The next day Jason comes into the diner for the first time. Maria is about to end her first shift.

"Hey Maria, you got a minute?" Jason asks when he gets to the counter.

"Yeah, dad, I'm done with my shift" Maria yells upstairs and heads outside with Jason. They go and sit down on a bench by Ms. Patty's studio.

Jason turns to her and gets a nervous look on his face that Maria has never seen before. "Maria, now I know that you probably don't trust guys since Dean, and what he did to you was the worst and stupidest thing that he could have done, but I hope that you haven't given up on guys forever, and I was wondering if you would like to go out with me this Saturday night?" Jason says in one big sentence.

Maria gets a smile on her face and says "Jason, I would love to go out with you this Saturday night. Especially since I've never seen you that nervous before. It's cute." After that she goes to her mom's house to tell her the exciting news. When she gets to her house, she runs straight to her mom's room.

"Mom, I have the best news I've gotten in months!" Maria says as she plops down on the bed. She looks around to see that her mom's cloths are all over the place and a big suitcase is on the floor next to the closet. "Where are you going?" she asks her mom.

"Your father and I are going away this spring break, now what's that exciting news?" Lorelai says.

"My news can wait, what do you mean 'you and dad are going away', away where?" Maria says with interest.

"Your father has been really stressed lately and I have decided that we both need to get away so, I have convinced him to come to New York with me for a week. He can relax and I can have a free week of shopping without feeling bad about leaving work." Lorelai explains to her daughter.

"How did you convince him to come with you, I've tried to get him to come on vacation for years?" Maria asks with a smile on her face.

"O, I have my ways" Lorelai says with a smile on her face.

"I almost don't want to know, but I am glad that he's finally going to be able to relax. When do you leave?" Maria says as she gets up to help her mom.

"This Friday and I know that means no Friday night dinner. It kills me to not go but I am doing this for your dad and I am very saddened by the fact that I am going to disappoint my mother once again." Lorelai says while trying to hide the smile on her face.

"Do I still have to go to Friday night dinner?" Maria asks.

"No, I called mom and she babbled on and on about how I always get out and then she said that since Rory cant make it out either that there is really no point to having dinner at all." Lorelai says and she can see the change in Maria's face. "O, honey, she didn't mean it in a bad way."

"I know I've gotten used to it by now" Maria says and then she turns around to leave the room.

"Hey, what was this amazing news that you had to tell me?" Lorelai asks.

"O, its nothing" Maria says with a smile as she leaves the room to go back downstairs.
Now I am sorry that this is such a short chapter but I don't know where to go from here. I think I want something bad to happen during spring break, nothing that makes Jason be worse then Dean but something that may ruin Maria's relationship with her parents. That is where you come in. I don't know what that is and I would love if you have any situations for me to write about. So just review and tell me your ideas and I will pick the best one and make it happen for your.