Kyle and Marshall are cleaning up litter in Kyle's front yard. "Get the wrapper." He pointed at a wrapper. Lorelai and Anna were watching from the fence.

"What wrapper?" His friend asked. Anna thought a better question would have been which one because the yard had trash all over it.

"The Tootsie Roll wrapper." He pointed to the ground.

"What Tootsie Roll wrapper?" He looks around.

"The one at your feet." He watched him step on it.

"I don't see it." He looks down.

"It's right there." He screams.

"Where?" He continues to look for it.

"Marshall, stop arguing with me, my parents are watching." He looks back at them standing in the doorway.

Rory walks out of the house with a backpack. "Have you seen these guys? They're hilarious." Lorelai laughed.

"I got it, we can go." She held it by the strap as far from her body as she could.

"Why are you holding it like that?" She asked.

"Because when Lane left it here last night, it was a very different color." She didn't want it to touch her body.

"And has a lot more stains." She thought it looked sticky.

"Are you sure she's gonna want that back? It's been left alone all night at a keg party. There's no getting it over that. That backpack is permanently scarred. That backpack is Zelda Fitzgerald." She stared at it.

"She's going to at least want the stuff in it." Anna thought that might be savable.

"Well, Zelda's going home." She would let Lane decide what to do with it.

"Your first cop-raided party. I am just so proud." She put a hand over her heart. "I just wish I could've been there."

"Are we forgetting Rory's party where the clown got arrested?" She reminds her.

"That was not a raid, that was one arrest." She pointed out the differences. "Did they bring the paddywagon?"

"Yeah, but then we snuck out the backdoor of the speak-easy and headed straight for the Algonquin." Rory laughs at mom's wording.

"How was Benchley?" She asked.

"Drunk again." She nods.

"So tell me more about this party last night. I mean, I know the end, but what happened in the middle?" Lorelai wanted details.

"Lane's band played, they were great, and then people just hung out and talked, and then, uh, there was some sort of fight, I guess. The cops came, that's it." Anna gave the summary.

Luke walks by them. "Hey, Luke." She called for him when he didn't notice them.

He turned around to walk over to them. "I'm in bed. I have ten more minutes to sleep. Not a lot of time in the grand scheme of things, but still, ten minutes is ten minutes. You know what I mean."

"Yes," She was always annoyed when something woke her up before her alarm.

"And then the phone rings, and it just rings and rings and rings and rings, so I pick it up." He was hoping the person would give up but they didn't.

"And then hopefully get your hearing checked." Lorelai laughed.

"Or get an answering machine?" Anna was glad when they got theirs.

"Can I finish my story?" Luke glares.

"I'm just saying, that's a lot of rings." She shrugs.

"And on the other end of the phone is someone named John who says he's Kyle's father, and Kyle threw a party last night without permission. And two guys got into a fight and tore the place apart, so John wants me to come down and take a look at the damage and discuss some sort of solution to the problem of the damages. Now, I don't know John, and I certainly don't know Kyle, but I do know someone who would get into a fight at a party and leave the place completely trashed. It's a wild guess, but I think his name rhymes with Tess. So here I am, heading in there to talk to John about Kyle and discuss what is to be done about the Hummel." He gave the whole story.

"The what?" Lorelai asked.

"Exactly." Luke walks toward the front door.

Anna tried to run away but Lorelai caught up to her. "Uh, so let's get back to the party recap. Any little details you wanna tell Mommy?"

"Jess and Dean got into the fight." Rory ran alongside them.

"Over you?" She asked Rory.

"No." She shook her head.

"Then you?" She turned to her other daughter.

"No, I mean, I guess over me but not for me or anything like that." She knew the rumor mill was probably already running at Stars Hollow High.

"Was anyone hurt?" She asked.

"No." Rory shook her head.

"And that's why the cops came and broke up the party?" Lorelai wonders.

"I don't think so, they had to be called for something else. They pulled up too fast for it to be for the fight." Anna figured it had to be loud music or underage drinking.

"The fence is broken because of you, this crap is on the ground because of you." Lorelai pointed out.

"Then maybe you should go in and help Luke with payments for the damages." She nods back towards the house.

"No thanks." She dismissed that idea. "I just have one more thing to ask you?"

"What?" She sighs.

"Did you ever know that you're my hero?" She sings. Anna scoffed as she ran faster. "You're everything I would like to be. And I could fly higher than an eagle, 'cause you are the wind beneath my wings." She flaps her arms while running after her.


The priest is leading a service at the front of the room. Rory and Anna walk in with the backpack and take it to Lane, who is sitting at a table at the back of the church. "Hey." The sisters greeted her.

"Hi." She whispers.

"So, how are you? How were things last night?" Rory asked.

"You mean, after my drunken call to my mother?" She still couldn't believe she called her mom and told her that she was in a band and she was dating Dave.

"Yeah. What happened when you got home?" Anna had been dying to know. This conversation felt safer than the one she needed to have with Jess.

"I'm not sure." She told them.

"What do you mean you're not sure?" Rory didn't see how she wasn't grounded.

"Well, after I finished with my Farelly brothers' audition in the bushes, thank you for the hair-holding and the back rubbing by the way." She thanked them.

"Anytime." Anna nods.

"Dave dropped me off at home. He wanted to come in, but he's an only child and I saw no reason for his family line to end with him, so I went in and he left. The place was dark." She had never come home to a dark house. Her mom was always waiting for her.

"No Mrs. Kim?" Rory couldn't believe it.

"No Mrs. Kim." She nods.

"No Mrs. Kim," Anna repeated in disbelief.

"So, of course, I panicked. What does this mean? I mean, when I come home ten minutes late from bible study, she has a cow. But I call her drunk, tell her I'm at a party, I'm a drummer in a band, and I'm in love with a non-Korean. . .I expected there to be backup, aunts, uncles, cousins pulled out from villages I've never heard of, but nothing." She felt like she was in the twilight zone.

"I don't understand." Rory couldn't wrap her head around it.

"So I go upstairs to make sure everything's okay. I look in her room and she's in bed asleep." She told them.

"No." Anna gasps.

"Then this morning, I get up, I go into the kitchen where she's making breakfast and I say, Good morning, Mama." She approached her with great caution.

"And?" Rory was at the edge of her seat.

"She turns around, looks right at me, and says, Good morning, Lane. And those were the last words she's said to me all day." She couldn't believe it when she was able to walk out the door today.

"Maybe the punishment is the silent treatment? Like go out and do what you want, you'll get hurt and see I was right." She tried to think of what Mrs. Kim's endgame was.

"No, it was more Stepford than cold. You know, very calm, very serene." Lane corrected.

"Okay, well, let's think. Maybe she didn't hear you." Rory thought of the only reason she wasn't mad.

"I was drunk, I could've slurred." She nods that it could be an option.

"Exactly. Maybe she thought you said you were at a smarty, playing clock music, drinking fear, and in love with Rave Smitchalsky." Rory thought of other options.

"And how would that be better?" Lane squints.

"It's much less clear." Rory shrugs.

"Then wouldn't she have questions?" Anna thought that would be more reason that Mrs. Kim would have stayed up to get answers.

"What is that smell?" She sniffs the air.

"Your backpack." She glanced down at it. "You have to talk to her, Lane."

"I can't talk to her." She shook her head.

"Well, what are you going to do?" She asked.

"Well, first off, I volunteered to work at this table for the next two months. Plus, I told her I'd go to that Seventh Day Adventist college in Hartford and live at home." She looks down at the desk.

"Lane, she has you punishing yourself for things that you shouldn't be punished over." Anna felt for her friend.

"It's something I knew I wasn't allowed to do. I already told Dave to forget about the prom. No way's gonna happen." She sighs.

"I'm sorry." Rory pats her back.

"Don't be, it's my fault." She shouldn't have gotten drunk in the first place.


Anna took a deep breath before knocking on Jess's bedroom door. "Go away, Luke. I ran the diner all day."

"Not Luke." She yelled.

He opened the door slowly. "Anna? Come in."

She walks inside before turning around to face him. "Are you okay?"

"Oh yeah, Dean's hits didn't feel like anything." He shrugged.

"Jess, if I did something I need you to tell me instead of letting it bottle up and then screaming at me." She loved Jess but what he did was unacceptable.

"It wasn't something you did. I found something out that day and I took it out of you. I'm sorry." He sat on the foot of the bed.

"What did you find out?" She sat next to him.

"I'm not graduating. After missing more than twenty days, you're not able to, even if you got the grades for it." He looked at the ground, not able to see the disappointment on her face.

"What does this mean for you? Do you have to repeat a year?" She wondered where they went from here.

"I'm not doing that. I'll get my GED if I need to and I'll figure it out from there." He refused to repeat his senior year.

"What if Luke doesn't allow that?" It was Luke's only requirement.

"Then I'll figure it out. I'm not going to leave like I did last time. I'll tell you my plans when I have them. But, trust me it will lead me to Philadelphia." He promised her.

"Jess, you don't have to." She felt like he was making all his decisions based on her.

"I know, but I want to." He looks at her. "I don't know much about what I want for the future but I do know I want to be with you."

"You are a Teddy Bear in band t-shirts." She tackled him into a hug.

"Woman." He hissed at what he preserved as an insult


Lorelai and Rory are walking toward the church for the funeral. "You know, Fran was one of the first people I met when we moved here." She spoke of the woman whose funeral they were going to.

"I know." Rory nods.

"The first day here, I stopped in. . ." She had told them this story after going to the bakery many times.

"And asked her for directions to the inn." Rory finished the sentences.

"Yeah. She was so sweet. And oh my God, she loved Rory. I didn't think she was gonna let me leave the bakery with her. She just kept giving Rory cookies in a shameless attempt to buy her affections away from me. And let me tell you, for a couple of weeks, it worked. For two weeks, she just kept staring at me like, you're the lady who took me away from the cookies. I'm gonna kill you." Lorelai reminisced on that time. She was scared. She was a young single mother to a baby and pregnant with another. This town embraced her in a way she never thought possible.

They walk past Miss. Patty crying on the bunch. "Aw, Patty. . ." Lorelai put a hand on her shoulder.

"Now it all starts." She wipes her tears.

"What all starts, honey?" She asked.

"First Fran, then the rest of us." She was thinking about her morality.

"Aw, Patty, it's not the plague. It was just her time." She sat next to her.

"I can't go." Going would make it real.

"Yes, you can. Come on." She knew she would regret it if she didn't.

"No, just leave me." She shook her head.

"Come on, let's go." She helped her get up.

Patty held Lorelai and Anna's hands as they walked down the street. "You know, it's times like these that you realize what is truly important in your life. I'm so glad I had all that sex."


People are entering the church for the funeral. Taylor is greeting people at the door. "Thank you for coming, the grand opening has been postponed." He gave them a program.

"No one cares about that right now, Taylor." Miss Patty ripped it out of his hand to march on inside.

"Is the ice cream made in-house?" Anna grabs her program.

"Yes, it will be my dear." He smiled.

"Let's grab our seats and remember where we are." Lorelai guides her daughter into the church. They took their seats by Sookie while Patty went to sit more in the front.

"Welcome all. The large number of people here today is a testament to how much Fran Weston has touched every one of us. We'd like to start by inviting Marjorie Rogers, Fran's close friend, to share a few words with us." The Priest stood behind the podium.

An elder woman stepped up. "In 1955, Fran opened Weston's Bakery. Back then, she was the new kid on the block, and soon thereafter, she hired me, a mother of three rugrats and a husband overseas, and we became best friends. Still are."

"That's so sweet." Lorelai looks at Sookie.

"You think we'll still be friends when we're dead?" She asked.

"I will if you will." She smiled.

"Fran was and is Stars Hollow. And to ensure that her love and spirit continue, Weston's Bakery will remain open and run by those who have Fran's heart in their hearts. Of course, Fran's family has been here long before even Fran. They opened the Dragonfly Inn back in 1893. The Dragonfly Inn was once regarded as the Violet Lady, the premier inn in all of . ." The microphone went out.

"What'd she say?" Lorelai was invested now.

"I heard premier inn then squat." Sookie leans in to listen.

"Is she still talking about the inn?" She tried to read her lips.

"I don't know." She whines.

"Shh!" Kirk leaned forward to put a finger up to his lips.

The microphone fades in and out as Marjorie continues speaking. "Inn . . .ortant role. . .ing. . .it's special. . .all who. . ."

"She said inn." Lorelai was sure she heard that.

"And ortant and ing." Sookie was trying to piece it all together.

"Let's scoot a little. I don't want to be associated with them." Anna nods to the space between her sister and the other people. Rory nods as they move away from them.


"You are not doing the stroll with the corpse?" Jess asked when he saw Anna walk in.

"It's hot out. And Dean wanted to talk to Rory, Mom and Sookie were trying to buy the Dragonfly, and Miss Patty is graphically talking about the best sexual experiences she had with Babette. I didn't want to walk with myself." She sat at the counter. "Are you running this place by yourself?"

"Well, you could help me." He threw a notepad in front of her.

"After my burger." She filled out her order to put it on the ticket holder.


Jess and Anna were cleaning up when a man walked in. Anna was wiping down the table. Jess was refilling the condiments and napkins. "We're closed. Learn to read." He turned to the door. "Oh, You're the loser coffee guy."

"Well, not as cool as Bono, but I'll take it." He put his hands in his pockets.

"We're…" Jess was going to repeat himself when he didn't move.

"Closed. Yeah, I heard." He nods.

"If you want we can get you something." Anna offers.

"Anna!" Jess was done for the day.

"I told you to lock the door if you didn't want any more customers coming in." She knew from experience that flipping the sign wasn't enough. Some people didn't take the time to read.

"I'm your father." The man blurted out.

"Huh?" Anna's jaw dropped.

"What?" He was shocked. "Are you sure?"

"Am I. . .yes, I'm sure. I didn't mean to spring this on you. I thought Luke would've told you that I…" He didn't know what he was going to get out of this but he felt like Jess deserved a chance at a relationship if he wanted one.

"Luke would've told me?" He couldn't believe Luke knew his dad was in town.

"Well, yeah, he came to see me last night. He didn't tell you. That's obvious because you're still staring with the frown and. . .you look different." He didn't know what else to say.

"You want some coffee?" He offers.

"Sure. Thanks." He nods. They took a seat at a table.

"I'll get it." Anna went to make two mugs of coffee. She put it down in front of the two men. "I'll give you some privacy. I'll see you tomorrow." She nods to Jess before going home.


Anna was going to the bus stop by herself that morning because Rory's first class was canceled. She was surprised to see Jess with a large duffle. "Luke found out?"

"Yeah," He nods.

"So, where are you going?" She asked.

"To California to see my dad." He told her.

"Then why aren't you going with him?" She wondered why he was by himself.

"He doesn't know I'm coming. I went to the motel he was staying at, but he had already left. I slipped the lady at the desk twenty and got his information." He had a long night.

"What if he turns you away?" She didn't want him to get hurt.

"I don't know. But he came here looking for me and I need him now. He kind of owes me." Jess didn't know what he would do if he got rejected.

"Call me no matter what." She demands.

"Of course." He nods. "If you want to go to prom with someone else I won't be mad. If you don't want to do this long distance I won't be mad." He didn't want her to feel trapped with him.

"I don't want to break up." She grabbed his hands. "I'm fine going to prom with my friends at Chilton and I'm going to get ready with Lane."

"When I get a permanent place, you could write me letters." He watched with amusement as her eyes got big.

"Oh, love letters I would like that." She nods.

"It doesn't have to be love letters." He didn't need them being sappy.

"I'm writing a letter to my love, their love letters." She smiled. "I'll keep them in a shoe box."

"As long as there are Chuck Taylors." He rolled his eyes before getting serious. "I'm going to meet you in Philadelphia. I'll have a place set up for you and everything. I know my words don't mean much now but I want to prove myself to you."

"I want to believe you." She tears up.

"Yeah, no crying, we got a whole bus ride to Chilton. It'll only be a few months apart before we're living together just like we talk about." He hugs her. She held onto him tightly until the bus came.