A/N Here we go next chapter----So how you all liking the new season---isn't
it great?!
*Luke is still on the phone with Jess when the bell over the door rings and Lorelai Gilmore enters the diner.
Luke is listening to Jess ramble on and interjecting in low tones with "uh huh. Jess. Damn it, stupid....." And other 1-2 word statements. He looks up mechanically at the door as Lorelai enters. His eyes go wide and he mutters into the phone: "I have to go."
"And then.......wait what why?!" Jess says gruffly.
"Because, Lorelai's here." Luke mutters hastily.
"Hey there, Luke!" Lorelai exclaims. "Who you talking to on your "business line"?" Lorelai asks in a mocking tone.
Luke looks down at the floor and scratches his head, with out looking up he says, "Jess."
"Oh! Care taker of my daughter, town rebel without a cause! Let me talk!!" Lorelai pleads. After years of mutual dislike, both Jess and Lorelai had given up on making each other miserable. Lorelai knew that Rory cared too much for him and if she'd continued to screw with Jess she'd end up pushing Rory away. And Jess came to the conclusion that to stay in Rory's life, he needed to have Lorelai on his side. And so during his first trip home from college, Jess and Lorelai called it a truce. 3 years later, it is at the point where Lorelai looks to Jess to keep tabs on Rory and takes every given opportunity to tease him and make he-man references.
"You know I don't think so, he's on his way to class......" Luke tries to remain calm as Lorelai paws at him for the phone.
"Come on, let me talk to He-man I have to make sure Skeletor didn't eat my baby!" Lorelai says in faux distress.
"Hold on." Luke turns back to phone, "Jess I'm putting Lorelai on." Luke sighs and hands Lorelai the phone.
"Hey the-" Lorelai gives Luke a confused look and then hand him back the phone. "Very funny!" She says folding her arms.
"What?" Luke says truly confused.
"You told him to hang up on me." Lorelai says glaring in his direction.
"He hung up on you?" Luke says raising an eyebrow, "Damn it, this is bad." He mutters to himself.
"What?" Lorelai asks turning her had sideways to meet Luke's gaze.
"How could I have told him to hang up on you if you were standing right there."
"Maybe you used a secret code word."
"Yes, that's what I do when you're not here, no I don't serve the customers their greasy hamburgers, nope I sit gabbing on the phone to my sarcastic nephew who I can't stand most of the time and make up code words to confuse you and make your life miserable." Luke barks.
"I knew it!" Lorelai exclaims causing several customers to turn their attention towards them.
"Sludge?" Luke asks holding up a cup of coffee.
"Please......hey, wait you're giving me coffee?" Lorelai asks shocked.
"I give it to you everyday don't I?" Luke says attempting to remain calm knowing full well that Lorelai has caught him in the act.
"What happened?"
"Nothing."
"The lonely time you willingly gave me coffee was 2 months ago when you broke Mr. monkey on your way to work!"
"I still say porcelain monkeys don't belong in any household."
"You broke Mrs. Giraffe didn't you.....oh no! Don't tell me you took out senor seal too!" Lorelai says in distress.
"First of all, they had it coming, they're eyes kept following me.......second that's not why I gave you the coffee." Luke's expression turns serious and Lorelai notices the nervous look in eyes.
"What's going on?"
"Rory's coming home."
"She is?! That's great, oh man I haven't seen in her in almost a month, oh and she'll get in just in time for movie night!"
"She's coming home on Thursday."
"Even better!"
"Lorelai she has class on Thursday, and she's missing them to come here."
"Rory's missing class?"
Luke nods.
"Is something wrong?"
"I, I uh don't know." Luke says, upset to be lying to Lorelai he turns back towards the coffee machine.
A thought suddenly pops into Lorelai's mind, "Hey Luke, why'd Jess call."
Luke cough, "I don't know, why does he ever call."
"Luke, he never calls." Lorelai gives him a stern look.
"He called to tell me about his job."
"He called you two days ago about that." Lorelai says growing angry at Luke's unwillingness to give her a straight answer.
"Yeah, well he got called up a little early for his job, so he's on his way to New York now."
Lorelai's gaze softens on Luke, "Oh! I bet that's why Rory's coming home, she's probably really upset."
"Yeah........"
"Poor kid, her best friend, well one of them moves all the way out to New York......leaving her all alone."
"Well, she'll be fine I'm sure once she gets here she'll be fine."
"Yeah....."
"Go upstairs and call her I told her you would."
"Thanks Luke." Lorelai screams already halfway up the stairs.
*Thursday-11am.
*Lorelai is at the inn, Luke at the diner.
The bell over the door of the diner rings, Luke looks up from the ketchup bottle he was refilling. Standing in front of him is Rory Gilmore.
"Hey Luke."
Avoiding her eyes Luke says, "I thought you were supposed to meet your mom at work."
"Yeah, well I missed the exit for the coffee place in Hartford so I really need a cup of coffee bad."
Luke reaches for a cup and hands it to her without looking up. With another quick move he grabs hold of the coffee pot and pours some coffee into her cup.
Luke's fancy maneuvers don't go unnoticed.
"You ok Luke?"
"I-I'm fine."
"Ok." Rory nods taking a sip of her coffee.
Luke sighs heavily.
Rory looks up at him.
Felling stupid for feeling uncomfortable around Rory Gilmore, the girl he'd known since she was a child, Luke gives up on avoiding her eyes. As far as he is concerned she's still the same girl and nothing, not even a rendezvous with his nephew was going to change that.
Rory takes one more sip of her coffee and then stands up, "Thanks Luke, I'm going to find mom. See you later." She says turning towards the door.
"Bye Rory." Luke says as his heart begins to beat faster.
Rory's hand is on the door.
"I know what happened, Rory." Luke bursts out uncontrollably.
Rory turns around, her eyes wide a look of shock on her face.
"He uh called here the other day and left a number. And after you called you sounded so, well not Gilmore so I figured it had something to do with him and I uh called him." Luke says nervously.
Rory goes to speak but chokes on her words, "You, you called him" She says breathing heavily.
Luke nods.
"So you know everything." Rory says quietly so the other customers don't hear.
"I guess so." Luke says fidgeting with the sleeve of his shirt.
Tears form in Rory's eyes, "I didn't mean....., I never even thought...."
Luke nods, cutting her off not wanting Rory to continue. If she didn't say the words he could manage to keep eye contact, but if she said anymore all would be lost forever.
"I-it wasn't his fault............" She trails off.
"I know."
"God, that's sounds familiar." Rory muses
Luke nods uncomfortably.
"D-did he sound ok?" She asks silently cursing herself for caring.
"God, Rory I don't know. I was screaming at him at the time."
"You yelled at him, for me?"
"Well, I thought he's said something stupid to you or was being a jerk to you again and you know I can't take it when women cry.......I didn't know what happened until he told me."
"He just told you?"
"Well no, he thought you already did so he got kind of upset and started talking about it."
"He was upset?"
"Did you expect him not to be?"
"I don't know........" Rory trails off, looking down at the floor, "I think I should go find my mom."
"Ok." Luke nods turning back to the ketchup bottles.
*20 minutes later
*The inn.
"Aw, babe! I'm so glad to have you back!" Lorelai exclaims hugging Rory.
"Well I'm glad to be here." Rory says trying to mask her sadness.
It's impossible to get past Lorelai's radar, she knows something is wrong.
"You know New York isn't really that far away."
Rory sighs, "I know mom."
"And I mean there's still phones and email....."
"I know mom."
"Besides it's not like you guys are together, so the distance isn't really a big deal."
Rory remains silent turning her back on her mother and taking a deep breath.
"Rory?"
Rory doesn't move.
"Did something happen between you and Jess?"
Rory begins to sob quietly; Lorelai puts her hand on Rory's shoulder.
"You can tell me, you're not 16 anymore. It's ok, just tell me so I can do the mom thing and make you feel better."
Rory wipes her tears away and gains composure. "We, uh we slept together."
"No need to be so subtle."
"Sorry......."
"No, I'm sorry babe. But hey long distance relationship can work and New York is really not that far away."
"We don't have a relationship."
"Rory........."
"He left because of me, well he left early anyway."
"That punk, he just left."
"No........"
"What happened?"
"Short story. We went out for some drinks, I realized how amazing he was, he thought I was drunk so I went along with it and talked him into sleeping with me."
"Rory!"
"I know, I'm an idiot, I lied and I'm a horrible person......and to top it off in th morning I ranted on about how it was a mistake and his fault."
"w-why?"
"Because."
"Come on, Rory yes you do."
"I was scared ok!" Rory yells back, "I was afraid that he didn't care about me the way that I cared about him, and I was scared that it would never happen again, and I was scared that it would." Rory sobs.
"Oh sweets."
"I don't know what to do. He probably hates me, I've blown it, and the sad thing is, I think it could've worked out."
"It still can, you need to go find him, and talk to him explain what happened. He'll understand." Lorelai says, gently moving a strand of hair out of Rory's face.
"Thanks mom."
"But before you go, let's go get lunch, you can't grovel properly on an empty stomach."
"To Luke's?" Rory asks.
"Of course."
*The two women walk arm in arm out of the inn and towards the diner.
*Down the street.
".......So if he shut off his phone service and left no forwarding address how are you going to find him? New York is huge!" Lorelai says breaking their arm chain and flailing her arms around in big circles.
"I'll ask Luke." Rory says simply, not realizing what she's saying.
"How would Luke kno----oh my God, that's what Jess called about?! He knew three days before I did and didn't tell me!"
"I asked him not to." Rory lies.
"Oh....." Lorelai say disappointedly.
"I thought I should tell you in person."
"Right........"
As they pass the Bridge Rory looks over and smiles, she does a double take as a shadowed figure comes into view.
"M-mom, on second thought why don't you go yell at Luke a little bit I'll meet you there."
"Are you ok?"
"Yeah, I just need a little time to think........on my bridge."
Lorelai nods "Don't think too hard, it'll burn your brain."
"Ten minutes." Rory states.
Lorelai nods and then walks in the direction of the diner.
Rory watches her go and the bounds down towards the bridge. As she approaches the figure, still cloaked in shadow, the figure stands up and flicks a cigarette into the pond. Not watching where she's going, Rory stumbles over a rock making a loud noise. The figure looks up, stares at her for a moment and then walks away.
Rubbing her ankle Rory yells, "Wait!"
The figure doesn't look back, pulling out a lighter from his pocket he lights a cigarette and continues to walk forward.
Rory stands up and runs towards him but he's moving too fast for her and she can't keep up. As he enters the sunlit streets Rory sees his messy brown hair blowing in the window, the smoke from his cigarette sending chills up her spine.
"Jess!" She screams.
The figure stops for a moment, taking a drag of his cigarette.
She takes a deep breath taking in his scent, for a moment she closes her eyes remembering the many times they'd walked up this road together after long discussions on the bridge. Her eyes closed for only a second, was all it took for Jess Marino to disappear.
Rory sighs and turns around heading towards to the diner.
*Luke's diner.
"Hey babe." Lorelai greets her daughter.
"Coffee." Rory says solemnly.
Luke hands her a cup.
"See she never has to beg, but me every time." Lorelai pouts.
"Well I like her better." Luke says flatly.
Rory sits down next to her mother.
"You ok?"
"No, I don't know. Maybe I should just let this whole thing go. Maybe Jess doesn't want to talk to me."
"No, sweets of course he does."
"If he wants to talk to me than why'd he walk away just now when I called his name?"
"I know you want to talk to Jess but he's in New York.....being delusional isn't going to change that" Lorelai says.
"Mom, he was here; I saw him."
"Why would he come to Stars Hollow to sit on a bridge and run away from you?" Lorelai asks.
"To be an ass." Luke says gruffly causing Rory and Lorelai to stare blankly at him.
"Close your mouths, I'm human I can curse especially when it comes to him......besides it wouldn't be the first time he just mysteriously turned up."
"What am I going to do?" Rory says laying her head on the counter.
Lorelai runs her fingers through her daughters hair, "I don't know this time, honey. I hate to say this but I think you really hurt him."
Rory looks up at her mother, "I don't blame him, I'm a horrible person, but I want to fix it I don't want him to hate me."
"Go see him." Luke stays matter-of-factly.
"I told you he ran away."
"Go see him in New York." Look says tiredly.
"But he's not in New York." Lorelai says.
Luke groans, "Get there before he does and then he can't shut the door on your face and he can't run away."
"Luke..I....I don't know where he is in New York."
"Rory, you're graduating form Yale I expect you know how to take a phone number call up the operator and ask where the person was calling from?" Luke raises an eyebrow to Rory.
Rory gives him a surprised look.
"578-345-678" He says flatly as Lorelai scribbles it on a napkin.
*5 minutes later.
Rory hangs up the phone, a determined look on her face.
"So what are you going to do?" Lorelai asks.
"I'm going to New York. Luke 2 coffees to go."
A/N Ok that's it for this chapter. Hope you liked it. R and R please. I'll probably update Next Thursday---busy week ahead but I'll try and sit down tomorrow but anyway I hope you liked it and at least you'll have a new episode of Gilmore Girls in between the next chapter right?
*Luke is still on the phone with Jess when the bell over the door rings and Lorelai Gilmore enters the diner.
Luke is listening to Jess ramble on and interjecting in low tones with "uh huh. Jess. Damn it, stupid....." And other 1-2 word statements. He looks up mechanically at the door as Lorelai enters. His eyes go wide and he mutters into the phone: "I have to go."
"And then.......wait what why?!" Jess says gruffly.
"Because, Lorelai's here." Luke mutters hastily.
"Hey there, Luke!" Lorelai exclaims. "Who you talking to on your "business line"?" Lorelai asks in a mocking tone.
Luke looks down at the floor and scratches his head, with out looking up he says, "Jess."
"Oh! Care taker of my daughter, town rebel without a cause! Let me talk!!" Lorelai pleads. After years of mutual dislike, both Jess and Lorelai had given up on making each other miserable. Lorelai knew that Rory cared too much for him and if she'd continued to screw with Jess she'd end up pushing Rory away. And Jess came to the conclusion that to stay in Rory's life, he needed to have Lorelai on his side. And so during his first trip home from college, Jess and Lorelai called it a truce. 3 years later, it is at the point where Lorelai looks to Jess to keep tabs on Rory and takes every given opportunity to tease him and make he-man references.
"You know I don't think so, he's on his way to class......" Luke tries to remain calm as Lorelai paws at him for the phone.
"Come on, let me talk to He-man I have to make sure Skeletor didn't eat my baby!" Lorelai says in faux distress.
"Hold on." Luke turns back to phone, "Jess I'm putting Lorelai on." Luke sighs and hands Lorelai the phone.
"Hey the-" Lorelai gives Luke a confused look and then hand him back the phone. "Very funny!" She says folding her arms.
"What?" Luke says truly confused.
"You told him to hang up on me." Lorelai says glaring in his direction.
"He hung up on you?" Luke says raising an eyebrow, "Damn it, this is bad." He mutters to himself.
"What?" Lorelai asks turning her had sideways to meet Luke's gaze.
"How could I have told him to hang up on you if you were standing right there."
"Maybe you used a secret code word."
"Yes, that's what I do when you're not here, no I don't serve the customers their greasy hamburgers, nope I sit gabbing on the phone to my sarcastic nephew who I can't stand most of the time and make up code words to confuse you and make your life miserable." Luke barks.
"I knew it!" Lorelai exclaims causing several customers to turn their attention towards them.
"Sludge?" Luke asks holding up a cup of coffee.
"Please......hey, wait you're giving me coffee?" Lorelai asks shocked.
"I give it to you everyday don't I?" Luke says attempting to remain calm knowing full well that Lorelai has caught him in the act.
"What happened?"
"Nothing."
"The lonely time you willingly gave me coffee was 2 months ago when you broke Mr. monkey on your way to work!"
"I still say porcelain monkeys don't belong in any household."
"You broke Mrs. Giraffe didn't you.....oh no! Don't tell me you took out senor seal too!" Lorelai says in distress.
"First of all, they had it coming, they're eyes kept following me.......second that's not why I gave you the coffee." Luke's expression turns serious and Lorelai notices the nervous look in eyes.
"What's going on?"
"Rory's coming home."
"She is?! That's great, oh man I haven't seen in her in almost a month, oh and she'll get in just in time for movie night!"
"She's coming home on Thursday."
"Even better!"
"Lorelai she has class on Thursday, and she's missing them to come here."
"Rory's missing class?"
Luke nods.
"Is something wrong?"
"I, I uh don't know." Luke says, upset to be lying to Lorelai he turns back towards the coffee machine.
A thought suddenly pops into Lorelai's mind, "Hey Luke, why'd Jess call."
Luke cough, "I don't know, why does he ever call."
"Luke, he never calls." Lorelai gives him a stern look.
"He called to tell me about his job."
"He called you two days ago about that." Lorelai says growing angry at Luke's unwillingness to give her a straight answer.
"Yeah, well he got called up a little early for his job, so he's on his way to New York now."
Lorelai's gaze softens on Luke, "Oh! I bet that's why Rory's coming home, she's probably really upset."
"Yeah........"
"Poor kid, her best friend, well one of them moves all the way out to New York......leaving her all alone."
"Well, she'll be fine I'm sure once she gets here she'll be fine."
"Yeah....."
"Go upstairs and call her I told her you would."
"Thanks Luke." Lorelai screams already halfway up the stairs.
*Thursday-11am.
*Lorelai is at the inn, Luke at the diner.
The bell over the door of the diner rings, Luke looks up from the ketchup bottle he was refilling. Standing in front of him is Rory Gilmore.
"Hey Luke."
Avoiding her eyes Luke says, "I thought you were supposed to meet your mom at work."
"Yeah, well I missed the exit for the coffee place in Hartford so I really need a cup of coffee bad."
Luke reaches for a cup and hands it to her without looking up. With another quick move he grabs hold of the coffee pot and pours some coffee into her cup.
Luke's fancy maneuvers don't go unnoticed.
"You ok Luke?"
"I-I'm fine."
"Ok." Rory nods taking a sip of her coffee.
Luke sighs heavily.
Rory looks up at him.
Felling stupid for feeling uncomfortable around Rory Gilmore, the girl he'd known since she was a child, Luke gives up on avoiding her eyes. As far as he is concerned she's still the same girl and nothing, not even a rendezvous with his nephew was going to change that.
Rory takes one more sip of her coffee and then stands up, "Thanks Luke, I'm going to find mom. See you later." She says turning towards the door.
"Bye Rory." Luke says as his heart begins to beat faster.
Rory's hand is on the door.
"I know what happened, Rory." Luke bursts out uncontrollably.
Rory turns around, her eyes wide a look of shock on her face.
"He uh called here the other day and left a number. And after you called you sounded so, well not Gilmore so I figured it had something to do with him and I uh called him." Luke says nervously.
Rory goes to speak but chokes on her words, "You, you called him" She says breathing heavily.
Luke nods.
"So you know everything." Rory says quietly so the other customers don't hear.
"I guess so." Luke says fidgeting with the sleeve of his shirt.
Tears form in Rory's eyes, "I didn't mean....., I never even thought...."
Luke nods, cutting her off not wanting Rory to continue. If she didn't say the words he could manage to keep eye contact, but if she said anymore all would be lost forever.
"I-it wasn't his fault............" She trails off.
"I know."
"God, that's sounds familiar." Rory muses
Luke nods uncomfortably.
"D-did he sound ok?" She asks silently cursing herself for caring.
"God, Rory I don't know. I was screaming at him at the time."
"You yelled at him, for me?"
"Well, I thought he's said something stupid to you or was being a jerk to you again and you know I can't take it when women cry.......I didn't know what happened until he told me."
"He just told you?"
"Well no, he thought you already did so he got kind of upset and started talking about it."
"He was upset?"
"Did you expect him not to be?"
"I don't know........" Rory trails off, looking down at the floor, "I think I should go find my mom."
"Ok." Luke nods turning back to the ketchup bottles.
*20 minutes later
*The inn.
"Aw, babe! I'm so glad to have you back!" Lorelai exclaims hugging Rory.
"Well I'm glad to be here." Rory says trying to mask her sadness.
It's impossible to get past Lorelai's radar, she knows something is wrong.
"You know New York isn't really that far away."
Rory sighs, "I know mom."
"And I mean there's still phones and email....."
"I know mom."
"Besides it's not like you guys are together, so the distance isn't really a big deal."
Rory remains silent turning her back on her mother and taking a deep breath.
"Rory?"
Rory doesn't move.
"Did something happen between you and Jess?"
Rory begins to sob quietly; Lorelai puts her hand on Rory's shoulder.
"You can tell me, you're not 16 anymore. It's ok, just tell me so I can do the mom thing and make you feel better."
Rory wipes her tears away and gains composure. "We, uh we slept together."
"No need to be so subtle."
"Sorry......."
"No, I'm sorry babe. But hey long distance relationship can work and New York is really not that far away."
"We don't have a relationship."
"Rory........."
"He left because of me, well he left early anyway."
"That punk, he just left."
"No........"
"What happened?"
"Short story. We went out for some drinks, I realized how amazing he was, he thought I was drunk so I went along with it and talked him into sleeping with me."
"Rory!"
"I know, I'm an idiot, I lied and I'm a horrible person......and to top it off in th morning I ranted on about how it was a mistake and his fault."
"w-why?"
"Because."
"Come on, Rory yes you do."
"I was scared ok!" Rory yells back, "I was afraid that he didn't care about me the way that I cared about him, and I was scared that it would never happen again, and I was scared that it would." Rory sobs.
"Oh sweets."
"I don't know what to do. He probably hates me, I've blown it, and the sad thing is, I think it could've worked out."
"It still can, you need to go find him, and talk to him explain what happened. He'll understand." Lorelai says, gently moving a strand of hair out of Rory's face.
"Thanks mom."
"But before you go, let's go get lunch, you can't grovel properly on an empty stomach."
"To Luke's?" Rory asks.
"Of course."
*The two women walk arm in arm out of the inn and towards the diner.
*Down the street.
".......So if he shut off his phone service and left no forwarding address how are you going to find him? New York is huge!" Lorelai says breaking their arm chain and flailing her arms around in big circles.
"I'll ask Luke." Rory says simply, not realizing what she's saying.
"How would Luke kno----oh my God, that's what Jess called about?! He knew three days before I did and didn't tell me!"
"I asked him not to." Rory lies.
"Oh....." Lorelai say disappointedly.
"I thought I should tell you in person."
"Right........"
As they pass the Bridge Rory looks over and smiles, she does a double take as a shadowed figure comes into view.
"M-mom, on second thought why don't you go yell at Luke a little bit I'll meet you there."
"Are you ok?"
"Yeah, I just need a little time to think........on my bridge."
Lorelai nods "Don't think too hard, it'll burn your brain."
"Ten minutes." Rory states.
Lorelai nods and then walks in the direction of the diner.
Rory watches her go and the bounds down towards the bridge. As she approaches the figure, still cloaked in shadow, the figure stands up and flicks a cigarette into the pond. Not watching where she's going, Rory stumbles over a rock making a loud noise. The figure looks up, stares at her for a moment and then walks away.
Rubbing her ankle Rory yells, "Wait!"
The figure doesn't look back, pulling out a lighter from his pocket he lights a cigarette and continues to walk forward.
Rory stands up and runs towards him but he's moving too fast for her and she can't keep up. As he enters the sunlit streets Rory sees his messy brown hair blowing in the window, the smoke from his cigarette sending chills up her spine.
"Jess!" She screams.
The figure stops for a moment, taking a drag of his cigarette.
She takes a deep breath taking in his scent, for a moment she closes her eyes remembering the many times they'd walked up this road together after long discussions on the bridge. Her eyes closed for only a second, was all it took for Jess Marino to disappear.
Rory sighs and turns around heading towards to the diner.
*Luke's diner.
"Hey babe." Lorelai greets her daughter.
"Coffee." Rory says solemnly.
Luke hands her a cup.
"See she never has to beg, but me every time." Lorelai pouts.
"Well I like her better." Luke says flatly.
Rory sits down next to her mother.
"You ok?"
"No, I don't know. Maybe I should just let this whole thing go. Maybe Jess doesn't want to talk to me."
"No, sweets of course he does."
"If he wants to talk to me than why'd he walk away just now when I called his name?"
"I know you want to talk to Jess but he's in New York.....being delusional isn't going to change that" Lorelai says.
"Mom, he was here; I saw him."
"Why would he come to Stars Hollow to sit on a bridge and run away from you?" Lorelai asks.
"To be an ass." Luke says gruffly causing Rory and Lorelai to stare blankly at him.
"Close your mouths, I'm human I can curse especially when it comes to him......besides it wouldn't be the first time he just mysteriously turned up."
"What am I going to do?" Rory says laying her head on the counter.
Lorelai runs her fingers through her daughters hair, "I don't know this time, honey. I hate to say this but I think you really hurt him."
Rory looks up at her mother, "I don't blame him, I'm a horrible person, but I want to fix it I don't want him to hate me."
"Go see him." Luke stays matter-of-factly.
"I told you he ran away."
"Go see him in New York." Look says tiredly.
"But he's not in New York." Lorelai says.
Luke groans, "Get there before he does and then he can't shut the door on your face and he can't run away."
"Luke..I....I don't know where he is in New York."
"Rory, you're graduating form Yale I expect you know how to take a phone number call up the operator and ask where the person was calling from?" Luke raises an eyebrow to Rory.
Rory gives him a surprised look.
"578-345-678" He says flatly as Lorelai scribbles it on a napkin.
*5 minutes later.
Rory hangs up the phone, a determined look on her face.
"So what are you going to do?" Lorelai asks.
"I'm going to New York. Luke 2 coffees to go."
A/N Ok that's it for this chapter. Hope you liked it. R and R please. I'll probably update Next Thursday---busy week ahead but I'll try and sit down tomorrow but anyway I hope you liked it and at least you'll have a new episode of Gilmore Girls in between the next chapter right?