"Mom"-Rory
"Yeah"- Lorelai
"I'm pregnant."- Rory
(It has now been three months since she exchanged those words with her mother. Her reaction was rather supportive considering the circumstances. Perhaps I should have picked a better time to inform her of the situation. But I had been sitting on the information for weeks at that point and Christopher had been of no use to calming my anxiety)
*At Rory's apartment)
"I finally heard back from Amy about the book proposal. I have to finish it by the time the baby is born and then they want to discuss a book deal. It is a lot to take on, but between getting prepared to give birth and writing, I figured that it would be better to get the book done as soon as possible. What are your thoughts on it, dear?"-Rory
(comes back outside to join Rory on the back porch with fresh cups of tea, and a few different snacks)
"Personally, I think it is probably the best way to plan it for the time being. When do you want to tell Emily about the situation though? You know that she will be thrilled. She did buy us the house is Nantucket by the way. Maybe we could put it to good use this weekend?"-Finn
(laughs) "Is that your not so subtle way of telling me, that we should visit Mom and Luke? Let them know that everything is okay"-Rory
"Yes, my love it is! They are just getting back from Ireland. That, and I figured that you could let them read the updated copy of the book."-Finn
"I guess so. There are not that many changes. I am also not sure that Mom wants to read it. She said that the first time I gave it to her that she was going to wait until we published it."-Rory
"There is no harm in trying though. Also, we need to check up on the grand opening of the hotels."-Finn
"Finn, that is the opposite direction in which we are going. What are you planning?"-Rory
"Logan called."-Finn
(Rory visibly tenses up)
"Love. Please, hear me out. It is nothing bad nor involving his parents."-Finn
"Promise."-Rory
"Yes."-Finn
(tries to relax enough for Finn to give her details of why her ex would be in contact with her husband)
"He wants us to come out to visit them in Pal Alto. Him and Colin are getting together for a dinner with some business people. Logan was thinking that maybe we could combine our businesses and start a new opportunity out there."-Finn
"How would we go about accomplishing that though, honey. We all do very different things at this point. With me writing a book, him doing newspapers, Colin being a lawyer, and you run hotels. Is it even possible to combine those things together?"-Rory
"It would be in separate suites in the same building. I would open a business office instead of a hotel, which I already got it approved by the board. You can really write the book anywhere, as well as take photos in the studio we plan on putting in there as well. Logan, Colin and I will also have offices that way we have an actual place to meet at if people need to do meetings with us."-Finn
"Why does it sound like you have already talked all of this out with everyone but me?"-Rory
"I wanted to make sure that all of the details were worked out before bringing it up, that way you would not be too worried about it, love. What do you say? We go out after we catch up with your family, have a vacation of our own, check out the building."-Finn
(looks deep in thought, even though she had made up her mind already to join him. The venture sounded like a good way and she was also in desperate need of a break)
"When do we need to be at the airport?"-Rory
"I have our take off set for noon, which gives us four hours to pack and get to there. Do you think that will be enough time?"-Finn
"Of course, honey. Let's get started."-Rory
(The two of them head upstairs to sort out clothes, etc while they are gone for the month.)