I can't Stop Thinking about You
Chapter 3 – Bring in the Boys
Disclaimer – I own nothing to do with Gilmore Girls
Thanks to my beta reader Kylie. I had some trouble accessing this when you sent it to me so I got someone to read it over and I hope I fixed the spots that were confusing. I'm going to send it to you from a different address for chapter 4 hopefully it works.
Lucas'sgirl – I have included a fight in this chapter the hunky blonde chiltonite will be showing up next chapter
Cosmopolitan – He is hot but I haven't decided on the pairing it's either going to be a Trory or a Rogan I don't think that it will be a literati and it most definitely will not be a narco
LHTDfan – Again the ending is as much a mystery to me as it is to you. The relationship/friendship between Tristan and Rory is going to be different than it is on the show. (they grew up together more so in this fic than the show)
CoCaCoLa29 – Dean will be beat up at least once in this story
Brown-eyed-beauty87 – I tried to cut down on the dialogue in this chapter I hope you like it.
I haven't decided who she's going to end up with. I will take suggestions as to the final pairing.
I'm gonna try to update every Saturday or so maybe sooner or maybe longer.
Okay I know that in the show Rory got home on Friday. But for my purposes assume that she got home on Thursday. Also assume that Luke and Lorelai have already made up.
Where we left off last time
"Rory." Paris said pulling her out of the clouds
"What?"
"We've landed."
"RORY! Only daughter of mine! Where are you?" Lorelai yelled running through the airport.
"Mom!" Rory screeched upon seeing her mother.
"I can't believe that you've been gone all summer. I've missed you."
"Well I'm back now."
"To Stars Hollow."
"To Stars Hollow."
When they got back to Stars Hollow they went immediately to Luke's
"Ahh coffee they didn't have coffee like this in Washington."
"You hungry?" Luke asked when he walked up to the table.
"Hamburger and fries… no I'll have onion rings… no I'll have fries."
"How about both."
"Great." She said as Luke walked away "I've missed this place."
"It's missed you too I think."
The next day Rory went around town handing out gifts and catching up with people. She goes into Luke's for coffee and Jess is working. She sits at the counter and he pours her coffee before she could ask. He asks her about her plane trip home because he already knew what had happened up until the night before she came home. He asked her how Paris' date went.
"Great actually. Rory answered "She came home after I fell asleep and she was in a great mood in the morning. I've got to go hand out more presents now. Oh yea, here you go. Bye" She said reaching into the small backpack that she was carrying around with the presents in. She pulled out a used copy of The Fountain Head, handed it to him and walked out of the diner.
Jess sat there staring at the book. She knew he didn't like Ayn Rand he thought he was a political nut and he didn't want to read the book but still it was a gift so he opened it to the first page and started reading, or trying to read the book.
After leaving the diner Rory made her way to Dean's house. They hadn't seen each other since she left for Washington because he had spent the summer with his family in Chicago and even though he had gotten back the night before she spent that night watching Wonka with her mother and gorging herself on junk food.
When she arrived at Dean's house she knocked on the door and Clara answered. Clara jumped at Rory and hugged her telling her how much she missed her. Dean had gotten called in to work at Doose's. On her way home Rory stopped at the market to day hi to Dean
Dean was in the rear of the store stocking beans. Rory walked up to him and "Hi." She said.
"Hi." He mumbled back not looking at her.
"How was your flight?" She asked, wondering where the hostility was coming from.
"Fine." He answered
"Did you get in on time?"
"Yep."
OK she thought monosyllabic man has taken another victim getting tired of this she asked him "Dean what's going on with you today?"
"Where were you last night? I thought that we were going to do something together."
"I was home with my mom, I'm sorry that I had a mother daughter night when I haven't seen her all summer."
"Well what about me you haven't seen me all summer either."
"My mother and I are freakishly close, if you haven't gotten the memo. She was in my life long before you came around and she'll be there long after you're gone."
"So you're thinking about me gone already. I guess I'll save you the trouble of breaking up with me. We're through." He said and walked into the back employee's only section. (Where they eat lunch during The Party's Over.) He slams the door and kicks a box on the floor out of frustration.
With that Rory turns and runs out of the market and back to her house, into her bedroom.
The next morning Rory and Lorelai made their way to the diner via the same route that they took the first time that Dean broke up with Rory on their 3 month anniversary. When they were almost there Rory started looking in peoples trash. There's just something about a break-up that makes that girl want to go dumpster diving. At Luke's Jess was working and Luke was upstairs on the phone. Jess walked over and poured them coffee
"I think I like him better." Lorelai said pointing at Jess. "He doesn't give me coffee lectures."
"Give him time." Rory sat there not taking anything in. Shane comes into the diner and Jess turns to her
"Hey."
"Hey" they kiss a quick peck and when Jess pulls himself away Shane is trying to follow him with her lips
"So?"
"Can't. Busy."
"No. Bye."
Shane walked out of the diner in a huff and Jess came over to the table and ha to ask Rory three times if she wanted more coffee. Her cup was empty and she didn't even remember taking a sip. Jess turned to Lorelai and asked her if she wanted more coffee but her cup was still half full.
"You drank my coffee didn't you?" Rory asked her mother.
"You weren't drinking it and it looked sad sitting there being ignored so I decided to make it happy and take it and give it a home."
"Yea, your stomach."
"Okay, where's the list?"
"What list?"
"The list of things that we can do to get us out of this town after the festival today. I know we'll go shopping. We'll leave right after lunch and go to Hartford and spend the day mall hopping we'll even get new outfits for dinner tonight. I vote Daisy Dukes and a rhinestone halter top."
"Fine shopping it is and new outfits but we have to be grown up about it. No halter tops to diner and no Daisy Dukes either."
"Aww please Mommy." Lorelai whined.
"Fine but you're wearing the Daisy Dukes under a grown up dress."
The girls went to the festival together and ate too much and had fun until Rory saw Dean and Clara making their way through the crowd. Rory meet Clara's eyes and knew that the girl wanted to come over and talk to her but the tension in Dean's arm that she was holding stopped her from coming over. After the band from NYC was finished their set Lorelai and Rory made their way back to the diner for a burger and a final cup of coffee or two or ten or fifteen before they went to Hartford to go shopping. In Hartford they both got some new clothes Lorelai talked Rory into some sexier tops nothing too revealing because Rory, as Vice President might, just might get invited to some more Chilton parties and Lorelai wanted her to be prepared. Really it was just fun for her to get Rory out of the studious shell that she had hidden behind the past two years at Chilton. When they got to the Gilmore house for dinner Emily was asking a lot of questions about Christopher and his presence at Sookie's wedding and in Lorelai and Rory's lives. After her questions were evaded or a few minutes she finally blurted out.
"I want a mature adult explanation for why the father of my granddaughter and her mother aren't together."
"His girlfriend's pregnant." Was Lorelai's response and with that she walked out of the house. Rory followed behind her stopping to say goodbye to her grandfather.
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LORI