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Celia went to wander around the party again, knowing Claire had not come she avoided all her peers.
"Here" one of the wait staff thrusts a platter at her,
"Um excuse me, I'm not a waiter" Celia explains putting the platter down,
"Who are you then?" she asks,
"I'm Emily's other granddaughter" she explains.
"Emily only has one granddaughter" the women tells her, this is the final straw that breaks her.
"I'm going home" Celia tells her mother not waiting for a response from her mother.
All the pretending that she didn't care, that she was fine with being in Rory's shadow for her whole life.
"Hey Luke" Celia slumps onto one of the stools at the counter.
"That bad huh?" he asks pouring her coffee,
"yup, some lady thought I was a waiter. Insisting Emily Gilmore only had one granddaughter" Celia laughs a little.
Jess watched Celia, she was defeated, he had never seen her look small before, so crushed. Jess needed a fix it watching Celia wilt like a flower pained him.
"Hey, you look nice" He smiles admiring the dress she was wearing, she rarely wore dresses. He could tell why, she looked uncomfortable in it tugging on the dress.
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"Hey Jess" Rory smiles standing in the middle of the diner.
"Where's Celia?" he asks,
"You don't need her, you have me" Rory smirks leaning into him.
"Rory do you not get it? All Celia ever does it live in your shadow and she just lets it happen cause she never wants to hurt you but she deserves more" Jess whisper yells.
"Well there is a reason everyone likes me more. What can I say" Rory smiles,
"Come on Jess you know it's meant to be me and you, that day on the drive to New York, me and you it felt right. I'm telling you" Rory leaned in trying to kiss him.
"No Rory stop. First off you have a boyfriend and it will never be me and you Rory I'm sorry I don't feel that way about you no move out of my way" Jess demands as he tries to leave the diner.
"Celia, wake up" Jess shakes her lightly,
"Happy birthday" he smiles and Celia jolts up right.
"How did you get in here?" she asks still sleepy,
"Your mom let me in" Jess tells her, which was mostly true Lorelai had woken up when Rory had left and when Jess knocked on the door and explained what had happened she gave him premission to wake Celia.
"Come on I have a surprise" he smiles pulling Celia from her bed and dragging her all the way to the diner.
"Jess what is-" she starts but then sees what he had done in the diner. Now Luke was also downstairs waiting for the two of them.
"Happy birthday C" Jess hugs her.
"Thank you!" Celia grins as Luke throws her a pancake,
"You remembered" she laughs
"Of course I did" Jess smiles
"She what?" Celia asks shocked, Jess had been explaining to her what Rory had done.
"Yeah, I kinda feel bad for Dean" Jess tells her as she bites into her pancake.
"Oh shit I better go" Celia realizes it's eight thirty.
"Okay bye" he smiles and Celia hugs him again, and Jess blushes slightly.
"You are so smitten" Luke teases and Jess hits him gently.
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"Wow! Mom it looks so great" Celia hugs her mom.
"Happy birthday babe, um Jess told me about the Rory thing how are you doing?" she asks,
"I'm fine, hurt but fine it's not like Jess and I are dating or anything" Celia tells her mother as she puts together the little cheese plates.
"I know babe, have you seen her today?" she asks,
"No, you?" Celia asks,
"No I haven't" Lorelai admits.
"Ahh you guys are here" Lorelai smiles, as Sooki and Jackson walk in followed by Babette and Miss Patty.
As the guests trickled in Celia smiled and chatted as they smiled and joked.
"Hello," a voice calls above the music and Lorelai and Celia both turn. Emily and Richard are standing there with Rory between them.
"Mom, Dad what are you doing here?" Lorelai asks,
"Rory invited us" Emily smiled.
"Hey, sorry we're late" Luke calls walking in with Jess following behind,
Celia ran over hugging Jess,
"Save me," she whispered in his ear.
Emily walks straight past Celia into the living room,
"Wow talk about the cold shoulder" Jess jokes.
"Oh Rory what a beautiful party, look at you, two 18th birthday parties" Emily smiles.
Lorelai held her tongue not wanting to start something in front of everyone.
"Celia move" Emily orders looking down to where Celia and Jess were sitting chatting.
"Excuse me?" Celia asks looking up,
"I said move, Rory should sit there it's her party after all" Emily presses.
"You know what-" Jess starts but Celia stops him putting an arm on his chest and standing to move.
"Don't Jess" Celia tells him.
"Oh you're Jess Rory's boyfriend?" Emily asks,
"What? Um no Dean is Rory's boyfriend he is just out of town seeing family" Jess tells her.
"That's not what Rory told me. Anyway, you really shouldn't be with this twin when Rory is over there, as her boyfriend you should-" Emily gushes.
"I'm not her boyfriend" Jess repeats,
"Rory has told me all about you today, you two seem very similar you could do a lot better than Celia" Emily tells him blatenly.
"Excuse me? you do not get to say that to me or about her" Jess shouts walking over to Celia who was standing a little away now.
"I'm done" Celia says walking out of the house.
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wildflowers | Gilmore Girls J.M.
Fanfic'Celia, born 7 minutes after Rory had always been seen as an extension of Rory. even to her own grandparents she was still out shined by Rory. To Celia, it didn't matter if Rory was always the center of attention that everybody liked more. That was...
