"Hello." Jess grabbed the ringing phone after turning the music down.
"I'm getting another soda." Lane said.
"Jess?" Rory questioned.
"Hey Rory."
"Who was that?"
"Lane. She turned up to hide from Mrs Kim and is now drinking all the soda, I think she's had a little too much sugar because we're on about the eighth rant."
"Lane came to visit you?" Rory questioned.
"She figured here would be the last place Mrs Kim would look for her." Jess explained.
"That's a little pod people."
"Only slightly. Do you want to talk to her while I run downstairs for food?" Jess asked.
"Okay." Rory agreed.
"Lane, Rory wants to talk to you." Jess held out the phone to her. "I'm going to get food."
"Okay, get more soda too." Lane took the phone from him.
"Whatever you say." Jess muttered under his breath.
"Hey Rory."
"Hey Lane. You went to visit Jess?" Rory questioned.
"Momma won't look for me here." Lane explained.
"I know, but I thought you didn't like Jess that much."
"He's been nice and you like him and he's sticking around so making an effort seemed to be appropriate."
"Thanks." Rory told her.
"You know he's building a library here."
"What?" Rory questioned.
"There is a whole corner filled with bookshelves, which are all off the ground by the way, and he's alphabetising your books by author and title."
"Mom said he'd taken my books from the house too."
"What colour did the walls used to be?" Lane asked.
"What?"
"I think the walls have been painted too." Lane said.
"Jess didn't mention decorating."
"This paint looks fresh." Lane examined it.
"Anything else since I haven't been home in a few weeks."
"The place looks bigger without Luke's bed and all his stuff although there are a few boxes around."
"That's where we're going to put the baby's crib when we buy one."
"Are you any closer to picking a name?"
"I'm still trying to remember which philosopher said what for another few days we'll figure it out when I finish school."
"Just don't pick a nice name and then spell it funny. She'll be forever spelling it out to people."
"I know." Rory agreed. "We have a very long list of names not to call her; we just need to pick one of the other thousand out there."
GG
"How's the unpacking going?" Luke inquired as he stood on one side of the counter, Jess sat on a stool on the other waiting for his food to be cook.
"It was going a lot quicker before Lane came to visit."
"Lane came to visit you?" Luke questioned.
"She's still up there talking to Rory on the phone."
"Why would Lane visit you?"
"To avoid her mother. She's drunk too much soda too."
"And you found something to talk about?"
"Music in between her rants. She can give Lorelai a run for her money."
"I know." Luke agreed.
"Where is Lorelai? I thought she'd be in."
"Crisis at the Dragonfly, Cletus got out and decided to wander inside again." Luke replied.
"She needs spiral staircases." Jess stated.
"That seems a little random." Luke remarked.
"Old firehouses used to have spiral staircases because horses can't climb them but they can climb regular stairs."
"That's interesting but a very useless piece of information."
"You can lead a cow upstairs but they won't go back down." Jess added.
"Let's leave the animal and staircase conversation alone." Luke suggested.
TBC