If asked, she'd say it was a crazy whim that led her into Stars Hollow Books one day after dropping in on Rory, but the truth was a little different - Paris Geller followed a boy; still, it was a genuine accident, a complete coincidence, when they both reached for the same book at the same time, his hand landing on hers like some ridiculous movie meet-cute, the kind of which Paris never expected to happen to her.

Jess stared at her so intensely she felt she was burning up from the inside but couldn't seem to mind at all; "Please tell me you're not one of those girls who expect me to be a gentleman and let you just have the book, because in case you didn't get it already from the last time we met, I don't exactly do backing down any more than you do."

Paris' heart swelled and confidence grew ten-fold on realising he remembered her and that he was smiling at her even as he threatened to snatch the precious book away; "I'll let you have it, if you promise to read aloud to me sometime," she said, tilting her chin like a challenge - the look on his face was worth a thousand books.