Chapter 4: Town Charity Week
Lorelai is sitting on the couch staring into space. She has big bags under her eyes from not sleeping. In the kitchen the table has been shoved to
the side and all of the chairs are stacked on top of it, along with the
plates and scraps from last nights dinner.
Rory: Hey, Mom. Lorelai: (shaking awake from her trance) Where have you been? I called your cell like twenty times before I realized that it was in the car. Then I called every hotel in Hartford before calling Deans house, only to find out that he came home last night, and he was not home to tell me where you were.
Rory: After much pleading with Mrs. Kim I was able to sleep over Lane's house. And you said not to come home last night, and I thought I was risking it by coming home at ten this morning.
Lorelai: That was before Luke went to the hospital and moved in and Jess went to Military school,
Rory: What? Slow down and start from the beginning.
Lorelai: Luke came over for dinner and to talk and for some odd reason decided to eat a hamburger, and then ate half of mine before going to find real food in the cabinets, and he passed out. So I freaked, and called an ambulance. They took him to the hospital and found out that his stomach could not properly digest the meat because he had apparently been a vegetarian for twenty years and he had a severe case of food poisoning, which I blamed on my cooking to protect the diner.
Lorelai gasps for breath.
Rory: Yeah, you just stop talking for a sec, and breathe. So let me get this straight. Luke ate one and a half hamburgers, is a vegetarian and got food poisoning. So why did he move in and why did he send Jess to military school?
Lorelai: The doctors pumped his stomach, but it was already in his blood stream, so it did not do much good. I begged the doctor to release him because he hates hospitals so much, but it was very hard because he is in a 'febrile disillusioned' state.
Rory: Breathe!
Lorelai: (takes another big breath and starts up again) Then Jess got into trouble again last night so I asked Taylor to watch him for a wile.
Rory: Taylor? You asked Taylor? You know how much Taylor hates Jess. Why did you ask Taylor?
Lorelai: Well the other options were Miss Patty and Kirk. I would not have sent my worst enemy to live with either of them. Well, upon reflection, maybe I would have sent my mother... So when Taylor volunteered I said, Okay. Jess wasn't there an hour before, unbeknownst to me; Taylor had called Liz, got her permission, and put him on a train. Destination: Military School in North Carolina. The same place that Tristan went to, apparently.
Rory: So what did Jess do this time?
Lorelai: He dumped a bucket of paint in the mailbox at the post office. There was an emergency town meeting early this morning when Taylor took him. They decided to make this week, Town Charity Week. The main charities that the town is supporting are "Send Jess to Military school", "Train the next Generation to Defend America", "Keep Youth in School", "Prevent Teen Violence in Small-town America" and "The Doose McDonald House".
Rory: I'm guessing that they are all funding for Jess to go to military school.
Lorelai: You guessed correctly. Taylor even volunteered to donate 15% of all the profits from the market to the sponsored charities, and encouraged others to do the same.
Rory: Wow, he's really going all out, huh?
Lorelai: Yeah. So what did you do last night?
Rory: Well, we went to Hartford, went to dinner, caught a movie.
Lorelai: You did not do as I hinted at last night, right? Right?!? RIGHT!!?!!?!!?!! Answer your mother when she asks you a question!
Rory: No Mom. Geez. I told you I spent the night at Lane's. We did not even consider it.
Lorelai: Good.
Rory: When was the last time you checked on Luke?
Lorelai: Good idea. (Gets up and is halfway up the stairs)
Rory: Oh, Mom, with Jess gone and Luke upstairs, is the dinner closed?
Lorelai: No. Sookie is running it for him. And Kirk starts working there Monday. I had the hardest time convincing Sookie not to redecorate.
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Ok, I know that is a lot of info to digest in one chapter, but their whole world is changing awful fast. Please Review A lot.
Also, I do not know how factual all of the medical stuff is. I just made it up. Though I would imagine if I ate a hamburger and a half I would not be seeing the outside of my bathroom for a very long time. (I have been a vegetarian for 12 years.)
Lorelai is sitting on the couch staring into space. She has big bags under her eyes from not sleeping. In the kitchen the table has been shoved to
the side and all of the chairs are stacked on top of it, along with the
plates and scraps from last nights dinner.
Rory: Hey, Mom. Lorelai: (shaking awake from her trance) Where have you been? I called your cell like twenty times before I realized that it was in the car. Then I called every hotel in Hartford before calling Deans house, only to find out that he came home last night, and he was not home to tell me where you were.
Rory: After much pleading with Mrs. Kim I was able to sleep over Lane's house. And you said not to come home last night, and I thought I was risking it by coming home at ten this morning.
Lorelai: That was before Luke went to the hospital and moved in and Jess went to Military school,
Rory: What? Slow down and start from the beginning.
Lorelai: Luke came over for dinner and to talk and for some odd reason decided to eat a hamburger, and then ate half of mine before going to find real food in the cabinets, and he passed out. So I freaked, and called an ambulance. They took him to the hospital and found out that his stomach could not properly digest the meat because he had apparently been a vegetarian for twenty years and he had a severe case of food poisoning, which I blamed on my cooking to protect the diner.
Lorelai gasps for breath.
Rory: Yeah, you just stop talking for a sec, and breathe. So let me get this straight. Luke ate one and a half hamburgers, is a vegetarian and got food poisoning. So why did he move in and why did he send Jess to military school?
Lorelai: The doctors pumped his stomach, but it was already in his blood stream, so it did not do much good. I begged the doctor to release him because he hates hospitals so much, but it was very hard because he is in a 'febrile disillusioned' state.
Rory: Breathe!
Lorelai: (takes another big breath and starts up again) Then Jess got into trouble again last night so I asked Taylor to watch him for a wile.
Rory: Taylor? You asked Taylor? You know how much Taylor hates Jess. Why did you ask Taylor?
Lorelai: Well the other options were Miss Patty and Kirk. I would not have sent my worst enemy to live with either of them. Well, upon reflection, maybe I would have sent my mother... So when Taylor volunteered I said, Okay. Jess wasn't there an hour before, unbeknownst to me; Taylor had called Liz, got her permission, and put him on a train. Destination: Military School in North Carolina. The same place that Tristan went to, apparently.
Rory: So what did Jess do this time?
Lorelai: He dumped a bucket of paint in the mailbox at the post office. There was an emergency town meeting early this morning when Taylor took him. They decided to make this week, Town Charity Week. The main charities that the town is supporting are "Send Jess to Military school", "Train the next Generation to Defend America", "Keep Youth in School", "Prevent Teen Violence in Small-town America" and "The Doose McDonald House".
Rory: I'm guessing that they are all funding for Jess to go to military school.
Lorelai: You guessed correctly. Taylor even volunteered to donate 15% of all the profits from the market to the sponsored charities, and encouraged others to do the same.
Rory: Wow, he's really going all out, huh?
Lorelai: Yeah. So what did you do last night?
Rory: Well, we went to Hartford, went to dinner, caught a movie.
Lorelai: You did not do as I hinted at last night, right? Right?!? RIGHT!!?!!?!!?!! Answer your mother when she asks you a question!
Rory: No Mom. Geez. I told you I spent the night at Lane's. We did not even consider it.
Lorelai: Good.
Rory: When was the last time you checked on Luke?
Lorelai: Good idea. (Gets up and is halfway up the stairs)
Rory: Oh, Mom, with Jess gone and Luke upstairs, is the dinner closed?
Lorelai: No. Sookie is running it for him. And Kirk starts working there Monday. I had the hardest time convincing Sookie not to redecorate.
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Ok, I know that is a lot of info to digest in one chapter, but their whole world is changing awful fast. Please Review A lot.
Also, I do not know how factual all of the medical stuff is. I just made it up. Though I would imagine if I ate a hamburger and a half I would not be seeing the outside of my bathroom for a very long time. (I have been a vegetarian for 12 years.)