Notes: The game they are playing is called Apples to Apples. I was gonna not post for a while…but I'm a whore like that. So here.
Rudy Can't Fail #14.5
Nadia rolled up her sleeves and squinted at the seven noun cards in her hand. J. Edgar Hoover, the Statue of Liberty, the JFK Assassination, dust bunnies, mud, France and Wimbledon.
She glanced down at the green adjective card sitting on the coffee table. "What does Luke think is pretty?" she muttered. She bit her lip and placed her dust bunnies card face-down.
Luke eyes Jess, Nadia, and Nadia's roommate Annette, suspiciously before picking up the three cards they'd set down before him.
"What do I think is pretty?" he muttered as he glanced over the cards. He glared. "Who put down Brad Pitt?"
Annette giggled.
"It's not supposed to be what you think is pretty," Jess explained. "It's supposed to be what Luke thinks is pretty."
the blonde shrugged. "I thought it was a universal truth."
Luke shook his head read the remaining cards. "Dust bunnies, and..." he grinned.
Jess leaned forward and snatched up the adjective card to add to his growing pile.
"Hey!" Nadia cried. "No fair. He hasn't picked one yet!"
"I win," Jess replied.
Luke nodded and tried not to laugh. "Jess wins."
"What!" Nadia snatched the cards from Luke. She saw her own card, along with Jess's that read "swans." She didn't bother to read the description on the side. "Swans!"
"They're very pretty," Luke chuckled.
Jess snorted, and tried not to laugh.
"I am so lost," Nadia lamented.
"I'm blonde," Annette joked. "I'm always lost."
"I still have the ladle," Luke laughed.
Jess covered his face with his hands. "Jeez..."
Nadia sighed. "This means I'm gonna have to get Jess drunk again..."
"He got beaked!" Luke exclaimed, cracking up into laughter.
"Do NOT tell them," Jess snapped.
"Beaked?" Annette asked. "That sounds slightly dirty."
The phone rang and Jess spring up to get it. "Don't tell them," he repeated as he picked up the cordless phone in the kitchen. "Hello?"
"Jess?"
His eyes widened a little and he rushed into his bedroom. "Lorelai."
"Hi."
"Hi," he sighed awkwardly. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah," she liked. "I'm okay...I just...Luke hasn't been in town for a the past couple of days."
"He's here," Jess replied gently.
"I figured," Lorelai replied. "I was just wondering how he was."
"He's okay."
"good," Lorelai said. He heard her try and smile. "Well, I guess I'd better-"
"Lorelai?"
"Yeah?"
Jess sighed. "He loves you...He's just an idiot."
"That's not hard to believe," Lorelai joked. "He's related to you."
"Zing," Jess smirked. "feeling better already, Mizz. Gilmore?"
"Bye, Jess."
"Bye," he hung up and shook his head. When he reentered the living room, both Nadia and Annette were staring at him in amusement.
Jess glared at Luke. "You told them!"
Annette and Nadia burst into laughter.