Chapter 1: Surprises and Advil

Lorelai quietly sat alone on the bed in Rory's room. She looked around at all the pictures of her and Rory when she was little. A single tear ran down Lorelai's face as she leaned into her pillows.

Her little girl was gone.

That wasn't it though. Rory hadn't been a little girl for a long time. Even when she was a little girl she never acted like one.

Lorelai stood up and slowly walked over to Rory's closet and peered inside. She was looking for an extra sweater to wear but instead stumbled upon four boxes each labeled something different.

Dean.

Jesse.

Harvard.

Logan.

Lorelai burst out crying as she read each box. They were the four major parts of Rory's life that Lorelai had been with her. Now as Rory started a new chapter of her life Lorelai felt a wave of sadness as she knew she wouldn't be there with her.

She slowly backed away and looked over to a half empty box in the corner labeled Yale.

Suddenly the doorbell rang. Lorelai wiped the running mascara from her face and hurried to the door.

Luke stood in the doorway with a giant box.

"Um..hi," she said tiredly. Luke pulled her over to the sofa with his free arm.

"Sit down." He instructed. She did as she was told.

"Now I figured that you would be feeling like crap right now so I brought you a few burgers with extra ketchup, because I know you like them like that, for God knows what reason, and I have some Advil for the headache you'll get after eating the Devil's meat and then …"

Luke kept on talking but Lorelai wasn't really listening. She smiled at him. He cared about her. That's all she needed to know.

"- and then some chocolate to –

"Luke," she said softly. Luke looked down to her.

"Thank you," she said with a weary smile. Luke bent over and hugged her.

"I don't like seeing you sad," he said calmly.

Rory sat on the plane staring out the window. She was too dazed to read her book. It had all happened to fast. The graduation, the job, the party – it was to soon. She sighed as she thought about Stars Hollow, her mom, Yale…Logan.

Logan.

She missed him already. She missed waking up next to him and just simply being with him.

She decided to do some work on her laptop.

YOU'VE GOT MAIL.

Rory scrolled down to the flashing icon telling her to check her mail.

FROM: RORY!!! I have a problem. All the people here are so retarded! It's like "how could you even possibly get in here?!" Now I don't know if I should lay low and linger with the pathetic lowlifes, or move my way too the top pushing everybody onto the floor of failure. I'm leaning towards the second option, but I'm asking for your opinion since you have once pushed someone out from the top of the food chain all the way to the bottom. (Incase you didn't get that I'm talking about me…not that I'm holding that against you or anything.) Please contact me with your thought immediately!

-Paris

Rory laughed at Paris's letter. As soon as she exited out of her email another YOU'VE GOT MAIL popped up.

Rory sighed as she opened the link. Her expression quickly changed as she read her email.

Hey Rory, I know I haven't talked to you in a while but I heard from Luke that you were going to Iowa on some campaign thing. Just so happens I'm staying there for the summer to do a book signing. I hope I can see you soon.

- Jesse.

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