It took her forever to take the suitcase to the café

It took her forever to take the suitcase to the café. Lily gave her the keys and left home. It was actually surprising that in the middle of New York someone would give the keys of their business to a girl they just met, but again, Rory had no plan in life and there she was, if she would have to be shocked by something, that would be her own behavior.

She immediately smiled a little at this thought and took all the strength she could to take the huge suitcase through the awful 12 steps to the door of her new house.

When she opened the door she found a small place decorated almost exactly as the café, but it had less furniture. There was a door at the end of the room that led to a smaller one with a shockingly big bed.

She left the suitcase on the floor, and bending in her knees she carefully opened it. The clothes occupied very little room in it, a couple of shirts, some pants and a bunch of underwear. She was never very in style, clothing was something you had to have in order not to get arrested on the street, but the other contents of the suitcase… those were her life.

There was books and cd's piled up, and also papers, tons of papers, with lyrics written on it, or draws, thoughts, colors, sounds… all those notebooks and papers screamed her name no matter how you looked at them.

The years of self-isolation had led to a lot of conversations with herself, and in order to keep her mind sane, she started pouring everything that came into her head into paper, and the result was her suitcase.

She carefully brushed her fingertips against every notebook, pondering whether or not get the stuff out of the suitcase. since she didn't knew how much time she's going to spend there she wasn't sure if this place should be established as her new home, and getting her personal stuff out of the suitcase would immediately make this place her first home.

After a few minutes of deliberation she got some sheets and the last notebook out of the suitcase and closed it tight.

"so much to tell tonight…" and with all the material she needed, pens, crayons, music blasting out of the mp3, and a glass of water, she sited on the couch and opened up her mind for hours.

The next morning she opened the café as promised. Not knowing exactly what to do she started the coffee machine and started wandering though all the cabinets, placing in her mind where everything was.

She looked at the clock, it was nine now, it's been an hour since she opened the café and there was no sing of lily.

"She really is trusting…"

She figured that if lily confided this place to her as if it was her own, she will definably acted like she owned it, so she plugged her mp3 to the speakers and played Green day rather loud.

As the lyrics of Dookie started panging out of the speakers someone entered the café.

Rory looked up from the book she was reading when she noticed the steps coming closer to her. She had a weird feeling on her stomach the moment he saw him. The kind of feeling you get when you're about to meet with an old friend, or when you see your idol on the street. She couldn't place what it was, she didn't know what attraction was, but never the less she brushed the feeling aside and closed the book ready to attend her first costumer.

When he got to the counter he frowned looking at her

"Who are you?"

"Rory Gilmore, Who are you?"

"A costumer, do you ask all your costumers their names?"

"I don't know, do you ask all the waiters their names?"

There was a pause while he pondered if he found her rudeness cute or annoying.

"wheres lily?"

"I don't know"

Ok, annoying, he let a frustrated sight, and she kept staring at him nonchalantly, after a few moments of silence she decided to ignoring him and went back to her book.

He just stood there, not knowing exactly what to do, this all seemed like april fool's day and he was thrown out of balance.

"Can you give me a coffee please?" he asked more softly this time.

Satisfied with his change of manners she looked up and casted a big smile

"Coming right up!"

Once again, he was shocked by this weird girl's behavior

"ok…"

in that moment, Lily appeared into the café, with her sunglasses on and practically floating at the feeling of not being so attached to her business.

"goooood morning everybody!"

Jess turned back and looked pointedly at lily

"Where the hell have you been, who is this?" he said pointing at his back, at Rory.

"Jesse, have you been mean to my girl? I know you don't like new people but I thought I had taught you some manners"

In that moment Rory placed the coffee in front of Jess and went back to her book, expecting to be invisible once again.

Jess looked at her and in that second felt like a jerk "Thanks… hey I'm sorry i acted liked that, I wasn't expecting a new waitress, Lily hasn't hired anyone since i know her"

"No problem" she said slowly without even looking up from her book. Lily smiled at her and jess frowned. Not used to receive such a cold treatment from a girl he took this as a challenge.

"Hey do you wanna make yourself a coffee and have breakfast with us, we always sit at that table an-"

"I don't have breakfast, thank you"

"You don't have breakfast…" he said stunned

She looked up from the book for the first time "exactly"

He stared at her for a couple of seconds until he snapped out of it determined. "ok no, that's not good" he mumbled as he made his way behind the counter as he owned the place and took the book out of Rory's hands, "Grimm brothers, I've read it before, its crap" he said as he threw the book in the air and went to the kitchen "come on, go sit, I'll make breakfast and take that stupid idea of no having breakfast out of your head"

Rory looked at the kitchen door shocked while lily leaned in the counter smiling. Once Jess was out of sight she went to pick up the book.

"Leave the book on the floor!" he shouted as he could see her, scaring her and making lily laugh "Go sit!"

"ok…" A very freaked Rory went to sit next to lily who was know in one of the tables.

"thank you honey, you not only made my day with this little scene but you also got more than two lines out of that boys mouth" Lily said still laughing at her.

After a few minutes, Jess got out of the kitchen with three plates stuffed with food, and put them on the table. He sited next to Lily and passed a place to Rory.

"Try"

She took a bite of the food and started chewing, when she looked up she found both of them staring expectantly at her.

"its…good"

She hesitated not knowing what to say. Jess frowned and leaned back

"Just good?"

"I'm sorry, I'm not a big food fan…"

Both Jess and Lily gasped in a dramatic way and looked horrified at the girl.

"how can you not like food??" Lily asked with a shock look in her face

"It´s not that I don't like food, is just that… It's just food you know?" Rory trying to explain not knowing what the big deal was

"Ok, are you telling me that when you tastes your mother´s food you don't feel something inside" Jess asked, a second before he was forcefully beated in the ribs by lily "ouch! What??"

"I don't have a mother" Rory said brushing it off.

"Oh, I´m sorry" Jess said not knowing how to proceed exactly. "well are you planning on staying here a long time?"

"I don't know…" Rory said frowning.

"Well make up your mind girl because this cutie here makes the best food ever, you´ll learn to love food" Lily said pointing at Jess.

Rory smiled at the craziness of this two people. When she went to New York, she expected to be alone and safe with herself. Not she was sucked into this crazy world called Lily´s café.