This Crazy World
Part 10
"Hey, Uncle Luke," Jess said as answer to Luke's greeting.
"You're calling soon," Luke remarked.
"Yeah, we did the schedule for the next couple of weeks tonight. I'm free for a week, starting two weeks from now. Thought I'd come up and visit then."
"Sounds good," Luke said with a smile.
"Yeah, Liz already started planning the big family dinner," Jess chuckled.
"You already talked to her?" Luke asked, a bit surprised.
"Yeah, she called," Jess said with a small laugh. "She wanted to make sure I didn't want that rug. Said she couldn't understand how I could refuse it."
"You never told me what it looked like."
"You don't want to know."
"That bad?" Luke frowned.
Jess grimaced. "Worse."
"Ok, I take your word for it."
"Good choice."
"So, you coming up then?"
"Yeah, thought I'd drive up on Saturday, stay a couple days. Not sure how long yet."
"Stay as long as you want."
"Yeah, we'll see how long I manage."
Luke gave a short laugh, but then frowned, thinking of something. "I was actually gonna call you later," he said, leaning back against the kitchen counter.
Jess narrowed his eyes. "Oh…"
Luke hesitated. "Um…Rory came by the diner earlier today."
Jess breathed in sharply, and then tried to cover it up with a mumbled, "Huh."
"Yeah, I'm… She was looking around in the diner, as if searching for something."
"Huh," Jess repeated, narrowing his eyes a little.
"I'm not sure, because she didn't tell me anything, but I think she was looking for you."
"Huh," Jess said for a third time.
"Jess?" Luke asked when he hadn't said anything else for a while.
"Yeah," Jess sighed. "Why would she be looking for me?" He frowned. "And in Stars Hollow of all places?"
"I don't know."
"I mean, it's not like she doesn't know where to find me."
"I don't know, "Luke said again. "I just thought you might want to know."
"Yeah…thanks," Jess said and took a deep breath. "I'll talk to you later, ok?"
"Jess…?"
"I'm fine," Jess insisted. "I just…"
"Yeah, ok." Luke nodded to himself. "Talk to you later."
"Bye," Jess mumbled and hung up his phone, staring at it for a second.