A/N: New story guys! Again, it will be AU, but only a tad. A new character here and there. But, you'll get the background momentarily. I figured I'd start this new story that has been in my head forever as my other story, 'Gilmorized', is coming to a close. So, here it is.

Background:

Okay, Luke's friend Anna had a baby at a young age and left her to Luke when she ran away. Um, for now, I think that's all you have to know, so let's start!

Disclaimer: Don't own…

On with the story…

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Chapter 1: Rae, Bella, and Key

Luke's Diner was in the middle of the morning rush when a girl around 21 came in with a younger girl around five asking, no, demanding for coffee. The 24-year-old owner told them to sit at their regular place at the counter and he would be there soon.

The younger girl saw another girl around her age standing at the end of the counter and got up to see who she was.

"Hi, I'm Lorelai, but my mom calls me Rory, who are you?" Rory introduced herself.

"I'm Annabelle, but Luke calls me Anna," Anna replied.

"Hmmm, can I call you Bella instead?" Rory asked enthusiastically.

"Sure, but I want to call you something different, too, Rory is too hard to say," Anna answered and tapped a finger on her chin in thought.

"Okay."

"Oh! I've gots it!" Anna exclaimed after a few moments, "I'll call you Rae for the 'r' in Rory," Anna informed her.

"Ohhh, that's pretty," Rory said with a smile.

"Rory!" someone yelled from behind her, "Rory my mom let me come here to pick you up for school!"

"Hi Lane, this is Annabelle, but Luke calls her Anna and I call her Bella," Rory introduced.

Lane extended her hand, "Hi, I'm Lane and I'm Korean, everyone calls me Lane."

"Oh, well let's think of a nickname for you," Anna suggested.

"Okay," Lane agreed and the girls stayed silent for a few moments thinking of a nickname for her.

"Oh, you said you're Korean right? Well, let's call you Key!" Anna said excitedly.

"Oh, okay!" Lane clapped her hands together.

"Annabelle Rose Linden," Luke called.

"Yes Luke?" Anna called back.

"Where are you?" he asked.

"At the end of the counter with Rae and Key," Anna answered him in a 'duh' tone.

"Who are Rae and Key?" Luke asked as he walked to the end of the counter, "Oh, Rory, Lane, how are you?"

"Good," they answered.

"Who are Rae and Key?" Luke asked again.

"Rae," Anna pointed to Rory, "and Key," she pointed to Lane.

"Oh, okay, well, Lorelai is going to take you to school," Luke told her.

"Alright, who's Lorelai?" Anna asked.

Luke smiled and bent down so that he was eye-level with her, "Lorelai is Rory's mother. You guys are all going to Stars Hollow Elementary together," Luke explained.

The three girls smiled and started to squeal in excitement.

"Can we go now mommy!?" Rory exclaimed as she came around the counter so that her mom could see her.

"Of course sweets, let's go," Lorelai smiled and ushered the three girls out of the diner.

They walked into school, Lorelai behind them, Anna holding on to one of Rory's hands and Lane holding her other, ready to take on the world.

6 Years Later…

"Guys, we're going to middle school next year!" Anna exclaimed as they were getting ready for their graduation ceremony from Stars Hollow Elementary.

"I know," Lane squealed, "I am so excited!"

"Rae? Aren't you excited?" Anna asked Rory.

"Oh, yeah, just a little nervous," Rory confessed.

Anna slung an arm over her shoulders, "There's nothing to worry about. You worry too much," she smiled and gave Rory's shoulder a squeeze, "You're going to do fine," she insisted and touched their foreheads together.

"Yeah, I guess," Rory said as she scrunched up her face and they all giggled.

"This is it," Lane said as they went to sit down.

"Yup," Anna agreed and they all took a collective deep breath as they found their seats and waited for the ceremony to begin.

Meanwhile in the crowd, Lorelai and Luke were also waiting for the ceremony to start.

"Our girls are growing up so fast," Lorelai gushed.

"They are," Luke agreed, "They're going to start junior high next year."

"I know, it sounds so crazy," Lorelai admitted.

"Do you remember when they met? They made those crazy nicknames for each other. I still don't get them," Luke confessed.

"How do you not get them?" Lorelai asked incredulously, "Rae is for the 'r' in Rory, Bella is for the end of 'Annabelle' and Key is for 'Korean'," she explained with a 'duh' tone.

"Well sorry I don't speak girl," Luke quipped.

"It's okay, we don't expect you to," Lorelai replied with a quirky smile and Luke rolled his eyes.

After that faithful day in the diner, the three girls had been best friends and Lorelai and Luke had taken it upon themselves to see that it never changed, that all of them were taken care of and given all of the love and affection they needed. Granted, Rory was the only one actually blood related to either of them, but they were still 'their little girls' and they supposed they always would be.

"Lorelai Leigh Gilmore," the principal called.

"Oh, that's my girl!" Lorelai started to stand up and clap and cheer and soon Luke joined her.

"Annabelle Rose Linden."

They repeated their previous gestures.

"Lane Kim."

Lorelai and Luke started to cheer, but were given the evil eye by Mama Kim and immediately stopped, looking at Lane and smiling encouragingly. Lane smiled back and walked back to her seat. Their girls were going to middle school.

3 Years Later…

"Mom! Where is my sparkle-y bracelet that Bella gave me!?" Rory called upstairs to her mom.

"In the cup next to the sink!" Lorelai called back.

"Thank you," Rory said and went to retrieve it. She didn't even want to know what it was doing there.

"Okay, we have 5 minutes to get to Luke's for breakfast if you want to be on time," Lorelai said as she stumbled down the stairs trying to put her shoes on.

"Okay, I'm ready let's go!" Rory said two minutes later and they made their way to Luke's diner.

"So, how does it feel to be starting high school?" Lorelai asked nonchalantly as they entered Luke's.

"I'm about to freak out," Rory confessed honestly.

"Rae!" Anna exclaimed as soon as they stepped into the diner.

"Bella!" Rory replied and they ran to each other full speed. They met each other in the middle of the diner and practically tackled each other to the ground, but Anna being a gymnast, held their balance.

"Where's Key? We're going to be late," Anna asked.

"I'm here, I'm here!" Lane said as she entered the diner, out of breath.

"What took you so long? We've got to go," Anna said anxiously and started to jump up and down a bit.

"Two coffees and two donuts to go Luke!" Rory called to the back.

"Coming right up," Luke replied and got the order to give to Rory and Lane, "Here you go, good luck," Luke smiled and watched as they left the dinner. The trio ready to take on anything.

"High school Luke, they're going to high school," Lorelai said quietly as she took a seat at the counter.

"I can't believe they're so old," Luke replied.

"Make them stop growing," Lorelai pouted.

"I wish I could. I swear, if any guy even thinks about coming near them, I'll ring their neck," Luke growled.

"Down Cujo, I'll know any happenings in that department," Lorelai assured.

"I just don't want them hurt," Luke said with a sigh.

"We can't protect them forever," Lorelai told him.

"I wish that wasn't true."

"Me too, Cujo, me too."

2 ½ Years Later…

"We're juniors," Lane gushed to Rory and Anna while they studied at the Crap Shack.

"That we are," Rory chuckled.

"We're going to be seniors next year and then go off to college," Lane continued.

"That's the plan," Anna conceded.

"How long have we had this plan?" Lane asked.

"Since we were in like 5th grade, right Bella?" Rory asked.

"Yeah, it was after our graduation and we were eating ice cream at the diner. We all talked about where we wanted to go to college and planned out our whole futures. Rory's going to Yale and if Lane and I don't get in there, we'll go to some school close to Yale," Anna reminisced.

"What if I don't get into Yale?" Rory asked.

"You will," Anna insisted.

"Well, hypothetically then."

"Then we make sure we apply for a good school that's close to Stars Hollow," Anna shrugged.

"Sounds good," Lane shrugged also and they went back to studying.

Diner

"Luke's," Luke said gruffly into the phone.

"Hey Luke, it's Liz…"

"What? Liz…No, I have another kid living with me…My friend Anna left her to me when she ran away…Yeah, it's a girl…Annabelle…Liz, I don't know if this is going to work!...Fine!...If she doesn't want to do this, then I'm sending him back, or somewhere else. Do you understand?...God…TOMRROW?...Liz…Ah jeez!" Luke hung up the phone and rushed out the diner door telling Caesar he was in charge on the way out.

Crap Shack

Rory was the most conservative of the 3, but that wasn't to say that she was a saint. She hadn't had a boyfriend, but she had been kissed at the various parties that Anna dragged her to. She loved reading and was an amazing student. Every parent's dream kid.

This brings us to Anna. Anna was by far, the most wild out of them. She had had many boyfriends and was not at all a virgin. She was currently dating captain of the football team, Dean Forrester. Anna was captain of the cheerleading squad, so it was expected. She used to be a gymnast, but when she entered high school, she switched to cheerleading.

Lane wasn't too wild or too conservative. She was just in between Anna and Rory. She liked music and knew everything about any band worth knowing. Her very Christian oriented mother disapproved highly of the rock music that Lane often listened to so Lane was forced to hide her CD's under her floorboards.

In the simplest of words, Rory was the logical one, Anna was the wild one, and Lane was the somewhere-in-between one.

As Rory was helping Anna with her trigonometry homework, Luke burst in through the door and came into the living room.

"Luke-"

"A boy is moving in with us," Luke interrupted Anna.

"What?" she asked surprised.

"My sister Liz is sending her son because she can't handle him and he's supposed to live with us, but if it's too weird for you, I'll send him to live with…someone else," Luke said quickly.

"What—Why? Oh my God," Anna groaned.

"I know, I'm so sorry. Liz is a total flake. Oh yeah, you're probably going to have to share a room with him," Luke informed her.

"WHAT?" she exclaimed as she stood.

"I know, I'm sorry, I'll just send him to someone else. It's fine," Luke sighed and started for the door.

A grin spread on Anna's face, "No, Luke it's fine. When's he coming?"

"Tomorrow," Luke smiled a small smile.

"Okay, give me your credit card and Rae, Key, and I will go shop for some furniture," Anna extended hand.

Luke cautiously handed over his Visa card and left with a warning not to go crazy.

"Shopping time girlies!" Anna exclaimed as Luke shut the door.

Rory and Lane giggled and followed Anna out the door. They went to Hartford mall and quickly bought all of the necessities. They loaded everything up in Luke's pick-up and made their way home. After deciding how they were going to arrange everything, the three moved everything around and put together all of the furniture. They may have been girls, but growing up with Luke had taught them about handy-jobs. They could do putting things together and technological things. Anything that had to do with electric or plumbing was left to Luke.

Anna plopped down on the newly made bed and wiped sweat off her forehead, "This guy better fucking appreciate this. I am so tired," she whined.

"God, me too. Why did we ever let Luke teach us how to do all that? Now we always have to do it and we get all tired," Lane replied.

"I get the shower first!" Rory exclaimed suddenly and made a mad dash for the diner's bathroom grabbing a towel on the way.

"What!? No fair!" Anna yelled, but Rory was already starting the water.

"I hate this guy and he's not even here yet," Lane muttered.

Next Day

Luke was at the bus stop picking up his nephew, Jess. He had left a note telling Anna where he was seeing as she was on the treadmill with her iPod on when he left. She was wearing a deep, magenta-like pink sports bra top and tiny white shorts with her pink shocks on. Her hair was in one French braid with tiny wisps of hair sticking to her sweat-coated face. Anna was stunning with natural platinum blonde hair, golden high-lights and bright green eyes. She didn't even notice that Luke and Jess had entered when they did. Her eyes were closed and her iPod still blaring.

"Okay, this is the apartment. The girls fixed up your part of the room for you yesterday," Luke told Jess.

"The girls?" Jess questioned.

"Bella, Rae, and Key…err…Anna, Rory, and Lane," Luke stumbled.

Just then, Anna sang out to a part in the song that was playing in her ears and stepped off the treadmill causing the guys to notice her, "Dip it low, pick it up slow, roll it all around poke it out," she took off her shoes and stuck her perfectly shaped butt out to the song and continued singing, "like your back roll!" and she rolled her back.

"Anna!" Luke yelled as Jess gaped at the gorgeously hot girl dancing for him.

"Pop ta pop ta pop that thing. I'ma show you how to make your man say 'oh,' "Anna didn't hear Luke and continued dancing seductively to the music with her eyes closed, running her hands down her body as she did so.

"Anna!" Luke called again. She didn't respond so Luke ran up to her and grabbed her shoulders. Anna opened her eyes and when she saw Jess smirking wildly amused at her she smirked back and winked then looked sheepishly at Luke and pulled one of her head phones out.

"Hi Luke," she squeaked.

Luke sighed and let her go, "Anna, this is my nephew Jess, Jess this is Anna. You'll be sharing a room with her."

Jess' eyes lit up at the new information and he nodded in her direction.

"Anna, if you could show Jess his room and everything, I need to get back to the diner," Luke said gruffly.

"Sure Luke, we'll be fine," Anna smiled at Luke and watched as he closed the door behind him and went back downstairs to the diner. Anna turned and started for the bedroom that she and Jess were to share.

She and Luke had decided to buy the building next to them in order to make the apartment bigger when Anna turned thirteen. She needed her privacy. Their room wasn't huge, but it wasn't small either. Anna, Rory, and Lane had set it up so that there was a bed, dresser, and night stand on either side of the room. On the back wall were two book shelves, one had knick-knacks, a few school text books and a bunch of trophies and medals and the other one was bare with nothing adorning its shelves.

"So, this is our room. The side that looks like no one's lived there is yours. We didn't know if you needed the book shelf, but mine was filled so we bought one in case you did," Anna explained while Jess trailed behind her, openly checking her out.

He walked up behind her and bent his head low so that his mouth was next to her ear, "We're not related, are we?" he whispered, his breath tickling her neck.

Yet she wasn't at all fazed. She turned around, smiled coyly, and ran her hands down his chest dangerously low on his torso, "Nope," and she turned around to put her iPod on her bedside table and grab a towel to wipe off her face and the rest of her sweaty body.

"Good," he smirked and dumped out his army duffel bag that he had been carrying. On his bed spilled a mound of clothing mixed with many books.

"My, aren't we hooked on phonics?" Anna raised a perfectly shaped eyebrow at him and put a hand on her hip.

"Better than listening to Lizzie fuck a new guy all night every night," Jess replied sharply and started shoving his clothes into the provided dresser and putting his books haphazardly on his book self.

"Sounds it," Anna replied, unfazed.

Silence overtook the room as Anna observed him and Jess banged around his new room putting everything away. As she was walking out of the room to go take a shower he lightly slapped her ass. Anna jumped and sharply turned around. She walked straight up to him with a dangerous look in her eyes.

"You may think you're all high and mighty because you've fucked every girl who've ever wanted and your life might be so fucking screwed you don't know the difference between reality and your fiction, but this is my house and you will not disrespect me. If you think in that fucked up brain of yours that my life is perfect because I live in his perfect little small town, then you're greatly mistaken. My life is just as fucked up as yours," she seethed and scowled at him.

He scowled right back, "You don't know anything about me," he replied through gritted teeth.

"Oh is that so?" she said sarcastically and then darkly, "You've got a druggie mother and dead-beat father who walked out years ago. You drink and smoke and fuck every girl you can because you think it will ease your pain. You watch your fucked up mother go out every night and bring home all the different guys who use her for sex, drugs, and booze then leave her brokenhearted and poor. Every time it happens you pick her up off the floor and tell her you'll get some money then you go out and sell drugs to keep your mother and yourself fed. You hate everything about yourself, but you can't stop because you're on the worst downward spiral there is and you can't pull yourself out."

"Maybe you're right, but what's so fucked up with your life huh? What gives you the fucking right to judge me when your sitting pretty with your perfect dad and friends huh?" he asked.

"Fucking idiot, you don't listen do you? We're not related by blood or by marriage. My mom left when I was four and dumped me on Luke. My dad overdosed before I was born and my mom was on coke when she was pregnant. She watched me try to scratch my eyes out and be strapped down when I was born and went into rehab to get clean. Sure, she stopped the drugs, but that didn't keep her from drinking. Every memory I have of her she's drunk off her ass. She decided she didn't want to play mommy anymore and left full guardianship to Luke who took me in and raised me. So before you judge me, wake up from your delusional fog of self-pity and realize that you're not the only fucked up one in this world," Anna hissed and marched off to the bathroom without letting Jess reply.

Jess scowled at the door for a few moments before grabbing a leather jacket, even though it was 80 degrees out, and book then running out of the apartment, slamming the door on his way out. Anna heard the slammed door and flinched.

Later; Four in the Afternoon

Jess had returned to the apartment two hours later to find it empty. He assumed Anna was out with her perky cheer friends. He had seen the numerous trophies. He pulled out his walkman and lay down on his bed to start another book. Twenty minutes after that he heard a door slam and saw a body hurl onto Anna's bed and curl up into a sobbing ball. He had seen Liz like this numerous times, but she was his mother, this was the girl he was sharing a room with and had been in a nasty fight with a couple hours ago. He threw the thoughts of their fight aside and walked over to her bed, walkman and book discarded on his own bed.

"Anna?" he said cautiously and put one knee on the bed to stable himself as he leaned over to see her face.

"Go away Jess! I'm not ready for round two!" Anna managed to get out through her tears.

"Come on, I promise I won't yell, what's wrong?" Jess tried.

Anna simply sniffled in response and let out a few more sobs. Jess pulled her to face him and into his arms. She buried her face in his chest and held tightly onto his shirt.

"Why?" she asked.

"Why what? What's going on?" Jess questioned softly.

"I can't believe he cheated on me," Anna said, anger making its way into her voice.

"Who?" Jess asked.

"Dean, my ex-boyfriend," Anna replied bitterly, "I want revenge. I'll have to consult with Rae and Key."

Neither noticed he was still holding her.

"Let's get some revenge right now. Where is he?" Jess suggested.

"Basketball courts with his friends," Anna answered him with question in her voice.

"Come on," Jess said, "up, up!" when she didn't move.

"Where are we going?" Anna asked.

"We're going to the basketball courts after you fix your make-up," Jess replied easily with a maniacal smirk plaster to his face.

Anna smiled back, their fight forgotten, and went into the bathroom to doll herself up.

After she had gotten ready, she and Jess left for the basketball courts where Dean and a few of his friends could be seen shooting hoops. As they neared the entrance Jess suddenly pushed Anna up against fence and pinned her there. She was holding onto the fence with both of her hands by her sides as Jess had one hand next to her head and the other strategically placed on her hip, sliding a couple fingers under her tank top. Jess smirked at her leaned close to her ear.

"Make it look like you're flirting with me and follow my lead," he whispered and she nodded against his cheek.

She giggled girlishly and played with his collar idly while using her other hand to hold onto the arm against the fence and rake her nails along his bicep lightly. He chuckled along with her and kept leaning to her ear and whispering nothings for show. He caught a glance at the boy she had pointed out as her ex-boyfriend and once he caught sight of the fury in his eyes he smirked evilly and leaned to her ear once more.

"Now for the finish. Follow my lead," he whispered and nipped on her ear lobe gently.

Anna lulled her head back and smiled softly. She then wrapped her arms around his neck and he in turn placed both of his on her hips pulling her close to him. They both leaned in until their breaths mingled and their noses touched, teasing Dean without his knowledge and finally closing the gap and kissing. He slid his left hand down her thigh and picked it up to the side of his body, holding it there, his hand under her flipping pink skirt. As he had picked up her leg, she had put her foot behind his calf and let it drag up the back of his leg as her foot rose with the rest of her leg. That had infuriated Dean even more. Their lips were moving over each other's roughly and Jess wondered where in this small town she had learned to kiss the way she was. Her hands moving expertly under his shirt over his well-defined chest and the way she wrestled easily with his tongue. And just when he thought she couldn't possibly heat this kiss up anymore, she ground her hips and arched her back into him. Try as he might, he couldn't suppress the groan that was bubbling up in his throat which she eagerly swallowed, moving her hands to his back and digging her nails into him. He pulled away, but not before taking her bottom lip between his teeth, and descended upon her neck. She threw her head back to allow him more access and anchored her hands in his hair. He nipped his teeth at her pulse point and she couldn't help but moan in pleasure which caught the attention of not only Dean, but the rest of his buddies.

"Dude, who is that with Anna?" Trevor asked Dean who was staring at them with fire in his eyes.

He didn't answer him, but started to march to the entrance of the courts and over to Anna and Jess. They had gone back to making out, their tongues battling fiercely with each other and Anna had decided to wrap both her legs around Jess' waist, her arms tightly around his neck as he held her thighs.

"What the fuck are you doing Anna?" Dean yelled.

Anna and Jess slowly pulled away and she replied with a smirk, "Welcoming my new roomy to Stars Hollow."

She then let her legs down, smoothed down her skirt, shirt, and hair, then pulled Jess by his hand off back to the diner. Jess smirked at Dean over his shoulder and pulled Anna into his side by her waist, giving her butt a squeeze before again, strategically placing a couple fingers under her tank top as they made their way back to the apartment.

You wouldn't believe how red Dean's face was unless you saw. Man was he pissed.

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A/N: Please don't kill me! I swear that this will be a Lit! Also, don't expect the rest of the chapters to be this long. This is simply how it turned out. Tell me what you think! There will be more Lit in the next chapter I promise! Press the pretty little button!