A/N: The struggle between writing chapter 4 or doing my research paper. Chapter 4 sounds way more tempting! Enjoy~

Chapter 4: First Day of School

SEPTEMBER 1992

'Uncle Luke, do you know what's the best part of living here?' said Jess who was lying on his temporary bed in the dark.

Luke almost fell asleep until Jess suddenly asked him a question, he sighed and replied, 'What?'

'I don't have to go to school tomorrow, when everyone has to.' Jess chuckled.

'Keep dreaming, kid. I called the principal when you were taking a shower. You're going tomorrow.' Luke replied in his sleepy voice. He tossed to the other side and covered his head with his sheets.

Jess sat up from his bed, jumped on to Luke's bed and remove Luke's sheets, shouted,

'What! How did that happen?!'

Luke was now totally shocked and awaken by Jess's cannon ball jump, let out a big sigh and said,

'Because I know the principal personally, we went to school together, so I have his number and told him the situation and he said you can start school tomorrow while I'll meet him after dropping you off at school to do the paper work. Now, can we please sleep, Jess? It's almost 12 midnight and I have to wake up at 4.'

'Okay… good night.' Jess jumped off Luke's bed and went back to his own bed.

'night.'

'Rise and shine, buddy.' Luke shaking Jess by the shoulder and rolled up the curtains.

'I don't wanna go!' Jess whined and covered his face with his pillow.

' Come on, get up now before I carry you downstairs in this outfit of yours. I'm sure you don't want the name 'underwear boy' to stick and pass down throughout the town do you?' Luke said while removing the pillow from Jess's face.

' Please Uncle Luke! Please, 10 more minutes?' asked Jess, who's eyes were still closed but he gave a pouting face and had his two hands together to beg Luke.

'Alright, alright. 10 minutes nothing more, ok? I made you some pancakes. I'll see you downstairs in 20 minutes max. Alright?' Luke said while handing back Jess's pillow and walked out of the apartment.

'Jess!' An excited Rory rushed to hug him. 'I'm so glad we can go to school together! I'll introduce you to my friend Lane, and all the great things to do at school!'

'Okay.' Replied Sleepy Jess, who's now walking towards Lorelai's table.

'Good morning, mad scientist! What happened to your hair? Do you not comb your hair before you come down all ready for the mighty Luke's pancakes?' asked Lorelai who began to ruffle Jess's messy hair.

'Stop..' Jess said frustratedly. 'Luke needs me to be down here in 20 minutes, if not he'll make sure the whole town calls me 'underwear boy'.'

'Ew! You only wear underwear to bed, Jess?' asked Rory in shock.

'Yea.' Jess shrugged his shoulder, thinking its no big deal. And took a sip of his chocolate milk.

'You're gross Jess! Why would you do that?' Rory asked, still in disbelief. She has never heard of anyone in her life wearing just underwear to bed.

'It's not a big deal Rory! Luke sometimes go to bed in only his underwear too!' argued Jess.

'I heard my name, what is happening?' asked Luke who was looking at Lorelai laughing her head off, Jess ignoring the two girls, eating his pancakes and Rory looking at him in shock of disappointment.

'Luke… why…why would you..you.. only wear underwear to bed?' asked Rory with her eyes wide opened in shock.

'What? Why? Um, I don't...' Luke was shocked Rory was asking such question, he didn't know how to answer it.

'Rory, it's okay, it's a boys thing, some girls too, but mostly boys. You don't have to be that shock, it's just a habit.' Lorelai trying so hard to stop laughing at this conversation and assured her innocent daughter.

'You two ready for your first day of school?' asked the excited Lorelai, raising her hand high for the two to high five.

'Of course!' Rory said while high-fiving her mom.

Jess on the other hand, high fived Lorelai with no effort or excitement and said, 'I guess.'

He grabbed his backpack and went out the door waiting for Luke to get out. The four stopped at the school entrance, Lorelai gave Rory a hug and kiss, then hugged Jess as well before saying goodbye to Luke and the kids and left for work.

'Alright. Have a good day at school.' Luke said with a smile on his face, afterall, he is glad that he kept Jess here. Jess nodded with a smile too.

'Stay out of trouble ok!' shouted Luke while Rory and Jess were dashing off inside the school.

Luke then slowly walked into the school and head to the general office to get the paper work done.

Jess was very fortunate to be in the same class as Rory and some of his baseball friends including Johnny. School was going alright until after lunch time, Jess couldn't stand it anymore, he was so bored. He tried to get attention from Rory who was sitting two seats next to him by making funny face when the teacher was writing things on the blackboard. Rory ignored him, she loves school, she focuses on the blackboard and jots down important notes. Jess gave up, he ripped up a paper and rolled it into a ball and threw it to Johnny's head while the teacher was not looking. Afterwards, he immediately hid his head with the textbook, laughing without a sound. Johnny looked around and knew it must have been Jess. He rolled up a paper ball and tossed it back to Jess, it hit the cover of the textbook making a silent noise which was loud enough that Mrs Owen turned back her head.

'What was that noise?' asked Mrs Owen to the children.

Everyone looked innocently at the teacher. Johnny and Jess tried to keep a stern face, covering up their small delinquent act. Mrs. Owen turned back to the black board and continue with her teachings. Johnny waved at Jess who was two seats behind him. He whispered, doing sign language with his mouth.

'Are-You-Going-To-The-Park-Afterschool?'

Jess replied by shooking his head and whispered back,

'Uncle-Luke would,' and then made a murdered face to Johnny, implying that Luke would kill him if he doesn't do all his assignments before going to the park.

'Jess.' Said Mrs. Owen, who shocked Jess who didn't notice her being right next to him. 'Here, you can answer the question I just asked.' Knowing Jess wasn't paying attention at all.

'Well ma'am.' Replied Jess, who was thinking of a way to get out of this.

'It's Mrs. Owens'

'Well, Mrs. Owen, you see. I would love to answer your question, but I thought you were the teacher, aren't you supposed to answer questions so we can learn from it? I know it's been a long day, and being the first day and all, it must suck. So why don't you just take a rest and continue writing down things on the blackboard.' Jess replied, with a big fat smile on his face.

The whole class went silent, shocked that anyone would try to challenge Mrs. Owen like that.

'Jess, that is very disrespectful of you. A young child like you should not be challenging teachers in such manner!' yelled Mrs. Owen who was also shocked that an 8 year old just challenged her.

'Hey ma'am, that's very disrespectful of you to say that I'm disrespectful of you! Let me ask you a question, what country do we live in?' asked Jess who's now standing up and talking back to his teacher.

'The United States of America, even a kindergartener knows, Jess you should really focus more on school. How could you not know that question!' replied Mrs. Owen, who thought she had Jess right there.

'Oh I know, I know very well that this is the United States of America, I just wanna make sure you actually remember. Because you weren't that focus just now since it's the first day back to work. Anyway, my point is, this is a country where freedom of speech is legal and allowed anywhere in this country! Mrs. Owen, I am so sorry to tell you that, teaching might just not be your thing. You should consider switching jobs.' Jess said.

The whole class was either shocked and afraid of Mrs. Owen angry face or they were trying to keep a stern face.

'Out! Out of my class and into Principal Milton's office immediately!'

'Whatever you say, ma'am.' Jess said as if he doesn't care and walked slowly to the door.

'It's Mrs. Owen!'

'Quite a record you break here Mr Mariano. I have been the principal of this school for almost 10 years and I have never had any student sent to my office on the first day of school!' Principal Milton said while offering Jess to take a seat infront of his desk.

'Well sir, I didn't intend to break any school record, it was Mrs Owen who sent me here.'

'I know. Now explained to me, why did you disrespect Mrs. Owen?'

'I wasn't disrespectful, I was just enjoying my freedom of speech this country offers me!' Jess replied, still trying defend himself.

'Jess, I don't care about freedom of speech or anything, you do not disrespect teachers in this school. This is the first warning, you will write 100 lines of 'I will not disrespect any teachers at school anymore.' And hand it in to me tomorrow before class begins. Do I make myself clear?' Principal Milton said sternly.

'Yes you made yourself VERY clear.' Sighed Jess. He knew he should not talk back anymore before the lines start to increase.

'If I hear another report on you disrespecting anyone else at school, I would not hesitate to call your Uncle on the phone directly, during busy lunch hours.' Principal Milton added, he knows Luke gets extremely grumpy during busy hours and with news about Jess not behaving at school will just add on to it.

'Okay Principal Milton, I get your point.' The defeated Jess replied.

'Very well then, off you go.'

'That was crazy Jess! I would never dare challenge Mrs Owen, if my mom knows, she would definitely get out her hairbrush.' Johnny said while Johnny, Rory, Jess and Lane were walking out of the school.

'Well I'm glad, cause Luke doesn't own a hairbrush, comb is just, you know, not effective.' Jess chuckled.

'My mom would make me copy the whole bible more than twice and ground me for at least a week for that kind of act.' Lane added on.

'How bout you Rory, what would your mom do if she knows?' asked Lane.

' I think she'll just laugh about it, and then we'll watch a even funnier movie.' Rory replied.

'You are so lucky!' the other three all said.

The kids were heading to Luke's, before Johnny tried to push the door, Jess stopped him.

'Okay guys, before you get into the diner, speak nothing, I mean NOTHING, about what happened today ok? Deal?' Jess asked who was worried his friends might get him into trouble.

' I thought you said Luke doesn't own a hairbrush!' Johnny teased Jess.

'Hey, I'm serious! Come on, man!'

'Okay we all got it! We won't say anything about what happened at Mrs Owen's class.' Johnny said and the girls nodded.

'Alright, let's get in.' Jess said with a sigh of relief.

Hope you guys liked this chapter, it was a fun chapter to write, I know some of the things doesn't sound like an 8 year old kid would say, but hey, it's Jess we're talking about :P

Tell me what you guys think of this chapter! Till then, stay tuned!