DISCO NIGHTS !
gilmore girls.
(seasons two, three, and four—onwards)

COVER & VARIATIONS !
made by me!

must NOT be stolen, used, or copied in any capacity.

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NATALIA DYER
MAEVE DAVIS

AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON
FLYNN ABRAMS

TAYLOR RUSSELL
DELANEY JONES

MILO VENTIMIGLIA
JESS MARIANO

featuring!
betty white, marjorie kelley
matthew settle, tim davis
the gilmore girls cast, their respective characters

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EXTENDED SYNOPSIS.

MAEVE DAVIS WAS NOT entirely invisible in Stars Hollow, despite her occasional desire to be. In fact, she was often in the spotlight, in spite of her considering herself the town's most prominent fraud.

Despite her best attempts at trying to prevent her oblivious, albeit incredibly generous, neighbours from placing her on a towering pedestal that could potentially lead Maeve to enter egotistical territory if she wasn't careful, the girl could only hopelessly watch as the townspeople of Stars Hollow classified her as their flawless beauty queen.

The immense honour was certainly not missed by Maeve, however, to her, all she was, was just a naive teenage girl who was simply trying to people-please her way through life.

Perhaps the high praise from her peers was manifested from sympathy. She wouldn't put it past them if it was. After all, her father abandoned her several years ago under the ruse of a 'business endeavour' after ten years of raising his daughter as a single father, consequently resulting in the young girl living with her grandmother—on her mother's side, of course. The only contact she received from her deadbeat father was the occasional, fifteen-minute at the maximum, phone call. Consequently, as Maeve grew up, she had soon learned that Tim's empty promises were not to be trusted, and chose to classify his insignificant words as just that—insignificant.

So, Maeve Davis was no stranger to trauma. She certainly knew what it felt like to be abandoned by someone who was supposed to be her protector, her father, and the frequent, high admiration directed towards her by her neighbours only fuelled her imposter syndrome—not that she'd let anyone see it, though.

To the rest of the world, she seemed optimistic, self-assured, and could most definitely overthrow the rotting plague that was commonly known as self-doubt, although when it came to Maeve's own opinion about herself, those notions could not be more false.

Despite the fact, Maeve Davis wasn't the only one the town of Stars Hollow had been quick to oh-so eagerly favour.

Rory Gilmore was the town's 'golden girl', leaving Maeve to be the local princess; it was expected that the two girls with highly promising futures would obviously become close friends. It was supposed to just...work. Everyone was seemingly enamoured by the youngest Lorelai—everyone but Maeve, who always felt apart of the latter opinion when it came to debates about Rory Gilmore.

Sure, the Gilmore girl had her moments, but Maeve was simply indifferent about her. Rory appeared to have gotten everything that she could ever want right at her fingertips, despite the girl not being able to see it at all. Maeve didn't necessarily hate her, nor did she envy her, in fact, she was actually quite relieved that the town occasionally redirected their attention to someone else whenever they pleased, but that's not to say that she didn't infrequently wonder what the fuss was all about with Rory Gilmore.

Especially when Jess Mariano, who Maeve was slowly learning to like, suddenly seemed to direct his affections towards her.

It seemed as though even Jess, who Maeve unquestionably didn't expect to fall for Rory Gilmore, seemed to be under her spell of innocence.

But Jess' interest in Rory's perfect life was not what confused Maeve Davis the most. What fuelled her perplexity was how, just when she was slowly beginning to come to terms with the harrowing fact that she was actually falling for the intolerable and John Bender-esque Jess Mariano, the boy seemed to have suddenly forgotten about all the progress they had made; the friendship they had seemed to form after a gruesomely long set of teasing and petty belittling months.

Making and sharing mixtapes, which was usually accompanied by a long debate about how awful the artists each other listened to were and how they both apparently had "no taste", according to one another, among many other smaller interactions that Maeve had subconsciously, internally cherished, the girl had tried to refuse to believe that she had just wasted her time trying to get to know Jess for all those months.

To Maeve, the only way she could explain their dynamic was by comparing their back-and-fourths to solving a satisfying puzzle or finishing a beautiful artwork; once you've found the last piece, the entirety of the picture finally gets painted.

The underlying meaning behind every one of their interactions and rare moonlight rendezvous was certainly not lost on Maeve, and she had automatically assumed it wasn't on Jess either; he was a smart boy, after all.

But as if Jess' crush on Rory had suddenly formed out of thin air, the boy had began to change—minutely, of course, and Maeve felt as though she was the only one who could see it, just like she was the only one who could see through him, and how she understood him more than anyone else.

She saw how he ever-so-slightly stiffened when Rory walked into the diner, how jealousy gradually crept up into his chest at the sight of Rory and Dean holding hands and walking down the street, how his eyebrows quirked up in interest whenever the youngest Gilmore passionately spoke about school, and how his eyes trailed after her as she walked out of a room, to simply name a few occasions.

It was especially in those fleeting moments where Maeve desperately regretted taking those looks for granted when she was on the receiving end of them—even if Jess' intention with them was to only provoke her.

Before her heart could twist any more at the sight of Jess developing a crush on Rory, Maeve simply tried to move on, blocking out Jess' uncharacteristic behaviour and trying to return back to how life was before she came to the realisation that she actually didn't hate Jess. All she wanted to do was to return back to how her and Jess' playful dynamic was before the boy focused more of his energies on to Rory Gilmore.

So, as Maeve tried to forget about her budding feelings for Jess, putting aside her intuition and naturally second-guessing nature in order to do so, she failed to notice that Jess had only forced himself to like Rory after he came to the assumption that Maeve could never possibly return his unspoken feelings for her.

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PLAYLISTS !

MAEVE'S MIXTAPE!
I. heroes, david bowie
II. lithium, nirvana
III. i love rock 'n roll, joan jett & the blackhearts
IV. just a girl, no doubt
V. cherry bomb, the runaways
VI. edge of seventeen, stevie nicks
VII. leather and lace, stevie nicks & don henley
VIII. think about it, stevie nicks
IX. after the glitter fades, stevie nicks
X. no scrubs, tlc
XI. the chain, fleetwood mac
XII. 3 small words, josie and the pussycats
XIII. what i like about you, the romantics
XIV. pictures of you, the cure
XV. rebel yell, billy idol
XVI. calypso, spiderbait
XVII. american idiot, green day
XVIII. material girl, madonna
XIX. should i stay or should i go, the clash
XX. uptown girl, billy joel
XXI. super trouper, abba
XXII. voulez-vous, abba
XXIII. killer queen, queen
XXIV. raspberry beret, prince
XXV. this charming man, the smiths
XXVI. suedehead, morrissey
XXVII. sweet child o' mine, guns n' roses
XXVIII. heart of glass, blondie

MAEVE AND JESS' MIXTAPE!
I. the only exception, paramore
II. teenage dirtbag, wheatus
III. girl from mars, ash
IV. about a girl, nirvana
V. rooms on fire, stevie nicks
VI. dreams, fleetwood mac
VII. everywhere, fleetwood mac
VIII. i want you to want me, letters to cleo
IX. f.n.t., semisonic
X. lips like sugar, echo & the bunnymen
XI. kiss me, sixpence none the richer
XII. there she goes, the la's
XIII. my sharona, the knack
XIV. the boy is mine, brandy & monica
XV. can't get enough of you baby, smash mouth
XVI. semi-charmed life, third eye blind
XVII. slide, the goo goo dolls
XVIII. are you gonna be my girl, jet
XIX. teenagers, my chemical romance
XX. all the small things, blink-182
XXI. kids in america, kim wilde
XXII. oh! darling, the beatles
XXIII. waterloo, abba
XXIV. let me kiss you, morrissey
XXV. just like heaven, the cure
XXVI. lovesong, the cure
XXVII. friday i'm in love, the cure

gifs below made by me!
must NOT be stolen, used, or copied in any capacity.

AUTHOR'S NOTE
maeve and jess (jaeve?)'s teenage angst 🤟
(some gifs aren't as realistic as others, but they're still super cute).

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WARNING. this book contains strong language.

DISCLAIMER. I do not own 'Gilmore Girls', nor do I own any of its characters, actors, scenes, or content, all rights go to the show's respective creators. I don't own any of the pop-culture references I make within this book, and all the rights go to their respective creators. I only own all of the gifs I made myself, my original characters and their plotlines, and all writing, dialogue, and scenes which are not included in 'Gilmore Girls'. Those mentioned are all created by me, and MUST NOT be stolen, used, and copied, as with all of my original characters and storylines in their entirety.

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SLOW/SPORADIC UPDATES.

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AUTHOR'S NOTE
gilmore girls is one of my favourite shows ever, especially because it's such a comfort show, too.

i've been rewatching it again for the millionth time, and i've just had the urge to write a jess fanfic. i adore him!

this book will take a while to finish, so bare with me.

© voidvaleska