Here's the next chapter, i would appreciate any comments/ideas you have.

Chapter 2: Old Friends

The next morning Lorelei dragged the two girls out of bed, and was going to show Naomi their everyday ritual of going to Luke's Diner. Naomi wouldn't be going to school for another week so Lorelei was going to let her wander Stars Hallow. They were entering Luke's but Naomi was still half asleep, she was in for a surprise. As she looked up she saw someone she thought she'd never in her life see again.

"Jess!" she yelled as she ran toward him and hugged him.

"Naomi?" Jess asked as he recognized her and embraced her even tighter.

"I can't believe it's you. I thought I'd never see you again," Naomi said as tears came to her eyes.

"Me neither. Guess who's here though. Uncle Luke! Come here now!" Jess yelled upstairs.

"What is it Jess? You know right now I don't have time for your trouble," Luke was saying as a came down the stairs to see the 'niece he never had' as he liked to call her.

"Hey Uncle Luke, how's it going?" Naomi asked, with that Jess and Luke both hugged her and the other and the guys almost started to cry.

"What are you doing here kid? I didn't think he would let you see us again, where's your mom?" Luke asked getting a hold on himself.

"I don't think he can really care Uncle Luke. He's in jail," Naomi dodged the other question.

"Where's your mother Naomi?" Luke asked knowing that she was hiding something.

"He got really mad at me one day and she protected me, Luke he killed her," Naomi said as it all finally caught up to her. She had kept her grief at bay by seeking the help she needed to survive and for her mother's funeral. But know there was no stopping the guilt, remorse, and the hopelessness she was facing now.

"Naomi, why don't you come up to Luke's and my place, you can calm down there," Jess suggested seeing that his uncle was about to break.

"You knew my sister?" asked Lorelei as Jess led Naomi away and Rory went to school.

"Laura was your sister?" asked Luke.

"Yeah, my twin, apparently my parents thought that I had no right to know about her."

"Sorry, she was nice, carefree, and really positive I guess," Luke said thoughtfully, " But that man took her freedom, hope, and everything that made her the way she was."

"I'm sorry I brought it up."

"Nah, it's ok."

"Hey why don't we take Jess and Naomi to the dance marathon to take their minds off this for 24 hours," suggested Lorelei, worried about her friend.

"Sure why not? I think they'll really need it," Luke agreed.

"You'll have to tell me how you knew them both later," Lorelei instructed as she left for the inn asking Luke to take Naomi on a tour of the town.

Upstairs

Jess led Naomi up to his part of the room and gave her a drink of orange juice. Which she drank in one gulp.

"So do you still have it?" asked Jess out of the blue.

"Of course I have it. Do you?" Naomi shot back, pulling up her sleeve to reveal a leather bracelet with a T on it in red. Jess pulled his sleeve up to show his identical bracelet with an N on it in blue.

"That just leaves J; I wasn't able to keep in touch with him. My mom moved me around a lot," Jess whispered.

"Jess will you show me the town. Aunt Lore said I could look around," Naomi said standing up, pushing all her feelings to the back of her mind and thinking only of her best friend that she hadn't seen in about 4 years.

"Well there isn't much to see and the people are crazy but why not?" Jess said leading her back downstairs. As Jess gave Naomi the tour all the towns people kept pointing and her and Jess. Wondering who she was and what she was doing with him of all people. Finally they went back to Luke's to eat cheeseburgers.

"I don't think the townspeople like you or me Jess," Naomi stated as bit into her cheeseburger.

"Why would you say that?"

"Well they kept giving you these paranoid looks, and then looking at me with surprise."

"Yeah well I didn't really hit it off with the people here."

"It's ok I mean I can boost your reputation, say that you would always volunteer in New York for different things," Naomi suggested as she ate a fry.

"Now wouldn't that be fibbing Naomi?"

"Only a little fib and you did use to volunteer."

"How do you know I don't still volunteer?" Jess asked slyly.

"Well these people look like a tight knit community and if you volunteered they wouldn't look at you weird, and you said that you wouldn't do it anymore if your two best friends weren't there," Naomi recited.

"Hey you want to be my partner for that dance marathon thing?" Jess asked suddenly.

"As long as we get to swing dance and stay for at least 20 hours ok," Naomi agreed enthusiastically.

"Meet you there tomorrow morning at six, now I have to walk you home," Jess said.

"But it's only four, they can't already be home," Naomi protested.

"Naomi small town, remember they get out early."

"Oh yeah, I think I'm going to like it here," Naomi said with a mischievous smile.