Disclaimer: Alas another Xmas has gone by and I still do not own GG. I think I need to give Santa a little more incentive ;) …wow that came off kinda slutty—oh well!
A/N: HUGE apology for taking so long getting this chapter out. I'm sorry but I've had no free time. I had school all week and then I went home to work on the weekends and then finals and now break. Even though I'm on break I'm still working 30 hours or more a week and have had 3 medical emergenices since being home. Big with the not fun. I'm going to try my best to get the next chapter out ASAP. Thank you bunches to everyone who reviewed last time. Thanks to Princess Ruby and Facetious for the awesome song suggestions! Hope everyone has a safe and happy new year!
Chapter Five: Head On Collision
"I've been waiting for a good day/I've been
holding back long enough I've been hurting to tell you some things/it's not the
falling of the temperature/that's making all our bones run cool/it's the breeze
you make
the presence felt when you're around me/and it feels like I'm at an all-time
low slightly bruised and broken/from our head on collision /I've never seen
this side of you/another tragic case of feeling/bruised and broken/from our
head on collision/I've never seen this side of you/ another tragic case" ~New
Found Glory
Rory flopped onto her bed. It had been a long day. Her meeting with Paris had been more trying than usual thanks to the added guilt due to the Tristan incident. How was she supposed to know that his Grandfather had just died? She didn't mean to set him off like that. It was just with him…whatever she was trying to say always comes out wrong. And, she admitted to herself sometimes it comes out—mean.
"Rooooory" called out Lorelai as she entered the house. It had been a long day at work and she needed to vent to someone, and of course the someone she first thought of was—"Roooooory!"
"I'm in here." Came a return shout from the bedroom.
Lorelai walked in and collapsed on her daughter's bed. "Hey babe. How was your day?"
"Confusing. Yours?"
"Tiring. I'm seriously considering doing that running away and changing our identities thing we've discussed."
Rory nodded as she rested her head on her mom's shoulder. "You got it Kiki."
Lorelai smiled. "Pack your bags Lola."
"Why do I have to be Lola?" Rory asked furrowing her brow.
"Because it has a literary reference for you and enough of a stripper tone to match my name of Kiki. Plus hello—Copacabanna."
"Oh right, got it." Rory aka Lola laughed. "So what was wrong with your day?"
Lorelai sighed dramatically, cause lets face it that really is the only way to sigh, "Well…it all started with the snotty couple in room 114. See the snooty lady with the beehive is the picky person I have ever met."
Rory snorted.
"Yeah I know I might be a little choosy at times but nothing compared to her. She had complaints about everything! From the soap to the décor, apparently the color of our rooms isn't soothing enough for her. I swear this woman makes Norma Desmond look like low-maintenance!"
Rory laughed and patted her mom on the back and said "Don't worry tomorrow is another day."
"Thanks Scarlet, darling. But frankly my dear, I don't give a damn." Lorelai headed to the kitchen to see what was leftover in the fridge. " So what happened to you today my lovely offspring?"
Rory followed her mom and proceeded to tell her about the whole Tristan encounter that had been on her mind.
"Mom stop it!" Rory commanded.
"Sorry hun, but Dean and Jess…" she was overcome by laughter again. "Please let me be the one to tell him that."
Rory fought a grin back. "Fine you can tell Jess. But only because you had a bad day."
"Oh this will make it the teeniest bit better." Lorelai said with an evil grin.
"So…"Rory said trying to prompt her mother into giving her some advice.
"What?" She took her cue from her daughters arched eyebrows and waning patient. "Oh right. Hun, just apologize tomorrow and offer your condolences. There's nothing you can do now. So you might as well put it out of your mind."
"Okay." Rory conceded, she would try, but trying didn't lead to much success.
Jess was halfheartedly swiping the counter with a dishrag that looked suspiciously like one of his Uncle's flannel shirts. He snorted, must be Lorelai's doing. Ever since they had started dating Lorelai had been subtly and not so subtly making changes around the diner and Luke's life in general. Not that Luke didn't get her back for those things, little did she know she had already eaten tofu and had decaf coffee. It was things like these that led to the loud fights and the even louder make-out, oops make-up sessions. Jess still had to fight back a blush and the urge to vomit from the one time he accidentally walked in on them. Well—he had tried to instate the sock rule way back when, not his fault that Luke didn't listen.
So when Lorelai and Rory walked into the diner, he braced himself for whatever scene was about to take place.
"Hi Honey Bunny!" sang out Lorelai.
"Don't call me that." Luke answered gruffly barely looking up from the order he was taking.
"That's not what you said last night." Lorelai quipped with a cheeky grin.
"Ew Mom!" Rory said as she bypassed her mom and Luke and went straight to the counter. "Hey Jess."
"Hey." He replied.
Rory sighed; things were still a little weird between them, since the breakup. She was tired of it, she wanted her friend back, and she just didn't know how to fix it.
"Oh god my eyes." Groaned Jess.
Rory looked up to see Lorelai and Luke exchanging a hello kiss. She smiled, as disturbing as it was; it was something that made Lorelai happy. And that made Rory happy.
She loved Luke and when him and her mom started dating she had been wary. Okay, maybe more than wary. Rory had been scared. Not because she didn't like Luke. She thought of Luke as an almost second father. But after everything that had happened, between her mom and her real dad and then Max…and then her dad again, she was tired of seeing men walk out of her life. She didn't want Luke to leave and she was afraid that if they dated and then broke up…she would have lost one more person she loved.
Instead she lost Jess. A person she had cared—and still cares a lot about. As Luke and Lorelai began to date and Rory's fears began to surface, she pushed Jess away. They began to fight over dumb stuff. And by the time Rory had realized what she had been doing it was too late. Her relationship with Jess had changed too much.
That night Jess had come over after walking in on Luke and Lorelai. He had been drinking a little bit, trying to purge the image from his mind he said. Rory, finding out about her mother and Luke having sex, flipped. I mean she knew it was a normal part of a relationship but she just had flashbacks of Lorelai and Chris…and she took it out on Jess. They got into a huge fight, screaming and, yelling things they didn't mean. And then Rory just broke down. And through the tears and the tirades she finally told Jess what had been bugging her. And he understood…well not completely, but enough to let her go. He told her that while he did love her, it wasn't the same, and she knew it. And he didn't want to end up bitter and hurt as Dean had. It had changed.
But the awkwardness still lingered.
Tristan was driving as fast as he could, he tried to look at the odometer but found it too blurry for him to see. Oh well, he thought, and pushed the pedal down farther. Out of his window he saw a large sign but once again he tried to read the writing but found it impossible to make it out. As he craned his neck to try and read it, he didn't notice the patch of black ice on the road. His car spun out. He turned the wheel hard, trying to remember from Drivers Ed what you were supposed to do in this situation. But it was too late, the car crashed into the sign and as his head hit the steering wheel he was thrown into that familiar darkness.
I know I'm a major bitch for leaving y'all with a cliffhanger but what can I say? I enjoy being evil ::hehe:: So click that little review button to leave me some feedback and I'll be typing away at the next chapter…major Trory action with Jess thrown in for good measure!
