A/N: I just finished this chapter and I'm too tired to proofread it so apologies if you see a bunch of mistakes, I will fix them later. This story is one of the many I've had outlined in my notebook for over a year now and one of the few I have made into chapter form, so if you think it's a story worth continuing let me know and I'll get another chapter up as soon as possible. Thanks for reading and please enjoy!
This spot seemed far too familiar, although mid staircase was the perfect place for eavesdropping it was extremely uncomfortable. Lorelai slowly shifted again trying to make sure the floor wouldn't creak while she listened to her parents discussing her recent inconvenience to them, it had already been twenty minutes of back and forth between the two trying to figure out what was the best move to make next.
"Calm down, Emily." Richard hissed in a tone that could only make Emily more distraught.
"I will not calm down, don't tell me to calm down! This is the second school she has been kicked out of this year and it is only October!"
"I know that, but there isn't much we can do about it anymore."
"What are we supposed to do now? She has been kicked out of every private school in the area."
"She could do homeschooling, at least then we would know she was staying out of trouble."
"Please, dear god, no!" Lorelai whispered to herself.
"I can barely keep her attention through a dinner conversion, there is no way I can be her teacher."
"Okay, what about the public schools they recommended?"
Emily's face changed to pure disgust at the very thought of it. "Public schools? Do you really want our daughter going to a public school, Richard?"
"No Emily, but it is the only option we have unless you are considering sending her to boarding school."
"I certainly am not."
"Then we have to pick a public school, they gave us a whole list to look through. I'm sure we can find something suitable for her."
"Fine." Emily shook her head still unhappy with the idea but feeling as it was the only option left. "Lorelai, get down here!" She yelled, Lorelai stood up and waited a few seconds before walking down the rest of the stairs.
"Yes?" She said moseying into the living room, she caught her mom's glance right away.
"Sit down." She said pointing to a spot on the couch, Lorelai took a seat and her parents sat down across from her. Emily pulled a sheet of paper out of her purse she had been given by the dean earlier, right between yelling at the vice principal and storming out the door. She handed it over to Richard.
"Your mother and I have been talking about what to do about our situation now and we have came to a conclusion." He said then unfolded the sheet of paper. "We are going to look through this list of public schools together and see which seems to be the best fit for both us and you."
"Public school? Like no school uniforms and no preppy rich kids?" She said, trying to hide her excitement.
"This is not a reward, Lorelai." Emily said in a harsher tone. "As your father pointed out to me, this is your only option."
"This is your last resort and therefore your last chance, anything past this point will be boarding school. The school we pick will be the one you will be attending till graduation." Richard stated.
"Which means no talking back to teachers, no ditching school, no changing lesson plans to include the history of swear words, no sneaking into the office and talking over the microphone and no stealing a teacher's hamster because they gave you detention."
"I gave it back." She defended.
"Do you understand me, Lorelai?"
"Yes mom, I understand you." She nodded before her eyes went over to the list in her father's hands. "Can I see the list?" She asked, Richard stretched out his arm handing it over to her. "Do I get to pick?" She questioned, already assuming what the answer to that would be. Richard and Emily both shared a glance. He shrugged making it Emily's decision, she turned back and looked at Lorelai.
"Sure, why not. It's not like there is a difference between any of those god awful schools anyways."
"Really?" Lorelai asked stunned.
"Yes, but we are giving you this chance to make the right decision about where you truly think will help you succeed." Richard said, Lorelai looked down at the paper in her hands and started reading through all the schools on the list. Every school sounded exactly the same but one of them seemed to caught her attention, she slid the paper over to her parents and pointed at one on the list.
"How about this one?" Lorelai asked.
Richard perched his glasses on his nose and read, "Stars Hollow High?"
"Stars Hollow, that is almost thirty minutes away." Emily said.
"But I can take the bus there."
Emily shook her head. "You are not taking the bus to school, drug dealers take the bus."
"You said I could pick the school, mom."
"Lorelai, why would you even want to go to this school?" Emily looked over the description then pointed to the school population. "It has less than three hundred students attending it."
"That is actually why." Lorelai said standing up. "All my life I have been going to school with hundreds of other students, for once I would like to go to a school that isn't the size of the Shanghai Tower. I'm tired of getting lost on the way to the bathroom and not knowing half of the other students names."
"Well you are not taking the bus."
"How else am I supposed to get there? Unless you plan to have a private helicopter fly me there every morning, which I wouldn't suggest because those things wreak havoc with your hair and that's no way to make a good first impression."
"I will drive you." Emily stated.
Lorelai look at them hopefully. "So you are saying I can go?"
"We will call them tomorrow to set up an orientation." Richard said.
"Oh, I don't need an orientation. Like mom said, it's a small school so I shouldn't have a problem finding my way around." Lorelai said quickly, knowing she couldn't let her parents walk around a public school that she was actually interested in, they would probably change their minds and send her to boarding school instead.
"Alright, well then we will call them tomorrow morning and see when you can start." Richard said and Lorelai smiled.
The following Monday Lorelai walked the halls of Stars Hollow High, keeping her head down since she was ten minutes in and already having a bad first day. Initially it started as soon as she arrived in front of the building, her mother made several comments about the town and the school that clearly showed she disapproved of the idea of her going here, along with her sticky locker and the insane room numbering system they had at this school she was sure she wouldn't make it to her first class in time or possibly not even find it at all. The worst part was the whispers, all down the hallway she heard them. Groups of people pointing her out, odd stares and the amount of ahh's she heard after they said she got kicked out of private school, and she thought private schools had a lot of gossip. While she was too busy reading each room number, not paying any attention to where she was walking she ran straight into the person in front of her and sent both of their things flying out of their hands onto the floor.
"Perfect." Lorelai said before kneeling down, she started picking up her stuff.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I am so, so sorry." The girl said helping her pick up everything laying on the hallway floor.
"No, it's my fault. I wasn't paying attention to where I was going."
"No, I'm a clutz. You are the fourth person I took out this week, I just start thinking and I forget what I'm doing then bam!" She smacked her hands together making a crashing sound. "I'm so sorry."
"Well it is really alright, it was more my fault than yours. I wasn't watching in front of me or I could have jumped out of the way." Lorelai said assuring her it wasn't her fault. "I was looking up at room numbers, I've been looking all over for a classroom that I haven't had any luck finding it. I'm actually regretting not listening to my parents and having an orientation, which is not a good feeling to have. "
"What's the class? Maybe I could help you."
"Ahh." She looked at her schedule and read. "Mister Leroy's History class."
"I'm heading there right now, you can walk with me if you want."
"Are you serious, that would help so much."
"Yeah, of course." Sookie started walking down the hall and Lorelai followed. "So you are a sophomore too?"
"Yup, and I'm Lorelai by the way." Lorelai said holding out her hand.
She shook it with a wide smile. "I'm Sookie."
"It's nice to meet you Sookie, and today you are my savior."
"Glad to help, I remember what first days are like."
Lorelai looked around at the other students and whispered, "Well it would be a lot better if the whole school wasn't staring at me."
She laughed. "It's just that kind of town, next week someone will set the class kitchen on fire and everyone will be talking about that instead.. Well at least that is what happened last time I took home ec." She said then they walked into the classroom and found a couple seats in the back, Lorelai looked around the room ignoring the stares and the guys smiling at her.
"Seems so strange being in such a small classroom."
"Yeah, I suppose these rooms are much smaller than the ones at private schools."
Lorelai exhaled. "Oh, so you have heard about that."
"Sometimes it is hard not to hear things around here."
"Hopefully you haven't heard anything too bad about me."
"Not anything I would believe anyways, I learned to ignore ninety-five percent of whatever people say at this school." She said then the bell rang, moments after the teacher started talking a student walked into the classroom.
The teacher and all the students looked over at him. "Late again, mister Danes." Mister Leroy said, the boy didn't say a word. He walked to the back of the classroom taking a seat right next to Lorelai, he glanced over at her a moment obviously noticing she was new then turned his head back to his desk before opening his notebook and taking notes. Throughout the class Lorelai would find herself looking over at him, watching how focused he was on what he was writing in his notebook, filling the pages full before flipping to the next. The second the school bell rung signifying the end of class he stood up and was out of the room before any other student had even stood up.
Lorelai watched him leave then looked over at Sookie. "He's in a hurry." She joked before they stood up and gathered their things.
"Luke is always the first one out the door at the end of class, and the last one in class at the beginning weirdly enough." Sookie lead her to the door and out to the hallway. "So where is your next class?"
"Um." Lorelai reached in her pocket and pulled out a piece of paper. "Here, look at this." She said handing Sookie her schedule, she looked over it as they walked then smiled.
"You have most of the same classes I do other than two in the morning and one in the afternoon, I don't have gym, science or home ec with you." She handed her schedule back to Lorelai.
Lorelai folded it up and shoved it back into her front pocket. "Oh good, so you have English with me next?"
"Yup, I already have my books for next class. We could stop by your locker, get your stuff then head to the classroom."
"I have my books too." She patted on the pile of books she was carrying. "I grabbed all my stuff for the next three classes since I wasn't sure when I would get back into that locker."
"It sticking on you?"
"Yeah, luckily I snuck some extra pop tarts for breakfast this morning or I might not have had the energy to fight the thing open."
"I've heard a lot of compliments about these lockers, they never will get new ones though. Guess that is what you get for being in a small town, nothing ever changes."
"That has to be nice sometimes though, having things remain the same would seem so comfortable."
"Yeah, it is." Sookie smiled and looked over at Lorelai. "I take it you are used to a lot of changes."
Lorelai nodded. "I've been in six different schools in the last two years so change has kind of become a routine for me." She said as she followed Sookie into the classroom and they found some seats.
"Why did you have to go to so many schools?" Sookie questioned.
"I got kicked out of them all." Lorelai looked over at Sookie seeing no judgement in her expression whatsoever so she went on, feeling like she was someone she could tell anything to. "I hated going to those kinds of schools so much that I just wanted to do anything to keep me out of them, so I would get in trouble. I thought after getting kicked out of one my parents would get the hint that that wasn't where I wanted to be but I guess they are a bit slowly at getting the message than I thought."
"It all worked out though, you are here now."
"Yeah, I am here now." Lorelai said and smiled, she looked over at the desk next to her just as Luke sat down then the bell rang. "Hey, you made it before class started." She joked and he just stared at her a second before looking away and opening his notebook, Lorelai leaned over to Sookie and whispered. "Does he speak?"
"Rarely, but I guess that is part of his charm."
"That isn't charm, that is just rude." Lorelai said then settled into her seat while class started.
Later in the locker room Lorelai pulled her gym shirt over her head, looking over at her reflection in the mirror she couldn't help but smile thinking of how much Emily would hate this outfit, a pair of red shorts and a grey tee shirt that read 'Stars Hollow High Athletics' in big red letters. Her last class had been Chemisty, with no familiar faces she laid low and spent her time dreading this class. She hated gym with a strong passion, she hated that physically activity had to even be a part of any school. But at least after this class she had lunch to look forward to, it was like a reward for having to run around for forty minutes straight.
She walked out of the locker rooms and into the gym, looking around she wasn't really sure on where to go. Excited to see a place to sit she walked over and sat on a set of bleachers behind a group of girls.
"Oh my god, he is so cute." One of the girls said.
"And so strong." Another girl said and Lorelai looked at the group in front of her who seemed to be admiring one of the guys, she looked over at who they had their eyes locked on and noticed that it was the guy from a couple of her first classes today, Luke. He was standing on one end of the gym with another kid right next to him, both of them ready to race. A kid standing near them said go waving his hand down like a flag and they starting running across the gym, in a matter of seconds Luke was at the other end winning the other kid by a long shot.
"Woah." Lorelai said looking at Luke who didn't even seem out of breathe. "He is fast." She said then all the girls in front of her turned around and looked at her.
"He's on the track team, last year he was the only freshman to go with them to state." A girl explained.
"No one ever beats him in a race, he is the fastest kid in the whole school."
"And he looks the best while running too." Another girl chimed in and they all giggled.
"He doesn't even talk though." Lorelai pointed out which only got her disapproving looks from them, it was like hanging out with her mother she thought.
"That's what makes him so dreamy! The way he is so serious, so quiet." The girl said in a way you could literally hear her heart flutter, Lorelai half expected her to start drooling.
"I don't see how that is dreamy, it just seems like a jerk move to ignore everyone. Sure he is attractive, but that doesn't give him the right to be rude to people."
"He isn't rude, he just doesn't like talking much."
"I heard him talking to a teacher once and his voice is so sexy." A girl said then Lorelai rolled her eyes and moved down the bleachers away from the girls before she had to listen to them any longer.
"Trying to get away from the Luke Danes fan club?" The boy next to her asked.
Lorelai chuckled. "Ha, yeah."
"You are the new girl right?" He asked pointing at her.
"Yup, I'm Lorelai."
"Jackson, nice to meet you."
"Likewise."
"Can I ask you a bit of a strange question?" Jackson said unsurely.
"You aren't going to hit on me are you? Because I have had enough of that already today."
He laughed then shook his head. "No."
"Then shoot."
"You were hanging out with Sookie earlier, right?"
"Yeah." She nodded.
"I was wondering if you knew if she was seeing anybody?"
"I'm not really sure, I just met her today." Lorelai said, Jackson looked disappointed she didn't know the answer. "But when I figure it out I will let you know."
"Thank you." He smiled. "Just don't let her know I asked, please."
"I won't." She said then the gym teacher came in and began class. It really hadn't been as bad as she thought it was going to be, after warm ups they got to play volley ball. Aside from getting hit in the head a couple times it didn't involve too much movement which she was always a fan of. And the class only ended up being about thirty minutes long because they gave them a good amount of time afterwards to get dressed and cleaned up.
She found her way to the lunchroom pretty easily which always seemed to be a talent of hers at all the new schools she went to, there was something about the smell of cheeseburgers to help her find her way around. Now the tough part, finding a place to sit in the cafeteria.
"First days are always the hardest to find a seat," Sookie said walking up beside her. "I have been here over a year and I still have trouble finding a spot."
Lorelai looked around noticing no free tables. "All the tables are so full, usually there is an empty one I can sit at."
"We could sit with Luke," Sookie said pointing towards him. "His table is empty."
"If he will let us." Lorelai said then they walked over to his table, she looked down at him and smiled politely. "Mind if we sit? Because we really aren't interested in hearing about the best fashion trends for fall or who's taking who to prom this year." She said then he nodded yes letting them both take a seat. "I'm Lorelai, and this is Sookie."
He looked over at them for the first time. "Luke."
"Ahh, he speaks!" Lorelai joked, he gave her a scowl that slowly turned into a small smirk as he looked at her more. "Is it okay that we took some of your table here?"
"Yeah, it's fine. I really only need the one chair."
"Oh look, a full sentence." She said sarcastically.
"On another thought, maybe I do need those chairs." Luke said then Lorelai smiled at him and ate a fry before glancing over at his tray.
"What in god's name are you eating?"
Luke scrunched his eyes unsure what she was getting at. "A salad?"
"Why?"
"The food at this school is garbage, that cheeseburger you are eating is about fifteen percent beef and eighty-five percent of whatever they could scrap of the grill from the day before." He said then Sookie set her cheeseburger down back on her tray. "And French fries take something that is healthy like a potato and shoves it completely full of grease and fat, it's like eating your own death."
"Yes, but death never tasted so crispy before." Lorelai said taking another bite of her fry.
He continued to rant. "And don't even get me started on the fruit choices here, you can pick between peaches loaded up with syrup or pears that are also loaded up with syrup."
"Remember when you didn't talk?" Lorelai asked then Luke rolled his eyes and went back to eating his salad. "So Sookie." She said turning toward her. "I forgot I was gonna ask if you had a boyfriend?"
"No, I don't."
Lorelai grabbed another fry taking a bite then nonchalantly asked, "Is there anyone you like?"
Sookie ran her finger in circles on the table nervously. "Well there is this one guy I met last year that always carried my books around and put my sleeve out when it caught on fire in cooking class once."
"What's his name?"
"Jackson." Her face lite up just saying his name.
"The farmer?" Luke asked.
"Shush, you." Lorelai said waving at him. "Go back to eating your salad."
"Yes, I always thought he was really sweet and really cute."
Lorelai smiled. "Ahh, good to know."
"Why is that good to know?" Sookie asked.
"No reason, just wondering... " She said then turned back to Luke. "What about you Butch, got your eye on any of the ladies here?"
"Have you seen this town? It is full of whack jobs." He said and nodded towards a table of girls staring over at him.
Lorelai looked over at all their doughy eyes and laughed. "Good point, but don't guys usually like when girls fawn all over them?"
"Not me." He shook his head. "I like a girl who is strong and isn't consistently saying just what they think you want them to say, they need to have a mind of their own."
"But you have girls swooning for you, you must be tempted to be with them sometimes, little kissy kissy, little touchy touchy." She said raising her eyebrows at him a few times.
"Geez." He blushed making Lorelai smile.
"You are a guy, you have hormones."
"There is nothing appealing about hooking up with some chick I don't even like, it wouldn't be right to lead someone on like that no matter how insane they are."
"If your adoring fans knew what a softie you were they would go wild."
His tone turned defensive. "I'm not a softie."
"Oh, I didn't mean it in a bad way." Lorelai defended. "I think it's sweet that you are."
"I'm not."
"Okay, you aren't." She said then ate a few bites of her food.
"How about you Lorelai, got any boys on your mind?" Sookie asked, Luke looked up from his plate waiting for an answer.
"No, all the guys from my old school were too preppy and very full of themselves, and all the guys here just look at me like a shiny new toy which I don't like either."
"Well it's not like we will find our soulmates in high school anyways." Sookie said then Luke stood up.
"You done eating, Luke?" Sookie asked.
"Yeah, I gotta go get some stuff from my locker for my next few classes."
"Well don't be a stranger." Lorelai said.
"I won't, and I will see you in Geometry, Sookie."
"You will see both of us, we are heading there after French class." Sookie said.
"Auf Wiedersehen, Luke." Lorelai said and they both looked at her oddly.
"That's German," Luke said while grabbing his tray. "Not French."
"Guess it's a good thing I'm going to French class later." She said as Luke walked away.
"That took a different turn than I expected." Sookie said surprised.
"What?"
"Luke." She said with a laugh. "I didn't even know he was capable of saying more than a monosyllable."
"So he really never talks to anyone?"
"I have never seen him do it before, he usually just keeps to himself."
"I wonder why he talked to us then." Lorelai said and Sookie shrugged.
Lorelai and Sookie sat though French class and she even managed to memorize a few of the phases despite never being good with foreign languages, afterwards they went to Geometry class. Luke ended up sitting next to them again and she kept looking over thinking about how much her opinion of him had changed since she first saw him this morning. She had him pegged as the school jerk who didn't care about anyone else but after lunch she was starting to think maybe he was closed off for a reason and once you got to know him he could be a pretty decent guy. Another part of her wondered if her self destructive side was starting to kick in and make her think too highly of this mysterious boy she just meet, either way she knew she wanted to get to know him better.
"Lorelai." Sookie whispered.
She broke out of her trance and looked over at her. "Yeah, Sookie?"
"You're not taking notes."
"Oh." Lorelai said looking at the board, the teacher had filled the thing up with equations and she hadn't even noticed. "I zoned out a bit, was thinking about something."
"Ah ha, something." Sookie smiled looking at Luke. "I'll copy my notes and get them to you tomorrow."
"Thank you, Sookie." Lorelai smiled then they heard the bell ring.
"Alright class, have the chapter five assignment finished and on my desk tomorrow before class starts." The teacher said then she looked towards Lorelai. "And Lorelai since this is your first day you are excused from it, just be sure to study it more before our test next week."
"Thank you, I will." Lorelai said then she grabbed her stuff and starting walking out of the classroom with Sookie and Luke. "I can't believe she isn't making me do the homework, at my other schools they would have made me do it and catch up on anything they already did all in one night."
"They aren't too strict about homework, if we do well in classes and on tests they won't even make us do it sometimes." Sookie said as they reached the hallways.
"Lucky."
"Well you go here too now so you are just as lucky."
She smiled. "You've got a point there, I am pretty lucky to go here."
"Wait till you've been here longer, you might change your mind." Luke said and Sookie swatted his arm.
"This school is great, even better now that you are here." Sookie said bumping her shoulder into Lorelai's.
She bumped back into her and smiled. "Thank you Sookie, you make this school pretty great too."
"I gotta get to my next class so I probably won't see you again till tomorrow."
"Well thanks for making my first day a whole lot easier, I don't know what I would have done without you." Lorelai said and they pulled each other into a sweet, short hug.
"You probably still would have been wandering around the halls looking for Mister Leroy's class."
Lorelai chuckles. "Chances are pretty high that is what I would be doing, but really, thank you Sookie."
"My pleasure and feel free to let me make your second day even easier tomorrow."
"I will." Lorelai waved her goodbye. "See you tomorrow, Sookie."
"Bye, Lorelai. Bye, Luke." She said as she walked away.
"Bye." Luke said then he opened his notebook and wrote something in it.
Lorelai looked over at him as he closed up his notebook. "Whatcha writing?"
"I forgot to write the assignment down, I usually do it right after I leave class."
"You are quite the note taker."
"I write down everything we learn so if I don't understand it the first time around I can just go back and figure it out myself later instead of asking the teacher to help."
"Oh, because asking the teacher would involve talking to them which you don't like doing."
"Exactly." Luke nodded. "So what class do you have next?"
"Home Ec."
"Yeah, me too. Do you know where the classroom is?"
"I have no clue, I know it's in room fourteen C which is either near the gym or it's on the moon."
"It's no where near either but I can show you to it."
"Okay, thank you." She smiled. "Let me get some stuff from my locker first before we go." She headed to her locker and put in the combo, when she tried to pull it open it was stuck shut again. "This locker is so frustrating, it has been sticking all day." She said while throwing a fit trying to get into it.
"Let me help, stand back." He said, Lorelai took a few steps back then he punched the locker from the side and it flew open.
"Nice job, Fonzie." She went into her locker and started sorting out what she needed.
"Sometimes the locks don't fully unhook completely on these old lockers so you just have to give it a little punch."
"Thank you." She said grabbing out her books and closing the locker, she put her hand up guesting for him to walk. "Lead the way."
When they get to the classroom Luke takes one of the few seats left that's towards the front of class while Lorelai walks up to the teacher.
"I'm the new kid, Lorelai Gilmore. The note on my schedule said to come to you in the beginning of class to get a group number."
"Oh, yes. Miss Gilmore, it is nice to meet you." She held her hand out.
Lorelai smiled and shook her hand. "It's nice you meet you too."
"I'm sorry, I completely forgot I had to get you a group." She said and starting walking toward her desk. "Let me just grab my chart and see which group has room for you."
"She can be in my group." Luke said quickly before she had a chance to check, they both looked over at him. Lorelai noticed the teacher's expression, it was like she had never heard him say a word before. "We only have three people."
"Thank you, mister Danes for the very kind offer. Miss Gilmore, you can be with Luke's group."
Lorelai smiled taking a seat next to Luke, she leaned over and whispered. "I think you almost made her pass out when you spoke up."
"I thought I should save her the time of finding you a group when I already knew this was the only one that didn't have four people already."
"How very thoughtful of you." She smirked then looked across the room at the kitchen area. "So this class is like making food, right? Because I am starving."
"Cooking is just part of this class, we aren't doing that today."
"I'll have to remember to pack snacks tomorrow, I thought we would be getting food."
"We had lunch two hours ago."
"I had lunch, you ate part of a tree." Lorelai said and he exhaled. "If we aren't cooking then what are we doing?"
"We are sewing quilted pillow cases, we have been working on them a couple days already so it might take awhile for you to catch up but I can help you if you want."
"Yeah, could you explain to me what to do then I can work from there."
"Follow me." He stood up leading her towards shelves with bins full of fabric, he grabbed a tray and handed it to her. "The tray is the same size as the pillow cases so you grab pieces of fabric and set them on it to get an idea of the pattern you want, make sure you grab two of each fabric if you want to have one for the front and one for the back otherwise you can use one solid colored piece for the back."
"Seems easy enough." Lorelai said grabbing pieces of fabric out, within a minute she already had a pattern picked out and lying on her tray.
"How did you do that?"
She looked over at him in wonder. "What?"
"Create a pattern so quickly, it took me twenty minutes to come up with mine and it's not even half as nice as yours."
"I don't know, I just put what I thought would look creative and voila!" She said gesturing at her project. "So, am I ahead of the rest of the class yet?"
He shook his head. "Not even close."
"Well I will by the end of class."
"You know you have to sew it by hand, right? There is no way you can catch up by the end of class."
She gave him a cocky grin. "Don't underestimate how competitive I can be."
By the end of class Lorelai was not only caught up to everyone else but she is ahead of them, the teacher had told them to start cleaning up their projects and Luke looked over at Lorelai's pillow case running his hand along the stitching.
"How did you get the stitching so neat?"
"I just followed this little guide paper they gave us." Lorelai said holding up the sheet of paper they all had been given.
"Your's is way too good, you must have sewed before."
"No, first time." She said picking up her tray and carrying it to the shelves along with Luke. "I really like it though, I never thought I would like something that you do in home ec."
"Not a big fan of home ec?" He said while putting his tray on their groups shelve, she did the same before they starting walking out of the classroom.
"Not the finances part or the cooking part since the only thing I can do in the kitchen is put a pop tart in the toaster, even those I burnt them for the first few weeks till my friend set my toaster controls for me." She reaches her locker then stops. "So I guess I'll see you tomorrow."
"Yeah." Luke said with a small smile. "See you tomorrow, Lorelai."
"Au Revoir, Luke."
"You learned a French goodbye."
"Thought I had to if I didn't want to get teased by you again."
"Au Revoir, Lorelai." He said then walked away, once she turned facing her locker she smiled.
She gathered up all the books and notebooks she would be needing tonight and shoved them into her backpack, she zipped it up and slung it over her shoulder before heading out of the school. Once she was outside she looked at the one car sitting in front of the school, her mom's car.
"Here we go." She said to herself then walked over and climbed into the passenger seat, she hooked her seatbelt and her mom took off.
"How was your first day?" Emily asked, glancing over whenever she got the chance.
"Good." Lorelai gave the generic answer, hoping that would be the last of this conversion.
"You didn't get into any trouble?"
"I only egged the principles car, lit off stink bombs in the bathroom and threw microscopes off the building's roof, but other than that I was very well behaved." She said sarcastically.
"It's not a crazy question to ask given your past experiences."
"I didn't get into any trouble, mom."
"Well that's good, these public schools are filled with all kinds of kids that are always wanting to cause some type of trouble."
"Yes, opposed to the private schools where kids only gamble with their parents cash and crash their fancy cars an hour after getting them on their sixteenth birthday." Lorelai said and Emily chose to ignore her comment.
"Did you meet any new friends today?"
She put on a smile and nodded. "The guy that sold me pot under the bleachers was pretty swell."
"Lorelai!" Emily said in a exasperated tone.
"Yes, I meet a couple new friends."
"Well tell me about them."
"They are students there."
"I assumed they weren't janitors."
"I don't know how to explain them." Lorelai said and paused. "They are nice."
"What's their names?"
"You need them for your blacklist?"
"I just wondering what your new friends names are."
"Their names are Sookie and Luke."
"And this Sookie and Luke, they are a couple?"
"No, they basically just became friends today."
"Does your friend Sookie like him?"
"As a friend she does, but she likes this other guy I met briefly today."
"Ah huh." She nodded. "What is this Luke like?"
"Why are you asking so many questions?"
"I would like to know about your new friends, you are going to be seeing them for the next three years."
"So you can judge them."
"Is it so bad that I would like to know how my daughter's first day went and what her new friends are like?"
Lorelai gave in knowing there was no way to end this without giving her some information. "He's nice, really quiet most the time but he's very helpful."
"He's helpful?"
"He showed me how to open my locker when it sticks and showed me how to get started on the pillow case I am making in class. Sookie is really helpful too, she was pretty much my tour guide around the school today."
"I'm glad you made some new friends."
"Really?" Lorelai asked.
"Yes, if you have to go to that dreadful school you might as well have some friends to make it easier to handle." She said then Lorelai exhales before turning the radio up, Emily shot a disapproving look at her and she turns it down a bit.