A/N: Once again I am very, very, veryy sorry I haven’t been able to update. With this week being vacation and my being sick I had time to write so I am updating this story and my other Lit fic. Please continue to read and review because reviewslove!! Thoughts are in italics!!

Oh I just forgot!! Dean didn’t meet Lindsey in this story so he is still single!!

Chapter 7: Keep Your Thoughts Safe

“Mom can you call Jess and Luke for me, and tell them I’m getting out today?!” Rory asked enthusiastically.

“Sure sweetie.” Lorelei said kissing Rory’s forehead and walking out of the room.

Rory was happy, but nervous at the same time; she worried that when she got back to Stars Hallow they would treat her differently than before. She shook the thought from her head and started packing all of her books, and clothes that had been strewn around her hospital room.

She stopped what she was doing when she found Howl; she opened the book and saw notes scribbled in the margins of the pages. Dodger, she thought smiling to herself, it’s the book that started everything between them. She can remember that day he had stole it from her room when she wasn’t looking, the next day when he went to give it back to her she saw notes on the pages and said ‘I thought you didn’t read much.’ and he replied smirking ‘How much is too much.’

She missed those days when everything was fairly simple there were barely any complications, until he showed up. When Jess came to Stars Hallow everything that was stable in her life was then in question, her relationship with Dean, her mom, and the entire town. No one thought that her feelings and thoughts would be altered just because of the new hoodlum in town, but they were and she would never be the same.

A tear fell onto the page and it mixed together the words on the page, she smiled closed the book, and held it closely to her chest.

“Hey kiddo, what’s wrong?” Lorelei asked frowning.

“Nothing, just…..remembering things.” Rory said looking up at her mom through blurred vision, still smiling and clutching the book close to her. She slowly put the book on top of everything in her bag and closed it.

Lorelei didn’t know weather to tell her or not. When she called Luke he had told her that Jess and Dean had gotten into a fight in the middle of town, and Jess had been arrested not just for that, but another reason he wouldn’t say. She decided not to tell her and ruin her happiness.

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Jess stormed out of the diner and walked where his feet lead him. He stood outside of the Stars Hallow bookstore and smirked, his second favorite place in town. He walked into the store and immediately thought of Rory, maybe I should get her something.

There was so much that she would like, but what was something unique that she was bound to use all the time? He was looking at the book shelves and then he saw Howl, the book that started everything with him and Rory. I had read that book more than 40 times when I took the book from her room and wrote the notes in the margins, Dodger he smiled to himself. He continued his search for a gift, when his eyes fell upon a black leather bound journal with a silver spine, perfect. It wasn’t much but he knew Rory would like it; he bought it and walked out of the store.

He went to Rory’s house, the lights were out and the grass turning a yellow color from the summer heat and it was growing longer then usual. Just another sign that they still weren’t home, he dropped his head and sighed when an idea came to him. He went to the shed in the back yard and got out the lawn mower and sprinkler, after mowing the lawn for an hour it was finally done and he was sweating in the heat, he needed to get inside. The turtle! He thought to himself lifting up the statuette a shining gold key underneath it. With that he let himself into the house; it was too quite for the Gilmore household he wasn’t used to it.

Jess went to the refrigerator and opened it, leftover Chinese food, a bag from Luke’s, moldy cream cheese, soda; well at least they have soda. He sat at the kitchen table and took a sip from the can, I wonder if they have post its he thought getting up.

He turned on the sprinkler and walked away, it felt good to do something nice for someone, even if it was for his girlfriend who tried to kill herself because of him.

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“Well that’s strange. Who put the sprinkler on? And why is the lawn mowed?” Lorelei asked taking Rory’s bags out of the car trunk.

“I don’t know.” Rory said running to turn it off shielding her head from the water with her hands. “It was nice of whoever did it though, our grass was dying.”

When they walked inside Lorelei went to the message machine, while Rory went to put her stuff into her room.

“Hey Lor its Chris, I heard about Rory. Call me back, love you bye.” 2:08 p.m. June 19th.

“Lorelei Victoria Gilmore when you get this message call me back immediately.” 7:37 a.m. June 20th. Well that one is getting answered last Lorelei thought to herself.

“Ummm hey Lorelei…it’s Luke when you get back call me. I don’t really know where Jess….. went, we sorta…got into a fight and he stormed out. So if you know anything, just give me a call, bye.” 6:45 p.m. June 21st.

“End of messages.” Said a monotone voice from the machine.

As Rory walked to her bedroom she stopped when she reached the door there was a pink hello kitty post it stuck on it. She peeled it off and read the scribbled handwriting:

Rory-

When you get in meet me at the Gazebo.

Oh, and thanks for the soda!!

Love,

Pedro the Friendly Neighborhood Landscaper

Rory smiled to herself put her things in her room and walked out.

“Hey where ya going?” Lorelei asked.

“I have a hunch of who our new landscaper is.” She said smiling.

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“I especially liked your pick of the hello kitty post its.” She whispered in his ear sneaking up behind him.

“Just call me Pedro.” He stood up smirking and kissed her.

Jess wrapped his arms around her hips “It’s good to have you back.”

“It’s good to be back.” She draped her arms around his neck and kissed him passionately.

“Wait! Before I forget, I have a gift for you.” He said taking out a black leather bound journal with a sliver spine handing it to her.

She opened to the first page and in a neat handwriting it said:

7-21-01

Dear Rory,

This is a place where you can write whatever is on your mind and no one will ever read it, poems, diary entries, short stories, a place where your thoughts are safe from others judgments. Whatever happens in the future always remember that I’m here for you and love you.

Love Always,

Dodger

“I love you.” She said hugging him and resting her head on his shoulder.

It started to get darker “Do you want to come back to my house?” Rory asked.

Jess nodded his head.

As they walked off together fingers enlaced Dean was glaring at them from across the street.

A/N: I hope you liked it!! Review, if you do I’ll write back!! I’m sorry to people who hoped for Rory to start therapy this chapter, but I started writing and this is how it turned out. Everything happens for a reason I guess. LOVE YA PEACE!!