This Is Us || Jess Mariano

9

Lorelai, Charlotte and Rory were walking toward Luke's for breakfast while Lorelai nursed her bandaged hand. "It still hurts!" She whined.

"Do you need stitches?" Rory asked concerned.

"Probably." Lorelai pouted.

"Well, then we should go to a doctor." Rory said.

"No way! You go into a hospital, you don't come out again!" Lorelai exclaimed dramatically.

"Drama queen." Charlotte said.

"I'm starving. I need pancakes." Lorelai changed the subject.

"Can I just ask you..." Charlotte started but Lorelai interrupted her.

"No."

"What on earth did you think you were doing?" Charlotte smirked.

"I thought I was being a self-sufficient woman." She pouted.

"But you hate ladders and you hate heights." Rory pointed out.

"We needed our rain gutters cleaned!" She exclaimed.

"Yeah but we could just hire someone. Someone who won't fall and kill themselves." Charlotte quipped.

"Oh, I'm fine! I'm just being dramatic. It's what I do." Lorelai said.

"No more ladders." Rory said sternly.

"I promise." She sighed.

"Good!" Rory said.

"I think I have gangrene." Lorelai said after a moment.

"Gross!" Charlotte screwed up her face.

"And vertigo."

"Oh boy." Rory said.

"And one leg suddenly feels shorter than the other."

"Let's go eat." Charlotte rolled her eyes and the three of them headed inside Luke's and sat down at a free table.

"God, I'm starving. Must be from the loss of blood." Lorelai said.

"Sure, that must be why." Charlotte smirked.

"I'm getting pancakes with a side of pancakes. Where's Luke?" Lorelai frowned looking round.

"I don't know. Storage room?" Rory said.

"Oh no!" Charlotte groaned.

"What?" Lorelai said.

"Caesar's cooking."

"Why is Caesar cooking?" Lorelai whined.

"How should I know?" Charlotte said.

"Urgh that's bad!" Lorelai exclaimed.

"His pancakes stink." Rory agreed.

"They do stink." Lorelai nodded. She looked around. "Wait here." She told them before running up the stairs to Luke's apartment. She knocked on his apartment door. "Luke, are you there?" She called.

"Ow!" Luke exclaimed from inside.

"Luke, are you okay?" Lorelai frowned.

"Stupid box! Stupid lamp!" He grumbled.

"Hey Luke, are you being attacked by your possessions again?" She joked.

Just then Luke opened the door looking stressed, with a sock on his shoulder.

"Hi." Lorelai grinned.

"Hi." He said.

"What are you doing?" She asked.