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Rory ran home after her afternoon with Jess, she wasn't even sure what she thought about it. She could be happy, or something else... who was she kidding? Of course she was happy, Jess always made her happy. The door slammed behind her when she entered her house. Rory found her mom sitting on the couch, surprisingly with a book in her hands, then she noticed that it was once of her books. "Hey mom." Rory greeted her mother.
"Hey, Babe." Lorelai smiled, happy to have her daughter home. "Just looking at your books."
"I can see that." Rory said interested as why her mother of all people was reading. "Mom, why are you reading? Are you feeling okay?" Rory asked putting her hand over Lorelai's head to see if she was hot. "You seem perfectly fine." Rory stated with a confused look on her face. "Why are you perfectly fine and reading a book?"
"Just looking at how Jess vandalized your books again." Lorelai stated. "It seems that he has written in almost every one of them."
"Yeah, I told you before, it is not vandalism if you want the person to write in your margins."
"Dirty!" Lorelai exclaimed. "I was bored, and I needed to bother someone. Where were you? Kissing Dean?" Lorelai mocked, she made the kissing noises until she realized that Rory had not nodded, she had shaken her head. "You weren't with Dean?"
"Nope." Rory stated. "Well, I'm going to go into my room, I'm really tired and I can't deal with an annoying you." She started to her room. "I'll be there if you need me." After about a minute Lorelai sensed that something else was going on, so she followed Rory into her room.
"I'm curious, who were you with?" Lorelai surprised Rory, and she jumped.
"My god, announce yourself!"
"Rory, I would like to know who you were with." Lorelai stated and looked at Rory.
"No one."
"Might this no one's name happen to rhyme with Tess?" Rory nodded, and then stood up to start re-arranging her books that Lorelai took out. "Rory! Why didn't you tell me?"
"Because I knew that you would react like this." Rory replied.
"Like what? I have a right to be mad because my child told me that she was going off with her boyfriend and she goes out with Jess." Lorelai said getting madder by the second. "Is Jess a code name for boyfriend? Do I have to read the mother- daughter hand book again?"
"I was going to go out with Dean, but then he said that he couldn't come with me for two more hours, so I went to the movie theater alone." Rory continued. "Jess was there and he sat with me so I wouldn't be lonely. Then we went to the bridge together and we talked. Nothing happened."
"And every time I hear the words, 'nothing happened' and 'Jess' in the same sentence, I think I should get my hearing checked." Lorelai exclaimed.
"Why are you so against the whole Jess thing?" Rory asked. "He's my friend."
"Rory, you are so naïve to think that this guy has any good in him. Can't you understand that this guy is trouble?" Lorelai asked in frustration. "Sure, he seems cool now, but what about when you have a broken heart? He's going to hurt you, and I'm not allowing for it to happen."
"How can Jess possibly hurt me?" Rory asked.
"Oh, I can think of a few things."
"Look, I don't need you to like him. I do like him, and neither you and Dean can do anything about it!" Rory exclaimed. "You're both wrong, Jess is a good guy and if you don't believe that then get out of my room!"
"You can't throw me out of your room!"
"Except I am!" Rory yelled, she pushed Lorelai out of the room and slammed the door. She didn't know what to do, she hated fighting with her mom. It was always so frustrating because she couldn't go to Luke's or anywhere else that Lorelai could be. Hopefully, Lorelai would have a lot of work at the Inn tomorrow and she would leave Rory alone. She decided to go to bed, it had been a long day and she just wanted to rest.
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Rory climbed out of the bus after a long day at Chilton, her backpack was so heavy that she had to sit at the bench right in front of the bus stop for like ten minutes before she proceeded to Luke's. She wasn't sure if her mom would be there, but she wouldn't have to sit with her if she didn't want to, it was her choice. The little bell rang to announce her entrance and she sat at the counter. Rory looked around and noticed that her mom wasn't there, so she shrugged and put her backpack down. Jess walked up to her with a note pad.
"Hi." Jess greeted her. "You don't look so good, bad day at school?" He asked.
"Umm, yeah. Paris was freaking out the whole day because we're a little behind on the Franklin... and this kid Brad is back and I had to spend the whole day convincing him that Paris would never attack his rabbi." He nodded.
"Ok, well, what do you want to eat?" Jess asked.
"The usual, I guess." Rory stated, Jess nodded once again and then he was off to tell Ceaser what she wanted. Rory was a little surprised that Jess had even asked about what was wrong with her, it was weird. He was never kind of the conversation guy. Before she had time to ponder this thought, Lorelai charged in through the door and sat next to her.
"Luke! Need caffeine!" Lorelai exclaimed. After a few seconds, Luke was still not coming. "Come on! You don't want me to die, do you?" Lorelai asked, and then an angry Luke came behind the counter and got some coffee.
"Jeez, I was in mid pour." Luke mumbled. "You're not the only one in this diner, you know?"
"I know, but there was no coffee at the Inn, which means that I have only had two cups of coffee in the whole day." Lorelai sighed taking a sip of her new coffee. "Thank god..." Lorelai trailed off when she saw that Rory moved from the counter to another table when she arrived, but quickly dismissed it. "I was so desperate that I almost went to Taylor's for coffee."
"Then, you would have really died." Luke replied. "So, sounds like a bad day."
"Oh yeah, Rory and I are fighting, so I have nobody to talk to about these things." Lorelai sighed.
"What did you and Rory get into a fight about?"
Lorelai hesitated for a second, "Umm, just some dumb girl stuff."
"Well, then, if it's not that important then I think you should go talk to her. Make up." Luke stated. "That way I don't have to learn anything I don't need to know about your life." He added. Lorelai nodded and then turned around to look at Rory, she was at the table talking to Jess. They looked happy and more importantly she looked happy. Lorelai took a deep breath and then walked over to the table.
"Hi, Jess." Lorelai greeted with a fake smile. "Can I have a sec with my daughter?" Lorelai asked, trying to be as nice as she could be. He nodded and then went behind the counter. She sat down at the table and looked at Rory, but Rory looked away. "Come on, kid. How long are you going to give me the silent treatment?"
"I just have nothing to say." Rory replied stubbornly.
"Look, I'm sorry that I reacted the way I did." Lorelai sighed. "Maybe he does have some good in him, I haven't really spent a lot of time with him, so I don't know. But, Rory all I'm asking is for you to be careful. I know how these guys are, they grab your heart and then hurt you really bad."
"He isn't going to do that!" Rory exclaimed. "Jess is my friend and everyone in this stupid town is going to stay out of it."
"Hey, hey, where did this come from?" Lorelai asked.
"I know that Dean is going to be mad that I blew him off to be with Jess." Rory sighed.
"What? You blew off Dean to be with Jess? I thought that he couldn't get out of work for two hours."
"Yeah, well, I kind of promised him that after I went to the movies we would go to dinner..." Rory stated. "And then Jess and I went to the bridge, I totally forgot that I had to meet Dean. I'm sorry, I just lost track of time..." Rory drifted off.
"Oh, honey, I think that Dean would understand if you tell him that."
"No he won't! He'll start blabbing about how I was supposed to be with him and I was with Jess. And how I like Jess, and not him." Rory exclaimed.
"Do you like Jess?"
"Uh, no. I definitely don't." Rory stuttered. "I like Dean..." Rory stated glancing at Jess.
"You just said that you liked Dean while you were watching Jess." Lorelai exclaimed. "Rory, don't you think that you have to make a decision, Jess or Dean?"
"I already have made my decision, mom. Dean is my boyfriend."
"Ok... if you say so…but if you change your mind, I'm here. Even if you decided that it's Jess that you like. I might consider murder suicide, but I will eventually be okay with it." Lorelai smiled, and Rory nodded. "Okay, then let's eat. I'm starving."
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"So, I was hoping that maybe you would like to come." Dean proposed.
"To a basketball game?" Rory asked. They had been hanging out in the square, since they didn't get to go out to dinner the other night. Rory made up some lame excuse as why she didn't meet him for dinner and he bought it. She just didn't want to get into a fight with Dean right now.
"Yeah, to watch me play." Dean stated with hopeful eyes.
"I don't know, I don't really like basketball, you know? I mean, would it be okay if I missed this one?"
"There aren't that many, Rory. I was hoping that you would want to come to your boyfriend's basketball game, but I guess I was wrong." Dean exclaimed. Rory could tell he was upset, but she didn't understand why. It was just a basketball game, there wasn't a big thing about it. "Just forget I even asked."
"You're mad." Rory sighed.
"It's just... you don't seem to want to spend any time with me."
"Dean, that's crazy. I... love you..." Rory stuttered, it had not been the first time she had said that to him. But, lately it had seemed so hard to say, she almost had to choke it out. "And the more time that I spend with you the better. It's just that basketball isn't really my thing."
"Alright." Dean sighed. "I love you too." He smiled and kissed her lightly on the lips. Rory tried to smile, but she couldn't so she just sat down on the nearest bench. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah." Rory stated. "Umm, Dean, did I mention that Luke and Jess are going to have Christmas dinner at my house?" Rory asked.
"No!" Dean exclaimed.
"Well, they are. I'm sorry I didn't mention it before." Rory said. "We want to have Christmas together because we're practically family. We have known each other for such a long time and it just seems right. You know?"
"You and Jess haven't known each other that long!" Dean protested. "I knew you longer than he did!"
"Dean, this isn't a contest of who knew who the longest. I want them to be there with us." Rory smiled. "Besides, why are you so upset? You'll be at Chicago for Christmas and I'll be here. Me and my mom usually have Christmas dinner at Luke's, but this year we wanted to have dinner at our house." Dean sighed.
"Why do you insist on spending so much time with this guy?" Dean asked.
"I don't, he's my friend. I told you that." Rory stated. "Just... don't be mad, okay?"
Dean nodded and put his arm around her. Rory bit her bottom lip when he did this, but kept her thoughts to herself.
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