Stay With Me - Chapter 3
"Decisions, Decisions"
Disclaimer: I don't own Gilmore Girls, and I don't make money off of this fic.
A/N - This fic is set in the summer between junior and senior year. Sorry for the confusion!
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..::Gilmore House - 7:30pm::..
(RORY just finished talking with JESS. She leaves her room to find LORELAI in the kitchen, fooling around with the stove.)
RORY: (catching LORELAI in the act) What are you doing?
LORELAI: (startled and turning her back to the stove) Whoa, hey. Uh, who? Me? (trying to look innocent) Nothing.
RORY: Your messing with the stove.
LORELAI: Stove, what? (looks over her shoulder) Oh, this thing! Nooo, I just dropped my (stuttering)… um, thing… on it… and I'm trying to find it.
RORY: (skeptically) Your thing?
LORELAI: Yes. My thing.
RORY: (crosses her arms) What thing would that be?
LORELAI: My thing! You know… my uh, my earring! Yes. My earring fell onto the stove. Now, I'm trying to look for it, thank you very much.
RORY: Riiight. You're trying to cook something.
LORELAI: No!
(RORY stares at her for a little while, and LORELAI caves.)
LORELAI: Ok! Fine! I'm trying, or I was trying, to learn how to work it… (turns back around, turning all switches to off) Geez, don't you have school or something?
RORY: It's summer. (sitting down at the kitchen table) So why the sudden urge to cook?
LORELAI: (sighing) Luke made fun of me.
RORY: Again?
LORELAI: Aaagain.
RORY: Aw my poor baby!
LORELAI: Yea, but now (throws her hands in the air) I give up! It's just to confusing. I officially leave all the cooking to Luke.
RORY: Probably best for all of us.
(LORELAI grabs two Cokes from the refrigerator and sits down beside RORY.)
LORELAI: (struggling to open her soda) So, who where you talking to on the phone?
RORY: Oh, it was…
LORELAI: (finishing her sentence) Jess?
RORY: (blushing) Yea…
LORELAI: Why do you call him so much?
RORY: (opening her Coke) Because he's my friend.
LORELAI: You don't call Dean that much.
RORY: Yea, but I see him way more than I see Jess.
LORELAI: (unsatisfied) Well, ok, whatever you say.
(RORY is bouncing her leg and tapping her Coke, its obvious she wants to tell LORELAI something but is reluctant to. LORELAI takes it upon herself to ask.)
LORELAI: Rory, hun, something you want to ask me?
RORY: (unconvincingly) Oh, no, nothing.
LORELAI: (seriously) Rory.
RORY: Actually… I kinda need to tell you something more than ask you.
LORELAI: (not sure if she should be worried) Um, ok, shoot.
RORY: You can't be mad.
LORELAI: You know, that's quite possibly the worst way to start a conversation…
RORY: It's about Jess.
LORELAI: Hm, I was wrong.
RORY: (ignoring LORELAI) He's getting evicted.
LORELAI: Aw no, really? Poor kid.
RORY: (sheepishly and avoiding eye contact) And I told him he could stay here.
LORELAI: (shocked) You what?!
RORY: (quickly) Just until he gets enough money to move back!
LORELAI: (getting up) Ohh no. No, no, no, no!
RORY: (getting up after her) Mom!
LORELAI: Rory! What the hell were you thinking? You don't just take someone, especially someone like Jess, in like that without evening asking me first!
RORY: But I thought you'd understand.
LORELAI: Why can't he go to Luke's?
RORY: (lying) Luke said he wouldn't take him back, and that he needs to be more responsible. Mom c'mon, you out of all people should know what it's like to need a place to stay!
LORELAI: Rory, that was different, I was 16 with a kid not 18 with an inferiority complex.
RORY: (begging) Mom, please…
LORELAI: Wow Ror, I can't believe you. (pause) Call him.
RORY: (confused) What?
LORELAI: Call him now, and tell him he can't come.
RORY: No.
LORELAI: Excuse me?
RORY: Mom it's to late now, he's already packing and getting kicked out at 8! Which is, 15 minutes from now.
LORELAI: (unable to believe whats going on) You… this… I've gotta get out of here.
RORY: No, Mom, don't leave like this…
(LORELAI grabs her purse and quickly walks out the front door. She gets in her Jeep and begins on her way to LUKE's. RORY sits down on the couch, wondering what to do and obviously upset.)
..::Luke's Diner - 7:50pm::..
(LORELAI enters and promptly sits down at the counter. She's eyeing LUKE while he serves his customers, then he walks over to her.)
LUKE: Hey, coffee?
LORELAI: (sharp tone in her voice) Don't act like you don't know what you just did.
LUKE: (confused) What the hell?
LORELAI: You knew he'd talk to Rory, and you knew she'd offer to take him in. You're the 'guardian' Luke! Not me, and certainly not Rory!
LUKE: Are you on something?
LORELAI: So what am I supposed to do now?
LUKE: You could start with explaining with the hell your talking about.
LORELAI: (frustrated) Jess; Luke! I'm talking about Jess!
LUKE: (just as frustrated) Ok, but what about Jess?
LORELAI: About, how, you won't take him back and now he's staying with us!
LUKE: (almost dropping the coffee pot) What?!
LORELAI: (her anger fading) Oh… you didn't know?
LUKE: No, Lorelai, I didn't know!
LORELAI: (shaking her head) So that means Rory lied to me. That damn kid hasn't even moved in yet and he already has her lying to me!
LUKE: (confused) He's moving in?
LORELAI: (ignoring LUKE) Or, Jess lied to Rory who unknowingly lied to me!
LUKE: When did this happen? I mean, he called for money but…
LORELAI: (still ignoring LUKE) That little punk!
(LORELAI gets up quickly and heads for the door, determined to meet JESS at the house and give him a piece of her mind.)
LUKE: (yelling after her) Hey! Lorelai!! Explanation? Apology?? (looks down at the ½ drunken coffee) Money!?
..::Gilmore House - 8:00pm::..
(LORELAI pulls in the driveway and sees JESS walking along the grass towards her house. She quickly gets out and he stops when he see's her, not sure if RORY told her about the situation or not. LORELAI sits down on the steps and waves JESS over. He comes and sits down beside her, but at a distance.)
LORELAI: Jess.
JESS: Lorelai…
LORELAI: (pause) You can't stay here.
JESS: (confused) Okay?
LORELAI: I mean, maybe, at the beginning you could have but you've already lied.
JESS: I have?
LORELAI: Yes! You have! I talked to Luke, and he didn't even know you called Rory.
JESS: I didn't.
LORELAI (shocked and pointing) Ah… wha… another lie!
JESS: She called me.
LORELAI: Ugh, Jess… you told Rory that Luke wouldn't take you back in.
JESS: No, I didn't.
LORELAI: Well, that's what Rory told me. Your saying she lied?
JESS: Seems that way.
LORELAI: Rory doesn't lie to me.
JESS: Ok, then she didn't.
LORELAI: But you just said she did.
JESS: No, YOU said she did.
LORELAI: Jess… (sighing) But you swear you didn't tell her Luke wouldn't take you in?
JESS: Cross my heart, hope to die.
LORELAI: Because I can go right inside that house and ask her myself.
JESS: Be my guest.
(LORELAI eyes JESS before stomping up the porch steps and into the house. JESS stays seated, and decides to wait until someone either comes and gets him, or tells him to leave.)
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A/N - Hey! Ok, please tell me if you liked it or not. It really means a lot to me! Anyways, next chapter will be Lorelai confronting Rory and the final decision on whether or not Jess gets to stay. Stay tuned and R&R! Thanks!
"Decisions, Decisions"
Disclaimer: I don't own Gilmore Girls, and I don't make money off of this fic.
A/N - This fic is set in the summer between junior and senior year. Sorry for the confusion!
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..::Gilmore House - 7:30pm::..
(RORY just finished talking with JESS. She leaves her room to find LORELAI in the kitchen, fooling around with the stove.)
RORY: (catching LORELAI in the act) What are you doing?
LORELAI: (startled and turning her back to the stove) Whoa, hey. Uh, who? Me? (trying to look innocent) Nothing.
RORY: Your messing with the stove.
LORELAI: Stove, what? (looks over her shoulder) Oh, this thing! Nooo, I just dropped my (stuttering)… um, thing… on it… and I'm trying to find it.
RORY: (skeptically) Your thing?
LORELAI: Yes. My thing.
RORY: (crosses her arms) What thing would that be?
LORELAI: My thing! You know… my uh, my earring! Yes. My earring fell onto the stove. Now, I'm trying to look for it, thank you very much.
RORY: Riiight. You're trying to cook something.
LORELAI: No!
(RORY stares at her for a little while, and LORELAI caves.)
LORELAI: Ok! Fine! I'm trying, or I was trying, to learn how to work it… (turns back around, turning all switches to off) Geez, don't you have school or something?
RORY: It's summer. (sitting down at the kitchen table) So why the sudden urge to cook?
LORELAI: (sighing) Luke made fun of me.
RORY: Again?
LORELAI: Aaagain.
RORY: Aw my poor baby!
LORELAI: Yea, but now (throws her hands in the air) I give up! It's just to confusing. I officially leave all the cooking to Luke.
RORY: Probably best for all of us.
(LORELAI grabs two Cokes from the refrigerator and sits down beside RORY.)
LORELAI: (struggling to open her soda) So, who where you talking to on the phone?
RORY: Oh, it was…
LORELAI: (finishing her sentence) Jess?
RORY: (blushing) Yea…
LORELAI: Why do you call him so much?
RORY: (opening her Coke) Because he's my friend.
LORELAI: You don't call Dean that much.
RORY: Yea, but I see him way more than I see Jess.
LORELAI: (unsatisfied) Well, ok, whatever you say.
(RORY is bouncing her leg and tapping her Coke, its obvious she wants to tell LORELAI something but is reluctant to. LORELAI takes it upon herself to ask.)
LORELAI: Rory, hun, something you want to ask me?
RORY: (unconvincingly) Oh, no, nothing.
LORELAI: (seriously) Rory.
RORY: Actually… I kinda need to tell you something more than ask you.
LORELAI: (not sure if she should be worried) Um, ok, shoot.
RORY: You can't be mad.
LORELAI: You know, that's quite possibly the worst way to start a conversation…
RORY: It's about Jess.
LORELAI: Hm, I was wrong.
RORY: (ignoring LORELAI) He's getting evicted.
LORELAI: Aw no, really? Poor kid.
RORY: (sheepishly and avoiding eye contact) And I told him he could stay here.
LORELAI: (shocked) You what?!
RORY: (quickly) Just until he gets enough money to move back!
LORELAI: (getting up) Ohh no. No, no, no, no!
RORY: (getting up after her) Mom!
LORELAI: Rory! What the hell were you thinking? You don't just take someone, especially someone like Jess, in like that without evening asking me first!
RORY: But I thought you'd understand.
LORELAI: Why can't he go to Luke's?
RORY: (lying) Luke said he wouldn't take him back, and that he needs to be more responsible. Mom c'mon, you out of all people should know what it's like to need a place to stay!
LORELAI: Rory, that was different, I was 16 with a kid not 18 with an inferiority complex.
RORY: (begging) Mom, please…
LORELAI: Wow Ror, I can't believe you. (pause) Call him.
RORY: (confused) What?
LORELAI: Call him now, and tell him he can't come.
RORY: No.
LORELAI: Excuse me?
RORY: Mom it's to late now, he's already packing and getting kicked out at 8! Which is, 15 minutes from now.
LORELAI: (unable to believe whats going on) You… this… I've gotta get out of here.
RORY: No, Mom, don't leave like this…
(LORELAI grabs her purse and quickly walks out the front door. She gets in her Jeep and begins on her way to LUKE's. RORY sits down on the couch, wondering what to do and obviously upset.)
..::Luke's Diner - 7:50pm::..
(LORELAI enters and promptly sits down at the counter. She's eyeing LUKE while he serves his customers, then he walks over to her.)
LUKE: Hey, coffee?
LORELAI: (sharp tone in her voice) Don't act like you don't know what you just did.
LUKE: (confused) What the hell?
LORELAI: You knew he'd talk to Rory, and you knew she'd offer to take him in. You're the 'guardian' Luke! Not me, and certainly not Rory!
LUKE: Are you on something?
LORELAI: So what am I supposed to do now?
LUKE: You could start with explaining with the hell your talking about.
LORELAI: (frustrated) Jess; Luke! I'm talking about Jess!
LUKE: (just as frustrated) Ok, but what about Jess?
LORELAI: About, how, you won't take him back and now he's staying with us!
LUKE: (almost dropping the coffee pot) What?!
LORELAI: (her anger fading) Oh… you didn't know?
LUKE: No, Lorelai, I didn't know!
LORELAI: (shaking her head) So that means Rory lied to me. That damn kid hasn't even moved in yet and he already has her lying to me!
LUKE: (confused) He's moving in?
LORELAI: (ignoring LUKE) Or, Jess lied to Rory who unknowingly lied to me!
LUKE: When did this happen? I mean, he called for money but…
LORELAI: (still ignoring LUKE) That little punk!
(LORELAI gets up quickly and heads for the door, determined to meet JESS at the house and give him a piece of her mind.)
LUKE: (yelling after her) Hey! Lorelai!! Explanation? Apology?? (looks down at the ½ drunken coffee) Money!?
..::Gilmore House - 8:00pm::..
(LORELAI pulls in the driveway and sees JESS walking along the grass towards her house. She quickly gets out and he stops when he see's her, not sure if RORY told her about the situation or not. LORELAI sits down on the steps and waves JESS over. He comes and sits down beside her, but at a distance.)
LORELAI: Jess.
JESS: Lorelai…
LORELAI: (pause) You can't stay here.
JESS: (confused) Okay?
LORELAI: I mean, maybe, at the beginning you could have but you've already lied.
JESS: I have?
LORELAI: Yes! You have! I talked to Luke, and he didn't even know you called Rory.
JESS: I didn't.
LORELAI (shocked and pointing) Ah… wha… another lie!
JESS: She called me.
LORELAI: Ugh, Jess… you told Rory that Luke wouldn't take you back in.
JESS: No, I didn't.
LORELAI: Well, that's what Rory told me. Your saying she lied?
JESS: Seems that way.
LORELAI: Rory doesn't lie to me.
JESS: Ok, then she didn't.
LORELAI: But you just said she did.
JESS: No, YOU said she did.
LORELAI: Jess… (sighing) But you swear you didn't tell her Luke wouldn't take you in?
JESS: Cross my heart, hope to die.
LORELAI: Because I can go right inside that house and ask her myself.
JESS: Be my guest.
(LORELAI eyes JESS before stomping up the porch steps and into the house. JESS stays seated, and decides to wait until someone either comes and gets him, or tells him to leave.)
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A/N - Hey! Ok, please tell me if you liked it or not. It really means a lot to me! Anyways, next chapter will be Lorelai confronting Rory and the final decision on whether or not Jess gets to stay. Stay tuned and R&R! Thanks!