Lorelai Gilmore is the mother of five year old Rory. Lorelai is 21 and on her own, discovering who she is, and trying to raise her daughter on her own.
Lorelai is new to her town, Stars Hollow. She had just bought a house and barely knew anyone, just her neighbor Babette. She didn't mind though. She was glad to be away from her hugh society parents. She wanted anything but that life.
It's a Saturday morning in Stars Hollow. Lorelai is making lunch for her and Rory, consisting of tator tots and pizza, cooked in the oven.
Rory was playing in her room
"Mommy, that smells good!"she yells from her room to the kitchen.
"It will be ready soon, angel."
"okay."
"What are you doing in there?"
"Playing."
Lorelai walks to her daughters doorway. "Playing what?"
"With my toys." She keeps grabbing things out of the yet to be unpacked boxes, making Lorelai laugh.
"Kid, you'll have more room to play if you unpack your stuff first."
"That's too much work mommy."
"I knew there was a reason I loved you." She smirks and goes back to the kitchen.
Rory comes skipping out a second later.
"I love our new house."
"Yeah?"
"Yeah! It's big. I love my room too!"
"Good. I guess we can stay now."
"Yay!"
Lorelai laughs, knowing they were always staying."
"This house is the best!"
"Glad you like it sweetie."
"When do I go to school?"
"Not for two months bookworm."
"I'm not a worm!"
"Oh I beg to differ."
"I'm not!" She protests again.
"The four boxes of books in your room say other wise."
"I like reading."
"You bury yourself into books just like worms bury into the ground, hence, bookworm."
"I know what worms do mommy, duh."
"Excuse me, I forgot you're smarter than me."
"Don't forget it." The little girl teases her.
Rory sits at the table and Lorelai gets the stuff out of the oven a few minutes later, sitting and eating lunch together. After lunch, they clean up..
"Mom, can we go see the town?"
"The town?"
"Yeah, we only went two times so far."
"We have a lot of unpacking left to do still." Lorelai looks around, not wanting to unpack at all.
"One box each?"
"Deal."
They high five and start with Rory's boxes, Lorelai opens one of the drawers of the old, dark wooden dresser, when something breaks and the dresser tilts.
"Dammit!"
"Mommy, that's a bad word."
"I know, sweetie. Sorry."
"What did you do?"
"Something happened to teh dresser."
"Is it broken?"
"I think."
"Oh."
'I think I saw a Hardware store."
"A what?"
"A store."
"Oh."
"You want to go into town?"
"Yeah!"
"Alright, let's go."
Lorelai and Rory head out the door and into town, walking down the main street.
People pass by, saying hello, introducing themselves as they walk.
Lorelai then stops.
"Ah ha! This is where we need to go." She says and walks into the store, Williams Hardware.
The middle aged gentleman looks up from the counter and smiles. He then yells to someone in the back.
"Lucas, customer!"
Lorelai smiles and then a guy, close to her age comes out from the back.
"Dad, couldn't you have..."
His dad points and the boy smiles.
"Hi, can I help you find something?"He says, walking toward Lorelai and Rory.
Lorelai, being clueless, but not completely blind at the good looking guy asking to help her.
"Hi yes, I need uh...something.."
"Something?"
"You see, there was this dresser, it came off of it's track I guess or something, I don't know. I just need something that will fix it."
"Did you try putting it back on the track?"
"What?"
"My mom doesn't know how to fix things." Rory interrupts.
"Mom?"
Lorelai pushes her hair behind her ears nervously and smiles.
"This is uh, my daughter, Rory."
"Oh. You do not look old enough to..."
He stops. "She is cute."
Rory is swaying back and forth.
"Thanks."
He nods. "So, did you put it on track?"
"Right...uh no."
"Okay. That could be the problem."
"You think?"
"Yeah."
The other man comes walking up behind Luke, patting him on the back.
"Who do we have here?"
"This is...oh sorry, didn't get your name."
"It's Lorelai."
"Luke."
"Nice to meet you Luke."
"You too, this is my dad." He introduces and they shake hands.
"Great to meet you. Is my son here helping you okay with everything?"
"Yes, apparently I just need to put the drawer back on it's track."