A/N: droolia, again, love reading your reviews! Luke can be a short fuse, he definitely got really mad because of the lying part as well, thank you for that reminder! Changed that part a little for ya! Potential drama... *evil smirk MAY BE?

Anon1, thank you for assuring me that the baseball part wasn't that bad! And yea that spacing thing, I've got a few others telling me that over this story and another story of mine, I'm still trying to figure it out. I changed the format a little for the previous chapters, hope its easier to read, if not, send me a message or review again to let me know, I'll try and edit it again, no problem!

Guest, thanks for the review! The reason why I started writing this story was because I feel like Luke can really be a great father figure type of person and Jess really needs one. But it was a little too late for Jess on the TV show, he was like 17 already.

Chapter 6: Beastie Boys, Pizza, 'Lucas'

SEPTEMBER 1992

'Lane, how could you not agree Beastie Boys has the best song ever!' Johnny exclaimed as the four kids was walking out of the school ground.

'Exactly!' said Jess who then ran back to the top of the stairs with Johnny and he sang,

'You wake up late for school man you don't wanna go!' along with his air guitar skills and turned his head to Johnny

Then Johnny continued,

'You asked your mom please? But she still says,'

'No!' the boys shouted

'You missed two classes and no homework!' Jess continued.

The two girls were watching on the lower stairs, giggling at the act.

'Okay, okay, I get it!' Lane said while stopping the boys from singing. 'But there's just so many good songs from different period of times, it's hard to just pick one song and claim it as the best song ever! There's The Beatle's Let it be, Frank Sinatra's New York, New York, Nirvana's Smell Like Teens Spirit.'

'True, Lane's got a point guys.' Rory nodded.

'Dun dun dun, chika chika dun dun, chika dun dun dun chika chika dun dun!' Jess started singing out the guitar intro to Smells Like Teens Spirit while the other three kids just couldn't stop laughing.

'Why such happy mood, pal?' asked Johnny who was catching his breath from laughing.

' It's his last day of jail time, so proud of my boy!' Rory teased Jess while messing his hair. She knows Jess hates it when people touches his hair.

'Stop Rory I mean it!' Jess protested while attempting to fix his hair.

The kids stopped walking when they reached the entrance to Luke's diner.

'Alright I'm gonna go ride on my bike with Connor, Rory and Lane do you wanna come join us?' asked Johnny.

'I can't, my mom made tofu cookies for snacks today, I have to be at home, sorry'

'And I can't go too, cause I don't know how to ride a bike.' Rory answered shyly, feeling like she's the odd one out of this group.

'What?!' Johnny blurted out in shock.

Jess knew if he add on to Johnny's comment, Rory would feel very upset and embarrassed.

'It's no biggie. I didn't learn how to ride a bike until this summer.' Jess said, trying to act all calm, and letting Rory know that she's not the only one. He actually learned how to ride on a two wheel bike on his own when he was 5 years old. He 'borrowed' some other kid's bike at the park and rode it until he learned how to ride a bike. Liz of course did not know, she let her son walk to the park on his own at five in the city of New York.

The kids said their goodbyes and Jess and Rory entered the diner.

' You were lying.' Rory stated while trying to find a table.

' No I was not!' Jess replied acting all innocence.

' Yes you were, you wanted to make me feel better.' Rory gave him a bittersweet smile.

'Well, you don't have to be sad, it's no big deal. It's like, I know nothing about dancing. But you, you know ballet! You even have performances!' Jess explained.

'Yea, point taken.' Rory gave a smile again, reassuring that she wasn't upset about it anymore.

'Bye Rory. I have to go up and serve my time before Luke sees me sitting here chatting with you.' Jess waved good bye and dashed upstairs.

'Hi Rory, what can I get for you? Or are you waiting for your mom to come and order?' asked Luke, taking out his pad for taking orders.

'Yea I'll wait for my mom, thank you Luke.' Rory replied with a smile.

'Sure.' Said Luke giving the girl a half smile. 'So what are you and mom doing this weekend? Anything fun?'

'No,' replied Rory who began to search for a book in her bag. 'Mom's going to this meeting in Hartford for the weekend so I'm going to be staying at Sookie's for Saturday night until mom comes back on Sunday night.'

' Really? Well, you know since Jess is finally done with his grounding tonight as of 12 am, I'm planning to bring him out for some activity, may be like fishing or like the norwalk aquarium something like that.' Said Luke, scratching the back of his head. 'That sounds fun.' Rory replied wishing she could join them. 'You're welcome to tag along, I mean, if your mom is okay with that.'

'We're going out on Sunday!' Jess who came down for a snack heard the conversation and ran to the table.

'Yes we are, unless you try to pull some trick or somehow make me go crazy.' Sighed Luke. He likes to treat Jess and let him enjoy things that boys should be enjoying his age instead of just being stucked in the apartment all day with TV or books. He wants to create memories for the boy. But he does not like it when people notice it, to him, it was embarrassing.

' Rory, you gotta come!' Jess said excitedly. He was more excited than he usually is, he had be grounded for the whole entire week. He haven't watched a single sports game, he wasn't even allowed to read 'recreational' books. The most fun he had all week was peeking through the apartment window and watched his friends played baseball at the park. 'May be we could do a sleepover too right, Uncle Luke?' asked Jess, who widened his big brown eyes looking up to his Uncle with such hope in his expression.

' I don't see why not.' Luke smiled. The two kids were cheering happily.

Lorelai just entered the door when the kids were cheering and doing their happy dance.

' Woah slow down you two little grasshoppers! What did I miss? Did you guys make Luke eat french fries and red meat? Cause if that's the case, you two are very mean to not wait for me and do it!' said Lorelai who now was settling down at the table and made Luke rolled his eyes.

'Mommy, Luke said I could sleepover at their place on Saturday night and then we would go fishing or aquarium or something fun!' Rory said while jumping up and down.

'Of course it's only if you allow, Lorelai.' Said Luke, afraid that Lorelai would get angry at him for giving false hope to Rory and making decisions without telling her first.

'Wow, really! Luke are you sure? Can you handle two maniacs?' asked Lorelai.

' If I can handle Jess, I can handle anything.' Luke chuckled.

'Hey!' Jess frowned. 'Please mommy! Pleaseee, pretty please!' Rory pleaded, giving her mom her 'melt your heart' face with her big blue eyes.

'Please Lorelai, please! I promise I'll protect Rory from anything and anyone.' Jess added while jumping up and down in front of Lorelai with his brown puppy eyes.

Lorelai sighed and smiled, 'Okay, but Rory, you have to listen to Luke the entire time ok? Be a very good girl for him, alright?'

'I will, I promise I will.' Rory said with the biggest grin on her face.

Saturday 7pm

Luke was closing his diner early as he wanted to sit down and have dinner with the kids, make sure Rory is comfortable and everything at the apartment.

Lorelai and Rory came in from the door.

'hey!' Lorelai greeted Luke along with Rory.

'Hey!' replied Luke with a half smile while wiping the tables.

' So here you go, I'm handing you my entire life Luke, please make sure she's alright and not losing a finger to a cruel biting fish or dragged into the lake by some seamonster, please?' Said Lorelai with a little sadness in her voice. It's her first time leaving Rory alone while going to another town. 'She's my one and only baby.'

'Don't worry, she'll be in one piece when you come back. I promise, I won't let anything happen to your baby.' Luke assured her in a softer voice while giving Lorelai a hug.

'Okay. Thank you again,'

'Anytime.' Luke replied with his half smile.

Lorelai kissed Rory and said goodbye to Luke and Rory before leaving the diner.

'Rory do you like pizza?'

'I love pizza!'

'Great! Well I'm making a pizza, what toppings do you want?' asked Luke, while Jess ran downstairs and waved to Rory with enthusiasm.

' I want cheese, mushroom, salami, chicken, and um..' said Jess who cut the conversation of Luke and Rory.

'Hey I didn't ask you,' Luke exclaimed, 'Rory is the guest tonight, she gets to pick what toppings.'

'Fine.' Sighed Jess while pleading Rory, 'pleaseeee get salami, tell me you're gonna pick salami!'

Rory giggled, and decided to say, 'Anything but salami, please Luke.'

Jess's jaw dropped, he never eat pizza without his salami.

Rory laughed, 'Gotcha! I was just kidding! I love salami!'

'That was not funny, Rory! You can never joke about precious salami!' Jess growled which earn himself a glare from Luke. ' Rory is a lady and she's our guest today, you do not yell at her like that, you hear me?'

'Yes, Uncle Luke…' sighed Jess.

The two kids then approached to a dinner table with four seats while Luke went back into the kitchen to make the pizza from scratch.

' So Luke and I planned out tomorrow's outing.' Said Jess, while opening up a can of coke and pour it to Rory's cup before pouring it for himself. 'We're going to this lake for fishing in the morning and then Luke said we would go to this bike shop and buy a bike since I was being such a good boy for the whole week without any trouble and I got a 100 on my math test AND principal Milton told him that I was behaving a lot better on Thursday when he came by for a cup of coffee.'

Before Rory could speak, Jess continued, he was just so excited. 'And then we'll have lunch at Luke's favourite restaurant and then we'll test out bikes and stuff like that.'

'but I don't have a bike.' Said Rory while taking a sip of her coke.

'I told Uncle Luke and he said he'll buy you one as well as like an early birthday present.' Jess replied, 'shhh.. don't tell Luke ok, it's supposed to be a surprise until tomorrow.'

Rory was shocked but happy by the fact that Luke was going to buy her her first bike and teach her how to ride it too. Rory wasn't good at sports and doesn't like sports but sometimes when she saw other kids playing catch or riding a bike with their dads, she felt a little jealous.

'Alright, pizza is ready! Jess go get plates and bring me a beer from upstairs alright?' 'sure.' And jess dashed to get the things.

'Luke this is so good! Why isn't this on your menu? I would order this every single day!' Rory said while she was munching her slice of pizza.

'Because it's my own original pizza, and it's only for special people.' Luke gave Rory a smile before he took a bite out of his pizza.

I'm special?' Rory gave Luke with a 'really?' happy face.

' Ofcourse you're special.'

' But I'm the most special to you right Uncle Luke? Cause I've had your pizza more than anyone else?' asked Jess who's mouth was full of chunks of pizza, he was a very messy eater. Salami falling off his pizza, crust all around his area of the table despite having a plate already.

' Jess,' sighed Luke, 'How many times have I told you, when you have food in your mouth, don't speak. Swallow it then speak.'

'But Rory was too!' Jess complained.

'Was not!' Rory quickly swallowed her pizza and protested back.

'Was!'

'Was not!'

'Was! Was! Was! Was! Was! You just didn't get scold cause Luke treats you like a little snowflake angel! You're so dumb Rory!' Jess continued protesting with his mouth still chewing the pizza. Luke glared at Jess and pointed at him, ' do you want another week of grounding? Or do you want me to put you over my knee?'

'neither…' Jess quietly said while looking down at his food.

'That's what I thought.' Luke said still in his parental voice. Jess was right, Luke knew he was right, he always love Rory as if she was his little girl. He never even raised a voice to Rory over the years, he could not even say no to the girl. But he never likes it when people confront him.

Rory looked at Jess who was now quiet, chewing his food closed mouth, looking down at his food. She felt bad for Jess, she felt like she was the one who got Jess into a scolding and a punishment threat. 'Jess, I brought the book that you wanted to read! I've finished it last night, you can have it!' Rory said to Jess, hoping that would change his mood. Jess looked up with a slight beam of happiness in his eyes, 'sweet! May be we can read it together later.'

'Sure!' Rory replied back with excitement in her voice, sigh of relief that Jess wasn't upset anymore.

A/N deciding whether I should make a part 2 to this chapter or skip the fishing, biking and stuff and go on with another chapter... let me know :) thanks again for reading!