Title: Maybe Family 26/?
Author: Christen (purplehaysc@netscape.net) and if you want a quick response from meaning during the week email me at (23405@sjamail.net)
Disclaimer: these characters belong to Gilmore Girls except any characters you do not recognize
Distribution: Take it, but let me know. If you have any of my other fics, go ahead.
Comments: email me all you comments and suggestions. This is my second Gilmore Girls Fan fiction. I also write Friends. So well hope you like it
"Jess?" Rory asked as she walked into the kitchen.
"Want some food?" Jess asked from the table.
"Did you cook it?" Rory asked.
"I put it in the toaster after I took it out of the wrapper. But I don't think that counts as cooking." Jess said as he pushed a pop tart towards her.
She sat down in the chair. "Did you make any…" She started to ask.
"No, I know how picky you are about your coffee so I left that to you." Jess said finishing her sentence.
"Thanks, that was pretty smart because if it would of tasted bad, we probably wouldn't let you live here." Rory said smiling.
"Thanks for the warning, I'll stay away from it." Jess said as he smiled back at her. "Rory…" He started to say.
"Jess…" She said at the same time. Rory laughed. "You won't to go first or should I?" Rory asked.
"I should." Jess said a little nervously. "If that's ok with you, I mean."
"Yeah, that's fine." Rory said as she took a bite of her pop tart.
"Ok, well Rory I don't know what just happened. Maybe you were still asleep and it was by accident. I don't know. But what I do know is, you're about to be my cousin, we're going to have to live together…" Jess started to say.
"I know…" Rory started to say.
"Let me finish." Jess said.
"Sure, go ahead." Rory said.
"Ok, well you kind of know what my life in New York was like. It wasn't good. But life here is and Luke and your mother getting married seems right. Rory, this is the only chance I have at having a good life for once…"
"And being with me wouldn't be a good life?"
"I don't know, maybe if my uncle wasn't marrying your mother than it might be but they are marrying each other and we will be living together and this, you and us. It can't happen."
"I thought it already did."
"Rory… I care about you ok? But I'm not going to screw up the one chance I have to be part of a real family for once in my life. You've got to understand that."
"Yeah I do but…."
"Rory, please this is hard enough, ok? You were right last night when you said sis and our house sound good. It sounds perfect and I've never had perfect before please don't try to make me give it up." Jess begged.
"I won't um… Jess I've got to get ready for school." Rory said getting up.
"Ok, I'll walk you to the bus stop." Jess offered.
"That would be nice." Rory said as she headed to her room and tried to hold her tears in until she was alone.
"I hope this is the right thing to do." Jess said as Rory closed the door to her room. "Because I really like her."
Paris walked into her first hour classroom and closed the door. She had time to kill and needed it. She needed to breath, vent and cry. She couldn't stand the way she was feeling, the anger she had towards her mother and the feeling of being alone she had thinking her father would never return. She had thought her parents were always going to be together. It sounded naïve to think that in a time when divorce was more common that long lasting marriages, to believe that any two people would stay together. But she did any way and it hurt her to think that her parents weren't ever going to get back together. Paris was shocked when she heard the door to the room open. She turned around quickly.
"Oh I'm sorry, I didn't think anyone would be in here." Tristan said.
"Yeah me either." Paris said.
"Well I'll go…" Tristan said as he started to leave.
"No don't!" Paris said quickly.
Tristan came back in. "Why not?" He asked suspiciously.
"I was just wondering what you were doing here."
"I go here, remember?"
"Yeah but you never get here this early."
"Either do you, I think." Tristan said not sure.
"I don't, hey why don't you sit down? I mean as long as we're the only two people here at school."
"Ok." Tristan said sitting down. "I guess in case the principal wants to accuse me of doing anything wrong, I've got a witness."
"Yeah, true. So you still haven't told me what you're doing here." Paris pointed out.
"Right, well I got into a fight with my parents this morning and I split."
"Well at least you still have both of your parents."
"Last time I checked that wasn't a good thing." Tristan said sarcastically.
"Well I'd give anything if my parents were still together."
"That's right I forgot about what happened."
"It's ok, I'm glad people have because it was horrible people were all talking about it behind my back."
"Yeah, that must have been hard."
"You don't know the half of it but now people are talking about my mother and her gentlemen callers, people just don't let up sometimes you know?"
"Well don't pay any attention to these people, they're just trying to look for interesting gossip so they don't have to accept how boring their own lives are. It really has nothing to do with you."
"Yeah I'd like to believe that."
"You should, it's true."
"Ok well that's enough of talking about me, let's talk about you now. What was your fight about with your parents?"
"Just typical things, you know my father's trying to control my life and my mother just lets him."
"Let me guess he does it because he doesn't want you to screw it up?" Paris asked sarcastically.
"How did you know?"
"Your father and my mother must have read the same book: How to keep your teenager from screwing up their life: The guide to controlling a teenager's life."
Tristan laughed. "They should write a book: How to keep you parents from screwing up your life: the guide to controlling a controlling parent."
Paris laughed.
Lorelai walked into the kitchen where Sookie was cooking. "Hey Sookie." Lorelai said smiling.
"You're late and you're happy, let me guess Luke." Sookie said trying not to look at her.
"We spent most of the morning just… just being happy." Lorelai said smiling.
"Oh… um good for you." Sookie said as she kept trying what she was cooking.
"Sookie, is something wrong?"
"Why would there be any thing wrong? My best friend just got engaged."
"But something is wrong. What is it Sookie? It is you and Jackson?" Lorelai asked worried.
"No Jackson and I are fine."
"Then what's wrong? I thought you'd be happy."
"I am, I told you I was." Sookie said getting mad.
"But I don't believe you."
"Of course you don't." Sookie said sarcastically.
"Sookie please tell me what's wrong." Lorelai begged.
"Fine! Ok I'm upset because and don't laugh but I guess I'd always thought I'd be your maid of honor."
"Oh, well Sookie, you are."
"What?"
"You and Rory are my maids of honor."
"You didn't say that last night." Sookie pointed out.
"I thought I did. Look I'm sorry but I asked Rory first because I saw her first. Plus Jess is probably going to be Luke's best man and it just made sense for Rory to be my maid of honor but that doesn't mean I don't want you to be to. You just may have to walk down the aisle alone."
"I'm fine, with that I really am." Sookie said smiling.