Hardly anyone reviewed for my last chapter! Thank you to those who did and shame on you if you didn't. Now you'll just have to make up for it by being the first person to review for this chapter. I actually don't know what I'm talking about right now; I'm a little crazy from being completely exhausted. Anyway enjoy the chapter although it's shorter than my normal ones.
THREE WEEKS LATER.
"Be careful" Lorelai said.
"I'm being careful" Luke said carrying Emma's carrier.
Lorelai opened the door to the house. Luke carried Emma into the kitchen and sat her carrier on the table.
"Rory, we're home" Luke said.
Rory came out of her room with Izzy toddling behind her.
"Coffee" Izzy said.
"It figures that her first word was coffee" Luke said. "She's completely like you"
"And her second word was momma" Lorelai said picking Izzy up. "Wasn't it?"
Izzy laughed and grabbed Lorelai's nose. Just then the phone rang.
"I can get that" Lorelai said.
Luke took a sleeping Emma out of the carrier.
"She's so cute" Rory said.
"Luke" Lorelai said. "You know its kind of funny, your sister's on the phone, and she was telling me that Jess is on the way to Stars Hollow to stay with us"
"What?" Luke asked surprised. "Give me the phone"
Lorelai handed the phone over to Luke.
"He's not staying here Liz, I already told you this" Luke said. "Emma just came home today and we do not have enough space in this house. Liz…you owe me…bye"
Luke hung up.
"Are you seriously letting him stay here?" Lorelai asked.
"He's already on a bus, I can't just send him back home" Luke said.
"Where's he going to sleep?" Lorelai asked.
"The couch" Luke said.
"Ouch" Lorelai said. "Izzy, don't pull people's hair"
She set Izzy on the floor. Immediately Izzy started to cry. Lorelai picked her back up.
"Izzy, I'm not going to be able to pick you up every time you want me to" Lorelai said.
She turned her attention back to Luke.
"When's Jess coming?" Lorelai asked.
"He gets here this evening" Luke said. "His bus arrives at 5:00 PM"
"Just in time for dinner" Lorelai said. "Great"
"Lorelai, we are to welcome him into this house" Luke said. "Even if we didn't exactly want him here in the first place"
"I know" Lorelai said. "And I will"
"Why don't you go take a nap before you have to feed Emma?" Luke asked.
Lorelai nodded.
"Love you kid" Lorelai said.
"Love you too" Rory said.
"I'm going to put Izzy down for a nap too" Lorelai said.
"Okay" Luke said not taking his eyes off of Emma.
"I think I have competition now" Lorelai said.
Rory laughed and Lorelai walked out of the kitchen.
"I should start getting stuff ready for Jess" Luke said. "Do you want to take Emma?"
"Sure" Rory said.
Luke handed Emma to Rory and left the room.
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6:00PM
"We're home" Luke said.
Luke and Jess walked into the living room. Lorelai was sitting on the floor playing with Izzy.
"The bus was a little late" Luke said.
"I figured" Lorelai said standing up. "Hi, Jess"
Jess looked at Lorelai.
"Normally when people say hi you respond" Lorelai said.
It was quiet.
"Okay then, why don't we eat something" Lorelai said.
"Good idea" Luke said. "I'll set the table"
"Jess, you can just leave your stuff in here" Lorelai said.
Lorelai picked up Izzy and carried her into the kitchen. She placed her in her height chair and knocked on Rory's door.
"Rory? Jess is here and it's almost time for dinner" Lorelai said.
"I'll be out in a second" Rory said.
Lorelai went into the living room and saw Jess looking at one of Rory's books.
"Rory's in love with books" Lorelai said. "I'm sure she'd let you borrow some if you want?"
"Hmm" Jess said.
"Anyway, I hope you like chicken because that's what we're having" Lorelai said.
"Momma!" Izzy screamed from the kitchen.
"That would be my calling" Lorelai said.
She turned and went into the kitchen.
"What's wrong?" Lorelai asked coming into the kitchen.
"I don't know, she just randomly screams to scare me" Luke said.
"I've taught her well" Lorelai said smiling.
Rory came out into the kitchen.
"Who are you?" Lorelai asked. "I don't think I've seen you before"
"Very funny, Mom" Rory said. "Where's Jess?"
"Living room" Lorelai said. "Good luck getting him to say and actual word"
Rory gave Lorelai a questioning glance. Lorelai heard Emma start crying through the monitor.
"I just fed her, what does she want?" Lorelai asked.
She went to the nursery.
"Hey Luke" Rory said.
"Yeah?" Luke asked.
"Can I maybe start calling you dad?" Rory asked.
Luke turned around and faced Rory.
"You want to?" Luke asked.
"Yeah, you've been living here for almost a year, and even before that you were like my dad" Rory said. "It just feels right calling you that"
"Okay" Luke said. "I would like that"
"Even though you already have two girls who are going to call you daddy?" Rory asked.
"I have three daughters" Luke said smiling. "At least, that's how I think of it"
Rory smiled.
"Thanks…Dad" Rory said.
Luke smiled and went back to cooking. Rory went out into the living room.
"Hey" Rory said.
Jess looked up at Rory.
"You like reading?" Rory asked.
"Depends on the book" Jess said.
"Oh" Rory said. "I have a bunch of books in my room if you want to look at them"
"Maybe later" Jess said. "Wanna get out of here?"
"What?" Rory asked.
"You know, leave" Jess said.
"No way, Dad's cooking dinner just for you" Rory said.
"Dad?" Jess asked. "Isn't this nice, the perfect little family. The proud parents of the perfect Rory Gilmore. You calling Luke daddy. How you all just adjusted so quickly into the family life"
"We're happy" Rory said. "Why is that so bad?"
"You all are like a sitcom family" Jess said. "You live in the town we're everyone's so happy and all you can hear are the children laughing and skipping through the town square. Then there's the doting mom and dad with three perfect daughters"
Rory looked with disbelief at Jess.
"They've been nice to you from the minute you walked in here" Rory said. "And you're treating them like crap"
"I know they didn't want me here in the first place" Jess said defensively. "My mom just got so sick of me that she packed me up and sent here to this Happy Friendville"
"You don't know that's true" Rory said.
"Like hell I don't" Jess said.
Rory was quiet and Lorelai came downstairs holding Emma.
"Dinner's ready" Luke said from the kitchen.
"Hey, what's wrong with Emma?" Rory asked.
"I think she just wants to watch what's going on" Lorelai said. "Come on, let's go eat"
Everyone went into the kitchen.
"Hey, what's Emma doing down here?" Luke asked.
"She wanted to see her daddy" Lorelai said.
Luke took Emma from Lorelai and they sat down at the table.
"So, how was your trip here?" Lorelai asked.
"Fine" Jess said.
It was quiet again. Izzy took one of the cheerios she was eating and threw it across the table.
"Don't throw your food, Iz" Luke said.
Izzy smiled her devilish grin.
"It's amazing how much she looks more like you everyday" Rory said smiling.
"I've taught her everything I know" Lorelai said.
"I now I'm going to pay for it" Luke said.
Emma eyes had started to close again.
"She's like you" Lorelai said. "Grumpy and a health freak. All I craved was fruits and vegetables when I was pregnant"
"She's added years to your life" Luke said. "For once you ate fruit and vegetables"
"You just wait, I still have time to change her" Lorelai said smiling.
It got quiet again and stayed that way for the rest of the dinner.
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