TALE UNTOLD
A/N: Ah wow. I'm baffled. Thank you guys so much for your wonderful reviews I really didn't know what to think when I started writing this. I'll do my best not to disappoint you guys and I'll work on a way to make sure this works. I've decided not to go right into the premier so they'll be some stuff beforehand. Also, there may be some lines used in the show that I use here just to keep it real. Thank you!
Ch 2 My Best Friend
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Rory Gilmore laid curled up under her blankets her head on the shoulder of her best friend who lay next to her with a book on his chest, also asleep. As her mother peeked in something odd overcame her. Throughout the years she had many times walked in and found the two of them had fallen asleep reading, but now it seemed to bother her. Carefully closing the door to the bedroom trying not to disturb the two Lorelai snuck out of the Gilmore household.
"LUKE!" Lorelai shouted entering the familiar diner.
"What?" Luke grunted pouring coffee for another costumer.
"Know where Jess is?"
"Not that game again Lorelai," he groaned.
"He's sleeping in my daughter's bed again!"
"They always sleep together!" The diner hushed up as Luke yelled that out, all staring at the two. "That came out wrong…" Luke trailed. Lorelai took the coffee and awkwardly sat down by now less people were staring at them.
"It's just they're fifteen now and it's different," Lorelai nearly whispered.
"This is Rory and Jess we're talking about," Luke pointed out, "They've known each other forever!" Lorelai made a little face and went back to her coffee cup.
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Rory yawned and rubbed her eyes. She smiled when she noticed Jess was still sleeping. Carefully she lifted the comforter under him and pulled upwards sending Jess onto the floor. Jess groaned and sat up glaring at Rory who in turn just giggled hysterically. Jess tilted his head in thought and stood up over Rory and began to tickle her relentlessly. "NO! STOP!" she yelled out in between giggles.
Eventually Jess gave in and lay back down next to Rory. "So, we going to get up for coffee?"
"Do you even have to ask?" Rory asked dropping her head to the side to look at Jess.
"Sorry Gilmore," Jess smirked.
"I'll forgive me if you buy."
"You don't pay anyway."
"Oh…right," Rory nodded slowly getting up and picking out her clothes from her closet then leaving to get changed.
Jess waited for Rory to return silently reading the book that they had fallen asleep to. It was Saturday morning in early August and Jess could only imagine what he would get dragged into. Rory returned not long later her hair brushed back into a pony tail and wearing her jeans and a sweater. Sticking her hands in her pocked rocking from toes to heal Rory tilted her head and Jess rolled his eyes and pulled himself off the bed. Ginning brightly Rory linked her arm with his. "It's your own fault," she reminded him.
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"Sweet Coffee!" exclaimed Rory minutes later taking a sip out of her cup. She sat next to her mother who eagerly nodded in agreement. Jess who was serving a table not long far from their shook his head and smirked continuing to write down the order of the young lady and her child. The lady must've been a new-comer not to know the Gilmore girls who were known as the Queen and Princess of Stars Hollow. After her order was taken and Jess delivered the food her sat down on the empty seat at the Gilmore table. A troubled look crossed Lorelai's face but Jess ignored it.
"We going?" he wondered.
"Lane should be here any…" Rory trailed off because at that minute the hyper-active Korean girl bounced into the diner. Lane smiled at her two friends and Lorelai before sitting on the last remaining empty chair at the table. "Any minute," Rory finished.
"So?" Lane asked curiously.
"Last night we came up with the perfect plan," Rory began.
"The plan to top all other plans," Lorelai went on. Jess rolled his eyes and slumped down in his chair.
"Get on with it," he groaned.
"Spoil sport!" Lorelai and Rory both exclaimed. Jess raised and eyebrow urging them to continue and get it over with.
"As I was saying…" Lorelai finally went on, "We're going to have a complete movie marathon! All day with no interruptions unless for coffee or washroom."
"And the first movie on our list is…" Rory started to say before being cut of by Jess.
"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," Jess put in, "It would be a crime if it were any other movie." Rory and Lorelai looked thoughtfully at each other with evil grins.
"You've done it this time," Lane muttered to him.
"Yes of course," Rory was still grinning, "and second on out list is 'Rebel without a Cause'."
"Oh no, no, no, no," Jess pushed his chair away from table shaking his head.
"Get ready James Dean," Lorelai winked, "This is going to be fun!"
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Jess sat on the floor leaning against the couch, Lane and Rory sat on either side of him and Lorelai lay sprawled out on the couch yawning. Their movie marathon had had plenty of interruptions that were more than an hour long. At the moment they were watching the last movie Kirk allowed them to check out after going back and forth between the movie store and Gilmore residence one too many time. "Mom's asleep," Rory whispered to him and Lane. Together the three of them snuck into Rory's room.
"Cue music!" Lane exclaimed throwing herself down on the bed. Rory hit the play button on her radio and let the music play low. Jess examined her bookshelf although he didn't need to even look for the book he wanted. He knew all of Rory's collection by heart and exactly where they were placed. A telephone rang somewhere in the house but none of the teens paid attention to it.
"I can't believe there's a month until school starts," Rory sighed flipping through and ancient binder.
"I can't believe I have to go through ANOTHER year," Jess smirked.
"Well, you don't want to be dumb, do you?"
"I've can learn anything I need to know in here," Jess said patting the book in his hands.
"It's no use Ror," Lane put forth, "He's too cool for school."
"Who isn't?" Jess wondered. Both Lane and Jess automatically looked to Rory who was looking down at a page in the binder. She looked up and caught Jess' eye.
"HEY!" she exclaimed throwing a loose pillow at him. Jess caught the pillow and looking down at it he smirked. Lane and Rory glanced at each other quickly before scrambling away from the pillow that was now in mid-flight. It hit Lane who threw it again. Rory dived onto the bed and grabbed another pillow and hit Jess with it without throwing. Soon the room was filled with the giggles of the two girls.
"What's going on?" Lorelai asked groggily as she opened the door. She was immediately assailed by three pillows. Her jaw hung open a bit in shock but she quickly recovered. "How dare you start a pillow fight without me?" Lorelai asked grabbing one of the fallen pillows. Rory mouthed and 'uh-oh' to her friends as they all tried to get out of the way.
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Rory and Jess sat on the bridge the next day as the sun poured down on the lake. Lorelai had gotten a call from the Inn and Lane was grounded, again. Both Rory and Jess dangled their legs from the end of the bridge as they read their books. Soon Rory began looking aver at Jess' book head tilted and her eyes concentrated. Jess began to turn the page but Rory grabbed his arm, "Hold on I'm not done."
"You're supposed to be reading your own book," Jess pointed out.
"Yeah, but yours seems more interesting," Rory argued.
"Fine," Jess gave in waiting for her to finish the page.
"Okay. Done!" Rory declared. Jess shook his head and turned the page. After a few minutes he closed the book. Rory looked over at him her blue eyes filled with curiosity. They reminded him of the way they had looked nearly ten years ago when they had first met.
"Let's not read," Jess suggested.
"O-Kay," Rory shrugged. They sat in silence for a while, not needing to say anything. "You know what?" Rory finally said.
"Obviously not."
"Sometimes I wonder what things would've been like if you hadn't come to Stars Hollow," Rory bit her lip in thought, "I wonder how you would've turned out and if we'd ever meet."
"We'll never know will we?"
"Guess not." There was a comfortable silence once again. Jess reached out and pulled Rory close to him.
"Don't think about that," he whispered, "I'm here and that's that." Rory smiled and nodded laying her head on his shoulder. After a while Jess got up and then helped Rory up.
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Rory sat in her room later that night, looking through old photos. A lot of them were had been collected from neighbours and friends in Stars Hollow that had taken picture since both of the Gilmore girls were illiterate with cameras. Carefully placing them in the album and marking something under them. Soon, Rory came to one of Jess and her when they were younger sitting at a table in the diner followed by one of Jess alone taken not long ago. Under the picture of Jess she wrote 'My best friend'. There were three people in her life that Rory couldn't imagine losing. Her mother, Lane and Jess they were her best friends.
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A/N2: I'm so sorry that I haven't posted in a while I've just been a bit 'out of it' lately and haven't really gotten around to writing much. Anyway, here's your new chapter. Tell me what you think and if anything needs to be changed, added or altered in anyway. Thank You.
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