Lorelai and Rory the first twelve years

by Tana2001

title speaks for itself, it also includes Lorelais pregnancy with Rory, I'm not good at summarizing, I tried to keep it along with the plot of the series. Just give it a try ... my first story - might make it into an L\L sooner - let me know what you thin

1. Chapter 1

The first twelve years: Lorelai and Rory

The first twelve years:Lorelai and Rory

February - April

1984

February

Lorelai was sitting in the girls bathroom, huddled into the corner and clutching a white stick in her hand. She just couldnt take her eyes from that little pink spot on the stick.

"It is just not possible. I can´t be pregnant. We only had done it once, and that had only taken about ten minutes..."

Her thoughts were interrupted, when the door opened and a couple of girls came in laughing and chatting away. Lorelai put the stick into her bag, opened the door, tried not to look at the others and left the bathroom. She walked down the hallway unaware of her surroundings and tried to leave the school as quickly as possible, since she could not stand the feeling that someone was trying to choke her any longer. "I need fresh air." Once she had left the building, the bell rang and the rest of the students passed her to go back to the classrooms. But Lorelai just kept walking. "I can not go back in there. I can not see him now and I can certainly not stand the fumes of the chemistry classroom right now." Suddenly everything that had happened to her in the last few weeks made sense. The dizziness, the nausea, the weird cravings for fruit in the middle of the night. She just wanted to go into her room and not see anyone and not talk to anyone, especially her parents. She just wanted to make the time stop and hide from the world ...

Lorelai startled when she heard the maid knock on the door: "Ms. Gilmore, diner is served. Your mother wants you to come." "I´ll be there in a sec." She stood up and went to the bathroom to get rid of any traces that could tell her mother that she had been crying and went downstairs to have diner.

The situation on the table was as always. Nothing of importance was discussed, just the usual smalltalk and Lorelai prefered to be quiet mainly because of the fact that the smell of the lamb made her nauseaus all over again. "Lorelai, you haven´t said a word all evening. Tell me about your day." Lorelai closed her eyes for a second thinking that would help her to ignore the nausea that was getting worse and then said: "School is fine, mom!" "Lorelai, a person expects a little more than that as an answer. It is just rude to say only three words." Lorelai rolled her eyes. "There is no need to roll your eyes on me like that. I was simply asking you a question. And I´m teaching you things that you will be thanking me for later. It´s just good manners that you are gonna need as a member of our society." Lorelai snapped at the last part of the sentence: "See thats just the thing, mom. A member of your society. I do not want to be a member of your society. I do not care about that." Lorelai stood up since she could not fight back the nausea anymore: "Would you excuse me, I don´t feel good." "You are certainly not excused, young lady and I will not tolerate you talking to me like that. Sit down and join in on the conversation." Lorelai stared at her mother: "I´ll be in my room, cause otherwise, I´m gonna end up throwing up all over the table and I assume you would not like that to happen, would you?" Emily just sat there unable to respond. "I thought so." Lorelai said, stormed up the stairs, slammed the door shut behind her, ran into the bathroom and started throwing up into the toilet. "I never felt so alone in my entire life. I mean not that I ever had a relationship with my parents, but at least I had Chris to talk to and we were always able to mock whatever it was that was bugging us. But now, how on earth am I gonna tell him, that I´m pregnant. He is gonna freak, thats just a fact, I mean he is great and everything but Chris and responsibility, that is just two words that do not go together at all.

March

Lorelai had tried to keep up her life and not think about what was going on with her body, even though the change was obvious, because not only her eating habits had changed but she had also put on weight. Nevertheless, Lorelai did her best to ignore it.

That was until todays biology class. She had felt nauseaus all day and kind of in a bad mood, so the fact that Christopher tried to corner her in front of the classroom did help the situation either.

"Lor, wait. Come on, did I do something wrong, did I offend you or why is it that you are not talking or barely even looking at me?"

"Chris, I´m not in the mood for this right now, ok?"

"Are we broken up? What is it? Did I do something wrong? It ´s me, remember? Talk to me!"

"No, it is not you, ok! Will you please just leave me alone?"

"Lor, ..." but the bell rang and they all had to take their seats since Mrs. O´Connell entered the classroom.

"Now, students, since we finished our talk about reproduction last week, we will end the entire theme today by talking about contraceptives."

Lorelai took a deep breath: "Great theme, really. Can´t wait to find out about that!"

"Something you would like to say Ms. Gilmore?" "No, I´m sorry." "Come on, any means of contraception you can think of?" "Well, there is always the good old condom!" Most of the girls in the class started to giggle. "Well, yes, anything else?" "The pill." "That is right. Now, students, the most important thing is of course to be safe. But being sexually active also means to take reponsiblity and to be grown up. Once you make the decision to be in that sort of relationship, it is important that you are aware of the fact that there can be permanent consequences to your actions....

The rest of the class was nothing more than a blurr to Lorelai, and she sat at her table trying not to think about the fact that the permanent result of Christophers and hers irresponsibility was growing inside of her. But the talk of Mrs. O´Connell also helped her to finally make a decision and face the situation, since the last month had clearly showed that this wasn´t going to go away on its own. "It is time, that I start taking responsibility. I owe it to this little person growing inside of me since its existence is certainly not its fault." Lorelai decided that the first step was to go and see a doctor. She had to make sure that her little companion was ok, before she woried about anything else like telling Chistopher or her parents, since that thought still made her sick.

"Hi, my name is Lorelai Gilmore. I got an appointment at 5.15 pm." "Just an usual check – up or any particular reason?" "Well, I´m kind of here to have my prengnancy confirmed." Lorelai gave the girl at the reception desk an unsure smile, because she was sure she was not a lot older than her. "Well, in that case, please follow me!" They went into an examination room. "Ok, I´ll just do the tests like blood and urin sample. After that I´ll weigh you and then you´ll go in to the doctor, ok?" "Ok." said Lorelai and took a seat. Once all the test were done, the girl took her into another examination room and told her to take a seat while she was waiting for the doctor to arrive.

As Lorelai was waiting, Dr. Sarah Levine finished off her patient in the other room and went to the front desk. "Well, Marie, who is next?" Marie passed her a file: "Lorelai Gilmore, she is a first time patient." "Ok, so pregnancy confirmation," Dr. Levine looked over the file "Have you taken the required tests?" "Yes, I have already done that. She is very young though." "Yeah I see, year of birth 1968. Well, she deserves the same attention then anyone else if not even more." She closed the file and went in the direction of room 2.

"Hello, I´m Dr. Sarah Levine. It´s nice to meet you." "Hello, I´m Lorelai Gilmore. Nice to meet you too." Dr. Levine took a seat behind the desk and opened her file: "Now , Lorelai ... it is ok for me to call you by your first name isn´t it?" "Sure, I´d prefer it even." "Ok, you are a first time patient." "Yeah, to be honest I have never been to a women doctor before." "Well don´t worry considering your age, that is perfectly normal. Now, even though we´re still out for the results of the blood test, I can confirm that you definitely are about eight weeks pregnant." When Lorelai did not react, Dr. Levine looked up to her. But before she could say anything, Lorelai spoke: "I know what you are thinking right now and I can assure you that I´ve heard all the lectures already or I´ll certinaly will hear them, but I want you to know that I came here because I have a responsibility to fullfill now, which I will. And even though I have denied my condition for a couple of weeks, I needed that time to freek out and that also brought me here. I have thought a lot since I found out and I´ll figure out how to do this for the sake of my kid. And the first step was to come her to make sure it is ok and develloping how it should be." Once Lorelai had finished her rant, Dr. Levine sat smiling across from her: "Ok, listen. I´m not hear to judge you or the condition you are in at such an young age. I´m your doctor, who is making sure that you are ok and your little one is ok. And I´m also here to advice you, listen to you and be there for you if you want to." "Thank you, I didn´t mean.." "It is ok, I understand that it is a difficult situation you are in and I´d like to talk about that a little further, but first of all I´d like to run my tests to fullfill the reason you came her in the first place, which is to make sure the both of you are healthy." "More tests?" "Well, yes. There is the physical examination to make sure you are healthy, then pelvic exam, which I agree is something to get used to and last but not least the ultrasound: your first chance to see your little self." Lorelai looked to her a little unsure but said: "Ok, lets get to it." Lorelai liked Dr. Levine´s attitude and the way she did not judge her by where she came from or who her parents are but she was interested in her and her baby and did not put the circumstances of her pregancy in the foreground. The physical examination went quick and Dr. Levine stated that Lorelai was in perfect health. What followed was the pelvic exam. "Now, Lorelai I need you to put on that rope and take a seat on my stool here. Lorelai looked at her hestitantly but took the rope , went to change and then took a seat. "I have to admit I feel kind of exposed." "Well, I feel that I have to tell you here and now that that felling is gonna follow you throughout the whole pregnancy." "Great, something to look forward to." Lorelai replied sarcastically. Dr. Levine smiled to herself. She liked that girl. Not only was she her first teenage pregnancy but also a personality that she was looking forward getting to know better.

"Ok, now the most awkward part is over. Next the ultrasound. If you lie down here please." Dr. Levine spread the gel on Lorelais belly and started to move the stick around. "Now, here we go. You see that little spot there on the screen?" "Yeah!" "Well, thats your baby." Lorelai stared at the screen. She was terrified but also unbelievably touched: "Thats my baby. Its so tiny." "Yeah, well its only about eight weeks old. Don´t worry its development is perfectly normal and its gonna grow a lot until it comes out." "Good to know, even tough I do not want to think about that part yet." After a few minutes of silence, Lorelai added: "Can you tell me what it is gonna be?" "Well, its certainly to early for that. I won´t be able to tell you anything for about another three months if our little guy in here decides to be cooperative. I can print you out a copy of the ultrasound though." "Yeah I´d like that, thanks." After the tests were finished, Lorelai got dressed again and Dr. Levine took a seat behind her desk: "Now, Lorelai I´d like to hear a bit more about your situation if you are willing to tell me." Lorelai swallowed: "Well, I still go to school obviously, sophmore year. What else do you want to know?" "Well, how about support from your family. Have you told anybody about your pregnancy yet?" "No, I haven´t and I do not think that there is gonna be much support from my parents or anyone else involved. We do not have greatest connection and that mostly consists of yelling and denial." Dr. Levine could tell that Lorelai was on the roll now, so she let her talk without interupting her with questions. "We have never had a great relationship, mostly because I´m just not the person my parents want me to be. They however try to force me into being that person, the high society person, who applies more importance to what society thinks than to want I myself actually feel or want. As soon as my pregnancy comes out into the open, I can tell you what is certainly gonna happen. My parents are going to freak not because their daughter is not feeling well or way too young for what she is about to face but because I humiliated them in front of society and screwed up the college and work plans they had in store for me. But I have a responsibility now, I will not let them get to me and force me into being someone I´m not." "Ok, by what you just said I can tell that you are more grown up than most of the girls at your age, that you want to have this baby, but that you have neither told your parents nor the boy who fathered your baby. Am I right?" "You´re right." "Now, I can tell that you are dedicated to this, but until your next appointment here I want you to think about all of that again, I also want you to talk to your parents and also to your boyfriend, because to him you are going to be connected permanently through your baby. I´m here for you if you have any more questions or if you just need to talk." "Ok. How often will I have to come here?" "At the moment you will have to come about once a month but from your fifth month on up until delivery I´d like to see you every second week. You are unbelievably young and your body even though ready to reproduce is not exactly in perfect shape to give birth yet seeing as you are still growing. So statistically every teenage pregnancy is also a risk pregnancy and I want to make sure that everything is ok with the both of you." "I will take care of myself, I promise!" "Here, this is something like your ID as mother – to – be. I´ll fill in every appointment and all the dates about you and your baby. You will need to bring this every time you come here." She handed Lorelai the passport. "Any more questions?" "When is the morning sickness going to stop?" Dr. Levine smiled: "That is different from woman to woman but mostly it keeps showing up more or less until your first trisemester is over, which will be another four weeks in your case." "Great, anything you can give me against it." Lorelai asked with a tiny bit of hope in her voice. "Not really. You´ll just have to get through it. The only thing is to make sure that you stay away from things that you know are gonna make you sick." "Ok, thank you." Lorelai stood up and put her stuff into her schoolbag. "Ok, I´ll see you in about four weeks, you can make an appointment with Marie at the front desk." "Ok, thanks again." "Take care, and if you have any questions." "I know." Lorelai smiled and left the room. "At leat I have a doctor who I can talk to if things get worse ... if they can even get any worse."

April

After the talk with Dr. Levine, Lorelai had made the promise to herself that she was gonna tell her parents and Christopher within the next week ... or at least Christopher, because with him she kind of knew that there would not be as much yelling as there would be with her parents. But things came differently, because apparently little Lorelai (or Chistopher) did not want anybody else to know about her (him) yet and made sure her mother would spent most of the next two weeks in the bathroom.

"Kid, what have I ever done to you that you make me feel that horrible." Lorelai sat to herself as she once again was bend over the toilet at 5 am. "It is not funny anymore cause you know I´m supposed to gain weight with you and not loose it all ... " but the rest of that thought was interrupted by another wave of nausea. For the last two weeks now, Lorelai repeatedly woke up at 5 am and spent the time until 7.30 am; when she had to get up; bent over the toilet. She felt worn out all day and her mood was kind of a reaction to her physical condition. Her mother was completely oblivious to what her daughter was going through, since she was all busy planning an upcoming DAR event and Richard spent most of his time at the office and only saw his daughter in the evenings if at all.

Lorelai startled when her alarm rang this morning. She turned in her bed to take a look at her watch: 7.30 am. "Unbelievable," she thought, and stroked her belly with one hand "Thank you little munchkin for letting mommy sleep that long, for the first time in weeks might I add." She took a deep breath to make sure that she was not nauseaus at all and got out of bed. While she showered, she continued talking to her stomach, a thing she had gotten used to over the weeks. Lorelai figured since she could not talk with anyone else about this, she might as well let her baby know about everyhing that was going to await it in this big scary world it was born into (And it would be scary and not easy if you have a 16 year old mother): "Well sweets, since you are not giving me such a hard time this morning, I presume you ok with the whole I´m – telling – your – daddy – about – you – today – thing." Lorelai was quiet during the rest of her shower. It seemed like she was totally fine with the whole situation, but by making her witty remarks she was just covering up how scared and totally overwhelmed she still was. When she came downstairs to have breakfast her father had already left but her mother was still sitting at the table. "Morning, mom!" "Good morning, Lorelai. Since you are in time, I assume you are feeling better today." "I am." "Good, I had the maid dryclean your out coming dress for you. It´s in the hall. The photographer will be here at 4pm, please be ready then." "To do what?" "Lorelai I don´t expect you to know about all the things I´m busy with, but I at least expected you to know about the day you are getting your coming out portrait." "I´m sorry, but my coming out portrait is not really high on my lists of priority," "Well, I know you do not care as much about this as I do but you should since this is the society you live in as well." she stood up, "Well, whatever I expect you to be ready to take the picture at 4pm." As Emily was leaving, Lorelai said: "Mom, I never fitted the dress on, how do you know it will fit." "Lorelai, you obviously do not remember it but we got the measurements for your coming out dress months ago. Now, I have to go." Emily grabed her purse and headed out the door. "Great this is just great. I´m sure that day will go down in history, since there is no way I´m going to fit into that dress that was fitted months ago."

When Lorelai arrived at school, her first way was to the cafetaria. Today she felt the urge to eat large amounts of chocolate chip pancakes. As she waited for her order, a couple of her school friends approached her, Marilyn, Carolin and Jessica.

"Hey Lorelai." "Hey guys, how are you doing?" "Great how are you?" "Not too bad either." "Hey, did you hear about Alana and T.J. breaking up?" "What? How did I not now about this?" Marilyn grinned: "Well, honey you have been kind of out of the loop for a couple of weeks. Whats been going on with you." Lorelai blushed:" Nothing I was just in a mood, I guess." Caroline replied: "A mood, huh, about Christopher you mean. You two were hot and heavy for so long what happened?" "It has nothing to do with him, we´re still together." "Right, you don´t wanna talk about it I get it. But you better talk to him, cause he won´t be chasing you forever." Lorelai felt cornered now: "Hey, there is no chasing going on. Chris and I have been friends since we were six, it is normal to have a time out once in a while." Lorelai threw her arms up into the air and left the cafeteria with the bag of pancakes in her hand. "Oh oh, seems like we struck a nerve here, girls." said Caroline and stared after Lorelai. "We should just leave her alone, guys. They will work it out." tried Jessica to silence the gossip girls. "Where is you sence of adventure, girl? I don´t know about you, but I smell gossip." Then the bell rang for the first time and the girls left the cafeteria in direction of the classrooms.

Lorelai had gone straight to the chemistry classroom and was still sitting there, when a group of guys entered including Christopher. She stood up and walked over to them: "Hey guys!" She approached Chris and kissed him on the mouth. "Ok, do you guys want some alone time?" asked Thomas and stepped back. "That´d be great guys." The boys moved away and Lorelai pulled Chris to one of the tables. Chris was in the mood now and he put his arms around Lorelai as he kissed her neck: "Chris, we are at school." "And, I missed you, you have been weird the last couple weeks," he kissing her neck. Lorelai removed his hands though: "Chris, thats what I need to talk to you about." He looked straight into her blue eyes:" Fine, lets talk. I missed talking to." He looked at her expectantly. "Not now Chris, and not here. Let´s meet after class outside,ok." Chris looked at her puzzled: "You make me curious now. Is this serious?" But before Lorelai could answer the rest of the students came in followed by Mr. Patterson, their chemistry teacher. Lorelai gave Chris a last look and took a seat at her table.

Lorelai tried to concentrate on what Mr. Patterson was saying as good as she could and seemed to have more success than Chris, whose mind was not in at all. "Isn´t this theory fascinating, Mr. Hayden?" Silence, some girls giggled. "Mr. Hayden?" "Yes, sir?" "Don´t you think this theory is fascinating?" "Yeah totally." "As fascinating than Ms. Gilmore´s ears?" The class giggled again. Chris smiled and Lorelai dropped her head. "Well." Chris answered bluntly. Mr. Patterson grinned at him: "All right, just focus on the theory until the class is over." Everybody grinned. The bell rang 20 minutes later. "Now, Mr. Hayden you are free to be fascinated by whatever you want to be fascinated by." As the students left the classroom, Caroline watched Lorelai walk over to Chris and her eyes followed them when they left the classroom together.

Chris and Lorelai sat down on a bench a little further away. Lorelai tried to gather her thoughts, and Chris stared at her: "Are you gonna talk now, or what?" Lorelai looked up to him: "I will,ok. It is just not that easy." "Lor, what is going on with you?" Lorelai swallowed hard and closed her eyes: "Geez, Chris, will you give me a minute?" "No, I gave you weeks, would you talk to me now, please." "Would you stop yelling. I chose this place for a reason, so that not everybody in this school could hear us and spread the word before we have even finished our conversation." "What are you talking about?" Lorelai lifted her head and looked straight into Christophers eyes: "I´m pregnant, Chris." Chris started back at her and his face was pale: "You´re what?" "I´m ten weeks pregnant." "Pregnant ... with a baby?" he now finally looked at her incredously. "Well at the moment is not bigger than three peanuts but yeah after another seven months I hope it is gonna be a baby." Chris dropped his head into his hands: "Pregnant ... thats big." He looked up at her and continued: "You are pretty calm about it." "Yeah, well I have had the last six weeks to freak out." "What are we gonna do? I mean, have you told your parents yet?" "God, no, still trying to work up the courage." "They are gonna kill us." Lorelai grinned at him: "No argument here." They sat in silence for a while. "How are you feeling?" "At the moment not to bad, but I´ve been pretty nauseaus and tired for the last few weeks, but appently thats normal." Chris took a deep breath: "Listen Lor, I feel pretty overwhelmed by all this information right now. Could you give me a couple of days to let it sink in?" "Sure, sure. You deserve the time to freak out as much as I do ... Chris, We are kids I don´t expect anything from you, ok. I just thought you had the right to know so I told you." Thomas was calling for Chris for the building: "Chris, are you coming? We´re going for luch." "I´ll be there in a sec." "Go, that was all I wanted to tell you." "Well, I thought it was enough for one day ... so are we still together?" "Well, if you want us to be." "Sure," he bend down and gave her a kiss, "I´ll see you at lunch." "Right, see you later." As Lorelai watched Chris walk away, she rested one hand on her belly and whispered: "Well, kid ... that wasn´t too bad now, was it?" but deep inside she was kind of worried, because this had gone much too good and she knew Chris better than that. He was gonna have more difficulties adjusting to that new permanent responsibility than he had let her see. "I´m not sure, you are aware of what we are diving into here. I´m not even sure I am." Lorelai thought to herself as she watched Chris disappear in the cafeteria.

After school, Lorelai went straight home, since she was in enough trouble already and did not want to make her mother more stressed than she already was.

As soon as Lorelai entered the door, Emily send her upstairs to get ready. Lorlai just mumbled something, grabbed the dress and headed up the stairs. "Well, lets hope I can still somehow fit into a dress that was fitted months ago" she said to herself. When she did not show up after half an hour, Emily called up the stairs: "Lorelai, come on it can´t possibly take that long to put on a dress." Lorelai was standing in front of her mirror, trying to close the zipper, but it just did not work. "I´ll be there in a sec." But her mother was already on her way to her room. She knocked: "Lorelai, the photographer needs you downstairs." "I said I´ll be there in a sec." "He needs you now not in a second." "Ok." "I don´t hear you walking towards the door." "Mom please." "I´m coming in." "No." But Emily was already in the room. " I do not have time for your attitude young lady. This man getting paid by the hour. Why aren´t you dressed?" "The dress is too small, Mom." "What, how could it be too small? Have you gained weight?" "I don´t know." "Well, the only thing I can think of is that the dress maker must have written the measurements down wrong. What am I supposed to do now, he certainly can´t take a picture of you like that." Lorelai could not look her mother into the eyes. "Well, I suppose we just have to have him come back next week. But I´m gonna call that woman in the dress shop and give her a piece of my mind. I swear to God is everybody in the world completely incompetent. And you put on your sweats and run around the block, you are gonna fit into the next dress no matter what." Emily left the room. Lorelai sat down on her bed and mumbled to herself while stroking her belly:" Well, I think that is gonna be a little though to arrange, unless you are planning on getting smaller instead of bigger."

The weekend passed without anything worth mentioning, and it was Monday morning sooner than Lorelai wanted it to.

"Lorelai, before I forget it. The photographer is coming on Thursday, and I need you to come to the dresser tomorrow afternoon." Lorelai grabbed the rest of her toast: "Ok,mom. I have to go now. I´ll be late for school." As Lorelai had left the table, Richard said: "Whats going on with that girl? I think she seems weirder than usual." "What do you mean?" "Well, she is eating fruit. Thats a first. And we haven´t seen Christopher in quite a while." "Richard, whoever knows whats going on with that girl. I´m sure she and Christopher are fine, they are young and perfect to each other what could go wrong there?" Richard focused back on his paper which was supposed to signalize that her agreed with his wife on that matter.

During lunch break, Lorelai was sitting with the other girls outside eating their sandwiches, as Chris approached them. "Hey, Lorelai, I think you have a visitor." Lorelai looked up: "Hey, Chris." "Hey, " he eyed the other girls unsure "you got a minute?" "Sure", Lorelai stood up and followed Christopher. They stood in front of the school. Lorelai was waiting for Chris to say something while he was staring at his shoes, before he took a deep breath and said: "I´m going to tell my parents tonight." "Ok, so will I then." "Good!" When he was silent for a while, Loreali said: "Ok, so we are gonna drop the bomb tonight." She turned to leave, when Chris held her by her sleave: "Wait Lor, ... I mean what do you think we should do?" "What do you mean, didn´t we just decide what we were going to do?" "Yeah, but what do you want to do about the whole situation ... I mean there are a lot of obtions. Don´t you think we should talk about this?" Lorelai looked at him for a few minutes before she really caught on what he was saying. It was so Christopher, talking and talking without ever getting to the point. "Wait, are you saying what I think you´re saying." Chris gave her a confused look. She tooked a step back from him: "Now, Chris listen to me carefully. There are no options. I am going to have this baby. I am going to take care of it, give it love, food, clothing, a future, a home or whatever else it needs. This is our child a piece of you and me, how could you even think of another option?" "I just ... I don´t know ... it is too much ... I can´t do this!" "Ok!" Chris looked at her incredously: "Ok, just ok." "You are right, we are kids, it is too much, but honey one of us has to take responsibility and if it is not you it has to be me, because I told you before I am going to have this baby." Chris looked down at his shoes. "Chris, I ... do not know what else to say right now. I am scared , believe me, scared to death ... imagine ... a human being I am supposed to take care of ... and I am not even thinking about the part where it is supposed to come out of my body. But this little thing is going to need one of us or in the best case both of us. My childhood ended the minute I saw the pink spot on the pregnancy test, and I have to live with it weather I want or not, I owe it to our baby." "So, you are not mad at me if I am not too involved right now." "No, Chris I am not mad. And we do not have to make a decision right now. Let´s talk to the parents, I am sure they are going to be thrilled and happily force their decision upon us.." she finished her sentence sarcastically. She padded him on the shoulder: "Come on ... chemistry class is waiting."

"Mom?" "I´m in the living room, Lorelai. Would you please stop yelling." Lorelai rolled her eyes: "Yeah yeah..." She entered the living room where Emily was sitting at the table going through some seating charts. "It is good you are already here, we will be leaving for the dresser in a minute." "Actually, Mom that is what I wanted to talk to you about." "What?" Emily did not even look up. "Mom, could you please focus on me for a second." "Why?" "Because I feel it is best if you are not doing anything else while I´m telling you this." "Lorelai you always make such a drama, just say what you want to say so that we can leave." "Ok, I´m just gonna say it. It is about the dress. The lady at the dress shop did not really write down the measurements wrong." Now, Emily looked up: "She did not ... well then I´m sure you have a reason for me why the dress was too small." "I gained weight." "So ... you will work it off again, it is not the end of the world." "I can´t, in fact I am going to gain more weight." "Lorelai, I do not have time for your games right now, will you please come to the point?" "I´m pregnant, Mom." Emily looked up to her: "Lorelai that is not something you joke about. You give a person a heart attack." Lorelai shook her head: "I´m not joking, I´m eleven weeks pregnant, due date is 15th of October." "You are serious about this?" "Yeah." "Who is it?" "What do you mean, Mom, who is it, it´s Chris, who else have I been dating for the last two years?" "This is a scandal, Lorelai. What will people think?" "Yeah right, what will people think? Maybe you should ask yourself how your daughter feels about this?" Emily gave Lorelai a stern look, but just as she wanted to continue, the phone rang. Lorelai took a seat on the couch and stared at her feet. Emily answered the phone: "Hello?" "Emily, this is Francine, we have to meet." said Christophers mother in a teary voice. "How long have you known?" "Christopher just told us." "Francine, we will meet, but I have to talk to my husband about this first." Lorelai did not hear much more of the conversation, since she stood up and walked to the hall, where she ran into her father who had just come home from work. "Lorelai, what is going on here? Your mother sounds all hysteric on the phone?" "Well ..." Emily had hung up and came into the hall: "Richard, you are here. You better sit down." "What is going on, Emily? You are white as a sheet." "Lorelai why don´t you tell your father what is going on?" Lorelai swallowed: "Mom, why don´t you ... " "No, Lorelai that is you and only you. So is up to you to tell everybody in what fine condition you manoevered yourself in." Lorelai made a face to her mother and then looked at her father: "I´m pregnant, Dad." "I´m sorry?" "Didn´t you hear me?" "I did, but that is not something one jokes about." "Dad ... " but Emily interrupted: "She is not joking, Richard. Francine just called because Christopher talked to them today." Richard just sat there staring at one particular spot on the table and nobody said something for a while until Richard had collected himself again: "This is humiliation, Lorelai. You humiliated the whole family, generations af Gilmore´s, did you even think about that? Everybody is going to talk about this. Pregnant at 16 in a society like ours, that is something unheard of. And I am going to kill Christopher, I swear to God." "Richard, please ... " Lorelai just said there and felt herself getting smaller and smaller, she had never seen her father flip out like that, and she felt terrible because she could see the hurt and disappointment he usually was well able to hide in his eyes. "Have you even thought about what this means for your future. After high school you are going to go off to Yale, how do you think a baby fits in there?" Lorelai did not answer but she knew that her father did not really expect an answer, he was just throwing questions into the room. Suddenly, Lorelai felt unbelievably nauseaus again, for the first time in days. "Would you excuse me, I don´t feel good." "Oh no you are certainly not excused, we are not finished discussing this, young lady." "I don´t think you´ll need me for that, because ever since I uttered the sentence "I´m pregnant" you haven´t even asked me once how I feel about that, so would you please excuse me ...?" and she stormed away without even waiting for a reply.

"I can´t believe that girl, what on earth were they thinking? What are they teaching in that school? Is health class not on the schedule anymore?"