Going Back
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The next morning Lorelei went stomping into Rory's room around 8:30. Jess had gone home around 9:30 after the movie was over hoping to get a peak at Luke and Lorelei to see if it was true, but unfortunately Lorelei had already left and he saw her drive by in her jeep not even noticing him.
"Rory! I need coffee! Get up right now! Lorelei yelled.
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"So, Jess was over at our house last night with you all alone?" Lorelei questioned as they made their way to Luke's thirty minutes later.
"Yeah… Are you mad?"
"About you and Jess- no. About you watching Willy Wonka without me-yes; therefore, you will not have any ice cream the next time it's movie night."
"You are so unfair and so strange. How am I possibly related to you?"
"Because I gave birth to you, and because you are exactly like me."
"Except for the fact that I'm not as childish as you are."
"And I will be taking that comment in a good way, so thank you."
"You are quite welcome." They pushed open the door to Luke's and immediately Lorelei started screaming for coffee. Rory went and sat down at a table searching the diner for Jess.
"Only you know why I'm giving you this coffee, Lorelei."
"And Rory, can't forget about her." Lorelei piped.
"You told Rory about us?" Luke asked.
"Yep."
"And is she ok with it?" he questioned worriedly.
"Why wouldn't she be?"
"I don't know… I guess I thought that she would think it's weird."
"Well, actually she is quite happy. We were talking about it after I got her up this morning and she seemed thrilled."
"Oh, well that's good." About that time Jess came down the stairs.
"Where have you been Jess?" Luke questioned.
"I over slept. Don't have such a cow."
"Just get to work." Luke said frustrated.
"No, I think I'm gonna take my break now. Bye." And then he was out the door.
"Oh, no you don't. Come back here Jess." Luke ran out after him.
"Ooo goody! Rory we get to watch the diner since they both just left! We get to have fun!" Lorelei yelled over to Rory who was sitting at the table slightly disappointed that Jess didn't say hi to her, but she quickly thought that he may have wanted to meet her somewhere, that's why he left. She quickly got up and went to the door yelling back to her mom that she didn't feel like playing waitress right now and would be back later.
As Rory walked out the door she saw the diner's back door close. "Hmm. It must have been open and the wind shut it." She thought aloud. Then she went off looking for Luke and Jess, hoping that Jess would still be alive by the time she got there.
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'Good, I'm in. I thought Rory was going to catch me. At least I heard her say that she thought it was the wind so she won't think anything about it. Few.' Dean thought to himself. Last night when Jess was out- he didn't know where- and Luke was outside walking Lorelei to her jeep he snuck in and took $100.00 out of the cash register. It was all apart of his plan to get Jess sent back to New York where he belonged. Lucky for him, Luke and Lorelei were busy outside for a while so he had plenty of time. 'I wonder how much longer until word gets around that they are going out. Miss Patty just must have not seen them or else it should be all over town.' He wondered. Dean quickly ran up the stairs and went into the apartment.
"Okay. Now which one of these drawers is Jess's?" He wondered allowed to himself. He started looking through drawers until he came to one with rock T-shirts and other stuff that he wears in it. 'This must be it.' Quickly Dean pulled out the money from last night and stuck it in Jess's drawer. 'I'm sure Luke won't be to happy when he finds out Jess stole money from him, and I'm sure Rory will be surprised.'
Suddenly he heard voices from downstairs and heard Lorelei yelling at Luke for coming back so early because she was having fun playing waitress. 'God, Lorelei is so crazy.'
Dean rushed downstairs and out the back door unseen, or so he thought. Rory was walking back to the diner since Luke insisted that Jess come back with him so she decided to come back as well. She needed coffee anyway. She saw the door slam shut and saw Dean walking away down a different street. 'What is Dean doing on this side street?' she wondered as she made her way inside the diner. Jess, seeing the confused look on her face went over to see what was wrong.
"What's wrong Rory?"
"Oh, nothing. Just worrying about school starting again soon. I really don't want to go back." She lied.
"Oh, understandable." Jess said unconvinced, but decided to leave it alone. Rory didn't want to tell him the truth because it had to do with Dean, and it was probably nothing anyway. Right?
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"Jess," Luke said, "Close up. I'm going to go cash the weekly money in the bank."
"Okay uncle Luke."
"Don't call me that" Luke said as he went to the cash register.
"Hmm, strange. Not that much money in there, and we were pretty busy this week. Any idea where the money went Jess? I'm sure you know."
"Whoa. Hang on a second. Do you think I stole the money?"
"It's not like you never stole money before."
"Look, go up and look in all my drawers. I didn't take your money."
"I will." Luke ran upstairs closely followed by Jess. He started looking through all the drawers. No money. He was just about to give up when he realized that he forgot one drawer. He opened it up and-
"Jess! How could you steal money from me? Have you no shame?" Luke hollered.
"What?!" Jess said with a confused look. He walked over and looked in the drawer and saw the money. "Luke. This isn't what you think it is." He said seriously.
"Oh yes it is. You're moving back to your mom Jess. I can't handle you anymore. I really cannot believe you did this."
"What?! You're making me move back, just as I start to like this crazy town? No way! I'm not moving back. You can't do this!" Jess screamed.
"You have no say in this. You're leaving tomorrow. I can't let a thief live with me. Now get some sleep. You're leaving early."
"No. I'm going out." And before Luke could stop him he was gone.
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Rory heard a tap on her window around 10:45. She slowly opened her eyes and walked over to the window.
"Jess, what are you doing here?" she whispered. Before he answered he kissed her with all his might. Then he let go of her and went and sat on her bed. He put his hands over his eyes, and buried his face in them. Rory could have sworn that he was crying.
"Jess, what's wrong?" she asked softly as she went and sat down beside him. She gave him a hug.
"He's making me leave." Was all Jess could manage to say.
"What do you mean?" a confused Rory asked.
"Luke is putting me on a bus for New York tomorrow."
"What? Why?"
"Because he found some money in my drawer. I don't know how it got there, honestly. He won't believe me though. He even called me a thief, Rory! My own uncle! Sure. I've never really showed people my feelings. I made them believe that I don't care what they think about me, but that hurt. I can't believe he called me that."
"Oh." Was all Rory could think of to say. She held him close to her. 'How could Luke not believe him? How did the money get in his drawer? Why is Luke sending him away?' All these questions kept running through her mind. They sat on her bed for about ten minutes. All of a sudden Rory jumped up.
"Dean!"
"What? What does he have to do with anything?"
"I saw the back door to the diner close and thought it was the wind. I also saw Dean walking down that street. He must have been the one to put the money in there!"
"You actually think Dean would do something like that?"
"Why? Don't you?"
"Yeah, just surprised that you think that Dean would do that. I'm not surprised at all."
"Yeah, well, we have to do something to make Luke believe you before it's too late. You go back home and sleep and I'll handle everything."
"Umm, ok. Bye." Jess climbed out of her window and started heading home. Meanwhile, Rory had to figure out some way to show Luke that it wasn't Jess who stole the money.
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Okay… I know its kind of not believe able, but I don't really like Dean so I kind of made him a bad guy. Sorry all you Dean lovers! Please review. Smile!