Let's Get Married

Chapter 1: Lost in Paris

Okay well this is the first chapter of my latest story! Yes, I have planned a story that isn't a oneshot. Well not that I may not expand something, but this is meant to be longer! Well anyway, I know this chapter is fairly short, but I needed to start the story off but not go too far or I may accidently end it! If that makes sense?

Disclaimer: I do not own this…. Please remember that

"Lor, Let's get married…now"

Lorelai was in shock. Her mind was empty. She had no thoughts.

How could Chris just ask her like that? He had agreed with her to go slow. They dated. They had never before dated properly. They hadn't even celebrated a seasonal holiday together since their reunion.

Chris was once the man she had wanted marry. She wanted to wake up with him beside her and sit next to him with Rory across the table during meals. She had wanted to be the perfect family. He was always her fallback.

But he wasn't Luke.

She had run to Christopher after Luke paused in answering the question that she had just been asked.

Would her pause send Chris running back to Sherri?

"Chris. Rory…"

"She won't mind Lor. Come on. We were always wanting to do this."

No, Lorelai thought, you always wanted to do this.

"Chris, she will mind. You don't know her like I do"

"Lor, she's my daughter. I know her."

She's my best friend, plus, where were you for the birthdays, the sickness, the broken bones?

"Chris-"

"oh, come on Lor! If you hadn't have gotten pregnant then we would have ended up together you- "

"Chris how can you say that! Rory is my best friend."

"We dated for years –"

"We were young. I was 16, 15 when Rory happened"

"4 years as a couple Lor, does that mean anything to you?"

"High school isn't the real world Chris! We aren't the 'perfect couple' you seem to remember."

"But we weren't"

"Chris. You saved me lunch when I had exams, I got the bus driver to wait for you when you were late, we planned a trip to Europe. That doesn't make a couple,"

"It did then"

"And as soon as it got complicated you weren't there"

"We were in high school. I lived with my parents, you lived with yours"

"I stood up to my parents –"

"That's you Lor, I'm not you."

"Do you think it was easy for me to stand up to Emily and Richard. I was 15 years old and I was pregnant. I had never been the perfect daughter, but that was the breaking point for them. It would have been nice to have someone there to stick by me."

There was finally silence.

"Lor?" Chris silently called, "I'm sorry. I wanted to be there for you. Truly. I'm sorry Lor."

"Chris. I'm sorry for starting this. I'm still jet lagged. I just can't do this though. I won't do it without Rory. I'm sorry."

"But you will do it?" Chris asked, his eyes pleading with her.

Lorelai hated when his eyes begged her. She had made so many mistakes, not all bad, because of those eyes. Rory was a result of the silent begging. That silent begging was the reason for so many things in her life. Rory did the same thing. But Lorelai couldn't afford to fall into the trap this time.

So she did the only thing she could. She stood up quietly, carefully avoiding Chris' eyes. After half a minute, she looked into his eyes and said quietly, "Goodbye Chris."

She knew that he was watching her as she walked away. An inappropriate time to remember Luke, but she realised that she was doing her "sexy walk", the one he had spoken about.

Inappropriate…..Lorelai, snap out of it. This isn't about Luke. It can't be… you're with Chris.

Lorelai wondered if it was true; could she still claim to be with Chris even though she had just walked away like that, leaving him alone in a Parisian restaurant at 3 o'clock in the morning. And why did it feel so good when she thought about Luke? All her problems, and there were many, disappeared. She knew it had been wrong to go running off to Chris, but she had known that he would do anything for her. Anything at all. She loved that about him. She also hated it.

So she just kept walking. She walked out of the restaurant, which Chris had gotten opened especially for her. She walked down the road. She walked until she was lost. Lorelai Victoria Gilmore was lost in Paris, the city of love, which was rather symbolic in her mind. She was lost in her own love life.

She was well and truly lost. In her attempt to escape Luke's love, she had created a winding path to Christopher, but she was sure that she had spun Luke into her web. So Lorelai did what any girl lost in love would do. She called her best friend.

"Rory?"

"Mom? It's 11am here, it'd be 5am in Paris why are you calling?"

"Actually, Rory, it's 4am."

"Mom?" Rory worried about her mother, and used the tone of voice that was more powerful than the eyes.

Lorelai found herself telling Rory how she felt about everything. She spoke about GiGi's plane trip, about how Christopher had lied about the flight time. She gushed about how great the hotel was and how much Sherri had changed. She spoke about everything but Chris and her feelings of being lost in her life. It was 6 am before Lorelai finally hung up.

And yet she ended up feeling worse than before she had rung Rory.

Lorelai wandered until she found herself in a park. She sat down, thinking about her life, the things she could have done differently. She started simply, she could have had gum on the plane instead of mentos, but eventually ended up changing the major parts of her life. She could have married Max, she could have married Chris as a teen, she could have married Luke. Heck, she could have married Jason. Then she moved onto her actual teens. She could have rejected Chris.

Lorelai was brought back to reality by the shrill ring of her mobile.

"'Allo"

"Lorelai –"

Who's on the phone? Will this call change anything? Does Lorelai love Chris? Will she find her way in Love and Paris?

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