A/N: Yes to the Jess! Huzzah for Jess coming back! Won't get upset at all if Rory doesn't end up with Jess in the end, because I really am in thirst for more Luke and Jess funny witty moments. ' Jess, are you a gigolo?' 'What?'

Chapter 21: FND

' Grandma?' Rory asked

'Rory!' Emily grasped, Lorelai and Luke ran up to the chaos, 'Lorelai?!'

Lorelai dropped all her shopping bags on the ground, ' Mom?!'

'Mom?!' Luke widened his eyes, ' I thought you said your mom passed away?'

'Well, haha, surprise!' Lorelai answered nervously. ' Luke, this is my mother, Emily. Emily this is Luke, my boyfriend.'

With the help of the four, Emily finally got back on her feet.

Emily looked up and down at the scruffy man, ' Luke are you the father of this boy?' Emily pointing at Jess who's trying to hide behind Luke's legs.

' Oh no, Jess is my nephew but he stays with me.' Luke pushed Jess forward, ' Jess did you apologize to Mrs. Gilmore?'

Jess nodded, still wrapping his arms around Luke's right leg. He didn't like this woman. He stared at the older woman, who was fiercely staring at him.

Emily was furious, she didn't know what she was more angry about. Her daughter dating a seemingly blue collar no good man, her daughter telling others that she's dead, or this savage boy who knocked her over.

After a long awkward pause between them, Emily found the words to say, ' Lorelai, I expect you and Rory to come for a Friday night dinner with them when your father and I come back from our Europe trip next month.'

' Mom, we are not going to go to your dinner.' Lorelai stated clearly. Emily shot her a look.

Luke squeezed Lorelai's hand, assured Emily, ' We will definitely be there, Mrs. Gilmore.'

' Very well then.' Emily looked at them with a glimpse of victory smile, then looked at the flannel shirt blue jeans man up and down again, ' please be appropriately dressed.'

Luke nodded in embarrassment.

Heading back to Stars Hollow. Luke's driving.

' Okay why did you say yes?' Lorelai exclaimed.

' Well she's your mother, and this is a part of dating. You have to meet the parents sooner or later.' Luke shot her back with an obvious look.

' They are not just parents, one's a devil's child and the other is a master of puppets!'

Luke rolled his eyes, 'I'm sure it's not that bad.'

' I don't like that Emily.' Jess added,

' Jess I don't want to hear you say that again, that's disrespectful to Rory's grandmother. And you will have no say in this, we haven't even discussed about you running in the mall when I have specifically told you not to!'

Jess rolled his eyes, here we go again, Uncle Luke's long lecture.

' Hey!' Luke snapped, when he saw Jess rolling his eyes from the front mirror of the jeep. ' Have you not learn anything from the 'speedy' incident?'

' It was an accident!' Jess explained.

Luke shook his head in disbelieve, ' I can't believe, you have not learnt your lesson. This is the same as the speedy incident! You run around and you hurt someone!'

' Whatever.' Jess mumbled staring out of the window, trying to ignore his paranoid uncle.

' Rory, can you hand me the box of lego?' Luke asked, reaching his right hand to the back seat.

' Okay.' Rory tried to grab it from Jess who was holding it tightly.

' What are you doing, Uncle Luke! It's mines! Lorelai bought it for me!'

' You can have it back when I think you've learnt to listen.' Luke said it sternly.

Jess crossed his arms around his chest, ' That's not fair! I said sorry already!'

Luke took a deep breathe, ' Sure you did, so? What if you kill someone and you tell the judge you're sorry? You'll still go to jail for killing someone.'

Lorelai chuckled a little, ' come on, Luke. Don't exaggerate everything.'

' Look who's talking, the drama queen who made up a whole my mom got into a tragic car accident story.' Luke scoffed. ' We are all going to this dinner your mother nicely invited us to go, end of discussion.'

Jess just simply shook his head and sighed while Rory and Lorelai were yammering about the decision and trying to come up with bizarre excuses to avoid the dinner.

Luke did not reply to the girls' complains, he pushed the button and let the song 'Let's go to the mall' play itself. The song was now surprisingly calming to the uncle and nephew compare to the gibberish talk going on.

March 12th 1993 4:30pm

' Uncle Luke!' Jess yelled from the bathroom, ' I don't know how to do this!'

Luke buttoning up his white dress shirt came into the bathroom, 'here, let me help you.'

He kneeled down and helped Jess with the bow tie, ' why do I have to wear this stupid bow tie?' Jess frowned.

' Because Lorelai bought you this bow tie, and she thinks you look cute in it.'

Jess shot him a disgusted look, ' I don't wanna look cute!'

' Just wear it will ya?'

' But it's annoying and waste of time! Why can't I just wear my light blue tshirt!' Jess complained, while Luke just finished tightening the bow tie.

' Rory's grandparents are very wealthy and successful people, and this is the first time they invited us to their house, so we have to dress nice.' Luke stood up and went back to ironing his black dress pants.

' Since when did you care?' Jess challenged walking out of the bathroom in search of his socks.

' Since Lorelai is my girlfriend,' Luke stated, putting on his freshly ironed pants.

Jess held up the black suit jacket, ' Do I have to wear this jacket? It's 28 degrees!'

' Yes you have to.' Luke replied, ' one more thing, come here.'

Jess reluctantly walked up to his uncle, sighed, 'What.'

' I want you on your best behaviour tonight.' Luke helped him adjust the tie, 'no jokes, no attitude, no running. And if you violate any of these, I guarantee you will love the consequence.'

' You can't possibly think of a worse punishment,' Jess gave him a smirk, his uncle has never been the creative kind of person, so Jess knew it's either helping out at the diner all week or no TV or books or extra chores.

' I'm not kidding, Jess. You would not want to be on my bad list tonight.'

' But I have a really funny poo joke to tell Rory tonight!' Jess joked.

Luke warned with his finger pointed at Jess, ' three words for you Jess, remember these three words before you try to pull something tonight. Three words. Miss Patty's. Ballet. Class.'

Jess's smirk immediately disappeared as soon as those three words were out. Jess looked at his uncle in disbelief.

Luke gave him a victory smile, ' I'm sure Miss Patty would love to have you in her class and perform at the recital.'

' You can't...' Jess tried to argue, but he knew his uncle would really make him go to the classes if he tries anything tonight.

' Oh I can and I will. So be a good boy.' Luke patted Jess's bottom and walked out of the apartment.

March 12th 1993 7pm

The four were standing in front of the door of the mansion.

' This bow tie is too tight! I can't breathe.' Jess trying to remove the bow tie.

Luke grabbed his right hand, ' stop that! You will be fine.'

' Rory ring the bell.' Lorelai asked.

' No, you do it mom.' Rory replied.

' Can I take off the jacket now? I'm sweating!' Jess complained again, ready to take off the jacket.

Luke just grunted, 'for god sake!' and he rang the bell and stopped Jess from taking off his jacket.

' Hello, good evening.' the maid greeted the four.

' Good evening to you too.' Luke gave the maid a polite smile and shook her hands, 'I'm Luke.'

The maid looked at him with confusion, ' I'm the maid.'

' Oh great! Richard! They are here!' Emily walked out of the living room and to the door.

Luke and Jess couldn't help but look at the size and decoration of the house.

' Hello Luke.' Emily greeted.

Luke immediately returned his attention back to the lady, ' Hello, Mrs. Gilmore, what a nice house you have here!'

' Well, Thank you Luke. Please call me Emily.' Emily replied politely before she looked down to a well dressed boy, ' Jess.'

' ma'am.' Jess tried to be as polite as possible.

At the dinner table.

' Young man, I must say you have good fashion taste.' Richard commented at Jess's bow tie.

' Thank you, sir. You too have very good fashion sense.' Jess gave a polite smile.

' So tell me more about yourself, Jess. What college are you planning to go when you graduate high school?' Richard asked.

Luke almost choked on his soup when he heard it while Lorelai shot her father a disbelief look. ' Dad, Jess is just eight years old.'

' Well Rory knew she wanted to go to Harvard when she was just three.' Richard explained, ' so Jess, which Ivy league school do you want to go?'

' I don't know yet...I don't think I want to go to school anymore after high school. I don't like school.'

Luke immediately chipped in, ' What he really means is that school is not really challenging for him right now, so he doesn't like to go to school.'

Richard laughed, 'oh is that right, Jess?' Jess just nodded, following his uncle along. He didn't understand why his uncle would lie about this. ' then you must be a smart boy, and smart boys go to school like Yale.'

'Yale?' Jess repeated, he had never heard of a school with such weird name, Yale.

' Yes. That's where I went and I hope you will go there one day too.'

' No, grandpa, Jess will go to Harvard with me.' Rory corrected.

'Oh, why's that?' Emily asked.

' Because he's my boyfriend.' Rory gave Jess a little smile. Jess blushed a little and stared at his soup.

Emily and Richard suddenly looked all serious. Emily asked, ' What grades are you getting in school, Jess?'

' It depends, some times I get an A when I care about it but mostly I don't care so it's usually Cs.'

Emily and Richard shot both Lorelai and Luke a concerned look. ' What do you want to be when you grow up Jess?' Richard asked.

' I don't know, may be a baseball player.'

' Those men who spend their days under the hot sun and trying to hit a stupid ball?!' Emily exclaimed, no way was she going to let her granddaughter be with this boy, she thought to herself.

'Yup, I wanna be like Mickey Mantle.' Jess said proudly.

' Well, you are planning to go to college before you become a baseball player right?' Richard worried.

' I don't know, a lot of baseball player didn't go to college. Joe Dimaggio never went to college.'

Luke felt the discomfort between the grandparents, ' Jess but you see, Mickey Mantle did go to college. So you are going to college.'

Jess frowned, he didn't like all these questions and attention on him, ' May I be excused? I want to use the bathroom.'

' I want to get more coke.' Rory announced.

' I'll go check on Jess so he won't get lost.' Luke made up an excuse so he could leave the dinner table for a minute.

' I have a phone call to make as well.' Richard got up and went to his office room. Leaving the mother and daughter in the dinning room.

' Lorelai! How could you let your daughter date a boy who has no plans for the future but be a sweaty baseball player!' Emily yelled, once the kids left the room.

' Mom, they are just eight! So what if Jess wants to be a baseball player! It's his life!' Lorelai shot back.

Emily continued, ' and how could you date a man who owns a diner! Do you know they serve roadkills at diners! Luke is just not up to your standard, Lorelai! Can he even take care of Rory's financial needs when she grow older and needs to go to a private school? '

Lorelai was all heat up, but she didn't want to make a big scene, ' Mom stop it.'

' and he comes in a package! He is raising a clueless savage boy!'

' Mom, stop calling Jess a savage boy! You don't know how much the boy had gone through in his life!'

' Oh anything but education and civilisation.' Emily scoffed.

' That's it mom! Luke and Jess were nothing but nice and polite and all you did is complain! What do you mean Luke is not up to standard? He owns a diner, he runs it, manages it, he also happens to have several properties! Whether he can support Rory financially is none of your business ok! We are not even married yet! And hello? I come with Rory as well! Luke has treated Rory like his own for the longest time. Longer than Christopher had ever been! Go to hell Emily!' Lorelai grabbed her purse and stormed off.

Lorelai found the kids and Luke eating chocolates in the kitchen.

' Let's go.' Lorelai sighed.

'What? What happened?' Luke asked with a concerned look on his face.

Lorelai threw herself into Luke and cried, ' Please let's just go and never come back. I hate it here.'

Luke smoothed her back and gave her a kiss, ' hey, it's going to be okay. We'll go home now ok?'

A/N: Thank you for reading! Hopefully will be finishing my next chapter on the plane tomorrow and upload it before Sunday. Till then...stay tuned :)

DC Nixon: Thank you for your review. I'm not sure, but I was thinking she's probably bored and went shopping with her DAR crew in hartford lol. HIMYM is probably my second favourite tv show. Robin Sparkles has some great music videos on youtube, should check them out for fun haha! I always picture Luke being a better husband than a boyfriend type. I mean he's not all romantic or really spontaneous but he would make a damn good responsible husband and father for sure. I so hope they get LL a kid in the revival. Not a baby, but a kid.

RhizOneill: Thank you for your review. Lol I actually had not thought about that when I wrote it... I was thinking she might be shopping with her DAR friends.

niazn: Thank you for your review. I love family fluff stories and I'm trying to do my best at portraying them more and more as a family.

Anon1: Thank you for your review. They are like a proper family now! Luke is def a husband type material, Lorelai is a lucky woman. They really just need to tie the knot. We'll see what happens ;) btw, I got my mid term test back, 96/100! Thank you for your encouragement! So happy that reading week is starting tomorrow, throwing all the books away! Vacation time!

Droolia: Thank you for your review. Haha awesome, you recognised the song! The song is still stuck in my head right now when ever I hear the words, 'let's go to the mall.' Same here, if a kid ask me about sex I don't know what to tell he or she. If they are my own, then it's easy if not, and I said the wrong thing, their parents are gonna hunt me down. I feel ya. I hated going shopping with my grandmother, because it takes her forever. But I love going shopping with my mom, she's the kind of girl who knows what she wants and let's get in there and no bs. That line telling your kids you're only window shopping before entering is from my own childhood haha. My mom always say that to us and because of that we never whine or throw a tantrum.

fizco: Thank you for your review. She was probably shopping with her DAR friends, I didn't really put any thought into that... sorry! They are cute as a family, I hope they continue being cute :)