up," Rory said slowly and took another sip of her coffee before going on. "And when I say made up, I mean made out."
"What! No! Dirty!" Lorelai asked, her voice fill of amusement and excitement. "You and hot Australian guy Finn made out? Oh my God, mommy want details and fast."
"Well, it just sort of happened. I was apologizing and we were hugging and I gave him a quick peck on the lips and then… it happened."
Lorelai squealed pleased. "Oh goody. Was it innocent and sweet or sticking your tongue down each other's throat-hot?
"Mom!" Rory said embarrassed and blushed slightly. "Next thing you want to know where our hands were."
"Actually that would be-"
"-Don't even dare!" Rory warned.
"Boring," Lorelai mumbled. "But fine. So tell me, how was it? Okay? Good? Great? Mind-blowing? Tell me, I want to know. I'll tell you how Luke is!"
Rory let out a disgusted noise. "Mom, you do realize that is the man I practically see as my father?"
"You are avoiding the question!"
Rory let out a sight and quickly drowned the rest of the coffee. If she was telling her mother this, she really needed caffeine. "It was…" she paused and searched for the right word without giving too much away. "Different. Like nothing I have ever experienced before."
"That's a good thing, right?" the older brunette asked.
"Maybe," Rory said secretive.
"Fine fine, leave me out in the dark. So what happened afterward?"
"Well," Rory began and let out a pained noise. "I pulled a Rain Man."
"You didn't," Lorelai said unbelieving.
"Oh but I did," Rory assured her and nodded her head. "We heard a door and quickly pulled apart. Everything was pretty awkward, so I said I would leave and he said that we would see each other soon, and I said de-de-definitely," she said and stuttered mockingly. "I totally embarrassed myself."
"I'm sorry hon. At least it was only Finn," her mother said, trying to comfort her. "And well, the kissing, we always knew that was going to happen. You have the whole Ross and Rachel thing going on."
"I'm not sure if that's a compliment," Rory said dryly.
"I'm not either," Lorelai said. "So, you are homeless again? Where are Jess and April?"
"I asked them to go, I really just weren't in the mood for a visit," Rory told her. "And now there is a bigger chance that Rosemary will actually let me stay in her dorm. I swear, I'm never letting Paris and Doyle have another sex-marathon!"
"Hon, you do know it is your dorm too."
"I know," she began sadly. "But I don't want to ruin their weekend, things has been off with them lately and Paris will kill me if I do something that will make them drift apart."
"And then there is the fact that if you go to your dorm, there is a big chance that you will see Doyle's butt. Again," Lorelai stated nonchalant.
"That too." Rory grinned and stood of from the bench. "Well mom, I have to go. It will take me forever to find Rosemary and if I don't want to be sleeping on the streets, I need to start looking now."
"There is a strange little thing that is called a mobile. Actually, if I'm not mistaking, you are talking in one right now."
"You're funny mom," Rory said dryly. "Unfortunately Rose's doesn't work at the moment nor will she pick up when it's me calling. She has named her phone 'the man mobile' and unless you are a man, she's not answering." She rolled her eyes. "And people think we are strange."
Lorelai let out a laugh. "I do like the idea though. Then I wouldn't have to answer when it's my mother calling."
Rory shook her head and grinned slightly. "Bye mom."
"Bye sweets, call me when things are settled. Love you."
"Love you too," she said and hung up. Letting out a sight she began to search for her red-haired friend.