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Just reread the first few chapters here after writing chapter 14. This first chapter really isn't that good, now I understand why I lost more than half of my views after chapter 1. But to new readers, if you just give this a little chance, I guarantee you, it gets better and better. Thank you for reading!

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Chapter 1: Hi Jess, Hi Uncle Luke

AUGUST 1992

"More coffee?" asked Luke to the two Gilmore girls that he sees everyday sitting at the table near the window.

" Is that a trick question?" said Lorelei sarcastically. Luke shook his head with disapproval while pouring Lorelei the coffee. "Well, thank you diner man!" said the smiling woman now sipping the hot coffee.

"Do you want some refill for your coke Rory?" asked Luke to the eight years old adorable little girl. Luke loved her so much, she's a darling to everyone in the town.

Ring~~ The diner phone rings.

Luke put down the coffee pot on the counter and picked up the phone.

'Luke's.'

"Hi big brother, this is Liz, I have missed you soo so much! How are you?" asked the woman on the phone.

"Liz, you did not just call me for a small talk. What do you want?' sighed Luke.

' Big brother, you're the only one that truly understands me. I really need some help from you. It's a big favor but I know you will help, because you love me so much." Pleaded Liz.

"Just tell me already. What is it?' asked Luke in his mono tone voice.

"I need you to take care of Jess for a while." Said Liz with a slight nervousness in her voice, afraid that her brother wouldn't help.

"You're kidding! What am I gonna do with him, he's like what 5,6,7? I don't know how to take care of kids and I certainly have no time for a kid, Liz!" yelled Luke who got everyone's attention at the diner.

"Big brother, you have to help with this, this is the last time I'll ask a favor from you. Please. Jack is bringing me to this trip to California and Jack just isn't the kind of man who likes kids, so it will be a big favor if you can take care of Jess for a little while." Explained Liz.

Luke let out a deep breathe and asked. "Alright. How long will it be?"

"Not long, around 2 weeks."

"Okay." Said Luke.

"Did I tell you how much I love you big brother!" Squealed the happy Liz.

" Yea, yea bye." Said the defeated Luke.

Now the nosy Gilmore girls jumped to the counter seats and started harrassing Luke with questions.

"What kid? What boy? Is it an unknown son you've never met with a mysterious woman you've been with years ago and now she wants money and dump the kid with you!" Loreilai bombared.

"No. It's not my kid, It's my sister's Liz's kid, Jess." Sighed Luke while pouring more coffee to this woman.

"How old is he?" Little Rory asked.

"I'm pretty sure he's around your age Rory." Smiled Luke.

"Yay, may be I can show him around Stars Hollow, right? Mommy?" said the excited Rory.

"Yea ofcourse you can, sweetie. Alright we gotta go now. See you Luke and good luck with the kid. We will be here if you need any help!" said Lorelei while heading out of the diner.

2 days later.

Luke woke up way earlier than he used to, making sure he has got the inflatable bed ready with pillow and blankets for Jess and make sure he will be on time at the bus station to pick up his nephew.

He stood by the bus stop, nervously thinking about what he should say when he met this 8 year-old nephew of his that he hasn't seen since the boy was still in diapers. The greyhound bus stopped, passengers got off one by one and hugging their friends and relatives. This made Luke uneasy, should he be hugging Jess? He knows he's not a very good hugger.

After what seems like forever, a boy with dark bushy hair, big brown eyes holding a book on his left hand and right hand holding his navy blue color backpack stepped off the bus.

'Hi, Jess.' Said Luke while adjusting his baseball cap, not knowing what to say more.

'Hi Uncle Luke.' Said the boy turning his head up and looking at Luke with big brown eyes.

'So, um welcome to Stars Hollow, you've been here before when you were still a baby but you probably don't remember of course." Said Luke uncomfortably, he never had an actual conversation with kids except Rory in a very very long time.

"Let me help you with the backpack." Asked Luke trying to think of things to say.

"It's alright, I got it." Said Jess while swinging his bag back to his shoulders.

After a couple of minutes, they were back at the diner. "So this is my diner, I work here 24/7 and my apartment is just upstairs, that's where you'll be staying for the coming 2 weeks." Said Luke while showing Jess the way up to his apartment.

Jess entered the room and put his backpack next to door while he wanders around searching for a sight of books. Not surprised at all, all the books Luke had were either manuals of machines or just newspapers.

"So… are you hungry? I could make you anything." Said Luke with a tiny smile on his face.

"No, I'm good." Answered Jess sitting on his inflatable bed.

"Well then, I gotta get back to work, if you need anything just find me downstairs." Said Luke scratching his head, not knowing if this is what he is supposed to do with a kid.

"Um..Uncle Luke can I walk around the town while you work?" asked Jess.

'Um.. uh.. yea sure, but my friend Lorelei and her kid Rory wanted to show you the town, Rory is your age too, you guys might really get

along together." Smiled Luke assuring the kid.

"Um.. is Rory a girl?' asked Jess who's confused.

"Yes, Rory is a girl." Said Luke.

"Then no. I don't wanna be friends with girls, they're annoying and dumb." Said Jess while returning to his book.

"Well, Rory is different, she's not annoying to a certain extent, way better than her mom atleast, and she is definitely not dumb, she loves reading ." explained Luke.

"Fine I'll meet her." Said Jess while giving out a sigh.

"Well where's the boy, Luke! I wanna meet him! Is he adorable? Does he look like you? Or have the same taste, wear flannel shirt and a backwards baseball cap and just loves his broccoli?" asked the exciting Lorelei with little Rory on the side.

"Well he's upstairs reading a book, I told him about you and Rory and he's happy that you are going to give him a tour of the town." Said Luke to Rory not wanting to tell her the truth that Jess didn't really care much about it.

"He likes to read! That's awesome! I love to read,too! Mommy I think Jess and I will be great friends!" squealed the little girl.

"When can I meet Jess, Luke?"

"Well Im gonna.." said Luke before he could finish his sentence, Jess came downstairs still reading his book while getting down. Rory ran next to Jess and patted him on the shoulder to stop him from reading.

"Hi Im Rory! What you reading?' said Rory while giving him the biggest smile.

"Hey! Don't touch me! You girls have cooties! And Im reading Oliver Twist for the third time." Said Jess, dusting the spot where Rory patted him on the shoulder.

"Well first off, I don't have cooties and second, Oliver Twist is an amazing book." Said Rory.

Jess gave a tiny smile, surprised that someone his age finally got the same taste and is not still learning their way to ABCs. "Yea I know."

"Luke, Can I bring Jess and walk around and show him the cool things!?" asked Rory who's so excited she almost was hopping and jumping.

"Yea for sure if it's okay with your mom." Replied Luke who was bringing out dishes to other customers.

"Ok Rory meet me back here at the diner's in an hour an a half okay, hun?" said Lorelei who then gave Rory a kiss on her forehead.

The two kids ran out the door of Luke's diner.

"So this is the town square as you can see, that's the ice cream shop, there's a park just behind Luke's diner and.." said Rory while pointing at all the stores and venues she was talking while Jess just look at what Rory was pointing.

"Is there a library or a bookstore around this small little town?" asked Jess.

"Yea just right across from the church, that's the stars hollow bookstore. Well for the library it's kinda far, it will take us a lot of time to walk there, but next time I can ask my mom to drive us to the library." Said Rory while walking towards the bookstore with Jess.

"Lucky that Im staying here for only two weeks, this place seem so boring." Jess complained.

"It's not boring, there's lots to do in stars hollow, you can swim, play in the park, watch people play baseball, join miss patty's dance class or just read books!" explained Rory.

"Well, yea, but this is so quiet and small compare to New York, where there's everything, subway, great hotdogs, real baseball game, central library, tall buildings and the sound of traffic." Said Jess.

"Well it's different from New York, but Im sure you will like it. So, here's the bookstore." The two walked in.

"Have you read this before?" asked Rory, holding Charlie and the chocolate factory.

"Ofcourse! For a billion times!" said Jess, finally sounding a little more excited.

"How about this? Have you read this before?' asked Jess holding The Watership Down.

"Yup only for the one millionth times." Said Rory proudly.

"I wish my mom gave me some money, so I can buy some books to read. Luke has no books at his place, at all." Said Jess.

"Well, I can bring you some books tomorrow, and so you don't have to buy any for now." Said Rory with a smile.

'Sure." Smiled Jess while the two walked out of the bookstore and headed back to Luke's.

Rory and Lorelei left the diner, leaving Jess sitting on the counter seat trying to finish his re-read of Oliver Twist.

"Jess, you gotta eat something, it's almost lunch. You want some fries? Salads? Burgers?" asked the busy Luke while handling other customers.

"But Uncle Luke, I'm not hungry." Replied the frustrated boy flipping the page of his book.

Luke closed the book with his right hand and repeated himself again with a now more stern look.

"Jess. You cannot possibly be not hungry, you didn't even have breakfast."

"Fine… fries sounds good, Uncle Luke." Replied Jess before Luke took his hand off his book.

Jess had finished his fries and his book, he was now getting bored. Luke was busy with customers and his only friend was not here. He jumped off the seat, put his book to his jean pocket and went to Luke.

"Uncle Luke can I go to park behind your diner?" Asked Jess.

"Yea okay make sure you come back before 4:30 sharp alright?" said Luke while taking a customer's order.

"Alright." Jess went up and put his book on his bed and searched his bag for his yankees baseball cap and ran down and headed off to the park. Jess doesn't really like playing with other kids his age, as he found them stupid, but all in all, he enjoys throwing or catching or kicking a ball occasionally. He walked to the park and sat near the benches at the baseball field looking at kids around his age playing baseball. It was the last 2 weeks of summer, so the park was full of noise and screams which kinda reminds Jess of the New York sound.

'Hey, you wanna play?" asked a kid running towards Jess's direction holding a bat.

"My friend Tom has to go home, so we need a player."

"yea sure, but I ain't that good." Said Jess while getting up the bench.

"That's alright, we're just playing anyway. My name's Johnathan. Everyone just calls me Johnny." "said Johnathan while handing a baseball bat to Jess.

"My name's Jess." Said Jess while taking the bat and walking towards the field.

Johnny introduced him to all the other kids and he was really enjoying it and the kids really like him as he was not only good at baseball, he was actually a natural, Jess just never noticed or cared.

'Jess where did you learn to bat like that! You always hit the ball and it's almost always a homerun!" asked Johnny who was amazed.

"Well, it's not really that good, I just watch baseball sometimes."

"We'll be playing again tomorrow after lunch time you should really come!" said Johnny.

"Sure, I'll ask my uncle tommorrow."

"So Luke's your uncle?"

"yea, he is."

"well then see you tommorrow!"

"See ya." said Jess while taking off his cap, wiping the sweat off his forehead and face with his shirt.

"Where the heck have you been, Jess!" yelled Luke, who's still busy with the diner but stopped everything when the boy entered.

"Sorry, I lost track of time." Said Jess softly feeling a little scared cause he doesn't know what his Uncle would do to him when he's in trouble. He looked at the clock and saw it was half past five.

'If you're gonna lose track of time next time, you're not allowed to go out again, you hear me?" warned Luke who calmed down now.

"Yes, Uncle Luke." Said Jess, who was looking down the floor like a little puppy.

Luke felt a little bad for yelling at Jess, he sighed and asked, "I'll make you a cheeseburger, and when you're done with the burger you can have some ice cream, okay?" ruffled the boy's hair, assuring him he's not mad anymore.

"Okay." Replied Jess who now relaxed knowing that his Uncle is not going to punish him.

Back home, if he's in trouble, his mother's boyfriends would usually yell at him then some might push him to the wall or punch him or lock him in the room. He's glad that his uncle wasn't one of those mean jerks.

"Boy are you sweaty! Go take a shower after the burger okay? Where have you been anyway?' asked the now not too busy Luke, pouring Jess a cup of sprite.

"I was at the park playing baseball with some other kids." Said Jess while munching on the cheese burger, after the fries this morning, Jess realized his Uncle was an amazing chef, his food was actually really good. He was probably just skeptical at first because of what a terrible cook his mother was.

"Baseball, huh?' said Luke, feeling a little happy inside that he knows he finally has some common things to talk about with his nephew.

"What's your favourite team?" asked Luke trying to keep a conversation with the boy.

Jess rolled his eyes and said frustratedly, "Do I look like a red sox fan to you, Uncle Luke?" of course he's a Yankees fan, how could his uncle not notice.

"Right. Sorry for even asking." Luke chuckled. Luke thought to himself,

"this isn't as bad as I thought, may be I'll survive the two weeks without much hassle."

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