Chapter 5-Keeping secrets

Later that day, at the Gilmore house:

"Mom! Where are you?" Rory shouted as she entered the house.'

"Rory! Oh my god, Rory! Where have you been? And why aren't you answering your phone? Why didn't you come to dinner? You better have a good reason for leaving me alone with my mother! What happened?" Lorelai yelled as she ran down the stairs. Once she got down she jumped and hugged her daughter, who was waiting for her at the bottom of the stairs.

"A lot. But you have to calm down and let me breathe if you want to hear the story."

Lorelai pulled away reluctantly from the hug and they both sat down on the couch.

"Now tell me!"

"Okay so yesterday Mitchum had a talk with me. He told me that I don't have what it takes to be a journalist but that I could be a great assistant."

"That bastard! I'm going to kill him!"

"Mom, calm down. It's not a big deal…""I am definitely loosing my mind. Last night I was freaking out about this and now…"

"No, Rory it is a big deal. He has no right to tell you something like that. He hasn't even read anything you've written. You are an amazing writer and…Wait…how come you are so calm about this?"

"I don't know. I just am. Like you said, he never read any of my work. I'm sorry I just don't want to talk about him anymore. I'd rather just forget it ever happened."

"Okay…Now how 'bout I go make us some coffee before I have to get to the Inn?"

"Wait…there's something else I have to tell you. I broke up with Logan"

"What? Why?"

"We had a fight."

"Oh, honey I'm so sorry. I'm sure that you two can get over it."

"I don't think we will."

"Come here!" Lorelai said and hugged her daughter.

"I have to go to the Inn now. We have a group of tourists coming today and I'm scared to leave them alone with Michel. It won't take long, I just want to check them in. Do you want to come with me? I don't want you to be alone."

"No, don't worry. I'm fine. I think I'll just go see Lane."

"Ok. Meet me later at Luke's?"

"Sure. What time?"

"How about 2.15?"

"See you then."

"Bye, hon!" Lorelai kissed her daughter on the cheek and left.

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Later, at Lane's house:

"Hey, Lane!" Rory said hugging Lane.

"Rory! How are you? Come on in!"

They both got in and sat on the couch.

"Where are the guys? I need to talk to you alone."

"They're both at work. Why...is something wrong?"

"She knows me to well." Rory took a deep ling breath. "Sort of. I think I'm in love with Jess."

"Jess who?"

"Luke's nephew. How many Jess's do you know?"

"I'm sorry…It's just that you haven't seen him in over a year."

"Actually I saw him last night."

"What…did that punk came and asked you to run away with him again?"

"No. I called him and asked him to come and he came and we went to dinner and talked."

"So why do you think you're in love with him?"

"It's just that we were talking last night and he hugged me and it just felt so right. And today, when we kissed…"

"Whoa…you kissed?"

"Yes."

"And what about Logan?"

"We broke up."

"Ok this is getting more and more confusing. Why did you break up with Logan?"

"Because he came in my room this morning and found me sleeping with Jess."

"You slept with Jess?"

"Not slept as in we had sex. We just slept in the same bed."

"So…you're with Jess now?"

"No. At least I don't think I am. We haven't talk about it."

"I don't know what to say…What does Lorelai think about this?"

"I haven't told her. I wanted to but I just couldn't. She's not crazy about him and she was already upset because of something else."

"So what are you going to do?"

"I don't know. I mean he's Jess…you know. I don't even know where he lives."

"But do you want to be with him?"

"…Yes…"

"Then I think you should talk to him."

"I'll try. I'm supposed to meet with him later anyway…Shoot! What time is it?"

"2.10. Why?"

"I'm supposed to meet my mom for coffee at Luke's in 5 minutes. I have to run. Thanks for the talk." Rory said as she stormed out the door.

"Call me and tell what happens!"

"I will! Bye, Lane!"

"Bye!"

Rory arrived at Luke's 10 minutes later. Her mother was already there, sitting at the counter and talking to Luke.

"Hey, mom! Sorry I'm late! Hey, Luke!" Rory sat on a stool next to her mom.

"Hi, Rory! It's nice to have you home."

"Well I'll be here a lot soon. I have one more final on Tuesday and then I'm done."

"So what will you have?"

"Coffee, a cheeseburger and fries. Oh and pie!"

"Yes, Luke, pie!"

"You just had 2 doughnuts."

"So?"

"So you just had 2 doughnuts."

"Have you ever seen me eat? Now go and get Rory her food and stop arguing."

"Fine."

Lorelai turned to Rory "That was way to easy. So movie night tonight?"

"Sure! What are we watching?"

"I don't know. We'll go by the video store later."

"Ok."

Luke came and put down the plates in front of the girls then went to the cash register.

"Listen, Rory I want to tell you something. Luke told me that Jess is back is Stars Hollow. Apparently he's visiting his mom or something like that."

"I know."

"How do know?"

"Um…I…saw him" Rory hated lying to her mother but she didn't want to tell her the truth until she talked to Jess.

"Really? Did you talk to him?"

"No, I was on my way to Lane's and I saw him. That's it."

"Ok." Lorelai sensed that something was happening with her daughter but brushed it off thinking it had something to do with what had happened with Mitchum and Logan. "So…do you want another piece of pie?"

Rory was just about to answer her when her phone beeped. She opened it and saw a message.

"Meet me later at the bridge? Jess"

She smiled and replied:

"Sure. I'll see you in half an hour."

A/N: Sorry it took longer than usual to update this story but I wasn't very sure about the Lorelai/Rory conversation so I just wrote about 5 versions until I finally picked this one. Thank you for reviewing. You make me extremely happy and help me keep writing. Tell me what you think about this chapter (pretty please).