Those Quirky Gilmores

Chapter One: What she wants. Hey! This is my first chapter. I hope you like it, if you do, review, if you don't well, review anyway and tell me what I'm doing wrong K? I don't know if it's been done before, but there's a song theme after every chapter.

Rory hung up the phone angrily. Frustrated with Dean, she just finished arguing with him for what seemed like an eternity about, who else? Jess. She understood how Dean could get jealous. He was her boyfriend, but he didn't share with Rory the same passions Jess did: books and music. They seemed like such small links, but they were more important to Rory than the smaller things her and Dean had in common. If only he could understand that it was only a friendship. Nothing more. She loved Dean, who wouldn't? He's the sweetest, most generous guy any girl could ask for. She argued with Dean time and time again that Jess was only a friend, but the feeling deep down in her heart contradicted every word she spoke and thought.

slam!

"Oh my god!" Rory exclaimed, slamming the phone into the cradle.

(from the kitchen) Hearing some of the argument, concerned, Lorelai said, "Ror? Everything ok?"

Rory got up from her room and entered the kitchen to join her mom.

"No! I'm tired of this same old argument."

"Jess?" Lorelai said sypmpathetically, she had heard this frustration from her daughter before.

"Yes!" Rory practically yelled. "Why can't he just accept that we're friends?"

"Well hun," Lorelai started, "if you were my girlfriend, I wouldn't want to share you either."

"I'm so tired of him being jealous all the time and always worrying about whether or not he's gonna get upset because I spent time with Jess." Rory said, feeling defeated she sat in the chair next to her mom.

"Wait! Wait! I have a solution! Don't spend time with Jess! Problem solved."

"Very funny." Rory said dryly. "That's like me telling you not to hang out with Luke."

"Why Luke?" Lorelai asked suspiciously.

"Just an example." Rory explained.

"You don't like Luke?" she asked her daughter seriously.

"I needed a name," Rory began, "his happened to be the first to pop into my mind."

"What's wrong with Luke?"

"Nothing, I like..." Rory tried.

(cuts her off) "He's your coffee and 90 food supplier, you'd better let go of what bugs you about him." And after a couple of seconds she added, "It's the hats isn't it?"

"No! He doesn't..." Rory tried explaining, again being cut off.

"Then it's the flannels isn't it? Yeah, they can get kinda..." It was Rory's turn to cut her mother off.

"No! He doesn't bug me!" Rory said, frustrated.

"Then why'd you say that?" Lorelai seemed confused.

"I didn't! I just said... you know? I don't even remember why Luke was even brought up." Rory gave up.

"You said you were thinking about him."

"What? I never said that." Rory was growing tired of the conversation.

"You said his name popped into your head- you think about Luke often?" Lorelai asked.

"What? No. Oh! Wait, no, I was saying before I was rudely misconstrued..." Rory tried to explain, before she was cut off again.

"Honey, you know mommy doesn't like the big words."

"Sorry- ok what I was saying was how would you like it if someone, actually a lot of someone's told you not to hang out with him?"

"I'd tell them they weren't the boss of me." Lorelai offered.

"It'd suck, big time. That's how I feel with Jess. I finally find someone who I can have a decent conversation about books and music with, even though Lane can talk for years about music, so mostly books with and everyone disapproves of it." Rory started getting riled up again.

"Books huh?" Lorelai questioned if that was their only link.

"Yeah, books, those square things you open and read." she explained to her mother sarcastically.

"Jess is into books?" Lorelai asked, somewhat shocked.

"Yeah, probably more than I am." she defended.

"Wow, never really thought of Jess as a book kinda guy." Lorelai began.

"First impressions can really screw things up for a guy."

"The thieving, drinking, smoking type, but the bookish type was definitely near the bottom." she went on.

"You never gave him a chance."

"Should I?" Lorelai said seriously, looking into her daughter's eyes.

"Yes, you should. I did." She caught her mother's eyes.

"And you're an excellent judge of character, look at Dean and Lane. I guess I will, for you, but only for you." she considered.

"Good," she said, feeling triumphant, "thank you."

"So what about Dean?" Lorelai asked.

"What about Dean?" Rory answered, very casually, perhaps a little too casually.

"What about Dean?" Lorelai repeated with question in her voice.

"I didn't mean it that way." Rory tried to take back her choice of words.

"How'd you mean it? Quick, still time to redeem yourself." Lorelai said, with annoyance in her voice.

"I mean, wait," Rory stammered. "I got confused! I mean, what do you mean about Dean?"

"I mean," Lorelai began, "are you gonna try to get Jess in his good graces too, or are you just gonna continue fighting with him?"

"I guess I could try, again, to explain to him that he has nothing to worry about, Jess and I are just friends and he has no reason to be jealous. I have a feeling that it's a losing battle though."

"Good luck. I'm on your side, just be sure you know what you really want before you make any sure decisions." she added her motherly advice.

"Yeah." Rory agreed. Then added, "Mom?"

"Yeah?" she answered quietly.

"What is it that I want again?" she asked her mother.

"Only you can tell yourself that hun, sorry." she understood exactly how her daughter felt, she didn't know what she wanted for herself.

"Yeah, I figured you would say something smart and motherly like that." Rory said with a slight smile.

"I do what I can." she smiled back and hugged her daughter.

Theme Song

"Things I'll never Say"by Avril Lavigne Rory to Jess

I'm tuggin at my hair, I'm pulling at my clothes.

I'm trying to keep my cool, I know it shows. I'm staring at my feet, my cheeks are turning red. I'm searching for the words, inside my head. Chorus I'm feeling nervous, trying to be so perfect. Cause I know you're worth it, you're worth it. Yeah. If I could say what I wanna say, I'd say I wanna blow you... away. Be with you every night, Am I squeezing you too tight? If I could say what I wanna see, I want to see you go down, on one knee. Marry me today, Guess I'm wishing my life away, On these things I'll never say. It won't do me any good, it's just a waste of time, What use is it to you, what's on my mind? If it ain't coming out, were not going anywhere, So why can't I just tell you that I care? Chorus What's wrong, with my tongue? These words keep slipping away. I stutter, I stumble, like I've got nothing to say. Chorus