Chapter 1: Breakfast at Weston's
The Gilmore household was lively on this particular day.
"Rory! Get those cute little feet of yours movin' to the groovin'," Lorelai yelled up the stairs to Rory, who was getting ready for their daily excursion through the town.
"Two minutes, mom!" Rory yelled down to her mother, while struggling to get her other shoe on.
"Well, you'd better hurry because they stop serving breakfast at eleven o'clock," said Lorelai sarcastically.
"But Luke's serves breakfast all day," said Rory, hurrying down the stairs.
"Well, we're not going to Luke's today, we're going to Weston's," said Lorelai.
"Wait, what? Not going to Luke's? Why not? We go there everyday. What happened? What's different about today?" questioned Rory frantically.
"Whoa question-zilla, chill and breathe," said Lorelai as she stepped back. "Well…," she briefly paused, "we had a fight," Lorelai finally admitted.
"Mom, get real," Rory lectured, "Just because you guys had a fight, doesn't mean you can just try to avoid Luke like before you guys got together, you're married to the guy for god's sake. You live in the same house, and sleep in the same bed. I'm pretty sure the avoiding thing won't work out no matter how hard you try."
"Can we go to Weston's for breakfast if we go to Luke's for lunch? I promise to talk this over with him. Please?" she put on a pouty face for effect.
"Ugh…put that lip away, it could poke an eye out," said Rory in amusement.
Lorelai pulled her lip back in, and resumed a normal face.
"Fine we can go to Weston's for breakfast, but make sure you remember the rest of that deal," said Rory while putting on her coat.
"Okay I will. Yay!! Let's go!!" said Lorelai in excitement.
Lorelai and Rory strolled down the streets of Stars Hollow to Weston's Bakery, and passed many familiar faces along the way.
"Hey girls!" yelled Miss Patty from her dance studio door.
"Hi Miss Patty," the girls said in unison, as they continued down the street.
As they walked in front of the display window of Weston's, Rory asked, "Hey mom, are you still sure you don't want to go to Luke's?"
"Honey I thought we went over this already," said Lorelai.
"Yeah I know, but I just wanted to make sure. So I guess it's still no," said Rory.
Lorelai nodded. The two entered Weston's, found a table, took their coats off, and sat down.
"Man this is weird," declared Rory, "we haven't been in here since you and Luke broke up because you slept with dad."
"Hey, hey, hey, how many times do I have to tell you: Luke and I broke up before the thing with Chris happened," defended Lorelai.
"Oh, my bad," said Rory laughing.
"Hello girls. What'll it be?" asked the waitress.
"Two cups of coffee, two danishes, and a couple of your best donuts," said Lorelai.
"Okay...," said the waitress as she was interrupted by Rory. "I'll have a coffee, a bagel, and a stack of pancakes."
"Oh, okay. Will that be all?" asked the waitress writing down Rory's order.
"Yeah, for now," said Lorelai putting down her menu.
"Well, give me a wave if you need anything else," the waitress said.
"Oh don't worry we will," said Rory laughing.
A few minutes later, a different waitress came with their food.
"There you go. Wow! That sure is a lot of food for two such small ladies," said the second waitress.
"Yeah we get that a lot. We've been told that we eat triple the amount of food the FDA recommends for one day," said Lorelai with a smile.
The waitress giggled, "Well, you two enjoy." She walked back towards the counter.
"Well that was interesting," said Lorelai.
"Yeah, it was. So anyway, tell me what happened that made you decide not to eat at your husband's diner today," Rory said with an inquring look on her face.
Meanwhile, at Luke's, he noticed the table that is usually taken up by Lorelai and Rory was vacant. Kirk and Lulu were sitting at the table next to the counter.
"Hey Kirk have either of you guys seen Lorelai and Rory today?" Luke asked Kirk.
"No, Luke we haven't. Hey why don't you know where she is?" said Kirk, "I mean, isn't she your wife?"
"Yeah she is, but sometimes I lose track of her whereabouts," said Luke with a hint of sarcasm.
Still not sure where Lorelai was, he decided to call her.
The girls were almost done with their breakfast, when Lorelai's cell phone rang. She grabbed her purse and scrambled for her phone. She looked at the caller-id screen, saw Luke's name, and tossed it back in her purse.
"Mom, who was it?" asked Rory with a huge bite of pancake in her mouth.
"Oh it was no one," said Lorelai.
"Okay, whatever," said Rory a bit annoyed.
Lorelai's phone rang two more times.
"Mom you know he's gonna keep calling you until you answer, so just pick up," said Rory a little annoyed.
After the fourth time he called, Lorelai finally answered.
"Hello?"
"Hey, it's me," said Luke.
"Hey hun what's up?" asked Lorelai.
"Uh…nothing really. I was just making sure everything was okay because you didn't show up to the diner yet today," said Luke concerned.
"Oh, everything's just fine. Rory and I are just hanging out. We'll stop by a little later for lunch," said Lorelai.
"Okay, I'll see you then. Love ya," said Luke.
"Yeah…okay, bye," said Lorelai.
She flipped the phone closed, put it back in her purse, and took a sip of coffee.