This is just a fun story I was writing that I want to dedicate to my boyfriend. He is a dirty pervert who got with me when I was barely legal (really he's only 6 years older than me) and I don't know how I would have gotten through the last 5 years without him. So, for our 5 year anniversary I decided to dedicate this silly story to him.

The story takes place somewhere between Seasons 2 and 3. Oh and for this story Tristan never left for military school. Let me know what you think!

Rory hated lying to her mom. She hated lying to her grandparents. But sometimes it really was necessary. She'd come to that conclusion after the latest fight between her mom and her grandparents. About her, and who she dated. Her grandparents had always hated Dean and didn't even know about Jess, who they would more than likely hate more. Her mom obviously hated Jess and loved Dean and she was determined to please her. But she had to please herself as well... the dilemma seemed overwhelming.

Rory had always been good at planning, good at organizing, good at doing what had to be done when it had to be done. Well this was just a new problem that needed a solution. Rory distanced herself from the problem, pulled out a notebook and started writing out possible solutions.

She started with the problem. She liked Jess. It had taken a monumental internal effort to finally admit that to herself. Well that wouldn't normally be a problem. She was pretty sure that Jess liked her too, or had liked her. But now he was with Shane, and they seemed to like each other a whole lot. Either way though, her bigger problem was that she was dating Dean. That wasn't even the biggest problem. The biggest problem was everyone else in her life. She couldn't tell her mom about it because her mom loved Dean. And hated Jess. And she could talk to her grandparents even less because they would be thrilled she didn't want to be with Dean, and then very disappointed that she liked someone so... well unsuitable. And just to complicate things further, Stars Hollow also hated Jess, and loved Dean. Rory wrote a colum for people who liked Jess (her) and who liked Dean (the town, her mom) and people who disliked Dean (her grandparents, Jess) and people who disliked Jess (pretty much everyone.

Rory had never given too much weight to what people thought of her. She hated the thought of anyone actually disliking her, and she was always nice and polite to people. But she wouldn't have cared if everyone hated her boyfriend, except... except that her mom would be gone for the entire fall semester and Rory would be staying with her grandparents. Rory loved her grandparents. She'd understood how her mom felt about them, could even see where it came from, but still there was a bond between them that her mom had never had with her parents. Still, with all these changes Rory didn't want to worry or upset anybody. Her mom might reconsider going if she knew that Rory's life was on the brink of a major change. Hell her mom reconsidered every other minute. The thought of not seeing each other for the entire summer was hard to deal with. Lorelai had been offered a chance to open an inn in Colorado, to really get to learn everything that was involved, to help set up everything. It was perfect preparation for opening her own inn, a dream she had had for a long time. So Rory was excited for her mom when the subject had first come up. But that still didn't help with her issues. There was no way she could date Jess while living with her grandparents, was there? And would her mom even go if she knew she was dating Jess? Lorelai trusted Dean. It had taken a while but they were even friends. Jess was a completely different story.

So this was the story behind the plan that she was quickly going to come up with.

The plan ended up being the most convoluted thing that Rory had ever conceived of. It was so confusing she was unsure of her ability to even organize it, much less pull it off. She arranged all the pieces of the puzzle on the paper and then organized them into concise, easy steps. Well it was easy on paper but thinking about actually going through with the plan made Rory suddenly drop back into reality. She wasn't the objective organizer now, she was Rory, the girl who had to break up with her boyfriend and hopefully get Jess... and then lie to everyone about it. Either way, she has to find a way to be in Stars Hollow at least some of the time or she would never even see Jess. Not to mention the girlfriend-ectomy she would have to pull to get Shane out of the picture.

Rory heard the front door open so she slammed shut her notebooks and tossed them under the bed, grabbing the nearest book to read.

She didn't even have a chance to see what it was before Lorelai burst into the room waving a cd.

"I got the new Tool cd!" she exclaimed proudly, ejecting Rory's cd, tossing it onto the bed and putting the new one in. Then she stopped short. "Mastering a new skill?" She asked, looking at Rory's book. Rory looked down to realize that her book was upside down.

"Oh... well sometimes math problems make more sense if you work them backwards." Rory explained. Lorelai gave her a strange look but then turned on the cd, blasting music into the room and banishing any possibility of studying anyway.

Once the cd was over and their ears stopped ringing Lorelai sat next to Rory on the bed.

"So I know we have talked about this before, but tell me how you feel about living with your grandparents. If you hate the idea or don't want to do it tell me." she said. Rory could tell that she was half wanting an excuse to stay. But no matter what, Rory was determined not to give her one. After all her mom had sacrificed for them, for Rory, there was no way that Rory was going to hold her back on.

"You forget, they like me." she said with a joking smile.

"You really aren't worried?" Lorelai asked.

"Not really. How bad could they be?" Rory asked. "Besides, it might be kinda fun. I'll get to know them better."

Lorelai shook her head. "You are amazing kid, you know that? Well then lets do a drill."

Rory groaned a little. "Not another one." she whined.

"You messed up last time. Okay, here goes." Lorelai stopped and adjusted her posture. She used her 'Emily' voice when she started speaking again. "Oh Rory you know I had the most wonderful idea."

Rory, knowing the drill, immediately yelled "NO!!" Lorelai smiled approvingly, then continued.

"You know what might be nice.." Rory cut her off to yell 'no' again, feeling distinctly silly.

"There was this boy I just know you would love." Lorelai went on.

Rory repeated her answer.

Lorelai started just spitting out random, and in her opinion menacing, words.

"Cotillion"

"No!"

"Coming out party"

"No!"

"DAR"

"No! NONO!"

"Vegetables"

"NO!"

"Poodles"

"NO!"

They both ended up laughing.

"You pass." said Lorelai. "I think you might be safe over there with my parents."

"I think so too. Don't worry mom, I'll be fine. And if I end up in a closet eating my pillow you can always fly home." Rory assured her mom.

Lorelai gave her a quick kiss on the top of her head. "Okay, I guess you probably will be fine."

"I will be mom." Rory told her.

Lorelai left the room and Rory pulled out her plan, going over it one more time. Things weren't all in place yet, and it wouldn't be easy, but she should be able to pull it off.

She picked up the phone and dialed Dean's number.

"Hello?" His voice came over the phone.

"Dean, it's Rory."

His voice sounded happier on the phone. Rory felt like a horrible person.

"After my mom leaves tomorrow do you want to come over? Things will be different once I move in with my grandparents and I thought we should talk about it." Rory told him.

"Sure. I'll come over after school." He told her.

"Okay, see you then." Rory hung up the phone. So she hadn't exactly lied. Things would be changing when she moved in with her grandparents, just not in the way he expected. But hopefully he didn't know that she was going to break up with him. If he came over early it would ruin everything with her mom.

Then she made another call. "Kim's Aniques." the voice on the other line answered.

"Hi Mrs. Kim. It's Rory." Rory said, trying not to sound intimidated.

"I'll get Lane." Mrs. Kim said.

"Actually, I was wondering if I could talk to you about something." Rory said.

"I'm listening." Mrs. Kim replied tersely.

"Well, Lane mentioned that you were going to be attending a workshop this fall. You know where you work for a printer printing your very own bible."

"Yes, I will be doing that." Mrs. Kim responded.

"Lane mentioned that you were looking for extra help and I was wondering if I could maybe help out after school a couple days a week." Rory asked hesitantly. She realized she had her fingers crossed which was a silly superstition, but if it helped...

Mrs. Kim seemed to consider. "Alright, you can work here Tuesday and Thursday afternoons from 3:30 until 6. I will get home around six. Since we are printing this by hand the bible will take a while to finish. I pay you $5.50 an hour. How does that sound?"

Rory smiled. "That sounds perfect. I'll be there. Thank you so much."

"Oh Rory, I heard that your mother will be in Colorado. You aren't going to be staying by yourself are you?"

"No, I'm going to live with my grandparents in Hartford."

"Good. A young girl should not be left alone like that."

"Right. Well I'll see you on Thursday." Rory was in a hurry to get off the phone and tell her mom about the job. And then spend those last few hours together.

"See you then. And Rory, don't wear anything from your mothers closet."

"I won't." promised Rory.

She put down the phone and ran into the living room with a smile on her face. "Hey mom, I didn't ask you about this first because I didn't know if it would work or not but I wanted to find a way to spend time in Stars Hollow and with Lane and maybe earn a little extra money so I'll be working at Mrs. Kim's Antique store after school on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Not long, just until 6 but I thought it would be fun."

Lorelai looked at her shocked. "Will Mrs. Kim be there?" she asked.

"No, she will be printing her own bible." Rory explained. Lorelai looked relieved. "That does sound like fun. Do you have the time?"

"Yeah the newspaper doesn't meet on those days and I'll still have time to finish all my homework. Plus Lane and I can do homework together when there are no customers."

Lorelai looked slyly at her. "And maybe her science partner will be there?" she asked, teasing Rory.

Rory suddenly realized that Dean was still Lane's lab partner. Why hadn't she thought this through?

"Oh, yeah he might be. Sometimes." She answered. If she couldn't convince Dean of her plan this could get very weird.

Lorelai smiled at her. "You two are so cute it makes me sick." she said. "Now lets eat massive amounts of food and watch three and a half crappy movies."

"Three and a half?" Rory asked.

"Thats all we have time for before you have to get to bed for school and I have to get to bed to catch the plane." Lorelai said. She looked sad at the prospect of leaving.

Rory felt sad too, but she forced herself to be cheerful. "But crappy movies are usually also short, so wouldn't we have time for all of them?"

"Nope I factored that in. Now do you want to watch the first or last half?" Lorelai asked.

"You pick. I'll call Chinese, you call pizza and start thinking about what you want to watch."

"Fine." Lorelai called and started dialing on her cell phone while Rory picked up the house telephone. As soon as she had ordered and set down the phone and met Lorelai in the hall.

"Should be here in twenty minutes." they both said at the same time. Just as they were deciding what movie to throw in the bell rang.

Rory jumped up and ran to answer it. Jess stood there sullenly, with a bag of food.

"Jess!" Rory said, surprised. "What are you doing here?"

He shoved the bag at her. "Luke knew that your mom was leaving tomorrow so he figured you were having a big night together. He sent over food."

Rory tried to get a read on him. She was so close to breaking up with Dean and being able to date Jess... if he wanted to date her that is. "Tell him thanks from us."

Lorelai came up behind her and Rory knew that there was no chance that Jess would say anything else.

"Oh food!" squealed Lorelai. She noticed Jess. "Are you waiting for a tip?" she asked, more rudely than she had to.

"Whatever." Jess said, turning around and disappearing into the night.

"That was mean." Rory said, turning to her mom.

"I'm just worried about him. And I won't be here to watch you." Lorelai said tightly.

Rory just nodded, grabbed the food back from her mom and headed into the living room. "At least now we have something to start out with." she said.

"I'm going to miss Luke's food." Lorelai answered, tearing into the bag. If Rory didn't want to talk about Jess she wasn't about to push her. Better that she stay away from him altogether.

They spent the next 6 hours watching movies, eating food and continuing a running commentary on how bad the movies were. By the time they crawled into bed they both passed out almost instantly.