The Next Morning

Jess pounded loudly on the door, he had been doing this now for three minutes and began to give up just as a very sleepy Lorelai opened it.

"Jess…it is six AM, I hope you have a good reason for waking me up because I can still put you in the garbage before the trash man gets here."

"Doubtful they don't run on Saturday." He stepped inside without being invited. "I just need to talk to Rory, the two of us had a fight at that party and I've been up all night thinking about it."

"What did you do now Jess?" Lorelai asked tiredly.

"Nothing, I just need to talk to Rory."

"Well I would hate to wake her, considering she did manage to sleep through her annoying boyfriend's knocking." Lorelai noticed how uncomfortable Jess got after the mention of the word boyfriend. "I'll go wake her up." She said softly almost feeling sorry for Jess now.

Lorelai knocked softly and then opened the door to Rory's bedroom revealing to her the perfectly made empty bed.

"Jess…did you leave Rory alone last night?" She asked storming back into the foyer.

"Well I left…but she wasn't alone. There were plenty of people there that she knew. Why?"

"Rory didn't come home last night." Lorelai opened the closet frantically searching for a coat to put over her Hello Kitty pajamas. "I have to make sure she is okay…what did the two of you fight about?"

"I'd rather have this conversation with Rory."

"Well she isn't here buddy. Come on I have to go." She said shoving him out the door.

"I'll go with you, she is probably still at Kyle's."

"Wow Jess what would I do without your logic?" She asked scurrying ahead of him.

It was a short walk to Kyle's but it seemed longer with Jess tagging along. Lorelai took notice of the empty beer cups and trash all over the lawn as she made her way to the front door and knocked. She waited a few seconds and knocked again, still not receiving any response.

"Lorelai what are you doing? There was a party here last night; no one is getting up to answer the door. Just try it, I guarantee it's open."

Lorelai realized Jess was right and turned the knob. She peeked into the house first announcing herself.

"Hello, is anyone home?" She asked opening the door wider and hitting the young boy who had crashed on the floor.

"Sorry." Lorelai whispered stepping over him as he rolled over and went back to sleep. She looked around first for someone who she recognized. A few seconds later she spotted Zach curled up at the bottom of the stairs in a bean bag chair.

"Hey Zach, wake up." Lorelai shook him a little until his eyes opened.

"Dude, it's like way early. What is the deal?" He asked husky.

"Have you seen Rory? Did she stay here last night?"

Without saying another word Zach simply nodded and pointed up the stairs. Jess immediately hopped over the rest of the sleeping bodies and headed upstairs. Lorelai tried to follow but couldn't manage to move quite as quickly as Jess did. A guilty feeling washed over him as he approached the bedroom that he and Rory were in the night before, he shook it off and opened the door in hopes to find Rory. As the two sleeping forms came into view his guilt turned to rage.

"Rory, what the hell are you doing?" He asked loudly causing Rory's eyes to open but only making Dean stir a little.

Lorelai managed to catch up just as Rory sat up in bed. "Jess this isn't what it looks like. Dean and I didn't…" Rory stopped when she saw her mother come into view behind Jess.

"What the hell is going on here?" Lorelai asked loudly. Dean awoke to the sound of Lorelai's angry voice and shot up in bed next to Rory.

"Mom nothing happened. Dean and I were just sleeping." Rory stopped talking realizing how bad it looked and sounded.

"Okay the first time the two of you spent the night together I eventually believed that but it is going to take a lot more convincing this time considering your clothes are on the floor and you're wearing Dean's instead."

"The first time? They've slept together before?" Jess asked fuming. "I thought you weren't ready, apparently you're just not ready to be with me."

"Jess nothing happened, not that I even owe you an explanation, you're the one who broke up with me and ran out of the room."

"I didn't break up with you; I said I needed some time to think." Jess ran his hand through his hair clearly frustrated. "Rory…can we talk somewhere else besides here?" Jess asked eyeing Dean.

Rory looked away from Jess and back at Dean.

"Excuse me; I just caught my kid in bed with a guy. I think I got dibs on the first talk."

"Forget it; I'm out of here anyway. Have a nice life Rory." Jess said before storming back down the stairs and slamming the front door waking half of the house.

"Okay, Rory now is the time to put your clothes back on. We are going home and you are never leaving there again." Lorelai said with a smile.

"Lorelai nothing happened. All we did was sleep; Rory wasn't comfortable wearing her clothes to sleep in so I let her borrow my t-shirt." Dean tried to help.

"I'm really having déjà vu here. Look we can talk about this at home, looking at the two of you half naked in bed is really getting to me, regardless of the circumstances."

"Can I keep the t-shirt?" Rory asked Dean quietly not wanting to have to change.

"Yeah."

Rory stood up and quickly pulled her jeans on under the shirt. She gathered the rest of her things and looked back to Dean.

"I'll call you later." She told him giving him a quick kiss on the cheek before leaving with her mom.

Rory squinted at the sudden change in light as the sun beamed down on them when they left the house.

Lorelai began to laugh as they stepped outside of the house. "You have a lot of explaining to do."

"Mom you believe me right? I swear nothing happened. We kissed, that's it."

"Do you really want to have this conversation in the streets of Stars Hollow?"

"No not really."

"By the way, the baggy shirt thing works for you. Most girls can't pull it off but you can."

"Well it's only fair, you can pull off wearing Hello Kitty pajamas in public but I can't."

A/N: I have posted a blog on the NarcoGilmore myspace page, it's the idea for my new story and I would really love to see what you guys think.