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Chapter 3- Blizzards, Blankets and Bad Boys
Later on that evening after the charity event with Richard and Emily,
Lorelai and Rory were walking to the firelight festival. It was snowing.
"ah how I love the cold white sparkly things that fall from the sky." Lorelai said.
Rory smiled and they continued walking.
They looked around and saw Kirk dancing. They both laughed at the site.
Then Rory saw Dean and walked over to say Hi.
"Hey Dean."
"Oh hey Rory." Dean said when he saw her.
"Where's Lindsay?"
"Oh, shes gonna meet me here in a little bit."
"Oh."
They continued talking and by this time it was snowing harder. Dean and Rory walked over to Lorelai who was of course by the food.
"Oh hey Dean. How are you?" Lorelai said.
"Im good."
"Good, where is Lindsay?"
"Well she was gonna meet me here, but since its snowing she decided to stay home."
"Well I am freezing, what do you say we go to Lukes and get some coffee?" Lorelai suggested.
"sounds good." said Dean.
"Uh, I dont know." said rory "Mom can i talk to you for a sec.?" rory pulled her mom over to the side."What the heck are you doing?" she exclaimed. "Jess is in there!"
"Yeah, so is Lane...wait, you didnt tell Dean Jess was back!"
"No, plus I really don't want to see him right now."
"Okay, but I really want coffee, so I'll tell Luke to tell Jess to stay upstairs."
"Okay, but wait..why can't you just bring coffee back to us?"
"Because then Dean would suspect something." she said starting to walk away.
"Oh yes, because he won't suspect anything when I tell him we have to wait 2 minutes before going in." She mumbled sarcastically.
Then she turned to Dean and smiled. He looked really confused.
"she said to wait a couple seconds" Rory said with a shrug and a slight smile.
Meanwhile Lorelai walked into the diner and looked around for Luke.
"Luke are you here?" she screamed.
He walked down the stairs when she was continuing to scream his name.
"Luuu-" she said.
"Alright Alright" he interrupted "Im right here, what do you want?"
" Can you just tell Jess to stay upstairs?...because Rory and Dean are coming in."
"Okay, yea..sure, wait did you say Dean?"
"Yea he's back in town for the festival..where is Lane?"
"I think shes out back..I'll go tell Jess, be right back."
Lorelai then motioned to Rory that they could come in.
"We can go in now." Rory said
"Oh, well I think Luke's mad at her because he just went upstairs." Dean replied
"Yea."
They walked inside and saw Lorelai and Lane. Luke came downstairs and everyone except Dean was stairing at him. He gave them a nod so they knew Jess wasn't coming down.
"Coffee anyone?" Luke said to break the silence.
"Sure"
"Yea"
"Okay"
"Yes Please" They all replied.
They were all sitting at the table talking and drinking coffee. They had forgotten about the festival and all of the snow.
"Hey Luke, come join us." Lorelai said.
"No, Im good.." Luke replied.
"Okay, who wants pancakes?" Lorelai asked
"I do." said Rory.
"I ate at the festival." said Dean.
"So? We did too." replied Rory.
"The festival!" Lorelai said with a shreik and ran towards the window. "It's a blizzard, how could this have happened so fast?"
"uh..because in a blizarrd the snow falls hard and fast? Im not sure though,
just a guess." Luke replied sarcastically.
"Oh shut up...Look!" She said hitting him. "What do we do now?"
"We could try to make it home.." Lane said not really believing they could.
"That's crazy..its snowing like an inch a second."
"shes right" said Dean.
"I don't think we're going anywhere," said lorelai. "So Luke, is that okay with you?"
"What?..Oh yea, sure. Im not going to let you go out in a blizzard."
"Alright well I'm going to go call Lindsay," Dean said and then walked away.
"Is someone out there?" Lorelai said still looking out the window.
"What?" Rory chuckled.
"No, I'm serious. I think someone is out in the snow...it's blurry so I can't see who it is..wait.."
"Who would stay out in the snow just for the festival?" Rory said.
Then Lorelai and Rory both looked at eachother and said.. "Kirk!"
"Oh my gosh! Kirk's stuck out in the snow, Luke go get him and tell him to come in here!"
"What? Why do I have to go get him?"
"LUUUCAS!" Lorelai said sternly.
"fine, fine," he said.
"but be careful," Lorelai said "I don't want to have to feel guilty for sending you out there when you freeze to death."
Luke went through the back door since the front door was frozen shut.
They all stood there staring at each other when they heard someone knocking.
"Hey look! Taylor and Miss Patty are stuck in the soda shoppe." Rory said pointing to the window.
They were waving.
"Oh hey! Patty, Taylor"
"Mom, I don't think they can hear you."
Lorelai walked over and opened the window. "Hey guys!" she said and then turned to Rory and replied, "Now they can."
"I did not know that window opened.." Lane said to Dean.
"Hello dears, you're stuck in the snowstorm too I see," Patty said.
"Yup, and Luke just went to go get Kirk." Lorelai said.
"He was stuck in the snow," Rory added.
"Oh my!" Patty said. "So where is Jess? upstairs?"
"WHAT!" Dean said. "Jess is here?"
"He is!" said Rory.
"Oh my gosh!" added Lorelai
Patty just looked at them, confused.
"Come on Patty, your sundae is ready. And I have extra nuts, just the way you like it" Taylor said.
"dirty" Lorelai said.
Patty turned to leave and gave Lorelai a look saying this thing with jess isn't over.
Right then, Luke came in all snowy with Kirk beside him shivering.
"Hey Kirk, are you okay?" Lorelai said.
"Im cold." Kirk replied.
"Oh..okay"
"Luke, Jess is back!" Dean said.
"He is?" Rory said.
"Oh my gosh!" Lorelai added.
"What? Who told you?" said Luke
"Patty."
"Patty?"
"Hey Luke" Patty called from next door.
"Oh, hey Patty" luke said shutting the window.
"So he's back?" Dean asked.
"uh yea, he's upstairs" Luke replied.
"I can't believe this, and you knew?" Dean said turning to Rory.
"I did?" Rory said.
"Oh my gosh!" Lorelai added. "You know what, um why don't we focus on the storm and what we're gonna do about it rather than Jess who's kinda a sore subject to everyone."
"I heard that" Jess said while coming down the stairs.
"Jess, I thought I told you to stay upstairs," Luke said a little annoyed.
"Well I just thought I'd join the party uncle Luke," Jess replied.
"Fine, but you're going to help."
"This is just great" Dean said.
"Oh get over it!" Jess replied.
"Jess, go upstairs now and get some blankets..uh Kirk, why don't you go with him?" Luke said.
"I'll go too." said Rory.
"uh..hh-hun, what are you doing?" Lorelai said.
"Mom.." Rory said.
"Okay, I'll be down here."
"Lane, go in the kitchen with Dean and make some pancakes for everyone, but first go see if Patty and Taylor want any," Luke said.
"Okay" said Lane.
"Lorelai, you come with me" Luke said grabbing her by the arm.
"Wait..wwh-where are we going?" Lorelai said.
"Storage room"
"Oh..of course," she said looking a little confused. "So uh..what are we doing in here?"
"We are turning on the heat, but first we have to find my wrench which I left in here."
"Why is that?"
"because I broke the heater and the knob only turns when I use the wrench."
"dirty!" Lorelai said and Luke gave her a stern look.
Meanwhile Kirk, Rory and Jess were silent upstairs.
Jess spoke up, "Kirk, uh why don't you go talk to yourself in the bathroom."
"oo-kay" Kirk said.