Of course, as per usual I own nothing in this story including the characters and the song. I do, however, own the plot. This is my first fanfiction so any advice would be gratefully received. Thank you :)
Chapter 1- Memories and Friday Night Dinners
She could still remember the day, that fateful day, as if it were yesterday. It was a Friday night but Emily and Richard were off gallivanting across Europe again and so Friday Night Dinner was cancelled. That made that day amazing in Lorelai's eyes; she didn't have to put up with her mother. They had been getting on a lot better recently but there was no guarantee that the trend would continue. To make the day even better, Rory was coming home from Yale for the weekend, meaning a weekend of mocking films and eating junk food, something which was very difficult to do with Luke telling her how her eating habits were going to be the death of her, when Rory was around they outnumbered him, making it much easier.
Her relationship with Rory had got back on track after she came back from Europe, turns out a cooling off period and some mutual mocking of Emily Gilmore was all that was needed to mend that relationship. She didn't know what she would have done if Rory had refused to speak to her for much longer. Sure, they had had arguments before but this one was so much worse than any of those previous ones. The reason for the argument had been a genuine reason, unlike the argument they had years ago about Rory's boobs being bigger than hers and stretching all of her tops. The thought of that argument made her laugh to herself; Rory definitely did not bring out her mature side. Also, for the first time in a long time, Lorelai had been sure that she was the one who was right, Rory was so much smarter than her (she was going to an Ivy League school for god's sake, Lorelai didn't even get the chance to graduate from high school, she was too busy worrying about stretch marks and contractions) so it was rare that Lorelai was sure she was correct when arguing with her, but in this case she had been sure. Finally Rory had seen her error and they were back to being the mother-daughter team who were more like best friends.
The particular night, Lorelai was especially excited because she was hosting her own Friday Night Dinner with all the junk food they could eat (plus some health-freak food for Luke) and gossip galore. There had to be gossip, what with her responsibilities at the inn and Rory's studies at Yale, they hadn't seen each other for long enough to have a proper gossip for a long time. That was one of the bad things about having a daughter who had gone off to college, she barely saw her now. Lorelai was at peace with that now though; there had been no repeat performance of her meltdown in the park. She understood that her daughter had to make her own way in life and that involved living on her own. That didn't mean that Lorelai didn't still find herself wishing she could slow time down for a bit and go back to when Rory was younger. Just last week she had been listening to Taylor Swift's new album and had sobbed her heart out as she listened to Never Grow Up:
Oh darling don't you ever grow up
Don't you ever grow up
Just stay this little
Oh darling don't you ever grow up
Don't you ever grow up
It could stay this simple
That song basically explained Lorelai's feelings she had as she left her daughter in her new home at Yale that day which seemed a lifetime ago. Life had moved on a lot since then, she and Luke had become more than friends, Rory had spent her first year at college and gone around Europe with her grandmother and Dean and Lindsay had broken up. At first Lorelai had been worried that Rory was going to continue seeing Dean after he left Lindsay but Rory had told her that she had learned from her mistakes and that she didn't intend to see Dean in that way again.
Rory was working at the paper at Chilton today but she would be back later and Luke was collecting some supplies for the diner and then he was coming around too. She couldn't wait to see them both, the two most important people in her life. She knew she had seen Luke only that morning but she still felt like it had been an age since she had seen him and she couldn't wait for that evening.
That thought made her drift off into memories of the past year. Yes, it had been a year since she kissed Luke at the opening of the Dragonfly. She couldn't believe how fast the year had gone. They had had their first date, where she found out that Luke had kept that horoscope for 8 years. She still marvelled at that almost a year later. She seemed so important to him in that moment that he knew he needed to keep that horoscope with him at all times. Luke had visited her parents' house and consequently been "Gilmored" for the first time and she had spent every single day marvelling at how she possibly deserved such an amazing guy.
She was still daydreaming about the time she had spent with Luke over the past year when the phone rang. She was stunned out of her daydreaming, then she wondered who could possibly be ringing, Rory would be almost home now, Luke would too, so neither of them would be calling her. She walked over to the phone and picked it up curiously
"Hello, Lorelai Gilmore speaking?" she said
"Hello, Ms Gilmore, this is Detective Trent. I'm afraid I have some bad news"
Leaving you in suspense :) I hope you liked it, let me know if you want me to upload the next chapter (which is much longer by the way) I hope you liked it