Sorry it took a little while to update, but I just started school. Anyway, in this chapter, things will finally get moving! I really hope that you like it!
Different Plans
Seeing Rory
"Yeah I guess so." Rory said nervously.
As Jess went to take orders from the mysteriously whispering townsfolk, he was being watched. He could feel it. It was a subtle bore into the back of his head. While he took the couple by the door's orders, he shifted his gaze around the diner. He figured luke was probably glaring at him, astonished. But, when he glanced to his left he saw who it was, Rory.
'I have thought about Rory ever since 'the morning after that night', as I call it. I didn't want to leave her, I wanted to tell her to come with me, or her to beg me to stay, but she didn't. That was one way she was like her mother, she let people do what she thought that they needed to do. I don't think that she realized at the time, that I thought I needed to be with her.
But, now that I think about it, it may have been best to go to California. I got experience in managing a bookstore, what I love doing, and I got my life together, which I needed to do. I think I probably wasn't mature enough to be in a relationship like that with her then. Despite all of that, I still wanted to be with her.'
Unfortunately, Jess was broken out of his thoughts by an annoying costumer.
"Helloooo!" Said a woman with a shrill voice. "Were you even listening to my order?"
"Sorry." Jess said. "Would you please repeat your orders?" Jess asked politely.
"Thank you." The lady replied.
When Jess finished with the annoying couple's orders, he looked over at Rory's table and noticed that her and Lorelai's coffee was running low. He also noticed Rory playing with a little boy. Thinking that it was probably Will, Jess grabbed a pot of coffee and slid over to their table.
"More coffee?" Jess asked.
Lorelai and Rory stopped talking and looked up at me.
"Sure, that would be great. Thanks." Lorelai told him lifting up her coffe cup towards him.
He took it from her grasp and carefully refilled the cup. When he was finished he placed it on the table and looked at Rory.
"Coffee Rory?" Jess asked her. She looked up into his eyes and smiled.
"Thanks Jess." She tells him.
"No problem." He replies gently picking up her coffee cup to refill it. After the coffee cup is filled to the brim, he hands it to Rory and smiles. "Here." He says. Then he looks to the little boy sitting at the table with them. "How are you doing?" Jess asks him.
The boy just giggles. Lorelai and Rory exchange nervous glances.
Jess smirks. "Well, everyone is good here I guess. Let me know if you need anything else." Jess says.
"Uh, thanks Jess. Could you tell Luke that I need to speak with him.?" Lorelai asks.
"Sure." Jess says shrugging off to get the annoying people's food.
"Well, that was interesting." Lorelai sighed.
"Yeah. I'm surprised he didn't freak out when he saw Eitan." Rory said mystified.
"I think Jess thought that he was Will." Lorelai told her. "It's been a while since he's come to visit."
"Jess never said anything about me?" Rory pondered.
"He asked about you a couple of times, but I never knew anything. He never told us he had seen you, I guess he thought you wouldn't want us to know, or that he had seen you more recently than we had." Lorelai said.
"Oh. I see." Rory watching herself toy with the food on her plate using her fork.
tHaT eVeNiNg At ThE gIlMoRe-DaNeS house
Luke came home to see Lorelai and Rory watching TV.
"Hey." Luke said smiling at the sight of the two women. He walked over towards Lorelai.
"Hey hun." She said giving him a kiss.
"Hey Luke." Said Rory with an unsure smile.
"So, what are you watching?" Luke asks looking at the screen.
"Reruns of Felicity." Lorelai says never taking her eyes off the screen.
Luke laughs at how deeply engrossed in the show she is. "Okay, I can see that you're a little distracted right now. I'll talk to you later." He says walking into the kitchen.
After a few moments of processing what luke was saying and subtly hinting at, Lorelai snapped her head up. "Oh, I can watch this later." She called and then retreated to the kitchen.
"I knew you would come if you figured out what I was talking about." Luke said with an all-knowing smile. "So, are the kids at Sookie's?" Luke asks
"Yeah." Lorelai replies. "So…" Lorelai says wanting to know what is going on and being impatient about it.
"So…?" Luke says pretending not to know what she's talking about.
She smacks his arm. "You're making me miss felicity and now you won't tell me. You are so mean!" Lorelai said.
"Okay, Jess came for a visit. He has something to tell us, but he wants to come over for dinner with us and Liz and T.J. then he'll tell us." Luke told her.
"He wants T.J. to be there?" Asked Lorelai in disbelief.
"No, he just knows that T.J. will show up. Plus I think Jess wants to see Buster." Luke says.
Lorelai giggles. "I still cannot believe that they named him Buster." Lorelai says with a smile.
Six years ago Liz and T.J. adopted a three-year-old boy, who is now nine.
"Yeah well, they work the renaissance fair circuit, what do you expect." Luke says rolling his eyes. "Anyway, I'm letting Jess stay in my old apartment."
"Did he say how long he would be in town?" Lorelai asked.
"No. He was very vague." Luke said.
"Well, it is Jess." Lorelai said. "Not everything has changed."
"True. So, what's up?" Luke asks sensing there is something she wants to tell him.
"Well, something odd happened today." Lorelai begins.
Luke raises his eyebrows. "Really? What?"
"Rory came into the Inn and was asking if you still kept in touch with Jess." Lorelai continued.
Luke nods.
"She asked me if you could call him and ask him to visit, so she could tell him everything." Lorelai says. "I think she needs his blood." Lorelai whispered.
Luke looks at her strangely.
Lorelai realizes what she has said and she and Luke bust out laughing.
Rory enters the kitchen. "Is everything okay in here?" She asks.
"Uh… yeah." Says Lorelai between laughs. "So, when are we having this dinner?" Lorelai asks Luke.
"Umm, I'm gonna call and see what day is good for everyone." Luke replies finaly shaking off his laughter.
"Okay. Well, why don't you go ahead and call. I say the sooner we do it the better. Don't ya think?" Lorelai says.
"Yeah you're right. I'll go make the call." Luke tells her and then gets up, grabs the phone and goes to the living room.
"So, are you guys having a dinner party or something?" Rory asks.
"Yeah, something like that. Jess has something he wants to tell all of us, so Luke is calling Liz. We're all having a meal together, this is going to be interesting." Lorelai says laughing. You know we have never all sat down together for a meal." Lorelai says.
"Yeah I know. It'll be good." Rory says with a genuine smile.
"Yeah, I think so too." Lorelai says dreamily.
TBCHmm… What's Jess going to announce? Why is he back in Star's Hollow? Make suggestions or guess in your reviews that I know you are all going to give. I love you all! Please I need reviews to update! Thanx.