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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LUKE HAD GIVEN Lola the day off from the diner, and she was currently laughing at Lorelai with Rory. The headmaster of Chilton had told both Lorelai and Rory that they needed to socialize more, and Lorelai had joined a club which somehow lead to her modeling in a charity fashion show that took place at the Independence Inn. Rory had chosen to sit with some sorority, much to her dismay.
"Ha ha, yours is worse than mine." Rory teased her mother as the three walked through the town center.
"Ugh, they totally just snuck that modeling thing in." Lorelai frowned, looking both ways before crossing the street to get to the gazebo.
"Hmm, my mom's a model. Maybe you'll get to date Leonardo DiCaprio now."
"Hmm, I say go for Johnny Depp. Branch out a little bit, you know?" Lola laughed, adding on to Rory's idea.
"Plus, now I have to plan the whole stupid thing."
"Lorelai Gilmore. Nope, doesn't sound model-y enough. You need something that stands out more. How about Waffle? We could call you Waffle and say you're from Belgium?"
"How is waffle a model name?" Lola asked, genuinely curious to find out Rory's reasoning.
"Okay, I'm crabby. I need to do something about it. Hey Mom." Lorelai put her phone to her ear as Lola laughed and Rory rolled her blue eyes. "So I went to my first Booster meeting last night, did Bitty tell you?" Lola couldn't hear Emily through the phone, but she guessed that she had responded because Lorelai kept talking. "Oh, well, maybe she's still stuck under that desk. You might want to send someone out there to look." Lorelai paused, waiting for a response.
"Yes, in fact we're planning a charity fashion show next weekend, and I volunteered to organize it." She boasted, and Rory figured out what she was going to say. "Yes, and since I know how concerned you are about how Rory's perceived at Chilton, I knew you'd want to be involved somehow, so you're gonna be one of the models."
"Yeah, so it's next Saturday, be there at four, and we'll provide hair and makeup." Lorelai now had an evil grin across her face. "Oh, and we'll need your measurements also." The older gilmore's face turned into a fake frown. "Mom. You said you wanted me to be involved. Well, I'm involved, now don't you want to do your part to ensure Rory's future?" Lorelai pretended to whine, when really she was happy she thought of the evil idea. "Start measuring."
"You feel better now?"
"Waffle's very happy." Lorelai said in a funny accent and Lola laughed along with her.
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LOLA HAD GONE OVER to Rory's house, mainly to spend time with Rory but also to see the pictures that Lorelai brought home of her at the fashion show. Of course, it was even more funny when Lola and Rory realized Emily and Lorelai did a mother daughter duo look, with their Nancy Reagan outfits. In the pictures, Emily looked like she was having fun whereas Lorelai looked like she would rather shoot herself than do a fashion show with her mother.
Lola left after Lorelai went to bed. She would've stayed over so she wouldn't have to go to her house, but Rory was being kidnapped and she wasn't in the mood to watch that. She returned to her house, and she was greeted with about 27 messages on the home phone, all from her boyfriend, Jude. She would answer him tomorrow, she told herself. And with that, she went to bed, setting an alarm so she could get up early to do homework and then head to Luke's for her morning shift.
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"Hey, good party yesterday." Luke complimented Lorelai as she walked into the small diner.
"Yeah, not bad." Lorelai said modestly, sitting down at the counter and waving to Lola who was cleaning off tables.
"Yeah, I like the new look. It was very high-class substitute teacher." Luke laughed and his eyes crinkled as he did so.
"Exactly what I was going for." Lorelei laughed.
"Coffee?" Luke offered.
"Oh, to go." Lorelai waved her hand and Luke quickly put away the mug and replaced it with a to go cup. "Hey Luke, uh, I feel a little weird even mentioning this to you." Lorelai cringed, looking at the diner owner with a unfamiliar look on her face.
"What?" Luke looked up, curious to hear what Lorelai was about to say.
"Yesterday I saw you talking to Ava, you know, she's in my booster club?" Lorelai started, and Lola put down her cleaning supplies and sat down to watch the argument that was about to start.
"Yeah, I know who she is." After Luke said that, Lorelai went on and on and on about how Chilton was another world for her, and she didn't like it when her two worlds mixed. Lola thought her question was reasonable, but Luke didn't see it that way. "Boy, I tell you, you've got nerve."
"Okay. Well, I know this is your private business."
"It is my private business."
"You don't see any validity to my side at all?"
"I am a grown man. You cannot tell me who to date."
"I'm not telling you who to date, I'm telling you who not to date."
"You can't tell me that either."
"Look..."
"I will date who I like, and if that screws with your plans, then sorry. And if you don't wanna hear things, then don't listen."
"But..."
"If you don't like it, you can just deal with it."
"Okay, I'll just deal with it."
"Good."
"I just thought that if something was going to affect our friendship in some way that you might care about that, because if the situation was reversed, then I would care, but hey, that's me, and so...go ahead, date her, marry her, make her Mrs. Backwards Baseball Cap, live happily ever after, see if I care."
"And by the way, I wasn't asking her out. I was giving her directions for the quickest way back to Hartford. It was very romantic. I said you take a right at Deerfield, and you catch the I-5 and you take it south. Oh man, hot stuff."
"That is so typical of you."
"What?"
And of course, Lorelai had to get the last word. She was a Taurus after all. "That is not the quickest way back to Hartford. Everybody knows that you take Maine to Cherry to Lynwood and then grab the I-11. Everybody knows that Luke. Everybody, apparently, but you!" And with hat, the brunette women stormed out of the diner, leaving Luke with a smirk on his face.
a/n: short jess free chapter but there will be more of him soon i promise!!
