TALE UNTOLD
A/N: Here it is! I'm working on all this as fast as I can with my schedule. So, anyway, thank you to all of you who reviewed. Anyway I'm just going to make this short and sweet and get on with the next chapter.
Ch 8 Birthday Blues
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(Scene: Rory and Lorelai run into the diner ignoring the "Closed" sign on the door. Luke is standing behind the counter putting cups away while Jess is cleaning the tables. Rory runs right up to Jess and throws her arms around him laughing.)
Jess: Dinner was that great huh?
Rory: (In between giggles.) They were writing their will and made us put post-its on anything we wanted.
Lorelai: (Sipping coffee.)I'm telling you we really have to start taping these dinners.
Rory: I'm like the only normal one there. Mom was a Jewish comedian tonight.
Luke: (Confused.) Who?
Lorelai: Henry Youngman.
Jess: (Curious.) What'd you say?
Lorelai: That Sissy Stanford was 'Crazy Sissy' and she talked to her stuffed animals and they'd talk back to her.
Jess: And I'm guessing your parents are close to Crazy Sissy's family?
Rory: Her father's their lawyer.
Jess: Huh.
Rory: Also, next Friday they're throwing me a birthday party.
Lorelai: And the Elvis and Jim Morrison are coming.
Luke: They're dead Lorelai.
Lorelai: (Appalled.) How could you say such a thing?
Rory: (Ignoring Lorelai.) Anyway, I was thinking maybe we could drag you with us.
Jess: (Snorts.) Good luck with that.
Rory: Please.
Jess: No!
Rory: Pretty please with sugar and a cherry on top.
Jess: Maybe I didn't phrase it right the first time. No way in hell.
Lorelai: Bambi eyes baby, give him the Bambi eyes.
(Rory gives Jess the Bambi eyes. Jess shakes his head and then throws his hands up in exasperation.)
Rory: (Grinning.) Thank you! Thank you!
Luke: (Grunts.) Sucker.
Lorelai: (Triumphantly.) The Bambi eyes never fail!
Rory: I promise you won't regret coming.
Jess: I seriously doubt that.
(Lorelai hands Rory a cup of coffee to go and Jess and Luke get back to work. The two girls exit the diner and walk down the street.)
(Scene: Rory, Lane and Jess sit out under a tree. Lane is lying on her stomach her feet swinging upwards as she reads her newest music magazine. Rory's head lies in Jess' lap and her knees are drawn up so her book rests against her legs and Jess is sitting back against the tree, also reading.)
Lane: You guys know how much I love you for this right?
Jess: Lane, it's a magazine. It's not that hard to get.
Lane: Still, without you I would be totally lacking my knowledge on music.
Rory: We know.
Lane: Good.
Rory: (Turns her head to look at Lane.) Lane, you know you don't need to suck up to us. So, what do you need us to get?
Lane: (Half-jokingly.) New parents?
Jess: I hear they're cheap this time of year. You get both for the price of one.
Rory: Way lame Jess.
Lane: (Sighs.) You two have the least normal parents.
Jess: And the most dysfunctional family.
Rory: Lane, mom and I have practically adopted you already. You just sleep somewhere else most of the time.
Jess: And Luke and I feed you all the time.
Lane: Yes, but the time I spend at home isn't the greatest. I have to hide my CDs under the floor board!
Rory: Or at my house.
Jess: Or at the diner.
Lane: You can't say you don't listen to them.
Rory: (Nods.) She's right. We do.
Jess: (Nudges Rory.) Hey, I think someone wants to talk to you.
Rory: (Sits up.) Who? (Sees Dean.) Oh. Hi!
(Dean is standing a few feet off.)
Dean: (Comes closer.) Hi.
Lane: Do you want us to go?
Dean: (Shakes head.) No, no. Rory, can you walk with me?
(Rory nods and gets up, leaving her book on the floor. She walks off with Dean leaving Jess and Lane sitting there.)
Jess: I don't like him much.
Lane: He's really nice.
Jess: And tall.
Lane: He likes Rory though.
Jess: I've noticed.
Lane: She likes him too, I think.
(Jess nods solemnly watching his best friend talking to Dean a little while off.)
Rory: (Nervously.) So, here we are walking.
Dean: Yeah. Look, I'm sorry if I've been pestering lately. It's just...I like you and I thought you might like me as well. I guess you're not interested though. So, I'll just stop bothering you.
(Begins to walk away.)
Rory: (Calls out.) Dean! (Dean turns.) I'm having this birthday party on Saturday, you should come by. My mom usually makes a big deal out of these things. When I was eight Taylor got the police to shut it down.
Dean: Maybe I'll check it out.
(Dean walks off and Rory watches him. Jess and Lane have also been watching the whole affair.)
Lane: Yup, I think she definitely likes him.
Jess: (Distantly.) Yeah.
(Rory returns with a silly grin on her face and goes back to her book, Lane back to her magazine. After a few seconds Jess also returns to his book, slightly "out of it".)
(Scene: Emily and Richard Gilmore sit down, alone at their table for supper. The maid serves them their food and they begin to eat.)
Emily: Lorelai called earlier.
Richard: (Cutting more meat.) What did she have to say?
Emily: That Rory was bringing that Jess fellow by next Friday for the party.
Richard: (Smiles.) He's a nice young man.
Emily: I don't like him. I don't think he's good for Rory.
Richard: Why not? I think he might have a bright future ahead of him.
Emily: He lives with his uncle because his parents couldn't take him.
Richard: (Shakes his head.) Is that the only reason?
Emily: I have a feeling about that boy.
Richard: Rory's a bright girl Emily. I spent a whole afternoon with the two golfing. They've known each other practically forever. I don't think he'd hurt her.
Emily: All this from one afternoon with the boy?
Richard: In one afternoon a lot can be said.
(The two go back to eating.)
(Scene: Rory and Lorelai are lying on Rory's bed talking. Lorelai is leaning on her side, her head resting her head against her hand.)
Lorelai: (Sadly.) My baby is sixteen.
Rory: (Yawning.) Yeah I am...
Lorelai: Ah... Sweet sixteen and never been kissed.
(Jess enters the room as she says this.)
Jess: Not necessarily.
Lorelai: (Shoots up.) What? I missed your first kiss?
Rory: Umm...
Lorelai: (Upset.)I did! When did this happen? With who?
(Jess raises his hand. Lorelai looks at Rory questionably.)
Rory: Well...see we kind of started experimenting one day. Mrs. Kim caught us the first time and, well...then when Lane was let out of the house again we both took turns kissing Jess.
Lorelai: (Shocked.) You guys were what ten?
Jess: Thirteen. After all of those romance movies we decided we wanted to see what all the fuss was about.
Lorelai: (Disappointed.) Still how could you not tell me?
Rory: Well, it wasn't that big of a deal.
Jess: Yeah, I mean we were just playing around.
Lorelai: Still, your first kiss? What kind of a kiss was it?
Rory: (Laughs.) A girl never kisses and tells.
(Lorelai turns and looks pleadingly at Jess.)
Jess: (Backs out of the room.) Some things are better left unknown.
(Scene: Lane, Rory and Jess enter the diner and approach the counter.)
Rory: ...yeah and she gave me our annual little 'how I was born talk.'
Jess: I knew there was a reason I came later this morning.
Luke: Wrong table.
Lane: (To Jess.) Wrong table? (Jess shrugs in response.)
Rory: (Confused.) Since when is there a right or wrong table?
Luke: Since the coffee I baked along with the stupid balloons I blew up are on that table over there. (Points to the table.)
Rory: You made me coffee cake?
Jess: (Amused.) You blew up balloons.
Luke: Five second.
(Jess shakes his head and walks away to the table with Lane.)
Rory: Thank you Luke!
Luke: Happy Birthday.
(Rory goes over and joins Lane and Jess at the table. She takes a piece of the cake and begins to eat it.)
Lane: So, the party at your grandparents tonight?
Rory: (Groans.) Don't remind me. I'm going to have to talk to people that I've avoided talking to since I started at Chilton.
Jess: And I'm being dragged along.
Lane: What did your mom say about all this?
Rory: I didn't tell her. She and Grandma were getting along.
Lane: Lorelai won't be happy about this.
Jess: I really wish I didn't have to go to this thing.
Rory: Well to bad. You're stuck. Mom already told them you were coming.
Jess: Yeah, yeah, I know.
Rory: Anyway tomorrow we'll have the real Stars Hollow bash.
Lane: (Grins and raises her mug.) To tomorrow!
Rory/Jess: Here, here!
(The clink their mugs together and take a sip of their coffee, all grinning.)
(Scene: Lorelai, Rory and Jess sit in the parked car in front of the Gilmore mansion. Lorelai grabs her purse and exits the car. Rory unbuckles her seatbelt and climbs into the backseat with Jess.)
Rory: (Whines.) I don't want to go.
Jess: Tough luck.
Rory: Couldn't we just sit in here all night?
Jess: Don't you think they'll miss you in there.
Rory: Half of them don't even know I exist.
Jess: I mean your grandparents.
Rory: Oh. (Beat.) I still don't want to.
Lorelai: (Pulls open the back door.) Hey you two. Party's inside.
(Rory groans and the two slide out of the car and approach the front door. Lorelai rings the doorbell and the door swings open. The three enter the house.)
Emily: (Brightly.) Hello girls, Happy Birthday Rory. (Then coldly to Jess.) Oh, hello.
Jess: (Mumbles to Rory.) Maybe the car wasn't such a bad idea.
(The three follow Emily into the living room where there is a group of adults. Lorelai starts to mingle while Rory and Jess stand there.)
Jess: (Looking around.) Wow, people at that school of your don't age well do they?
Rory: (Glares at Jess.) This is the decoy. I'm not supposed to know of the tons of kids I don't know that are here for my birthday.
Jess: (Nods slowly.) Right.
(Emily approaches them.)
Rory: (Whispers.) And so we begin.
Emily: Rory, there's a group of your friends in the library. Why don't you come and say hi.
Rory: (Murmurs to Jess.) I'd rather not. (Putting on a fake smile.) Sure, I'd love to.
(Rory and Jess follow Emily into the library. A bunch of Chilton kids are standing around bored.)
Rory: I've got to go the bathroom.
Emily: Just go in and say hi first. Jess can hold those for you.
(Jess leans against door frame looking around. Rory turns to leave.)
Rory: Paris?
Paris: My parents made me come.
Rory: Oh God!
Paris: Otherwise I wouldn't be here. You believe me right?
(Rory shakes her head and walks past Paris.)
Jess: I believe you. I would rather be anywhere but here right now.
Paris: (Turns to Jess confused.) Who're you?
(Jess doesn't respond instead he walks away to find Rory. He spots her trying to get rid of Tristan.)
Jess: (Approaches them.) Hey, I've been looking for you everywhere.
Rory: (Turns to face Jess.) Jess! Hi!
Tristan: Oh, it's you again.
Jess: Aw, not happy to see me again?
Rory: Jess, come on let's go find my mom.
Tristan: He gets to meet your mother and I don't. Now, Rory that's telling me something, I'm hurt.
Rory: (Walking away.) Shut up Tristan!
(As the Rory and Jess walk away they see Emily coming right towards them. Jess and Rory quickly turn around and walk the other way. They quickly enter a room.)
Jess: (Turns on the light.) Well, this is fun!
Rory: (Jumps into the bed and lies down.) God, I can't take this!
Jess: (Lies down next to Rory.) Want to go back out there and give them something to talk about?
Rory: (Turns her head so she's facing Jess.) I think Paris is available.
Jess: Nah, that girl is totally into Tristan.
Rory: How can you tell?
Jess: The way that she was watching him as he talked to you.
Rory: She can have him! I just want to go home.
Jess: Well Dorothy, grab your ruby slippers and let's find Glenda.
Rory: Did you just make a reference to The Wizard of Oz?
(Jess is about to answer when Lorelai enters the room.)
Lorelai: Hey kiddos hiding from my mother?
Rory: (Rory sits up and nods.) Yeah.
Lorelai: Why didn't you tell me about this?
Rory: You two were getting along so well.
Jess: And didn't want to mess things up. So, she insisted to put herself and me through this torture.
Lorelai: (Sits on the end of the bed.) Rory it shouldn't have mattered that your grandmother and I were getting along. She was out of line doing this without asking you first. You shouldn't keep stuff like this from me.
Rory: I'm sorry.
(Lorelai crawls over on the opposite side from Jess and lies next to Rory who is now in the middle.)
Lorelai: I used to hide in here all the time.
Rory: What was your last birthday here like?
Lorelai: Well, I fought with them and was lying in here just like you are now.
Rory: What did you fight about?
Lorelai: Well, I was pregnant.
Rory: Oh, that. (Silence.) So, Jess if I'm Dorothy and my mom's Glenda who does that make you?
Lorelai: What?
Jess: Nothing.
Rory: Jess made a reference to The Wizard of Oz before you found us. I quote "Well Dorothy grab your ruby slippers and let's find Glenda."
Lorelai: (Mocking.) Aww...Jess thinks I'm pretty like Glenda!
Jess: I never said you were Glenda.
Rory: You implied it.
Lorelai: (Mimicking Rory.) Yeah, you implied it!
Jess: Fine! Whatever! I should know by now. You can't win with a Gilmore.
(Lorelai and Rory grin triumphantly.)
Lorelai: I'll drink to that!
Jess: I wasn't toasting anything.
Rory: No, but you just admitted that a Gilmore is always right.
Lorelai: And neither you nor Luke ever admits it. So, it calls for a drink.
Rory: (Gets up.) We'd better go back out there. The faster we do the faster we can get out of here.
Jess: Can't we just climb out the window?
Lorelai: Wouldn't be half the fun.
(The three exit the room and rejoin the party.)
(Scene: Rory sits on a chair with a huge long pink boa around her neck and a 'Happy Birthday' crown. Jess and Lorelai sit next to her and Lane stands behind her as she rips open her present. It's an i-book.)
Rory: (Joyfully.) Thank you mom! I love it.
Lorelai: I knew you would. It's blue.
Jess: Yeah, yeah and it has a handle. Open mine now!
(Rory and the other guests laugh. Rory takes the present from Jess and rips open the paper. It's a pile of CDs and books. Rory files through them.)
Rory: I love you!
Jess: I know.
(Rory gets up and hugs Jess, Lorelai and Lane as Sookie enters the room carrying a huge cake.)
Sookie: Coming through. Lady with cake here people please move!
(Sookie slips the cake with Rory's face on it onto the table. Everyone sings happy birthday. Rory blows out the candles with the help of her mom. Everyone applauds and Sookie hands Rory a knife.)
Rory: It feels weird cutting into my own head.
Jess: If it didn't I would be worried.
(The door bell rings and everyone is quiet for a second.)
Lorelai: It's a party get your asses in her. (Throws open the door.) Mom, Dad hi.
Rory: Grandma! Grandpa!
Jess: (Mumbles.) Oh man!
(A few minutes later Sookie rushes out of the kitchen.)
Sookie: (Hysterically.) We're out of ice!
Lorelai: How can we be out of ice?
Sookie: I don't know. There's no ice left.
Jess: (Holds up his drink.) That would be my fault.
(Luke enters with packages of ice.)
Lorelai: Oh my god! I love you! Sookie, we have ice!
Sookie: Hallelujah.
Lorelai: How'd you know?
Luke: (Shrugs.) You can never have too much ice (Sees Rory, Jess and Lane) Hey guys.
Jess: Hey Uncle Luke.
Rory/Lane: Hey Luke!
(Emily approaches Lorelai and Luke and they begin to talk a while then Luke goes into the kitchen with the ice. There's a time lapse and we see Babette, Morey, and Miss Patty amongst other townies sitting around in the living room. Rory is seated on Jess' lap and Lane is on the floor in front of them. Lorelai is standing with coffee in her hands and Emily is sitting in a chair near Lorelai.)
Babette: Oh, Morey, do you remember when Rory thought the old tree stump was a fairy ring.
Morey: I sure do.
Jess: As do I.
Babette: How was she then, sugar?
Morey: I think about ten.
Babette: Oh, she was so cute sitting out there everyday with Jess and her peanut butter sandwich waiting for the fairies to get hungry.
Jess: I got hungry and ended up eating the sandwich.
Morey: She got so mad at you.
Rory: Okay, new story please.
Miss Patty: I'm still crushed beyond belief that she quit her dance lessons.
Jess: Not me.
Lorelai: Or me. She used to prance around here twenty four hours a day.
Jess: Crashing into everything including Lane and me.
Rory: And I still stunk.
Lane: I can vouch for that.
Jess: As can I.
(Emily leaves the room and Lorelai follows her. The others continue to talk.)
Lane: I remember one time Rory and Jess had the brilliant idea of going swimming in the lake.
Rory: In the middle of September.
Babette: You three were sick as dogs for two weeks.
Miss Patty: And Taylor pulled a big fit at the town meeting about how we need to keep better watch on our kids.
Morey: He attacked Lorelai and Luke blaming them for not watching over you kids better.
Rory: (Laughing.) We were what, eleven?
Babette: I remember Luke came back and forth between the diner and your house all week.
Lane: I tried to sneak out of the house by the widow but I was too weak to make it all the way down the tree.
Jess: You missed school and extra week because you got even sicker.
Rory: (Getting up.) I'm going to go check up on my grandfather.
(Rory gets up and leaves leaving Jess and Lane alone with the townies.)
Lane: (Whispers to Jess.) She's gone to look for him.
Jess: Wonder why he didn't come.
Lane: He probably will, later.
Jess: I'm going to go out there.
(Jess gets up and leaves. Lane continues to reminisce about past times between the three of them. Time lapse. Lorelai is standing at the sink and Jess enters the kitchen with a handful of dirty plates followed by Lane. Music is still playing the background and the house looks a mess.)
Jess: Now, this was a party.
Lorelai: I totally agree. The whole thing with my parents wasn't all too pleasant.
Lane: Well, I hear it was better than last night's.
Jess: I'll vouch for that.
Lorelai: (Notices Rory's absence from the group.) Hey, where's Rory?
(Lane shrugs as she put down her plates and goes back into the living room. Jess remains in the kitchen.)
Jess: (Points out the window.) There.
Lorelai: (Sees Rory and Dean standing outside talking.) Oh.
(There's silence between the two as they watch Dean and Rory.)
Jess: That's Dean. He's tall, floppy haired and also the new bagboy for Doose's.
Lorelai: How long have then been...you know...together?
Jess: I don't know if it's really official.
Lorelai: Oh, alright.
(They watch Dean tie the bracelet on Rory's arm. Dean and Rory smile at each other and Lorelai frowns.)
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A/N: I'm sorry it took so long to write out. My mind was battling over how this was supposed to go. I wanted to do Rory's birthday party because it is inevitable that she did turn sixteen. Anyway, I'm going to start going into more "original" episode because I've been getting some great ideas on what's going to happen next. Review and tell me whether you like this chapter or not...
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