By the time the plane landed it was 7:15. Jess hadn't slept at all during the flight. He was nervous about seeing Rory. Had she noticed he left? Would she be too mad to talk to him?

He ran to baggage claim, then went to a payphone. He began dialign a number, not noticing who it was he was calling.

"Hello?" she aske dinto the phone.

Jess went cold, and couldn't say anything. "Hello?" she asked again. And then Jes shung up, mentally slapping himself.

What was I thinking! he screamed inside his head. Rory was the only perosn he really ever called. He just wasn't used to dialing another number,

"Let's see...what's the cab company's numbeR...?" he asked himself, staring at the payphone. There was a list of bus and cab comapines and their numbers. He called the first cab company on the list.

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The cab passed by the Gilmore house. Jess was careful to duck. "Luke's diner, right?" the driver asked, stopping the vehicle and turning around. Jess nodded. He didn't know if Luke would let him stay, but he had to try.

A minute later, the cab stopped. "Here we are. Five dollars please." Jess mumbled something incomprehnsible as he looked through his wallet and pulled out a five.

He then climbe dout of the car, carrying with him his giant green sack filled with his stuff.

The sign on Luke's door read closed. Jess took a deep breath, then reached above the doorframe andgrabbed the spare key.

As soon as Jess walked in, Luke came down from the aprtment above. All of the chairs were already up on the table. Luke took one down, and sat.

"Y-you're back," he said, shocked.

"Nice to see you too, Uncle Luke," Jess replied. He was back to saying that, not sure on where he and Luke stood.

"I thought you were gone for good."

"Well looks like I wasn't." Jess replied sarcastically. He had already dropped his bag on the ground, and was now takign another red chair off the table.

"What ar eyou doing here?" Luke asked. "I thought you wanted to go to sunny California to see your weiner father."

"Well. It took me 4 hours on a plane to realize I wanted nothing to do with him."

Luke couldn't help but smile at that. "Don't be thinking I came back to be with you!" Jess warned, pointing at his uncle.

They were silent for a moment. "So. Where are you going to stay?" Luke asked.

Jess mumbled something. "What was that?" Luke asked, putting his hand behind his ear. Jess rolled his eyes. "I was thinking I could stay with you!" he said loudly.

Luke snorted. "What?" Jess asked indignantly. Luke shook his head. "We had an agreement that if you were going to stay with me, you'd graduate."

"Well I'm not graduating," Jess said with a false smile and with false sweetness in his voice, which was really covering up his annoyance.

"Well then you're not staying here," Luke replied with the same false smile, his head tilted to the side.

Jess sighed. "Fien. I'll take the year over, I'll work at the diner, I'll quit my WalMart job. I just...I need to stay here," he said, admititng defeat. Luke nodded. "Alright. You can stay."

They were once again silent.

"Does Rory know I'm gone?" Jess asked almost weakly. Luke nodded. Jess sighed."Can you do me one more favor?"

"Yah?" Luke aske,d lifting his hea dup, interested.

"Just don't tell her I'm back yet." And with that said, Jess lugged his things up the stairs.

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He didn't sleep at all that night. After 16 hours of flying in 2 days, you'd think he was tired, but he wasn't.

'The Clash' was blasting on his walkman as he lay stretched out, awake on his bed. Now matter how loud he turned the volume up to, it wouldn't drown out Luke's snoring. So he decided to just ignore it, and concentrate on his music.

a/n okay, so here's chaptertwo! I thank the perosn who reveiwed the first chapter, I'm glad you liked it! Hoep you liked this one too, and please people, be kind and review :D 'It's common courtesy' as Kyle would say (Keg! Max!)