AN: OK, so there's not too much left to this story. I'm thinking two more chapters and it'll be done. I already started another one if you want to check it out. It's called Will it Work?
Well, anyways, I hope you like this chapter. Read and review.
When Jess opened his eyes the next morning, he was surprised to see her eyes staring into his own. "Good morning," Rory said, sounding like she had been awake for hours.
"Morning," he croaked out, sleep covering his voice. He stretched his arms over his head and rested them on her body. "What time is it?"
She reached for her cell phone that was rested on the floor next to the bed. "It's nine o'clock. I'm starving."
"Well, we don't have any food here, unless you want brownies for breakfast," he told her.
"We could always go to Luke's. My mom will be there and Luke will obviously be there, it will be our first meal in Stars Hollow since we've left New York, and I think that it should be at Luke's."
"Fine. Get up and get showered and get ready. We have to go to Luke's." Rory sat up and kissed Jess.
"Thank you. I'll be quick." She ran into the bathroom and Jess heard the shower running. While she took a shower, he got dressed and put on his shoes. "Jess, I need a towel," she called out from the bathroom.
"OK, wait a minute. I have to find one." Jess looked through a box labeled bathroom and found three towels. He picked one up and brought it to the bathroom. When he knocked on the door, Rory opened it slightly and took the towel from him.
"Thank you," she said as she wrapped the towel around her and left the bathroom. She looked in a box marked clothes and started digging through them. "These are not my clothes."
"No, those are my clothes. Your clothes are in the box over there that says Rory's clothes."
"That makes sense." She got up and looked through her clothes and came out with a cute t-shirt and jeans. While Jess did his hair in the bathroom, Rory got dressed in the bedroom. Once she was finished getting dressed, she walked into the bathroom and stood behind Jess. "We should get going."
"Fine, I'm done. Let's go." They left the house, not even making sure if the door was locked. After all, it is Stars Hollow. They walked to the diner, hand in hand, like it were an everyday thing. And after today, it would be.
When they walked into Luke's, it got quiet and everybody looked up from their meals. "Rory! You're back!" Miss Patty yelled as she got out of her chair and smothered Rory in a hug. "Forever."
"Yeah, Miss Patty, we're back. We're starving, so we thought that we'd come in for a classic Luke's breakfast," Rory told her, getting out of the hug and still holding onto Jess' hand.
"Oh, it's so good to have you back. Go, eat. We'll talk later." Rory smiled and walked away to the counter, pulling Jess along.
Rory sat next to Lorelai and Jess sat next to Rory. Luke was in the kitchen. "Well, you are the talk of the town. I must admit, I was a little jealous at first, but if they aren't talking about me I'm glad they're talking about you," Lorelai said.
"Thank you for being so generous, Mom," Rory said with a smile. Luke walked out of the kitchen and noticed Rory and Jess.
"Jess, get to work," he said immediately. Jess sighed and stood up.
"Luke, they just got back. Let the kid settle in before you throw him into work, it's only fair. He'll be in charge once the baby is born, so let him off now," Lorelai said, and Jess sat down with a smirk.
"Fine. You don't have to work now. But if I hear that you slack off at all once the baby is born and you are in charge, you'll have hell to pay," Luke warned, grabbing two coffee cups and placing them in front of Jess and Rory.
"That works for me," Jess said as Luke poured the coffee. "Thanks Uncle Luke."
"Don't call me that," Luke said before he made rounds with the coffee pot.
"Where's Lane?" Rory asked Lorelai.
"Oh, her and Zach went to Zach's parents' house for the week. She said that she's sorry that she couldn't be here for the big day. They'll be back on Saturday."
"I hope they have fun there. I've only met Zach's parents once, at the wedding, they seem like nice people."
"Yeah, they do." Jess was quietly drinking his coffee from where he was sitting while Rory and Lorelai carried a conversation. He was surprised when the conversation was thrown at him. "So, Jess, thanks for taking over the diner. It'll be extremely helpful. It means a lot to me and to Luke." Rory turned to smile at him.
"Uh, it's no problem," he responded, mid-sip.
"OK, I should call Michel, see how things are at the inn. I'm going to go home, I'll see you tonight though," Lorelai said as she struggled to stand up off of her stool.
"Want me to walk you?" Rory asked, jumping up to help her mother.
"I brought my car, I'll be fine. I will see you tonight. Thank you for the offer, oh lovely daughter of mine," Lorelai said, kissing Rory on the cheek. "Bye Jess." She waved and slowly waddled out of the diner.
"She is huge," Jess said once she was out of the diner and in her car.
"That's nice, Jess," Rory said sarcastically. "We need to order and eat so that we can go unpack and call Paris."
"You didn't call Paris?" Jess asked, Rory shook her head no. "She's going to kill you. She's probably been watching the news all night to see if there were any accidents that we may have been in. She told you to call her when we got here."
"Yeah, that's not good. I'm going to go home. Order me some pancakes and eggs and bring them back for me. Don't take too long. I'm starving," she said as she stood up. She leaned down and kissed Jess quick. "Bye."
Rory ran home the best she could. She didn't have her cell phone. She had left it on the bed. When she got home she checked it first to see if anyone had called and of course, Paris had called... five times. Rory dialed her number and the phone was answered immediately. "Rory freaking Gilmore, why didn't you call me when you got there? I know it didn't take you this long to get to Stars Hollow from New York."
"Paris, I am so sorry. I didn't mean to worry you and anyone else. We were so busy with moving and unpacking and guests and I am really sorry. Paris, I didn't mean to not call you. It was a complete accident and I feel horrible and I don't want you to be mad at me. Are you mad at me?" Rory asked, afraid of the possible answers.
"I was scared, Rory. Tristan, Sarah, and Dave were scared too. We thought that you two had died. I made Tristan stay up with me to watch the news, he wasn't very happy. We both had to work today and I never went in, because I was waiting for you to call. Now that I know that you're OK, I have to go. Goodbye Rory."
"Bye Paris. Tell everyone that I'm sorry and that I said hi and that I can't wait to see them next week. You're still coming, right?"
"All four of us will be there," Paris said before hanging up the phone. After Rory hung up the phone, she went into the bedroom to lye down.
Rory looked at all of the boxes laying around her bedroom and she knew that there were even more laying around the rest of the house. She stood up and started to unpack boxes. She kept unpacking boxes and placing furniture and by the time Jess had come home with her food, two boxes were empty and the bedroom was becoming remarkably cleaner.
"Rory?" Jess called out as he walked into the house. He couldn't see her, but he could hear her moving around. He set her food down on the table and walked into their bedroom. "Wow, you did a lot." Rory looked out from her spot in the closet and nodded, with a smile on my face.
"Not too much, but yeah, I did some. Enough to get us started anyways. You brought my food, right?"
"Of course I brought your food. I wouldn't think of leaving Luke's without it. It's in the kitchen, come one," he said. She walked out of the small closet and took him by the hand. They walked out of their bedroom and into the chaotic kitchen, filled with boxes and clothes, it was basically the dumping ground until further notice. They cleared a path to the table and sat down. "So, what did Paris say?" He asked once she started eating.
"Oh, you know. She was mad and you were right, she sat up all night watching the news and made Tristan join her. She was really pissed, but she's still coming up next weekend. I told her that I was sorry and I asked her to tell everyone else that too," she explained. Jess looked at her and nodded. "So, all this food and no coffee?"
"Hey, you never asked me to bring you coffee, I did what I was told to do, bring you food."
"Jess, it's coffee. You know the relationship I have with coffee. It's stronger than any other relationship I have with anything or anybody, including you. Coffee should have to be an unspoken order. Rory, coffee. Coffee, Rory. Like always," she told him, trying to keep a smile off of her face. Looking at Jess she could see his smirk.
"What about Rory, Jess. Jess, Rory. That's a pretty good combo too you know. Wait here. I'll be right back," Jess said before getting up from the table and walking into a different room. Rory was eating a pancake when Jess walked back into the kitchen. "Here," he said, setting a cup of to-go coffee on the table in front of her face.
"LIAR!" She yelled, over dramatically.
"No, I was kidding. I saw how worked up you were getting. I needed to set it down so that I could open the door, but I accidentally left it there. But then you started giving me a hard time, so I thought I'd make you suffer a little."
"Well, that wasn't very funny. But thank you. And by the way, I like the Jess, Rory, Rory, Jess combo too. But never as much as me and coffee, sorry," she said before she drank a big gulp of coffee. "It's good to know that my family owns the best coffee in the world."
"My family too," he pointed out, sitting back down in his chair. "Man, we have a fucked up family."
"Oh, yeah we do. Oh, so dinner tonight, are you excited?" She asked somewhat out of the blue.
"No, not in the least bit. Why do you ask?"
"Well, when I was talking to my mom yesterday, I got some news on dinner. And I thought that I should share it with you, if you want to know that is."
"Well, now I want to know. You can't say all of that and expect me to not want to know what it is," he told her and she nodded. She was psyching herself up for the reaction she was going to get from him.
"OK, well, somebody other than my grandfather wants to meet you. Somebody that should probably meet you before Grandpa does, but will be meeting you tonight at dinner."
"Rory, who are you talking about? Who is coming to dinner tonight that we didn't know about?"
"My dad. The one and only Christopher Hayden, well maybe not the one and only, but the one and only in my life. Yeah, so my dad is coming to dinner, to meet you, to get to know you. My dad, my father, my mother's ex-boyfriend and father of her first child, me. Jess?"
"Huh. I have to meet your father tonight. I don't know how I feel about that."
