Here it is! Introducing the Girlmore Girls.....

Rory Gilmore was panicking. In fact, she was beyond panicking, so much so that mere panicking would be an improvement on her state of mind. Sookie had aked her to babysit Davey, well actually Lorelei Gilmore had volunteered Rory for the job, when Sookie was complaining that she and Jackson hadn't had any "alone" time since the baby was born. Rory had been mad. She had a ton of work to do for Yale and the paper and she simply didn't have time at the moment to spare.

Then Lorelei pulled the face, the one Rory knew so well that meant, "I brought you into the world, fed you, clothed you, attended all those dumb Friday night dinners for you," and Rory crumbled. Now she was kicking herself for letting her mother sweet talk her into it. Sure Davey was cute and he was a dream baby and kids naturally loved Rory, but Rory didn't know the first thing about looking after one. Admittedly, there was the sock-puppet thing, but that was Lorelei's idea.

So there was Rory, in the one place she always went to, to find out more about something, the library. Not surprisingly, there weren't a lot of books on Babysitting in Stars' Hollow, well not a lot of books on anything for that matter. So when a memoire caught her eye, Rory knew she had struck gold. She pulled the thick hardbound book down off of the shelf and flipped through it. There were a bunch of journal entries in there and Rory opened it up to a random page about the sick child. As she began to read the account as told by a thirteen year old girl called Mary-Anne, Rory couldn't help but be drawn into the story.

She closed the book after finishing the page and took it to the loans desk, where Kirk was pretending to look busy. Rory stood watching as he meticulously stamped the inside cover of every book in the large pile and then glued an index card to each inside cover, oblivious to the girl standing, waiting to be served. Ahem! Rory cleared her throat and a startled Kirk looked up from his business.

"You know you really shouldn't frighten people, like that. I couldn't had a heart attack."He chastised the girl.

"Kirk, you're young and fit. You won't have a heart attack anytime soon, besides, I was standing here for a while. You should pay more attention." Rory smiled as she counter-chastised him.

He went to rebut, but Rory gave him the look, that Kirk knew meant she really didn't have time to argue. So he simply took the book, stamped it with the due date and handed it back to Rory. She waved at him and swiftly left. She opened the book to the beginning and read the blurb.

This book is dedicated to The Babysitters Club, Karen Brewer and her Babysitters R Us club and to all babysitters. May this book help you survive your babysitting adventures. Rory studied these words for a moment. "The Babysitters Club?" she muttered to herself and then turned to the title page. THE BABYSITTER MEMOIRES, by Kristen Amanda Thomas, she read. She flipped to the first page and began to read. Rory was puzzled as the author described the horror of sitting for two large dogs, failing to see the humour of the story. It seemed, though, that Kristy had an important lesson to pass on about knowing who the babysitting charges were, to avoid such a surprise.

As she began to read about Stacey's babysitting job, coincidentally for Kristy's little brother, she stepped off the curb absent mindedly and a car horn, tooted. She looked up, as she heard tires screeched and her eyes connected with the eyes of the one who had broken her heart, Jesse Mariano.

"Are you completedly deranged?" he hollored out of the car.

"Sorry," she muttered and as her eyes filled with tears, she bolted home. She didn't realize she had dropped the book, but at that moment she wouldn't have cared. She simply buried her head into her stuffed turkey and cried.

"Rory, Honey," Lorelei knocked on the door. She had seen Rory whip past in a blur was instantly worried, when she thought she head a sob. "Are you okay?" There was no answer. "Can I come in?" Again there was no answer. So Lorelei decided to risk it and open the door. What she saw broke her heart. Her body was shaking violently with sobs and her face was wet. Lorelei hated seeing her daughter upset. Rory was not just like every other daughter. She was Lorelei's best friend.

She shook her body gently, "Hey! Sweety! What's wrong?" Rory sat up and just as she had when she was little, she threw her arms around her mother and continued to cry. "I-I-I s-s-saw-J-Jesse."

"Oh…." Lorelei bit her lip, and was enveloped in guilt. "I should have told you he was here."

"Y-y-you knew?" Rory was horrified. "Why didn't you tell me?"

"Luke told me not to. He thought you'd be upset and you are, look at you! What did he say?" She changed her tone to avoid a flood of harsh words from her daughter.

"He almost ran me over, and then called me deranged. Mom, I hate him! It's like he doesn't realize how much he has hurt me." Rory was beginning to calm down.

"I know sweety, I wish I cause him so much pain for hurting you. You're specially and he didn't see it. He didn't deserve you." Lorelei said, screwing her face up with anger. "How did he almost run you over anyway?"

"I was reading and walking and – Oh my God! I'm an idiot!" Rory shouted suddenly.

"What Sweety? We all do stupid things, but –,"

"My library book, I must have dropped it when I saw Jesse!" She was beside herself. "I have to find it!"

She stormed out of the room and ran back to the spot where she had run in to Jess, literally. She scoured the whole area, but it was nowhere to be seen. Without thinking she stormed into Luke's Diner. "Where is it!" she screamed at Jesse, who was pouring a coffee.

He looked up shocked. "Where's what?" he had never seen Rory this angry.

"My book, you moron, what did you do with it?" she continued to scream as a room full of people stared in horror. Miss Patty and Babette were already whispering, sending the gossip machine to work, but Rory didn't care.

"What book, Rory? I don't know what you're talking about!" He said innocently, but his lips were slipping into a smirk.

"It's a library book, Jess, where is it? I know you picked it up." She pressed.

'What, this book?" He pulled it out of his back pocket and Rory went to snatch it, but he was too quick for her. He raised it above his head and Rory lunged for him. "Hey, watch it! I've got hot coffee, here!" He set the cup down on the bench-top and Rory used this moment to try to grab the book off of him. "Not so fast Rory!" He winked at her, steadying himself.

He leaned down so his face was inches from hers. Was he serious, Rory thought to herself, but familiar old feelings were beginning to take hold. For a split moment, their lips connected and Jesse's arems began to wrap around Rory's back. Rory pulled back as suddenly as it began, slapping him hard across the face. "How DARE you!"

Jesse's soft features turned to anger. "What? Do you think I'm really the only one to blame here?"

"You can't just disappear from my life without a phone call or anything and then waltz back in and do THAT to me like nothing happened!" She let him have it and the whole room was cheering.

"Hey it's none of your business!" he shouted at them all. "Rory, you don't know what it was like for me, back then, what I was going through! You'll never understand it!"

'Well, boo hoo, Jesse. Cry me a river!" It was if Rory had slapped him again.

"Here's your stupid book!"He threw it at her and she was luckily quick enough to catch it.

"Fine!" She spun on her heal and left as the applause erupted once more.