A/N: Hey everyone...Im soooooo sorry it took this long for chp. 10. I just had been so extremely busy, but I feel terrible. Hopefully chp. 11 won't take as long. The things that made me so busy before are over now so I don't think it will. I have to go or else I would write more, but I hope you enjoy this chapter, please review and im sorry again:)

Disclaimer- nope...still not the owner...

Chapter 10 -AHEM!

"Um..hi" Lorelai said and smiled sheepishly.

"Hi." Jess said with a smirk on his face.

"Jess..." Luke began to speak.

"Wow Uncle Luke...doing this...in front of a poor innocent child like me...well thats just unacceptable..."

"Jess..." Luke repeated.

"...It could scar me for life...I mean, my eyes...i'm going to need glasses..." Jess continued.

"Go upstairs Jess!" Luke said angrily.

"Fine." Jess replied and walked up the stairs.

"Damn." Lorelai said quietly

"Well it could've been worse." Luke pointed out.

"Yes, you're right...it could have been Taylor...or Patty who found us" she said with a slight smile.

"AHEM!" someone said from the side.

"Oh you have got to be kidding me!" Lorelai said and turned around. "Hey Patty" Lorelai said and smiled nervously.

"Hello Lorelai..." patty said "And hello Luke...," she smiled widely through her words.

"How long have you...been standing there, Patty?" Lorelai asked

"Oh...long enough, dear...long enough" Patty said in a dreamy high-pitched voice.

"Meaning...?" Lorelai questioned.

"Oh well she was standing there longer than me." Kirk stated from behind them.

"How the- where is everyone coming from!" Lorelai said loudly

"Uh...I came from the bathroom." Kirk said.

"Well, how long have you been standing there?" she asked.

"Uh...I don't quite understand your question." Kirk said nervously.

"How much did you see Kirk!" Luke said in a gruff voice.

"Uh...I'd rather not say..." Kirk said quickly and ran back into the bathroom.

Lorelai was a little upset. "Great, this is...great."

"Sooooooo..." Patty continued.

"Yes Patty, Luke and I kissed whoo hoo." Lorelai said dryly, twirling her finger in the air while saying 'whoo hoo'.

"Luke you naughty naughty boy...what would Nicole say?" Patty questioned.

"She would say nothing, Nicole and I are no longer together." Luke answered.

"Reeeaally..."she said a little too enthused.

"Yes, Nicole is no longer in the picture and neither is Jason, now please Patt-" Lorelai started, but Patty would not let her finish.

"I see, but now there's a Luke in the picture?" Patty asked questioningly.

Lorelai looked at Luke for a moment and answered quickly. "Yes there is, now can we just forget you all ever saw this? Patty, I know gossip is your life , but if you care about me and/or Luke at all you will, for once in your life, pretend you saw nothing and keep your mouth shut. And when we go outside and finally get our lives back, you will say nothing to the town until we are ready to tell them ourselves...right?" Lorelai looked at her pleadingly.

Patty paused for a moment.

"Alright..." she said finally.

"Thank you Patty...Now KIRK!" Lorelai screamed, knocking on the bathroom door.

"Wait honey, we aren't done..." Patty said.

"Oh thank god!" Kirk whispered from the other end.

"...just because I agreed to not talking to the town about you doesn't mean I agreed to not talking to you about you." Patty continued.

"Patty please we don't even know if there is an "us" yet and you are ruining it before we get a chance to find out...now Luke and I are going to go upstairs and no one is going to follow...are we all clear?"

"Yes!" Kirk replied from the bathroom and Lorelai grabbed Luke's arm and pulled him upstairs.

"Ow!" Luke said.

"Suck it up!" Lorelai yelled back.

Meanwhile, Lane, Rory and Dean were all in the storage room eating. They were casually chatting, but it was mostly only Lane and Rory who were talking.

"Uh Lane?" Rory asked. "Could you excuse me and Dean for a moment?"

"Yeah, sure." Lane said and got up.

When Lane left, Rory looked at Dean who was staring at her.
"Listen, Dean...I'm sorry I didn't tell you that Jess was back."

"It's okay..." Dean said quietly.

"No, I'm not done." She said back to him.

"I'm sorry I didn't tell you that Jess was back however, I don't understand why you are still so angry with our situation. We're just friends Dean, nothing more. I am not your girlfriend anymore and I haven't been for awhile now and that was your choice."

"No Rory, that was your choice! I never wanted to break up with you, but you gave me no choice. I knew you really wanted to be with him."

Rory just stared at him for a second. "Look at us...we are fighting about things that happened so long ago. I don't know about you, but I have matured since then and I just wish we could go back to being friends and forget about all of this."

"Do you still want to be with Jess?"

"Can we not talk about him right now..."

"No Rory...I need to know because I have to tell you I did not like coming downstairs to find you and him together and if you are going to be with him I don't know if we can be friends. It's just too hard.

"I don't know okay. I need time alone to think about it. Away from the snow, away from you and Jess and my mother and Kirk! I just need to clear my head before I make any decisions because when you walked downstairs I started to doubt myself about Jess and now Im starting to wonder if that was wrong..." She was lost and she started to think. "Wow." She said as if just coming to realization. "I know I said I wanted to talk to you, but I just, I realize now that I need some time and I need to talk to Jess." She looked into his eyes. "I'm sorry"
She wasn't sure how Jess was feeling, but she needed to find out. "Im sorry..." she repeated again and walked away. Lane saw her and spoke. "Hey Rory, is everything okay? Wow, you look like you just saw a ghost."

"Thanks" Rory said.

"well you know what I mean," Lane said.

"Yea...well I'll be okay I just need to go upstairs." She walked upstairs and Lane headed for the kitchen to talk to Dean because she wanted to know what had happened.

Rory went into Luke's upstairs apartment and saw Luke and Lorelai sitting on the couch. They hadn't begun a discussion yet because Jess had been up there with them.
"Where's Jess?" Rory said frantically.

"Umm..he's in his room." Luke said a little concerned.

"Honey, are you okay?" Lorelai asked.

"I'm fine...i just need to talk to Jess." Rory said. "Do you mind um...leaving us alone?" Rory asked and Lorelai stared at her thinking she meant something else. "No...no, that's not what I meant by alone mom...I just need to talk to him...GEEZ!" Rory said a little annoyed at what her mother was insinuating and walked into Jess's room. Luke and Lorelai decided to stay upstairs anyway because they wanted to know what was going on.

Jess was over at his dresser when he looked in the mirror and saw her reflection, standing in the doorway.

"Hey." She said.

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