Obviously none of these wonderful characters are mine (except Mia and Harrison)
Hi! Welcome back! I'm genuinely so excited for this! This is the sequel to my first story but you don't have to have read it to understand this one. This story begins in season 6, so Mia is 14 and Rory is 21. I hope you like it!
Mia sits up in bed, her heart racing and her eyes watery. She wipes away the tears furiously and slams her hand down the bed. Damn it! She whispers to herself. These nightmares have gotten worse over the past few weeks. She glances over at Rory's empty bed, still beautifully made even though Rory hasn't slept in it in what feels like forever. These past few days have been horrible. Lorelai and Rory are fighting and, much to Mia's annoyance, it doesn't seem to have blown over yet.
Mia sighs, staring at Rory's bed. She's stuck in the middle of this rift between her mother and her sister. Mia isn't talking to either of them in an attempt not to take sides but in doing that, she's isolated herself from her best friends.
"Pssst!"
Mia whips around and looks around the back alley she's been standing in for the past five minutes, trying to find the voice.
"Mia! I'm here!"
Mia looks around to see Harrison and smiles. Harrison, the one good thing in her life at the moment.
"Hey babe!" He says, leaning over a bin bag and kissing her softly on the lips. He looks up at her eyes. "Good kiss?" He asks.
"Mhmm, it's difficult to be romantic in a back alley full of bins but you gave it a good shot."
"Yeah well, it would be easier if we weren't surrounded by the whole town's garbage. You know if I could take you on a walk or for a picnic or something." says Harrison.
"Harrison, you know we can't do that. This town has an elite communication system that's probably more efficient than the FBI's. It's called Miss Patty. If one person sees us together in a way that even slightly resembles romance, Miss Patty will know and then my mom will know about you and me and...us in less than five minutes."
"So there's an 'us'?" asks Harrison.
"Yes. There's an 'us'"
Harrison smiles and kisses her again. "Why don't you just tell your mom. Lorelai likes me."
"Why are you thinking about mother right now?"
"Come on, Mia. Just grow a pair and tell her." says Harrison.
"How eloquent."
"Mia..."
"Harrison, you don't understand. I can't tell her because if I tell her and not Rory then I'm taking her side. I don't wanna take a side. I can't just give up and lose one of them."
"So tell Rory too. The more the merrier right?."
"It wouldn't work. Telling Rory would involve actual contact with Rory and mom would feel like we're ganging up against her and then there's the whole thing of who knew first and..."
"Ok, I get it." says Harrison, stroking her back.
"No, you don't." says Mia, miserably. Harrison wraps his arms around her.
"Things will get better. Just wait and see."
"Hey, Mia, is that you?" calls Lorelai, as Mia tries to sneak in the house. When Mia hears Lorelai's voice she flinches.
"Yeah." she calls back reluctantly.
"Oh, Hey." says Lorelai, walking into the hall. "Woah, what is that perfume? Sorry to tell you, but kid I think you got ripped off. What is that?"
"I walked home through the alley with the dumpster."
"Why?"
"Because I wanted to Ok? says Mia.
"Ok." says Lorelai, backing off slightly. "Hey, you wanna order pizza tonight? Rent a movie? Or we can play a game if you like?"
"Mom, I'm not eight anymore, I don't wanna play hungry hippos with you."
"Mia..." says Lorelai, clearly hurt. Mia struggles not to soften.
"Plus I have Friday night dinner tonight, remember? With grandma and grandpa."
"Oh yeah. You know you don't have to go to that?"
"Just cus you're fighting with them doesn't mean that I can't see them. I'm not under your control." says Mia.
"Ok, madam, I know you hate me and basically everything right now but you don't have to talk to me like that. You might not like me but I am still your mother and I think I deserve some kind of respect for birthing you and raising you for fourteen years, don't you?" says Lorelai.
"Yeah." says Mia.
"Thank you." Lorelai turns to leave but stops in the doorway. "Hey kid?"
"What?"
"I'm engaged."
Mia stares at her. "To Luke?"
"Yes of course to Luke!"
"Sorry but you don't have the best track record."
"Well, now you know." says Lorelai. There's a pause."Do you ever see her while you're there?"
"No." says Mia. "Would you want me tell you if I did?"
"I think so." says Lorelai, leaving and closing the door behind her.
"So, you still not talking to Lorelai?" asks Logan, handing Rory a beer and sitting down next to her in the poolhouse.
"Nope." says Rory, avoiding his eye contact.
"Ah, so the universe is still at odds."
"Pretty much."
"What about Mia?" asks Logan.
"What about her?"
"You talked to her, seen her, sent her hate mail?"
"No. If she wanted to see me she could've. She knows where I am."
"But you also know where she is." points out Logan.
"Can we stop talking about my family because last time I checked you weren't dating them."
"You had to make it weird, didn't you?" says Logan. "So how's all the legal stuff going? You still have full access to any of my dad's lawyers if you need them."
"I know that but I'm fine. Grandma and grandpa are on it. It just feels like my whole life is court dates at the moment."
"I know." says Logan. "But it'll pass."
"Hey grandma! Grandpa." says Mia, as happily as possible.
"Mia, come in. Let me take your coat." says grandma. "We're between maids at the moment."
"Hello, Mia. How are you?" asks Richard.
"I'm fine, thank you."
"And how's your mother." asks Richard, uncomfortably.
"She's fine too." says Mia, shyly. She doesn't think it's her place to tell them about the engagement.
"Did you get the bus here?" asks Emily.
"Yes."
"I hope you put a napkin down on the seat first. My friend Maria told me there's all sorts of nasty things on bus seats."
"Yes grandma, I put a napkin down first." Mia lies.
"Would you like to see Rory?" asks Emily gently. "She's in the pool house with Logan at the moment. I'm sure you wouldn't be disturbing her and I know she'd love to see you."
"I'm fine, grandma."
"Now come through, Mia. We have something to discuss with you." says Richard, leading her to the sitting room.
Mia sits down opposite her grandparents. They stare at her seriously.
"Oh God, your not getting divorced are you?"
"There's that sense of humour we know and love." says Emily, dryly.
"No, Mia. We aren't getting divorced. We would like to discuss your plans for next September with you. As I'm sure you're aware, you will be starting high school next year."
"I know." says Mia. "I noticed."
"Well, as you know, Rory attended Chilton for some of her high school years and well we thought that you'd maybe like to go there too. All expenses paid of course."
"We just ask that you keep up our Friday night dinners." adds Emily.
"Go to Chilton?" says Mia, surprised. "I hadn't really thought about that. I was kind of just planning to go to Stars Hollow High."
"Mia, you're a smart girl. A place like Chilton would be good for you. Get you into a good university. Maybe even Yale!" says Richard, raising his eyebrows.
Mia nods and gives them a tight smile. She hasn't had the guts to tell them, or anyone except Harrison and Clara, that she's not completely sure university is the right thing for her. Maybe Chilton isn't the right thing for her either. "Thank you for the offer grandma and grandpa. It's amazing, I appreciate it, I really do." says Mia, politely. "And I'll think it over."
"Good." Emily smiles.
"Hey!" calls Logan, as he spots Mia walks out of her grandparent's house.
"Oh, Hey Blondie." says Mia. She feels bad talking to Rory but she doesn't know what the rules should be about Logan.
"Hey shortie." Logan retorts. "How's it going?"
"Not great." sighs Mia. She decides that talking to Logan should be fine. She likes Logan. She's liked all of Rory's boyfriends until they break up, then she hates them with a passion.
"Where you going?"
"Bus stop."
"I'll walk you there. It's dark."
"Thanks."
"This fight is stupid, right?" says Logan.
Mia nods.
"You're not involved, I gather?" asks Logan.
"Well, I'm not fighting with anyone but it's kind of impossible for me not to be involved at all."
"I get it." says Logan. They walk in silence for a bit.
"I miss them." says Mia, quietly.
"Hey." says Logan, turning to Mia. "It's gonna be fine. I'm gonna get Rory talking to your mom again."
"Are you gonna get her to go back to Yale?" asks Mia. Logan breaks eye contact with her.
"That's not really up to me..."
"This is my bus." says Mia, interrupting him. "Bye."
"See you later, shortie." says Logan.
"Mom?" says Mia.
"Hey, kid. How was it?"
"Ok."
Lorelai looks at her expectantly. Mia says nothing else. "Ok. Well I'm gonna go to bed then."
"Grandma and grandpa offered to pay for me to go to Chilton." Mia blurts out.
"They did?" asks Lorelai, slowly.
"Yep."
"Hey, do you even wanna got to Chilton?"
"I don't know. Maybe." says Mia, bluntly. Lorelai looks at her, concerned. She's worried about Mia but she's also misses her a lot.
"Can I tell you something?" asks Lorelai. Mia nods. "I've been saving. Saving money, not lives."
"I figured." says Mia.
"Right. So I've been saving up little bits here and there and working as much as I can because... well I wanted to have some money saved up for you. In case you wanted to go to Chilton."
"You did?"
"Yeah. I was planning on telling you at some point but... look, I know we're not in the best place right now and I wasn't gonna tell you like this but I thought you should know so you can keep your options open. So you can go to Chilton, if you want too, with no strings attached."
"Thank you." says Mia, after a while. "Thank you."
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