A/N: Thanks for the reviews guys. I got one about the rating issue. Yes I
know the first chapter was a little much but I promise it's the ONLY
chapter that has things like that. I'm not saying that there is no more
romance chapters, just no more like the first one. I just really needed to
clarify what happened in the first chapter because it's an important part
of the story. The rest of the story is mostly drama not so much of the
romance I displayed in chapter 1. Okie dokie?? One question to the reviewer
that said things about not accepting anonymous reviews...how do I change
that?? Sorry I'm new to this..=) On with Chapter 2..
Chapter 2: Tights and Tutus
"Ah, what the hell?" Rory awoke to the glaring sun shining directly in her eyes, and she suddenly noticed the figure still sleeping beside her. She noticed his mouth open and his drooling. She couldn't help but laugh. "That'll be a nice present to leave on Kyle's pillow.....Kyle's pillow!!??" Rory came back to reality as she took in her surroundings. They were still at Kyle's house. They had to get out of there. Luckily, Kyle had crashed on the couch from the night before. Rory shook his body to wake him up, "Jess...JESS!!"
"What..what!? Luke, you're a big boy, handle the damn diner yourself..." Jess rolled over ignoring the irritating voice.
"Jess! Wake up, we have to get out of here!" Rory screamed irritated that he wasn't clicking into reality.
Jess realized it wasn't his uncle, the voice being a little too feminine. "Rory?"
"Yes, it's me Jess. Come on and get dressed, we gotta leave before Kyle wakes up!"
Jess quickly was out of the bed, only in boxers. He noticed Rory's eyes lingering on his body. He smirked at the sudden ego boost he got from it. "You like?"
"Well if I didn't than I really don't think I would have done that last night with you." She paused for a minute. "Unless, of course, you had an entire EVIL PLAN last night and had my punch spiked and everything..." Rory laughed to herself as Jess stared at her. She loved confusing him with her crazy banter. "((gasp)) You spawn of Satan, you! It was all an elaborate way to get me into bed!" She pointed at him accusingly. Jess couldn't help but laugh. "Jess Mariano, I'm extremely disappointed in you! What would your uncle say of such behavior..tsk tsk." Still laughing, Jess sauntered over to her and pulled her in close. She looked deep in his eyes. "Yup, just as I suspected. Those are glints of fire in your eyes, young man"
"Boy, you really are your mother's daughter, huh?" "Yes I believe that would make a lot of sense, considering my coffee addiction and pointless rambling... Yes I would have to say you are correct on that notion." she said with a smirk.
"You never stop with the rambling do you?" Rory shook her head with a teasing look on her face. "Well then," Jess continued, "I guess I'll just have to find a way to shut you up," He crushed his lips on hers before she could voice her come-back. He pulled away and looked at her, waiting for her to say something.
"Well my boy, I must admit I am speechless. Good work! You deserve a treat." She brushed her lips past his cheek and traced his lips with her tongue. Before he could deepen the kiss...
CRASH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They both jumped back from each other at the loud sound. Both of their hearts were pounding at who it was that made it. The parents were still on vacation and Kyle was asleep, so they thought. Rory and Jess inched to the door. Ironically, they relaxed at the sound of Kyle vomiting from being hammered from the night before. Most people would be disgusted, but that meant that Kyle was probably in the bathroom which was far from the exit. The crash was Kyle knocking over a vase on the way to the bathroom. They had a chance of escaping unnoticed. They quickly finished dressing so they could make it out the door before Kyle finished and went up stairs.
Rory couldn't help but giggle. She felt like some criminal sneaking past the cops that were looking for her.
"Shhh!! Rory you're gonna get us caught..." They made it to the door. 'Yes we made it!' Rory thought to herself.
"WHO'S THERE!!!??"
'Damn!!' she thought to herself again. She stood there waiting to see Kyle walk out behind the wall that separated the couple from Kyle. Man 'o' man! She did NOT want to explain this to her mother--
Rory was cut off by her thoughts when Jess yanked her arm in his direction and before she knew it they were hulling ass down the streets of Stars Hollow. She laughed to herself, forgetting that Jess was probably a master at escaping these kind of situations. They ran past Luke's, past the gazebo, and kept running finally having the Gilmore house in sight. 'Yay! We got out! Thanks to my sexy boyfriend's sly skills' She winked at him and he did the same to her. Both of them started to laugh hysterically about their morning "escapade." *************************************** Two minutes earlier at Luke's Diner
RING
Lorelei walked into Luke's rather earlier than usual. She couldn't get any sleep last night with Rory not getting back. Rory had called her, but what kind of a message was, "Hey Mom, I'm not going to be home tonight. I'm okay so don't worry. I'll talk to you later." She stayed up for the majority of the night thinking about all the possible places she could be right now. What was so important that she couldn't come home!?
"Luke-" Lorelei was cut off short as she turned around to see two, probably drunken, teens racing across Luke's. She could have sworn that girl looked just like Rory...ugh. She was still half asleep and seeing things. She needed her morning dosage of caffeine. She laughed at the sight of the two inexperienced teens that thought they could make it through a town like Stars Hollow unnoticed.
"What's so funny?" Luke asked confused.
"Oh, just two reckless kids running around outside."
"Bring back any memories?"
"Excuse you! I resent that, " Lorelei paused as she looked at Luke's who- are-you-kidding expression. "Fine, it did bring back some...yup, those were the good ole days."
Luke shook his head with a half smile on his face, "Aren't you supposed to be setting good examples? You know so Rory doesn't do the same?"
Lorelei recalled how much that girl looked like Rory. Could it have been her? She pushed those thoughts out of her head. Rory was a good girl, but then again, she still hadn't called her this morning. She realized Luke was waiting for an answer. "All these years you have known me and you still don't know the answer to that? I'm thoroughly appalled at you."
"Yeah well, I try to erase any insane years of my life, most of them being with you." Luke said with a confident expression.
"Aww...Luke, I'm flattered. You're just a doll."
Ignoring her comment, "And then of course there was that one insane year of the great age of 16 when...uhh nevermind" He quickly stopped as he realized what he was about to tell the infamous Lorelei.
"Ooo!! Luke has a secret! Spill it bucko."
"Drink your coffee and shut up," he hastily said, trying to avoid the subject, but he knew Lorelei would never give it up now. Him and his big mouth. He persisted to try and escape. Right before he could make an exit to the stock room she threw in a good point.
"Hmmm...you said 16?? So you were in highschool and you went to Stars Hollow High. You know, I could easily find out this little secret from a little, well actually, not so little, women named Miss. Patty. Oh and I'm almost positive that she'll have her own twist on this story you seem to be hiding." She laughed knowing he wasn't going anywhere. "So, you were saying?"
"Aw geez," Luke would rather tell her himself then have Miss.Patty tell her, "well sophomore year I got into some...trouble. As punishment along with my suspension I had to star in some stupid ballet the school had going on. But I swear Lorelei, if you tell a single soul I'll call Taylor myself and tell him that it was you who teepee'd Doose's and in addition to that....NO MORE COFFEE!!"
Lorelei gasped at his cruel threat, "You wouldn't!" But of course she knew he would do just that. He had her by puppet strings and she couldn't cut herself loose. "Alright! Fine. You're evil." Lorelei pictured Luke prancing around in a tutu on stage and started laughing till her eyes watered. Luke looked at her warningly, "Oh come on! I can't laugh either? You gotta admit, you in tights and a tutu is one funny sight. Aww...what I wouldn't give for pictures of that." She smiled at Luke sincerely to give him a chance to have some dignity.
"Yeah well, just keep your mouth shut and drink your coffee...oh and there wasn't a tutu," Before Luke walked to the back room, he was stopped by Lorelei. Thoughts of where Rory was rushed back to her head.
"Hey Luke, did Jess get back last night from Kyle's party?"
"Well, I went to sleep around 10:30 yesterday and he told me he would be back late so I didn't wait up for him. He also told me he had to go early this morning, has the morning shift at Walmart today, so I didn't see him this morning. He is probably there right now, why do you ask?"
Lorelei's head was racing with a million thoughts of Rory with Jess. But then it hit her that Jess would never want to risk losing his job at Walmart, he wouldn't just skip his shift, would he? "Oh, no reason."
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Jess had left Rory before they reached her house incase Lorelei was there and he was already on his way to Luke's. Hopefully Luke hadn't noticed his absence, he usually didn't. "Ah shit!" He suddenly remembered his morning shift at Walmart, and started to head the other way to work. At least Luke wouldn't be suspicious if he did see Jess was gone since he had already told him about working this morning.
Rory went to her mother's room finding no one sleeping in it. She turned around to check the kitchen downstairs. "Mom?" She saw a note on the kitchen table that read
Hey Ror,
I went to Luke's early today, oh and don't think you're getting away scotch free. In the famous words of Desi Arnez, "Lucy, you got some splainin' to do!" Don't take your sweet ass time, haha. I'll talk to you later.
Love Mom
Rory nervously started thinking of what she could tell her mom because she didn't have the guts to tell her the truth. Especially in public, at Luke's. She rushed to the phone and started dialing frantically.
"Hello?"
"Lane! I need your help."
"What is it Rory? Is something wrong?"
"No, well sort of, yes. Uhh, ok if anybody asks, I was at your house last night. I left the party with you and spent the night there, ok?"
"Yeah sure, but where exactly were you?" Lane asked confused.
"Um, with Jess," Rory paused as she heard Lane stop short of breath, "Ok Lane breath, I promise I will explain every detail later, but right now I have to get to Luke's. My mom is there waiting for me and, well, I kinda have do some explaining to her as well. Except I'm not telling the truth. Hence the reason why I asked you to say that I was with you, ok?"
"Uhhh..."
"Lane! Come on work with me here," Rory began worrying whether Lane would let her go with no answers.
"Oh, sorry I was in a state of shock. Yeah sure. Don't worry about it. Your safe."
"Thank you so much, I owe you," Rory hung up and immediately made it over to Luke's.
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RING
Rory casually walked into Luke's thinking that her mom wouldn't suspect anything different about her. Lorelei turned around and met her eyes.
"Hey! There's my little girl who's angelic characteristics were hopefully not affected by last night." She saw Rory laugh nervously.
"Haha, good one mom!" She plastered a cheesy smile on her face. Lying about this was going to be hard. "Luke? Coffee please."
"Haha! I don't think so, no coffee until you tell mommy where you were," Lorelei said as she held up her hand to Luke's coffee pot, pushing it away.
"Geez, Mom. It's nice to know that you trust me so much," Rory replied giving her mother an oh so fake hurt look, "Listen, Lane had a bad night and I promised her that I would spend the night so she could talk to me, happy?" Rory was surprised how easily the lie came out.
Lorelei looked at her to make sure it was the truth. To her surprise, Rory kept her composure and Lorelei finally was satisfied with things and just let it go. "All right, I'll accept that for now. Luke, I think she can have her coffee now." '
'Rory had gotten better at lying' Lorelei thought to herself. Nevertheless, she knew all too well that it was a lie, but she would bug her about it later when not so many people were around. They would rent a movie tonight and she could pry then.
Rory was nervous at what her mom meant by "for now." She knew it wouldn't be this easy. At least she had time to put together how she was going to tell her.
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"I can't believe you rented 'West Side Story'. We've seen it a million times," Rory complained for the fifth time on their way home.
"Well, what can I say. I'm in the mood for watching boys with greasy hair duke it out by dancing around with pocket knives," Lorelei smiled and put her arm around Rory as they walked up the steps to their porch. Lorelei unlocked the door, put down her stuff, and began singing 'Maria.' She started laughing as her daughter cringed at her voice. "Oh come on, sing along little one!"
"Mom, just put the stinkin' video in," her mom gave her a smile and Rory went to her room to put on some pajamas because she knew that this was going to be a long night. The phone rang and Rory answered.
"Hello?"
"Hey," Jess softly said.
"Oh, hey Jess. How was your day?"
"It was good actually. Luke didn't give me any trouble. I don't even think he realized I was gone the whole night," he laughed thankful for how things worked out.
"Haha, that's cool. Lucky you, I think my mom is preparing her interrogation as we speak. It should be interesting."
"Oh great, are you going to be okay? Need me to talk to her or anything?"
"Umm...no offense but I think that would be a bad idea. You might make things worse, and you know how my mom's temper is. She'll be upset and crazy at first but after a while she'll be fine. So you might not want to be around for the first day or two. Is that alright?"
"Yeah, that's fine. Just let me know how it goes." Jess sighed with relief. He did NOT want to be in any contact with that woman when she found out that Rory's first time was with him, and last night. But he offered just to be supportive. He would do anything for Rory.
"Promise," Rory was relieved that he was ok with not being around. She really needed him to cooperate and he was doing just that.
"Alright well I'll talk to you later."
"Ok, bye Jess." She hung up and walked back to the living room.
"Who was that on the phone?" Lorelei asked. She didn't need to ask though, She knew it was Jess by the sudden nervousness in Rory's composure.
"Umm...Jess. He was just seeing how my day was," Rory said, hoping that Lorelei would wait just a little longer before the questioning began. Rory put the tape in and pressed play. Then came the question Rory was avoiding all day.
"So, how was the party last night?"
Rory hesitated, "It was ok. Lane's band was great, but that was probably the only plus side to it." She waited for her mom's reply.
"Huh, I see," Lorelei took a pause to review how she planned the conversation. She proceeded, " Ok you and I both know I'm bad at small talk, so let's just cut the bull and get right to the point. Where were you after the party? And don't give me that thing you call a good cover up, about being at Lane's."
Rory was taken aback by her mother's abrupt and aggressive way of asking about it. She collected herself to try to answer, but she opened her mouth and nothing came out.
"Come on, Rory. I'm your mother. Hell, I'm more than just your mother, I'm your best friend and you know I love you. I just need to know the truth," Rory still couldn't get enough courage to say anything, "If you tell me, I promise to tell you Luke's huge secret!! Here's a hint; it has to do with tights and tutus." This brought a smile to Rory and she finally began to relax. 'Ha! And they say bribery is no way to raise your children.' Lorelei thought to herself.
"Okay, well for one thing, the thing about being at Lane's house is a lie."
"Yeah, I figured that. You suck at lying." Lorelei gave her daughter a comforting smile. Lorelei's palms began sweating, realizing that this could be her worst nightmare of news from her daughter. She stopped herself from jumping to conclusions.
"Yeah, well the band had just finished performing and the party was starting to get boring..."
A/N: Sorry but I had to leave a cliffhanger, it's always more fun that way! LOL I know that this chapter didn't have anything about Jess and his school problems or talking to Rory about anything, but that's coming up. This chapter focused on Rory and her mom and how she was taking things. The next chapter will answer all the questions that you guys probably have. This chapter was kind of a set up for the next one. Anyway...please review!! I'd say give the next chapter about four more days to be up, but I'm not promising anything...REVIEW!!! =) Ask any questions you have so I make sure to clear things up for you in the next chapter.
Chapter 2: Tights and Tutus
"Ah, what the hell?" Rory awoke to the glaring sun shining directly in her eyes, and she suddenly noticed the figure still sleeping beside her. She noticed his mouth open and his drooling. She couldn't help but laugh. "That'll be a nice present to leave on Kyle's pillow.....Kyle's pillow!!??" Rory came back to reality as she took in her surroundings. They were still at Kyle's house. They had to get out of there. Luckily, Kyle had crashed on the couch from the night before. Rory shook his body to wake him up, "Jess...JESS!!"
"What..what!? Luke, you're a big boy, handle the damn diner yourself..." Jess rolled over ignoring the irritating voice.
"Jess! Wake up, we have to get out of here!" Rory screamed irritated that he wasn't clicking into reality.
Jess realized it wasn't his uncle, the voice being a little too feminine. "Rory?"
"Yes, it's me Jess. Come on and get dressed, we gotta leave before Kyle wakes up!"
Jess quickly was out of the bed, only in boxers. He noticed Rory's eyes lingering on his body. He smirked at the sudden ego boost he got from it. "You like?"
"Well if I didn't than I really don't think I would have done that last night with you." She paused for a minute. "Unless, of course, you had an entire EVIL PLAN last night and had my punch spiked and everything..." Rory laughed to herself as Jess stared at her. She loved confusing him with her crazy banter. "((gasp)) You spawn of Satan, you! It was all an elaborate way to get me into bed!" She pointed at him accusingly. Jess couldn't help but laugh. "Jess Mariano, I'm extremely disappointed in you! What would your uncle say of such behavior..tsk tsk." Still laughing, Jess sauntered over to her and pulled her in close. She looked deep in his eyes. "Yup, just as I suspected. Those are glints of fire in your eyes, young man"
"Boy, you really are your mother's daughter, huh?" "Yes I believe that would make a lot of sense, considering my coffee addiction and pointless rambling... Yes I would have to say you are correct on that notion." she said with a smirk.
"You never stop with the rambling do you?" Rory shook her head with a teasing look on her face. "Well then," Jess continued, "I guess I'll just have to find a way to shut you up," He crushed his lips on hers before she could voice her come-back. He pulled away and looked at her, waiting for her to say something.
"Well my boy, I must admit I am speechless. Good work! You deserve a treat." She brushed her lips past his cheek and traced his lips with her tongue. Before he could deepen the kiss...
CRASH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They both jumped back from each other at the loud sound. Both of their hearts were pounding at who it was that made it. The parents were still on vacation and Kyle was asleep, so they thought. Rory and Jess inched to the door. Ironically, they relaxed at the sound of Kyle vomiting from being hammered from the night before. Most people would be disgusted, but that meant that Kyle was probably in the bathroom which was far from the exit. The crash was Kyle knocking over a vase on the way to the bathroom. They had a chance of escaping unnoticed. They quickly finished dressing so they could make it out the door before Kyle finished and went up stairs.
Rory couldn't help but giggle. She felt like some criminal sneaking past the cops that were looking for her.
"Shhh!! Rory you're gonna get us caught..." They made it to the door. 'Yes we made it!' Rory thought to herself.
"WHO'S THERE!!!??"
'Damn!!' she thought to herself again. She stood there waiting to see Kyle walk out behind the wall that separated the couple from Kyle. Man 'o' man! She did NOT want to explain this to her mother--
Rory was cut off by her thoughts when Jess yanked her arm in his direction and before she knew it they were hulling ass down the streets of Stars Hollow. She laughed to herself, forgetting that Jess was probably a master at escaping these kind of situations. They ran past Luke's, past the gazebo, and kept running finally having the Gilmore house in sight. 'Yay! We got out! Thanks to my sexy boyfriend's sly skills' She winked at him and he did the same to her. Both of them started to laugh hysterically about their morning "escapade." *************************************** Two minutes earlier at Luke's Diner
RING
Lorelei walked into Luke's rather earlier than usual. She couldn't get any sleep last night with Rory not getting back. Rory had called her, but what kind of a message was, "Hey Mom, I'm not going to be home tonight. I'm okay so don't worry. I'll talk to you later." She stayed up for the majority of the night thinking about all the possible places she could be right now. What was so important that she couldn't come home!?
"Luke-" Lorelei was cut off short as she turned around to see two, probably drunken, teens racing across Luke's. She could have sworn that girl looked just like Rory...ugh. She was still half asleep and seeing things. She needed her morning dosage of caffeine. She laughed at the sight of the two inexperienced teens that thought they could make it through a town like Stars Hollow unnoticed.
"What's so funny?" Luke asked confused.
"Oh, just two reckless kids running around outside."
"Bring back any memories?"
"Excuse you! I resent that, " Lorelei paused as she looked at Luke's who- are-you-kidding expression. "Fine, it did bring back some...yup, those were the good ole days."
Luke shook his head with a half smile on his face, "Aren't you supposed to be setting good examples? You know so Rory doesn't do the same?"
Lorelei recalled how much that girl looked like Rory. Could it have been her? She pushed those thoughts out of her head. Rory was a good girl, but then again, she still hadn't called her this morning. She realized Luke was waiting for an answer. "All these years you have known me and you still don't know the answer to that? I'm thoroughly appalled at you."
"Yeah well, I try to erase any insane years of my life, most of them being with you." Luke said with a confident expression.
"Aww...Luke, I'm flattered. You're just a doll."
Ignoring her comment, "And then of course there was that one insane year of the great age of 16 when...uhh nevermind" He quickly stopped as he realized what he was about to tell the infamous Lorelei.
"Ooo!! Luke has a secret! Spill it bucko."
"Drink your coffee and shut up," he hastily said, trying to avoid the subject, but he knew Lorelei would never give it up now. Him and his big mouth. He persisted to try and escape. Right before he could make an exit to the stock room she threw in a good point.
"Hmmm...you said 16?? So you were in highschool and you went to Stars Hollow High. You know, I could easily find out this little secret from a little, well actually, not so little, women named Miss. Patty. Oh and I'm almost positive that she'll have her own twist on this story you seem to be hiding." She laughed knowing he wasn't going anywhere. "So, you were saying?"
"Aw geez," Luke would rather tell her himself then have Miss.Patty tell her, "well sophomore year I got into some...trouble. As punishment along with my suspension I had to star in some stupid ballet the school had going on. But I swear Lorelei, if you tell a single soul I'll call Taylor myself and tell him that it was you who teepee'd Doose's and in addition to that....NO MORE COFFEE!!"
Lorelei gasped at his cruel threat, "You wouldn't!" But of course she knew he would do just that. He had her by puppet strings and she couldn't cut herself loose. "Alright! Fine. You're evil." Lorelei pictured Luke prancing around in a tutu on stage and started laughing till her eyes watered. Luke looked at her warningly, "Oh come on! I can't laugh either? You gotta admit, you in tights and a tutu is one funny sight. Aww...what I wouldn't give for pictures of that." She smiled at Luke sincerely to give him a chance to have some dignity.
"Yeah well, just keep your mouth shut and drink your coffee...oh and there wasn't a tutu," Before Luke walked to the back room, he was stopped by Lorelei. Thoughts of where Rory was rushed back to her head.
"Hey Luke, did Jess get back last night from Kyle's party?"
"Well, I went to sleep around 10:30 yesterday and he told me he would be back late so I didn't wait up for him. He also told me he had to go early this morning, has the morning shift at Walmart today, so I didn't see him this morning. He is probably there right now, why do you ask?"
Lorelei's head was racing with a million thoughts of Rory with Jess. But then it hit her that Jess would never want to risk losing his job at Walmart, he wouldn't just skip his shift, would he? "Oh, no reason."
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Jess had left Rory before they reached her house incase Lorelei was there and he was already on his way to Luke's. Hopefully Luke hadn't noticed his absence, he usually didn't. "Ah shit!" He suddenly remembered his morning shift at Walmart, and started to head the other way to work. At least Luke wouldn't be suspicious if he did see Jess was gone since he had already told him about working this morning.
Rory went to her mother's room finding no one sleeping in it. She turned around to check the kitchen downstairs. "Mom?" She saw a note on the kitchen table that read
Hey Ror,
I went to Luke's early today, oh and don't think you're getting away scotch free. In the famous words of Desi Arnez, "Lucy, you got some splainin' to do!" Don't take your sweet ass time, haha. I'll talk to you later.
Love Mom
Rory nervously started thinking of what she could tell her mom because she didn't have the guts to tell her the truth. Especially in public, at Luke's. She rushed to the phone and started dialing frantically.
"Hello?"
"Lane! I need your help."
"What is it Rory? Is something wrong?"
"No, well sort of, yes. Uhh, ok if anybody asks, I was at your house last night. I left the party with you and spent the night there, ok?"
"Yeah sure, but where exactly were you?" Lane asked confused.
"Um, with Jess," Rory paused as she heard Lane stop short of breath, "Ok Lane breath, I promise I will explain every detail later, but right now I have to get to Luke's. My mom is there waiting for me and, well, I kinda have do some explaining to her as well. Except I'm not telling the truth. Hence the reason why I asked you to say that I was with you, ok?"
"Uhhh..."
"Lane! Come on work with me here," Rory began worrying whether Lane would let her go with no answers.
"Oh, sorry I was in a state of shock. Yeah sure. Don't worry about it. Your safe."
"Thank you so much, I owe you," Rory hung up and immediately made it over to Luke's.
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RING
Rory casually walked into Luke's thinking that her mom wouldn't suspect anything different about her. Lorelei turned around and met her eyes.
"Hey! There's my little girl who's angelic characteristics were hopefully not affected by last night." She saw Rory laugh nervously.
"Haha, good one mom!" She plastered a cheesy smile on her face. Lying about this was going to be hard. "Luke? Coffee please."
"Haha! I don't think so, no coffee until you tell mommy where you were," Lorelei said as she held up her hand to Luke's coffee pot, pushing it away.
"Geez, Mom. It's nice to know that you trust me so much," Rory replied giving her mother an oh so fake hurt look, "Listen, Lane had a bad night and I promised her that I would spend the night so she could talk to me, happy?" Rory was surprised how easily the lie came out.
Lorelei looked at her to make sure it was the truth. To her surprise, Rory kept her composure and Lorelei finally was satisfied with things and just let it go. "All right, I'll accept that for now. Luke, I think she can have her coffee now." '
'Rory had gotten better at lying' Lorelei thought to herself. Nevertheless, she knew all too well that it was a lie, but she would bug her about it later when not so many people were around. They would rent a movie tonight and she could pry then.
Rory was nervous at what her mom meant by "for now." She knew it wouldn't be this easy. At least she had time to put together how she was going to tell her.
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"I can't believe you rented 'West Side Story'. We've seen it a million times," Rory complained for the fifth time on their way home.
"Well, what can I say. I'm in the mood for watching boys with greasy hair duke it out by dancing around with pocket knives," Lorelei smiled and put her arm around Rory as they walked up the steps to their porch. Lorelei unlocked the door, put down her stuff, and began singing 'Maria.' She started laughing as her daughter cringed at her voice. "Oh come on, sing along little one!"
"Mom, just put the stinkin' video in," her mom gave her a smile and Rory went to her room to put on some pajamas because she knew that this was going to be a long night. The phone rang and Rory answered.
"Hello?"
"Hey," Jess softly said.
"Oh, hey Jess. How was your day?"
"It was good actually. Luke didn't give me any trouble. I don't even think he realized I was gone the whole night," he laughed thankful for how things worked out.
"Haha, that's cool. Lucky you, I think my mom is preparing her interrogation as we speak. It should be interesting."
"Oh great, are you going to be okay? Need me to talk to her or anything?"
"Umm...no offense but I think that would be a bad idea. You might make things worse, and you know how my mom's temper is. She'll be upset and crazy at first but after a while she'll be fine. So you might not want to be around for the first day or two. Is that alright?"
"Yeah, that's fine. Just let me know how it goes." Jess sighed with relief. He did NOT want to be in any contact with that woman when she found out that Rory's first time was with him, and last night. But he offered just to be supportive. He would do anything for Rory.
"Promise," Rory was relieved that he was ok with not being around. She really needed him to cooperate and he was doing just that.
"Alright well I'll talk to you later."
"Ok, bye Jess." She hung up and walked back to the living room.
"Who was that on the phone?" Lorelei asked. She didn't need to ask though, She knew it was Jess by the sudden nervousness in Rory's composure.
"Umm...Jess. He was just seeing how my day was," Rory said, hoping that Lorelei would wait just a little longer before the questioning began. Rory put the tape in and pressed play. Then came the question Rory was avoiding all day.
"So, how was the party last night?"
Rory hesitated, "It was ok. Lane's band was great, but that was probably the only plus side to it." She waited for her mom's reply.
"Huh, I see," Lorelei took a pause to review how she planned the conversation. She proceeded, " Ok you and I both know I'm bad at small talk, so let's just cut the bull and get right to the point. Where were you after the party? And don't give me that thing you call a good cover up, about being at Lane's."
Rory was taken aback by her mother's abrupt and aggressive way of asking about it. She collected herself to try to answer, but she opened her mouth and nothing came out.
"Come on, Rory. I'm your mother. Hell, I'm more than just your mother, I'm your best friend and you know I love you. I just need to know the truth," Rory still couldn't get enough courage to say anything, "If you tell me, I promise to tell you Luke's huge secret!! Here's a hint; it has to do with tights and tutus." This brought a smile to Rory and she finally began to relax. 'Ha! And they say bribery is no way to raise your children.' Lorelei thought to herself.
"Okay, well for one thing, the thing about being at Lane's house is a lie."
"Yeah, I figured that. You suck at lying." Lorelei gave her daughter a comforting smile. Lorelei's palms began sweating, realizing that this could be her worst nightmare of news from her daughter. She stopped herself from jumping to conclusions.
"Yeah, well the band had just finished performing and the party was starting to get boring..."
A/N: Sorry but I had to leave a cliffhanger, it's always more fun that way! LOL I know that this chapter didn't have anything about Jess and his school problems or talking to Rory about anything, but that's coming up. This chapter focused on Rory and her mom and how she was taking things. The next chapter will answer all the questions that you guys probably have. This chapter was kind of a set up for the next one. Anyway...please review!! I'd say give the next chapter about four more days to be up, but I'm not promising anything...REVIEW!!! =) Ask any questions you have so I make sure to clear things up for you in the next chapter.
