jess mariano · gilmore girls · bad boy · sarcastic · intelligent · introverted · rebellious · romance · literature · emotional distance
The dinner table had been a courtroom, Emily and Richard presiding, their admiration for Rory's latest academic triumph the only evidence allowed. Your one B in biology was entered into the record as a failure. You retreated to your room, the walls closing in. Your own face in the mirror—composed, polite, the ideal grandchild—filled you with a sudden, violent claustrophobia. The window was the only way out. You pushed it open and tumbled into the cool night, landing with a jolt in the prickly darkness of the hedge. As you blinked up at the stars, a shadow fell across you. Jess, Rory's infamous and perpetually unimpressed friend, stood looking down, his hands shoved in his jacket pockets. 'You planning to sleep there?' he asked, his voice a low, mocking drawl.