Chapter 6-The Dinner of Death

Disclaimer: Once again, sadly, I do not own any of the Gilmore Girl characters; I'll get over it sooner or later. *Sigh; schemes plans to kidnap all the GG characters.starting off with Jess-evil laugh*

Story time: This is Season 3 taking place with a spin on it by me. All of season 2 still exists, the kiss still happened; the car wreck was there, Lorelei isn't however mad at Luke anymore. I so hope you got the gist of what I just said. Lol *nervous laugh*

AN: This is a rather long chapter so I might end up splitting it up into 2 parts if I get too tired of typing. But I'll tell you if I do split it up (at the end). And also, this might seem like the end of the story, but I'm not planning on it seeing as they aren't really.well I'm not gonna spoil it- ENJOY!!

"Rory? You about ready to jet?"

"Yeah, just a second Mom, and since when do you use the phrase 'ready to jet'?" I question while putting my earring in. I hear the doorbell ring. Who would be here??

"Silly girl, I've always used that!" I hear her open the door. "Hey guys!" Mom says enthusiastically.

Guys? What? Stupid earring!!

"Evening Lorelei."

Luke?? Who's the other guy then? I come out of my room and see Luke and Mom talking by the couch and Jess by the door with his hands in his pockets. Wow, he looks really good when he's cleaned up. No, wait, where exactly are they going so cleaned up? What happened to Luke's usual flannel and baseball cap? And where's Jess' band t-shirt? I pull Mom aside.

"Mom, can we talk?"

"Yeah-sure-but hurry hun', we'll be late."

"Why? They're here?"

"Why what and who's here? Hurry it up. There's nothing quite like the wrath of Emily Gilmore when you're late."

"Why are they here?" I finally stammer out.

"Because they were invited of course-well Luke was-I forgot to tell you to invite Dean so Luke decided to bring Jess along for some unknown reason. Let's go!"

"Why?"

I stand there stunned and Luke whispers to me, "Because I know you, and you didn't tell her yet."

"Go, go, go!" Mom yells.

I smile and Luke and we pile into the jeep. Mom and Luke are in front and Jess and I are in the back. It's silent for a while in the car-well actually in the back it is. Mom and Luke are chattering up a novel's worth of material about Taylor in front. I take a stab at conversation with Jess because I'm getting bored with my window staring then freeze up on my conversation skills. Great, of all the times to freeze up it has to be when you want to start a conversation with someone that you might really, really like.

"So.what's up?" I ask him.

Wonderful Rory, wonderful. And this is why I don't like starting conversations.

"Just thinking about my 'delinquency', Rory. How about you?" he says. I'm not sure if he was being sarcastic or not.

Anyhow, I take his hand and softly say to him, "I know we have a lot to talk about, and I would really like to talk to you about it. Really. It's just," I point to Mom, "she doesn't know yet."

"What don't I know yet?" Mom asks suddenly.

"Oh, that they're thinking about making caffeine illegal in.Idaho." I narrow my brow and look into the mirror hoping it worked.

"That poor, poor state. Let's mark that off of our vacation agenda."

"Do we have one of those?"

"No."

"Just making sure I wasn't missing out on anything." I say.

Jess smiles at me signaling that he understands and I smile back then go back to my window staring.

We stand outside the house for about 5 minutes.

"You'd think she'd be here seeing as you rang the doorbell." Luke says.

"Doorbell?" Mom continues staring at the illuminated doorbell.

"Yeah, that little dingy thing that lights up and you push it and it goes ding." Jess comments.

Mom glares at Jess and I hold back my laughter.

"That sounds like something I would say." I whisper to him.

"I'm going to ring it now," Mom says triumphantly, "Run, turn back while you can guys."

The maid opens the door, takes our coats and tells us to go into the living room and that Grandma will be down shortly. Luke and Mom head there and Jess grabs my wrist and holds me back.

"Any pointers?" he asks slightly nervous.

Awh, that's so cute. I hold back saying that. Yeah, that would be a bad idea Point for Rory!

"Well, Grandpa likes books and college talk. If Grandma asks you if you like the food-say she did an excellent job. I think you'll be fine. Relax dodger!"

I smile at him and take lead him trailing, still holding my wrist, to where Mom and Luke are.

End Part 1 (I'm sorry! It' just I didn't get any sleep last night and it's getting really late and also I have to get up earlier than usual tomorrow. Grr.but I AM finished with all of chapter 6, it's just a matter of typing it now *sigh*) R/R-and thanx!!