**Chapter One: Bad News Bill**

Brenna's POV~

I had come home a few hours ago to hear Jess and Liz arguing again, knowing they could go for hours, I dashed to my room, tuning them out, and slipped my favorite CD into the shitty stereo I had saved and saved for, hearing the first calming notes of Want to Rock and Roll All Night by KISS. I was weird that way, I listened to music instead of deciding to join one side or the other of the fight currently going down in the living room. I knew for a fact the only side I would take didn't need my help anyway. My brother can handle her just fine on his own.

Two hours later I wake up to silence, my CD long since over and done with, and someone banging on the door. I step to it hesitantly and focus for a minute and automatically I can tell its Jess. I open the door and I automatically know this isn't an "I have good news visit." No this is the "Liz screwed up and now we are stuck with the consequences look." I look him in the eye and flatly say, "Lay it to me straight J, what did she do now?" He sighs and begins to speak, thinks for a second and then pushes me slightly into my room so he could come in and close the door, obviously not wanting her to hear and possibly start the argument all over again. So I sat down on my mattress and waited, he would share when he was ready, aka when he was once again relatively calm. He finally takes a deep breath and launches into his story.

"Lizzy has had the brilliant idea, thanks to what happened last night that she needs to send me away. To Uncle Luke. And that as an added bonus maybe he could help you as well. Two for the price of one so to speak. She's sending us to Stars Hollow. To live with Luke, in his fantasy town, and she is going to go back to that asshole of the week." When the rant ends, I'm in shock, and I can't believe that our own freaking mother is sending us away. To the place she ran away from. I'm just staring at Jess, waiting for him to say "just kidding even good ole Liz isn't that bad," but it doesn't come. I'm numb. So Jess, my very sweet big brother by two whole minuets, sits down finally, puts his arm around me and tells me that it will all be okay, that he would protect me, and that he would get us out of there as soon as it was plausible. I just nod, numbly, knowing he was trying to find us a way out that we didn't have. What would happen to us now that our own fucked up mother didn't want us anymore? Why weren't we good enough for her to get clean, get sober, and stay that way? Why did she run from Stars Hollow? I guess only time will tell.

Jess POV~

I had heard Bre come in right after the argument started, and saw her head to her room. As I stood in front of the door to her room, I took a deep breath, knowing she was going to take this hard. Unlike me, Bre still held onto a small shred of hope that one day our lovely mother would decide to get clean again, get sober again, and love us again. I knew this was too good to be true. Liz would never give up her lifestyle, and we didn't fit into it so she was finally doing something about it.

Our argument started because her boyfriend of the week dumped her, because of me supposedly. He claimed that he didn't want to live with a troubled kid, his words not mine. So he took off. He hadn't been a fan of me or Bre since they started dating, and he consequently moved in a few weeks ago. Larry, the boyfriend, told her where to find him when she ditched "her heavy load of motherhood" apparently so now she is using last night to do just that, and making me tell Bre that Liz is breaking her heart, again. I have lost count of the numerous amount of times I have had to do this. Every tough decision, one that usually hurt us, are told to Bre from me, not her, making me the one to have watch Brenna's heart get broken over and over and over again by the woman she just wants a little motherly love from.

Sighing I knock, and hear her start moving, only to stop almost immediately. I know she's listening to the knocking trying to decide who it is. She knew it was me I guess, so she opened the door, took one look at my face and then said, "Lay it to me straight J, what did she do now?" Her flat tone of voice let me know that she had seen in my face this wasn't going to be a pleasant conversation. I opened my mouth, about to tell her, but then stopped. I realized that I didn't want to have this conversation in the hallway with her door open, so I nudged her backwards and closed her door. I watched her cross the small space of her room, and plop down on the mattress laid on the floor. She was to poor and cheap to get us bed frames, so we slept on mattresses on the floor. Her walls were decorated with a plethora of band posters, from varying artists and genres. I stood in front of her, looking around her room to calm myself, still pissed off that I had to be the one to tell her we were being shipped off to god knows where, with no idea on when we will return, or even if we will return. Sighing, I launch into what I have to say, hoping this won't hurt her too much.

"Lizzy has had the brilliant idea, thanks to what happened last night that she needs to send me away. To Uncle Luke. And that as an added bonus maybe he could help you as well. Two for the price of one so to speak. She's sending us to Stars Hollow. To live with Luke, in his fantasy-like town, and she is going to go back to that asshole of the week." When the rant ends, I watch her reaction. She freezes, and then starts to look so sad. It rips at my heart to see her, I can see her searching for something in my face, probably waiting for me to tell her that Liz really isn't sending us away and that this was a joke. When I didn't give her what she was desperately hoping for, I watched her face crumble. She looked so lost, and sad. The look kills me, so I sit next to her, sing my arm around the only person in this world I care about, and pull her close. I make a promise I can only hope to keep. I tell her that it will all be okay, that I would protect her, and that I would get us out of there as soon as it was plausible. I started to plan. I would get a job. I would save money, and then she and I would leave Luke, Liz, and all our problems. We would go somewhere new, start over, and leave all the pain and sadness behind.