Doesn't It Usually End With A Wedding? Chapter 2: Day 2
Disclaimer: All characters belong to Amy Sherman-Palladino3. The story was based on ASP's Gilmore Girls and I am just continuing.
AN
HEY GUYS! So, I was wondering if you thought Chapter 1 was too long? It probably wasn't but I am a paranoid person so… I am going to keep going and this chapter might be shorter but, I can't make promises because I just keep going and it comes out as it is. So, here we go!
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"COFFEE IS NEEDED!" Lorelai yelled walking down the stairs of the crap shack. April, who was already awake, was scared out of her mind at the sudden noise.
" You do realize that it is 9:30 in the morning? And I have been up since 6 waiting for you guys?" April asked. She was amazed at how the Gilmore Girls bodies worked. They had gone to bed at 2 am, with April falling asleep at 10, and had eaten all the junk food in the world and still were as skinny as sticks.
"Yes, my darling, but, us Gilmores, do not fancy waking up at such a horrible hour. RORY! ARE YOU UP?!" She yelled to Rory while explaining to April.
"Mom, I am here. Relax." Rory said walking into the room.
"Luke's?" Lorelai questioned, already completely knowing the answer.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the Captain Obvious award goes to: Lorelai Victoria Gilmore!" Rory announced walking out the front door.
—Luke's Apartment—
"Tell me why, again, you are staying here and not at your house?" Jess questioned pulling a white t-shirt over his head.
"Because, one, it would be weird for a guy walking around the house with 3 almost grown women, and two, I need to be here early in the morning and Lorelai stays up until 3 am almost every night the girls visit. I'll go back when they're gone." Luke replied.
"Why don't they just sleep here. Other than Lorelai, at least. I mean, two beds. 1 queen, 1 twin, 1 couch. Its perfect for the three of us." Jess grabbed his black blazer and shrugged it on.
"That is a good idea. I can talk to Lorelai about it. We'll see." Luke replied, heading to the fridge to grab a bottle of water.
"I'm just saying, if you're going to be married, you should be together for 1 week, not married." Jess said, running down the stairs.
When he got down the stairs, he felt 17 again. Yup, he just referenced a Zac Efron movie. He saw the Lorelais in the corner talking away in the corner catching up. She looked so simple, not like she had at the airport. At the airport, there was makeup covering every part of her skin making her look plastic. He grabbed a order pad and headed over to their table.
"Good morning, Jess." Rory said, looking up at him with a huge smile. He hadn't seen her smile like that in years. It wasn't a nervous smile, or the fake one she plastered on without even noticing thinking that she was happy when she wasn't. It was Rory Gilmore's smile. His Rory Gilmore's smile.
"Good morning, Rory. Lorelai. April." He smiled back at Rory after nodding at Lorelai and April. "So, other than coffee, what am I getting you guys?" They ordered and he wrote everything down on the pad before going back behind the counter, giving the order to Ceasar, and grabbing a couple mugs and the coffee mug, heading back to their table.
"Coffee. Coffee. Decaf." He filled up the girls cups finishing with April's cup. Walking back behind the counter, he picked up the book he always hid under the counter, and "read" (really listening to the girls' conversation) just like he did when he was younger.
"So, plans. Go." Lorelai said to the other two.
"I'm gonna walk around the town. Make the rounds saying hi to everyone then, probably end up helping here." April said, stuffing her mouth full of pancakes.
"Bridge, reading." Rory replied. "Thought I could catch up on my books and breathe the Stars Hollow air."
"I guess I'm alone at the inn today. I guess my daughter and future daughter don't like me. Will you remember to invite me to your wedding?"
"Maybe. I'll have to see." Rory answered keeping up while April was questioning what the two ladies in front of her were thinking.
—THE BRIDGE—
Rory was laying down at the bridge, face up, eyes closed. She was so tired, she could fall asleep in a matter of two seconds. All of that vanished though when she heard creaking at the side of the bridge.
"I knew you would come, eventually." Rory said aloud, already knowing who was there without even opening her eyes.
"Why, Miss Gilmore, it would have to be eventually, considering that this is my most favorite spot in the world. But, the thing is, it looks odd without you reading here." Jess said to Rory. It did look weird without her reading there. That was all they did in that spot other than the picnic. She now opened her eyes but kept looking up.
"The thing is, I miss reading but, I haven't read much in the past couple years and thinking about it, it hurts. I mean," Jess now sat lay down next to her. "When you go to college, everyone thinks that you have to read a billion books but, I didn't read at all for pleasure. It was all for studying and classes."
"You know, I haven't read much lately either. I mean, I live in a bookshop and I don't read. I thought coming back here would help but, it feels weird being here and having to worry about grown-up stuff." Jess just kept looking at the sky.
"I want to be 17, Jess." Rory said.
"I do, too, Rory. I do, too."
"Jess?" She had tears in her eyes now.
"Yeah, Rory?"
"Why don't you hate me?"
"Because, I've tried but, every time I do, I see you arguing to me how Hemingway is boring and laughing right here that day of the picnic."
"Why did you leave?" She asked it abruptly and immediately regretted asking in the first place.
"When?"
She hesitated. She didn't know exactly which time. The one after their accident? At graduation? When he said 'I love you'? There was a long pause.
"Because I cared about you too much to be ruined by me." He said, explaining each time all in one sentence.
"Oh." It was all she could say.
"Jess?" She was now sniffling.
"Yeah, Rory?"
"I'm sorry" By now, she was full on crying. She couldn't help it. She had hurt him so many times and he acted like it was nothing but, it hurt her, too. To hurt someone she had once loved so badly but, he still always was there for her.
"I am, too, Rory."
—THE BUSHES NEXT TO THE BRIDGE—
"When are my cousin and future sister going to wake up, Lorelai?" April asked, trying to be as quiet as possible.
"I wish it were that simple, honey."
