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The Trouble With Kids
Chapter 4: An encounter in the bathroom and an alliance is formed…
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[42nd street café]
Rory, Jules, and Drew made
their way into their favorite lunch stop in the entire city. It had had a
classy, expensive, traditional look to it, but if one walked up the spiral
staircase to the area of the café reserved for 'special customers' you could
find a whole wall lined with arcade games and 3 walls covered with large
windows offering a panoramic view of the city. . The DuGrey children and their
parents were definitely special customers. As soon as they walked in Kristen, a
brown haired-brown eyed waitress appeared on the scene and shrieked.
"ROMEO AND JULIET!!! I'm guessing
you guys want the table upstairs overlooking the ever-lovely Central Park? And the usual, 3
hamburgers with fries hold the ketchup on one, 1 coke, and 2 coffees, am I
right?" the lively waitress bubbled.
"You know us way too well, Kris." Rory exclaimed.
Drew, Jules, and Rory raced upstairs although Rory got left behind, her heels
not quite ready to run up stairs. By the time she was up Drew and Jules had
already attacked the arcade, but Rory made her way to the bathroom. Once there
she pulled off her sunglasses and stared at her reflection. Her eyes were red
rimmed and her eye makeup was ruined. She blotted them with a tissue took out a
compact applied some powder and reapplied her eyeliner and mascara. As she was
putting some lip-gloss on, another woman walked through the door. She had
blonde hair, brown-eyes and a pretty face that was ruined by the shocked look
on her face.
"Rory?" she whispered.
"PARIS?!?!" Rory exclaimed.
"Oh my god! You look awesome Ror!
Where is your troublesome twosome?" Paris immediately said
enveloping her friend in a hug. During the Chilton years they had developed a
tentative friendship, and both of them were way too stubborn to admit how close
they really were. Tristan and Rory had even named Paris and Lane godmothers to
the twins.
"They are supposed to be out there.
You look great! Is Jess here with you?" Rory said referring to Paris's black knee-length
skirt, powder blue dress shirt, and bad-boy husband.
"No Ror, I left him locked in
his cage at the zoo." Paris sarcastically remarked
flipping her long blonde hair over her shoulder.
"I see he's been rubbing off
on you." Rory said and they made their way out the door. Jules and Drew were
still busy playing a game, but now a dark haired man was with them battling it
out.
"Juliette Lorelai DuGrey and
Andrew Romeo DuGrey, I can't believe you have totally ignored one of your godmothers." Paris chastised.
"Aunt Paris! When we saw Uncle
Jess we knew you had to be lurking
around here somewhere." Drew said good-naturedly.
"Lurking? What am I, a stalker or your favorite aunt?" Paris exclaimed with mock
hurt.
"Well first of all, Aunt Lane is our favorite aunt,
and who knows about the stalker thing. Mom and dad did say you were pretty
freaky during high-school…" Jules supplied.
"Pretty freaky, eh, Gilmore? And
Jess since when do you stand by and
watch when your wife is being harassed by two 13-year-olds?" Paris huffed crossing her
arms over her chest.
"Well, sorry Paris but I spoke
only the truth." Rory said trying to muffle a laugh.
"Well honey, I'm going to have
to agree with Jules here. In high school you were a total headcase…" Jess said. Paris gasped rather loudly
and began to stomp towards her husband.
"Why you…" Paris began but Jess pulled
her into a kiss.
After breaking the kiss he
said, "And that's why I absolutely adore you!"
"No public displays of
affection between old people! Ewie! That's gross! We don't
want to see that!" Drew and Jules said pretending to barf.
"I see they also possess the
maturity you and Tristan had when you found out we were dating. Well, kids you
should've seen your mom and dad in high school. Now that was just plain
disgusting! They would have these tonsil-hockey sessions in front of the entire
Chilton population. And even during
class they'd be all touchy feely!" Paris stated.
"Were not Paris! You and Jess made out
in front of all of Stars Hollow and on top of Luke's counter! I couldn't even
sit there after that incident! EWE!" Rory replied sticking her tongue out. They started to
fight over who was more disgusting and Jules, Drew, and Jess just sighed and
went over to a table and began to talk. Kris brought their food up and Rory
just grabbed her coffee and resumed her public display of friendship with Paris.
"So how's it going kiddies?"
Jess asked the twins.
"Kiddies? Uncle Jess we are 13!"
Drew stated.
"Oh what a wonderful age…"
Jess replied.
"We should tell him, Drew."
Jules whispered to her brother.
"Tell me what?" Jess asked.
"Nothing." Drew answered glaring
at his sister.
"Uncle Jess, we want to get
mom and dad back together." Juliette whispered so her mother wouldn't hear and
returned the glare. Jess choked on his food and immediately began to cough.
"You WHAT?!?!" Jess asked loudly
enough for Rory and Paris to turn for a second before starting to fight again.
"We want Mom and Dad to get
together again. They've both been so lonely since the divorce and Jules has
this crazy idea in her head that they are still madly in love with each other."
Drew answered.
"Jules and Drew, that's sweet,
but it's been 7 years. Things have
changed. I'd love for Ror and Tristan to remarry, but I'm a little skeptical."
Jess gave the twins his opinion.
"Grams agrees
with us, her and Grandpa are helping us." Jules replied.
"She does? Wow…if Lorelai thinks so then who knows?
She knows Rory better than anyone on the face of the Earth. And Christopher
loves his daughter and has that whole father thing going. I say me and Paris
will help you guys in anyway we can. And who knows, this could be a lot of
fun." Jess replied a mischievous smile on his face.
The three leaned together and
formed a plan.
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