Dancing to the Blues

Those Fabulous Fights

Note: I don't own Gilmore Girls or any of the characters.

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I just woke up at three o'clock and mom and I are on our way to Luke's. Mom seems to have forgotten about last night's events, which I am very grateful for.

"Mmkay, still walking, all's good. Huh. Mmkay." Mom mumbled

"How are you?" I ask.

"I should probably keep moving." Mom says.

"God, my feet have never been in this much pain before." I complain.

"Oh yeah, what about that time?" mom mumbles.

"What time?" I ask really confused

"The time when I did the thing and your feet were . . .gotta stop." Mom starts.

"Gotta sit." I agree and we sit down on a bale of hay, "Ugh. What were you saying?"

"About what?" mom asks.

"About my feet." I mumble.

"What about your feet?" mom asks confused.

"I don't know. You were talking about the thing you did to my feet." I state just as confused.

"What thing?" mom asks.

"The thing that you…you and…Huh?" I mutter.

"What?" mom asks still confused.

"I don't know." I sigh.

"Just an observation – you and I do not function well on a funky sleeping pattern." Mom points out.

"No you think?" I ask sarcastically.

"I think" mom says not seeming to catch the sarcasm in my voice.

"I feel jet-lagged." I complain.

"You've been up twenty-four hours straight." Mom points out.

"Yes, why did I do that?" I ask confused.

"Because I asked you to." Mom says.

"And that worked?" I say with regret in my voice.

"At the time. I don't expect it to again." Mom says this time catching the regret in my voice.

"A realist, I like that." I say.

"How far is Luke's?" mom asks.

"It's right over there." I say.

"It looks far." Mom points out.

"Very far." I agree

"Maybe if we concentrate really hard, our combined psychic powers will move it closer." Mom decides

We stare at the Luke's. It doesn't move. We Repeat until I say, "I don't think it's working."

"It's my fault, I'm not focusing." mom says.

"Yes, that must be why we can't move a half a city block closer to us. " I say sarcastically.

"All right then, let's go. On the count of three…One...two…three!" mom say but neither of us move. We finally walk to Luke's after 5 minutes.

"Oh my God. Thank you." Mom exclaims.

"I never realized Luke's was a hundred miles away." I complain.

"We're lucky it wasn't snowing. It would've been The Donner Party all over again, but with slightly better hair. Why are you sitting over there? Mom asks.

"Where?" I ask.

"At that table."

"Huh. How did I get here?"

"You sat there."

"Well, this chair's very close to that chair, so you understand how I could've made the mistake."

"That's not the reason. You wanted to sit by your boyfriend."

"That's so not the reason," I say even though it really is since Jess is at the next table.

"Abandon your own mother to sit by your boyfriend. I'm hurt" mom says.

"He's not my boyfriend." I mutter.

"Oh really, then you didn't kiss him last night?" mom ask irritably.

So she hadn't forgotten. I didn't think she would, but I thought she'd have more respect for me to bring it up here. I snap at her, "I never said I didn't kiss him. He's just not my boyfriend"

"Oh so you kiss guys who aren't your boyfriend all the time? No wonder Dean broke up with you." Mom shouts.

I feel like she's just stabbed me, "I just kissed Jess." I say through my tears.

"Oh honey I'm so sorry" mom apologizes.

"It's not good enough." I cry. I struggle to the counter. "Coffee please"

"Coming right up." Luke says, "So Rory you and Jess are dating?"

"What?" I ask confused.

"Well I couldn't help but overhear the conversation with your mom…"

"It's undecided," I whisper.

"What do you mean undecided?" Jess comes up and asks me.

"I mean we never said we were dating." I say.

"It was implied," Jess snaps.

"We never said we were going to date." I whisper.

"Oh so you just told me you had feelings for me and then I told you I had feelings for you and then we kissed…and you didn't have the idea that we were going to date?" Jess says angrily.

"I wasn't sure if it was time to say I'm your girlfriend."

"Whatever. I'll talk to you later."

"Wait…" I call after him. I would chase after him but until I get more coffee in me I can't I look at Luke tears in my eyes, "I screwed everything up!" He puts his hand on my shoulder.

Some of the dialogue in this is from the episode "Let the games begin"