Inevitable
Author's Note: This is my first ever fic,
Chapter One
Solitude
Rory had been dreading this moment for the two years since her grandfathers death. He had been a good grandfather to her once she began to get to know him. She had only really known him for a year before he died of a heart attack. He had left Rory's grandmother with only two hundred dollars in the bank because of an unfortunate business transaction. Emily Gilmore had always lived a rich life and was not prepared in any way for this occurrence. She had not been able to make it for a month on her own. Rory and her mother Lorelai had taken Emily to their house where she had lived for the past two years. Emily had been very shaken up after her husband's death, but had become a much different woman. She had realized what a cold woman she had been and had opened up and become like a second mother to Rory. But Rory had known that although her mother opening her own bed and breakfast, and her part time job at the grocery store had kept her enrolled in the prestigious private school, Chilton, it would not be enough to get her into the college of her dreams. The scholarships she had been offered hadn't been enough to cover all of the costs, and Rory had been trying to hide this fact from herself. Her mother and grandmother had never come out and told her that this was going to happen, which is why Rory suspected that was what her mother wanted to tell her right now.
"Rory, I know you've always dreamed of going to Harvard, and that's an amazing dream and you totally deserve it, but I don't know if it will actually be possible. Now we won't know for sure for a little while but this has been eating up inside of me and you know I can't keep secrets from you."
"I know," Rory said on the verge of tears.
"Now don't you start to cry or else I will too" Lorelai joked wiping at her teary eyes. Rory looked away, she was getting tired of her mother's everything revolves around me act. When Rory had had her first big break-up, Lorelai got back together with her boyfriend. When Rory got back together with Dean, Lorelai had gotten proposed to. When Rory broke up with Dean at the end of last year Lorelai had broken off her engagement to Max, and hadn't barely even noticed Rory's unhappiness. But this was Rory's time to be unhappy, her mother couldn't understand how overwhelming it was. Rory was the one who needed to be consoled, not the other way around.
"Rory? Are you okay. I promise you we will find someway to get around this, no obstacle will be able to escape the Gilmore Girls." Lorelai said, obviously feeling ignored.
"Can we just stop talking. I need to let this sink in" Rory said. Lorelai nodded and put her arms around Rory who buried herself against her mother. She could feel the tears coming, working towards Harvard had been her only sanctuary in the past year. She had been holding everything inside of her and she could feel it all pouring out.
The next day at school was even worse for Rory. Nothing had changed around her, but inside the drive to succeed was missing. She couldn't pay attention in any of her classes which even the teachers had noticed. After her second period science class her teacher, Mr. Taylor, had asked if there were any problems she wanted to talk about. Rory had just shook her head and turned to leave when Mr. Taylor suggested she could visit her guidance counsellor instead. Rory smiled and left the classroom. It was lunchtime and she didn't feel the need to go to the library as she usually did during this break so she wandered aimlessly through the halls. She turned down a corridor and found herself standing outside of the guidance office. She figured that since she was there anyways there wasn't any reason not to go in.
Rory stepped inside the small waiting room and asked the secretary if Mrs. Black was there. The secretary nodded and motioned her inside the office.
"Rory,
Rory obliged and quickly sat down. "Not so good actually." She said. Mrs. Black looked at her questioningly. Rory had always been an almost perfect student, one of the most promising at Chilton, but the look on her face was not one that she was used to seeing. "My mother finally told me last night that I probably won't be able to go to Harvard,"
Mrs. Black sighed and looked down. She had been suspecting this would be coming soon. Rory had come to her a year and a half ago to start applying for scholarships so she would be able to fulfill her dreams even if the family was not able to pay for it. Rory had won almost every scholarship she had applied for, but apparently it had not been enough.
The guidance counsellor looked down
at Rory's melancholy and tired
Rory nodded and thanked Mrs. Black. She turned and left the office heading for the student parking lot. She got into her car that Dean had made for her and began to cry again. This car had too many memories of the times she had shared with Dean, and both of their break-ups that had occurred here too. Most days Rory was able to block out these feeling simply because the car was the easiest and cheapest way for her to get anywhere, but she had no strength left to fight the overwhelming emotions.
Rory lifted her head off the steering wheel a few minutes later, took a deep breath and turned the key in the ignition. The old car gave the same jolt it always did when she started it, and she sighed again. She backed out of the parking spot and headed towards the road leading to Stars Hollow. She was almost in Star's Hollow when she realized how worried her mother and grandmother would be if she came home early from school. She decided to take a detour to the Star's Hollow Inn. Her mother had run the inn until she bought her own bed and breakfast, and her and Rory had even lived there when they first moved to the Hollow. Rory had always loved the view from the small house behind the hotel and she went there whenever she needed to think anything over.
Rory got out of the car and walked through the trees until she could see the clearing with the small home. She walked up and looked in the window. It was being used a storage garage now so it seemed she would have to stay outside. She went over to a small grove of trees, lay down and closed her eyes.
** There will be more chapters in
this story. I do have a pretty good idea of where I am heading, but I really
wanted to put this up so there would be a little bit for you to read so
(hopefully) you'll come back and read some more.