A/N I know I said I'm gonna introduce another character last chapter, but this little scene had been stuck in my head for quite awhile (this chapter kind of builds on to the next chapter though), so I'll postpone it to the next one. Sorry! This chapter is indirectly inspired by one of the scenes in DC Nixon's Danes Boys, an exceptional story and writer!

Chapter 15: Help!

January 4th 1993 Sunday 10am

'Why am I being punished?' Jess whined while sitting on a stool next to the couch. 'I was nothing but a good child for the whole month!'

Luke wrapped a white towel around Jess and switched on the television. 'This is not a punishment, your hair's too long and too messy! Look! The hair in front are touching your eyes and the back of your hair is less than an inch away from touching your shoulder. It's time!'

'Fine.' Jess replied, crossing his arm around his chest, ' but not too short okay? I look ugly when my hair's short.' Jess had an horrible experience when one of Liz's boyfriend gave him a buzzcut at six. He had to wear a beanie to school everyday so that nobody would laugh at him.

'Don't worry, I will stop when your hair reaches here.' Luke assured the boy while poking his finger to around 1 inch below Jess's ear.

Jess took a deep breath, 'okay, I trust you uncle Luke, don't mess up my hair, promise?'

'Yes I promise. Now sit still.' Luke now holding a pair of scissors, cutting off Jess's front hair.

Jess was trying to peek out from his long front hair and watched TV while Luke was cutting it. ' Why are we watching the Packers playing the Cardinals? I'm not interested in neither teams.'

' I made a bet with Buddy. So whether we're going to sit on the nose bleed seats or the field level seats at the Yankees Stadium for your birthday depends on this.' Luke said it like he meant business.

Jess immediately sat up and tried his best to focus on the game. Even though he lived in New York and he was a big fan of the Yankees, he never had a chance to get to see a live game. Liz obviously spent all the extra money on booze and pot with her boyfriends. It was on the second period, Packers were down by two touch downs. Luke was now standing behind Jess and slowly shaving the bottom of Jess's hair while trying to watch the game at the same time.

' The Packers haven't had much success on fourth down today, at some point you gotta wonder if going for it is actually worth the risk. I agree Bill, this offense hasn't had too much success converting on 4th down today. Twenty-five second to go here on the second period. ... Here goes Detmer, Detmer throw the ball high to the left, Bennet caught the ball! He keeps running, 25 yards, Ruckers running close to Bennett trying to get him down. Bennett made a turn, Ruckers down on the ground! No one's gonna catch him now!'

'Come on now Bennett! Come on! A hundred buck is on the line.' Luke grunted under his breath. Jess was following along, squinting his eyes nervously staring at the TV screen, ' Run! Bennett! Run! I wanna go to the Yankees Stadium! Run, man runnnnnn!'

' There goes Bennett, running like the wind! TOUCHDOWN!'

' Yes! That's what I'm talking about!' Luke shouted excitedly, completely forgetting about what he was doing. He was too excited, he accidentally shaved the right side way too short. It was as if he was going for a buzzcut.

'OW!' Jess screamed, immediately put his two hands on the back of his head.

Luke jumped when he heard Jess, looked down at Jess's head, 'Oh jeez! I'm so so sorry, Jess!' He immediately put down the shaver and access the aftermath.

Jess was touching the right side of his head, ' WHY IS THERE NO HAIR ON THIS SIDE?!' Jess panicked and jumped off the stool and looked at his Uncle angrily.

Luke knew he messed up big time, but he came up with something to say, ' Don't be so dramatic, you're not bald, feel it, there's still hair!' He put Jess's little fingers on to the right side again, 'see! There's still hair! It's like when you mow the lawn and there's still grass, right? It's just shorter!'

Jess was seriously panting, he trusted Luke and he was now left with only half a fully haired head.

'No! I'm bald now! I hate you!' Jess was so mad he pouted and was beginning to cry. Luke was shocked, he never thought Jess would cry over hair. He didn't know hair was that important to an eight year old boy. When he was eight he could care less about what kind of hair his mother gave him, he only cared about getting out of the house and play with his friends after the haircut.

Luke tried to calm him down, ' It's gonna be okay, I'll fix it, no worries! Sorry, I was so focused at the game, I'm so sorry! But worse case scenario, we're gonna shave it into a buzzcut for now. You know, army guys have buzzcut, cause buzzcut is for tough guys. And you're tough, you can pull off a buzzcut!'

Jess got even angrier, ran and hid under his blanket, with his hair undone, ' I DON'T WANT TO BE BALD!'

Luke just stood there in the living room, not knowing what to do.

'Lorelai?' Luke sat down on the couch and called Lorelai.

' So who is she?' Lorelai replied with a pretend to be angry tone.

' What?' Luke was confused.

' Uh you don't write, you don't page me, you don't call? Luke, it's been 10 hours since we had a conversation!'

Luke rolled his eyes, ' Jeez, it was night time, we were all sleeping.'

'Yea! With a SHE! What's her name Butch? I bet it's Sissy! Sissyyyyy!' Lorelai put on her squeaky high pitch voice.

' Stop that will ya?' Luke grunted before he turned to his whisper voice, ' We've got a situation over here.'

'You're no fun, you know that?' Lorelai pouted.

Luke spare no time and cut to the chase, 'I was trying to cut Jess's hair but I messed up big time.'

Lorelai gasped, ' OH NO, YOU DIDN'T! Jess loves his hair more than anything!'

Luke sighed with a slight helpless voice, ' Help, please?'

Lorelai smiled, enjoying the moment of her guy needing her help. She pushed it further, ' Please, what?'

Luke took a deep breathe, he knew he really needed to give in, 'Please help me, pretty, beautiful, gorgeous, smart, intelligent lady?'

Lorelai knocked on Luke's apartment door. Luke immediately got up from the couch and opened the door.

'He's in his room. Weeping.' Luke whispered, pointing to Jess's bedroom.

'He's crying?! Oh my god, the haircut must be terrible!' Lorelai whispered back before walking towards Jess's bedroom.

Lorelai opened the door to find Jess curled up into a ball, sniffling, while covering up his head with the blanket.

'Heyyyy Jess...it's okay. It's okay.' Lorelai sat on his bed and pulled the boy into her embrace. Jess sobbed even louder, he felt like the whole world had just collapsed on him with this stupid hair of his. Luke just stood near the door, witnessing the whole scene, afraid that he would mess up again, if he says anything.

' Hey Jess, you know, I'm really good at fixing and cutting hair, I did all Rory's, and I have never messed up. I swear on my life.' Lorelai comforted Jess, 'let me see how bad Luke did it, please?'

Jess said it with the hiccups, ' you're gonna...gonna.. laugh..at me.'

'Jess, I swear to God, I will not laugh, seriously, if I laugh, I will never drink coffee again.'

Jess was pretty convinced, as he knew how much coffee meant to Lorelai. He slowly took the blanket off his head.

Lorelai had a sigh a relief, it wasn't as bad as she thought. But she understood why Jess was so upset, because it was really short and the right side was going bald. However, She was confident she could fix it.

' Jess, I can fix this.' Lorelai said it confidently.

Jess sniffled, 'No you can't, all you can do now is shave the other off and turn it to a buzzcut!'

' I've got a better idea. And don't you worry, I never mess up. Look at all these pictures of Rory in different hairstyle, huh? Don't they all look nice?'

Jess rubbed his eyes and said softly, 'that's because Rory's beautiful in every way.'

Luke and Lorelai was trying so hard not to giggle or hang a smile or their face on that comment, they never knew Jess had this side of feeling towards Rory.

Lorelai helped him wipe the tears off his cheeks, 'aww.. Jess, you're a handsome looking boy. The way you smile, the way your eyes gaze into the horizon..you are going to make a lot of girls scream when you grow older. You're a gorgeous boy.'

'I am?' Jess widened his teary eyes. Lorelai nodded confidently, but couldn't help and laugh on the inside when Jess said 'I am?'. As she recalled the day she accidentally complimented Luke 'looked good' two years ago. Luke said and looked the same way as Jess.

Jess was still hesitating whether he should let Lorelai 'fix' his hair or not, but that really was his only choice left.

'Jess. Who would you believe in fashion sense? Beautiful Rory's stylish mother? Or Mr. Backward baseball cap and flannel shirt?' Lorelai pushed it further.

Jess dried his eyes and took a deep breathe, 'okay, let's do this.'

Lorelai walked to the bathroom with Jess, switched on the tap water and made Jess's hair wet, wiped it with a towel and went back to the living room to start the rescue plan.

Luke just sat on the couch obediently and watched his girlfriend fixing the mess he made. Lorelai slightly shaved the left side and the bottom of Jess's hair so they are equal to the other side and then combed the hair on the left side to the right side. She only took around five minutes to trim Jess's hair and started to dry his hair before putting some gel on his hair to look even nicer.

'Wow! Lorelai! This is great! This is more than great!' Luke was so amazed Lorelai could actually pull it off. Lorelai gave Jess a modern classy undercut hairstyle.

Lorelai led Jess into the bathroom to look at himself in the mirror.

'Now we are going to have to head to the mall and buy you nice classy clothes. So you will be those little kid models on the GAP kids catalogue.' Jess smiled at the compliment.

He hugged Lorelai immediately. 'I like it, thank you for saving me, Lorelai.'

Lorelai felt flattered, she had a big grin on her face, 'You're very welcome Jess.'

January 5th Monday 7:45 am

It was the first day back to school after the winter break, Jess was standing outside of Luke's diner waiting for Rory and his friends to walk together to school. Johnny was the first one to get there.

'Woah! Man! You look like my grandpa in those black and white pictures!' Johnny teased him.

Jess stuck his tongue out, ' At least it's better than your stupid bowl cut!' Johnny slightly pushed him and they fought playfully while waiting for the others to arrive.

'Jess! Is that you!' Lane said. Lane and Rory were running towards the diner.

'Yea, yea say what you want.' Jess sighed while picking up his backpack and the little gang were starting to walk to school.

Rory walked next to Jess and whispered to his right ear with a sweet but shy smile on her face, 'I like it.'

A/N: *temporary cover image of this story is the haircut I had in mind. I thought little Jess would look very adorable and classy at the same time with this new haircut (search 'kids undercut hair' images on google). And the story being in the 90s, I assume Jess would get a lot of attention as it would be out of the ordinary, no bowl cut or mop hair haha. Anyway, hope you guys like it :) Reviews are greatly appreciated! Till then, stay tuned...

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