OK. I give up. I want to thank everyone who took the time to read and/or review. BUT this doesn't mean I'm done with Gilmore Girls! I'm writing other stories... one kind of emo and one is just nutso. But they have plots. I wrote "Playing Your Song" on a whim and a prayer. But for those curious about the events if I kept going, here's the basic outline and my favorite parts from each chapter.
Chapter 13- Vanessa meets Miss Patty's niece, Bridget, and nephew, Casey. She and Lorelai sing "Bohemian Rhapsody" during a town meeting. Rory and Jess decide to tell Luke and Lorelai they're together.
Taylor snapped, "And just what are you whispering, Miss Gilmore-Danes?"
Luke defended his kid. "Hey! She's just talking!"
"Exactly! This is a town meeting! If we have the need to talk, we say it to everyone."
Lorelai said, "Oh, she, she said that, um, it's time for a bohemian rhapsody." Lorelai then turned to her daughter and sung, "I see a little silhouette of a man."
"Lorelai! Why are you singing?" Taylor demanded to know.
"Scatamoose, scatamoose, will you do the fandango?" Vanessa sang, a smile coming over her face.
"I can't believe this is my family," Luke groaned, covering his face with his hands. It was times like these where he wished he was invisible.
"Thunder bolt and lighting, very very frightening me!" Lorelai and Vanessa sang together not-so-perfectly, thrusting their arms out.
"That's quite enough!" Taylor bellowed.
"Gallalaio!" Vanessa chirped.
"Gallalaio!" Lorelai responded.
"Gallalaio!"
"Gallalaio!"
"Gallalaio! Figaro!" they sang together. "Magnifico-oh-oh-oh!"
Kirk stood up and sang, "I'm just a poor boy, no body loves me!"
"KIRK! SIT DOWN!" everyone shouted.
"He's just a poor boy from a poor family!" Vanessa and Lorelai sang.
"That is quite enough!" Taylor shouted.
"Aw, come on, let us get to the 'mamma mia' part!" Vanessa called out.
"No, Vanessa," Lorelai said, patting her daughter's knee. "See that vein sticking out of Taylor's neck? Our damage here is done."
"Anyway!" Taylor snarled through gritted teeth. "Next order of business, this year's rendition of Chicago is canceled, due to Nadia twisting her ankle and the fact that those assholes in the next town over stole our idea."
Lorelai and Vanessa gasped, "Oh my gosh!" Lorelai turned to her daughter. "Did he just swear?"
Vanessa nodded, "I think he did!"
"Did you bring the camera?" Lorelai asked.
"No! I didn't think Taylor would swear!" Vanessa exclaimed.
"It must be because of the angry vein," Lorelai stated.
Chapter 14- We find out Jess got Rory pregnant. Shock. I don't really like this chapter.
Chapter 15- We find out the whole deal with Jess and Rory and Logan. Then, while working at the inn, Sookie accidentally cuts her hand and Lorelai sends Vanessa off for band-aids. Vanessa runs into Jess and they call a truce.
"Would ya let me finish?" Lorelai asked. She then started again. "He never really liked little kids." Then she started impersonating Luke, "'They always have jam on their hands, even when there was no jam anywhere. Very sticky, and then they'd try and hug you. Or you'd be really busy and they always want to show you something stupid they accomplished, like jumping up and down in a circle. Then parents would feel so happy when the kid said 'Mama' or 'Dada.' I mean, any kid can say that.'"
"Is this supposed to make me feel good for my birthday?" Vanessa asked, not very amused.
"Hey, I'm getting there!"
"Sorry."
Lorelai cleared her throat and continued, "Then you were born. And everything that he found annoying in other little kids he found funny in you. You know what your first word was?"
"What?" Vanessa asked, not really wanting to hear it. It was probably going to be something stupid like "Mama" or "Dada."
Lorelai revealed happily, "Coffee."
Vanessa started laughing hysterically. " My first word was 'coffee'!"
Chapter 16- Vanessa's sweet sixteen. She almost kisses Justin, who is dressing like Luke as a joke, but doesn't due to Emily and Richard arriving. Boo.
Lorelai looked over again as she watched Vanessa beg, "C'mon Justin, lemme have more coffee."
"No," Justin stated, trying to get back to work.
"Pleaseeeeeee!" she begged.
"No," Justin said again.
"Why not?" she demanded, stomping her foot.
"It... makes you short," Justin lied as he handed two customers their orders.
"Oh, my dad so told you that!" Vanessa cried, following him. She then put a pout on and begged as he almost turned around into her, "Pretty please?"
"No."
"With a cherry on top?"
"No."
"How about some whipped cream?"
"No."
"What? Whipped cream too dirty for you?"
Chapter 17- Vanessa gets a moped. Wooo. The next day, Vanessa has Justin chasing her around the square because she doesn't want to face him.
"OK, explain to me why I just had to chase you around the town square like an idiot?" Justin asked.
"Because that was your initiation for becoming town nut?" Vanessa joked.
"That's not it. Kirk's still somewhat young, he'll be town nut for a long time," Justin busted.
"Uh, because it's National Have-Someone-Chase-You-Around-The-Town-Square-Like-A-Moron Day?" Vanessa tried.
Chapter 18- We skip ahead to the end of August, a week before school starts. Casey and Vanessa have gone out, but decide to be friends until Bridget invites Vanessa to be Casey's date for the festival. Then there's Friday night dinner and Richard invites Vanessa to spend a day at the club with him, his friend Max, and Max's granddaughter Alexis, who just so happens to live in Stars Hollow and going to Chilton.
Lorelai nodded, then whispered to Vanessa as they walked into the living room. "Have you noticed that Rosa's still here?"
"Yes I have and I am quite happy with it. She's the only maid whose name I can remember and sometimes she sneaks me chocolate," Vanessa stated.
"'Quite'?" Lorelai repeated, confused. "You're sixteen, you don't use the word 'quite.' It's immoral."
"Whatev, Mummerz," Vanessa stated.
"That's the spirit," Lorelai answered as they sat down on the loveseat. She looked around and said, "It's quite quiet."
"Too quiet," Vanessa added, getting the joke.
"Like the calm before a storm," Lorelai said in a hushed whisper.
Luke turned to Rory. "If there was any doubt that Vanessa was switched as birth, there's no doubt now."
"Like before some crazed maniac jumps out and slashes you," Vanessa thought aloud.
"Like before... before... I got nothing," Lorelai stated.
"Me too," Vanessa replied.
"Admitting defeat?" Rory joked.
"Maybe," Vanessa stated, raising her eyebrows.
Chapter 19- Vanessa and Alexis meet and become instant friends. Then at the festival, Casey confesses that he wants Vanessa back in his life. Then Vanessa gets a frantic call from Lorelai.
"Luke's Diner?" Alexis asked, searching her brain to see if that sounded familiar. "Oh, isn't there a guy named Justin who works there?"
Vanessa nodded.
"I saw him chase you," Alexis laughed.
"Yup. I think someone should have taken a picture of that and put it on the cover of the brochure."
"You two make a cute couple."
"Well, we're just friends. I beg him for coffee and he gives it to me. Eventually. After I beat him senselessly with my shoe."
Chapter 20- I killed off Richard. Sorry. And of course, I kill him off in September, so naturally I name the chapter "Wake Me Up When September Ends." How original am I? (sarcasm)
"You know, Ness, I didn't really have the greatest relationship with my father at your age–"
"Because you were pregnant with Rory," Vanessa interjected.
Lorelai continued, "But I'm glad you and your dad have a great relationship. You make him proud and everything he found annoying in other kids he finds funny and charming and witty in you. There's only one other person he does that for is Rory and Rory's not even his own kid."
Vanessa smiled and said, "Yeah. I am lucky. Hey, do you think one of these days, I can convince him to get rid of the backwards baseball cap?"
"Let's not get too far ahead of ourselves here," Lorelai stated, yawning.
Chapter 21- My longest chapter to date with 15 pages. It was the Dance Marathon and Casey and Vanessa go as Jack and Meg White. Because I said so. AND KIRK DOESN'T WIN THIS YEAR! Haha, a triumph for the Gilmore girls! Oh yeah, and Casey dumps Vanessa right in the middle of the marathon because he needed to go to the bathroom and Vanessa needed a dance partner so she naturally chose Coffee Boy (Justin). Casey comes back, sees that Vanessa and Justin have perfect chemistry, and, being the senstive guy he is, dumps her while yelling very loudly as the whole town is watching.
"Hey, we should start a mosh pit!" Vanessa suggested.
"Brilliant!" Lorelai announced, "We should start at Kirk so we can win for sure. Most excellent idea, my dear daughter!"
Just then, Jess and Rory joined the mix. "Take her," Jess practically begged. "She's had too much coffee even though I told her no coffee."
"So have the rest of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood," Luke responded.
"Hey, guys, we should start a mosh pit!" Rory suggested.
"No, you're pregnant. That baby might come out demented in the head, or at least with a mohawk," Vanessa responded.
"Well, Jess can go in for me," Rory stated.
"I'd rather live if you don't mind," Jess replied.
Chapter 22- Or the chapter where Vanessa is emo. You can tell she's emo because she DOESN'T ORDER COFFEE. SHE ORDERS A SALAD. Vanessa is attacked by everyone, telling her that she's too good for Casey. And she asks out Justin FINALLY. And Taylor drives a golf cart. But I'm saving that awesome incident for another GG fan fic. I think that golf cart incident was the best writing I've done. Ever. Oh yeah, and Rory tells Vanessa that she and Jess are engaged.
Vanessa burst into Doose's and immediately ran over to Alexis, who was stocking cereal.
"They know!" Vanessa cried.
"It was bound to happen," Alexis stated, knowing exactly what Vanessa meant.
"I hate my life!" Vanessa responded, burying her face onto Alexis's shoulder. Alexis patted Vanessa's head.
Vanessa lifted her head up and stated, "Maybe I should change my name and move to New York City. Then I will attempt to become an actress, but will end up dead in Lower New York Bay and all the foreign visitors will poke me with a stick!"
"I think someone would get your body out of there before it got disgusting," Alexis replied, making her way to the register.
"Not helping!" Vanessa pouted.
"Sorry. Here, I'll give you a hug because chocolate is deducted from my paycheck," Alexis responded, reaching over and giving her a hug.
Chapter 23- Dinner With Gilmore's, Round 2. Emily has herself a "boyfriend." She also hums a Pink Floyd song, "Money". Then Rory tells everyone she and Jess are engaged and Luke and Lorelai throw a fit. Mean words are thrown between the parents and Vanessa. Then Vanessa runs away because she is still emo.
"Well, Rory's friend Lane is hosting a Worst Movie Ever Marathon at the library and it takes place all weekend long. Well, there's this REALLY bad movie called Manos: Hands Of Fate and Justin and I are going to go and make fun of it," Vanessa stated. "Apparently, half the cast committed suicide after the movie was released because it did THAT bad. I wouldn't blame them."
"Sounds dreadful," Norman replied.
"The movie is, but the whole making fun of movies is normal for Mom and I," Vanessa stated.
"You're going, Lorelai?" Emily questioned.
"God no, Mom," Lorelai replied.
"If you were, Vanessa would be scarred forever and would never be able to go on any dates because the boys would be afraid that you would show up," Emily continued.
"What makes you think I want to scar Vanessa further? She's scarred enough as it is being my kid," Lorelai retorted, patting Vanessa on the head. She then whispered, "You kneel behind her and I'll push."
Chapter 24- Lorelai is having a fit because Vanessa is missing. Justin finds her in a town five miles away and they kiss in the rain. Aw. But then Vanessa is grounded for, like, ever. Once again, no favorite part.
And that's about it. So as you can see, that sucked. But be on the lookout for my other GG fanfics!
Marla
