Disclaimer: No owning going on, except for Riley.

A/N: Thanks for the reviews! I enjoy them lots. Somebody asked me how Jess and Riley met, but I'll have to put that in the next chapter. Oh, and please remember everything after the episode The Real Paul Anka, doesn't happen, and Lorelai does not find out about Rory visiting Jess at Lane's wedding. There's a lot of awkwardness after the surprise of Lorelai barely dressed, so I hope you guys like this chapter. Oh, and please, keep the reviews coming! I love knowing what you guys think.

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Jess's arms hung at his sides, his lids sitting still, and his eyes concentrated on the entrance towards the stairs. He slowly turned around to see Riley, who stood there, face blank, no smile, no raised eyebrow. Just staring at him.

"So that's Rory's mom?" Riley asked.

"Yeah," Jess said, looking back into Luke's. The lights still on, with no indication that Lorelai was coming back.

"She's hot," Riley said, and Jess snapped his head back towards her. "Oh, come on."

Jess shook his head, and faced forward to see Lorelai appear, with a sweater and sweat pants on. He guessed that she wanted to be fully covered this time. She had pink bunny slippers as she walked across; giving a semi polite smile at Jess, while unlocking it.

"Hey Jess," Lorelai realized Riley's presence, and gave her a polite smile, as well. "What are you doing here?"

"I was looking for Luke," Jess said, looking around him. "Is he here?"

Lorelai shook her head, a bit of insecurity in her eyes. It was something that Jess had never seen before, "No, he's out. He went to go drop April off."

Jess's head tilted to the right, "It's 10:30, Luke's out at 10:30?"

Lorelai nodded, "It's a new thing. He's finally made his bedtime later."

"Understandable, you know since he's older now," Jess looked down at his shoes, feeling uncomfortable that he and Lorelai were sharing their first decent conversation, a few minutes after he saw her in Luke's flannel.

"Mm, exactly," Lorelai said, standing there, looking around during the short silence. "Oh!" Her finger flew into the air, "Come on in." She said, moving out of their way.

Jess looked at Riley, who watched in fascination. She probably questioned the stories of the horrible confrontations, because of the pleasant one she just witnessed.

"Hey," Lorelai said, as Riley passed by. Riley smiled slightly, and gave a nod. Lorelai looked at Jess, as if she knew this was Jess's clone. At least Riley smiled in return.

"This is Riley," Jess introduced, looking at Riley, "Riley, this is Lorelai."

Lorelai smiled at Riley, and Riley tried her best to smile back politely. The three stood there, with no conversation topics to discuss, not even Lorelai could bring something up to make it less awkward.

"Jess?" The door opened, and they all turned, sighing in relief of the captivating, and exciting conversation that they were wrapped in. Luke looked at the Lorelai and Jess, who had smiles on their face. His eyes also drifted to the girl with skinny black jeans, a red hoodie, and her jet black hair hanging past her shoulders; she was staring, face blank. "What are you doing here?" Luke asked, looking at her, deciding whether she was Jess's friend or Jess's new girl, which she looked way too young for.

"Nice to see you again, Luke," Jess gave a nod.

"Yeah, yeah. What are you doing here? It's late. You still going home after here?" Luke asked, locking the door.

"I'm so glad to see you two days in a row Uncle Luke, and it's nice to know you feel the same," Jess said, sitting at the counter.

Luke sighed, already growing weary of Jess's comebacks, "Hi Jess."

"Hi Luke," Jess said, his face glowing in triumph. "Well Luke, I've come here to visit you, to visit this lovely place of Stars Hallow, and to annoy you until you wanna shoot me."

"I'm glad you've come with good intentions," Luke stepped behind the counter, grabbing three cups, and setting them in front of the three.

Jess looked over at Riley, who was staring at the counter, her eyes getting tired, and her mouth clenched in anger, "I wanted you to meet Riley too."

"Hey Riley," Luke said to Riley, who gave the shy, slight smile.

Riley looked at Luke, Jess, and Lorelai, who stared at her, Luke and Lorelai's eyes filled with questions, "I live down the hall. Jess just feeds me, and lends his couch sometimes."

"Ah," Lorelai nodded. "I knew you looked too young to be going out with Jess."

Jess raised an eyebrow, "Wait, what?"

"Nothing," Lorelai mumbled, turning her head away from Jess's confused expression.

Jess looked over at Riley, her face filled with uncertainty, and in need of a desperate escape, "Hey, you wanna watch TV upstairs?" Jess looked at Luke, his face pleading.

"Oh, yeah," Luke said to Riley, looking towards the stairs. "You can go upstairs."

Riley stood up, and whispered, barely audible, "Thanks."

Luke listened intently until he knew she went into the apartment, "So, what's with the girl?" He said passing Jess a donut.

"Well," Jess took a big bite of it. "I wanted to bring her here so you could whip her into shape."

"What?"

"Well," Jess took another bite. "She's basically me at seventeen."

"Oh," Luke said, and Lorelai nodded at him. "What do you want me to do?"

Jess shrugged, "Pull the miracle that you did with me?" Lorelai looked at Jess, finally seeing what Luke was talking about when he said that Jess grew up. That he was making a living for himself, and doing a damn fine job of it. The one thing she didn't understand was how Rory left Philadelphia still wanting Logan, when she Jess in front of her face.