JESS: Coffee?

LORELAI: Oh, yeah, thanks. How are you Jess?

JESS: Well, I'm not bleeding or anything.

LORELAI: Well, then it's gonna be a good day, huh?

JESS: Yeah. It's 7:45.

LUKE: So?

JESS: So do you want me to go to school or do you want to openly defy child labor laws?

LUKE: Go. Stay out of trouble.

JESS: Guess that means calling off the chickie run down at the salt flax.

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LUKE: Jess, this is Mia, she owns the Independence Inn.

JESS: Huh.

LUKE: That's 'Hello, nice to meet you' in slacker.

JESS: You don't need me down here, do you? [leaves]

LUKE: I'm sorry Mia. He's just

MIA: Oh please, forget it. You weren't exactly a talkative boy yourself when you were his age.

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JESS: Should you be standing here all alone? I hear this is a pretty dangerous corner.

RORY: I'm fine.

JESS: Feeling succinct today?

RORY: Pretty much.

JESS: Hmm. Did I do something to offend?

RORY: Me?

JESS: Yeah.

RORY: No.

JESS: Good.

RORY: You might want to ask that same question to Luke though.

JESS: Meaning?

RORY: You've got this whole town down on him.

JESS: Really? How did I do that?

RORY: You know how you did that.

JESS: I'm not really familiar with the blue book laws in this town, so you can be talking about a lot of things. Dropping a gum wrapper, strolling arm in arm with a member of the opposite sex on a Sunday. [Rory gestures to the chalk outline] Ah. What about it?

RORY: You did it. The whole town knows you did it. They had a meeting about it.

JESS: You actually went to that bizarro town meeting? Those things are so 'To Kill a Mockingbird.'

RORY: Yes, I went. And Luke went. And when he got there, everyone ganged up on him. They all want you gone.

JESS: Wow, bummer.

RORY: And he's standing there yelling at everyone and defending you and paying Taylor back for his lettuce losses

JESS: Wait, his what?

RORY: And now Luke's a pariah and it's all because of you! What a shock, you don't care about any of this.

JESS: I didn't say that.

RORY: Go. I'm tired of talking to you.

JESS: Fine. [starts to walk away]

RORY: You care nothing about Luke and his feelings!

JESS: Got a second wind, huh? [walks back over to Rory]

RORY: All he does is stick up for you and all you do is make his life harder. I guess that's what you have to do when you're trying to be Holden Caulfield but I think it stinks. Luke has done a lot for my mom and a lot for me, and I don't like to see him attacked. Okay, second wind over.

JESS: I didn't know they were coming down so hard on him.

RORY: Funny, I never pegged you as clueless, my mistake.

JESS: Okay. I get it. No, no, I do, I get it. So did you at least think it was funny?

RORY: That is so not the point.

JESS: Ah, you thought it was funny.