Disclaimer: I don't own, and neither do you, I don't own, so you don't sue (A/N: I really don't own ANYTHING, including this disclaimer. It belongs to M0rbidity...check out her stories!) Thanks to her and Will and Grace for the idea of the 'tush'. So...read away!
Author: Mei AnimeSummary: It's the summer after Rory graduates from college and it's overflowing with stress, confusion, and love. Both Gilmore's have to make decisions that may change their lives. And all they have to help them get through this is each other...and coffee. (A/N: Rory and Jess have been friends since 7th grade and never dated)
Chapter One: One Cup Of the Strongest Coffee You Have, Please"I must sit," Rory whined as she stumbled on the sidewalk leaning on her mother for support. "If I don't find somewhere to sit soon, I may just fall down on the sidewalk right here."
They had been shoe shopping for nearly six hours, and Lorelai had dragged poor Rory along.
"Well, I've been thinking of a way to get rid of you anyhow. Ever since school has ended, you've seem to be around all the time," Lorelai replied jokingly to her daughter's sarcasm.
"Then I'll find a mom who loves me enough not to take me to shopping for hours!" Rory answered back sarcastically, not letting Lorelai win their 'competition' of comebacks, "and she'll also make better coffee!" the twenty-two year old added.
"How dare you insult my ability to make coffee!" Lorelai stated with a gasp for dramatic affect. "And anyways, I have Luke's." Lorelai rambled on as she opened the door to the diner she had been talking about.
"Did I hear my name?" Luke questioned to the two Gilmores, while wiping down the tables.
"We were just talking about how adorable you look when you're pouring coffee," Lorelai said dripping with sarcasm, while batting her eyes at Luke playfully.
"Ok," Luke responded, ignoring what Lorelai said, "what can I get you?"
Rory jumped in before her mom could speak. "I need one cup of your strongest coffee, please!"
"Why so much caffeine today?" Luke pondered, scribbling Rory's request down on the pad of paper he always carried around to take orders.
" My feet need it," she replied back vaguely and sat down at the nearest table. A confused Luke had learned from past experiences not to ask to many questions, so he walked away to fill her order.
He came back with two cups of coffee and handed one to Rory. "How did you know?" Lorelai asked Luke sweetly, eyeing the other cup of coffee.
"I didn't say it was for you," Luke replied in his usual gruff way, which he had to do to keep his manly reputation. Before Luke could walk away to give the other coffee to Kirk who was waiting impatiently with his girlfriend, Lulu, Lorelai grabbed the drink out of his hand. Luke was about to open his mouth to speak, but them shut it, turned around to pour Kirk another cup of caffeine (A/N: Lack of a better substitute for coffee) and muttered, "Never get between a Gilmore and their coffee."
[Back at the Gilmore house]
"The couch has never felt more comfortable in my life!" Rory exaggerated as she sulked into the cushions and flipped on the TV. They had just gotten home after they ate dinner at Luke's, which consisted of 3 cups of coffee, each, some ham and egg sandwiches, and a heap of fries.
"I'm going to run upstairs and admire my beautiful shoes. You want to come?" Lorelai was half way up the stairs already by the time Rory responded.
"I've seen enough shoes for a day, thank you very much, "Rory replied as expected. She laid back on the couch and surfed through the channels until she found an re-run of I Love Lucy on. Just as Ricky came home and shouted, 'Honey, I'm home' (A/N: Ricky is Lucy's wife and that's his famous line, I think), the doorbell, at her own house, interrupted. Rory sighed as she went to answer the door. When she opened it, she saw a familiar face, Kirk.
He was dressed unusually though, with a UPS like costume that showed his painfully skinny legs a little more than Rory wanted to see. "Hi Kirk. What's the costume for? Is it Halloween already?"
"I'm here to sell you Kirk's Subway Tush, the most comfy way to sit in on subway and offers enough padding and support for any tush," Kirk stated in a very business like manner, which was very funny to Rory when she considered what he was saying.
Rory, being the nice girl that she is, replied politely, "Thank you, Kirk, but I don't ride the subway much."
"Just buy one," Kirk begged.
"Sorry," Rory said while shutting the door on him. She walked back to the couch and plopped herself down and let out a sigh of satisfaction. Just as she settled down, the doorbell, again, rang. Rory, of course, thought it was Kirk, so as she opened the door she started to say, " Please, told you I don't need your tush, so just...."
Before she had finished what she was saying she had opened the door all the way, and realized that it wasn't Kirk standing at the door. It was Jess.
"Jess...what are you...doing here?" Rory stuttered, red-faced from embarrassment that she had actually said the word 'tush' to Jess.
"My tush isn't good enough for you, huh?" Jess played along.
"No...your..."tush" is fine," Rory stated slowly, clearly still embarrassed, "It's Kirk he..."
"Oh so you think Kirk's tush isn't good enough," Jess interrupted.
"In a way...yes," Rory answered
"Spare me the details of Kirk's tush. I've only got five minutes and I'd rather be talking about another topic," Jess concluded.
Rory understood completely, "So what's up?"
"Well, I just wanted to tell you that my mom wanted me to visit with her and that man she calls her husband, for a week," Jess stated.
After he finished talking, there was an awkward silence between the two while Rory let what he said soak in. Surprisingly, it made her sad that he was leaving.
"Okay, call me when you get back," Rory said unsurely. She couldn't find the right words to say.
"I have to go now. My mom's waiting," Jess said as a horn honked outside. Rory nodded in agreement and then walked him to the door.
There was another awkward silence. Jess leaned in as if to give her a hug or a kiss, but a scream from Lorelai's room interrupted.
"I'd better go check on my mom." Rory said, "She's admiring herself and her shoes...very dangerous. So I'll see you in a week?"
Jess laughed at Rory's description of her mom, "Yep, I'll see you then. You should hurry up," he said pointing upstairs. With that he walked out of the house and closed the door behind him.
"Hon, we have got a problem!" Lorelai shouted again at the top of her lungs.
Rory let out a groan as she headed up the stairs to see what her mom was up to. When she opened the door to her mother's room, she found her mom with a shoe, a pump to be exact, in her hair.
"Oh good, you're here." Lorelai greeted Rory, "See, I was admiring this shoe and doing my 'walk' when suddenly the heel broke. I tried to fix it with Tacky Glue and that's how I ended up like this."
Rory shook her head and let out a little laugh as she walked out and shut the door, leaving her mother rambling about the shoe. "She's had too much coffee and has too many shoes," Rory thought to herself with a smile on her face, "Sometimes, I think she's impossible."
She turned and walked downstairs. Another episode of I Love Lucy had come on. Rory dropped herself on the couch yet again. She fell asleep after watching 2 more hours, only to wake up to even more surprises.
(A/N: I know it's not a long chapter, but it was just kind of setting the scene. There'll be more to come, once I figure out what I want to happen. If you have any advice or comments please review!)