Disclaimer: My life doesn't make major changes on a daily basis. Say no to drugs and you'll be the same!
A/N: Thank you all for loving this story! This is the favorite of my own ideas by other people and by myself. An actual plot line will unravel in the next few chapters, but for now, I am building some highly important background.
Enjoy!
Chapter 4: Turn off that Sprinkler!
Friday.
'Tis the day on which Rory Gilmore and her overly eccentric mother attend their weekly dinners at the house of the afore mentioned mother's parents.
This week's random event: Making sure their new neighbor's sprinkler system turns on and off at the appropriated times.
Difficulty: Harder than expected.
Required strength: More than that of Rory Gilmore.
"Come on, stupid sprinkler system. Shut off like you're supposed to so I don't make some weird guy cry, or worse, make my mother make me cry."
When she came to the conclusion that she wouldn't be able to make the sprinklers turn 'off', she paged Dean Forrester, her extremely loyal boyfriend, to come help her.
She couldn't wait for him to get the message, though, and she set off on foot to find him.
A wise man once said, "Timing is everything."
That man was a very wise one indeed.
"Oh, sorry Jess," she mumbled before she kept on keeping on.
He wouldn't let her get by him, though.
"What's the matter?"
"Sprinkler system doesn't work…got to go get Dean," was her out-of-breath reply.
He didn't care.
He is, after all, Jess, the boy pride wonder.
So being the superhero he has so often proven to be, he walked past her, to fix the sprinkler system, of course.
"Where are you going," she asked switching directions to follow him.
"Fixing a sprinkler system."
"But I just paged Dean."
"Lovely."
"And he's on his way…"
"I'll have it fixed before he gets here."
"You're impossible!"
"Your point being…"
He now had the sprinkler fixed, though, it really didn't matter, seeing as they were both soaking wet.
"You really didn't have to do that, Jess. I mean now you're all wet and you didn't have to be. So…um…thank you."
She pulled him in to an awkward and extremely wet hug, which, unfortunately, didn't go unnoticed by Dean.
"I'm sorry, am I interrupting something?" Dean said harshly.
They jumped apart.
"Dean! Hi. What are you doing here so early? I didn't think you had received my message, yet."
He ignored what she said and directed his attention towards Jess, "Stay away from her."
"Feeling a little possessive, are we, Dean?"
"Stay away from her!"
"Make me."
"Jess, I'm warning you, stay away from her."
"Stop it you two!" Rory began, "Jess, thank you for fixing the sprinklers, now it's time for you to go home. As for you, Dean, nothing happened between us just now! I don't see why you get so worked up about this all the time. Jess and I are friends. You wouldn't act like this around Lane, and Lane's my friend."
"Lane's a girl."
"What do you think I did, Dean? He fixed the sprinklers and I hugged him because I was going to be in huge trouble if the sprinklers didn't get fixed on time! It's not like I had sex on the next-door neighbor's front lawn in broad daylight with God knows how many people watching, with a guy, by the way, I am not the LEAST bit attracted to!"
She stormed off, Dean on her tail.
"Rory! Rory, don't do this! Look I'm really sorry!"
And of course, many members of the town's gossip chain were watching this scene unravel before them.
"Dear, God, Patty! You think they're going to break up?" questioned Babette.
" Probably not today, but I'd keep a close watch if I were you. We wouldn't want to miss the biggest break-up in Stars Hallow history."
A/N: I hoped you liked this very short chapter.
Next Chapter:
The Dance Marathon!