Chapter 1-

"I need coffee!" Lorelai exclaimed while pounding her empty coffee mug against the table.

"Lorelai, will you calm down. You're scaring away the customers!" Luke shouted in frustration. He was wearing the usual: a plaid jacket, blue jeans, and his backward baseball cap.

"What kind of diner doesn't have coffee? That is a crime. That is a sin. That is…"

Luke interrupted Lorelai, " Look, if you want coffee there is a "dainty" little restaurant down there that would love to serve you. But if your going to stay here, BE QUIET!"

Lorelai didn't have many options. She needed coffee. A person like Lorelai who has drunk coffee every morning of her life had come to depend on coffee. However, she was not about to go to a "dainty" restaurant where they served coffee in floral cups and there walls were yellow and just plain ""dainty". Lorelai laid her head down on the table and groaned with affliction. Lorelai gave Luke a dirty look, folded her hands, and mumbled a few words under her breath.

Luke looked at Lorelai sympathetically, "Look, Lorelai. I don't know what happened. One minute the coffee pot was full and…"

Rory finished Luke's sentence, "Working?"

"Exactly," Luke confirmed, " I don't know what happened or who or what did it, all I know is it needs to be fixed." Luke pressed a few buttons, but nothing happened.

Lorelai lifted her head from the table; rage was in her eyes. "Jess."

Luke looked was perplexed, "Jess?"

"Jess!" Rory was frustrated; time after time, despite her continuous efforts, Jess managed to get himself in trouble. Rory knew that Jess was probably the reason the coffee machine was broken, and it wasn't the first time he had gotten himself in trouble.

At that exact moment, Jess walked into the room. Everyone already concluded that Jess was at blame and thirty furious people, who hadn't had their coffee, had their eyes peering at Jess.

"The coffee machine has been emptied and is broken. What did you do Jess?" Luke had his arms folded together, and was so mad at Jess it seemed like smoke was coming out of his ears and his baseball cap was rising due to the imaginary horns that were forming.

"I wonder how that happened." Jess said sarcastically, pretending to be in absolute shock.

Loralai got on her feet, slammed her mug down on the table that made a loud "clang", and stomped her, and walked over to Jess. "Look mister, I don't know why you desire to make everyone's life miserable, but I do know that there are a lot of angry people in this diner including me who, let me add, haven't had there coffee, so unless you want to mess with a 32 year old woman who hasn't had her coffee and is in a bad mood I suggest you FIX THAT COFFEE MACHINE!" Lora Li was ready to smack him with her leopard- print purse.

Jess rolled his eyes, "Luke, I am only doing this to shut up your girlfriend." Jess plugged in the cord into the socket, slung his backpack over his shoulder, and walked out the door.

"Hey, you will never act like that to me or Loralai again. You hear me mister?" Luke scolded Jess, but Jess ignored him and continued walking. Rory chased after Jess who was now about ten feet away from Luke's Diner.

"Jess, wait!" Rory staggered to Jess; it was hard running in her high healed, black, clunky, bug stomping shoes. She finally caught up with Jess. "Why did you do that?"

"What?" Jess combed his hand through his thick, black hair.

"You know what you did." He had a blank look on his face, "Break the coffee machine."

"Oh that. Rory, Rory, Rory," He swung his arm around her shoulder, " Don't get so worked up. That's probably the worst thing that will every happen to in this small, monotonous town: the coffee machine breaks. And just for the record, it wasn't broken. It was unplugged." He started walking again.

"You owe Luke an apology." Rory proclaimed.

"Rory, make you a deal. You agree to meet with me at the bookstore at 5:00, and I will apologize."

Rory was uncertain if she should accept the offer. She did in fact have a boyfriend, and Jess had a mischievous look on his face. "Ok. Promise." She felt like she made a deal with the devil. But deep down inside, she was looking forward to it.

There was only one word that you thought of saw Jess: trouble, but for some reason that appealed to Rory.

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Jess was now a block away from Luke's Diner and hidden by the mob of people who crowed the streets of Stars Hollow.

Jess smiled mischievous, "I got myself I date with Rory."