Hey everyone, sorry I haven't updated in awhile. Thanks for all the
encouragement with this story! (
The world of the Gilmore Girls belongs to Amy Sherman-Palladino!
Length of Time Chapter 14
"Ms. Gilmore!" Nurse Lady's voice echoed in the hall, as Luke scurried to get his laces untied, and then tied again, on separate shoes.
The voice also broke into Lorelai's thoughts, or rather her intense lack of thought and panic of emotions and she looked up to see the nurse hurrying at her.
"I didn't give you a wheelchair so you could go traipsing all over the hospital, bothering poor old patients and walk whenever you feel like it. If you had waited one more minute, I would have wheeled you around the floor so you wouldn't be bored in the room all day," Nurse Lady scolded, bringing the wheelchair behind Lorelai and helping the overwrought patient into it. Lorelai could not stop staring straight ahead, at nothing, and could not manage words even to joke with Nurse Lady. She was not actually looking at anything, but inside, all Lorelai could see was that... that kiss.
Luke was standing again, by now, having fixed his laces, and was realizing that he was starting to get flushed. With the nurse scolding them, and him having fallen, he was very embarrassed. He figured it was embarrassment that was causing his cheeks to feel hot, but he could not get his mind off the events of a minute earlier, which he also suspected may have had something to do with it. He was completely shaken.
"Mr. Danes, did you hear me?" Nurse Lady asked a very dazed Luke. He was shaken from his thoughts and looked over to the nurse, who had her hands on Lorelai's wheelchair, while Lorelai continued to stare ahead, practically catatonic.
"I'm sorry," he finally managed to say to the nurse, indicating that whatever she said, he hadn't heard.
"I just said that I have to give Ms. Gilmore some shots, and then you can visit her, but not for too long, okay?"
Luke swallowed, not looking down at Lorelai, not feeling capable of looking down at her just then. "Um, yeah. That... that is fine. I..... I..... I'm just gonna wait over----"
And before he could finish, he was muttering to himself, heading to the waiting room.
"Ah Sadie!" Millie's voice was heard, and Lorelai blushed even more, turning to see the old woman heading toward her. She thought this could not get any more embarrassing. Luke turned, and noticed the woman heading toward them, and he furrowed his eyebrows, now more confused than ever.
"Sadie, I just----" Millie stopped and looked at a confused Luke who unknowingly was touching his lips with a few fingers, still clearly in shock. "Is this Lu-Ken---Bill?" Millie asked coyly and mockingly, sending a smile at Lorelai that implied it was payback time for Lorelai's bothering her earlier.
"Uh......." Lorelai started, as a smiling Millie was wheeled away.
"Who's Sadie?" Luke asked. "And what's a Lukenbil?"
"She's from the mental ward... I mean, really. She thinks my name is Sadie!" Lorelai said quickly, clearly flustered, as Nurse Lady just rolled her eyes and shook her head. She then wheeled Lorelai back into her room, leaving a very confused Luke behind.
Luke walked over to the waiting area, speechless and shocked. He sat down and stared straight ahead, thinking.
"Did Lorelai just kiss me?" "What do they have her on?" "Did Lorelai just kiss me?" "Who was that woman? And who is Sadie?" "Did Lorelai just kiss me?"
He just sat there, thoughts racing madly through his mind, but while his millions of thoughts were all jumbled, his mind's eye could only see one thing: the kiss. That heart-stopping, gut-wrenching, mind-blowing kiss that made the world spin. He couldn't figure it out. He'd kissed many women before, he was thinking, but... this. It was just different. With her, he knew it would be, if it ever happened. But he didn't expect quite this effect. This kiss made his world, which had always seemed a little off its axis, finally right itself. Everything around him seemed hazy and out of focus, yet he'd never seen things so clear in his life before. He noted the anxious butterfly feelings in his stomach, and the fact that his heart still hadn't resumed a normal pace and he, despite the shock he was in, smiled at the perfection of that moment. A moment he prayed he would get to experience again.
And at Yale----
Rory was smiling as she walked out of her first Journalism class at Yale. She knew her professor was the type of woman who would inspire her and make her work hard, and she was very excited about it. She had a few free hours before another class, so she headed out to the courtyard and found a nice, secluded and quiet place on the grass, where she sat and opened her notebook. She started writing blissfully and quickly, pouring all her inspired thoughts onto the blank sheets, when she stopped, looking up. She grabbed her cell phone and dialed the number for the hospital.
"Can I be connected to Lorelai Gilmore's room please?" she said politely into the phone.
And at the hospital----
Lorelai jumped at the sound of the phone ringing. She was safely in her bed now, safely out of arm's reach of Luke, so as to not make a fool of herself again in front of him, she thought. The nurse was giving her medications and shots, and picked up the phone, handing it to a jumpy Lorelai.
"Yes?!" Lorelai said into the phone, too eagerly to be passed as normal.
"Mom?" Rory asked, from the campus. "What's wrong? You sound like you're.... I don't know, visiting with Grandma or something. You're all nervy-sounding."
"No, no, oh it's much worse! My dear girl, don't ever grow up to be like your old lady. I am officially crazy! Maybe it WAS the coffee, or, or the Fake Coffee, or the loss of my daughter, best friend and lifeline to Yale, crazy pretentious institution, maybe it was Millie, who still thinks my name is Sadie, or, or maybe I just cracked up, truly cracked up, like in the 'Hi, I'm Lisa Marie Presley, and I'm gonna marry Michael Jackson' kind of way....or-----"
"Mom!" Rory shouted, growing anxious just listening to her rant. "WHAT are you talking about? And who is Millie? And who is Sadie? And what's Fake Coffee? And what does Elvis's daughter have to do with any of it?"
"She thinks I'm Sadie, and she thinks Luke is Bill," Lorelai said calmly, as if that explained everything.
"I see," Rory said, giving her mother a chance to get to the point.
"Millie.. you know, I think she has powers, like maybe she's a witch or something, because I NEVER would have... could have... I mean, I just couldn't have gotten up the nerve to...... oh and Nurse Lady..... yeah you with the needle, don't think you didn't have something to do with my sudden come-on of absolute insanity."
"Oh mom, leave poor Nurse Lady alone. Haven't we all tortured her enough in the past two days?" Rory said, in an attempt to calm the raving Lorelai.
"Oh, Rory, you naïve girl, you. You have no idea what this woman has started. It was a big chain reaction type of thing, like Dominoes. Yes, my life has become a big Dominoes game. First she tells Luke that I said, in a state of unconscious delusion that I love him----"
"Wha----"
"----and then she tells ME that I said that. And then she tells me that she told HIM that. Yes, this woman keeps NOTHING to herself-----"
Rory listened, wide-eyed, fearing what might be next. The nurse just looked skyward, whistling, while still administering the medication.
"----and then I set off to see Millie on my ride---"
"Your ride?" Rory interjected, very confused now.
"Yeah, my set of wheels," Lorelai said matter-of-factly.
"Oh, of course, your set of wheels," Rory said.
"----and she said 'kiss him and you'll see' and all this other, let's just call it 'crap', and then I did it... I saw Luke and I walked VERY slowly over to him and I----"
"You didn't," Rory said, stunned now.
"I did."
"You kissed Luke."
"I kissed Luke!" Lorelai said, starting to really panic now, causing the nurse to become a little worried over her agitation.
"Mom!" Rory let out a stunned half-laugh, disbelieving of the whole scenario.
Lorelai didn't say anything, she just nodded in agreement with Rory's shock, clutching the phone in a way that made her knuckles turn white.
"How was it?" Rory asked after a few moments, softly.
Lorelai held back a few tears that she hadn't before even been aware were there, welling up in her eyes, threatening to pour over. "It was unbelievable," she said, shocked by this, more than the kiss itself, her voice barely audible.
Rory let out a small breath and smiled. "Wow" was all she managed to say.
"Exactly," Lorelai said in the phone.
"I mean, I'm not sure I understand what happened, but I think I got the basics. There were a few names in there that I didn't recognize, but I got the important stuff. You said you loved Luke and then you kissed him," she said, still trying to wrap her mind around it, herself.
"I..." Lorelai immediately starting panicking again, a million thoughts going through her mind.
"Mom, calm down. This sounds like a good thing. An unexpected, surprising, shocking, plot-twist, but a good thing, nonetheless," Rory said, attempting to comfort her mother. "Wow. Luke."
"Yeah, Luke, that's just it! I.. he's my friend. One of my best friends!"
"Well, mom, that's a good thing too. Romances based on friendships are the best kinds," Rory said, looking at her notepad, starting to mindlessly scribble on it.
"Sure, sure, but what if he doesn't want romance? I just kind of forced the kiss on him! I mean, I grabbed him and kissed him! The poor guy didn't see it coming, he just thought I was being crazy, off-kilter, and that there was something wrong with me, I mean all he did before I kissed him was keep asking if I was okay, like mentally, I could tell, more than because I was walking like I had a fifty pound weight on each foot----"
"Mom, take a deep breath."
"I just kissed him, catching him completely, and by that I mean FULLY, ENTIRELY, and WHOLEHEARTEDLY off guard!"
Rory smiled. "Did he kiss you back?" she dared ask.
"Uh.." Lorelai wracked her brain. The whole thing was a fantastic blur and she couldn't quite remember everything about it, especially now that some of those medications were kicking in. She was definitely feeling 'woozy'. She thought back to the kiss as she remembered it. It was sort of long, definitely sweet, and made her legs do that jello-thing, rendering her dizzy, unable to support herself, light-headed, and completely dazed afterward. She smiled, knowing with certainty that it was an amazing kiss and that "he kissed back," which she admitted out loud to Rory.
"Well, now, see? He didn't have to. You can't force a person to kiss back. I mean, kissing by definition----"
"Please, honey, no definitions," Lorelai said, holding her head now.
"Well it takes two," Rory settled for saying. She looked up from her spot on the ground to the people in the distance also in the courtyard, sitting on either benches or the grass, or walking with friends. She smiled as she continued scanning the crowd and talking to her mother. She couldn't help smiling, thinking it was a really beautiful scene, this nice fall day, and the fact that on this perfect day, her mother was FINALLY seeing what everyone else had seen for so long.
"Right, but he might have just felt bad. I mean, I used all my energy to wobble over there to do that, he couldn't just not participate, plus I just had surgery, plus he had only just yesterday sort of insulted me, and found out I overheard that, and discovered I was missing, and then in the hospital, all very good things which might make him feel bad for me, making him feel the need to go along with----"
"---what insult?"
"Oh, not now, I'll tell you when I see you. One crisis at a time, honey."
"Got it," Rory said.
"Not that that was a crisis, I mean we worked it out. And Nicole! I mean, he only just broke up with her yesterday----"
"He broke up with Nicole?"
"I thought you subscribed to the Stars Hollow paper, Rory, I mean, keep up! I cannot be your source for all the town gossip!"
Rory just smiled at her mother's nerves, thinking this whole thing so innocent and cute. She doodled more on her notepad and continued looking at the crowd, thinking about how sweet it was that these two great people, and best friends, had finally crossed the romance threshold.
Her eyes stopped on a familiar figure and she squinted. Jess. He was sitting a ways away on the grass, reading, also alone. She put her head back down, immediately, feeling suddenly like she was eavesdropping on him or something.
"And his decision to break up with Nicole was sort of rash, so maybe he is now thinking more logically and has decided that he wants to be with her after all. And then he comes to see me and I go and do this. I mean, he was just coming as a friend to see how I am, and I ruin that whole thing, and now he probably feels like this horrible person, like he cheated on her or something, when this is in fact all my fault, and oh wow, this is big---- "
"Not really mom. I mean, it doesn't have to be. Boy meets girl. Boy kisses girl. They live happily ever after. Happens all the time. It actually can be quite easy. Although with you, I don't think anything could ever really be 'easy', and Luke WOULD be the first person to point that out, but still.. it doesn't have to be quite the quarter-life crisis you're making it out to be---"
"---quarter-life? Oh, you're sweet, honey," Lorelai said, clearly emotional now.
"What is Nurse Lady giving you?" Rory found herself looking up again at Jess. She noticed a pretty red-headed girl approaching him, talking to him. She looked down again, immediately, noting a small pang of something in her stomach. She tried to dismiss the feeling, but found it causing her to continue to glance up at the chatting pair.
"Oh, honey, Nurse Lady is done, and says she's going to 'send Mr. Danes in'" Lorelai said, imitating the nurse in the same flighty voice. She shuddered and took a deep breath.
"Okay, but mom, calm down. Don't throw this whole thing away because you're freaking out. If I know Luke, he's freaking out too."
"Yeah. Well," Lorelai said, the panic in her growing again.
"Feel better, and relax, okay? I will call you later, after my last class."
"Okay, honey. I love you."
"Love you too, mom. Bye."
"Bye," Lorelai said nervously.
At Yale----
Rory turned off her cell phone and after a moment looked back at Jess again. She nearly jumped out of her skin when she noticed that not only was the redhead gone, but he was looking at her too. They both looked away, with that hand-caught-in-the-cookie-jar look of embarrassment on their faces. Rory turned her attention to her doodles on her notepad, and jumped yet again when she saw one word she had scribbled quite clearly. "Jess."
The world of the Gilmore Girls belongs to Amy Sherman-Palladino!
Length of Time Chapter 14
"Ms. Gilmore!" Nurse Lady's voice echoed in the hall, as Luke scurried to get his laces untied, and then tied again, on separate shoes.
The voice also broke into Lorelai's thoughts, or rather her intense lack of thought and panic of emotions and she looked up to see the nurse hurrying at her.
"I didn't give you a wheelchair so you could go traipsing all over the hospital, bothering poor old patients and walk whenever you feel like it. If you had waited one more minute, I would have wheeled you around the floor so you wouldn't be bored in the room all day," Nurse Lady scolded, bringing the wheelchair behind Lorelai and helping the overwrought patient into it. Lorelai could not stop staring straight ahead, at nothing, and could not manage words even to joke with Nurse Lady. She was not actually looking at anything, but inside, all Lorelai could see was that... that kiss.
Luke was standing again, by now, having fixed his laces, and was realizing that he was starting to get flushed. With the nurse scolding them, and him having fallen, he was very embarrassed. He figured it was embarrassment that was causing his cheeks to feel hot, but he could not get his mind off the events of a minute earlier, which he also suspected may have had something to do with it. He was completely shaken.
"Mr. Danes, did you hear me?" Nurse Lady asked a very dazed Luke. He was shaken from his thoughts and looked over to the nurse, who had her hands on Lorelai's wheelchair, while Lorelai continued to stare ahead, practically catatonic.
"I'm sorry," he finally managed to say to the nurse, indicating that whatever she said, he hadn't heard.
"I just said that I have to give Ms. Gilmore some shots, and then you can visit her, but not for too long, okay?"
Luke swallowed, not looking down at Lorelai, not feeling capable of looking down at her just then. "Um, yeah. That... that is fine. I..... I..... I'm just gonna wait over----"
And before he could finish, he was muttering to himself, heading to the waiting room.
"Ah Sadie!" Millie's voice was heard, and Lorelai blushed even more, turning to see the old woman heading toward her. She thought this could not get any more embarrassing. Luke turned, and noticed the woman heading toward them, and he furrowed his eyebrows, now more confused than ever.
"Sadie, I just----" Millie stopped and looked at a confused Luke who unknowingly was touching his lips with a few fingers, still clearly in shock. "Is this Lu-Ken---Bill?" Millie asked coyly and mockingly, sending a smile at Lorelai that implied it was payback time for Lorelai's bothering her earlier.
"Uh......." Lorelai started, as a smiling Millie was wheeled away.
"Who's Sadie?" Luke asked. "And what's a Lukenbil?"
"She's from the mental ward... I mean, really. She thinks my name is Sadie!" Lorelai said quickly, clearly flustered, as Nurse Lady just rolled her eyes and shook her head. She then wheeled Lorelai back into her room, leaving a very confused Luke behind.
Luke walked over to the waiting area, speechless and shocked. He sat down and stared straight ahead, thinking.
"Did Lorelai just kiss me?" "What do they have her on?" "Did Lorelai just kiss me?" "Who was that woman? And who is Sadie?" "Did Lorelai just kiss me?"
He just sat there, thoughts racing madly through his mind, but while his millions of thoughts were all jumbled, his mind's eye could only see one thing: the kiss. That heart-stopping, gut-wrenching, mind-blowing kiss that made the world spin. He couldn't figure it out. He'd kissed many women before, he was thinking, but... this. It was just different. With her, he knew it would be, if it ever happened. But he didn't expect quite this effect. This kiss made his world, which had always seemed a little off its axis, finally right itself. Everything around him seemed hazy and out of focus, yet he'd never seen things so clear in his life before. He noted the anxious butterfly feelings in his stomach, and the fact that his heart still hadn't resumed a normal pace and he, despite the shock he was in, smiled at the perfection of that moment. A moment he prayed he would get to experience again.
And at Yale----
Rory was smiling as she walked out of her first Journalism class at Yale. She knew her professor was the type of woman who would inspire her and make her work hard, and she was very excited about it. She had a few free hours before another class, so she headed out to the courtyard and found a nice, secluded and quiet place on the grass, where she sat and opened her notebook. She started writing blissfully and quickly, pouring all her inspired thoughts onto the blank sheets, when she stopped, looking up. She grabbed her cell phone and dialed the number for the hospital.
"Can I be connected to Lorelai Gilmore's room please?" she said politely into the phone.
And at the hospital----
Lorelai jumped at the sound of the phone ringing. She was safely in her bed now, safely out of arm's reach of Luke, so as to not make a fool of herself again in front of him, she thought. The nurse was giving her medications and shots, and picked up the phone, handing it to a jumpy Lorelai.
"Yes?!" Lorelai said into the phone, too eagerly to be passed as normal.
"Mom?" Rory asked, from the campus. "What's wrong? You sound like you're.... I don't know, visiting with Grandma or something. You're all nervy-sounding."
"No, no, oh it's much worse! My dear girl, don't ever grow up to be like your old lady. I am officially crazy! Maybe it WAS the coffee, or, or the Fake Coffee, or the loss of my daughter, best friend and lifeline to Yale, crazy pretentious institution, maybe it was Millie, who still thinks my name is Sadie, or, or maybe I just cracked up, truly cracked up, like in the 'Hi, I'm Lisa Marie Presley, and I'm gonna marry Michael Jackson' kind of way....or-----"
"Mom!" Rory shouted, growing anxious just listening to her rant. "WHAT are you talking about? And who is Millie? And who is Sadie? And what's Fake Coffee? And what does Elvis's daughter have to do with any of it?"
"She thinks I'm Sadie, and she thinks Luke is Bill," Lorelai said calmly, as if that explained everything.
"I see," Rory said, giving her mother a chance to get to the point.
"Millie.. you know, I think she has powers, like maybe she's a witch or something, because I NEVER would have... could have... I mean, I just couldn't have gotten up the nerve to...... oh and Nurse Lady..... yeah you with the needle, don't think you didn't have something to do with my sudden come-on of absolute insanity."
"Oh mom, leave poor Nurse Lady alone. Haven't we all tortured her enough in the past two days?" Rory said, in an attempt to calm the raving Lorelai.
"Oh, Rory, you naïve girl, you. You have no idea what this woman has started. It was a big chain reaction type of thing, like Dominoes. Yes, my life has become a big Dominoes game. First she tells Luke that I said, in a state of unconscious delusion that I love him----"
"Wha----"
"----and then she tells ME that I said that. And then she tells me that she told HIM that. Yes, this woman keeps NOTHING to herself-----"
Rory listened, wide-eyed, fearing what might be next. The nurse just looked skyward, whistling, while still administering the medication.
"----and then I set off to see Millie on my ride---"
"Your ride?" Rory interjected, very confused now.
"Yeah, my set of wheels," Lorelai said matter-of-factly.
"Oh, of course, your set of wheels," Rory said.
"----and she said 'kiss him and you'll see' and all this other, let's just call it 'crap', and then I did it... I saw Luke and I walked VERY slowly over to him and I----"
"You didn't," Rory said, stunned now.
"I did."
"You kissed Luke."
"I kissed Luke!" Lorelai said, starting to really panic now, causing the nurse to become a little worried over her agitation.
"Mom!" Rory let out a stunned half-laugh, disbelieving of the whole scenario.
Lorelai didn't say anything, she just nodded in agreement with Rory's shock, clutching the phone in a way that made her knuckles turn white.
"How was it?" Rory asked after a few moments, softly.
Lorelai held back a few tears that she hadn't before even been aware were there, welling up in her eyes, threatening to pour over. "It was unbelievable," she said, shocked by this, more than the kiss itself, her voice barely audible.
Rory let out a small breath and smiled. "Wow" was all she managed to say.
"Exactly," Lorelai said in the phone.
"I mean, I'm not sure I understand what happened, but I think I got the basics. There were a few names in there that I didn't recognize, but I got the important stuff. You said you loved Luke and then you kissed him," she said, still trying to wrap her mind around it, herself.
"I..." Lorelai immediately starting panicking again, a million thoughts going through her mind.
"Mom, calm down. This sounds like a good thing. An unexpected, surprising, shocking, plot-twist, but a good thing, nonetheless," Rory said, attempting to comfort her mother. "Wow. Luke."
"Yeah, Luke, that's just it! I.. he's my friend. One of my best friends!"
"Well, mom, that's a good thing too. Romances based on friendships are the best kinds," Rory said, looking at her notepad, starting to mindlessly scribble on it.
"Sure, sure, but what if he doesn't want romance? I just kind of forced the kiss on him! I mean, I grabbed him and kissed him! The poor guy didn't see it coming, he just thought I was being crazy, off-kilter, and that there was something wrong with me, I mean all he did before I kissed him was keep asking if I was okay, like mentally, I could tell, more than because I was walking like I had a fifty pound weight on each foot----"
"Mom, take a deep breath."
"I just kissed him, catching him completely, and by that I mean FULLY, ENTIRELY, and WHOLEHEARTEDLY off guard!"
Rory smiled. "Did he kiss you back?" she dared ask.
"Uh.." Lorelai wracked her brain. The whole thing was a fantastic blur and she couldn't quite remember everything about it, especially now that some of those medications were kicking in. She was definitely feeling 'woozy'. She thought back to the kiss as she remembered it. It was sort of long, definitely sweet, and made her legs do that jello-thing, rendering her dizzy, unable to support herself, light-headed, and completely dazed afterward. She smiled, knowing with certainty that it was an amazing kiss and that "he kissed back," which she admitted out loud to Rory.
"Well, now, see? He didn't have to. You can't force a person to kiss back. I mean, kissing by definition----"
"Please, honey, no definitions," Lorelai said, holding her head now.
"Well it takes two," Rory settled for saying. She looked up from her spot on the ground to the people in the distance also in the courtyard, sitting on either benches or the grass, or walking with friends. She smiled as she continued scanning the crowd and talking to her mother. She couldn't help smiling, thinking it was a really beautiful scene, this nice fall day, and the fact that on this perfect day, her mother was FINALLY seeing what everyone else had seen for so long.
"Right, but he might have just felt bad. I mean, I used all my energy to wobble over there to do that, he couldn't just not participate, plus I just had surgery, plus he had only just yesterday sort of insulted me, and found out I overheard that, and discovered I was missing, and then in the hospital, all very good things which might make him feel bad for me, making him feel the need to go along with----"
"---what insult?"
"Oh, not now, I'll tell you when I see you. One crisis at a time, honey."
"Got it," Rory said.
"Not that that was a crisis, I mean we worked it out. And Nicole! I mean, he only just broke up with her yesterday----"
"He broke up with Nicole?"
"I thought you subscribed to the Stars Hollow paper, Rory, I mean, keep up! I cannot be your source for all the town gossip!"
Rory just smiled at her mother's nerves, thinking this whole thing so innocent and cute. She doodled more on her notepad and continued looking at the crowd, thinking about how sweet it was that these two great people, and best friends, had finally crossed the romance threshold.
Her eyes stopped on a familiar figure and she squinted. Jess. He was sitting a ways away on the grass, reading, also alone. She put her head back down, immediately, feeling suddenly like she was eavesdropping on him or something.
"And his decision to break up with Nicole was sort of rash, so maybe he is now thinking more logically and has decided that he wants to be with her after all. And then he comes to see me and I go and do this. I mean, he was just coming as a friend to see how I am, and I ruin that whole thing, and now he probably feels like this horrible person, like he cheated on her or something, when this is in fact all my fault, and oh wow, this is big---- "
"Not really mom. I mean, it doesn't have to be. Boy meets girl. Boy kisses girl. They live happily ever after. Happens all the time. It actually can be quite easy. Although with you, I don't think anything could ever really be 'easy', and Luke WOULD be the first person to point that out, but still.. it doesn't have to be quite the quarter-life crisis you're making it out to be---"
"---quarter-life? Oh, you're sweet, honey," Lorelai said, clearly emotional now.
"What is Nurse Lady giving you?" Rory found herself looking up again at Jess. She noticed a pretty red-headed girl approaching him, talking to him. She looked down again, immediately, noting a small pang of something in her stomach. She tried to dismiss the feeling, but found it causing her to continue to glance up at the chatting pair.
"Oh, honey, Nurse Lady is done, and says she's going to 'send Mr. Danes in'" Lorelai said, imitating the nurse in the same flighty voice. She shuddered and took a deep breath.
"Okay, but mom, calm down. Don't throw this whole thing away because you're freaking out. If I know Luke, he's freaking out too."
"Yeah. Well," Lorelai said, the panic in her growing again.
"Feel better, and relax, okay? I will call you later, after my last class."
"Okay, honey. I love you."
"Love you too, mom. Bye."
"Bye," Lorelai said nervously.
At Yale----
Rory turned off her cell phone and after a moment looked back at Jess again. She nearly jumped out of her skin when she noticed that not only was the redhead gone, but he was looking at her too. They both looked away, with that hand-caught-in-the-cookie-jar look of embarrassment on their faces. Rory turned her attention to her doodles on her notepad, and jumped yet again when she saw one word she had scribbled quite clearly. "Jess."