Code of Silence || chapter 8 || Friends In Low Places
by Jewls13 and Taylor
Luke picked up the phone, glanced down at the phone book next to the base, and dialed. After a few rings, the machine picked up, and he swore, glancing around the empty apartment as if Jess or Bree were going pop up from nowhere.
"Liz, its Luke. I need to talk to you about Jess. Friends of his from New York are in Stars Hollow. Bree and Dom? I need you to call me back."
Luke said, hanging up the phone. He quickly walked towards the door, praying that she'd actually call back this time.
"Stop treating me as if I'm made of glass!" Bree was ordering Dom as Luke entered the diner. "Give me something to do!"
Dom sighed, handing her a notepad. "Take their order," he said, pointing to one of the tables. Bree turned around, and Dom gave her a light slap on the butt. "Go get 'em, tiger." She rolled her eyes at him, walking over to the table.
Lorelai watched Dom watching Bree, and broke into his thoughts, "Something on your mind?"
"You, me, private beach somewhere far away�" he hinted suggestively.
Lorelai swatted him. "So what's the deal with you and Bree? Are you a couple?" she probed.
"No," Dom replied simply.
"Have you ever been?" she asked, trying to get information out of him.
"No."
"Do you want to be?"
Dom sighed, putting down the rag in his hand. He leaned forward, so no one else could hear, and said, "She's my friend. It could be more, but in my mind, she'll always belong to Jess. And regardless of what I may or may not feel, I'm not gonna step on that."
"So Jess and Bree dated?" Lorelai assumed.
"No. They never technically dated. But I guess that really all depends on your defination."
Lorelai ran that information through her mind, planning to tell Luke�only if he showed her his tattoo.
Luke dashed up the stairs when he heard the phone ring. Out of breath, he picked up the receiver, "Hello?"
"It's Liz."
"You actually called back," Luke said, surprised.
"Well, this is important."
Luke held the phone to his ear with his shoulder and went over to shut the door.
"Bree is not someone Jess should hang around with. I may not be much of a mother, but that I know for sure. She was part of the reason that I sent Jess away." Luke rolled his eyes. Liz tended to over react sometimes. "Since she came into his life, he was ruder, more disrespectful, more insolent...he started skipping school with her, sneaking out of the house in the middle of the night to see her, he missed tests�he skipped his SAT's and I found out later that he was with her. When I asked him about it, he wouldn't tell me anything. You need to get her out of your house and away from my son, Luke. She's a bad influence."
Liz hastily said goodbye, saying she was going to work. Luke hung up the phone, and his arm fell limply to his side.
Lorelai came up the stairs after him, asking, "What's up?"
"I just talked to Liz," he said, relaying what his sister had told him. Lorelai let out a low whistle.
"Did you check on the pill?" Luke asked her.
Lorelai nodded, "yeah, but they said it would take a few days."
The two of them returned to the diner, worried eyes gravitating towards the laughing Bree.
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