When the next mornign came, Jess woke up from a nice sleep just in time to hear what was going on downstairs in the diner with Rory and Lorelai. They came earlier than usual, and Jess was up earlier than usual.
He listened carefully, creeping himself out with his obsessiveness.
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Luke slid Rory and Lorelai some mugs, then filled them with coffee. "You know, Rory. You left your backpack here yesterday. I would have brought it over for you, but the diner was packed and I couldn't get away."
"Oh. Thank god. I was worried sick over at home. I couldn't find it anywhere, and I'd still be looking now, but Mom convinced me to come get some coffee!" Rory exclaimed, letitng out a sigh of relief.
"And it's a good thing, too, isn't it?" Lorelai asked, a smug smiel on her face. Rory nodded. "Yes. It was a very good thing," she agreed."So where is it?" she looked over at Luke.
"I brought it upstairs so nothing would happen to it," he said. Rorysmiled. "Aw. That's so sweet." She hit his arm ."Somethign could have been stolen, and I figured you'd need everything. It was no biggie!"
"Did you hear him, honey? He said 'no biggie'." Lorelai said, eyes wide. She was using her jokingly seriosu voice. Rory nodde. "I heard him with my own two ears."
"Stop it." Luke growled. Lorelai and her daughter grinned and laughed. "I'll go get your backpack for you."
"No! It's okay. I can get it. There's people who need serving!" Rory said, beginnign to get up off of her stool. Luke , becomming nervous, wlaked around the counter and got her back into her seat. "No. That's okay. Jess can take care of them," he said.
Rory and Lorelai looked at each other, Lorelai raising ehr eyebrows. "Jess?He's um-back?" Rory croaked. Realizing what he said, Luke shook his head. "No! No No! I'm just not used to him being gone yet is all."
"Oh. Okay..." All jopes Rory had sunk back down and she seemed crest fallen. Lorelai pouted and gave a sympethetic noise, then hugged her daughter and rubbed her arm. "It's okay..." she whispered and kissed the top of her head
"I'm just gonna go get your backpack..." Luke said, pointing behind him with his thumb and back up until he was behind the curtain and on the stairs, and he ran.
Throwing open the door, he was imemdiately greeted with a hiss from Jess. "You almost let her up here!" he was standing right near the door. "But I didn't!" Luke said triumphantly. "And you almost let it slip I was back!" he hissed, following his uncle around.
"But she doesn't know!" Jess shook his head. "Never mind. Let me get her back pack." He went and got her bright yellow backpack out from inside the closet, and handed it over to his uncle with longing in his eyes.
"Why don't you just tell her?" Luke asked, pulling the backpack away. Jess shook his head. "I can't-" but Luke cut him off. "It's not the right time. Yeah, yeah. I heard you before."
Jess gave Luke a menacing glare. "When did you decide to run by a schedule anyway? What happened to the 'I'm Jess Mariano! I live by an impulse!'?" Jess didn't answer, just stared blankly. Luke shook his head. "Never mind. I've got to go give this back to Rory."
And with that he was back down the stairs, carrying Rory's honey bee yellow backpack with him as he went. Leaving Jess alone, feeling as bored as Lorelai and Sookie were at that INN class.
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Hours passed by. Jess felt as if he was goign to pas sout from boredom. He never before realized how little was on TV as he did right then. Nothing good was on VH1, MTV, or anything. The TV guide, which usually ahd soem pretty interesting stuff, made hsi eyes twitch from boredom.
Books were boring. Music, killed him. If anything sat too long in this apartment, all the entertainment in it seemed to rot right out. Jess actually felt like going to school. Too bad he couldn't.
He wanted to go downstairs and help Luke, just to be doign something, but he was stuck up in the apartment, away from any form of humanity. Any form of entertainment. He even seemed to have lost the ability to be sarcastic, which was always fun.
He ran his hand through his hair, which he hadn't been greasing up, not seeing the point. He wasn't going anywhere. H ewasn't seeing anyone. Jess let out a deep sigh. He was rotting away into nothing. Screw timing. I need to tell Rory I'm back and I need to get out of here! He often screamed at himself, but would always convince himself that he had to wait. He had to wait, give her space. He had to wait until he could trust himself to give her everythign she wanted.
So he was liek an apple, sitting on the ground, fallen down beyond saving, rotting from the inside out. And he felt as if he was goign insane. Besides making sure it's time before she moves on, I have to make sure it's time before the men in white coats come to take me...he thought bitterly and once again looked for somehting on TV.
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Night came. Luke brought up some food and sat with Jess for a while. "So. You okay sitting up here all day everyday?" Jess shrugged, not wanting to complain. "It's fine."
"You must want to get outside."
"It would be nice," he said bitterly. Luke nodded. "Yeah. I can tell. So can everyone else in the diner."
"You told them I'm back!" Jess accused, hissing at his uncle. Luke sighed. "No. You're stomping around up here, and the cieling is starting to fall little by little. Kirk thinks I'm holding someone ransom up here."
Jess rolled his eyes and eased back into his chair. " Kirk always was an idiot," he said, smirking. Luke shook his head. "Just please, walk lightly." Jess sighed. "Fine."
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Rory was standing by the front door. "Five...four...three...two..." she was coutning down for something or other. Lorelai came hopping over, trying to pull on her shoe. "Did I do it?" she asked, putitng her foot down. "Yup! You beat your last record by one second!"
"I say this is a time for celebration!" Lorelai declared. Rory grinned. "After dinner." It was Friday, and Rory was timing how quick Lorelai got ready. Lorelai sighed. "Fine..."
They had planned a dinner with Sookie and Jackson, that both were looking forward to, but Lorleai just didn't like formal gatherings all that much. She just wnated to party.
They met Sookie and Jackson in the town square, then went off to dinner. From upstairs at Luke's apartment, Jess had taken to looking out the window again, and he watched as Rry and he rmother went off.
I'm pathetic...
a/n how do you like? Is it too short? too boring? Just tell me. This story, just so you all know, isn't going to have a lot of chapters. But there WILL be a sequal. So...since I divulged a little information, return the favor and divulge something to me :D