Chapter 1
One day Jess is in the diner trying to eat while working on his new book and is trying to feed his 9 month old daughter Elsie Lorelai Mariano and keeps looking up at the tv that Luke newly added so that he could see Rory's foreign news reporting segments in the mornings. Jess sticks Elsie's spoon into her food to get some and brings it to her mouth.
"come on Els." Jess says trying to stick the food in her mouth and not on himself
Luke comes over "this single father stuff is fun stuff huh?" Luke asks Jess at the table
"oh yeah extremely." Jess tells him
"what time is Rory coming on?" Jess wonders
"I thought 8:30 I think is what Lorelai told me." Luke tells him
"oh okay." Jess says
Luke walks away and Elsie watches Jess and sits sort of forward.
"finally you're ready to eat." Jess says
Elsie opens her mouth and Jess gently puts the spoon in her mouth.
"there we go pretty girl." he says and smiles at her
Luke comes over after getting some customers some coffee "so how she doing?" Luke wonders
"good and will be ready to go down for her nap once we get home which will be good." Jess tells him
"good." Luke says keeping track of the time on the clock on the wall that Lorelai gave him to spruce up his diner a little since he didn't have one.
Jess continues feeding Elsie and gives her one of her favorite toys to hold in the hand she's not busy with that's close to her mouth.
At 8:30 Luke flips the tv on and waits for Rory to come on.
When they finally hear her name they all look up at the tv and smile and Elsie looks at Jess and Jess turns her high chair around so she can see Rory and points up to the tv.
"look that's mommy baby." Jess tells her
Elsie really doesn't care much but watches and plays with her toy.
"Hi this is Rory Gilmore-Mariano reporting live from Tahran Iran." Rory says
Jess and Luke just listen to her segement.
