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Chapter 6: Colleges
It was a week later and Tristan, Rory, and Naomi were nervously waiting for the letters from the colleges they were accepted to. They all wanted to go to Yale; Rory finally decided that Yale was the school for her. They were at Luke's waiting for Jess and talking about college.
"Man I'm so nervous, I hope we all get accepted so we can go to the same school," Rory said as she downed another coffee.
"Hey do you guys know if Jess has applied to any colleges," asked Naomi as she sipped a soda, (having Luke in her life when she was younger put her off coffee but not soda so that she wouldn't be lectured on how bad coffee was but she had to have some sort of caffeine).
"No he hasn't talked about it," Tristan said starting to worry also.
"Well maybe he just hasn't told us yet," Rory suggested half-heartedly.
"Hey Naomi, Rory have you guys decided how your going to pay for Yale?" Tristan asked to change the subject. Unlike most people this was not a subject that embarrassed any of them.
"We don't know, I mean Aunt Lore paid back Mr. and Mrs. Gilmore with this money she got and now the student loan program won't give either of us any money," Naomi explained.
"Well I have an idea, but Naomi your going to hate it," Rory said nervously.
"Hey if it'll get me into Yale I'll do it, what's your plan Rory?" Naomi asked looking at her cousin.
"Well I was thinking of asking Grandma and Grandpa to pay for it in exchange for Friday night dinners," Rory said looking at Naomi as her face hardened.
"Well how about I tell you that I'll think about it and it'll be a last resort for me," Naomi said.
"No. You have to come with me to ask them for the money when I go if you don't have any ideas. I'm not going to let your stubbornness get in the way of you going to Yale," Rory stated forcefully looking Naomi straight in the eye.
"Fine Rory," Naomi said grinning.
"Hey Jess," Tristan said as he spotted Jess come into the dinner. He looked kinda dazed; he had just come back from seeing the principle.
"Hey you guys," Jess said sitting down and tried to gather himself.
"Jess we were talking about college. Which one are you going to go to?" asked Naomi.
"I'm not going to college," Jess said.
"What?!!!" Naomi reacted.
"I'm flunking."
"How can you be flunking Jess, you are so smart," Naomi said, both Tristan and Rory were looking at the two obviously excluded from the conversation.
"I've been skipping lately to go to work."
"At Wal-Mart, do you really think you have a future in there?" Naomi asked furiously.
"Listen I don't need this lecture again, I already got it from Luke. And like I told him I don't need you to worry about me, it's my business not yours," jess yelled just as angrily to her.
"Well I thought it was my business to make sure that my friends were happy and weren't making mistakes, I'm sorry I thought we were friends," Naomi said subdued as she got up and started to leave.
"Na, I'm sorry I didn't mean it," Jess tried to explain, realizing his mistake.
"See ya," Naomi answered as she walked out and went home. Rory followed her out.
"What is the matter with you Jess, you know she cares about you and that she worries about you and that's what you do?" Tristan asked quietly.
"I'm sorry it's just that I can't stand being here anymore," Jess tried to explain as Tristan left also, going to the Gilmore Girls' house.
"Time to leave," Jess said quietly. Luke wanted him out soon.
NEXT DAY
"Did you guys hear?" Babette asked the three Gilmores as they were leaving to go to Luke's.
"What Babette?" Lorelei asked.
"Jess left, last night, on the bus," Babette informed them.
"Well I guess we're never seeing him for another four years," Naomi said dejectedly as she took out her cell phone to call Tristan to tell him.
Rory looked at her cousin sadly as she went to check the mail, their acceptance letters were there.
"Hey Na, want to see if we got in?" Rory said smiling handing her cousin her envelope.
"On the count of three we open them, together," Naomi said into the phone since Tristan also got his envelope.
"One…."
"Two….."
"Three……."
"I got in!" yelled all three of them at the same time.