Disclaimer: I don't own them. Wish I did. Especially Jess/Milo. :) The title is a Dashboard Confessional song. Check them out. They kick booty.
Rating: PG13, I had to change it to do what I *really* wanted to do.
Summary: I don't really know what to say. It's a funny fic I wrote for a challenge. I thought I should mention now.. it's AU, kinda. lol.
AN: Like I said, I wrote this for a challenge. I decided to have it be R/J at the end because... I said so. This chapter took me forever to write. Or at least it seemed that way. I'm not sure why, it just did.
The Challenge: The story(chapter) MUST include the following:
*Lane
*Reference to Fast Food
*the line "Gay men are so hot it's tragic."
*Luke's diner
*a party or club of some sort
*Kirk
*Blinking Lights (not in or at club/party)
Again I Go Unnoticed
Rory and Lane were sitting in Luke's diner discussing a phone call that Rory had received that morning.
"So, at nine o'clock in the morning, on spring break, Madeline called you?" Lane was asking.
"Yeah," Rory said sipping her coffee.
"Does she not realise you sleep?"
"Apparently not. Anyways she's having a party tomorrow night and wanted to know if I could come," Rory paused and took another sip of her coffee. "I told her only if I could bring some friends."
"Oh so you want me to go with you?"
"Yeah."
Lane sighed and leaned back in the booth, "I don't know. I want to go but what would I tell my mom?"
Rory shrugged, "I don't know. Um, tell her you've been assigned an essay on the first tourist in space and everything had been checked out of the Stars Hollow library already so you and I are going to the library in Hartford. You're going to work on your essay while I work on my report on eastern religion."
"You know that's just school oriented enough to work. But I must say Rory, what's gotten into you?"
"I'm desperate. Unless I go to the party mom will make me play Mary Ann in the town's version of Gilligan's Island," Rory sighed and drank some of her coffee.
"Okay but what when she wants to see the essay?"
"I'll type you up something tomorrow."
"Nice try," Lane said eyeing her friend, "You'll sleep late, and then run around like a chicken with your head cut off preparing for the hula contest."
"Okay, I forgot about that. So I'll type something up the day after that or something. You can say you're coming over to type it up, and that you gave me your notes so you wouldn't lose or forget them."
Lane smiled as she played with the straw in her coke, "You think of everything." She paused a moment playing with her straw some more before asking, "So you're not inviting Dean are you?"
Rory looked up from her coffee, "No, too awkward."
Lane nodded as Luke brought them their food, two burgers with fries. Lane crunched on a fry thoughtfully than pointed it at Rory. "You know," Lane swallowed, " Luke's fries are good and all, but Arby's are better."
Rory looked at her friend, "My, that was random."
"They are though."
Rory nodded and bit a fry then shook it at Lane, "They're seasoned."
"And curly," Lane added.
"And cheesy," Kirk interjected from the next table where he was waiting for Luke to take his order. "Sorry, I couldn't help over hearing."
"It's okay Kirk," Rory said smiling.
"He's right. They're full of cheesy goodness," Lane said. The two girls smiled at each other and continued eating their food and talking. "Hey did you happen to see The Forsaken?"
"Yeah," Rory said, "It was good."
"Yeah. Kerr Smith is extremely cute."
"He'd be the only reason to watch Dawson's Creek," Rory pointed out
Lane sighed, "Yeah. Gay men are so hot, it's tragic."
"He's only gay on the show not in real life Lane," Rory said sticking her tongue out at her friend.
"True but you've got to agree right?"
"Point taken."
"I've got to go," Lane said suddenly. "My mom's having a family dinner tonight so I have to help her get ready before my aunt and uncle arrive."
Rory nodded and said goodbye then watched as Lane walked out the door. Rory went up and paid Luke then headed home.
The next day went pretty much as Lane planned. Rory woke up late, then rushed about the house preparing for the hula contest. She finally dashed out the door in jean shorts and a blue tank top, her hair loose and whipping about her face. She arrived at the sign in table near the gazebo and got her number and grass skirt then stood off to the side to wait.
Suddenly Lorelai rushed up to her, two coffees in hand. Rory took one and gulped it down before her mom could say anything. "Now I'm here, but I don't know if I can stay for this whole thing, Sookie's already injured herself twice today, so it's not looking good."
"No fair mom, you entered me in this stupid thing."
"Exactly, because I couldn't do it. Now, make me proud," Lorelai said fastening the grass skirt around Rory's waist.
Rory sighed as she heard them announce the beginning. They called five people onto the gazebo and had them hula to some corny tropical music for a few minutes. Then the audience's applause determine who would move on. They did that three more times, Rory's group was last. When her name was called she climbed up on the gazebo with Kirk, and a couple cheerleaders from Stars Hollow high and did her best. She was shocked when she was chosen to move on.
So she stayed up there and gave it her best again. This time however the captain of the cheerleading squad won. Rory was pleased about this, the winner would preside over the rest of the festivities and frankly, she wanted nothing to do with it. Rory congratulated her then walked down through the crowd taking off her number and skirt. Suddenly a hand reached out and grabbed her arm. She whirled around and saw Jess standing there.
"Hey," he said.
She shifted nervously, "Hey, what are you doing here?"
"Well your mom mentioned it while she was in the diner so I had to come see for myself."
"Great. So have you seen my mom?"
"Yeah," Jess said as he fingered her grass skirt, "She had to leave early. Hey can I have this?"
Rory looked down at the skirt, "Uh yeah sure I guess." She handed it to him. "I can't believe my mother entered me in this stupid thing and didn't even stay to see me lose."
Jess smirked at her, "How harsh of her. Well for what it's worth I think you did good."
All of a sudden Lane came rushing up to them grinning like a madwoman. Rory turned and looked at her, "Hey Lane! You made it!"
Jess looked at Lane too and said sarcastically, "Yeah Lane! You made it, what will your mother say."
Before Lane could come up with a retort Rory interrupted, "Yeah what did your mother say about tonight?"
Lane turned to Rory, the grin reappearing on her face, "I can go. She bought it hook, line, and sinker." Lane made a noise that was supposed to sound like a sinker hitting water and splashing, it sounded suspiciously like a missile going splash to Jess however.
"Woo! Party tonight." Rory grinned happily, "Now mom can't make me be Mary Ann." Lane and Rory started walking to Luke's side by side, Jess momentarily forgotten.
Jess looked back and forth between the two and fell into step behind them, "What party?"
Rory spun around, "Oh god, sorry Jess. This girl from Chilton, Madeline, is having a party and invited me."
"Oh," Jess said as they approached the stop light, "Hey guys can you uh, stand right here?" He positioned them around the pole, "Thanks." Jess ducked behind Rory and Lane and a cardboard palm tree.
Rory and Lane were talking excitedly about the party when they her the sound of metal against metal and Jess go, "Ouch. Damn." His hand flung out at Rory as he said, "Hey hold this." She took the screwdriver out of his hand and resisted the urge to glance over her shoulder. Suddenly a flash of light behind her caught her attention and she looked over her shoulder to see sparks and Jess shaking his hand, again saying, "Damn." After a moment he held out his hand for the screw driver. She watched him screw some screws back in and close a metal door, by now Lane was watching too. He slipped the screwdriver back in his pocket and stepped between the two girls throwing and arm over each of their shoulders as he hustled them away. "Come on ladies, get a move on. Don't need to get caught."
Lane twisted out of Jess's grip, "Do you have a death wish? My mother would kill you."
Jess nodded and kept walking towards Luke's, his arm still around Rory, "Keep up Lane."
The trio hurried inside and set down at a booth. Rory turned to Jess and asked, "Hey would you like to come to the party tonight?"
"Sure," Jess said.
"Okay come over around seven," Rory turned her attention out the window and began to laugh. Lane followed her gaze and burst out laughing too. Jess just smirked.
Luke came over to see what was so funny and grinned. Jess looked up at him, "I guess now isn't the best time to ask for the night off huh?"
Luke looked down at Jess, "For letting me see that in my lifetime, you can have tonight and tomorrow morning off." Luke walked away and the three teens turned their attention back to the street where Taylor was standing waving his hands in the air and ranting, his face was so red it was almost purple. He stared up at the traffic light in a rage demanding to know why it was flashing yellow on all sides.
