The next day, Alexis came back to the diner. Luke was working, of course, and Jess was around town. News of his arrival had traveled fast around the town, Ms. Patty had seen him the night before, and now was curious of who Alexis was. She sat at the counter pestering Luke, as Alexis came in, said Hi to Luke and, went upstairs to get the rest of her stuff. She grabbed all her stuff out of the drawers and the closet, and put it in a small blue suitcase she had arrived to Luke's diner with just the day before. As she finished packing, she took a piece of paper out of the suitcase sat on Jess's bed, and began to sketch Luke's apartment, making sure not to miss any important details, she might need later. As she was halfway through her drawing Jess walked in.
"What are you doing here?" Alexis asked, as she jumped up, startled.
"I live here" Jess told her.
"I know.. I meant, didn't you go out?"
"Yes, and now I'm back." Jess told her, with a strange look on his face, knowing Alexis was up to something "Why?"
"No reason, I just didn't expect you to be back soon, if I had I wouldn't have started to--- I wouldn't have stayed so long."
"Wouldn't have started what?" Jess asked her, with a suspicious grin on his face.
"I wouldn't have umm.. I wouldn't have started to.. started my drawing for Luke"
"Uh huh" Jess nodded his head, still knowing she was lying. "Can I see it?"
"I don't like to show people my unfinished work." She said, grabbing her suitcase from beside the door, and rushing downstairs. "I'm gonna go bring this over to the Dragonfly Inn Luke; I'll be back later" She told him, as she was still rushing out the door.
"Alright" Luke said, as Ms. Patty was still sitting there, pestering him about who Alexis was, Jess walked downstairs to help out Luke in the diner, which was part of the agreement they had made the night before. As Jess began to work, he still had that stupid grin on his face.
"What's with the smile?"
"I'm not even allowed to smile?"
"Not that kind of smile."
"And what kind of smile might that be?"
"You know exactly what I mean, now what's going on?" Luke said, annoyed.
"Nothing." Jess said, his smirk became wider, as he cleared some plates from a table. "I just don't think your daughter's up to something, is all." Jess said, in the same snotty tone of voice he always uses, when he knows something, somebody else knows.
"Daughter!" Ms Patty sounded intrigued, "Luke, you have a daughter?"
"No" Luke said, as he grabbed Jess's arm, and pulled him upstairs. "What the hell do you think you're doing!"
"Nothing." Jess's smirk, still firmly placed on his face.
"That's not funny. The whole town knows by now."
"I just thought you should know."
"Know what?"
"That your daughter's up to something."
"What the hell do you mean?"
"All I know that when I came up here, she jumped up and started acting crazy."
"She's 16."
"No, no, she was writing something down."
"She probably has a diary or something."
"Okay." Jess said.
"And don't ever pull a stunt like that again." Luke said, and stomped angrily downstairs, leaving Jess upstairs alone. Jess knew there was something up with Alexis, and he had done his part in trying to let Luke know. Next time he'd just keep his mouth closed. Luke on the other hand, was already being bombarded with questions. How old is she? They asked. What's her name? When did she get here? Have you ever known about her? Who's her mother? Where did she come from? What is she doing here? Luke knew this would happen, and he wanted to stall it as long as possible.
"Okay I can't take this anymore." He said quietly, "Everybody out!" He then screamed. "Come on move it!" He motioned them all out and shut the door behind them. Jess then came walking downstairs, to finish his job.
"What happened? Did you finally scare them all away?"
"Why the hell did you do that?"
"What did I do now?"
"You told them all about Alexis."
"I thought you'd want them all to know."
"Would you want them to know? The whole town is like Lucy and Ethel. The entire town probably knows by now."
"I'm sorry, I was just trying to do you a favor, Luke, make it easier to tell them, and after all, I thought you'd want your friends and neighbors to know. Isn't that how this whole small town thing is supposed to work?"
"Don't do me any favors." Luke said, as he stormed out of the diner, got in his car and headed off the Dragonfly Inn. He came in, still annoyed, and walked up to Lorelai, in a rather loud way.
"Jess told everyone!"
"..About your boxers with the pink bunnies on them?"
"About Alexis."
"Oh.." Lorelai said surprised. "..OH!"
"What?"
"Nothing just.. oh!"
"What do I do?"
"What can you do?"
"I don't know. He thinks she's got some kind of plan, like he walked in on her plotting against me or something."
"Very Matchstick Men of her."
"Lorelai"
"I'm sorry.. What do you mean plotting against you?"
"I have no idea, I told him he was crazy, which by the way, was after he came downstairs, to my diner full of people and announced to the world that I have a daughter."
"Kinda like what you're doing right now?"
"What?"
"Nothing, I just meant, you're talking kind of loud is all." Lorelai told him. "Hang on a sec, I'll go put my stuff down, and we can sit down in the dining room, and talk, okay?" Luke nodded, and headed toward the dining room, still stressed, he waited for her. Lorelai walked to the front counter, put down her clipboard, and the linen's she was holding, walked to the kitchen, poured herself a cup of coffee, and went back out to the dining room to talk to Luke.
I'm deffinately going to reveal more about Alexis in the next chapter. I hope ya'll like the story so far. Please continue to review.
