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Author's Note: Thanks so much for the reviews everybody!! Now I know what AU means. I know that Dean was out of character; I just wanted to get rid of him. I'm going to try really hard to draw things out more after this chapter. I really really will, I promise! Ok, I don't know the Gilmore residence address, so I made one up. Tell me if you know what it is, and I'll fix it. And I changed the coffee room a little bit, I think. ;-) R&R! Enjoy!!
Chapter 7: Call Me Alli
Tuesday afternoon.
Rory hopped out of the Gilmore Jeep and ran up to the house.
"3:46, you're very late, my child." Lorelai scolded from the living room as Rory ran in.
She stopped briefly, and said, "The clocks at Chilton are different, sorry! Just let me change out of this uniform!" She then continued towards the stairs on her and Jess's side of the house. She ran past Jess in the study, who was reading while sitting on the floor.
She actually almost stepped on him, and he said, "Hey! I'm a person, not a doormat!"
She turned to look behind her as she was running towards the stairs, and replied, "Sorry! I'm in a hurry!"
"I think I figured that much out," Jess mumbled to himself as he went back to his reading. About three minutes later, Rory jumped down the stairs with a light blue long sleeve t-shirt on and simple blue jeans. She had on a necklace with a blue stone in it and her hair was down and coming over her shoulders like a waterfall.
"Ready to go!" Rory said as she calmly walked up to Jess. He got up, and they both went into the living room to get Luke and Lorelai.
"Hey! You guys finally made it," Luke remarked sarcastically.
"Come on people, we're missing out on shopping time!" Lorelai said, shoving them all towards the door.
"Lorelai, it'll all be ok." Luke said in a calm and reassuring voice.
"Obviously you haven't seen the Gilmores shop. We like to look around and pick out lots of stuff," Rory explained.
"Lots of stuff!" Lorelai repeated.
"Hey, you guys, it's only furniture. I think we can take the excitement down a notch." Jess said with a worried look on his face.
"Come on, Jess, lighten up. This'll be fun!" Lorelai said.
"Sure." Jess said, and they all four got into the Gilmore Jeep and drove off to the furniture store.
At the furniture store.
The four of them stepped into the furniture store, and Lorelai and Rory's eyes widened. "This place is so big." She marveled.
"Hey, Lorelai, honey, have you looked at our house? That's big too." Luke said to her.
Lorelai just rolled her eyes, and said, "Ok, let's split up first, and meet back here at the entrance in," she paused to look at her watch, "one hour, so at 5:00."
"Ok, come on Mom, let's go over here," Rory said, trying to drag her mother to the right.
"No, you go with Jess, I'll go with Luke." Lorelai said.
"Oh yeah, that whole separate sides of the house thing." Rory said, and she and Jess headed to the left where the chairs and couches were. Over there, they found a huge overstuffed couch, and Jess sat down in it.
"This is comfy. Come here and try it out." Jess said. She walked over and waited for him to get up, but instead he grabbed her by the wrist and pulled her down next to him. She ended up falling on top of his lap, and they laughed.
A young saleswoman about Jess and Rory's age came up to them and said, "Oh, you two are so cute together."
"Oh, we're not a couple." Jess clarified.
"Oh, I'm so sorry." The young woman apologized. "This is actually my first day here, I just moved here from Pennsylvania."
"Really? Where are you moving to in the area?" Rory asked.
"A small town called Star's Hollow." She replied.
"Really? That's where we live. I'm Rory, by the way, and this is Jess." Rory told her.
"Hi, I'm Allison. You can call me Alli." She replied, and the two women shook hands.
"Welcome to Star's Hollow." Rory said.
"So, do you guys want to buy this chair?" Alli asked.
"I certainly do." Jess said.
"Me too." Rory added.
"Ok, well just follow me and we can set it all up." Alli said, and they walked behind Alli. "So, are you two brother and sister?"
"Oh, no, we just won a house on a radio contest together. Me and Jess and my mom and his uncle." Rory replied.
"Really? That's so exciting." Alli replied, amazed.
Jess just shrugged, and Rory said, "Yeah, it's nice to have a change."
They arrived at Alli's office, and she pulled out a big book of fabrics. "You can choose what fabric you want from here, and then we can place the order."
Rory and Jess bent their heads together over the book, and finally settled on a deep blue-stripped print. "We want this one." Jess said, pointing to the fabric.
"Ok. Your total comes out to $1,100." Alli told them.
Jess and Rory looked at each other, and Jess said, "Oh crap, we didn't get the money from Luke and Lorelai in case we wanted to buy something!"
"You go find them, and I'll stay here." Rory told him, and he went off to go find Luke and Lorelai.
Rory found the pair looking at lamps, and Lorelai had picked out a wacky red stained glass lamp. "Oh, come on Luke, this would be a good lamp."
"No, Lorelai."
"Loosen up, live a little! Come on, please!" Lorelai begged.
Luke sighed, and said, "We can think about it."
"Mom, Mom!" Rory said, out of breath as she screeched to a halt in front of them.
"What? Did Jess break something, and now you have to buy it?" Lorelai asked.
"No, we found this chair that we want to buy, and we realized that we have no money with us to spend. You have it all." Rory explained to her mother.
"Ok, let's go. Lady," Lorelai said, pointing at a saleswoman, "keep an eye on our lamp. We'll be right back."
"Damn, that could have been a good excuse." Luke muttered under his breath.
"Luke!" Lorelai said, and playfully smacked him in the arm. The couple followed Rory to Alli's office, and Lorelai said, "Hi, we're the people who supply the money."
"Hi, I'm Allison, you can call me Alli." She replied.
"Ok, Alli, how much do we owe you?" Luke asked.
"$1,100."
"Whoa! This better be one good chair you two." Lorelai said, but still pulling out her checkbook and writing a check. "Here you go, Alli right?"
"Yeah. Thanks." Alli said.
"Alli's is moving to Star's Hollow." Rory said.
"Oh, wait, you wouldn't happen to be moving into a beautiful white house on Smith Street?" Lorelai asked.
"Actually, yeah." She said. "How did you know all that?"
"Wow, meet the previous owners, me and my mom, Lorelai." Rory said, extending her hand.
"Nice to meet you." Alli said, shaking Rory's hand.
"So, are you enrolled in Star's Hollow High?" Jess asked.
"Actually, my parents are making me go to this ultra-fancy expensive smart people school called Chilton Prep." Alli replied.
"No way! I go there!" Rory said in amazement. Alli seemed so nice, so normal, she didn't seem like the Chilton type. But then again, neither did Rory.
"Really? That's so great, maybe I'll see you there." Alli said.
"You can count on it." Rory said.
Alli glanced at her watch, and said, "Oh, I really should get back to selling people more furniture, bye!"
"See you tomorrow!" Rory said after her.
"Ok, see you then!" Alli said over her shoulder as she walked away.
"Wow, she seemed nice. Too nice to go to Chilton," Lorelai remarked.
"I know, but now maybe I'll have a real good friend there." Rory said.
"So, did you two find anything good to buy?" Jess asked, changing the topic.
"Oh yeah, we found this great lamp-"
Luke flicked Jess in the head, and said, "Jess, we almost got out of having to buy that lamp! Have I taught you nothing?"
"Yeah, that you have big fingers," Jess said, rubbing his head.
Rory just rolled her eyes, and said, "Come on, let's go buy Mom her lamp and then go home."
At home...................
Rory, Jess, Luke, and Lorelai filed into the mansion, Lorelai last with her funky red lamp. "I don't think I told you two, but Luke and I also bought a coffee table and a red couch."
"Cool." Rory said.
"So, is anyone hungry?" Luke asked.
"I am." Jess said.
"Me too." Rory said.
"Me three!" Lorelai chimed in.
"I guess I get to make dinner." Luke said reluctantly as he headed towards the kitchen.
"I'll help you, Luke." Rory said, and followed after him.
Lorelai and Jess watched as they left, and then Lorelai said, "You know what I need?"
"I'm going to take a wild guess here, ummm. coffee?" Jess said.
"Yes! You are a mind reader! Now come with me to the hidden coffee room and make sure that I don't kill the machines, because then that would cause the end of the world." Lorelai said in a serious tone.
Jess smirked, and said, "Fine." The two headed through the door in the living room and into the ballroom. They then went into the coffee room. The coffee room actually was more like a Starbuck's counter, with a counter and stools and machines behind it, everything stainless steel. Jess sat down at one of the stools and watched as Lorelai expertly loaded up the coffee machine with coffee beans, and the coffee started to slowly drip out of the other end. "Wow, you're getting really good at that."
"Well, you know, I've been dreaming about this thing in my sleep, so I've had some practice." Lorelai said with a straight face.
"You haven't been dreaming about Luke?" Jess asked with mock surprise.
"Have you been dreaming about Rory?" Lorelai countered.
"Next topic please." Jess said.
Lorelai pulled up a stool from the other side of the counter, and said, "No, seriously Jess. How do you feel about my daughter?"
"I care about Rory." Jess stated simply.
"But how much?" Lorelai pressed.
"Don't you think that I should tell Rory that before I tell you?" Jess asked her.
"Are you going to tell her?" Lorelai questioned.
"Yes." Jess said.
"Now?"
"Soon enough."
"Just don't hurt her."
"Ok, Lorelai." Jess said. "So, what is going on with you and Luke?"
"Dinner!!!" Jess and Lorelai heard Rory scream. "Come and get it!!!!!"
"Tell you later, ok?" Lorelai said, as she grabbed her cup of coffee and walked out to eat dinner.
"You better!" Jess said, as he hopped off the barstool to eat dinner with his family.
Author's Note: I'm not going to do anything with this dinner; the next chapter will be set on the next day. Please R&R and tell me: what you think, did you see anything that was wrong, suggestions, anybody out of character, ect., ect. Thanks so much!
Author's Note: Thanks so much for the reviews everybody!! Now I know what AU means. I know that Dean was out of character; I just wanted to get rid of him. I'm going to try really hard to draw things out more after this chapter. I really really will, I promise! Ok, I don't know the Gilmore residence address, so I made one up. Tell me if you know what it is, and I'll fix it. And I changed the coffee room a little bit, I think. ;-) R&R! Enjoy!!
Chapter 7: Call Me Alli
Tuesday afternoon.
Rory hopped out of the Gilmore Jeep and ran up to the house.
"3:46, you're very late, my child." Lorelai scolded from the living room as Rory ran in.
She stopped briefly, and said, "The clocks at Chilton are different, sorry! Just let me change out of this uniform!" She then continued towards the stairs on her and Jess's side of the house. She ran past Jess in the study, who was reading while sitting on the floor.
She actually almost stepped on him, and he said, "Hey! I'm a person, not a doormat!"
She turned to look behind her as she was running towards the stairs, and replied, "Sorry! I'm in a hurry!"
"I think I figured that much out," Jess mumbled to himself as he went back to his reading. About three minutes later, Rory jumped down the stairs with a light blue long sleeve t-shirt on and simple blue jeans. She had on a necklace with a blue stone in it and her hair was down and coming over her shoulders like a waterfall.
"Ready to go!" Rory said as she calmly walked up to Jess. He got up, and they both went into the living room to get Luke and Lorelai.
"Hey! You guys finally made it," Luke remarked sarcastically.
"Come on people, we're missing out on shopping time!" Lorelai said, shoving them all towards the door.
"Lorelai, it'll all be ok." Luke said in a calm and reassuring voice.
"Obviously you haven't seen the Gilmores shop. We like to look around and pick out lots of stuff," Rory explained.
"Lots of stuff!" Lorelai repeated.
"Hey, you guys, it's only furniture. I think we can take the excitement down a notch." Jess said with a worried look on his face.
"Come on, Jess, lighten up. This'll be fun!" Lorelai said.
"Sure." Jess said, and they all four got into the Gilmore Jeep and drove off to the furniture store.
At the furniture store.
The four of them stepped into the furniture store, and Lorelai and Rory's eyes widened. "This place is so big." She marveled.
"Hey, Lorelai, honey, have you looked at our house? That's big too." Luke said to her.
Lorelai just rolled her eyes, and said, "Ok, let's split up first, and meet back here at the entrance in," she paused to look at her watch, "one hour, so at 5:00."
"Ok, come on Mom, let's go over here," Rory said, trying to drag her mother to the right.
"No, you go with Jess, I'll go with Luke." Lorelai said.
"Oh yeah, that whole separate sides of the house thing." Rory said, and she and Jess headed to the left where the chairs and couches were. Over there, they found a huge overstuffed couch, and Jess sat down in it.
"This is comfy. Come here and try it out." Jess said. She walked over and waited for him to get up, but instead he grabbed her by the wrist and pulled her down next to him. She ended up falling on top of his lap, and they laughed.
A young saleswoman about Jess and Rory's age came up to them and said, "Oh, you two are so cute together."
"Oh, we're not a couple." Jess clarified.
"Oh, I'm so sorry." The young woman apologized. "This is actually my first day here, I just moved here from Pennsylvania."
"Really? Where are you moving to in the area?" Rory asked.
"A small town called Star's Hollow." She replied.
"Really? That's where we live. I'm Rory, by the way, and this is Jess." Rory told her.
"Hi, I'm Allison. You can call me Alli." She replied, and the two women shook hands.
"Welcome to Star's Hollow." Rory said.
"So, do you guys want to buy this chair?" Alli asked.
"I certainly do." Jess said.
"Me too." Rory added.
"Ok, well just follow me and we can set it all up." Alli said, and they walked behind Alli. "So, are you two brother and sister?"
"Oh, no, we just won a house on a radio contest together. Me and Jess and my mom and his uncle." Rory replied.
"Really? That's so exciting." Alli replied, amazed.
Jess just shrugged, and Rory said, "Yeah, it's nice to have a change."
They arrived at Alli's office, and she pulled out a big book of fabrics. "You can choose what fabric you want from here, and then we can place the order."
Rory and Jess bent their heads together over the book, and finally settled on a deep blue-stripped print. "We want this one." Jess said, pointing to the fabric.
"Ok. Your total comes out to $1,100." Alli told them.
Jess and Rory looked at each other, and Jess said, "Oh crap, we didn't get the money from Luke and Lorelai in case we wanted to buy something!"
"You go find them, and I'll stay here." Rory told him, and he went off to go find Luke and Lorelai.
Rory found the pair looking at lamps, and Lorelai had picked out a wacky red stained glass lamp. "Oh, come on Luke, this would be a good lamp."
"No, Lorelai."
"Loosen up, live a little! Come on, please!" Lorelai begged.
Luke sighed, and said, "We can think about it."
"Mom, Mom!" Rory said, out of breath as she screeched to a halt in front of them.
"What? Did Jess break something, and now you have to buy it?" Lorelai asked.
"No, we found this chair that we want to buy, and we realized that we have no money with us to spend. You have it all." Rory explained to her mother.
"Ok, let's go. Lady," Lorelai said, pointing at a saleswoman, "keep an eye on our lamp. We'll be right back."
"Damn, that could have been a good excuse." Luke muttered under his breath.
"Luke!" Lorelai said, and playfully smacked him in the arm. The couple followed Rory to Alli's office, and Lorelai said, "Hi, we're the people who supply the money."
"Hi, I'm Allison, you can call me Alli." She replied.
"Ok, Alli, how much do we owe you?" Luke asked.
"$1,100."
"Whoa! This better be one good chair you two." Lorelai said, but still pulling out her checkbook and writing a check. "Here you go, Alli right?"
"Yeah. Thanks." Alli said.
"Alli's is moving to Star's Hollow." Rory said.
"Oh, wait, you wouldn't happen to be moving into a beautiful white house on Smith Street?" Lorelai asked.
"Actually, yeah." She said. "How did you know all that?"
"Wow, meet the previous owners, me and my mom, Lorelai." Rory said, extending her hand.
"Nice to meet you." Alli said, shaking Rory's hand.
"So, are you enrolled in Star's Hollow High?" Jess asked.
"Actually, my parents are making me go to this ultra-fancy expensive smart people school called Chilton Prep." Alli replied.
"No way! I go there!" Rory said in amazement. Alli seemed so nice, so normal, she didn't seem like the Chilton type. But then again, neither did Rory.
"Really? That's so great, maybe I'll see you there." Alli said.
"You can count on it." Rory said.
Alli glanced at her watch, and said, "Oh, I really should get back to selling people more furniture, bye!"
"See you tomorrow!" Rory said after her.
"Ok, see you then!" Alli said over her shoulder as she walked away.
"Wow, she seemed nice. Too nice to go to Chilton," Lorelai remarked.
"I know, but now maybe I'll have a real good friend there." Rory said.
"So, did you two find anything good to buy?" Jess asked, changing the topic.
"Oh yeah, we found this great lamp-"
Luke flicked Jess in the head, and said, "Jess, we almost got out of having to buy that lamp! Have I taught you nothing?"
"Yeah, that you have big fingers," Jess said, rubbing his head.
Rory just rolled her eyes, and said, "Come on, let's go buy Mom her lamp and then go home."
At home...................
Rory, Jess, Luke, and Lorelai filed into the mansion, Lorelai last with her funky red lamp. "I don't think I told you two, but Luke and I also bought a coffee table and a red couch."
"Cool." Rory said.
"So, is anyone hungry?" Luke asked.
"I am." Jess said.
"Me too." Rory said.
"Me three!" Lorelai chimed in.
"I guess I get to make dinner." Luke said reluctantly as he headed towards the kitchen.
"I'll help you, Luke." Rory said, and followed after him.
Lorelai and Jess watched as they left, and then Lorelai said, "You know what I need?"
"I'm going to take a wild guess here, ummm. coffee?" Jess said.
"Yes! You are a mind reader! Now come with me to the hidden coffee room and make sure that I don't kill the machines, because then that would cause the end of the world." Lorelai said in a serious tone.
Jess smirked, and said, "Fine." The two headed through the door in the living room and into the ballroom. They then went into the coffee room. The coffee room actually was more like a Starbuck's counter, with a counter and stools and machines behind it, everything stainless steel. Jess sat down at one of the stools and watched as Lorelai expertly loaded up the coffee machine with coffee beans, and the coffee started to slowly drip out of the other end. "Wow, you're getting really good at that."
"Well, you know, I've been dreaming about this thing in my sleep, so I've had some practice." Lorelai said with a straight face.
"You haven't been dreaming about Luke?" Jess asked with mock surprise.
"Have you been dreaming about Rory?" Lorelai countered.
"Next topic please." Jess said.
Lorelai pulled up a stool from the other side of the counter, and said, "No, seriously Jess. How do you feel about my daughter?"
"I care about Rory." Jess stated simply.
"But how much?" Lorelai pressed.
"Don't you think that I should tell Rory that before I tell you?" Jess asked her.
"Are you going to tell her?" Lorelai questioned.
"Yes." Jess said.
"Now?"
"Soon enough."
"Just don't hurt her."
"Ok, Lorelai." Jess said. "So, what is going on with you and Luke?"
"Dinner!!!" Jess and Lorelai heard Rory scream. "Come and get it!!!!!"
"Tell you later, ok?" Lorelai said, as she grabbed her cup of coffee and walked out to eat dinner.
"You better!" Jess said, as he hopped off the barstool to eat dinner with his family.
Author's Note: I'm not going to do anything with this dinner; the next chapter will be set on the next day. Please R&R and tell me: what you think, did you see anything that was wrong, suggestions, anybody out of character, ect., ect. Thanks so much!