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Chapter 5

The dance marathon day had come. It was 5 in the morning and Jess and Lane were at the Crap Shack to support Rory and Lorelai. Jess and Lane were in the living room sat on the sofa while they were waiting for them to emerge. Jess had brought coffee to entice them.

"So when are you actually going to tell your mom that I am a boy?" Jess smirked at Lane. Lane had been Rory's friend longer than Jess but she got on well with Jess too.

"Probably when pigs can fly." Lane replied.

Jess smirked. "I would love to see her reaction. She hates me as it is!"

"She doesn't hate you exactly..." Lane said.

"She hates all boys!"

"That is true..."

Jess just chuckled. He felt sorry for Lane for having to keep so much of her life a secret. He admired her. "So how did you get your mom to agree to you coming to this?" He asked.

"I told her I was coming to support Rory and she has several church things today and has to manage the shop so I'm pretty sure she won't come." Lane said.

"That's lucky!" Jess chuckled.

"Right I'm up!" Rory announced coming out of her room in her dance outfit and into the living room. "Hey guys!" She smiled.

"Hey!" Jess smirked.

"Hey! Aw Rory you're outfit's great!" Lane smiled at her friend.

"Thanks!" She smiled. "I can't believe you two are actually up at this time!"

"What are friends for?" Lane smiled.

"Mocking their other friends!" Jess smirked which resulted in a playful hit from Rory.

Soon Lorelai had come down too so they headed to the community hall. "Ooooh coffee!" Lorelai said immediately and rushed over to Luke.

The three of them laughed and followed her. Rory smiled when she saw Lorelai give Luke a quick kiss. She was glad her mom was happy.

The countdown soon started so Lorelai and Rory got to their place on the dancefloor while Jess and Lane went to sit down on the benches laid out for the spectators. Several hours soon passed and Rory looked over towards her two best friends who were watching her and chatting to each other and laughing. She smiled at them. She was happy that they got on well so that they could all hang out together.

Around midday, however, there was a surprise arrival at the dance marathon when Emily Gilmore appeared. It was during a break so Rory was sat with Jess and Lane while Lorelai was sat with Luke next to them.

"Um Rory isn't that your grandma?" Jess said spotting her.

Rory looked up. "Um yeh..." She said confused. She turned to her mom. "Did you arrange a meeting with grandma today?" She asked.

Lorelai frowned. "No."

Emily saw them and went over. She narrowed her eyes at the sight of Jess and Luke but looked at Rory. "Rory, there you are!"

"Um hi grandma..." She said confused and still a bit angry from the last friday night dinner they had.

"Neither of you were answering the phone so I came down here. What's happening?" She asked.

"Dance marathon and me and mom have to go back up in a minute." Rory said.

"Well I just want to make sure you're coming on friday. I'm having a visitor and I would love for you to be there." She said.

"Um sure. We have a contract grandma. I don't break promises." Rory said.

"Good. I will see you then. I'll leave you to whatever this dance is." She said and went to leave. As she turned back, she watched as Rory and Lorelai started dancing again obviously enjoying it and felt a pang of jealousy. She and Lorelai would never have a relationship like the one Lorelai had with Rory.

After many hours later, Lorelai and Rory were still going although they were very tired. Lane had fallen asleep on the bench with he head on Jess' leg. Soon it was only Lorelai and Rory and Kirk and his partner left on the dancefloor. Eventually Kirk and his partner were disqualified meaning Lorelai and Rory were declared the winners. They forgot about their tiredness and were ecstatic, especially Lorelai. Rory couldn't help but laugh as Lorelai did her lap of honour with the trophy and she was glad she had agreed to help out. She looked over at her friends and smiled at the sight of Lane asleep. She thought it was cute. They all went home for some sleep but had agreed to celebrate in the diner the next day.

After they had all had some sleep and felt revived, they met in the diner for lunch. Luke was working but he had let Jess off to celebrate with them. Lane joined them as well.

"So mom, you know you owe me now?" Rory grinned.

"Hey, you did this out of the goodness of your heart!" Lorelai said. "And you can't say it wasn't worth it?"

"Well I have to say it was very amusing watching you two attempt to keep each other up!" Jess smirked.

"I can't believe you stayed awake the whole time!" Rory retorted smirking.

"Well I did have someone asleep on me so I couldn't actually move!" Jess said looking at Lane.

Lane blushed. "Sorry.."

Jess smirked. "It's no bother. I'm just glad you didn't get caught out by your mom!"

"Speaking of which, I should get going! I only told my mom I was meeting up Rory for a minute!" Lane said and rushed off.

Jess smirked watching her run across the square.

"So what do you think Grandma's got planned for me on Friday?" Rory asked. "She seemed extremely keen to have me there."

"Oh goodness knows!" Lorelai said. She then grinned. "Blind date maybe?"

"Urgghhhh!" Rory groaned which made Lorelai and Jess both chuckled.

Luke joined them when the diner had calmed down a bit and they all had guesses about what Friday could have in store for Rory.

"Seriously though, if she pulls any stunt, I will save you." Lorelai said, knowing what her mom could be like. She didn't like that she could manipulate Rory as Rory would say yes to anything because she doesn't like letting her grandparents down.

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