Lorelai was sitting on a stool, she had Luke cooked her a stake, Jess was making rounds filling coffees then Rory walked in carrying mountains of bags.
"Jeez! Did you leave anything in the stores?" Jess asked her as soon as she walked in.
"Shot up and help me"
"Sorry can't, I'm working" Jess started walking back to the counter.
"Go help her Jess!" Luke growled at him.
"Fine" he said walked towards Rory and grabbed a few bags.
"Hey mom…" she kissed Lorelai's cheek "Are you mad?"
"Why honey?" Lorelai asked, she had forgotten about the whole 'Rory leaving her and not coming back for her thing'.
"Cuz' I took so long" Rory said shyly.
"Nah its ok" Luke made more food for Rory while she showed her mom what she had bought, Rory gave her one small bag and Lorelai looked inside. "Oh my God! This is so adorable!" Lorelai squealed.
"What is?" Luke asked without looking away from the bills he was counting.
"This!" Lorelai pulled out a little 'Luke outfit' out of the bag. It was a tiny blue flannel shirt, a little blue baseball cap, jeans and black little shoes.
"Aw jeez!" was all Luke had to say.
"Isn't it adorable?" Lorelai asked him.
"Not really" he responded gruffly.
"C'mon uncle Luke, it just freaking cute" Jess mocked while pinching Luke's cheek.
"Don't add to this Jess" Luke threatened.
"Are you mad?" Rory asked him.
"Not mad just annoyed" Luke answered and walked into the kitchen. When he was sure no one could see him he just smiled to himself I cant believe they make flannel that small or a baseball cap for that matter, its so…may I say… adorable just like Lorelai said. He didn't notice but he was just smiling like a fool.
"So you did like it huh?" Lorelai asked him when she noticed his broad smile.
"What are you doing here?" he looked at her, smile still there.
"Making sure you were ok" she was walking towards him.
"Yeah I'm ok" he said and hugged her. "And you were right" he said into her hair.
"Bout what?" she pulled back a little to look him in the eye.
"It is adorable" he said shyly.
"Ha I knew you'd like it!" she mocked.
"Keep it a secret?" she narrowed her eyes and looked at him up and down.
"It'll be our little secret" she reassured him, and he kissed her. "So do we tell them about the house?" she asked out of the blue.
"Only if you want to"
"I do!" she broke free from him and went back into the diner.
"Crazy lady" he muttered to himself and followed her to the diner. Lorelai was just sitting next to Rory who was showing Jess a book she had just bought when Luke walked up to them.
"So kids, hahaha kids that sounds odd" Lorelai called them.
"Yeah mom?"
"Luke and I want to show you guys something" she said looking at Luke.
"What?" asked Rory.
"Lets go show them, it'll be better" Lorelai told Luke, he just nodded and the four of them left the diner.
"Mom where are we going?" Rory asked looking out the car window.
"Shush you, just sit back and enjoy" Lorelai told her.
"Fine" she said and laid back. Rory and Lorelai were on Rory's car, Jess and Luke were on the 'family car'. A couple of minutes later both the cars were parked in front of the house.
"What's this?" Rory asked her mother while eyeing the house up and down.
"This was were Luke grew up" Lorelai answered her. "Wanna go take a look?" Rory nodded and both the girls went in.
"So what are we doing here?" Jess asked as Luke got of the car.
"Lorelai wanted to show Rory were I grew up" he said simply "What happened to school Jess?" Luke asked after a long silence.
"Nothing happened uncle Luke, its still there" he said trying to avoid the subject.
"Jess…"
"Fine, I got my high school diploma, if that's what you're wondering"
"How?" did he buy it? I don't think so you cant do that can you? Luke was confused.
"When the whole jimmy thing went to hell I tried getting a job, but with out a diploma the jobs you can get are really tiring and don't pay, so I went to an open high school finished what I needed and got the diploma" he admitted shyly.
"What about college"
"What about it?"
"Are you going?"
"I can hardly pay my way thru life, you saw how I live, and you want me t pay for college also! Life is expensive incase you didn't know"
"I know it is, that why I wanted you to finish high school here, and make a life for yourself Jess"
"Yeah, well its to late for that now is it" Jess was starting to get pissed of having his failures thrown at his face.
"No its not"
"Whatever mister the glass is half full"
"I mean it Jess…" after hearing this Jess turned his attention towards his uncle.
"What you have a time machine or something?"
"If I had don't you think id go back in time and make my move on Lorelai sooner?"
"Good point. So what did you mean?" he was actually interested in this.
"Stay here, with us and go to a community college"
"What!"
"You could help me out in the diner when the twins get here, earn some money and go to school, which I'll pay for" he explained.
"You're serious?" Jess couldn't believe what he was hearing he wants me to stay here don't pay rent, study for free and only help in the diner when the twins get here, he's lost it, Lorelai's craziness got to him.
"Yes"
"Does Lorelai know your intentions?" she doesn't know otherwise she'd say no.
"Yes we've talked about it, and she's ok, specially cuz' you'd help out in the diner and…well…baby sit if needed"
"She's really ok with it?" Luke nodded. "Will I be staying in your old apartment?" please say yes please say yes please say yes.
"No, like I said there's nothing there, besides I'm planning on turning that into an office again. And there's no way in hell we are letting you live without supervision"
"Don't trust me uncle Luke"
"In one word… no!"
"Then what? I'm gonna live on the couch, cuz' I know you're gonna turn the room I'm currently sleeping in into a nursery" Luke shook his head. "Then what?"
"We are gonna move here" he said pointing towards the house.
"To your childhood home?"
"Yep, and if you say yes you don't have to sleep on the couch you'll have your own room" he offered.
"Yes! God! How many times do I have to say this!" Luke was losing his patience.
"Sorry, just trying to wrap my head around things"
"Sorry go ahead and wrap all you want"
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"Wow this place is huge! Did you see the study, no wait! The fire place! It's gorgeous!" Rory couldn't stop talking about the house and they had only seen the downstairs.
"This, my darling daughter, was Luke's old room" she said while opening the door.
"Wow… I really can't picture Luke here as a kid… actually I cant even picture Luke as a kid"
"He was adorable"
"How do you know?"
"I've seen pictures, actually I've asked around for pictures of him and the best one were from buddy and Maisy" Lorelai said with a grin on her face.
"Makes sense"
"Yeah… oh hey! Lets go see Liz's old room" Rory nodded and they went, they had seen all the rooms except for the master bedroom which was their next stop. "Here, behind this door is the biggest bestest room of them all"
"Bestest is not a word mom"
"Well it is when your very pregnant mother says it, so lets go in"
"Whatever" Rory said with a laugh. "Wow" Rory said in a whisper.
"So you like it?"
"You were right it's the bestest" Rory mocked.
"Ha-ha. So what do you think about the house?"
"I think it's a great house to grow up in, and have a family" Rory noticed Lorelai's worried expression. "What's wrong?"
"Luke asked us to move in here" Lorelai said shyly.
"Us? Why?"
"He said our house is not big enough for six people to live in" actually he didn't say that, but I have to find a way of telling you about the house and about Jess staying with us, and this looks like the perfect opportunity, two birds with one shot right? Lorelai encouraged herself.
"Six? But we're gonna be five" she was making the math over and over and over again and it always came out five.
"Jess" was all Lorelai said. "Luke and I talked and we thought, he could live with us and go to college, honey he needs an education and Luke doesn't want him to fall of the face of the earth" Lorelai noticed Rory's thinking face. "Honey say something"
"What about our old house?" she asked in a whisper.
"Well we bought that house, we own that house, that house is ours to do what ever our hearts desire is"
"And what would that be?"
"Honey, we could keep it like it is, or rent it or sell it, but I don't want to sell it not yet at least"
"Neither do I" again in whispers.
"We have memories there kid, and I don't want to lose them. But Luke is right, we do need a bigger place"
"I know"
"Are you ok with the moving thing?" Lorelai asked testing the waters.
"Yeah as long as we don't sell 'the crap shack'" Rory said trying to lighten up the mood but her tone of voice was giving her away.
"Ok so if its no the house, then it's the whole Jess thing?" Lorelai said knowingly.
"No, actually I think it's a good idea that you guys help him out"
"Then what is it?"
"I know you said we're not selling but still it makes me feel sad the thought of leaving my first home, you know?..." Lorelai nodded "So which ones my room?" Rory asked with a smile on her face.
"Down the hall to the left" said Lorelai with a grin on her face.
"Good choice" and they left to go downstairs.
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"So what do you say Jess?" Luke was getting really tired of going around in circles on the same subject.
"You sure about this right?"
"Yes!" God is this kid annoying.
"Ok then, I'd like to live with you guys and help out at the diner"
"Don't forget the babysitting" Luke reminded him.
"Fine, but I'm not changing dippers"
"Oh yes you are" Luke teased.
"What are you teasing him for?" asked Lorelai when to were both walking outside.
"He thinks he's not gonna change dippers" Luke said with a smile while he placed one hand on Lorelai's back and they walked inside the house again.
"I don't think, I know" Jess told them while following them inside.
"Stop teasing yourself Jess, you know you're gonna do it" Rory told him.
"Yeah I know" Jess said in a hopeless tone of voice. Luke showed Jess the house and what would be his future room.
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