Lorelai knocked on the apartment door and Jess opened the door.

"Good maybe you can talk to her." Jess stated.

"And hello to you too." Lorelai responded. "I brought the boots."

"You can give them to her if you can get them out of the bathroom."

"What?" Lorelai questioned.

"She went in there to wash her face when she stopped crying which is when I called you and now she's refusing to come out and told me not to talk to her." Jess rubbed his neck.

"What did you say when you got off the phone?" Lorelai inquired.

"I knocked on the door, asked if she was okay and she told me to go away and not talk to her. I tried to tell her about the boots but she told me to shut up and go away."

"Go downstairs, I'll talk to her." Lorelai told him.

"Thanks." Jess grabbed his jacket and his wallet and left.

Lorelai set her purse on the table and walked over and knocked on the bathroom door.

"Go away Jess." Rory called from inside.

"Rory, it's me."

"Mom?"

"I brought your boots; you left them at the house."

"My boots?" Rory questioned.

"That's what Jess was trying to tell you. He's downstairs now so do you want to open the door and tell me what's wrong."

Rory hesitantly unlocked the door. Although both her eyes were red from crying, one eye looked redder.

"Come here." Lorelai hugged her. "Tell Mommy why you told your boyfriend to go away."

"I cried."

"Over your boots I know Jess told me. That's hormones kid." Lorelai assured her. "You're allowed to do that and I'm pretty sure it makes Jess as uncomfortable as it does Luke. But he did a very nice ramble on the phone and he was trying to fix it."

"I should apologise."

"So what happened to make you tell him to go and not talk to you." Lorelai inquired.

"When he knocked on the door I jabbed my eye."

"You were putting more mascara on and he distracted you and you jabbed it in your eye." Lorelai guessed. Rory nodded. "I hate when that happens. I'll tell you what we do, we'll clean you up, try and hide the red eyes, and we'll buy you some waterproof mascara tomorrow because you're probably going to cry a few more times before this is over and that way you won't look like a panda bear."

"Okay." Rory agreed.

"But I'll give you ten bucks if you burst into tears in the middle of dinner." Lorelai offered.

"Mom." Rory couldn't hide a smile.

"See a smile."

GG

"Everything okay?" Luke asked when they came downstairs.

"It's just fine." Lorelai replied.

"Luke, where's Jess?" Rory inquired.

"He said he needed some air. He headed towards the gazebo."

"Thanks." Rory said. "Mom, I'm going to…"

"We need to leave in ten minutes or we'll be late." Lorelai interrupted.

"We'll be ready."

"Is everything really okay?" Luke inquired once she was gone.

"Just a little fashion nightmare and a hormone attack. They'll be fine."

"Hey." Rory said wrapping her coat tightly around her.

"Hey." Jess looked at her.

"Sorry for going a little nuts on you." Rory apologised.

"It's okay."

"I still shouldn't have told you to go away."

"I'm sure you had your reasons." Jess shrugged.

"Hormones are really annoying." She paused. "Thank you for finding my boots."

"I didn't. I just called Lorelai."

"Who had my boots."

"I didn't know that." Jess reminded her.

"It was still a sweet thing to do. I'm sorry."

"Don't we have to leave soon?" Jess asked.

"I need you to forgive me."

"There's nothing to forgive Ror. I've read enough books to know you're going to have hormone attacks and mood swings. Just remember I love you and I'm not going anywhere and we'll get through them." He paused. "We should go before we're late."

TBC