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Summary: Jess gets kicked out. Is Rory the princess everyone thought she was?
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ONE YEAR LATER
"Jess, stop!" Yelled a wasted Liz as her drunk son pointed a gun at her 'boyfriend for the night'.
"GET AWAY FROM HER!" His speach was slurred. He kept the gun pointed at the large man. "DON'T TOUCH HER!!!" He yelled. "I'm sick of this, Liz! You always have a new guy! You don't even care that I hate every single guy you bring home!"
"He's not a bad man, Jess!" She tried to reason with him. As Liz was talking to her son, the man tried to sneak up and grab the gun from Jess. The man tackled him to the ground, struggling to take the gun away from the drunken kid.
"GET AWAY FROM ME, JIMMY!!!" Liz looked at her son, shocked.
"Jimmy isn't here. This is Steven." She stated calmly, stumbling back. Jess kept hallucinating that his mother's boyfriend was Jimmy, mainly because he was drunk.
Steven took the gun and hit Jess with the butt of it, knocking him out. Jess stopped struggling and his head hit the floor. Liz came over and felt his forehead-it was burning up. She had her boyfriend take Jess to his room and laid him on the bed.
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He woke up, his head aching. He sat up and touched his forehead, feeling caked blood around a gash that he didn't remember being there earlier. He felt dizzy and laid back down. His eyes closed tightly and fell back on his bed, remembering.
One day, about three years ago, he had come home to an empty house as usual. There was one message on the answering machine. It was a rare occasion that it was ever for him, but he decided to listen to it anyway. He pushed the 'play' button. There was a long pause before her heard a female mumble, "nevermind." And hung up the phone.
He often wondered who it had been, but he hadn't thought about it too much until just then. In some hopes, it would have been the girl he had been in love with ten years ago....but not likely.
He had always thought she could save him and bring him back to the life that he used to know...but he figured he would never see her again anyway.
LATER THAT NIGHT
"Jess, I don't have time for you, ok!" Liz said, wearing a robe. He had obviously interrupted something. A man came out of her room, wearing only pants. "Ever since you were little, I've tried to deal with you-"
"Deal with me!? What did I ever do to you!?"
"You embarrassed me, Jess. It's as simple as that. When you were little, people used to ask me if you were retarded and other parents would never invite us to those school parties because you were so...weird and dorky." He looked away, fighting tears that were on the verge of making themselves known. "Get out of here." His head snapped up.
"What?"
"You heard me. You're old enough to take care of yourself, and I don't want you around anymore." It was so sudden that he couldn't even comprehend what she had said. "Get out." She stated again, taking the man's hand and leading him back to her bedroom.
Jess couldn't believe this. His own mother thought he was an embarrassment...maybe he was.
He went to his room, packed one duffle bag, threw it over his shoulder and left. He didn't bother to say goodbye. Not like she wanted him to.
He walked outside, it was raining, so he put his hood up that was on his sweatshirt. It didn't help much. He reached the bus station, completely soaked. Where would he go? He wasn't eighteen yet so he would HAVE to have a guardian. *Maybe I could go....no I can't. Well...*
STARS HOLLOW
Rory woke up and rolled off her bed, hitting her head on the nightstand next to her. "OW!" She yelped. She laid on the floor for a moment, remembering the night before. Ah, yes. The party. The first time in her life she had gotten drunk and her good friend, Paris, had taken her home where she had to sneak into her own house.
She didn't know why she had felt the need to drink an excessive amount of alcohol, but she had done so none the less.
She started changing into her Chilton High School uniform and getting ready for the day. It had been weird that there had been a party on a Thursday night...*why did I go?* she thought. She couldn't even remember. Her head was still killing her, so she thought about not putting up her hair today, but then realized how incredibly dirty it was...there was no time to take a shower.
She stood in front of the mirror and noticed a small cut on her forehead. *must've been from earlier.* She pulled her hair back, her headache increasing painfully. "RORRRRYYY!!!!" Came the extremely loud voice of her mother. She couldn't let her mother know what had happened the night before. Nope. It wasn't gonna happen...it couldn't. No one could know...
"Comming mom!" She stepped out of her room. Lorelai gasped.
"Rory! What happened to your head!!??!"
"Oh, I fell and hit it on my nightstand this morning. I wasn't really paying attention."
"Oh...oh! How was the par-tay last night! I didn't even hear you come in!!!" Rory spaced for a moment and stared at the wall.
~FLASHBACK~
"Hi, what's your name?" Asked a brown-headed boy comming up to her.
"Rory Gilmore." She replied completely drunk, her words slurred.
"I'm Marco Thomas." His speach was just as slurred as hers. "You uhh..wanna go upstairs for a little bit?" She smirked at him and took his hand. He led her up the stairs into a room, passing several 'serious' couples on the way.
After he had unbuttoned half of the buttons on her shirt, Paris practically broke down the door. "GET OFF OF HER, FREAK!" She yelled pulling Marco off of Rory.
"What's wrong with you!!!" Yelled Rory, not caring that her shirt was half- way unbuttoned. "I'm just having a little fun here!"
"Common, I'm taking you home." She started to pull on Rory's wrist but then turned around. "Button your shirt. Common, pip pip." Rory sighed and buttoned her shirt. "Let's go." Paris grabbed her wrist and led her to the car. She shoved her in and got into the driver side. She looked at Rory who was pouting and staring out the window. "You're not so innocent anymore are you?" Rory gave her a sideways glance and muttered:
"I'm still innocent, no thanks to you."
"No, Rory Gilmore, you're aren't as innocent as you used to be. I really think you would have regretted this night if I hadn't stopped you. Marco is a perverted freak who follows girls around and stuff like that...ya know he's stalker-like, a creep." Rory looked down, her head starting to feel fuzzy.
"Paris....stop the car." She pulled over and Rory got out and immediately vomited. When she was finally finished and pretty sure she wasn't going to have to stop again, she got back into the car and they drove the rest of the way back to Stars Hollow.
~END OF FLASHBACK~
"Rory?" Her mother snapped her out of her flashback.
"Oh, sorry. Yeah, it was...fun. Paris drove me home."
"What happened to Dean?" She asked, panic in her voice. Rory looked down, just then remembering Dean.
"Oh....uhh he had to leave early." The truth was, was that he had left because they had gotten into a fight.....oh yeah, that's why she went. Dean had told her that they needed to go have some fun for a change instead of just sitting around and talking about books, which she actually liked doing. They had gotten into a fight about something....she couldn't remember now, but it had been so awful that he just left her there in Hartford.
"That was very nice of Paris to bring you all the way home, considering she lived in Hartford and that's where the party was right?"
"Yeah. She was being very nice last night. It was weird. Oh well, Luke's?" She asked, trying to change the subject.
"You know it!"
LUKE'S
Lorelai and Rory sat at the counter drinking their coffee when he came in. He walked up to the cash register. "I'll have a coffee and some fries." He looked over at Rory and quickly looked away, obviously still angry from the night before.
"Hey, Dean!" Lorelai called. *no, mom! Note to self- kill mom later!* Rory thought. He nodded, got his order and walked out, not saying one thing to Rory. She wished for the life of her that she could remember what their fight had been about. "Uhh ok. What's up with your boyfriend?"
"Yeah I noticed he seemed a little quieter than usual." Luke chimed in as he walked up to the two girls.
"I dunno...bad day maybe?"
"Rory...tell us the truth. What happened last night." Lorelai demanded. Rory hesitated before answering.
"I uhh...well, I...we had a fight." Luke stirred uncomfortably. Rory was going to start crying and he wouldn't know what to do. *If her eyes looked shiny, I'm outta here* he thought.
"What about sweetie?" Lorelai asked. Rory didn't answer, she just sat there looking into her cup of goodness. "Rory, what about?" She urged.
"I DON'T KNOW, OK!" She got up and ran out the door. Her outburst caused everyone to look up, including the black-headed boy sitting in a chair not too far away, having heard the whole conversation.
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A/N: YAY! Another chapter! Sorry it took so long! PLEASE FORGIVE ME!!! Anyways! I hope you guys liked this chapter. I'm kind of unsure about this chapter since I made Rory be all "bad-girl"-ish for once in her life, but I don't like the fact that she's always so perfect and everything! But this was probably a one time thing. I'm not sure yet...anyways- PLEASE REVIEW!!! Tell me if I did a horrible job!
Summary: Jess gets kicked out. Is Rory the princess everyone thought she was?
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ONE YEAR LATER
"Jess, stop!" Yelled a wasted Liz as her drunk son pointed a gun at her 'boyfriend for the night'.
"GET AWAY FROM HER!" His speach was slurred. He kept the gun pointed at the large man. "DON'T TOUCH HER!!!" He yelled. "I'm sick of this, Liz! You always have a new guy! You don't even care that I hate every single guy you bring home!"
"He's not a bad man, Jess!" She tried to reason with him. As Liz was talking to her son, the man tried to sneak up and grab the gun from Jess. The man tackled him to the ground, struggling to take the gun away from the drunken kid.
"GET AWAY FROM ME, JIMMY!!!" Liz looked at her son, shocked.
"Jimmy isn't here. This is Steven." She stated calmly, stumbling back. Jess kept hallucinating that his mother's boyfriend was Jimmy, mainly because he was drunk.
Steven took the gun and hit Jess with the butt of it, knocking him out. Jess stopped struggling and his head hit the floor. Liz came over and felt his forehead-it was burning up. She had her boyfriend take Jess to his room and laid him on the bed.
~*~*~*~*~*~
He woke up, his head aching. He sat up and touched his forehead, feeling caked blood around a gash that he didn't remember being there earlier. He felt dizzy and laid back down. His eyes closed tightly and fell back on his bed, remembering.
One day, about three years ago, he had come home to an empty house as usual. There was one message on the answering machine. It was a rare occasion that it was ever for him, but he decided to listen to it anyway. He pushed the 'play' button. There was a long pause before her heard a female mumble, "nevermind." And hung up the phone.
He often wondered who it had been, but he hadn't thought about it too much until just then. In some hopes, it would have been the girl he had been in love with ten years ago....but not likely.
He had always thought she could save him and bring him back to the life that he used to know...but he figured he would never see her again anyway.
LATER THAT NIGHT
"Jess, I don't have time for you, ok!" Liz said, wearing a robe. He had obviously interrupted something. A man came out of her room, wearing only pants. "Ever since you were little, I've tried to deal with you-"
"Deal with me!? What did I ever do to you!?"
"You embarrassed me, Jess. It's as simple as that. When you were little, people used to ask me if you were retarded and other parents would never invite us to those school parties because you were so...weird and dorky." He looked away, fighting tears that were on the verge of making themselves known. "Get out of here." His head snapped up.
"What?"
"You heard me. You're old enough to take care of yourself, and I don't want you around anymore." It was so sudden that he couldn't even comprehend what she had said. "Get out." She stated again, taking the man's hand and leading him back to her bedroom.
Jess couldn't believe this. His own mother thought he was an embarrassment...maybe he was.
He went to his room, packed one duffle bag, threw it over his shoulder and left. He didn't bother to say goodbye. Not like she wanted him to.
He walked outside, it was raining, so he put his hood up that was on his sweatshirt. It didn't help much. He reached the bus station, completely soaked. Where would he go? He wasn't eighteen yet so he would HAVE to have a guardian. *Maybe I could go....no I can't. Well...*
STARS HOLLOW
Rory woke up and rolled off her bed, hitting her head on the nightstand next to her. "OW!" She yelped. She laid on the floor for a moment, remembering the night before. Ah, yes. The party. The first time in her life she had gotten drunk and her good friend, Paris, had taken her home where she had to sneak into her own house.
She didn't know why she had felt the need to drink an excessive amount of alcohol, but she had done so none the less.
She started changing into her Chilton High School uniform and getting ready for the day. It had been weird that there had been a party on a Thursday night...*why did I go?* she thought. She couldn't even remember. Her head was still killing her, so she thought about not putting up her hair today, but then realized how incredibly dirty it was...there was no time to take a shower.
She stood in front of the mirror and noticed a small cut on her forehead. *must've been from earlier.* She pulled her hair back, her headache increasing painfully. "RORRRRYYY!!!!" Came the extremely loud voice of her mother. She couldn't let her mother know what had happened the night before. Nope. It wasn't gonna happen...it couldn't. No one could know...
"Comming mom!" She stepped out of her room. Lorelai gasped.
"Rory! What happened to your head!!??!"
"Oh, I fell and hit it on my nightstand this morning. I wasn't really paying attention."
"Oh...oh! How was the par-tay last night! I didn't even hear you come in!!!" Rory spaced for a moment and stared at the wall.
~FLASHBACK~
"Hi, what's your name?" Asked a brown-headed boy comming up to her.
"Rory Gilmore." She replied completely drunk, her words slurred.
"I'm Marco Thomas." His speach was just as slurred as hers. "You uhh..wanna go upstairs for a little bit?" She smirked at him and took his hand. He led her up the stairs into a room, passing several 'serious' couples on the way.
After he had unbuttoned half of the buttons on her shirt, Paris practically broke down the door. "GET OFF OF HER, FREAK!" She yelled pulling Marco off of Rory.
"What's wrong with you!!!" Yelled Rory, not caring that her shirt was half- way unbuttoned. "I'm just having a little fun here!"
"Common, I'm taking you home." She started to pull on Rory's wrist but then turned around. "Button your shirt. Common, pip pip." Rory sighed and buttoned her shirt. "Let's go." Paris grabbed her wrist and led her to the car. She shoved her in and got into the driver side. She looked at Rory who was pouting and staring out the window. "You're not so innocent anymore are you?" Rory gave her a sideways glance and muttered:
"I'm still innocent, no thanks to you."
"No, Rory Gilmore, you're aren't as innocent as you used to be. I really think you would have regretted this night if I hadn't stopped you. Marco is a perverted freak who follows girls around and stuff like that...ya know he's stalker-like, a creep." Rory looked down, her head starting to feel fuzzy.
"Paris....stop the car." She pulled over and Rory got out and immediately vomited. When she was finally finished and pretty sure she wasn't going to have to stop again, she got back into the car and they drove the rest of the way back to Stars Hollow.
~END OF FLASHBACK~
"Rory?" Her mother snapped her out of her flashback.
"Oh, sorry. Yeah, it was...fun. Paris drove me home."
"What happened to Dean?" She asked, panic in her voice. Rory looked down, just then remembering Dean.
"Oh....uhh he had to leave early." The truth was, was that he had left because they had gotten into a fight.....oh yeah, that's why she went. Dean had told her that they needed to go have some fun for a change instead of just sitting around and talking about books, which she actually liked doing. They had gotten into a fight about something....she couldn't remember now, but it had been so awful that he just left her there in Hartford.
"That was very nice of Paris to bring you all the way home, considering she lived in Hartford and that's where the party was right?"
"Yeah. She was being very nice last night. It was weird. Oh well, Luke's?" She asked, trying to change the subject.
"You know it!"
LUKE'S
Lorelai and Rory sat at the counter drinking their coffee when he came in. He walked up to the cash register. "I'll have a coffee and some fries." He looked over at Rory and quickly looked away, obviously still angry from the night before.
"Hey, Dean!" Lorelai called. *no, mom! Note to self- kill mom later!* Rory thought. He nodded, got his order and walked out, not saying one thing to Rory. She wished for the life of her that she could remember what their fight had been about. "Uhh ok. What's up with your boyfriend?"
"Yeah I noticed he seemed a little quieter than usual." Luke chimed in as he walked up to the two girls.
"I dunno...bad day maybe?"
"Rory...tell us the truth. What happened last night." Lorelai demanded. Rory hesitated before answering.
"I uhh...well, I...we had a fight." Luke stirred uncomfortably. Rory was going to start crying and he wouldn't know what to do. *If her eyes looked shiny, I'm outta here* he thought.
"What about sweetie?" Lorelai asked. Rory didn't answer, she just sat there looking into her cup of goodness. "Rory, what about?" She urged.
"I DON'T KNOW, OK!" She got up and ran out the door. Her outburst caused everyone to look up, including the black-headed boy sitting in a chair not too far away, having heard the whole conversation.
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A/N: YAY! Another chapter! Sorry it took so long! PLEASE FORGIVE ME!!! Anyways! I hope you guys liked this chapter. I'm kind of unsure about this chapter since I made Rory be all "bad-girl"-ish for once in her life, but I don't like the fact that she's always so perfect and everything! But this was probably a one time thing. I'm not sure yet...anyways- PLEASE REVIEW!!! Tell me if I did a horrible job!