Chapter 1. The feeling of a lost relationship
Rory walks into her dorm after her last class of the day. The room is quiet as she looks around.
"No Paris again" she mutters.
Remembering how Paris is now in a serious relationship with her editor and spends more time making out with him then cleaning her room. Rory walks over to the answering machine hoping today will be the envious day that she will hear from Logan.
"Beep…first message…"
"Hey sweetie! Its mom. Well of course you know its me, but anyway just wanted to know if you're coming down this weekend? Well of course your coming, you need to endure, yet again more torture with me from Emily Gilmore and plus you need clean clothes. But, anyways just checking or maybe just trying to avoid listening to Michelle ramble on and on and on about his chows."
Rory hears Michelle talking in the background and smiles.
"But anyways hun, see you this weekend, and Rory.. HURRY!"
"Beep…you have no more messages."
Rory walks to her room.
"Of course I have no more messages, Mr. Perfect can't drag himself away to give me one phone call".
She then picks up the phone and dials her mother.
"Hello" says Lorelei.
"Hey Mom."
"What took you so long sheesh I don't leave messages for you to delete you know. I expect a call back ASAP."
"Well sorry mom, I just walked in two minutes ago and you can't expect me to be your diversion from Michelle all the time you know."
"Why not huh? I always have before you were in Yale and hey little missy, you used to enjoy it."
"Well use someone else sometimes. I'm a very busy woman and I receive other calls you know."
"Logan still hasn't called has he?"
"Well of course he called…well no, not yet, but he will"
"Hun what have I told you about waiting around for a boy to call. Not good, desperate… I'm picturing you with 10 cats soon…one of them named after me and Luke and by the way, thank you in advance, make sure I'm not the black cat."
"Thanks for having confidence in me, mom. Its not like its been a long time its been a couple of days".
"Hun its been a month and he hasn't called, you need to stop waiting. Come down here, I'll take the day off and we'll have fun bugging Luke like we always do."
"Is it wise for us to still bug Luke now that your going out with him?" "Hello, its Luke, if I don't bug him then Luke's isn't fun anymore."
Lorelei chuckles.
" Mom its Friday you know we got to go to Dinner at Grandma's"
"Well we just have to skip it, what shall we use now…oh that Sookie is in labor…that's always a good one to use".
"Mom we can't use that, it is not only immorally wrong, but you used it last week to get out of dinner to go out with Luke and Grandma showed up at the hospital demanding to see Sookie."
"Damn I forgot that…well we can…"
"No mom lets just go" interrupts Rory "it will take my mind off of Logan and trust me there is no way we are getting out of it".
"Party Pooper"
"Bye" says Rory.
Rory throws her phone on her bed and walks over to her desk and picks up a picture frame. She looks at the picture of Logan leaning against his boat (that he now has named "Ace" for her) smiling his million dollar smile. As Rory's eyes begin to water she throws the picture on the floor hearing it break and screams "Screw it, I'm going". She grabs her purse, phone, keys and her laundry bag and walks out her dorm slamming the door.
Sookie waddles into the lobby after Lorelei hangs up with Rory.
"Did I hear something about me going into labor" Sookie rubs her belly "and you skipping dinner with your mother".
"Yes, I was going to use you as an excuse to get me and Rory out of dinner since she is depressed about the rich bastard who hasn't called her. But Rory didn't want to go through with it since the last fiasco of Emily Gilmore in the Stars Hollow Hospital".
"Ah…oh! The baby kicked. I think she is saying make Rory her favorite chocolate espresso cake to cheer her up".
"Wow that baby learns fast in there" says Lorelei as she rubs Sookie's belly "keep up the good work girl and you'll be one of us no doubt".
Sookie laughs as she waddles back towards the kitchen already in her mind thinking of what ingredients she will use for the cake. Lorelei walks to the library and sees Michelle and runs back to the desk and picks up the phone.
" Damn you" mutters Michelle as he walks by the desk looking at Lorelei.
"Sorry Michelle another important phone call".
Lorelei dials the number while smiling as she sees Michelle stomp out the door.
"Hello" says Luke while dodging Lane running past him to serve Kirk his food.
"Well hello you".
"Why do you insist on calling me at the time when everyone is going crazy in here" remarks Luke.
"Well cause its fun hearing you all frustrated" Lorelei chuckles.
"Is there a reason for your call or are you doing this just to torture me as always".
"Well there is a reason umm and when I come up with one I'll call you and tell you" chuckles Lorelei.
"Are you done, hold on a second…NO KIRK YOUR EGGS DO NOT SMELL LIKE FISH, JUST EAT IT OR I'LL MAKE YOU EAT IT! I gotta go I'm about to strangle Kirk again. Talk to you later, bye".
"Byee".
Rory drives fast on the highway trying to run from the pain she has of missing Logan, and the doubtful thoughts that seem to start getting into her head. She turns on the radio and the song that she and Logan danced to the night before Logan left came on. Rory quickly changes the station and another love song comes on.
"Is the world trying to torture me" mutters Rory. She accelerates some more and out of nowhere appears a cop behind her with his lights on. She pulls over and the cop pulls over behind her.
"It seems I've gotten my answer" Rory mutters. The Cop knocks on the window as she curses in her head. Rory opens the window and finally looks at the officer when she sees his face, she lets out a gasp, he looks a lot like Logan.
"Is everything ok madam?" asks the officer.
"Yea I mean, yes everything is fine. You just scared me… yea" says Rory.
The police officer looks down at Rory and asks "Have you been drinking miss?"
"No! I mean no sir I haven't been drinking. I am fully sober" says Rory. "Could you step out of the car miss?" asks the cop.
"Are you serious?" demands Rory "You got to be kidding me".
"Miss, step out of the car please" says the cop more sternly now.
Rory gets out of the car and goes through the DUI test given by the officer. After all of it was done Rory sits back into her car and in her mind curses the police for hiring this jerk to be a cop.
"Here you go miss" says the cop as he hands her two tickets.
"Wait there are two tickets here why do I have two tickets?' asks Rory.
"One for speeding and the other one for back talking an officer" says the cop "Have a nice day miss".
The cop walks back to his patrol car as Rory rolls up the car window and is now even more pissed than before. Rory pulls out slow and continues driving to Stars Hollow.
"Sookie!!" shouts Lorelei "you said you were going to bake one cake. ONLY ONE!"
Lorelei looks back down at the table that is now filled with ten different kinds of chocolate cake.
"Yes, I know I said I was going to bake just one but then I got to thinking" said sookie.
"Uh oh" interrupts Lorelei.
Sookie ignores Lorelei and continues.
"Well I could just bake one chocolate espresso cake for Rory. But there are so many different kinds of espressos. So, why not make one for every kind of espresso. We got your mocha, we got your almond espresso we got every kind you can think of."
"Sookie, even though I love your chocolate cakes and so does Rory and we do love espressos. But Hun, we don't need ten cakes. I can't eat ten cakes (sookie glares at Lorelei) ok maybe that one time, but I thought I was pregnant and hungry and… Lorelei sighs.
"Ok fine, just box them up so I can take them home" says Lorelei.
She walks out of the kitchen shaking her head. "Ten chocolate espresso cakes" mumbles Lorelei under her breath.
"What about ten chocolate espresso cakes" Rory said as she walks into the dining room.
"Oh hey you're here, good and never mind that" says Lorelei "So still want to go to your grandparents house cause I'm sure we can just have nice party here at home and not deal with the torture".
"Mom, I am stressed out from exams. I haven't heard from my boyfriend in a month and I just got two speeding tickets on my way here" yells Rory "We are going to grandma's and grandpa's house cause I'm not going to add their madness to my madness".
Lorelei walks over and hugs Rory.
"Okay Hun, I definitely see it your way just give me a sec to clean up and we'll be on our way okay?
"Okay" says Rory.
Lorelei walks away but before leaving the dining room she takes one more look at Rory and sees how miserable she is. "Poor baby" she thinks and walks off and gets her things.
Rory walks around the dining room in her own thoughts. She keeps thinking of Logan and why he hasn't called. She checks her cell phone no missed calls. She sees a blonde guy walk in from the outside and instantly she mistakes him for Logan. But then she shakes her head and he no longer looks like Logan.
"Hey you okay?"
Rory turns around and sees her mother staring at her with concern.
"yea I'm okay" she replies. "Or I think I will be" Rory thinks.
"Well good" Lorelei says "Well lets be on our way shall we and you know what, I'll drive, don't want you getting any more tickets or even worse arrested…Again!".
Rory mumbles how she lives with a psychotic mother and that she will be in therapy for it.
Lorelei yells after Rory "Ha didn't think I could work anymore of those in didn't ya? Hey! Don't run away from me. I got plenty and they're gonna last the whole drive to Hartford. *Sigh* cranky girl."
Lorelei closes the door behind her.
*End Of Chapter 1*