Remember Me, My Love?

-Revised 3/31/06-

Chapter 1- Surprises Come To Those Who Work

"Ror, honey, wake up." Lorelai shook her, "I don't want to go to Luke's alone."

"You don't?" Rory teased.

"Do you remember the last time I went alone? He wouldn't give me coffee," Lorelai moaned.

"Ugh, what time is it?" Rory groaned.

"That's not important. Hey, remember that Belle and Sebastian t-shirt of mine you love? You can totally have it," Lorelai tried to change the subject.

"Mom." Rory warned.

"7:30, but Luke said to come down to the diner early today. I want to go!" Lorelai whined.

"Fine," Rory gave in.

"Yay, and because you are going to Yale so soon, I'll let you go out with Dean tonight, breaking our special bonding time." Lorelai replied.

Rory sat up quickly, "Go, I need to change."

"Oh fruit of my loins, its not like I haven't seen you-" Lorelai began.

"Don't even finish that sentence mom," Rory groaned.

"Fine, I'm leaving," Lorelai slid off the bed and shut the door behind her. Rory simply let her head hit the pillow and sighed. She honestly did not want to go to Luke's right now. Every time she went there, she was reminded of Jess. She could picture him pouring her coffee, with the order pad in his left back pocket. Jess swore that his butt was uneven, and this made it look proportionate. Rory bitterly laughed to herself. She honestly did not know why she got back together with Dean the minute he left. Rory felt he was the only person who would comfort her without saying 'I told you so' even though he did.

Rory sighed once again and lifted herself out of her plaid sheet-covered bed. She looked through her dresser and chose a simple pair of jeans and her mom's Belle and Sebastian t-shirt that was actually hers in the first place. Rory walked out into the kitchen to meet her impatient mother, who was tapping her nails on the table.

"Finally. How long does it take you to get ready?" Lorelai asked.

"Wow, you're that impatient? How much coffee have you had this morning anyway?" Rory asked.

"Well, I think about one cup," Lorelai lied.

"Try again," Rory said impatiently.

"Maybe more around six," Lorelai looked at the ground.

"Well if you want anymore, perk down," Rory pointed out.

"Right, perk down," Lorelai nodded.

The two Gilmore girls headed down the street, but nobody was outside. Babette, who was usually tending to her garden, or listening to Morey play the piano, was nowhere in site. Miss Patty wasn't there to ask how Dean was, and to say how lucky Rory was to have him again. Taylor wasn't there, sweeping in front of Doose's and looking for punks and hoodlums.

"This is really weird," Rory noted.

"I know. Ror, I'm kind of scared," Lorelai said.

"Hey, aren't you supposed to be the adult?" Rory asked. Lorelai stuck her tongue out while they looked around the deserted town.

"Oh I think I know what happened. Aliens captured the entire town except for us because they thought we were too beautiful to be disturbed. And before that, the aliens planted microchips into all of their brains, except for ours, due to our pre-mentioned beauty," Lorelai ranted.

"Nice theory. Have you been watching Sci-Fi lately?" Rory laughed.

"Uh, no," Lorelai lied.

"You probably have, but you can deny it," Rory rolled her eyes.

Lorelai and Rory walked into the diner and Luke looked at them. "No coffee."

"Love you too. So, what's with the empty diner?" Lorelai asked, while sitting down on a stool.

"Uh, I don't know," Luke said, deciding to give them some coffee.

"Okay, so what's my surprise?" Lorelai asked excitedly.

"Caesar quit," Luke said.

"That's really weird. I thought he liked his job here," Lorelai pondered.

"So did I. Well anyway, I need someone to do the inventory in the back and I was wondering if you two would be willing to do it."

"So I'm assuming we can't eat the food that we check the inventory on," Lorelai said.

"You assumed correctly, but maybe if there's almost enough that I need to order more, then you can eat some," Luke sighed.

"Oh, okay. Sounds good to me," Lorelai agreed, and Rory nodded in approval.

Luke walked back into the kitchen, and took out his cell phone and called Miss Patty. "Hey Patty… yeah they're here… probably two hours… okay, bye." Luke continued flipping the pancakes.

Meanwhile, Lorelai and Rory were idly chatting as they sipped their coffee. "Does Luke seem to be acting weird to you?" Lorelai asked. "Even if Caesar quit, I didn't think he would ask us for help."

"Well he probably really needed our help, or he wouldn't ask us. Maybe he's trying to give you a chance not to mess up," Rory explained.

"Yeah, maybe. I just… Oh hi, Luke," Lorelai grinned as Luke walked out with two stacks of chocolate chip pancakes.

"Hi," Luke looked at the two strangely. "Two Stacks of Suicide, here you go."

"If this is killing myself then I love it," Lorelai began to butter her pancakes.

"Luke, these are delicious. I would starve to death if it weren't for your cooking skills," Rory explained.

"Oh… well thanks," Luke replied anxiously.

"Was that a crack at my cooking skills? Because I totally agree," Lorelai smiled. Rory looked at her daughter, who was staring off into space. She was probably thinking about Jess again, the poor kid.

And she really was. She was remembering one time when she was helping Jess work his shift, and they ended up making out in the storage area. Boy was Luke mad when he found them.

"Ror? You okay?" Lorelai asked.

Rory was snapped out of her reminiscence and she put on a fake smile. "Yeah, I'm fine."
Once the two finished their pancakes. Luke lead them to the storage area.

"Okay, this is really easy, and there is no way you could mess this up. All you have to do is count how many cases of certain items there are, and if there's less that we need, you have to mark down that I need to order some more. Can you handle this?" Luke asked.

"Absolutely," Lorelai mocked him. "I'm ready for my mission commander."

Luke rolled his eyes and handed Rory and Lorelai each a pad of paper and a pen. "Okay… so pickles," Lorelai called out. "Pickles. Pickles. Rory I can't find the pickles!"

"That's because I found the pickles," Rory rolled her eyes as she was counting the cases of dill pickles.

"Oh," Lorelai said, and then she looked around the back room. "Give me something to look for!"

Rory rolled her eyes again and said, "Look for the buns."

"Teehee… buns. Okay, buns. Buns. Oh Rory! I found the buns!" Lorelai exclaimed.

"Good, now count the cases of buns in your head, quietly," Rory said.

Lorelai pouted and began to count the cases.

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An hour or so later, Lorelai and Rory had finished their inventory. "Luke, we're done, and let me just say, I hate doing inventory," Lorelai said, plopping herself onto the nearing stool.

"You're so melodramatic Mom," Rory replied. "Have you had any customers while we were back there?"

"Yeah. Kirk and Lulu came in. Miss Patty too," Luke replied, a bit antsy.

"Oh okay. So we should probably be getting home. I have a bit of packing left to do before I get to Yale," Rory noted, beginning to stand up.

"Just hang on a second. I think I made a batch of brownies with too much chocolate in them and I want you guys to take them home," Luke replied and he walked into the kitchen.

"He knows me too well," Lorelai sighed. "You know, that could be taken in two very different perspectives."

"Okay, I didn't need to know that," Rory crinkled her nose.

"Okay, I'm back," Luke handed Lorelai a box full of brownies he cooked yesterday in preparation. Luke actually was telling Miss Patty that the two would be coming out shortly.

"Luke. Since you know, there's nobody here, do you want to come over to the house? I kind of… got a spoon stuck in the sink," Lorelai mumbled.

"Yeah, okay," Luke took out his keys like he was going to lock up. He opened the door for the two.

"Holy crap!" Lorelai exclaimed.

-Yeah, I've decided to redo this like entire story. I mean it's pretty much going to be staying the same. But it's been way over a year since I have started this story and I've improved so much. I don't know how much better it's going to be, but I definitely think it's an improvement. Sorry you guys actually think it's an update, but it's really not. I'm working on chapter 2 at the moment. -