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A Literati Story.
Part 2.
No letter. No fruit basket.JESS: I'm sorry, did I hear from you at all this summer? Did I just happen to miss the thousands of phone calls you made to me, or did the postman happen to lose all those letters you wrote to me? You kiss me, you tell me not to say anything. . .very flattering, by the way. You go off to Washington. . . then nothing. Then you come back here all put out because I didn't just sit around and wait for you like Dean would've done? And yeah, what about Dean? Are you still with him? 'Cause last time I checked, you were, and I haven't heard anything to the contrary. Plus, the two of you walking around the other day like some damn Andy Hardy movie. Seemed to me like you’re still pretty together. I half expected you to break into a barn and put on a show.
RORY: When did you see me with Dean?
JESS: At that stupid summer insanity plea the town put on.
RORY: Oh, I’m surprised you could see anything with Shane’s head plastered to your face.
JESS: You didn’t answer me.
RORY: About what?
JESS: Did you call me at all?
RORY: No.
JESS: Did you send me a letter?
RORY: No.
JESS: Postcard?
RORY: No.
JESS: Smoke signal?
RORY: Stop.
JESS: A nice fruit basket?
RORY: Enough!
JESS: Are you still with Dean? Come on, Rory, yes or no – are you still with Dean?
RORY: Yes, I’m still with Dean, yes!
Jess saves Rory.RORY: You don’t have to do this. I didn’t ask you to do this. I can just find someone else to do it. [Jess turns off the sprinkler] Aw, you made it look so easy.
JESS: Yeah, it was loose. You just had to press down and give it a good twist, that’s all.
RORY: Well, thank you.
JESS: You’re welcome. So things are good?
RORY: Oh, yeah, really good.
JESS: School?
RORY: Good.
JESS: Still gonna do the Harvard thing?
RORY: Yeah.
JESS: Good.
RORY: Yeah, good. So. . .[pager goes off] My pager.
He was right.JESS: Dean’s a jerk. Yelling at you like that, breaking up in front of everybody. . .the guy’s a total jerk.
RORY: No, he’s not. He’s right. Everything he said. All those things about you and me, all those things about me lying to him, and messing with his head. He was right. Well, wasn’t he? Fine, he was right about me, then. Now go away.
JESS: He was right. . . about all of it.
RORY: So, what now?
JESS: You’re definitely broken up with Dean?
RORY: Yeah, I’m definitely broken up with Dean.
JESS: Okay. I have to go take care of something then.
Finally.JESS: So.
RORY: So.
JESS: Here we are.
RORY: Yeah, here we are. So, tell me, what’s your decision about smoking that depending on?
JESS: On what’s gonna happen.
RORY: When?
JESS: Now.
[They kiss]
RORY: I’m glad you didn’t smoke it.
JESS: Oh yeah?
RORY: Yeah.
[they kiss again]
JESS: Well, whatever else happens between us, at least we know that part works.
Thanksgiving kisses.[Rory kisses him]
RORY: Hi.
JESS: Hi.
RORY: Later.
Fight.JESS: Hey, I’m doing my best. If that means I’m being a jerk, then that’s what I am. I didn’t even wanna come.
RORY: No one made you.
JESS: You made me. Now I’ve seen it all.
RORY: You embarrassed me in front of her.
JESS: That’s it, I’ve had it.
RORY: So have I.
JESS: If you’re gonna harp on this, I’m leaving.
RORY: Oh, great, so now I have to explain to my Grandma why my boyfriend who showed up a half-hour late with a black eye is walking out.
JESS: Well, you like making up stories in your head so that should be easy for you.
Make-up.JESS: This black eye screwed everything up.
RORY: Yeah.
JESS: Next time I go to your grandmother’s, I’ll try not to have one.
RORY: Next time?
JESS: Next time.
RORY: So what happened?
JESS: I don’t –
RORY: Come on. It wasn’t Dean, you can say.
JESS: Will that make you happy?
RORY: Yes, very.
JESS: Okay, I’ll tell you the truth, since we’re both so into the truth tonight. That’s what good relationships are about, right?
RORY: Right.
JESS: But you’ve gotta promise not to mock me ever, and please don’t tell anyone else.
RORY: Promise.
JESS: I was throwing a football with a buddy and got hit in the eye.
RORY: You poor thing.
Distillers.JESS: Hey. Figured I’d find you here. I mean, you say the word hockey, you say the word Rory, right?
RORY: What are you doing here?
JESS: Came to give you these.
RORY: Earplugs. What are these for?
JESS: I got tickets to the Distillers.
RORY: You did? For when?
JESS: For tonight.
RORY: Tonight? But –
JESS: I would’ve been here sooner, but I had to wait in line. So we should probably get going. I mean, we don’t wanna miss anything, right?
RORY: Hey, Jess?
JESS: Yeah?
RORY: When you get home, could you erase your answering machine without listening to any of the messages? That’d be great, thanks.
Late night chats.JESS: Hey.
RORY: Hey.
JESS: Bizarro day, huh?
RORY: Wouldn't wanna repeat it.
JESS: The inn's still closed?
RORY: Just ‘til tomorrow.
JESS: What caused it?
RORY: They're not sure. Something electrical, probably.
JESS: That's usually the culprit.
He looked it up.JESS: So, it’s been a couple days since you made the big decision. You still going to Yale?
RORY: Yes, I am. It’s got all the classes I want and some really great teachers, and plus, you know, as an added bonus, it’s really close to here.
JESS: 22.8 miles.
RORY: How’d you know that?
JESS: Do you Yahoo?
RORY: You looked it up?
JESS: Yeah.
RORY: You looked it up.
JESS: I just hit a couple buttons on the computer.
RORY: You looked it up.
JESS: I was bored. There was nothing on TV and I was fooling around, it was something to do, that’s it.
RORY: You looked it up.
Jess snaps.RORY: What's wrong with you?
JESS: Nothing's wrong with me.
RORY: Someone could've walked in that door.
JESS: And Santa Claus could come down the chimney, whatever.
RORY: You did not think that it was going to happen like this, did you?
JESS: I don't know what I think anymore.
RORY: Jess.
JESS: Rory, stop, just stop! I did not invite you up here, you came up here on your own!
RORY: [starts to cry] I don't know what I did. [leaves room]
JESS: You didn't do anything. Rory...
Jess leaves.JESS: I can't go to the prom. I couldn't get tickets.
RORY: Oh.
JESS: Sorry.
[the bus stops]
RORY: This is my stop.
JESS: Okay.
RORY: So, you'll call me?
JESS: Yeah, I'll call you.
Rory's last words.RORY: Jess, is that you? Jess, I'm pretty sure it's you and I'm pretty sure you've been calling and not saying anything but wanna say something. Hello? You're not going to talk? Fine, I'll talk. You didn't handle things right at all. You could've talked to me. You could've told me that you were having trouble in school and weren't going to graduate, and that your dad had been there, but you didn't. And you ended up not taking me to my prom and not coming to my graduation and leaving again without saying goodbye again, and that's fine, I get it, but that's it for me. I'm going to Europe tomorrow and I'm going to Yale and I'm moving on. And I'm not going to pine. I hope you didn't think I was going to pine, okay? I think. . .I think I may have loved you, but I just need to let it go. So, that's it, I guess. Um, I hope you're good. I want you to be good, and, um, okay, so, goodbye. That word sounds really lame and stupid right now, but there it is. Goodbye.
Jess' confession.RORY: You know, I have actually thought about this moment. A lot. What would Jess say to me I ever saw him again? I mean, he just took off, no note, no call, nothing, how could he explain that? And then a year goes by. No word, nothing, so he couldn't possibly have a good excuse for that, right? I have imagined hundreds of different scenarios with a hundred different great last parting lines, and I have to tell you that I am actually very curious to see which way this is going to go.
JESS: Could we sit down?
RORY: No. You wanted to talk, so talk. What do you have to say to me?
[Jess pauses a second.]
JESS: I love you.
Jess wants Rory.JESS: Come with me.
RORY: What?
JESS: Come with me.
RORY: Where?
JESS: I don't know...away!
RORY: Are you crazy?
JESS: Probably. Do it. Come with me. Don't think about it.
RORY: I can't do that. [opens the door and walks into her room]
JESS: You don't think you can do it but you can. You can do whatever you want.
RORY: It's not what I want.
JESS: It is. I know you.
RORY: You don't know me!
JESS: Look, we'll go to New York. We'll work, we'll live together, we'll be together. It's what I want. It's what you want, too.
RORY: No!
JESS: I want to be with you, but not here. Not this place, not Stars Hollow. We have to start new.
RORY: There's nothing to start!
JESS: You're packed. Your stuff is all in boxes. It's perfect. You're ready. And I'm ready. I'm ready for this. You can count on me now. I know you couldn't count on me before, but you can now. You can.
RORY: No!
JESS: Look, you know we're supposed to be together. I knew it the first time I saw you two years ago, and you know it, too. I know you do.
RORY: No, no, no, no, no!
JESS: Don't say "no" just to make me stop talking or make me go away. Only say "no" if you really don't want to be with me.
RORY: No!
Jess returns. Again.Rory: Jess, you've got such a great brain. I knew that if you could just sit down and stop shaking it around that you could do something like this. I knew it, I knew it!
Jess: I know you did.
He knows her more than you think.Rory: Jess, wait.
Jess: We shouldn't have done this.
Rory: He's just in a bad way lately.
Jess: He's a jerk!
Rory: He was. In there, definitely. I'm so sorry.
Jess: I read that guy the second I saw him. I should have begged off.
Rory: Well, I didn't want you to!
Jess: He'd better not come out here.
Rory: Please, Jess. He had a lot to drink. He's tired from traveling. This isn't him. I swear.
Jess: What the hell is going on?
Rory: I told you, he's tired! And his family's bugging him right now -
Jess: I mean, with you! What's going on with you?
Rory: What do you mean?
Jess: You know what I mean! I know you. I know you better than anyone! This isn't you.
Rory: I don't know.
Jess: What are you doing? Living at your grandparents' place? Being in the D.A.R.? No Yale - why did you drop out of Yale?
Rory: It's complicated!
Jess: It's not! It's not complicated!
Rory: You don't know!
Jess: This isn't you! This! You going out with this jerk, with the Porsche! We made fun of guys like this!
Rory: You caught him on a bad night.
Jess: This isn't about him! Okay? Screw him! What's going on with you? This isn't you, Rory. You know it isn't. What's going on?
Rory: I don't know... I don't know.
They kiss.Rory: I couldn't even cheat on him the way he cheated on me.
Jess: Who? Who cheated on you? That--that guy? (pauses in disbelief) You're still with him?
Rory: Yeah.
Jess: I thought everything was fixed.
Rory: Everything but him.
Jess: I hate this!
Rory: You should. I'm sorry.
Jess: You came here alone, to Philadelphia!
Rory: He was out of town.
Jess: I don't deserve this, Rory.
Rory: No, you don't. You don't deserve it. I just--I'm in love with him. Despite all the bad he's done, I can't help it. I'm in love with him.
Jess: (long silence) I guess I'll call Matthew's poet and ask him to explain love to me. Poets know all about it, right?