"Missing Love"
Chapter 1
Welcome to the New England town of Stars Hollow, Connecticut. Founded in 1779 with a population of 9,973 it is a small town full of colorful characters with big personalities.
In Stars Hollow, everyone knows everyone else, because it is hard not to know everyone in a town that small. Miss Patty is in her dance studio saying, "1,2,3,4,1, hands in the air girls, not in your noses! You're ballerinas for goodness sakes!" Kirk was doing something that no one can ever even begin to try to explain. And Luke was in his diner serving coffee to costumers. It has been a year since Rory Gilmore graduated from Yale University and left Connecticut to go work on the Barak Obama campaign.
Lorelai Gilmore is walking down the street to Luke's Diner just like every morning before work.
"Lucas!" Lorelai sang.
"Hey. You want coffee?" Luke asked.
"Uh. Hello? Do you know who you are talking to? That is a ridiculous question considering how long you've known me." Lorelai replied sitting down shocked.
"Right. Sorry," he replied going to get coffee. "Here's your coffee," he said handing a cup of coffee to her.
"Thank you my dear," She took a sip, "Oh, I love coffee. Especially your coffee. I'm telling you, you have a talent for making coffee."
"Well I figured you thought that. I mean considering you tell me that almost every day."
"Well it's true. Hey, guess what? Rory's coming home today! She should actually be here any minute now." Lorelai said looking out the windows.
"Wow, really? That's great. You must be pretty excited."
"I am. Do you ever get that feeling like you are so happy, you just can't help but smile?"
"Yes actually. When I look at you." Luke said looking into her eyes.
"Oh, Luke, that's so sweet," she leaned over the counter and kissed him. "I feel like Augustus Gloop when he saw the chocolate river. Like I can't get enough. Just not the falling in part though," Lorelai started to laugh.
"Right." Luke said a little confused.
"Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory." She told him.
"Oh, that makes more sense now. Thank you."
"No Problem."
At that moment Sookie, Michel, Miss Patty, Babette, Kirk, Lulu, Taylor, Lane and
Zach walked in.
"Where is she?" Lane asked franticly.
"Is she here yet?" Sookie asked finishing Lane's question.
"No, she's not. But she should be soon." Lorelai replied.
"Oh, good. We didn't miss it. I've been waiting so long. I didn't even sleep last night." Babette said.
"Neither did I," Lorelai replied and got up and walked over to the crowd.
That was when Rory walked into Luke's Diner. She was smiling, but when she realized no one noticed she walked in, she got a mischievous look on her face. Luke noticed her and was about to say something but Rory nodded her head for him not to. She wanted to see how long it would take for someone to realize she was there. She sat down at the counter and hugged Luke. He handed her a cup of his famously good coffee that she had been having cravings for the past year and took a long drink. She turned around on the barstool and her and Luke got a good laugh out of what was going on.
Finally after what seemed like forever, but was only about a minute, Lane, her best friend in the entire world, noticed her and said, "Rory! Oh my god! You're here! I didn't notice you come in!" while giving her a big hug.
"Obviously," Rory laughed.
"Rory. My darling daughter. It's been so long," Lorelai said in a voice that made her sound about twenty years older. "My, my, you look just like you did 20 years ago. I missed you so much."
"Haha, Mom. Very funny," Rory said sarcastically.
"I know wasn't it? But seriously Rory, I missed you a lot, kid."
"I missed you too, Mom." Her and Lorelai hugged. "I actually missed all of you," Rory said turning to everyone else. "It felt like a part of me was missing."
"You really missed all of us?" asked Kirk.
"Of course," Rory said like it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"So you even missed Taylor?" Lorelai asked sarcastically.
"Yes mom, I even missed Taylor, believe it or not," Rory said trying to contain her laughter even though it wasn't quite working as well as she hoped.
Taylor of course didn't find this very funny, but he just decided to let it go, considering the circumstances. "Who wants ice cream?" Taylor asked the girls.
"Oh, Taylor, that's sweet but I just kind of want to go home, unpack, take a shower, and go to sleep. How about tomorrow?" Rory asked.
"Sure," Taylor replied and walked out of Luke's and back to his shop next door.
"You coming mom?" Rory asked.
Lorelai eyed Rory thinking that something was wrong. Why she thought this, she didn't know, but she knew her daughter and she always trusted her gut, it was hardly ever wrong. And she thought maybe she shouldn't grill her daughter in public, just in case. I mean she didn't know what it was about, but she had a feeling it would take cookie dough with a side of movie to fix it. Even though it seemed like longer, it only took about two seconds for all of that to go through her mind, and she answered, "Yeah. Of course I'm coming. Lets go." They walked out and said goodbye to everyone and that they would see them later. The question was, how much later?
