So Happy Together…?
Chapter 4
Disclaimer: Nope, nope, nope.
Pairing: Well obviously!
Summary: Rory and Jess are finally back together. Rory has to tell Lorelai what happened when she went to New York. Jess has to work. They are still living in separate towns. CH 4 – Rory tells Lorelai the news.
Rating: PG-13 for cussing, etc.
A/N: Here it is. After a year delay? Thanks to anyone and everyone who has reviewed :D Enjoy!
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Rory and Lorelai walked in the door and sat down onto the couch.
"So, you said you'd tell me now…" Lorelai told Rory.
"Um…" Rory looked down and studied her shoes.
"Well…?"
"Uh…" Rory squirmed.
"You don't need to be embarrassed, hun," Lorelai told her.
"What?" Rory asked, looking up at her.
"He has a girlfriend, right. Jess has a girlfriend?"
Rory frowned. "Well…he does now."
"You don't need to be embarrassed that you told him how you felt and he had a girlfriend already…"
"Mom…"
"He's a jerk. It doesn't matter, now you can move on," Lorelai said trying really hard not to show her enthusiasm.
"Mom…" Rory said again, trying to stop her.
"Now that it's all off your chest, you feel better, right?"
"Mom!" Rory said loudly.
"What?" Lorelai asked frowning.
Rory looked down again. "Uh…" She sighed. "Mom….Jess and I…got back together."
Lorelai looked confused. "But you just said that he had a girlfriend…"
Rory nodded. "Me. I'm his girlfriend. He didn't have a girlfriend."
"WHAT!" Lorelai shouted.
"I…That's why I didn't want to tell you…'cause I knew you'd be upset."
"Upset? No, try furious!" Lorelai yelled as she stood up.
"Mom…don't..."
"No, Rory! No!" Lorelai shook her head. "How could you get back together with him!" Lorelai asked. "I told you to tell him how you felt so that you could move on! Not go to New York and get back together with him!"
Rory looked up at her. "Mom… I'm not over him… I can't just make myself get over someone that I still have feelings for!"
"Sure you can!"
"We both still have feelings for each other," Rory told her.
"Then why did he leave, Rory?" Lorelai yelled. "Why'd he go to California! Why did he leave without saying a word to you! Why did he break your heart!"
Rory fell silent. I can't believe I didn't say anything about that. I didn't ask him how he could leave and be on that bus without saying anything…regardless of the flunking out of school thing…
"You didn't ask him? How could you not ask that!" Lorelai shouted.
Rory looked down and sighed. "Jess and I are back together, you have to accept that," Rory said trying to stay calm.
Lorelai looked at her. "I don't have to accept anything, definitely not that," She told her and grabbed her purse and stormed out the back door.
Lorelai walked quickly towards Luke's. I can't believe she got back with that jerk! He left her! He broke her heart! He doesn't deserve her! How could she do that! He'll break her heart again! I know he will!
She finally got to the Diner. "Luke!" She yelled as she flung the door open. She walked to the counter where she knew she would find him. "I need to talk to-" She stopped when she saw Nicole sitting at the counter and him leaning over it across from her.
"Oh…Nicole…hi."
Luke frowned. "Lorelai? What's-,"
Lorelai shook her head sadly. "No…never-mind…it's okay…I'll just go…" Lorelai said. Everybody is busy. No one has time to listen to me rant.
Nicole watched Luke as he watched Lorelai turn around and walk to the door. She squeezed his hand tightly. She knew that something was going between them. Luke had feelings for her. It was obvious…and it hurt to see him worry about her. He was supposed to be her husband, not Lorelai's.
Luke looked at Lorelai and then back at Nicole. She could tell that he wanted to go after her. Nicole sighed. "Go," She said angrily.
He frowned and looked at her. "Are you sure?" He asked.
She nodded.
"I'll be back in a second…It's just…she's my friend…and she's upset…" He half explained as he headed to the door.
He let the door shut behind him and found her standing not very far from the door.
"Lorelai?" He asked as he stood in front of her. "What's wrong?"
She sighed. "Go back in there. She's your wife. She's far more important."
He shook his head. "Nicole can wait. What's wrong Lorelai?"
She exhaled deeply. "Rory….and Jess…." She shook her head.
"What about Rory and Jess?" He asked.
"They're back together!" She exclaimed.
He adjusted his baseball cap. "Oh…wow."
"No 'oh wow'. This is bad!"
"Lorelai, I thought we already had this conversation…You've got to let her grow up, let her make her own choices, rather they be good or bad ones. She'll figure it out. If she wants to be with Jess, then you have to let her," Luke told her.
Lorelai sighed. "That's not what I wanted to hear."
He shrugged. "It's the truth."
"Yeah… I guess… but… ugh…"
"So Jess and Rory are back together," He mused. "Huh."
She huffed. "Well…thanks, I guess…." Lorelai told him.
He looked at her.
"So how are you and Nicole doing?" Lorelai asked, changing the subject.
"Uh…okay I guess," Luke said.
"That's good," Lorelai said nodding.
"Yeah."
"Well, you better get back in there before she thinks I stole you," Lorelai joked.
"Are you okay now?"
"Yeah, I think… I've gotta go and apologize…I might have yelled a bit…."
"Oh, hey…you wanna get some coffee?" Luke asked, trying to keep the conversation going. He wondered why he suddenly didn't want to go back into the Diner to face Nicole.
"No, that's okay. You go back in there. I'll see you tomorrow."
"Are you sure?" He asked, shoving his hands in his pockets.
"Yeah," She said nodding.
"Well…okay…see you tomorrow."
"Bye," Lorelai said and turned around and started to walk home.
Luke walked back to the door of the Diner slowly, not seeing Nicole turn from the window back to the wall. He opened the door and walked back behind the counter.
"What was wrong?" Nicole asked curiously.
"Oh, uh, nothing…just a family matter…" Luke answered.
Nicole looked at him. "I need to ask you something…" She told him.
He looked up. "Shoot," He told her.
"Do you love me?"
"What?" He asked, confused.
"It's a simple question Luke. Do you love me?"
He shifted from one foot to the other. "Well, sure I love you."
She sighed. "But are you IN love with me?"
"I…"
She exhaled. "You're not."
"I…" He tried again.
"You're in love with her."
"What? Who?" He asked.
"Her!" She said and used her thumb to point towards the door.
"Lorelai?"
"Yes, Lorelai," Nicole said, agitated.
"No!"
She nodded. "Yes, Luke. You are. I've seen you with her. I saw you right now. The way you went after her…You are!" She yelled.
Luke looked around and saw the customers watching them. "Will you lower your voice!" He whispered, completely ignoring what she had just said.
"No, I will not. You, Luke Danes, are in love with Lorelai Gilmore."
"No," He said and shook his head.
"I'm putting the divorce papers through," She told him.
He sighed and nodded. "Okay."
"I hope you'll realize it before it's too late," Nicole told him as she stood up. "I'll drop your stuff off in a few days." She grabbed her purse and quickly left.
He stood there staring at the counter top. He pulled his cloth out of his back pocket and started to wipe furiously at it. That's crazy! Ridiculous! I don't love Lorelai. She's my friend. My best friend, even. I do not love her….
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Rory looked at the phone and contemplated calling Jess. No… I don't know how I can ask him that. I can't do that… She sighed. But I need to call and tell him that I told her… She dialed his number slowly.
"Hello?"
"Hey…" Rory said.
"Hey… have you told her?"
"Yeah," She told him.
"And how'd she take it?"
Rory sighed. "Not too well…" She briefly considered telling him what she had said, but decided against it and pushed it out of her head.
"Hey Jess, where do you want this?" Rory heard a voice call from the background. Rory's eyes widened and she frowned.
"Jess, who is that?" She asked.
"Uh…Sammy…you met her the other day…she volunteered to help me put my stuff up…" Jess explained.
"How did she know that you needed your stuff put up in the first place?"
Jess exhaled. "She knocked on my door yesterday and saw my stuff everywhere and just volunteered."
"Why did she knock on your door?"
He propped his head up on his elbow. "She wanted to borrow a book."
"Huh…"
"Rory… She's just a friend. We have a common interest in books. She's helping me put my stuff away," Jess told her.
"Whatever. I don't care," She lied. "You can have your friends."
He raised an eyebrow. "Are you sure?"
"Definitely," She said unconvincingly. "That means you wouldn't have a problem with me being friends with Brian…the guy I just broke up with, right?"
He frowned. "Well…"
"I knew you'd have no problem with it," Rory said, obviously bugged by it.
"Jess?" Sammy called from his bedroom. "Where do you want this?"
"Well, I better let you go and get that apartment all straightened up with your buddy…" Rory said faking cheerfulness.
"Yeah…" Jess said, still frowning. "Rory are you-."
"I'll talk to you tomorrow. Bye," She said quickly and hung up the phone. A friend who's a girl. I don't like that. They were going to go out on a date. She wants him. He might not see it, but she does……
Jess hung up the phone and sighed.
Sammy walked into the room. "Did I get you in trouble?" She asked.
He twisted his lips to the side. "She's just a little mad."
"Sorry," She said smiling and then changed the subject. "Where do you want to put this?" She asked holding up an empty box.
He shrugged. "Where-ever."
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Lorelai walked in the door a few minutes later and found Rory sitting at the kitchen table, clutching the phone tightly.
"Hey babe…" Lorelai said, and sat down across from her. "Trying to choke the phone?"
Rory looked down and noticed that she was still holding it. She quickly sat it down.
"Rory, I'm sorry about what I said. You both have feelings for each other…. I'm going to try really hard to be nice to him..."
"Really?" Rory asked. "Where did you go?"
"Oh, I just went and talked to Luke…"
Rory nodded understandingly.
"So, I'm sorry…and I'll try really, really, really, hard to like him. Plaster on a fake smile…hold back on making fun of him…although, you know that really can be hard."
Rory looked at her and smirked slightly. "Okay… Thanks."
Lorelai nodded. "So when are we gonna have a 'family dinner'?" Lorelai asked smirking.
Rory rolled her eyes.
"Oh, come on!" Lorelai urged her. "I'll be a good girl…"
"We'll see," Rory told her. Maybe he should bring his buddy 'Sammy' along too. And I can go out and find me some guy friends… ooh, Dean. I should have mentioned Dean. How would he feel if I started hanging out with Dean! Rory sighed. No. I should trust him…but she cannot be trusted.
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A/N: I am so crazy. You should know that chapter 4 was written before chapter 3…cause I had the ideas for chapter 4… so I kinda bypassed ch. 3. I know it's been forever since I updated, and I had this chapter saved on my computer...whoops. lol. So, review, please. And I'll try to write whenever I get a chance.