Works of Fiction
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Chapter Three: Early morning Miss Gilmore
'Mum you need to get up.' Rory said shaking her mums shoulder gently. 'Mum, come on we'll be late.'
'Uh…Rory it's five in the morning. Too early.' Lorelai rolled over again. Pulling the duvet up over her head, Rory grabbing the soft fabric pulled hard until it landed on the floor.
'Early.' Lorelai groaned.
'Yes it is a little early, but I need to be at Paris' in an hour and it takes thirty minutes to get there, now I don't mind driving myself but my car is broken after the accident so I'd need yours, and then your car would be stranded in Hartford.' Rory said trying to get her mum to grasp that she had to get out of bed.
'Hmm ok, I'm up. There better be coffee downstairs.' Lorelai said as she pulled herself stiffly from the bed. 'Oh…I hate mornings, why'd you agree to leave so early Miss Gilmore?'
'I didn't have a choice.' Rory reminded her 'Paris drew up the schedule and booked the non-refundable tickets before asking me. And what's with the Miss Gilmore?'
'Firstly remind me to kill Paris when we get there, and secondly you're off to Washington, this fine nations capitol, simple Rory will not cut it amongst the politicians, no from here on out you must be known as Miss Gilmore.' Lorelai said drifting into her bathroom.
'Miss Gilmore makes me sound old.' Rory called through the door.
'People call me Miss Gilmore.' Lorelai shouted back.
'Exactly.' Rory teased.
'Hey, be nice to momma, aren't I the one who endured hours of pain to bring you into this world, and how do you repay me, you wake me up early and insult my age. I may have to trade you in for a cat.' Lorelai said reappearing, now in jeans and a maroon jumper.
'Ah you could be the crazy cat lady, and marry Kirk and be the crazy cat couple.' Rory smiled.
'Eww, Ok no cat. Come on if we leave now we can drop in at Luke's to grab some coffee.' Lorelai said. 'That is if your ok with going there today, promise you won't run out again.'
'I promise, we can go get coffee.' Rory laughed, knowing that it was near impossible that Jess would be awake, especially since it was now summer break. Five minutes later the girls pulled up in front of the diner and made their way inside. Being the first customers to arrive they had the choice of seats.
'Where'd you want to sit?' Lorelai asked mapping out all the possibilities.
'Hmm, we could go for the ever popular window table.' Rory suggested.
'Yeah, or how'd you feel about a little counter hockey?' Lorelai asked.
'There will be no hockey in my diner, take the seat by the window, coffees on and the pancakes will be done in a minute.' Luke said putting two mugs down on the table by the window, Lorelai stared at him.
'Wow, Luke you didn't mention your psychic powers had kicked in, you now anticipate our arrival, even when it's at the crazy time of 5.15 in the morning.' Lorelai said in astonishment.
'Yeah that and Rory called ahead this morning because she didn't want to be late.' Luke replied, grabbing the coffee pot and filling the girls cups up.
'Rory.' Lorelai shook her head. 'We're not going to be late.'
'Not now.' Rory smiled, her eyes involuntarily moving towards the curtain that led upstairs.
'I may drive deliberately slow just to wind you up.' Lorelai said sipping her coffee, as Luke set the two plates down in front of them.
'Go right ahead, you can explain to Paris why we're late.' Rory said calmly.
'Good point. Ok we'll go as soon as we've eaten.' Lorelai said tucking into her food.
*
'Good you're here and on time, we need to leave for the airport now.' Paris said as soon as she opened the door. 'You can put your bags into the back.' She added opening up the cars trunk.
'Thanks.' Rory said putting her case in. Turning to see her mum, she hugged her tightly.
'I'll miss you kid.' Lorelai hugged her. 'Remember have fun, learn lots and keep in touch.'
'I will, I promise.' Rory smiled, pulling back. 'I'll call everyday.' Rory promised.
'Good.' Lorelai smiled as Rory climbed into the car after a few impatient remarks from Paris.
'Bye hun.' Lorelai called after her, waving until the car was out of sight.
*
'Rory if you're going to call someone would you call already! We've only been here for an hour and you've been debating making whatever crucial call that is the whole time. If you don't make your mind up soon the summer will be over. Who is it you want to call? Farmer John?' Paris asked, looking over at Rory who was sat cross-legged on her bed, holding her phone and staring at it.
'No I wasn't going to call Dean, he called already.' Rory replied.
'Then who is it that's got you so bothered?' Paris demanded.
'No one, it's…nothing. Ok I'm putting the phone away, see?' Rory said putting the phone into her handbag.
'Good.' Paris said relieved. Rory flopped back onto the bed and stared at the white ceiling, her thoughts moving to Jess. He had every right to be angry with her, she'd kissed him, refused to talk about it and then left the state. It wasn't the best way to handle things, she was actually surprised he hadn't turned around and headed straight back to New York.
*
'Jess you cannot sleep all morning again.' Luke said angrily, pulling the covers from Jess' bed. It had been a week since Rory had left and Jess had stayed in the apartment the whole time, he wasn't really expecting a call from her, or any sign of her acknowledging what had happened, but it didn't stop him from hoping it would arrive.
'Nothing to get up for.' Jess said rolling over.
'Jess I said it had to be different if you came back. So get up, get dressed and come and help in the diner.' Luke growled. Jess sat up grudgingly and made his way to the bathroom. Appearing down in the diner thirty minutes later.
'It's about time.' Luke said as Jess appeared.
'Sorry, my hair just wasn't bouncing and behaving today.' Jess said sarcastically, receiving a laugh from the blonde at the counter, he looked at her without amusement, she was slim with short hair, too much make-up and she was chewing gum noisily.
'Get to work.' Luke replied, choosing to ignore his comment. Jess did as he was told and grabbed an order pad, perhaps working would take his mind off Rory.
*
Rory sat in her room in the dark, making sure Paris was fast asleep she turned on the small desk lamp and pushed aside the small pile of letters from Dean, she'd been gone only two weeks and already he'd sent her 17 letters, it was obsessive. She'd sent back replies, though not to each of them, when he mentioned that she claimed that she was busy, after all did he really need a letter everyday as well as calling her twice, once to say good morning and once to say goodnight. She sighed as she opened her notebook and looked down at the two words that she'd written there a week ago, neatly across the top of the page.
Dear Jess,
She just couldn't seem to find the right words to explain things, to try and make things better, though she'd sat staring at the page for ages each day. Was he expecting her to contact him, did he even want her to or was he still mad? There was a chance he wasn't even in Stars Hollow anymore, though she'd heard nothing about it from her mum, to be fair though his name hadn't made it into their daily conversations once yet, despite Rory desperately wanting to know what was going on with him. Frustrated she leaned back in her chair, before once again giving up and going back to bed.
*
'Jess who is that girl who keeps staring at you, she's been in here everyday for the past week.' Luke said, watching as the blonde girl followed Jess' movements with her eyes.
'That's Shane.' Jess shrugged.
'Oh so you do know her.' Luke replied.
'She goes to my school.' Jess replied evasively, not wanting to talk about it anymore, he moved off and started serving coffee. Being stopped by Shane.
'You single?' She asked looking over at him.
'Yup.'
'Hmm, me too.' She said, from what Jess had observed over the last week Shane was not very smart, she was the typical Barbie type girl, who had probably never read a book in her life unless forced to by school teachers. She was about as far from Rory as you could get, but then maybe that's what he needed, after all Rory had been gone two weeks and she hadn't contacted him once, he didn't have her details in Washington and he wasn't about to ask Lorelai. It was clear that Rory didn't want anything to do with him, so he wouldn't sit around and wait like an idiot.
'Is that so.' Jess replied.
'Yeah.' She laughed, and that was it, simple as that a few words spoken and he'd found himself a girlfriend.
*
Rory found herself staring into space, she was sat in a closet the night before they were returning home. Paris had begged her to hide because she looked so dateable. It was almost funny, and Rory would probably be laughing had it not been for something she'd said when helping Paris get ready, she'd described what it was like when you found the perfect person. What they'd be like and without knowing it at the time she hadn't described her boyfriend, but she'd described Jess rather well. Again she looked at the unfinished letter to him and sighed, she'd beat it home now so there was little point in finishing it. Instead she tore it up and came out of the closet, throwing the pieces in the bin. She'd see him tomorrow at the end of summer madness festival, they could talk then.
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