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A/N: Hey guys, sorry it took longer than I thought it would to update! I hope this chapter is as good as the other ones, there will finally be a little Rory/Jess action!! I know, took me long enough,huh? But here it is, I'm going to start with pre-ball stuff, and it will depend on how long it turns out to be if they go to the ball.If I take too much time on the before the ball stuff, I'll just push the ball to another chapter! No big deal, we'll see. ~And on with the show, or story, or whatever! Also, I'm not sure, but it's possible that Jess will fall a little OOC this chapter, but I don't want him to be too big of a jerk,considering he's going to have to meet at least one of Rory's grandparents, but just in case, wanted to warn you that it is possible.
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We walked back downstairs to the diner.
"I really cannot thank you enough for doing this." I said as we walked down the stairs.
"Well, remember me this Christmas." he smirked.
"I will." I nodded, even though he was teasing. He has got to quit smirking, he's too cute! He needs to stop, for the sake of my conscience.
We walked in the diner.
"Hey, Baby." Mom said.
I gave her a warning glare. "Hi, Mom."
"So?" Mom asked, expecting to hear we needed another plan.
"We're set." I smiled.
"What?" she asked in complete shock.
"He said he'd do it." I clarifired.
Mom just kind of went comatose. "Did you tell him about the gloves?" Dean asked.
"Yep."
"And he still agreed?" Mom asked. Do they realize he's standing right next to me?
"Yes." I said, starting to get annoyed. This is a big favor, he will NOT be treated like crap.
"Well, good." My dad said with a smile. I smiled at him. At least he's nice.
Dean looked aggravated. Mom looked like she was in shock.
"Why?" Mom finally asked.
"I just had a hankering to wear the gloves." Jess replied sarcastically.
"Translation?" Mom looked at me.
"We made a deal." I responded.
"A deal?" she asked.
"An exchange of services." Jess specified.
"Oh dear God." Mom murmured.
"Scared?" he asked.
"Terrified."
"Anyway," I cut in."he agreed."
"Yay." Dean said.
"And this is a very BIG favor and extremely last minute, so we're GRATEFUL." I said pointedly.
Jess smirked, Mom frowned,and Dad didn't have an opinionated face.
"Well, good." Dad repeated.
Mom's cell phone rang.Luke pointed to the sign, she ignored him and answered,"Hello?" she rolled her eyes,"Hi Mom."
"You're not allowed to have that in here." Luke complained.
She waved him off."Yes Mom.No....because....yes I do realize that."
"Ah, you never listen to me anyway." he grumbled,"Jess, are you supposed to be working?"
"Sorry. Can't."
I was about to speak up and volunteer to make up for the shift another day, but Luke just walked away.
"Ya sure? You'd probably rather work here than go to this thing tonight." Dean remarked.
"Geeze people, it's not Fear Factor." Jess replied.
"Yeah, but there's no fifty thousand dollar reward either." Dean said. What's he trying to do, talk him out of it?
"No, but I get a really cute co-worker." Jess said.
I smiled at him as I slightly blushed, before realizing that he said that to DEAN. "What?" Dean asked.
Then I realized it. I looked at Dean, mute.
"No!" Mom inturrupted everybody's train of thought.
Everyone stared at her.
"Because, I told you....No!...Why was there no mention of this before?" she was very unhappy.
"What's going on?" Dad whispered.
"Well...I don't care.She can skip that....I told you.No way!Mom, come on, even you-"then she realized she was practically yelling,"I'm just going to step outside."she said to us.
We watched her walk out chattering wildly into her phone.
"What was that all about?" I wondered.
"Apparently something that your mom's not in favor of." Dad said.
"Obviously." I agreed.
"Now, what was that about a co-worker?" Dean asked Jess.
Jess looked at me figuring I'd probably want to answer this one. "Uh," All eyes on me,"I'm going to help him at the diner a little bit." I explained.
"Hmm, yippee." Dean said looking more than a little annoyed.
"You don't like me very much, do you?" Jess asked him.
"Oh, you noticed?" Dean replied.
"Little bit obvious."
"Well, I hope you're not too offended." he replied sarcastically.
"Oh, I'm not. See, I don't really care for you either."
"Gee, wonder why I'm not surprised." Dean replied.
"Don't know. Maybe I'm predictable."
"Wonder what Mom's problem is." I said trying to interrupt this.
"She's pacing." Dad pointed out, but he was wearing a faint smile.
"Fast." I added.
A few minutes, and death glares from Dean to Jess, later, Mom slowly moped into Luke's.
"What's up?" I asked her.
"Your lovely grandmother left one tiny detail out."
"Out of...?" I asked.
"Telling us stuff." she said.
"Kinda figured that, we were looking for a what did she leave out." Dad said.
She looked at Dean, then me, then sighed."A fairly important detail."
"That there's a funeral afterwards?" I asked, judging from her attitude.
"I wish." she replied. "Did you know that all of the debs' escorts are their boyfriends?" she asked.
"Not seeing why that's a problem." I said, ignoring a glare from Dean.
"There's a...Dean close your ears." she grimaced.
"Now what?" he asked.
"There's a kiss." she blurted.
Oh God! Please say I'm dreaming! Jess and me? Kiss? No it wouldn't be a bad dream...except for the fact that Dean's head is very close to popping off. That's bad.
"You're kidding me?!" he asked.
"I'm not." she shook her head.
I tried to steal a glance at Jess, but he was looking at me, so he saw. We were both rather quiet.
Dad looked between Jess and Dean.
"Rory, come on." Dean said. Ah, knew this was gonna come back to me eventually.
Everybody is looking at me. "What?" Okay, that had to sound dumb.
"What do you mean what?" he snapped.
"It was the only thing I could think to say." I replied truthfully, frowning at him.
"Well, I need a little more than that." he said.
"What do you want me to say?" Geeze!
"Being your escort was one thing, but kissing you?"
I had no idea what to say. "Well, we just found out about this too!" That's all I could come up with?
"Oh, yeah, I'm sure he'll back out now." he rolled his eyes. I couldn't blame him for being mad.
"Would somebody else say something?" I asked.
Small silence. I looked at Dad, Mom, then Jess.
"Sorry, I wouldn't be able to say anything helpful." he replied.
Dean rolled his eyes. "I'm going to kill my mother for not telling you this." Mom said.
"Hate to point this out," Dad started,"But even if she would have, it wouldn't have stopped Dean's arm from breaking." Dad said. He's right.
"He has a point. Even if Grandma would have told us that, we'd be in pretty much the same place."
"She's all 'there's no way around it',so I, for once, have nothing to say." Mom said. "Sorry."
"What's wrong with you people?" Luke asked coming over to us.
"I need coffee." Mom said.
"Why? To kill your nervous system?" he asked.
"Yes. Exactly." she replied.
He rolled his eyes,"What'd someone kill your cat?" he poured her a cup.
"We don't have a cat." I said. Not like he doesn't know that.
"Now she has a voice." Mom pointed at me.
"No." Dean replied,"We just found out that Jess has to kiss Rory."
His jaw dropped."What?"
"You don't wanna know, just pour and walk away." Mom said.
"Probably the best idea, but now you've got my interest." he said.
"Remember I said I needed to ask Jess for help?" I asked.
"Yeah."
"Well, he agreed to help."I said.
"Yeah, then my mother drops the whole kiss thing on our heads." Mom explained.
"Okay, I don't understand." he said.
"That's because we're leaving out a lot of information, but we're still trying to form words and make sentences that aren't going to end lives and relationships." Mom rambled.
"Walking away now." he said.
"That's what I thought, bye now." she nodded, and took a sip of coffee.
"There has to be a way to get out of this." Dean said.
"No, doesn't seem like there is." I said.
"Could we talk about this outside?" he asked. Translation, away from Jess.
"Sure." I said. "Be right back." I said to no one in particular.
We walked outside. "How can you expect me to be okay with this?" he asked.
"Look Dean, I didn't get a say in this either."
"He cannot kiss you." he said.
I stayed silent, I didn't know what to say.
"Any comment here?" he asked angrily.
"Dean, what could I possibly say to make this better?" I asked.
"What about ' I don't want to kiss him'? Or maybe, 'This is all a huge joke, surprise'?"
"It's not a joke. He didn't get a say in this, I didn't get a say in this, those are the rules. He agreed before he knew about this and I'm sure he's only continuing to be nice, or to get the help in the diner, he probably doesn't see how this is a big thing. It's one night, I mean it's like in a play, you don't get a say in the kiss. Besides, I'm sure it will be a really quick kiss, do you know how many people are going to be at this thing? A lot. It'll be like Dad walks me down the hall or stairs or whatever, then there's like a fan dance, which should be completely humiliating and pathetic. Then Jess ushers me over, we dance , probably a quick barely noticable kiss, I mean it's not like there's going to be making out, it's just a quick welcome to society and womanhood and whatever else. My grandparents will be thrilled, it'll be over, so I too will be thrilled, then we come home, and it's over and we never ever have to think about it again." I ranted.
"Well, as great of an explanation as that was, I never in all your rambling heard you say you didn't want him to kiss you."
Speak!Rory,speak!Say something, I told myself. Nothing?
He shook his head.
"Dean, are you serious?" I finally found my voice.
"Just now, no, I was joking, of course I'm serious."
"You seriously think I want him to kiss me?" All I have to say is I don't want him to kiss me, that's all.
"Well, I don't see you denying it."
Speak.I don't have to say it in French! He turned to walk away."Of course I don't." I blurted."You are my boyfriend Dean." I'm such a LIAR! Oh my gosh! I DO want Jess to kiss me!! What's wrong with me?!
"You don't want him to kiss you? And you weren't smiling when he said you were cute?" Oh, he noticed that? Of course he noticed that. I closed my eyes."Go ahead, say I'm lying." he finished.
"I...it was...uh," What am I doing?! I barely even know Jess and I'm about to screw up my relationship?
"Talking's hard now?"
"Dean, come on,why are you doing this?" Oh, nice, blame Dean.
"Why am I doing this? ME? I'm the one doing this?"
"No, I didn't mean that. I...he caught me off guard."
"So, you really don't like Jess?" he asked. "You were just taken off guard, it was a compliment...of course you smiled. That right?" he asked.
"Yeah."
"Okay."
I stared at the ground.
"Are you ready to go back inside?" he asked.
"Yeah."
"Well, I guess I'll be going home. I'll see you there later though."
"Oh, right. You'll be there."
"Is that a problem?"
"No. Why would that be a problem?" I asked.
"I don't know, you just didn't seem very happy about it."
"Of course it's not a problem."
"So, I'll see you there?"
"Yeah. Bye."
"Bye," he kissed me, "I love you."
"Me too. Bye."
He turned to walk away.
I DO love Dean. Right? This thing with Jess, it was just a compliment, everyone loves a compliment.
"You going in?" he asked.
"Yeah, just clearing my head."
He nodded and started to leave,"Me too." he said quietly. And with that he was gone.
I sighed."Yeah, guess we do have a problem." I mumbled to myself and walked back in the door.
"Hey," Mom greeted,"Everything okay?"
"Yeah."
"Something's wrong?" she guessed.
"Nope."
"Think you can muster up a smile, if everything's okay." she said.
"Everything's...fine." I said. But everything didn't feel fine.
"Dean's not mad? You're good?"
Yeah, I'm walking on air, can't you tell."Well, that's what was said." Of course I was lying through my teeth, but there's no need to say that.
"Good, I'm glad." she gave a big smile.
"Yeah," I stole a look at Jess, "Me too."
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A/N: Okay, don't kill me!! Please put the virtual vegetables that you want to throw at me down! I was going to break them up! I swear I was! This just seemed like the more Rory thing to do, you know that's what she would have done!But I did put a little Jess/Dean interaction! The OOC-Grandparent-meeting-thing will be in the next chapter, I had more to write than I originally expected! But hey, on the bright side, she at least acknowledged that she DID want to kiss him! Please review!! Need to know what you think! I love you all!!! I hope you liked it! Push the button and throw me a line!
A/N: Hey guys, sorry it took longer than I thought it would to update! I hope this chapter is as good as the other ones, there will finally be a little Rory/Jess action!! I know, took me long enough,huh? But here it is, I'm going to start with pre-ball stuff, and it will depend on how long it turns out to be if they go to the ball.If I take too much time on the before the ball stuff, I'll just push the ball to another chapter! No big deal, we'll see. ~And on with the show, or story, or whatever! Also, I'm not sure, but it's possible that Jess will fall a little OOC this chapter, but I don't want him to be too big of a jerk,considering he's going to have to meet at least one of Rory's grandparents, but just in case, wanted to warn you that it is possible.
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We walked back downstairs to the diner.
"I really cannot thank you enough for doing this." I said as we walked down the stairs.
"Well, remember me this Christmas." he smirked.
"I will." I nodded, even though he was teasing. He has got to quit smirking, he's too cute! He needs to stop, for the sake of my conscience.
We walked in the diner.
"Hey, Baby." Mom said.
I gave her a warning glare. "Hi, Mom."
"So?" Mom asked, expecting to hear we needed another plan.
"We're set." I smiled.
"What?" she asked in complete shock.
"He said he'd do it." I clarifired.
Mom just kind of went comatose. "Did you tell him about the gloves?" Dean asked.
"Yep."
"And he still agreed?" Mom asked. Do they realize he's standing right next to me?
"Yes." I said, starting to get annoyed. This is a big favor, he will NOT be treated like crap.
"Well, good." My dad said with a smile. I smiled at him. At least he's nice.
Dean looked aggravated. Mom looked like she was in shock.
"Why?" Mom finally asked.
"I just had a hankering to wear the gloves." Jess replied sarcastically.
"Translation?" Mom looked at me.
"We made a deal." I responded.
"A deal?" she asked.
"An exchange of services." Jess specified.
"Oh dear God." Mom murmured.
"Scared?" he asked.
"Terrified."
"Anyway," I cut in."he agreed."
"Yay." Dean said.
"And this is a very BIG favor and extremely last minute, so we're GRATEFUL." I said pointedly.
Jess smirked, Mom frowned,and Dad didn't have an opinionated face.
"Well, good." Dad repeated.
Mom's cell phone rang.Luke pointed to the sign, she ignored him and answered,"Hello?" she rolled her eyes,"Hi Mom."
"You're not allowed to have that in here." Luke complained.
She waved him off."Yes Mom.No....because....yes I do realize that."
"Ah, you never listen to me anyway." he grumbled,"Jess, are you supposed to be working?"
"Sorry. Can't."
I was about to speak up and volunteer to make up for the shift another day, but Luke just walked away.
"Ya sure? You'd probably rather work here than go to this thing tonight." Dean remarked.
"Geeze people, it's not Fear Factor." Jess replied.
"Yeah, but there's no fifty thousand dollar reward either." Dean said. What's he trying to do, talk him out of it?
"No, but I get a really cute co-worker." Jess said.
I smiled at him as I slightly blushed, before realizing that he said that to DEAN. "What?" Dean asked.
Then I realized it. I looked at Dean, mute.
"No!" Mom inturrupted everybody's train of thought.
Everyone stared at her.
"Because, I told you....No!...Why was there no mention of this before?" she was very unhappy.
"What's going on?" Dad whispered.
"Well...I don't care.She can skip that....I told you.No way!Mom, come on, even you-"then she realized she was practically yelling,"I'm just going to step outside."she said to us.
We watched her walk out chattering wildly into her phone.
"What was that all about?" I wondered.
"Apparently something that your mom's not in favor of." Dad said.
"Obviously." I agreed.
"Now, what was that about a co-worker?" Dean asked Jess.
Jess looked at me figuring I'd probably want to answer this one. "Uh," All eyes on me,"I'm going to help him at the diner a little bit." I explained.
"Hmm, yippee." Dean said looking more than a little annoyed.
"You don't like me very much, do you?" Jess asked him.
"Oh, you noticed?" Dean replied.
"Little bit obvious."
"Well, I hope you're not too offended." he replied sarcastically.
"Oh, I'm not. See, I don't really care for you either."
"Gee, wonder why I'm not surprised." Dean replied.
"Don't know. Maybe I'm predictable."
"Wonder what Mom's problem is." I said trying to interrupt this.
"She's pacing." Dad pointed out, but he was wearing a faint smile.
"Fast." I added.
A few minutes, and death glares from Dean to Jess, later, Mom slowly moped into Luke's.
"What's up?" I asked her.
"Your lovely grandmother left one tiny detail out."
"Out of...?" I asked.
"Telling us stuff." she said.
"Kinda figured that, we were looking for a what did she leave out." Dad said.
She looked at Dean, then me, then sighed."A fairly important detail."
"That there's a funeral afterwards?" I asked, judging from her attitude.
"I wish." she replied. "Did you know that all of the debs' escorts are their boyfriends?" she asked.
"Not seeing why that's a problem." I said, ignoring a glare from Dean.
"There's a...Dean close your ears." she grimaced.
"Now what?" he asked.
"There's a kiss." she blurted.
Oh God! Please say I'm dreaming! Jess and me? Kiss? No it wouldn't be a bad dream...except for the fact that Dean's head is very close to popping off. That's bad.
"You're kidding me?!" he asked.
"I'm not." she shook her head.
I tried to steal a glance at Jess, but he was looking at me, so he saw. We were both rather quiet.
Dad looked between Jess and Dean.
"Rory, come on." Dean said. Ah, knew this was gonna come back to me eventually.
Everybody is looking at me. "What?" Okay, that had to sound dumb.
"What do you mean what?" he snapped.
"It was the only thing I could think to say." I replied truthfully, frowning at him.
"Well, I need a little more than that." he said.
"What do you want me to say?" Geeze!
"Being your escort was one thing, but kissing you?"
I had no idea what to say. "Well, we just found out about this too!" That's all I could come up with?
"Oh, yeah, I'm sure he'll back out now." he rolled his eyes. I couldn't blame him for being mad.
"Would somebody else say something?" I asked.
Small silence. I looked at Dad, Mom, then Jess.
"Sorry, I wouldn't be able to say anything helpful." he replied.
Dean rolled his eyes. "I'm going to kill my mother for not telling you this." Mom said.
"Hate to point this out," Dad started,"But even if she would have, it wouldn't have stopped Dean's arm from breaking." Dad said. He's right.
"He has a point. Even if Grandma would have told us that, we'd be in pretty much the same place."
"She's all 'there's no way around it',so I, for once, have nothing to say." Mom said. "Sorry."
"What's wrong with you people?" Luke asked coming over to us.
"I need coffee." Mom said.
"Why? To kill your nervous system?" he asked.
"Yes. Exactly." she replied.
He rolled his eyes,"What'd someone kill your cat?" he poured her a cup.
"We don't have a cat." I said. Not like he doesn't know that.
"Now she has a voice." Mom pointed at me.
"No." Dean replied,"We just found out that Jess has to kiss Rory."
His jaw dropped."What?"
"You don't wanna know, just pour and walk away." Mom said.
"Probably the best idea, but now you've got my interest." he said.
"Remember I said I needed to ask Jess for help?" I asked.
"Yeah."
"Well, he agreed to help."I said.
"Yeah, then my mother drops the whole kiss thing on our heads." Mom explained.
"Okay, I don't understand." he said.
"That's because we're leaving out a lot of information, but we're still trying to form words and make sentences that aren't going to end lives and relationships." Mom rambled.
"Walking away now." he said.
"That's what I thought, bye now." she nodded, and took a sip of coffee.
"There has to be a way to get out of this." Dean said.
"No, doesn't seem like there is." I said.
"Could we talk about this outside?" he asked. Translation, away from Jess.
"Sure." I said. "Be right back." I said to no one in particular.
We walked outside. "How can you expect me to be okay with this?" he asked.
"Look Dean, I didn't get a say in this either."
"He cannot kiss you." he said.
I stayed silent, I didn't know what to say.
"Any comment here?" he asked angrily.
"Dean, what could I possibly say to make this better?" I asked.
"What about ' I don't want to kiss him'? Or maybe, 'This is all a huge joke, surprise'?"
"It's not a joke. He didn't get a say in this, I didn't get a say in this, those are the rules. He agreed before he knew about this and I'm sure he's only continuing to be nice, or to get the help in the diner, he probably doesn't see how this is a big thing. It's one night, I mean it's like in a play, you don't get a say in the kiss. Besides, I'm sure it will be a really quick kiss, do you know how many people are going to be at this thing? A lot. It'll be like Dad walks me down the hall or stairs or whatever, then there's like a fan dance, which should be completely humiliating and pathetic. Then Jess ushers me over, we dance , probably a quick barely noticable kiss, I mean it's not like there's going to be making out, it's just a quick welcome to society and womanhood and whatever else. My grandparents will be thrilled, it'll be over, so I too will be thrilled, then we come home, and it's over and we never ever have to think about it again." I ranted.
"Well, as great of an explanation as that was, I never in all your rambling heard you say you didn't want him to kiss you."
Speak!Rory,speak!Say something, I told myself. Nothing?
He shook his head.
"Dean, are you serious?" I finally found my voice.
"Just now, no, I was joking, of course I'm serious."
"You seriously think I want him to kiss me?" All I have to say is I don't want him to kiss me, that's all.
"Well, I don't see you denying it."
Speak.I don't have to say it in French! He turned to walk away."Of course I don't." I blurted."You are my boyfriend Dean." I'm such a LIAR! Oh my gosh! I DO want Jess to kiss me!! What's wrong with me?!
"You don't want him to kiss you? And you weren't smiling when he said you were cute?" Oh, he noticed that? Of course he noticed that. I closed my eyes."Go ahead, say I'm lying." he finished.
"I...it was...uh," What am I doing?! I barely even know Jess and I'm about to screw up my relationship?
"Talking's hard now?"
"Dean, come on,why are you doing this?" Oh, nice, blame Dean.
"Why am I doing this? ME? I'm the one doing this?"
"No, I didn't mean that. I...he caught me off guard."
"So, you really don't like Jess?" he asked. "You were just taken off guard, it was a compliment...of course you smiled. That right?" he asked.
"Yeah."
"Okay."
I stared at the ground.
"Are you ready to go back inside?" he asked.
"Yeah."
"Well, I guess I'll be going home. I'll see you there later though."
"Oh, right. You'll be there."
"Is that a problem?"
"No. Why would that be a problem?" I asked.
"I don't know, you just didn't seem very happy about it."
"Of course it's not a problem."
"So, I'll see you there?"
"Yeah. Bye."
"Bye," he kissed me, "I love you."
"Me too. Bye."
He turned to walk away.
I DO love Dean. Right? This thing with Jess, it was just a compliment, everyone loves a compliment.
"You going in?" he asked.
"Yeah, just clearing my head."
He nodded and started to leave,"Me too." he said quietly. And with that he was gone.
I sighed."Yeah, guess we do have a problem." I mumbled to myself and walked back in the door.
"Hey," Mom greeted,"Everything okay?"
"Yeah."
"Something's wrong?" she guessed.
"Nope."
"Think you can muster up a smile, if everything's okay." she said.
"Everything's...fine." I said. But everything didn't feel fine.
"Dean's not mad? You're good?"
Yeah, I'm walking on air, can't you tell."Well, that's what was said." Of course I was lying through my teeth, but there's no need to say that.
"Good, I'm glad." she gave a big smile.
"Yeah," I stole a look at Jess, "Me too."
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A/N: Okay, don't kill me!! Please put the virtual vegetables that you want to throw at me down! I was going to break them up! I swear I was! This just seemed like the more Rory thing to do, you know that's what she would have done!But I did put a little Jess/Dean interaction! The OOC-Grandparent-meeting-thing will be in the next chapter, I had more to write than I originally expected! But hey, on the bright side, she at least acknowledged that she DID want to kiss him! Please review!! Need to know what you think! I love you all!!! I hope you liked it! Push the button and throw me a line!
