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Chapter 11: She'll Eat You Alive!
Rory, Jess, Paris, Jamie, and Alli all went up to the second floor of the club and grabbed a table. Before anything could happen, Rory got a page. "I gotta take this, sorry guys."
"It's fine. Just come back!" Alli told her.
Rory walked away and put a quarter in a payphone. She dialed the now familiar number, and her mother's voice was immediately on the other end. "Where are you?"
"I'm out with Jess and Alli and Paris and Jamie." Rory told her.
"The family dinner is tonight! You and Jess have to come, it's part of our conditions on which we got the money! Plus, you and Jess can't make Luke and I go alone! The parents will probably kill us!" Lorelai exclaimed.
"Omigosh, I totally forgot about dinner tonight. What time is it now?" Rory asked.
"It's about five-ish. Come on, hurry!" Lorelai instructed her, and then she hung up.
Rory rushed back out, and said, "You guys, I'm so sorry, Jess and I gotta go! I totally forgot that we have a family dinner tonight!"
"Awww! Well, call us tomorrow so that I can tell you how I got Paris to go out and dance." Alli told Rory.
"Will do. Talk to you later, Paris. Come on Jess, we're already late!" Rory said, and she spun on her heel and walked out of the club, followed closely by Jess. "Grandma will be so pissed if we're late. And of course she'll take it all out on Mom. She always does. It gets really annoying after a while." Rory kept on rambling. Jess finally decided to get her to stop. When they were at the parking lot and Rory had called a cab, Jess grabbed her wrist and pulled her close to him. She could feel his nose on hers, his breath on her chin, his lips too close to measure.
They looked deep into each other's eyes, and Jess said, barely able to be heard, "You should really lower your caffeine intake. You get much to worked up over this kind of stuff."
Rory responded quietly as well, "I haven't had any coffee since this morning. Maybe I just don't have enough."
"Maybe. Or maybe not." Jess said. "Cab."
"Huh?" Rory said, confused.
"Our cab is here." Jess clarified.
"Oh, that. Oh yeah!" Rory said, spinning on her heal towards the cab. "Dinner! Let's go!"
At the house.................................
"Luke! Have you seen my shoes?" Lorelai shouted from their bedroom.
"I don't know. Are you talking about your Nike tennis shoes, or one of your other 63 pairs?" Luke called up the stairs from the kitchen. He was eating some mini bagel-pizza things that he had fixed up in the microwave only seconds before.
"One of the other 63 pairs." Lorelai told him.
"Oh, well in that case, they would be in the closet." Luke replied simply. Upstairs, Lorelai looked in the closet and found the exact deep red boots that she was looking for.
"Thanks so much for the help Luke!" Lorelai said as she put them on. She then put on a gold necklace with a deep red stone on it to match her deep red dress. She hopped down the circular stairs and saw Luke eating. "Oh, what are those? I'm going to have some."
"Hungry?" Luke asked.
"Yeah, and Mom always serves weird stuff at these dinners. Where are Rory and Jess?" She wondered aloud.
"Hi Mom! We're home!" Luke and Lorelai heard Rory shout from the front door.
They walked out to the front hall to greet them, and Lorelai said, "Hey, I'm so glad you're home! Now go change! Quick, go, run!" Jess rolled his eyes, but followed Rory upstairs to change. "How do I look?" Lorelai asked Luke while they were waiting. She did a full spin to show off her dress.
"You look," He paused, "great."
"Hey! You paused! What's wrong? Did I get the wrong shoes?" Luke stopped Lorelai's ranting by pulling her into a kiss.
They broke apart, and Luke said, with a smile playing at the corners of his mouth, "I was trying to find a better word than great."
"Well, you didn't improve much on your choice of words." Lorelai told him.
"How about sexy?" Luke asked.
"That'll definitely work." Lorelai said, nodding her head slightly. Her smile only widened, as did Luke's.
"Yeah?" Luke asked, leaning into her.
"Yeah." Lorelai told him, leaning in as well.
Then, Rory and Jess entered the room, and Jess said while covering his eyes, "Ahhh! What are you two doing? You're going to improperly influence us!"
Luke just rolled his eyes, and said, "You look nice. I didn't know you even owned nice clothes."
Lorelai looked Jess up and down, who was wearing khakis and a black sweater. "Yes, very un-Jess. My parents will love it." She then looked Rory up and down, who was wearing a black skirt and a green top. "You look good too, Ror."
"Thanks." Rory replied.
"Ok, can we get this over with yet?" Jess asked.
"Yeah, I agree." Luke said.
"Alright, on the road it is!" Lorelai said, and they headed off to dinner.
At the elder Gilmore residence................................
Lorelai rubbed her hands together for warmth as they all headed up towards the huge door in their winter coats. "Rory, it's your turn to ring the doorbell."
"What! It is not!" Rory protested.
"Is too!" Lorelai told her.
"Well, um, I don't want to ring the doorbell!" Rory defended.
Luke and Jess just bobbed their heads back and forth, watching the argument continue. "Do you want to stop this, or should I?" Luke asked.
"Actually, this is kind of fun, watching them do this." Jess said with a smirk.
Luke rolled his eyes this time, and reached past the girls and rang the doorbell. "Luke!" Lorelai shouted, her eyes getting all buggy.
"What? Someone had to ring it sometime." Luke told her.
"But we haven't properly prepared the new partners in our horrible family tradition!" Lorelai told them.
"Yeah, that is ture." Rory said, nodding.
"Quick!" Lorelai said, and she dragged them all behind some huge bushes nearby, nearly ripping their arms off in the process.
"Whoa! Is part of this little dinner eating without your hands? Is that why you were trying to rip my arm off?" Jess asked Lorelai.
Lorelai sighed, and warned cryptically, "You guys need to know that my family is very proper. Don't do anything that I wouldn't do."
"Hey, Luke, we get to do anything we want tonight!" Jess said sarcastically.
"Jess!" Rory said, playfully hitting him on the arm.
"What?" Jess said, smiling at her.
"See, that! That eye connection thing! Emily will pick up on that and start asking you all kinds of questions!" Lorelai ranted on.
"Luke, how much coffee did you give her before we came here?" Rory asked, reaching to feel Lorelai's head for a fever.
"OK, I think that Lorelai has ranted enough for today, can we go ring the doorbell and actually stay around to see someone open the door for us?" Jess interjected.
"Yes please!" Rory said, linking arms with Jess and walking towards the door.
"You guys better be careful. She's going to eat you alive!" Lorelai shouted. She finally relented, and let Luke pull her to the door before the younger couple rang the doorbell.
Both the girls just stared at it again, and Jess finally just said, "I'll do it! For crying out loud!" He quickly rang the doorbell, and within seconds Emily Gilmore had answered the door.
"Hello! May I assume that you are Jess?" Emily asked towards Jess.
"Yup, that's me." Jess answered casually. She shook his hand.
"So then you must be Luke." Emily said.
"That would be right." Luke answered. She shook his hand as well.
"Please, let's all come inside and have some drinks. Lorelai, what would you like?"
"Red wine would be fine, Mom." Lorelai answered as they followed Emily into the sitting area.
"Rory?"
"Oh, soda would be great."
"Yeah, me too." Jess added in.
"Luke?" Emily inquired.
"Oh, um, red wine would be fine for me too." He answered uncomfortably.
"Ok. Sarah, did you get all of that?" Emily asked their latest maid.
"Yes, ma'am." Sarah replied as she hurried off to get the drinks.
They all sat down, Emily in a chair, Luke and Lorelai on one couch, Jess and Rory on the other. "So, Rory how's school?" Emily asked.
"It's fine. I got an A on my History and Government exam." Rory told her.
"Really? That's nice." Emily replied. "So, Jess, do you go to Chilton as well?"
"Um, no, I just go to Star's Hollow High." Jess responded.
"Oh, really? That's good." Emily replied.
Sarah came back in to the room with the drinks, and Lorelai gladly accepted her wine. "This feels like it's going to be a long night." Lorelai quietly mumbled to Luke as she took a sip of her wine.
Later that night....................................
"Oh, yay! Precious Jeep, you have never looked so good!" Lorelai said as they slowly walked back to their car after dinner.
"I never knew that dinner involved that much talking. And that many main courses!" Luke said.
"Yeah, well you obviously haven't been to many Gilmore dinners." Rory said.
"I vote that we move these things to Luke's diner." Jess added.
"Yes, that sounds good." Lorelai said as they piled into the Jeep.
"Ok, let's just get home first." Rory said, and they headed home.
Once home, they jumped out of the Jeep and slowly walked inside. "Hey, if we're all in such a hurry, then why are we all going so slow?" Jess asked.
"Because my feet hurt! I picked the wrong boots for this night!" Lorelai told him.
"I'm just tired. I wanna go to sleep." Rory added.
Luke unlocked the door, and said, "Ok, it's too late for coffee, so don't even ask. Jess, you take Rory upstairs and I'll take Lorelai."
"You're always so serious Luke." Lorelai mumbled as they shuffled towards their stairs.
He just wrapped his arm tighter around her waist, and whispered in her ear in a seductive tone, "I'll show you how serious I am when we get upstairs."
Meanwhile, Jess and Rory headed up to their room. "So, you're really that tired?" Jess asked Rory.
"Yup. I can't wait to fall asleep." Rory replied.
"I can't either," Jess confessed. "I am really tired."
"It's been a long week, hasn't it?" Rory asked him.
"Long." Jess said, and they went upstairs to fall asleep in each other's arms.
Author's Note: This isn't the ending, ok? Next chapter will tell more about what happened at the club, maybe. I think. Oh, just read it! ;-)
Author's Note: Thanks for the reviews. Hope you like. R&R! Enjoy!!
Chapter 11: She'll Eat You Alive!
Rory, Jess, Paris, Jamie, and Alli all went up to the second floor of the club and grabbed a table. Before anything could happen, Rory got a page. "I gotta take this, sorry guys."
"It's fine. Just come back!" Alli told her.
Rory walked away and put a quarter in a payphone. She dialed the now familiar number, and her mother's voice was immediately on the other end. "Where are you?"
"I'm out with Jess and Alli and Paris and Jamie." Rory told her.
"The family dinner is tonight! You and Jess have to come, it's part of our conditions on which we got the money! Plus, you and Jess can't make Luke and I go alone! The parents will probably kill us!" Lorelai exclaimed.
"Omigosh, I totally forgot about dinner tonight. What time is it now?" Rory asked.
"It's about five-ish. Come on, hurry!" Lorelai instructed her, and then she hung up.
Rory rushed back out, and said, "You guys, I'm so sorry, Jess and I gotta go! I totally forgot that we have a family dinner tonight!"
"Awww! Well, call us tomorrow so that I can tell you how I got Paris to go out and dance." Alli told Rory.
"Will do. Talk to you later, Paris. Come on Jess, we're already late!" Rory said, and she spun on her heel and walked out of the club, followed closely by Jess. "Grandma will be so pissed if we're late. And of course she'll take it all out on Mom. She always does. It gets really annoying after a while." Rory kept on rambling. Jess finally decided to get her to stop. When they were at the parking lot and Rory had called a cab, Jess grabbed her wrist and pulled her close to him. She could feel his nose on hers, his breath on her chin, his lips too close to measure.
They looked deep into each other's eyes, and Jess said, barely able to be heard, "You should really lower your caffeine intake. You get much to worked up over this kind of stuff."
Rory responded quietly as well, "I haven't had any coffee since this morning. Maybe I just don't have enough."
"Maybe. Or maybe not." Jess said. "Cab."
"Huh?" Rory said, confused.
"Our cab is here." Jess clarified.
"Oh, that. Oh yeah!" Rory said, spinning on her heal towards the cab. "Dinner! Let's go!"
At the house.................................
"Luke! Have you seen my shoes?" Lorelai shouted from their bedroom.
"I don't know. Are you talking about your Nike tennis shoes, or one of your other 63 pairs?" Luke called up the stairs from the kitchen. He was eating some mini bagel-pizza things that he had fixed up in the microwave only seconds before.
"One of the other 63 pairs." Lorelai told him.
"Oh, well in that case, they would be in the closet." Luke replied simply. Upstairs, Lorelai looked in the closet and found the exact deep red boots that she was looking for.
"Thanks so much for the help Luke!" Lorelai said as she put them on. She then put on a gold necklace with a deep red stone on it to match her deep red dress. She hopped down the circular stairs and saw Luke eating. "Oh, what are those? I'm going to have some."
"Hungry?" Luke asked.
"Yeah, and Mom always serves weird stuff at these dinners. Where are Rory and Jess?" She wondered aloud.
"Hi Mom! We're home!" Luke and Lorelai heard Rory shout from the front door.
They walked out to the front hall to greet them, and Lorelai said, "Hey, I'm so glad you're home! Now go change! Quick, go, run!" Jess rolled his eyes, but followed Rory upstairs to change. "How do I look?" Lorelai asked Luke while they were waiting. She did a full spin to show off her dress.
"You look," He paused, "great."
"Hey! You paused! What's wrong? Did I get the wrong shoes?" Luke stopped Lorelai's ranting by pulling her into a kiss.
They broke apart, and Luke said, with a smile playing at the corners of his mouth, "I was trying to find a better word than great."
"Well, you didn't improve much on your choice of words." Lorelai told him.
"How about sexy?" Luke asked.
"That'll definitely work." Lorelai said, nodding her head slightly. Her smile only widened, as did Luke's.
"Yeah?" Luke asked, leaning into her.
"Yeah." Lorelai told him, leaning in as well.
Then, Rory and Jess entered the room, and Jess said while covering his eyes, "Ahhh! What are you two doing? You're going to improperly influence us!"
Luke just rolled his eyes, and said, "You look nice. I didn't know you even owned nice clothes."
Lorelai looked Jess up and down, who was wearing khakis and a black sweater. "Yes, very un-Jess. My parents will love it." She then looked Rory up and down, who was wearing a black skirt and a green top. "You look good too, Ror."
"Thanks." Rory replied.
"Ok, can we get this over with yet?" Jess asked.
"Yeah, I agree." Luke said.
"Alright, on the road it is!" Lorelai said, and they headed off to dinner.
At the elder Gilmore residence................................
Lorelai rubbed her hands together for warmth as they all headed up towards the huge door in their winter coats. "Rory, it's your turn to ring the doorbell."
"What! It is not!" Rory protested.
"Is too!" Lorelai told her.
"Well, um, I don't want to ring the doorbell!" Rory defended.
Luke and Jess just bobbed their heads back and forth, watching the argument continue. "Do you want to stop this, or should I?" Luke asked.
"Actually, this is kind of fun, watching them do this." Jess said with a smirk.
Luke rolled his eyes this time, and reached past the girls and rang the doorbell. "Luke!" Lorelai shouted, her eyes getting all buggy.
"What? Someone had to ring it sometime." Luke told her.
"But we haven't properly prepared the new partners in our horrible family tradition!" Lorelai told them.
"Yeah, that is ture." Rory said, nodding.
"Quick!" Lorelai said, and she dragged them all behind some huge bushes nearby, nearly ripping their arms off in the process.
"Whoa! Is part of this little dinner eating without your hands? Is that why you were trying to rip my arm off?" Jess asked Lorelai.
Lorelai sighed, and warned cryptically, "You guys need to know that my family is very proper. Don't do anything that I wouldn't do."
"Hey, Luke, we get to do anything we want tonight!" Jess said sarcastically.
"Jess!" Rory said, playfully hitting him on the arm.
"What?" Jess said, smiling at her.
"See, that! That eye connection thing! Emily will pick up on that and start asking you all kinds of questions!" Lorelai ranted on.
"Luke, how much coffee did you give her before we came here?" Rory asked, reaching to feel Lorelai's head for a fever.
"OK, I think that Lorelai has ranted enough for today, can we go ring the doorbell and actually stay around to see someone open the door for us?" Jess interjected.
"Yes please!" Rory said, linking arms with Jess and walking towards the door.
"You guys better be careful. She's going to eat you alive!" Lorelai shouted. She finally relented, and let Luke pull her to the door before the younger couple rang the doorbell.
Both the girls just stared at it again, and Jess finally just said, "I'll do it! For crying out loud!" He quickly rang the doorbell, and within seconds Emily Gilmore had answered the door.
"Hello! May I assume that you are Jess?" Emily asked towards Jess.
"Yup, that's me." Jess answered casually. She shook his hand.
"So then you must be Luke." Emily said.
"That would be right." Luke answered. She shook his hand as well.
"Please, let's all come inside and have some drinks. Lorelai, what would you like?"
"Red wine would be fine, Mom." Lorelai answered as they followed Emily into the sitting area.
"Rory?"
"Oh, soda would be great."
"Yeah, me too." Jess added in.
"Luke?" Emily inquired.
"Oh, um, red wine would be fine for me too." He answered uncomfortably.
"Ok. Sarah, did you get all of that?" Emily asked their latest maid.
"Yes, ma'am." Sarah replied as she hurried off to get the drinks.
They all sat down, Emily in a chair, Luke and Lorelai on one couch, Jess and Rory on the other. "So, Rory how's school?" Emily asked.
"It's fine. I got an A on my History and Government exam." Rory told her.
"Really? That's nice." Emily replied. "So, Jess, do you go to Chilton as well?"
"Um, no, I just go to Star's Hollow High." Jess responded.
"Oh, really? That's good." Emily replied.
Sarah came back in to the room with the drinks, and Lorelai gladly accepted her wine. "This feels like it's going to be a long night." Lorelai quietly mumbled to Luke as she took a sip of her wine.
Later that night....................................
"Oh, yay! Precious Jeep, you have never looked so good!" Lorelai said as they slowly walked back to their car after dinner.
"I never knew that dinner involved that much talking. And that many main courses!" Luke said.
"Yeah, well you obviously haven't been to many Gilmore dinners." Rory said.
"I vote that we move these things to Luke's diner." Jess added.
"Yes, that sounds good." Lorelai said as they piled into the Jeep.
"Ok, let's just get home first." Rory said, and they headed home.
Once home, they jumped out of the Jeep and slowly walked inside. "Hey, if we're all in such a hurry, then why are we all going so slow?" Jess asked.
"Because my feet hurt! I picked the wrong boots for this night!" Lorelai told him.
"I'm just tired. I wanna go to sleep." Rory added.
Luke unlocked the door, and said, "Ok, it's too late for coffee, so don't even ask. Jess, you take Rory upstairs and I'll take Lorelai."
"You're always so serious Luke." Lorelai mumbled as they shuffled towards their stairs.
He just wrapped his arm tighter around her waist, and whispered in her ear in a seductive tone, "I'll show you how serious I am when we get upstairs."
Meanwhile, Jess and Rory headed up to their room. "So, you're really that tired?" Jess asked Rory.
"Yup. I can't wait to fall asleep." Rory replied.
"I can't either," Jess confessed. "I am really tired."
"It's been a long week, hasn't it?" Rory asked him.
"Long." Jess said, and they went upstairs to fall asleep in each other's arms.
Author's Note: This isn't the ending, ok? Next chapter will tell more about what happened at the club, maybe. I think. Oh, just read it! ;-)