Disclaimer: If you don't think I own it, then I probably don't.
Rating: Pg:13, Ugh.
Pairing: What do you think? A little L/L thrown in here. I hate writing Luke so that's why I can't put to much in.
A/N: It's been almost a month, I feel so mean. I'm unbelievably sooooooory. This wasn't the best chapter I've written, but hell I'm not changing it because it took me forever to write. I think writers block is getting worse. If anyone has time, can you review my other story Iris, I'm made it up while writing this one. That's all, EVERYONE PLEASE REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!
Luke Rules: As long as someone loves it! LOL Anonymous: Here you are Adriannawolf: I almost forgot about who that was while writing this. I had to put it half-heartedly in the end bit. Katie: You are the bestest reviewer in the whole entire world and you deserve lots of what ever you want Me: I broke down. Ahh. At least it was good news, although I end up knowing what's going to happen anyway because of the fics. LOL Reanna: Thankyou very much Caitlin: Yup, Jess is really hot! Dogerluv: I wish I had thought of your pen name, it rules. Anyway, I think writing Jess like Dean is crime the-zone4 : I thankyou for your kind words. Heh Heh. starry-eyed-storyteller: I finally found out what Literati means, I read this on Jamsel's fic, it's something like "Literary Knowledge" or knowing of Literary. Highlight the word and then press D. The meanings come up on screen. Heh, I finally found a use for the thing FF.net put in. I have a question for you, if Narcoleptic is the illness where you fall asleep, then why are D/R shippers called that? Is it because Dean's so boring he makes you want to go to sleep? That'd be my reason anyway.
Kept Hidden When love is not madness, It is not love
Rory woke up to find that her mother had left a note on her beside table next to a mug of coffee 'Can you believe that they called me into work! Ugh! Apparently needing to rest after a holiday isn't a good enough excuse. Any way, Love you sweets I'll be home around 3, I hope. Money's some where, just scrounge around, and if all else fails, call a party and tell'em to bring their own food!' Rory shook her head at the note. At first she was disappointed that her mother wasn't home, it meant they couldn't spend any time with her, something that they hadn't had in a long time. On the other hand, it did mean that her and Jess could do something; as long as he wasn't working.
Rory looked at the clock: 9:00, her stomach rumbled. Taking that as a sign, she had a shower and then walked to Luke's. Only Luke was in the diner, the place was eerily quiet. "Hey Luke," Rory sat down at the counter.
"Hi Rory, where's your mom?" he asked her.
Rory thought he looked slightly awkward, "Umm they called her in to work, I'm not sure who's going to take her wrath, hopefully she had coffee before they called." Luke smiled slightly, "so I guess you want coffee."
"As always and I'll have pancakes with maple syrup, normal toast, French toast, scrambled eggs and..Ooo a poached egg on the side of that please."
"You filling in for your mother?" Luke raised an eyebrow.
"Hey, it takes a lot of energy walking from my house to here," Rory quickly scanned the diner, "Luke where's Jess?"
"He's upstairs, I gave him the day off, I got a call from the principal this morning, he said that the school's sign had been replaced to it's original position and the slave Labor one has mysteriously disappeared."
Rory giggled, "can I go up?"
Luke caught off guard didn't think to discourage her, "Sure. just be down before the food gets cold."
Rory smiled and bounded lightly up the stairs. Opening the door softly, she slipped into the newly renovated apartment. At the end of the room there was a door, assuming this was Jess' room, she snuck in, Jess was curled up to the left side of the bed, Rory could just see a book clutched in his fist. Slowly, she sat down beside him, remembering when he comforted her. She loved it when he just held her; their silences were their own conversations. Rory studied his face, to her surprise he looked almost... innocent; child like. Her gaze travelled to his hands. In them was a book, gently she pried it from his finger, 'The Magic Faraway Tree'. Rory almost laughed, the thought of Jess reading this was up there with Taylor becoming a hippie.
Jess stirred and turned to face her. Sleepily he realised that he wasn't alone. "Morning."
Rory held the book up.
"It's a good book, I have the set," he said defensively.
Rory smiled again, and layed down with him. Jess moved closer and snuggled his head between her shoulder and neck. Rory started reading out loud, after about ten minutes later, Luke called up the stairs "Rory your breakfast's ready!"
Jess groaned when she got up. Rory grinned at him; "do you want to do something today? My mom is at work sooo." His face lit up and then fell again, "Luke's making me work."
"Nope, you're not, he said this morning that you had the day off today, something about a returning school sign."
Jess smirked and got off the bed, "Gimme two secs, I'll be down in a minute, hang on;" he reached up and smoothed her hair. "Don't want Luke getting too suspicious."
Rory blushed and ran down the stairs, waiting for her were two plates of the food she had ordered. Like a kid in a candy store, she looked over the food, trying to decide what she should eat first.
"You know you just put it in your mouth and swallow," Luke said to her.
"Yeah but where to start? It all looks so nice," the cup of coffee came into view. "But who can argue with the classics," she said while gulped down the liquid.
By the time Rory was three quarters finished her meal, Jess came down the stairs, sitting next to her, "there will be tomorrow you realise, you don't need to eat every different type of food that we offer."
Rory pouted with her mouth full then swallowed down the remnants of her breakfast. "What do you want to do?"
"Well since it's pouring like nothing else and if we step out side, we're in danger of drowning, I propose a video day upstairs," Jess drank some orange juice that Luke put in front of him.
Luke over heard what Jess said, he started to get nervous, if Lorelai found out he let them in the apartment alone, she'd most likely freak and that was putting it hopefully. "Umm.. couldn't you go out or something?" he asked tentatively 'at least then they can't do something stupid. What am I saying this is Jess.'
"Luke, we're not going to do anything, I'm sure we can keep everything purely Pg. And it's not like we'd want to do anything to ruin your's and Lorelai's little, exploits." Jess answered disparagingly, "plus what else can you suggest, unless you want to build an arc so Rory can go home?"
Luke knew he was right, so he gave in, "fine, but I find anything going on remotely; you know what I mean. just don't do anything."
Rory stared at her shoes, which suddenly had extremely interesting patterns on them. "Thankyou Your Majesty, come on Rory," Jess took her hand and led her up to the apartment. Once inside Rory felt slightly uncomfortable, not about Jess but that Luke was downstairs and that he didn't approve of what they were doing.
Jess disappeared into his room, returning with three videos in hand. "We didn't get to finish watching these last time."
Rory grabbed them from his grasp, already knowing what they were, "'Stepmom' first and then 'Richy Rich' to cheer me up."
Jess took the video a put it on. He sat on the couch and Rory sat in his lap, both comfortable, Jess kissed her hair and they watched the movie. When it finished, Rory turned round to face him. "What now?"
"Don't you want to watch the rest of the movies?" he pointed to the pile.
"Not really," Rory didn't elaborate.
"Umm, so what do you want to do?" Jess looked half amused half puzzled.
Rory shrugged.
"Why are you mimicking me?" Jess said recognising her behaviour.
"Just because," Rory smirked at him.
Jess shook his head, realising what he was getting himself into. "Oookay, well these are my suggestions, we could read, make out, proof read plans for our bank robbery tonight or wedding, which ever suits you best," he paused for a second, "or alternatively, my room is just over there," he raised his eyebrows.
Rory tried to hide her blush but she was unsuccessful. Jess grinned, "I win."
"Fine, I was going to kiss you but you're mean," she moved herself over to the other side of the couch and pulled out 'The Magic Faraway Tree'.
Jess opened his mouth, closed it, but then spoke again. "Well I can do that too." He got up and went back into his room. Rory didn't look up. He sat back down on the chair, Rory smiled at him and patted her lap and Jess laid his head down and read 'The Folk of the Faraway Tree'.
~ ~ ~ ~
An hour later, Rory tapped Jess on the head with her book. Jess didn't look up and kept reading. She poked him in the stomach and he didn't even flinch. Annoyed, Rory started making faces at him and tugged his ears; Jess just turned the last page of his book and continued to ignore her. In her agitation she resorted to desperate measures, she started to tickle him; the reaction was instantainious, Jess accidentally though the book over the couch and countered attacked. Trying not to laugh, he sat up and reached to her stomach and began to tickle her. Rory was set off into squeals of fitful laughter, "Stop! I'm sorry! Truce!"
Jess kept tickling her, Rory realised that he was paying her back and wasn't going to let her go so easily. Some how, she slipped under his arms and reached his sensitive skin. Both laughing hysterically, they fell off the couch and onto the floor. Breathing heavily, Rory stared down at Jess' face. He rolled her onto her side, so they were facing each other. Jess pushed the strand of hair out of her face. Rory saw the fire in his eyes, the happiness mirroring in her own.
"That wasn't very nice, I was just finishing the book," Jess smiled at her.
"Well, I thought you liked it more than me," Rory pouted at him.
"That really wouldn't be possible," Jess traced her face with his finger. The feather touch sent Rory into shivers, forcefully she held his face to hers, enjoying the sensations that his tongue managed to cause.
After ten minutes of kissing, Jess broke off and propped his head up on his hand. He grinned at the dreaming expression on Rory's face, "Am I forgiven?"
"Kiss me again and we'll see," Rory brought him to her once more and they kissed for another couple of minutes.
"Suprisingly, Luke hasn't come up to check on us," Rory looked at the door as if Luke was walking up the stairs.
"Yeah well he either doesn't want to know what we're doing or he is doing what we are doing," Jess rolled his eyes.
Rory sighed; a troubled look clouded her face.
"Hey what's the matter?" Jess intertwined their legs and drew her body closer, but made sure he could still watch her.
"Why hasn't she told me?" she said softly.
"Your mom?" Rory nodded. "About what?"
"Her and Luke," Rory paused, "We tell each other everything, why would she keep this from me."
Jess hesitated.
"It's okay, say what you want, unless you're gay, that'd be bad," Rory tried to lighten the atmosphere.
"Hmm, I'm sorry me and Kirk have a 'thing'," Jess smirked.
"A 'thing'?"
"Yeah, I steal his wallet and he does my job," he returned back to the conversation, "seriously though, ugh. you realise that you haven't told her about 'us' yet so that makes you even."
"But that's different," Rory protested. Jess just looked at her.
"My mother doesn't like you, I'm doing this because I don't want her to have a coronary. She on the other hand knows I like Luke. He's been like my father, hell he feeds me and fixes my house and stuff and was always there when I needed him," Rory snuggled closer to Jess, trying to block out the hurt.
Jess wrapped his arms around her and whispered in her ear, "Hey, I'll always be here too, no matter what. Kay?"
Rory nodded and they broke apart suddenly when they heard the footsteps thud towards them. Hurriedly they both leaped onto the couch, grabbing the closest reading article. Luke stepped in the door; they looked up innocently at him. "You behaving?" he asked them.
Rory nodded, Jess almost said something but stopped when she pinched him.
Luke turned round again, "Rory if he tries anything, there are sharp objects scattered around the house," not waiting for a response he went back to where he came from.
Once they couldn't hear him Jess yelped "What was that for?"
"Oh come on, if you said what I think you were going to, he'd be standing outside the door waiting for something to happen so he could catch us," Rory argued.
"Yeah, true," Jess gave in, "but you didn't have to maim me."
"Oh. poor baby, want me to kiss it better?" she cooed to him.
"Don't mock my wound, it really hurts," Jess whined and gave her the puppy dog eyes.
"I'll make it up to you," Rory's voice went husky and she kissed him.
"It doesn't hurt any more," Jess mumbled leaning in for more.
After uncounted minutes passionate kissing, they stopped and Rory curled up against his chest. Jess sighed, "we really have to get up."
"I know," slowly Rory rolled of the couch and got up. Holding her hand out to Jess they both walked downstairs.
~ ~ ~ ~
To Rory's surprise, Lorelai was sitting on the stool arguing to Luke about something unheard, most likely about coffee. "Hey mom, I didn't think that you were getting out of hell until three?"
Lorelai looked suspiciously back her, "mmm, Michel who by the way is Satan's fill in for the weekend, decided that Sookie's soup wasn't hot enough so he added chilli into it, which wasn't a good idea since Sookie's having serious problems with the oven and her cake just burned. So when she found out, let's just say she stuck a chilli where most guys would cringe and die the second they saw what she was about to do."
Rory, oblivious to the stares that Lorelai gave her, grabbed the coffeepot off Jess and poured herself a cup; "do I want to know what happened next?"
Lorelai pondered the question, "not unless you want to scar your precious, untainted mind."
For some reason the comment hurt slightly.
Lorelai didn't catch on to her uncomfort though and called over Luke for more coffee. "Hey so did you go swimming today?"
Rory shrugged, "I just stayed here after breakfast."
Lorelai frowned inadvertently stealing a look at Jess, "Here, what did you do?"
"Nothing much; read, ate," Rory sipped her coffee.
"With who? Luke? Food, that's understandable think that he'd have a lot to say on that, but reading? Cuz I didn't pick him for the literary type," Lorelai tried to ignore the sinking feeling in her stomach.
Rory stifled a frustrated sigh, "No, me and Jess, that okay with you?"
"Rory," Lorelai pleaded softly.
"Mom, you can't pick my friends," Rory whispered, irrationally for some reason, she was aching for this fight.
Lorelai opened her mouth, her eyes were clouded in anger; just as she was about to speak, Luke came back out of the kitchen and to Rory's amazement, all the anger and resentment that was evident in her mother's face, drained in an instant. Lorelai, looked at her daughter dazedly, "Umm, ok sweetie, I'm sorry, lets just forget this happened." She then walked up behind Luke and they went back into the kitchen.
Rory watched them talk then walk away. She felt slightly hurt and left out. They were talking about something that she felt was important and Lorelai after telling her that she couldn't hang around Jess, had said she was sorry and then totally blown her off. That wasn't like the "normal" Lorelai, when she had seen Luke, she changed. "I guess love does make you do strange thing" Rory thought. "We can do something tonight, we haven't done anything together in ages."
She felt a tap on her back. "Your mom try to give you the third degree?" Jess stood behind her. When they had come down, he went out the back to avoid Lorelai glaring at him.
Rory turned around to face him, "Actually, she was about to and then she just sorta stopped. Think the fish on Monty Python and you've got how her facials went. It was weird."
"Huh. Okay, so she still doesn't know yet?" Rory shook her head; "Can we thank Luke? Rory nodded, "I knew he had his uses, any way, do you want to do something tonight?"
"Can't get enough, huh?" Rory grinned. Her face dropped slightly, "I can't, me and mom haven't had a just girls night," she said wistfully. "I'm sorry, please don't be mad."
"It's okay Rory, it was just a suggestion. Not life or death. We've had the whole day together any way. You and your mom should do something," Jess smirked at her instinct to panic.
Rory looked relived, "You're not mad?"
Jess stared back confused, "Umm do you want me to chuck a Naomi Campbell, cuz my drama skills need honing."
"I just. I don't know.I kind of expected you to blow up," Rory said.
"Like Dean?" Jess raised his eyebrows and Rory blushed, giving him his answer.
Jess shook his head, "Frankenstin's gotta temper, any way, see you tomorrow, we can ahh, do something," he winked suggestively and walked upstairs leaving Rory to hide her reddening cheeks.
~ ~ ~ ~
After dragging a juvenile Lorelai back home, who by some luck for Rory, seemed to have forgotten about their words before. Lorelai instead was incessantly complaining about Luke and his reluctance to introduce a system where she could have her own pot of coffee that was on hand at all times and that no one else was allowed to touch it. Apparently Luke wasn't buying and said that he would rather give Taylor him ultimate wish to decorate Luke's diner in commemorative plates.
"And then I said that a few Dolly Parton pictures would really bright on up the place. Luke just stared at me funny and said that I really need my mental health checked," Lorelai huffed.
Rory looked seriously at her mother, "You do realise there is no way Taylor would allow, a photo of Dolly Parton in a public place. He'd say that there was too much innapporiate flesh showing.. So talking about inappropriate skin, is that all you and Luke talked about in the kitchen?" Rory hinted.
"Daughter dearest, I think that it is you should have her head assessed," Lorelai pouted and sat on the couch.
"If you say so," Rory forced a grin and sat next to her mother. "So, in light of our total lack of social life, what do you want to watch? I was thinking a Kirsten Dunst theme. We could start with the whole kissing a vamp slash Brad Pitt thing and then watch her brush her teeth for the millionth time."
Lorelai could swear that her stomach was imploding on it self. "Honey I'm so sorry, me and umm, Sookie are catching up tonight. I won't be home until late, like Angel time. I'm sorry."
"Oh, okay," Rory tried to smile, "but didn't you see Sookie today?"
"Yeah, but after the whole Red Hot Chilli Pepper incident, she went home and I promised to come over and we could watch movies with French guys and throw lollies at the TV, when they came on. I'm so sorry sweet heart; we can do something tomorrow, Kay. I promise, and I might even manage to add in a visit with Mr Bloom," Lorelai gave Rory the baby eyes.
Rory groaned, "That's so not fair, go on, go prevent Sookie from taking her anger out on innocent French men."
"Aww, aren't you the sweetest, bestest, smartest, superest nicest, kindest, lovelyest daughter in the whole entire world. I don't have to go until five though so you wanna hang out now?"
"I would but I just remembered this Spanish homework that I needed to do," Rory smiled at her mother; not waiting for a reply she walked into her room. She felt something that something that she had never felt with her mother before. Isolated. Not that she showed it, but Rory was hurt that her mother wasn't spending time with her. Not that it was her fault, if Sookie needed her then she was her best friend, but Rory figured that Lorelai would have thought about her before making plans like she had. To her surprise her mom didn't seem to catch onto her slight discomfort. She must have been getting better at covering up her feelings. "I've been spending waaaaay to much time with Jess". To comfort herself, she remembered that there was still tomorrow to do something, then she might spill about Jess.
~ ~ ~ ~
"Jess, you're closing the diner tonight!" Luke yelled across the room to the teenager who was serving a sullen middle age couple.
Jess walked behind the counter and threw the pad at Luke. "Why? It's not like you have any hot date with anyone." Jess' mouth curved into a devilish smile, "Unless you actually do have a little woman stashed in the closet. Hmm." Jess tapped his head, "Who could that be? Maybe your lady friend that has a daughter with the same name and that you've been in love with for as long as you can remember?"
"Ugh," Luke looked disgustedly at him, "No more death metal for you, it's killing your brain."
Jess grinned, "So you are you going on a date with? Julia, Kylie, Miss Patti, Ooo I know, it's Taylor isn't it. You're both going to put aside your petty dislikes and give each other little matching necklaces that say, 'Never will we be apart' and then you'll hug and cry and."
"Jess. Continue and you'll be going on a date with Taylor, and Kirk," Luke growled.
Jess held his hands up in surrender, "Whoa, touchy are we. Are you sure you just aren't in denial?"
"Me and Alice Cooper could do a duet if you keep this up," Luke muttered.
"What the hell would you two kindred spirits have in common?" Jess stared in mock confusion. "Anger? Resentment? You eat frogs and snakes? You have hidden in the deep depths of your flannel drowned closest, there's stash of make up to rival Cher?"
"No, actually he wants to hang Briteny Spears, but if I introduce you to him, I might be able to get my wish," Luke turned and went up the stairs.
Jess smirked at his uncles retreating back. The guy was nuts, but good enough to him. Jess went back to work and then suddenly stopped.
'Luke knows who Briteny Spears is?"
~ ~ ~ ~
Rory closed her book. Ugh, 'This million tons on my back better be worth that tiny sheet of paper. Homework finished and Lorelai gone. Hmm. What can I do? Think? Okay brain, you are the smart one. Now what's been happening these last few days? Whoa, I'm going insane. Jess. What? Where the hell did that come from? No really, Jess is what happened. It's official, where's the phone book, I'm calling the nearest asylum; hopefully they have good coffee. Hang on a second; Jess. The newly acquired boyfriend. Hmm.He's not doing anything and mum's away. By George she's the quick one. Okay, this has to stop." Rory wrote a note to say that she snuck into Lane's. She didn't like lying but if Lorelai found out, well the Arctic with Paris as queen would be warmer.
Rory walked to the diner, there she watched Jess close up the diner. He raised his head when he heard the bell tinker. "Hey." He reached over to kiss her but she withdrew, inclined her head to the window said, "They're more observant than Jonathan Creek."
Jess looked a bit annoyed but nodded to show he understood. Walking over to the door, he flipped the open sign to closed.
A thought occurred to Rory; "Hey didn't you have the day off?"
Jess frowned, "Oh yeah, well after you left I decided to help Luke cuz I dunno, I guess I felt a little guilty about not working all day," he cringed, saying the last part half under his breath.
Rory caught it however and grinned at him, "Awwww. Jesse's going soft. How cute, did you offer to close the diner as well?"
"No, actually he decided to take advantage of my sudden slip of niceness and he dumped the job on me. And don't call me Jesse, it reminds me of Lorelai calling Luke, Lukey and that makes me want to hurl," Jess tried to recover his ground.
"You can't fool me Mariano. Under all that Metallica you are actually a Mozart fan. And you cry in the sad bits of movies and." Rory was cut off as Jess grabbed her hand and dragged her up the stairs. Playfully he kissed all over her face and neck. Finally she managed to take his lips in her teeth. Rory deepened the kiss, revealing in the feelings. Jess groaned, and through his head back as she made her way down onto his neck.
A shattering ring cut through their moment. "Ugh! I hate Alexander Bell," Jess regretfully tore himself away from her. "What!" He barked down the phone. He passed it to Rory and shrugged.
"Hello?" Rory said.
"Rory dear, its Babbette and Miss Patty. We just saw you walk over to the diner and we thought we should tell you something. I was watching my gnomes. You know, just to make sure they were happy. It's not like I was spying on you. Any way we saw you and Jess last night and we thought it was our duty to protect you. Yes, so we don't know if your mother knows but we refrained from telling her, which by the way was extremely hard to do; only because we decided that it was your right to tell Lorelai. So when this secret isn't a secret any more could you please let us know when we can tell everyone," with that the phone went dead.
"Huh? Okay, apparently Babbette and Miss Patty know about us and they didn't tell, that's it the world's going to end," Rory shook her head.
To her surprise, Jess had given up on listening to the conversation and had gone back into his room. He was sitting against his bed and was doing his homework. Not wanting to disturb him, she layed on his bed and scrounged the books that covered his bedside table. Rory passed 'Farewell to Arms' and remembered the promise she made him. Picking it up she started to read the painful book.
A while later, Jess slammed his books shut just as Rory had done only hours before. Joining her on the bed, he kept his weight on this elbows and read over her shoulder. "Hemmingway, well either I suck as company or you really did want to keep your promise to me."
Rory smiled and tilted her head slightly upwards; "It still is pathetic. How can you like this stuff?"
"Hey, don't kill the classics, cuz then I will have to argue with you and I can think of better things to do with my energy."
Rory slipped underneath him and ran her hands up his back, "Yeah, what's that?"
Jess grinned and leaned down and passionately kissed her.
~ ~ ~ ~
"I don't hear Satan's songs," Lorelai whispered to Luke. Lorelai hated lying to Rory about Luke, but for some reason she wasn't ready to tell her yet. So Lorelai figured that by lying to her about going to Sookie's, she was actually saving her from something.
"Satan's songs?" Luke stared at her.
"Yeah, like Slayer, Metallica, Celin Dion, etc, etc," Lorelai stipulated. "Come on, let's go you said you gave Jess money to get him out the house right?"
"Uh huh, but this is Jess, he's kinda unpredictable about what he'd do with the money, what if he didn't go out?" Luke said half anxiously.
"Luke, he's a teenager with money, the first thing he'd think about doing is going out to buy himself some alcohol."
"Well that made me feel a lot better, thanks Lorelai."
"Hey, do you want to go upstairs or not," Lorelai answered seductively. Luke sighed but followed her up.
Luke decided to make sure and he quietly walked into Jess' room, Lorelai observed behind as well. "LORELAI LEIGH GILMORE! GET OFF HIS BED NOW!" Jess tried to speak but she cut him off, "DON'T YOU SAY A WORD YOU LITTLE JACK- ASS!"
"Lorelai calm down," Luke tried to sooth her.
"No! Why didn't you tell me? How could I not have seen this!" she started pacing up and down the room. Lorelai pointed at Jess; "This is your fault! Rory always tell me everything. Then you came along and you screwed it up. Ugh I can't believe I never saw this!"
"Yeah well maybe if you weren't so wrapped up in Luke you would have noticed!" Rory yelled at her mother and bolted out of the apartment.
Jess looked at Luke and ran after her. Luke held Lorelai back, he knew nothing good would come out of them talking now. "Come on, Shhh she didn't mean it. Lorelai you can't do anything yet okay." Not knowing how else to comfort her he instinctively kissed her. Slowly she responded and tried to push Rory aside for the moment.
~ ~ ~ ~
Jess found Rory where he thought she would be. She was curled up in a ball on the bridge. Slowly he slipped his arms around her and pulled her towards him. After a while she started to talk. "I thought she'd learned her lesson from Max."
Seeing Jess' confused look she explained, "Max was my mom's ex-fiance, she didn't tell me about him either." Taking a sobbing breath Rory continued, "I don't mind her dating Luke. I love him; he is basically my father. But I just didn't like how she seemed to forget about me. Does that sound selfish?"
"No, I can't see you being selfish Rory, except maybe when it is down to food or coffee. You'll work this out, I promise kay? Although if your mother does date Luke we might have to set down some ground rules."
Rory giggled slightly. Happy that he had got a response, they sat until Rory fell asleep and he carried her home.
~ ~ ~ ~ I think I might finish this story soon, It's getting way to hard to up date. As always, READ AND REVIEW!!!!!!!!! Pretty please with chocolate and fudge and Milo (The guy and drink) on top. ~ ~ ~ ~
Rating: Pg:13, Ugh.
Pairing: What do you think? A little L/L thrown in here. I hate writing Luke so that's why I can't put to much in.
A/N: It's been almost a month, I feel so mean. I'm unbelievably sooooooory. This wasn't the best chapter I've written, but hell I'm not changing it because it took me forever to write. I think writers block is getting worse. If anyone has time, can you review my other story Iris, I'm made it up while writing this one. That's all, EVERYONE PLEASE REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!
Luke Rules: As long as someone loves it! LOL Anonymous: Here you are Adriannawolf: I almost forgot about who that was while writing this. I had to put it half-heartedly in the end bit. Katie: You are the bestest reviewer in the whole entire world and you deserve lots of what ever you want Me: I broke down. Ahh. At least it was good news, although I end up knowing what's going to happen anyway because of the fics. LOL Reanna: Thankyou very much Caitlin: Yup, Jess is really hot! Dogerluv: I wish I had thought of your pen name, it rules. Anyway, I think writing Jess like Dean is crime the-zone4 : I thankyou for your kind words. Heh Heh. starry-eyed-storyteller: I finally found out what Literati means, I read this on Jamsel's fic, it's something like "Literary Knowledge" or knowing of Literary. Highlight the word and then press D. The meanings come up on screen. Heh, I finally found a use for the thing FF.net put in. I have a question for you, if Narcoleptic is the illness where you fall asleep, then why are D/R shippers called that? Is it because Dean's so boring he makes you want to go to sleep? That'd be my reason anyway.
Kept Hidden When love is not madness, It is not love
Rory woke up to find that her mother had left a note on her beside table next to a mug of coffee 'Can you believe that they called me into work! Ugh! Apparently needing to rest after a holiday isn't a good enough excuse. Any way, Love you sweets I'll be home around 3, I hope. Money's some where, just scrounge around, and if all else fails, call a party and tell'em to bring their own food!' Rory shook her head at the note. At first she was disappointed that her mother wasn't home, it meant they couldn't spend any time with her, something that they hadn't had in a long time. On the other hand, it did mean that her and Jess could do something; as long as he wasn't working.
Rory looked at the clock: 9:00, her stomach rumbled. Taking that as a sign, she had a shower and then walked to Luke's. Only Luke was in the diner, the place was eerily quiet. "Hey Luke," Rory sat down at the counter.
"Hi Rory, where's your mom?" he asked her.
Rory thought he looked slightly awkward, "Umm they called her in to work, I'm not sure who's going to take her wrath, hopefully she had coffee before they called." Luke smiled slightly, "so I guess you want coffee."
"As always and I'll have pancakes with maple syrup, normal toast, French toast, scrambled eggs and..Ooo a poached egg on the side of that please."
"You filling in for your mother?" Luke raised an eyebrow.
"Hey, it takes a lot of energy walking from my house to here," Rory quickly scanned the diner, "Luke where's Jess?"
"He's upstairs, I gave him the day off, I got a call from the principal this morning, he said that the school's sign had been replaced to it's original position and the slave Labor one has mysteriously disappeared."
Rory giggled, "can I go up?"
Luke caught off guard didn't think to discourage her, "Sure. just be down before the food gets cold."
Rory smiled and bounded lightly up the stairs. Opening the door softly, she slipped into the newly renovated apartment. At the end of the room there was a door, assuming this was Jess' room, she snuck in, Jess was curled up to the left side of the bed, Rory could just see a book clutched in his fist. Slowly, she sat down beside him, remembering when he comforted her. She loved it when he just held her; their silences were their own conversations. Rory studied his face, to her surprise he looked almost... innocent; child like. Her gaze travelled to his hands. In them was a book, gently she pried it from his finger, 'The Magic Faraway Tree'. Rory almost laughed, the thought of Jess reading this was up there with Taylor becoming a hippie.
Jess stirred and turned to face her. Sleepily he realised that he wasn't alone. "Morning."
Rory held the book up.
"It's a good book, I have the set," he said defensively.
Rory smiled again, and layed down with him. Jess moved closer and snuggled his head between her shoulder and neck. Rory started reading out loud, after about ten minutes later, Luke called up the stairs "Rory your breakfast's ready!"
Jess groaned when she got up. Rory grinned at him; "do you want to do something today? My mom is at work sooo." His face lit up and then fell again, "Luke's making me work."
"Nope, you're not, he said this morning that you had the day off today, something about a returning school sign."
Jess smirked and got off the bed, "Gimme two secs, I'll be down in a minute, hang on;" he reached up and smoothed her hair. "Don't want Luke getting too suspicious."
Rory blushed and ran down the stairs, waiting for her were two plates of the food she had ordered. Like a kid in a candy store, she looked over the food, trying to decide what she should eat first.
"You know you just put it in your mouth and swallow," Luke said to her.
"Yeah but where to start? It all looks so nice," the cup of coffee came into view. "But who can argue with the classics," she said while gulped down the liquid.
By the time Rory was three quarters finished her meal, Jess came down the stairs, sitting next to her, "there will be tomorrow you realise, you don't need to eat every different type of food that we offer."
Rory pouted with her mouth full then swallowed down the remnants of her breakfast. "What do you want to do?"
"Well since it's pouring like nothing else and if we step out side, we're in danger of drowning, I propose a video day upstairs," Jess drank some orange juice that Luke put in front of him.
Luke over heard what Jess said, he started to get nervous, if Lorelai found out he let them in the apartment alone, she'd most likely freak and that was putting it hopefully. "Umm.. couldn't you go out or something?" he asked tentatively 'at least then they can't do something stupid. What am I saying this is Jess.'
"Luke, we're not going to do anything, I'm sure we can keep everything purely Pg. And it's not like we'd want to do anything to ruin your's and Lorelai's little, exploits." Jess answered disparagingly, "plus what else can you suggest, unless you want to build an arc so Rory can go home?"
Luke knew he was right, so he gave in, "fine, but I find anything going on remotely; you know what I mean. just don't do anything."
Rory stared at her shoes, which suddenly had extremely interesting patterns on them. "Thankyou Your Majesty, come on Rory," Jess took her hand and led her up to the apartment. Once inside Rory felt slightly uncomfortable, not about Jess but that Luke was downstairs and that he didn't approve of what they were doing.
Jess disappeared into his room, returning with three videos in hand. "We didn't get to finish watching these last time."
Rory grabbed them from his grasp, already knowing what they were, "'Stepmom' first and then 'Richy Rich' to cheer me up."
Jess took the video a put it on. He sat on the couch and Rory sat in his lap, both comfortable, Jess kissed her hair and they watched the movie. When it finished, Rory turned round to face him. "What now?"
"Don't you want to watch the rest of the movies?" he pointed to the pile.
"Not really," Rory didn't elaborate.
"Umm, so what do you want to do?" Jess looked half amused half puzzled.
Rory shrugged.
"Why are you mimicking me?" Jess said recognising her behaviour.
"Just because," Rory smirked at him.
Jess shook his head, realising what he was getting himself into. "Oookay, well these are my suggestions, we could read, make out, proof read plans for our bank robbery tonight or wedding, which ever suits you best," he paused for a second, "or alternatively, my room is just over there," he raised his eyebrows.
Rory tried to hide her blush but she was unsuccessful. Jess grinned, "I win."
"Fine, I was going to kiss you but you're mean," she moved herself over to the other side of the couch and pulled out 'The Magic Faraway Tree'.
Jess opened his mouth, closed it, but then spoke again. "Well I can do that too." He got up and went back into his room. Rory didn't look up. He sat back down on the chair, Rory smiled at him and patted her lap and Jess laid his head down and read 'The Folk of the Faraway Tree'.
~ ~ ~ ~
An hour later, Rory tapped Jess on the head with her book. Jess didn't look up and kept reading. She poked him in the stomach and he didn't even flinch. Annoyed, Rory started making faces at him and tugged his ears; Jess just turned the last page of his book and continued to ignore her. In her agitation she resorted to desperate measures, she started to tickle him; the reaction was instantainious, Jess accidentally though the book over the couch and countered attacked. Trying not to laugh, he sat up and reached to her stomach and began to tickle her. Rory was set off into squeals of fitful laughter, "Stop! I'm sorry! Truce!"
Jess kept tickling her, Rory realised that he was paying her back and wasn't going to let her go so easily. Some how, she slipped under his arms and reached his sensitive skin. Both laughing hysterically, they fell off the couch and onto the floor. Breathing heavily, Rory stared down at Jess' face. He rolled her onto her side, so they were facing each other. Jess pushed the strand of hair out of her face. Rory saw the fire in his eyes, the happiness mirroring in her own.
"That wasn't very nice, I was just finishing the book," Jess smiled at her.
"Well, I thought you liked it more than me," Rory pouted at him.
"That really wouldn't be possible," Jess traced her face with his finger. The feather touch sent Rory into shivers, forcefully she held his face to hers, enjoying the sensations that his tongue managed to cause.
After ten minutes of kissing, Jess broke off and propped his head up on his hand. He grinned at the dreaming expression on Rory's face, "Am I forgiven?"
"Kiss me again and we'll see," Rory brought him to her once more and they kissed for another couple of minutes.
"Suprisingly, Luke hasn't come up to check on us," Rory looked at the door as if Luke was walking up the stairs.
"Yeah well he either doesn't want to know what we're doing or he is doing what we are doing," Jess rolled his eyes.
Rory sighed; a troubled look clouded her face.
"Hey what's the matter?" Jess intertwined their legs and drew her body closer, but made sure he could still watch her.
"Why hasn't she told me?" she said softly.
"Your mom?" Rory nodded. "About what?"
"Her and Luke," Rory paused, "We tell each other everything, why would she keep this from me."
Jess hesitated.
"It's okay, say what you want, unless you're gay, that'd be bad," Rory tried to lighten the atmosphere.
"Hmm, I'm sorry me and Kirk have a 'thing'," Jess smirked.
"A 'thing'?"
"Yeah, I steal his wallet and he does my job," he returned back to the conversation, "seriously though, ugh. you realise that you haven't told her about 'us' yet so that makes you even."
"But that's different," Rory protested. Jess just looked at her.
"My mother doesn't like you, I'm doing this because I don't want her to have a coronary. She on the other hand knows I like Luke. He's been like my father, hell he feeds me and fixes my house and stuff and was always there when I needed him," Rory snuggled closer to Jess, trying to block out the hurt.
Jess wrapped his arms around her and whispered in her ear, "Hey, I'll always be here too, no matter what. Kay?"
Rory nodded and they broke apart suddenly when they heard the footsteps thud towards them. Hurriedly they both leaped onto the couch, grabbing the closest reading article. Luke stepped in the door; they looked up innocently at him. "You behaving?" he asked them.
Rory nodded, Jess almost said something but stopped when she pinched him.
Luke turned round again, "Rory if he tries anything, there are sharp objects scattered around the house," not waiting for a response he went back to where he came from.
Once they couldn't hear him Jess yelped "What was that for?"
"Oh come on, if you said what I think you were going to, he'd be standing outside the door waiting for something to happen so he could catch us," Rory argued.
"Yeah, true," Jess gave in, "but you didn't have to maim me."
"Oh. poor baby, want me to kiss it better?" she cooed to him.
"Don't mock my wound, it really hurts," Jess whined and gave her the puppy dog eyes.
"I'll make it up to you," Rory's voice went husky and she kissed him.
"It doesn't hurt any more," Jess mumbled leaning in for more.
After uncounted minutes passionate kissing, they stopped and Rory curled up against his chest. Jess sighed, "we really have to get up."
"I know," slowly Rory rolled of the couch and got up. Holding her hand out to Jess they both walked downstairs.
~ ~ ~ ~
To Rory's surprise, Lorelai was sitting on the stool arguing to Luke about something unheard, most likely about coffee. "Hey mom, I didn't think that you were getting out of hell until three?"
Lorelai looked suspiciously back her, "mmm, Michel who by the way is Satan's fill in for the weekend, decided that Sookie's soup wasn't hot enough so he added chilli into it, which wasn't a good idea since Sookie's having serious problems with the oven and her cake just burned. So when she found out, let's just say she stuck a chilli where most guys would cringe and die the second they saw what she was about to do."
Rory, oblivious to the stares that Lorelai gave her, grabbed the coffeepot off Jess and poured herself a cup; "do I want to know what happened next?"
Lorelai pondered the question, "not unless you want to scar your precious, untainted mind."
For some reason the comment hurt slightly.
Lorelai didn't catch on to her uncomfort though and called over Luke for more coffee. "Hey so did you go swimming today?"
Rory shrugged, "I just stayed here after breakfast."
Lorelai frowned inadvertently stealing a look at Jess, "Here, what did you do?"
"Nothing much; read, ate," Rory sipped her coffee.
"With who? Luke? Food, that's understandable think that he'd have a lot to say on that, but reading? Cuz I didn't pick him for the literary type," Lorelai tried to ignore the sinking feeling in her stomach.
Rory stifled a frustrated sigh, "No, me and Jess, that okay with you?"
"Rory," Lorelai pleaded softly.
"Mom, you can't pick my friends," Rory whispered, irrationally for some reason, she was aching for this fight.
Lorelai opened her mouth, her eyes were clouded in anger; just as she was about to speak, Luke came back out of the kitchen and to Rory's amazement, all the anger and resentment that was evident in her mother's face, drained in an instant. Lorelai, looked at her daughter dazedly, "Umm, ok sweetie, I'm sorry, lets just forget this happened." She then walked up behind Luke and they went back into the kitchen.
Rory watched them talk then walk away. She felt slightly hurt and left out. They were talking about something that she felt was important and Lorelai after telling her that she couldn't hang around Jess, had said she was sorry and then totally blown her off. That wasn't like the "normal" Lorelai, when she had seen Luke, she changed. "I guess love does make you do strange thing" Rory thought. "We can do something tonight, we haven't done anything together in ages."
She felt a tap on her back. "Your mom try to give you the third degree?" Jess stood behind her. When they had come down, he went out the back to avoid Lorelai glaring at him.
Rory turned around to face him, "Actually, she was about to and then she just sorta stopped. Think the fish on Monty Python and you've got how her facials went. It was weird."
"Huh. Okay, so she still doesn't know yet?" Rory shook her head; "Can we thank Luke? Rory nodded, "I knew he had his uses, any way, do you want to do something tonight?"
"Can't get enough, huh?" Rory grinned. Her face dropped slightly, "I can't, me and mom haven't had a just girls night," she said wistfully. "I'm sorry, please don't be mad."
"It's okay Rory, it was just a suggestion. Not life or death. We've had the whole day together any way. You and your mom should do something," Jess smirked at her instinct to panic.
Rory looked relived, "You're not mad?"
Jess stared back confused, "Umm do you want me to chuck a Naomi Campbell, cuz my drama skills need honing."
"I just. I don't know.I kind of expected you to blow up," Rory said.
"Like Dean?" Jess raised his eyebrows and Rory blushed, giving him his answer.
Jess shook his head, "Frankenstin's gotta temper, any way, see you tomorrow, we can ahh, do something," he winked suggestively and walked upstairs leaving Rory to hide her reddening cheeks.
~ ~ ~ ~
After dragging a juvenile Lorelai back home, who by some luck for Rory, seemed to have forgotten about their words before. Lorelai instead was incessantly complaining about Luke and his reluctance to introduce a system where she could have her own pot of coffee that was on hand at all times and that no one else was allowed to touch it. Apparently Luke wasn't buying and said that he would rather give Taylor him ultimate wish to decorate Luke's diner in commemorative plates.
"And then I said that a few Dolly Parton pictures would really bright on up the place. Luke just stared at me funny and said that I really need my mental health checked," Lorelai huffed.
Rory looked seriously at her mother, "You do realise there is no way Taylor would allow, a photo of Dolly Parton in a public place. He'd say that there was too much innapporiate flesh showing.. So talking about inappropriate skin, is that all you and Luke talked about in the kitchen?" Rory hinted.
"Daughter dearest, I think that it is you should have her head assessed," Lorelai pouted and sat on the couch.
"If you say so," Rory forced a grin and sat next to her mother. "So, in light of our total lack of social life, what do you want to watch? I was thinking a Kirsten Dunst theme. We could start with the whole kissing a vamp slash Brad Pitt thing and then watch her brush her teeth for the millionth time."
Lorelai could swear that her stomach was imploding on it self. "Honey I'm so sorry, me and umm, Sookie are catching up tonight. I won't be home until late, like Angel time. I'm sorry."
"Oh, okay," Rory tried to smile, "but didn't you see Sookie today?"
"Yeah, but after the whole Red Hot Chilli Pepper incident, she went home and I promised to come over and we could watch movies with French guys and throw lollies at the TV, when they came on. I'm so sorry sweet heart; we can do something tomorrow, Kay. I promise, and I might even manage to add in a visit with Mr Bloom," Lorelai gave Rory the baby eyes.
Rory groaned, "That's so not fair, go on, go prevent Sookie from taking her anger out on innocent French men."
"Aww, aren't you the sweetest, bestest, smartest, superest nicest, kindest, lovelyest daughter in the whole entire world. I don't have to go until five though so you wanna hang out now?"
"I would but I just remembered this Spanish homework that I needed to do," Rory smiled at her mother; not waiting for a reply she walked into her room. She felt something that something that she had never felt with her mother before. Isolated. Not that she showed it, but Rory was hurt that her mother wasn't spending time with her. Not that it was her fault, if Sookie needed her then she was her best friend, but Rory figured that Lorelai would have thought about her before making plans like she had. To her surprise her mom didn't seem to catch onto her slight discomfort. She must have been getting better at covering up her feelings. "I've been spending waaaaay to much time with Jess". To comfort herself, she remembered that there was still tomorrow to do something, then she might spill about Jess.
~ ~ ~ ~
"Jess, you're closing the diner tonight!" Luke yelled across the room to the teenager who was serving a sullen middle age couple.
Jess walked behind the counter and threw the pad at Luke. "Why? It's not like you have any hot date with anyone." Jess' mouth curved into a devilish smile, "Unless you actually do have a little woman stashed in the closet. Hmm." Jess tapped his head, "Who could that be? Maybe your lady friend that has a daughter with the same name and that you've been in love with for as long as you can remember?"
"Ugh," Luke looked disgustedly at him, "No more death metal for you, it's killing your brain."
Jess grinned, "So you are you going on a date with? Julia, Kylie, Miss Patti, Ooo I know, it's Taylor isn't it. You're both going to put aside your petty dislikes and give each other little matching necklaces that say, 'Never will we be apart' and then you'll hug and cry and."
"Jess. Continue and you'll be going on a date with Taylor, and Kirk," Luke growled.
Jess held his hands up in surrender, "Whoa, touchy are we. Are you sure you just aren't in denial?"
"Me and Alice Cooper could do a duet if you keep this up," Luke muttered.
"What the hell would you two kindred spirits have in common?" Jess stared in mock confusion. "Anger? Resentment? You eat frogs and snakes? You have hidden in the deep depths of your flannel drowned closest, there's stash of make up to rival Cher?"
"No, actually he wants to hang Briteny Spears, but if I introduce you to him, I might be able to get my wish," Luke turned and went up the stairs.
Jess smirked at his uncles retreating back. The guy was nuts, but good enough to him. Jess went back to work and then suddenly stopped.
'Luke knows who Briteny Spears is?"
~ ~ ~ ~
Rory closed her book. Ugh, 'This million tons on my back better be worth that tiny sheet of paper. Homework finished and Lorelai gone. Hmm. What can I do? Think? Okay brain, you are the smart one. Now what's been happening these last few days? Whoa, I'm going insane. Jess. What? Where the hell did that come from? No really, Jess is what happened. It's official, where's the phone book, I'm calling the nearest asylum; hopefully they have good coffee. Hang on a second; Jess. The newly acquired boyfriend. Hmm.He's not doing anything and mum's away. By George she's the quick one. Okay, this has to stop." Rory wrote a note to say that she snuck into Lane's. She didn't like lying but if Lorelai found out, well the Arctic with Paris as queen would be warmer.
Rory walked to the diner, there she watched Jess close up the diner. He raised his head when he heard the bell tinker. "Hey." He reached over to kiss her but she withdrew, inclined her head to the window said, "They're more observant than Jonathan Creek."
Jess looked a bit annoyed but nodded to show he understood. Walking over to the door, he flipped the open sign to closed.
A thought occurred to Rory; "Hey didn't you have the day off?"
Jess frowned, "Oh yeah, well after you left I decided to help Luke cuz I dunno, I guess I felt a little guilty about not working all day," he cringed, saying the last part half under his breath.
Rory caught it however and grinned at him, "Awwww. Jesse's going soft. How cute, did you offer to close the diner as well?"
"No, actually he decided to take advantage of my sudden slip of niceness and he dumped the job on me. And don't call me Jesse, it reminds me of Lorelai calling Luke, Lukey and that makes me want to hurl," Jess tried to recover his ground.
"You can't fool me Mariano. Under all that Metallica you are actually a Mozart fan. And you cry in the sad bits of movies and." Rory was cut off as Jess grabbed her hand and dragged her up the stairs. Playfully he kissed all over her face and neck. Finally she managed to take his lips in her teeth. Rory deepened the kiss, revealing in the feelings. Jess groaned, and through his head back as she made her way down onto his neck.
A shattering ring cut through their moment. "Ugh! I hate Alexander Bell," Jess regretfully tore himself away from her. "What!" He barked down the phone. He passed it to Rory and shrugged.
"Hello?" Rory said.
"Rory dear, its Babbette and Miss Patty. We just saw you walk over to the diner and we thought we should tell you something. I was watching my gnomes. You know, just to make sure they were happy. It's not like I was spying on you. Any way we saw you and Jess last night and we thought it was our duty to protect you. Yes, so we don't know if your mother knows but we refrained from telling her, which by the way was extremely hard to do; only because we decided that it was your right to tell Lorelai. So when this secret isn't a secret any more could you please let us know when we can tell everyone," with that the phone went dead.
"Huh? Okay, apparently Babbette and Miss Patty know about us and they didn't tell, that's it the world's going to end," Rory shook her head.
To her surprise, Jess had given up on listening to the conversation and had gone back into his room. He was sitting against his bed and was doing his homework. Not wanting to disturb him, she layed on his bed and scrounged the books that covered his bedside table. Rory passed 'Farewell to Arms' and remembered the promise she made him. Picking it up she started to read the painful book.
A while later, Jess slammed his books shut just as Rory had done only hours before. Joining her on the bed, he kept his weight on this elbows and read over her shoulder. "Hemmingway, well either I suck as company or you really did want to keep your promise to me."
Rory smiled and tilted her head slightly upwards; "It still is pathetic. How can you like this stuff?"
"Hey, don't kill the classics, cuz then I will have to argue with you and I can think of better things to do with my energy."
Rory slipped underneath him and ran her hands up his back, "Yeah, what's that?"
Jess grinned and leaned down and passionately kissed her.
~ ~ ~ ~
"I don't hear Satan's songs," Lorelai whispered to Luke. Lorelai hated lying to Rory about Luke, but for some reason she wasn't ready to tell her yet. So Lorelai figured that by lying to her about going to Sookie's, she was actually saving her from something.
"Satan's songs?" Luke stared at her.
"Yeah, like Slayer, Metallica, Celin Dion, etc, etc," Lorelai stipulated. "Come on, let's go you said you gave Jess money to get him out the house right?"
"Uh huh, but this is Jess, he's kinda unpredictable about what he'd do with the money, what if he didn't go out?" Luke said half anxiously.
"Luke, he's a teenager with money, the first thing he'd think about doing is going out to buy himself some alcohol."
"Well that made me feel a lot better, thanks Lorelai."
"Hey, do you want to go upstairs or not," Lorelai answered seductively. Luke sighed but followed her up.
Luke decided to make sure and he quietly walked into Jess' room, Lorelai observed behind as well. "LORELAI LEIGH GILMORE! GET OFF HIS BED NOW!" Jess tried to speak but she cut him off, "DON'T YOU SAY A WORD YOU LITTLE JACK- ASS!"
"Lorelai calm down," Luke tried to sooth her.
"No! Why didn't you tell me? How could I not have seen this!" she started pacing up and down the room. Lorelai pointed at Jess; "This is your fault! Rory always tell me everything. Then you came along and you screwed it up. Ugh I can't believe I never saw this!"
"Yeah well maybe if you weren't so wrapped up in Luke you would have noticed!" Rory yelled at her mother and bolted out of the apartment.
Jess looked at Luke and ran after her. Luke held Lorelai back, he knew nothing good would come out of them talking now. "Come on, Shhh she didn't mean it. Lorelai you can't do anything yet okay." Not knowing how else to comfort her he instinctively kissed her. Slowly she responded and tried to push Rory aside for the moment.
~ ~ ~ ~
Jess found Rory where he thought she would be. She was curled up in a ball on the bridge. Slowly he slipped his arms around her and pulled her towards him. After a while she started to talk. "I thought she'd learned her lesson from Max."
Seeing Jess' confused look she explained, "Max was my mom's ex-fiance, she didn't tell me about him either." Taking a sobbing breath Rory continued, "I don't mind her dating Luke. I love him; he is basically my father. But I just didn't like how she seemed to forget about me. Does that sound selfish?"
"No, I can't see you being selfish Rory, except maybe when it is down to food or coffee. You'll work this out, I promise kay? Although if your mother does date Luke we might have to set down some ground rules."
Rory giggled slightly. Happy that he had got a response, they sat until Rory fell asleep and he carried her home.
~ ~ ~ ~ I think I might finish this story soon, It's getting way to hard to up date. As always, READ AND REVIEW!!!!!!!!! Pretty please with chocolate and fudge and Milo (The guy and drink) on top. ~ ~ ~ ~