Unexpected Love ♥
Important info: This is set towards the end of Gilmore Girls season 6. Truncheon Books has already had their open house, so Rory and Jess have had their last scene together on the show. I'm planning on changing what happens on Gilmore Girls, mainly there will be no April and Luke/Lorelai are still engaged and will have their wedding during the story. As for One árvore Hill's, this is set in season 5, right after 5x08. The rest should be explained throughout the story.
Oh, and later on when I talk about the Subsect, I kind of make up my own idea of the book. We never really know what the book is about, so I made it about Stars Hollow. I know very original, lol.
Here we go!
Brooke was in the middle of packing her bags when she suddenly exclaimed, "You know this place is actually really cool. Maybe I should open a store here!"
Peyton walked into the bedroom with two cups of coffee and handed one to Brooke.
"Really Brooke? You just opened the one in árvore Hill, Bitchtoria would flip out on you! Not to mention the fact that the only times that we left the apartment in the two weeks that you've been here was to get food," Peyton said. "We don't even know what Philly is really like."
"Well, that's why you need me here, P.Sawyer. I can't leave you here all alone, especially when your coração is all broken. What if you turn suicidal?" Suddenly Brooke gasped. "Or worse! What if you get really depressed and fall for a really ugly guy and then you guys get together and you have his kids? I don't want my neices to be ugly!"
"Ok, first of all...chill! segundo of all, my coração is not broken," she put her hand up to ward off any of Brooke's remarks about that statement, "Next, I am not going to commit suicide, and my kids would be gorgeous no matter what!" She stuck her tongue out to Brooke which Brooke reciprocated, "Finally, you have to go início today, or your mom will personally come up here and drag you home, and I'm sure you don't want to ruin your pretty clothes with all of that dirt."
"Ok, that last statement was true. However, that first statement is probably the biggest lie I've ever heard. Come on Peyton, just tell me what happened. I came all the way here with you to Philly because you said you needed a fresh start, but before I leave I have to know why you moved here." Brooke said.
"I just need to get away from there, Brooke. There's no big reason, I'm just tired of that place, and I couldn’t be around them anymore." Peyton didn’t have to elaborate on who she meant por “them”, Brooke knew perfectly well.
Before long, Brooke’s cab pulled up in front of the apartment building. Peyton picked up the bigger of Brooke's bags and lugged it to the cab. Brooke followed closely behind with her other bags. While the driver crammed the bags into the cab, the girls quickly hugged goodbye and tried to keep the tears at bay.
Peyton watched Brooke's cab drive away. Then she went back inside. She gathered her and Brooke's coffee cups, washed and put them away. She looked around the house, hoping to find something to occupy her time. Finally she decided that she would just go walk around, and hopefully she would find something to do. She gathered up her bag, keys, and phone. Considering how pretty the dia was, she decided against taking the Comet and decided to just walk. There were a few clouds, but that would just make her walk cooler. In the hope of finding a música store, she took off walking.
An hora and a half hora later Peyton left Record Breaker Incorporated with a bag full of new music. She was about half way back to her apartment when she felt a raindrop fall on the very tip of her nose. Within a minute, she was soaked. She quickly ducked into the first store she found, and saw that she was in a book store, one that Lucas would have loved. Her coração instantly clenched at the thought, and she tried to turn around and walk out. That’s when she slipped and dropped her bag of CD’s.
“Nice taste.” A voice, just to her left, said. She looked over to see a young man, about her age, gathering her CD’s up. He had messy brown hair, and deep brown eyes. She thought she saw some pain behind his eyes, the same pain that she saw in her eyes when she looked in the mirror. He handed her the bag of CD’s, and then offered her his hand.
“Thank you.” Peyton said, while she stood up, her eyes still locked with his.
“No problem.” He responded. “So do you have a name, or do I get to just call you whatever I want?”
For a moment she was tempted to ask what he would call her, but finally she said, “Uh, I’m Peyton.”
“Well, Peyton, I hope you find whatever you came in here for.” He said, before turning around, when he reached the door he turned back around and said “I’m Jess, por the way. I was just about to close, but feel free to hang out until the rain stops.” Then he went through the door that said ‘Staff Only’.
Peyton wandered around the store, her fingertips barely grazing the spines of the old books on the shelves, seeing classics such as Wuthering Heights and Pride and Prejudice. She headed back towards the front of the store, and found the Staff Recommendations. She felt the familiar feeling in her chest when she saw the cover of An Unkindness of Ravens. The card underneath it read:
“This author is able to convey the drama of a small town remarkably through his words. The characters stand out vividly on the page. It’s as though you are seeing the scenes play out right before your eyes. Definitely a novel that you should not miss.” J.M.
Peyton’s hand reached out towards the book, almost as if she was under its spell. That’s when her eye was caught por another, unfamiliar, book. The Subsect por Jess Mariano. Her curiousity piqued she read the card underneath:
“The small town depicted in this novel seems like such a fun place to live. Although the author describes it as ‘crazy’ and ‘psychotic’ I believe that would be part of its charm. I especially adore the characters Victoria, Duke, Jeff, and Tory. Definitely a must read.” R.G.
Intrigued por the book’s recommendation, and wondering if this town could possibly be mais psychotic than her own início town, Peyton found a assento and began leitura the book. She was so entranced, that she didn’t notice the guy from earlier standing por her side.
“Oh, you don’t want to read that. It’s really not good.” Jess said.
“I disagree! I think it’s amazing, and I’m only on the first chapter. I bought it and everything” she said. “Besides if you don’t like it why was it in the ‘Staff Recommendations’? Don’t you have a say of what goes there?” Peyton said.
“Of course I have a say, but there are two other guys who work here. Matthew and Chris.” Jess said.
“Well it was neither one of them then.” Peyton stated “The card was written por somebody with the initials of R.G.”
“Well, I don’t know who else would write a card for that book.” Jess said, when he was suddenly struck por an odd thought. “Wait, what did you say the initials were again?”
“R.G, why?”
*Flashback*
“You know what I'm gonna do when I see it in the store?” Rory said.
“What?” Jess asked.
“You know that section toward the front, the staff recommendations? I'm gonna grab a copy of your book and put it in that section, and then I'm going to write my own little recommendation on a card and attach it so people see it and buy it.” Rory said.
*End flashback*
“Are you okay, you have a really weird look on your face.”
“Uh, yeah, I’m fine. It looks like it has stopped raining, and I really need to close the store up now.” Jess said.
“Yeah, I really need to get home, anyway. It was nice talking to you.” Peyton said as she gathered her stuff and stepped out of the shop. She turned around just in time to see him lock the door and turn the lights out.
Once she made it back to her apartment, she pulled the book out of the Truncheon Books bag and began leitura it again from the beginning. por this time she had figured out that the Jess from the store was the same Jess Mariano that had written the book. The only thing that she couldn’t figure out was who the R.G. person was who had had made him so upset over their recommendation card.
As she lay in her cama that night, the finished book on her bedside table, the only thing that she could think of was him. And this time it wasn’t the usual ‘him’ that usually haunted her every thought. Instead of blonde hair and blue eyes all she could think of was brown hair and brown eyes.
“I guess I’ll have to call Brooke tomorrow and tell her that one of her predictions is starting to come true, minus the really ugly part anyway.” Peyton thought before she drifted off to sleep.
