"Davey I've been looking for you everywhere. Boy do I have a surprise for you!" Exclaimed Sookie as she pulled Davey away from his friends.
"What is it Mom?" Davey questioned.
"I just entered you in a cooking contest; it's going to be in Hartford on the 24th! Aren't you excited, this is going to be great!" Sookie proclaimed.
"But I don't want to do a cooking contest, especially not then I have a football game, the guys are counting on me!" Davey pleaded.
"Oh come on Hun! If you really want to be a great chef than we're going to have to start getting your name out there, there are thousands of other kids your age who will end up being chefs! I need to know that you can beat out the competition" Sookie scolded.
"But I don't want to beat out the competition, I don't really care that much, Mom honest," Davey again pleaded.
"Listen Hun I paid three hundred dollars to enter you into this contest and you aren't backing down now, there's a lot riding on this, I have to prove you're better than Chef Rousseau!" Sookie pleaded.
"Who's Chef Rousseau?" Davey asked, baffled.
"He's uh no one, it's not important Hun, what's important is that you do as Mommy asks and enter this contest, because I'm going to be really mad if I paid a non-refundable entry fee just for you to decide you're a big boy now and can make your own decisions" Sookie replied angrily.
"Fine Mom I'll do it, but I just want you to know that I'm not happy about it!" Davey yelled.
"Your happiness is not important right now…" Sookie whispered under her breath.
"What?" Davey asked.
"Nothing Hun, never mind" Sookie retorted. "Let's just get home and see if Martha had a good day at school."
"That's great Martha!" Jackson exclaimed as Sookie and Davey walked into the house.
"What's great?" Sookie implored.
"Martha made a new friend today, tell her honey" Jackson exposed. "Oh come on Martha it's Mom you can tell her… alright well I'll tell her then" Jackson continued seeing that Martha wasn't going to explain. "She meant a new friend today his name is Jarrod, apparently he just moved here, at least that's what Martha says, she doesn't know his last name. Have you heard of anyone moving here recently?"
"No I haven't, I'll ask Miss Patty when we go to the diner, Lorelai invited us for dinner, I hope you don't mind" Sookie explained.
"Great, what time does she want us there?" Jackson asked.
"At five-thirty, so in about a half hour" Sookie informed.
"Lorelai we're here!" Sookie yelled.
"Oh hey you guys, I'm so glad you could make it, hey kids sit wherever you'd like" Lorelai invited, as she continued scrubbing Rome's hands. "Mr. Genius here stuck his hands in a bucket of petroleum jelly, didn't you Mister. Of course it was all worth it to see Kirk's face, he was planning on using it to get his car out of his garage… it's a long story."
"Sounds like it would be, knowing Kirk" Sookie laughed. "Oh Miss Patty I have question."
"Yes what is it honey, Miss Patty knows all" answered Miss Patty.
"I was wandering if any families have moved into town recently, in particular a family with a son named Jarrod?" Sookie questioned.
"Oh I'm sorry honey not that I know of there isn't even a child in town named Jarrod, what makes you ask?" Miss Patty asked.
"Nothing… just wondering" Sookie answered as she looked at an equally confused Jackson.
"So kids what'll you have?" Luke questioned.
"I'll have an imaginary sandwich… I mean turkey sandwich" replied Jackson.
