Lola James is a frustrated teen trying to escape the town of basket auctions and overly cheery mayors. The only thing keeping her happy is coffee and her current favorite book, Little Women.
Jess Mariano is a angry teen who moves to the small town...
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IT'S SEVEN IN THE morning on the first Wednesday of September. Lola hates Wednesdays. On Wednesdays she has to work for a couple hours at the diner before she goes to school, and then she'll come back from school and work until eight in the evening, making sure all the customers have their coffee or pie or burgers or whatever they want.
Lola was currently refilling the Gilmore's mugs with hot coffee, her eyes barely open.
"Jeez, hun, you look exhausted." Lorelai comments as she takes a bit of her scrambled eggs that Lola had served her minutes ago.
"Thanks, Lorelai." Lola plastered a fake smile across her face before saying, "is there anything else I can get you guys?"
"No thanks, Lola." Rory smiles as the blonde. "How are the eggs?"
"Good." Lorelai smirked, taking her next bite and chewing it extra slow.
"I'm glad." Rory nodded, not so subtly checking her watch.
"They're still good."
"I'm still glad." Rory nodded. Lorelai rolled her eyes and put down her fork.
"Look freak, we will not be late."
"It's the first day of school." Rory sighed, trying to explain to her two best friends. "I wanna get there early."
"We will be there early, I promise."
"I have different classes this year, my routes aren't the same. I haven't found the quickest path around. And my locker, they moved it, so I don't even know if it'll work properly and then I'll have to get a new one and God knows how long that'll take or where it'll be and that could send the whole day into chaos." Rory ranted and Lola looked at the Gilmore girl like she was insane, waiting for her to stop speaking. "I'm just excited."
Lane Kim bursts through the diner doors, looking frantically for her two best friends and Lorelai. As soon as she spots them she walks over and lets out a breath of relief.
"Oh, thank God, you haven't left yet. Hi Lola!" She greets the James girl who is currently at Kirk's table, trying to understand his weird eating habits. Lola waves to the Kim girl, smiling slightly.
"Kirk, Im not giving you seven sugar packets. That's disgusting."
"Luke gives me seven sugar packets." Kirk pouted. It still baffled Lola that Kirk was a grown man.
"Okay." Lola said, nodding along with the man. "So should I go in the back and ask Luke about that?" She wondered, knowing the answer she was going to get. Kirk shook his head frantically, and in return he was handed three sugar packets. Lola rolled her eyes and walked back behind the counter, filling up the coffee pots. She internally groaned when she turned around and met Taylor Doose's eyes.
Taylor was instructing the young boys he had brought into the diner, telling them how to order their food. Lola guessed they were boy scouts.
"I want a burger." One boy said, looking towards Luke.
"It's seven thirty in the morning, why would you want a burger?" Lola looked at the boy in disgust.
"I want grilled cheese."
"And I want fries, and make them really really cripsy." The first boy told Luke and Lola.
"I want mine crispy too." Another boy said, and Luke scoffed.
"You didn't order fries." Lola told him.
"So"
"So you can't order crispy fries without first ordering fries." Luke backed up his employee.
"Why not?"
"Because you can't make something crispy that doesn't exist." As the boy continued to pester the two people behind the counter, Luke grew more and more annoyed. "Get him away from me Taylor."
"Have some respect. These boys have just completed the first leg of their outdoor survival training." Taylor puffed out his chest as if what he said had any importance.
"Meaning you had them sit under a tree and glue rocks together for two hours."
"You're a very jaded man Luke. What happened to you as a child?" Taylor worried, wondering why Luke wasn't excited about the five loud boys he had brought into the diner.
"Some creepy guy in shorts and knee socks tried to sit me under a tree and glue rocks together for two hours." Lola smirked at this.
"Put that down!" The blonde girl scolded one of the boys as he lifted up the covering of the donut platter.
"Why?" The boy asked.
"Because otherwise you're going under it." Luke snarled and in the background Rory and Lorelai watched the free entertainment.
"I won't fit." The boy argued back.
"We'll make you fit." Lola said, her eyes so wide she looked psychotic. Lorelai walked up to the counter and stood in front of the boys.
"Hey, donuts please." She asked Lola. All the boys protested, complaining about how they were here first, which lead to Lorelai asking, "on the planet?"
"Huh?"
"You lose. Chocolate, cinnamon and sprinkles." Lorelai said, her inner five year old coming out. The phone rang and Luke went to pick it up, leaving Lola to help out Lorelai and the boy scouts.
"Yeah, I'm working. What do you think I'm doing? Uh huh. Uh huh. Oh man, what did you do? Excuse me, are you serious? Just like that, huh? This is unbelievable! You won't ever change, will you? . . . Okay, fine. Do what you want, make the arrangements. Now I'm working, we'll finish this later." Luke's anger quickly goes from one to one hundred as he yells at the person on the other line.
"Is everything okay?"
"Do you have a sister?" Luke asks, trying his best not to start fuming. Lola us surprised there's not steam coming out of his ears.
Lorelai looks confused. "Um, no." She says with one eyebrow raised.
"I do!" A boy scout raises his hand, smiling at the grumpy diner owner.
"You have my sympathies." Luke says, pressing his lips into a firm line.
