Thea and her friends had gotten to Luke's before it became packed. For some reason, lately it seemed like it was getting packed because word-of-mouth was getting around. Thea really had no clue why the diner seemed to be getting popular lately.

Of course, Lorelai and Rory came in later and Lorelai noticed the packed diner and started talking about how they should start spreading 'bad word-of-mouth just so they can always have a table' which sounded horrible to Thea. Even Libby gave the duo a dirty look at that.

"It's so weird to see him talking like that," Lorelai said.

Thea looked to see that Luke was talking to a middle-aged woman wearing a hat.

Rory asked, "Like what?"

"Just all friendly," Lorelai said. "He's usually only good for a quick couple of gruff monosyllables and then he's off."

"He is the master of the monosyllable," Rory said.

Lorelai asked, "He never flirts with any of the women, do you notice that?"

Thea looked at Libby confused.

"He does," Libby whispered, "When Lorelai's not around. How else can he afford to keep the diner open? And he flirts with Lorelai numerous times."

"Hey, flirt with him now," Rory told Lorelai. "We need coffee."

Lorelai started waving a napkin and took on some kind of starlet voice, "Oh, Luke. We're just dying for some refreshments."

"Keep your pants on," Luke ordered her.

Thea and her friends snickered at that.

"Oh, my mom decided to write a book about her bank robbing days," Todd said.

Sage said, "You're never letting that go, are you?"

"If your mom robbed banks, you won't let it go either," Todd told him.

"My mom would probably knock the bank robber unconscious in her haste to get on the floor," Sage told him.

"Everyone's allowed a guilty pleasure now and again," Rory said.

"Hmm, very diplomatic from the girl who had the Bryan Adams poster above her bed for two years," Lorelai replied.

"Fink," Rory said.

Lorelai asked, "Do you have a guilty pleasure, Luke?"

Luke paused for a moment, "Nah."

Lorelai asked, "Are you into music?"

"Sure," Luke said.

Georgia frowned and looked at Todd, "Do you have a guilty pleasure?"

Thea looked at Georgia, "I know you like those blueberry cookies that I make that have the pink frosting and strawberry bits." She looked at Libby, "I know that you and Aiden both actually like rom-coms. I know that Sage rewatches Twin Peaks when he's upset and that's because he has a crush on Shelly. And I know that Todd reads Sylvia Plath and poetry."

Todd seemed to shift uncomfortably and asked, "How would you know that?"

"There's got to be at least one stalker in our group and it's not me." Thea looked at Todd, "By the way, we're out milk and peanut butter."

Todd looked like he was thinking about it and looked freaked out, "Hey. That's not funny because it's true."

Thea drank her coffee like a stalker.

The next morning, Lorelai and Rory were in the kitchen, when Thea went in there.

Rory was trying to cram her many books in her backpack, although Thea didn't know why Rory couldn't take an extra bag with her.

While Lorelai and Rory discussed the books that Rory was reading. Apparently she needed a 'lunch book'. While in between the book discussion, Lorelai said into the phone, "Michel." He replied. "Come pick me up." Michel replied. "Put Carol on the desk and come pick me up." He replied. "Michel, come pick me up and I will buy you some cheese." He replied. "Low-fat cheese." He replied. "Low-fat American cheese." He replied and Lorelai shouted, "Thea!"

Thea looked at Lorelai, "What?"

Lorelai jumped and Rory gave Lorelai a strange look, because she knew Thea was in the kitchen the entire time.

Lorelai said, "Do you have those blueberry cookies that have the pink icing and bits of strawberry?"

Thea frowned and opened a cupboard. She took out a baggy that had a few cookies in it. "Yeah, I had to hide them from Georgia and Libby. Why?"

"Michel wants them," Lorelai said. In the phone, she said, "I have a baggy of the cookies right here. So just get over here."

Thea grabbed her messenger bag and left the house.

When lunch rolled around, Thea sat at the table, when Jess ended up joining her.

"So, I saw a guy stab another guy in the neck with a pencil," Jess told her. "And then the guy who stabbed the kid in the neck went to finish his test, like he just didn't stab someone in the neck."

"That happened last year, but in the locker room," Thea said. "Aiden said he saw another guy stab someone in the neck with a pencil."

Jess stared at her, "Really?"

Thea replied, "You went to school in New York. Haven't you seen worse stuff than that?"

Jess shrugged. Thea looked around the cafeteria. Where were her friends at?

Jess asked, "Hey, is Georgia dating anyone?"

Thea snorted, "You're not her type."

Jess gave her a look, "I bet by the end of the school year, she'll be in love with me."

Thea gave him a look, "I'll like to see you try."

Jess smirked at her, "Oh, I will." He pointed to the side, "Oh, look, there's your college fund."

Thea looked over confused and then back at Jess, who stole her blueberry pink cookies. To add salt to the wound, he had taken a bite out of each cookie while she wasn't looking. He was smirking at her.

"You asshole," Thea said, glaring at him.

Sage came over, looking a little confused, having witnessed the conversation, "What's going on?" He kissed Thea on the cheek.

"Libby's cousin stole my cookies," Thea told him.

"These cookies look like they should taste like strawberries but they taste like blueberries," Jess said. "It just makes no sense."

While Jess was confused over the cookies, Sage whispered in Thea's ear, "By the way, he's not becoming your third boyfriend."

On the way to a Friday Night Dinner, which was something that Thea didn't understand why she had to attend, Rory talked to Lorelai about the Puffs, which was apparently an all-female secret society at Chilton. There was a girl named Lemon apparently.

As they got out of the jeep, Lorelai asked, "Who the hell names their kid Lemon?"

"Someone really into citrus," Rory said.

Lorelai groaned, "Crazy crazy people."

"It's just so weird that the one table I sit down at is home to the secret society," Rory said.

Thea thought it was weird that a private school had secret societies. She briefly wondered if her public school had secret societies, then decided that no, Stars Hollow High was already weird enough without having a secret society. Her back tingled as she remembered getting stabbed with sewing needles.

"I know," Lorelai said, ringing the doorbell. "It's like waking up one day and realizing that everyone else in your family can pull their face off."

That wasn't a great analogy.

"Yes, it's exactly like that," Rory said.

A maid opened the door. It wasn't Liesl, but a Black woman, which Thea found extremely unfortunate, considering the woman was a maid and person of color, working for two rich white people, which honestly now looked racist. Georgia and Annette would have some words about the situation.

The maid said, "Your mother would like you to head out to the patio. We're barbecuing tonight."

"Thanks," Lorelai said as they walked inside.

Rory asked, "Does Grandma have a barbecue?"

Apparently she did.

"I don't know," Lorelai said. "Maybe she keeps it in the secret room with the paper napkins and the mismatched sheets." They headed for the patio and Lorelai gasped, "Wow, she really is barbecuing."

They walked onto the patio where a chef was cooking on the grill.

"Hey, cool," Rory said.

Lorelai greeted the chef, "What's up, Poppin' Fresh?"

The chef seemed confused as he looked at them. Thea didn't blame him. She lived with Lorelai and Rory, and not even she understood their references.

Rory was excited, "Ooh, corn!" She picked up a corn on the cob.

"Nice!" Lorelai said, taking a corn cob as well. She held up her corn cob, "Thank you."

They both went to start gnawing on the corn making sounds of pleasure.

Emily walked onto the patio, "What is this? A refugee camp? Com inside and eat at the table."

"Mom, the whole point of barbecuing is to eat outside," Lorelai told her.

"Animals eat outside," Emily said. "Human beings eat inside with napkins and utensils. If you want to eat outside, go hunt down a gazelle. Make your decision, I'll be inside." She went inside.

Lorelai asked, "What are the odds of finding a gazelle around here?"

"Slim to none," Rory replied.

Lorelai nodded, "Okay, let's go."

The two of them went inside the dining room.

Thea looked at the chef, who was looking at her in confusion, because why was she still outside?

It sounded like Emily started in on Lorelai about something she had done with the headmaster at Chilton.

Thea asked the chef, "Do you think they would notice I'm not here if I climbed the fence and took off?"

The chef did notice how they ignored the teen, so he said, "Probably not."

"Would you tell them if I took off?" asked Thea.

"Babysitting isn't in my job description, but I don't want to get yelled at by Mrs. Gilmore if one of her grandchildren took off," the chef replied, looking apologetic. "But I'll let you have the first finished steak." He set the steak on a plate and handed it to Thea, who took it with a smile.

Watching Jess try and failing miserably to flirt with Georgia was amusing, especially because Georgia was highly unimpressed with Jess's attempts. Even Sage and Aiden seemed amused by Jess's attempts.

Thea almost felt bad for Jess because he was trying and it wasn't working, because Georgia wasn't impressed with his 'bad boy' outlook.

So, Jess tried to make Georgia jealous by flirting with other girls, which Georgia was disgusted by because 'leading girls on isn't hot. It just makes you an asshole.'

Once Jess said, "Did it hurt when you fell from heaven?"

"No, but I did break my nails crawling out of hell," Georgia replied back.

A/N: Sorry nothing much happens in this chapter.