Title: Rory Gilmore Goes to Harvard
Author: Ice
Summary: This isn't really a certain pairing fic. It's mostly about Rory's college life.
Disclaimer: I own nothing. It all belongs to some big whigs in the world of television.
AN: Some of the stuff in this I don't know if it actually happens at Harvard or not. I'm making it up. Ok? Ok. J
Jess and Rory pulled into the driveway of the Gilmore House about . Rory looked at the house as Jess started to get out of the car. He then say Rory and turned towards her. She got the look of terror off her face and put on the fake smile that she was so accustomed to. She looked at Jess.
"Yeah I'm fine." Her voice was a little strained, but Jess let it go. They got out of the car and walked up to the door. Lorelai came running out as soon as they had reached the steps.
"Rory! Rory! Rory!" Jess held back as Lorelai hugged her daughter so hard it made them both fall into the falling snow. "I knew it was going to be a good day when I saw the snow." Lorelai smiled, said hello to Jess and walked into the house with Rory, leaving Jess with the bags. He shook his head and went to the trunk of the car.
~~Luke's Diner The next Day~~
"So it's gonna be you, me, Jess…" Lorelai looked at Jess to confirm and he nodded, "Your Dad, Isaac…Luke are you coming to movie night?" Lorelai shouted into the back. Luke walked out drying a glass.
"No." Lorelai put on a pout.
"Why not?"
"Because, listening to you, Rory, and I'm guessing Isaac, making fun of probably a perfectly good movie does not sound like fun."
"Come on Lukey. Jess puts up with it."
"No." Rory looked at the familiar sight of Luke and her mother arguing. It was almost like she was back in time. Rory smiled. Jess looked over to her from where he was standing behind the counter and smiled. It was the first real smile he had seen on Rory since they had left campus.
"Come on Mom. Let's go to Doose's and the video store to get stuff for tonight." Lorelai glared at Luke one more time than said, "Okay. But Jess I expect you to get him to the house tonight." Luke shook his head as they left the diner, then gave Jess a look that said, don't even try.
"So what movie?" Rory asked her mother as they walked down the street of their quaint little town.
"Well we have to get something for Isaac, then we can get one or two movies for when he goes to bed." They walked to the door of the video store and opened it. Rory bumping into the guy coming out of the store.
"Sorry." The guy mumbled, and walked away before Rory could also apologize.
"Rude. So I was thinking Muppet Treasure Island. Maybe, Lady and the Tramp, and umm…..Oh! A Walk to Remember!"
"You hate a Walk to Remember."
"Fine. You pick the last one." Rory thought about it for a little while thinking what make her feel better. Rebel Without a Cause. Yeah. That was it. She just loved that movie for some reason.
"Rebel Without a Cause." Lorelai looked at her with surprise.
"Ok but that means we have to go behind the Rory Curtain." Rory laughed and hid her face.
"That thing's still up? I thought we told Taylor to take it down." Lorelai shrugged and went to find the two movies for Isaac leaving Rory to go behind the "Rory Curtain".
"Rory!? What are you doing?" Rory turned to her voice being called.
"Hi Taylor. I'm going to get a movie." He looked at her with disgust.
"You should know better. Nothing's back there but smut! It was your idea to put this up!" Rory started breathing slowly.
"No Taylor. It was not my idea to put this up. It was yours."
"I disagree young lady." He shook his head, "It was 2001. And you told us to put movies that would be questionable someplace where children wouldn't get them."
"No Taylor. I suggested to Kirk, to put a, one, movie up higher because it had a half naked woman on the cover!" Rory's voice was getting louder, "then you come and put half of Stars Hollow's video collection behind a stupid curtain, when most of them are fine!!!!" Lorelai hears Rory and starts walking over.
"Young lady, keep your voice down. I will not be talked to this way."
"You know what. I don't care anymore." Rory starts walking over to where the "Rory Curtain" was and yanked it off it's poles. She then walked back over to Taylor and handed him the fabric. "That's what I think of your Rory curtain." She then grabbed the movies from her mother, and got the James Dean movie, and then put the movies, on the counter, checked out, and stormed out the door with everyone looking at her.
"Lorelai, please talk to your daughter. This is not appropriate behavior." Taylor then turned and walked out of the store leaving Lorelai standing, shocked in the middle of Stars Hollow Video. Then what had just happened sunk in and she followed her daughter out the door and into the street.
"Rory! Rory wait up!" Lorelai called down the street. She met up with Rory and saw that she was crying. "Sweetie are you okay?" Rory nodded.
"I'm fine. I just want to go home and have a movie night." Rory wiped her tears and smiled a fake smile. Lorelai smiled softly and put her arm around her daughter. Then they walked home.