A/N Just so no one send me this info in a review or anything. I know that
Jess' father's name is not Robert, but I started writing this before
gilmoregirls.org published the characters name and I'm way too lazy to go
back and change it so it's staying Robert, you can just adjust your eyes
and pretend that every time I write Robert, it really say Jimmy. Also I've
decided that I'm not going to go through Jess meeting his dad's girlfriend
and her daughter, let's just say for the good of the story, Jess met them
when he got to California, they all went out to dinner at Robert's hotdog
stand and that's what happened. Some new characters that I've invented will
be introduced so get excited. Oh and hey it's snowing a lot here Yay!!!
*Next Day: 1pm: Jess has spent the morning and early afternoon walking around getting a sense of his new residence.
Jess enters his room, his eyes glued to the book in his hand.
"You know you could walk right smack into a 4x4 doing that." A female voice says sarcastically.
Jess looks up from his book, sitting on his bed is a girl of about the same age with long dark brown hair wearing denim overalls about two sizes to big, and a bright blue tank top.
"Break and enter much?" Jess retorts.
"As if."
"Oh God, a valley girl." Jess smirks.
"Funny, but for your information I'm not breaking and entering this is my room."
"Really? Cause Rob never mentioned anything to me."
Putting out her hand to Jess, she grins, "I baby sit Lily sometimes, I stay in here when they're get back late, or basically whenever I need to get away."
"Away from what?"
"From life, the apartment.......I live next store."
"Huh."
"I'm Cadence by the way."
"Jess."
"So you're the prodigal son?"
Jess scoffs, "Hardly."
"So how do you like it here?"
"You still haven't told me what you're doing here."
"Yes I did, it's Thursday, and I needed to get away."
"So? How do you like it here?"
"It's the twilight zone." Jess says hoarsely.
"It grows on you I swear. So where'd you come from?"
"Uh St--, this little place in Connecticut."
Cadence purses her lips, "Well, don't worry you'll catch on to the fast pace of this place eventually."
Jess laughs out loud, California has nothing on New York."
"You lived in New York?"
Jess nods, "Till I was 17, then good ol' mom sent me to my Uncle."
Cadence nods, "Must have been torture."
"At first.......but it turned out alright."
Cadence tumbles off the bed, she sways in front of Jess' bookshelf, "So who's the Suzy Q?" She asks looking at the picture of Jess and Rory at prom.
Jess smiles, "That's Rory."
"Rory." Cadence repeats. "Interesting name."
"It's short for Lorelai."
"Even better." Cadence smirks. "She from Connecticut?"
"Yeah."
"Doesn't seem your type."
"You've know me ten minutes and you already feel qualified enough to decipher my type?" Jess says gruffly.
"Not hard. I mean just look at the two of you side by side.......it's weird, she's probably real nice and innocent and every guy in town is in love with her." Cadence turns to jess batting her eyelashes mockingly.
"Uh huh."
"And you," Cadence looks Jess over, walking a circle around him. "You were probably the hell raiser."
Jess smirks, "Wearing socks with sandals is a punishable offense there, it doesn't take much to be labeled Lucifer."
Cadence laughs, "Yeah, people here don't think too fondly of me either, well except your dad and Sasha............their real nice people if you give them a chance."
Jess scoffs.
"Ok, so they may not be the most culturally sophisticated people in the world, but they're nice people."
"I wouldn't know."
"Yeah, Sasha told me................ten years without seeing your pop is tough.........I know." She adds the last part quietly.
Jess nods.
"So you got and brothers or sisters?"
"Not that I know of, but who the hell knows."
Cadence half-smiles.
"You?"
"Yeah got a sister, Bev she's 3 years older than me, and a half brother, Randy his 8."
Jess nods, "So you go to school?"
"I start community college in a week, would have gone university but I just don't have the time for it."
"You work?"
"No, not really."
"Huh." Jess replies.
"I baby sit Lily every Monday Wednesday and Friday from 3-9, and the rest of the week I'm over at my sisters watching her kids."
"Oh." Jess says.
"Yeah, she's got two, Paige who's 5, and Sam whose 18 months."
Jess doesn't reply.
"But hey you learn from other peoples' mistakes right?" Cadence says wryly.
Jess nods.
Cadence's watch beeps, "I should probably go, sis leaves for work in 20."
Jess nods, "Later."
Cadence climbs onto the windowsill, she opens it and crawls onto the fire escape.
Jess turns towards the bookcase.
Cadence pokes her head back inside, "Hey jess?"
"Yeah?"
"What would you do if "Suzy" got knocked up?"
Jess' expression turns hard, "I'd marry her."
"Really?"
"In a second."
Cadence scoffs, "You say that now......but if it ever happened you'd be gone in a second."
Jess shakes hi head, "No way, I love her."
Cadence stares into Jess' determined eyes, "That's nice to hear, there should be more guys out there like you."
Jess laughs, "Trust me, that'd be one messed up world."
Cadence smiles, "Hey leave your window unlocked, I might want to come visit sometime."
Jess nods, "Ok."
Cadence disappears.
Jess collapses on his bed, closing his eyes as his head hits the pillow.
*10 minutes later his bedroom door creeps open.
Jess lifts his head up slightly; Lily stands by the door blinking.
Jess puts his head down again, closing his eyes.
A moment later Lily climbs onto the bed.
"Can I help you with something?" Jess asks shortly.
"No." The little girl answers, not moving.
Jess sighs, "Is there a reason you're in here?"
"Not really."
Jess mutters to himself, giving in to his defeat.
"What?" The little girl asks.
"Nothing." Jess barks.
"Why are you so angry?"
"I'm not angry."
"You sound angry."
"Well I'm not."
"Are too."
"No."
"Yes."
Jess sits up, "Look, don't you have Barbie dolls to play with or something?"
"No, I don't like Barbie dolls they're boring."
"Ok, why don't you go play in traffic then."
"I'm not allowed outside by myself."
Jess sighs.
"Do you want to go outside with me?"
"No."
"Why not?"
"Because."
"Because why?"
"Because I was already outside today."
"That's a stupid reason."
"Is not."
"Is too." Lily replies. "Cadi says you're grumpy b/c you hate it here."
"Cadi?"
"Cadence, she's my friend."
Jess nods.
"This morning I told her I thought you were mean and she said you were only mean because you don't like it here."
"I don't."
"Do you hate me?"
"No."
"I think you do, and you hate my mommy and Rob too."
"I don't."
"Then why do you talk so mean to us."
"It's my voice, believe me it runs in the family."
"Rob doesn't talk like that."
"No, but my mom's family does, at least her brother does." Jess says, his tone softening.
"Where is your mom?"
"In New York."
"Where's her brother?"
"In Connecticut."
"Where did you come from?"
"Connecticut."
"Do you miss it there?"
Jess nods.
"Is it different from here?"
"Completely."
"Oh."
"So, miss 20 questions, let me ask you something." Jess smirks.
"What?"
"How old are you?"
"I turned 7 in April."
"Ok 7, and what book were you reading before."
"When?"
"When you were eating your serial."
"The Giver."
"Is it good?"
"Yeah, I've read it twice before but it's my favorite book."
"Well it's good to have a favorite book."
"What's your favorite?"
"Oliver Twist." Jess replies without hesitation.
"Is that a big book?"
"Not really, kind of hard to understand though." Jess replies falling into comfortable conversation.
Lily moves closer to Jess, "Did you bring it with you?"
"Yeah."
"Can I borrow it, I want to read it, and you can explain the hard parts to me." Lily says hopefully.
"We'll see, maybe I could read it to you sometime."
"Really?"
"I said maybe." Jess smirks.
Lily's eyes wander to Jess' clock, "It's 3:00, it's time for my cartoons."
Jess nods, "Bye Lily."
"Hey Jess?"
"Yeah?"
"Who's that in the picture?"
"My Uncle Luke and his friend, Lorelai."
"She looks funny."
"Believe me, she is."
Lily moves over to Jess' desk, "She's pretty." Lily points to the picture of Rory.
"Yes she is." Jess muses.
"Ok, well I'm going to miss hey Arnold and if you miss the first 5 minutes you've missed half the show."
Jess smiles as the 7 year old exits his room.
*10 minutes later:
Jess' bedroom door swings open, this time he exits, heading straight for the couch where Lily is seated her eyes glued to the screen."
*6pm: Jess is seated at the kitchen table with Sasha and Lily eating spaghetti his father isn't home yet.
The phone rings, Sasha answers it.
"Hello? Oh yes, hold on." Sasha sys putting her hand over the receiver, "Jess it's for you, it's a girl."
Jess smirks thank you."
Jess takes the phone from her and heads for his bedroom.
"So how was it?"
"Amazing, the campus is so big and everyone looks so smart and all the professors are publishes authors and noble prize winners!" Rory Gilmore gushes.
"That's great." Jess replies.
"Yeah, and we visited to taco place down the street and mom brought them back to Luke's and he threw them out on us, mom got all mad she's still there whining about it."
Jess laughs out loud.
"So how was your day?"
"Ok."
"How's California?"
"It's definitely interesting............."
A/N abrupt ending but I'll write more on Monday probably. I started this this morning went to work, had a daddy daughter date w/ my daddy we went for ice cream yum, came back and finished this chapter. Basically some of these chapters aren't going to have a lot of action in them, they'll be more like development chapters, I have some big ideas planned for later on in the story but I need to set up some things and get you familiarized with certain characters. Please read and review and let me know what you think specifically about the character of Cadence, I see her as kind of being Jess' only friend for a while, and I know she's seems annoying right now but her character will develop more I promise, and I swear this story does have a r/j ending so hang in there.
*Next Day: 1pm: Jess has spent the morning and early afternoon walking around getting a sense of his new residence.
Jess enters his room, his eyes glued to the book in his hand.
"You know you could walk right smack into a 4x4 doing that." A female voice says sarcastically.
Jess looks up from his book, sitting on his bed is a girl of about the same age with long dark brown hair wearing denim overalls about two sizes to big, and a bright blue tank top.
"Break and enter much?" Jess retorts.
"As if."
"Oh God, a valley girl." Jess smirks.
"Funny, but for your information I'm not breaking and entering this is my room."
"Really? Cause Rob never mentioned anything to me."
Putting out her hand to Jess, she grins, "I baby sit Lily sometimes, I stay in here when they're get back late, or basically whenever I need to get away."
"Away from what?"
"From life, the apartment.......I live next store."
"Huh."
"I'm Cadence by the way."
"Jess."
"So you're the prodigal son?"
Jess scoffs, "Hardly."
"So how do you like it here?"
"You still haven't told me what you're doing here."
"Yes I did, it's Thursday, and I needed to get away."
"So? How do you like it here?"
"It's the twilight zone." Jess says hoarsely.
"It grows on you I swear. So where'd you come from?"
"Uh St--, this little place in Connecticut."
Cadence purses her lips, "Well, don't worry you'll catch on to the fast pace of this place eventually."
Jess laughs out loud, California has nothing on New York."
"You lived in New York?"
Jess nods, "Till I was 17, then good ol' mom sent me to my Uncle."
Cadence nods, "Must have been torture."
"At first.......but it turned out alright."
Cadence tumbles off the bed, she sways in front of Jess' bookshelf, "So who's the Suzy Q?" She asks looking at the picture of Jess and Rory at prom.
Jess smiles, "That's Rory."
"Rory." Cadence repeats. "Interesting name."
"It's short for Lorelai."
"Even better." Cadence smirks. "She from Connecticut?"
"Yeah."
"Doesn't seem your type."
"You've know me ten minutes and you already feel qualified enough to decipher my type?" Jess says gruffly.
"Not hard. I mean just look at the two of you side by side.......it's weird, she's probably real nice and innocent and every guy in town is in love with her." Cadence turns to jess batting her eyelashes mockingly.
"Uh huh."
"And you," Cadence looks Jess over, walking a circle around him. "You were probably the hell raiser."
Jess smirks, "Wearing socks with sandals is a punishable offense there, it doesn't take much to be labeled Lucifer."
Cadence laughs, "Yeah, people here don't think too fondly of me either, well except your dad and Sasha............their real nice people if you give them a chance."
Jess scoffs.
"Ok, so they may not be the most culturally sophisticated people in the world, but they're nice people."
"I wouldn't know."
"Yeah, Sasha told me................ten years without seeing your pop is tough.........I know." She adds the last part quietly.
Jess nods.
"So you got and brothers or sisters?"
"Not that I know of, but who the hell knows."
Cadence half-smiles.
"You?"
"Yeah got a sister, Bev she's 3 years older than me, and a half brother, Randy his 8."
Jess nods, "So you go to school?"
"I start community college in a week, would have gone university but I just don't have the time for it."
"You work?"
"No, not really."
"Huh." Jess replies.
"I baby sit Lily every Monday Wednesday and Friday from 3-9, and the rest of the week I'm over at my sisters watching her kids."
"Oh." Jess says.
"Yeah, she's got two, Paige who's 5, and Sam whose 18 months."
Jess doesn't reply.
"But hey you learn from other peoples' mistakes right?" Cadence says wryly.
Jess nods.
Cadence's watch beeps, "I should probably go, sis leaves for work in 20."
Jess nods, "Later."
Cadence climbs onto the windowsill, she opens it and crawls onto the fire escape.
Jess turns towards the bookcase.
Cadence pokes her head back inside, "Hey jess?"
"Yeah?"
"What would you do if "Suzy" got knocked up?"
Jess' expression turns hard, "I'd marry her."
"Really?"
"In a second."
Cadence scoffs, "You say that now......but if it ever happened you'd be gone in a second."
Jess shakes hi head, "No way, I love her."
Cadence stares into Jess' determined eyes, "That's nice to hear, there should be more guys out there like you."
Jess laughs, "Trust me, that'd be one messed up world."
Cadence smiles, "Hey leave your window unlocked, I might want to come visit sometime."
Jess nods, "Ok."
Cadence disappears.
Jess collapses on his bed, closing his eyes as his head hits the pillow.
*10 minutes later his bedroom door creeps open.
Jess lifts his head up slightly; Lily stands by the door blinking.
Jess puts his head down again, closing his eyes.
A moment later Lily climbs onto the bed.
"Can I help you with something?" Jess asks shortly.
"No." The little girl answers, not moving.
Jess sighs, "Is there a reason you're in here?"
"Not really."
Jess mutters to himself, giving in to his defeat.
"What?" The little girl asks.
"Nothing." Jess barks.
"Why are you so angry?"
"I'm not angry."
"You sound angry."
"Well I'm not."
"Are too."
"No."
"Yes."
Jess sits up, "Look, don't you have Barbie dolls to play with or something?"
"No, I don't like Barbie dolls they're boring."
"Ok, why don't you go play in traffic then."
"I'm not allowed outside by myself."
Jess sighs.
"Do you want to go outside with me?"
"No."
"Why not?"
"Because."
"Because why?"
"Because I was already outside today."
"That's a stupid reason."
"Is not."
"Is too." Lily replies. "Cadi says you're grumpy b/c you hate it here."
"Cadi?"
"Cadence, she's my friend."
Jess nods.
"This morning I told her I thought you were mean and she said you were only mean because you don't like it here."
"I don't."
"Do you hate me?"
"No."
"I think you do, and you hate my mommy and Rob too."
"I don't."
"Then why do you talk so mean to us."
"It's my voice, believe me it runs in the family."
"Rob doesn't talk like that."
"No, but my mom's family does, at least her brother does." Jess says, his tone softening.
"Where is your mom?"
"In New York."
"Where's her brother?"
"In Connecticut."
"Where did you come from?"
"Connecticut."
"Do you miss it there?"
Jess nods.
"Is it different from here?"
"Completely."
"Oh."
"So, miss 20 questions, let me ask you something." Jess smirks.
"What?"
"How old are you?"
"I turned 7 in April."
"Ok 7, and what book were you reading before."
"When?"
"When you were eating your serial."
"The Giver."
"Is it good?"
"Yeah, I've read it twice before but it's my favorite book."
"Well it's good to have a favorite book."
"What's your favorite?"
"Oliver Twist." Jess replies without hesitation.
"Is that a big book?"
"Not really, kind of hard to understand though." Jess replies falling into comfortable conversation.
Lily moves closer to Jess, "Did you bring it with you?"
"Yeah."
"Can I borrow it, I want to read it, and you can explain the hard parts to me." Lily says hopefully.
"We'll see, maybe I could read it to you sometime."
"Really?"
"I said maybe." Jess smirks.
Lily's eyes wander to Jess' clock, "It's 3:00, it's time for my cartoons."
Jess nods, "Bye Lily."
"Hey Jess?"
"Yeah?"
"Who's that in the picture?"
"My Uncle Luke and his friend, Lorelai."
"She looks funny."
"Believe me, she is."
Lily moves over to Jess' desk, "She's pretty." Lily points to the picture of Rory.
"Yes she is." Jess muses.
"Ok, well I'm going to miss hey Arnold and if you miss the first 5 minutes you've missed half the show."
Jess smiles as the 7 year old exits his room.
*10 minutes later:
Jess' bedroom door swings open, this time he exits, heading straight for the couch where Lily is seated her eyes glued to the screen."
*6pm: Jess is seated at the kitchen table with Sasha and Lily eating spaghetti his father isn't home yet.
The phone rings, Sasha answers it.
"Hello? Oh yes, hold on." Sasha sys putting her hand over the receiver, "Jess it's for you, it's a girl."
Jess smirks thank you."
Jess takes the phone from her and heads for his bedroom.
"So how was it?"
"Amazing, the campus is so big and everyone looks so smart and all the professors are publishes authors and noble prize winners!" Rory Gilmore gushes.
"That's great." Jess replies.
"Yeah, and we visited to taco place down the street and mom brought them back to Luke's and he threw them out on us, mom got all mad she's still there whining about it."
Jess laughs out loud.
"So how was your day?"
"Ok."
"How's California?"
"It's definitely interesting............."
A/N abrupt ending but I'll write more on Monday probably. I started this this morning went to work, had a daddy daughter date w/ my daddy we went for ice cream yum, came back and finished this chapter. Basically some of these chapters aren't going to have a lot of action in them, they'll be more like development chapters, I have some big ideas planned for later on in the story but I need to set up some things and get you familiarized with certain characters. Please read and review and let me know what you think specifically about the character of Cadence, I see her as kind of being Jess' only friend for a while, and I know she's seems annoying right now but her character will develop more I promise, and I swear this story does have a r/j ending so hang in there.