"Rory, Rory, are you home? Where are you?" Lorelai said from the kitchen.
"I'm in my room." She answered.
"Where's your car I didn't see it in the drive."
"That's because I left in town near the market."
"Why did you and Dean have a fight?"
"Kinda, I dumped him I said that I had been thinking of dumping him and he had just been too jealous of every guy I talk to." She said refusing to cry again.
"You were thinking of dumping him? You never told me that."
"Well I wasn't seriously considering it that just came out of my mouth he was being such a I don't know jerk."
"Well guys can do that. Don't get me wrong I'm all for guys I like guys but he was getting really protective like you were property."
"He accused me of liking Jess and him "having a thing for me." Rory said.
"Maybe he does have a thing for me? He was so nice and so genuinely concerned when I arrived at the diner and in the car when I started crying" She thought
"Rory it's raining did you walk home?"
"No Jess drove me."
"Why would Jess be driving you?"
"Cuz my first instinct when I dumped Dean was to run to Luke's and Jess drove me home. Oh guess what. Luke said that I get a free danish tomorrow. Ha, Ha,"
"Meanie."
"I'm just going to go to sleep Ok." Rory said.
"Sure." Lorelai said closing the door to her daughter's room. "She has no idea how far she's fallen for Jess. Man that scares me. She's, she's not going to get pregnant at sixteen like I did no she's not." Lorelai thought.
The next morning at Luke's.
"Hi Rory. How are you?" Luke asked handing her a danish and coffee."
"Hey Stud where's mine?" Lorelai asked sweetly.
"Stud?" Luke asked. (Note there is no previous L/L action but this will be a Java Junkie)
"Yes," she said. "Do you have a problem with that?"
"Many." He responded handing her a danish and a coffee.
"Thanks Lukey." She said and he took her coffee away from her. "Nooo." She cried.
"What happened?" Rory asked.
"Luke took my coffee away because I called him Lukey." Lorelai wined.
"It's better than when you called him Duke for 2 years."
"I don't have time for this." Luke said handing back the coffee.
"Thanks she said walking back to where Rory was sitting looking at her watch.
"Oh mom I gotta go or I'll miss my bus."
"K babe. Meet ya here around 4?"
"Sure bye."
"Bye."
Lorelai walked back to the counter. "Luke."
"What?" He replied his gruffness covering his real feelings for Lorelai.
"My mom's friend Donna is having a party a week from next Friday and my mother called yesterday asking if I had a date trying to set me up and your name was the first that popped into my head when she said who. So will you go with me please, please, please with coffee on top? Wait you don't like coffee maybe carrots yea carrots, please?" she pouted.
Luke could never resist her especially when she pouted "Ok I'll go."
"Thanks so much you are my savoir I nominate you for sainthood." She said leaning over the counter to give him a peck on the cheek.
Chilton Rory's locker
"Open. Open." Rory yelled at her locker.
"Rory calm down." Paris said. They were getting along a little better since Paris had spent the
night at Rory's. "You Ok?"
"No!" she said leaning against her locker.
"Is it you and Dean?" Paris asked not sure how this friends thing was supposed to work.
There is no me and Dean."
"Dean and I." Paris corrected automatically.
"What?"
"Sorry habit."
"K. Well stop it around me."
"Alright. He dumped you or you dumped him?"
"I dumped him. But that's not the big problem. I think I might really, really like Jess.",
"Saying it aloud makes it so much more real." Rory thought.
"Wow you really like Jess?"
"Yea I think I do. Well we should get to class."
"Did you hear, Tristan's coming back."
"When."
"Next Wednesday."
"Wow. Six days." Rory said as they headed to class.
At Luke's after school.
"Hi Luke." Rory said as she walked into the diner.
"Sorry Ror but Luke's not here if you'd rather talk to him I'll go upstairs and get him."
"No Jess I'll talk to you you're kinda interesting, you don't deny me coffee and you're cuter
than Luke."
"You think I'm cute." He asked teasingly. "Wow she thinks I'm cute she thinks I'm cute." he was
chanting in his head
"I said cuter than Luke but yea you're kinda cute." "Wow did I really say that to his face? Yea I
know he's cute well actually he's hot but to tell him. What was I doing?" Rory thought.
"Good to know I'll file that away in my head for future torture or I'll tell your mom and
torture you now." Jess said as Lorelai walked in to the diner.
"Tell me what?" Lorelai asked.
"That your daughter thinks I'm cute." He responded
"You said that?" Lorelai said to her daughter. "I thought all male hotness ratings had to be
discussed with me first. But now that you mention it he's Ok but definitely not near as hot as
Tristin." Rory just looked at her mother and smiled.
"Who's this Tristin you keep talking about and comparing me to?"
"Only the hottest bad boy at Chilton." Lorelai said.
"And you know this how?" Jess asked looking worried.
"I don't I haven't seem all the bad boys of Chilton."
"OK. Rory tell me she's joking. Please."
"Yes but he is hot." "What is getting into me I don't go around telling guys they're hot and
that other guys are hot." Rory thought.
"Ok too much information over share."
"Bring it on."
"What?"
"Over share that was from bring it on."
"I can't believe you know this. How do you know this?"
"Well you know how Mrs. Cameron likes to show irrelevant movies last class Friday after noon
she showed bring it on and Lane and I rented it."
"Oh I remember that. Hour after hour the two of you "be aggressive B-E aggressive." Lorelai said
"Hey we were mocking don't mock the mocking."
"Fine." She replied. "Now I gotta go."
"Why?" Lorelai asked
"Homework from hell."
"Oh dam that hell."
"Hell?" Jess asked.
"Chilton." The Gilmore girls said in unison.
"Mom, I need to talk to you later really important." Rory said.
"What about?" Lorelai asked.
"Something that happened at Madeline's party."
"Madeline's party? Wasn't that over a year ago?"
(Note I don't know if Lorelai knows Rory kissed Tristin in the show but she does here.)
"Yea but what happened at Madeline's party?" Rory said hinting for her mother.
"Madeline's party. Wasn't that after the starlight festival? After you went to the
junkyard? Ohhh." Lorelai said clueing in.
"Yea. So we'll talk about it later." She said leaving Luke's.
Jess looked at Lorelai "Junkyard?"
"Yea Dean showed her the frame of her car on their three month anniversary before breaking up
with her." Lorelai said and with that she turned and exited Luke's.
Luke came down and saw Lorelai saying goodbye to Jess they were actually talking and getting
along.
"What was that about?" he asked Jess.
"Rory thinks I'm hot and she has to talk to Lorelai about a party that happened after Dean
broke up with
her the first time. We also discussed hell and a guy named Tristan."
"Bible-boy?"
"Who?"
"Tristan he called her Mary."
"Like the virgin Mary?"
"Yea."
At the Gilmore house
"So what about the EVIL-ONE (evil sexy hot must I go on)(dun, dun, dun)?"
"He's back." She mumbled.
"Could you repeat that just a little clearer?"
"HE'S BACK." Rory yelled.
"And you're mad about this why????"
"I don't know I just it's just I don't know."
"You like him?"
"Maybe. Yes. But I'm scared he's gonna end up being the king of Chilton again and I can't deal
with being another conquest for him I'm not some floozy he can parade around in front of his
'cool' friends. After that they can laugh at me when my heart gets invested in him and he
breaks it I won't stand for that."
"I think that your heart is already invested in him if you've been putting that much thought
into it."
"But I think that I like Jess too it's weird I just can't get either of them out of my mind.
Both of them are turning into one person with me I mean I know you don't approve of Jess but
he's so much like me that it's funny we love to read and we like the same music we're similar
but not so similar that we bore each other. Tristin he's exciting and fun and I never know what's
happening with him and I'm really scared about choosing either one of them.
My baby's in love but with two guys?' "Which one do you like better?" Lorelai asked.
"I don't know I really like them both I'm going to bed," she said walking away.
'I hope you figure it out soon' Lorelai thought 'real soon'