A/N- I know I know ANOTHER arranged marriage fic but I personally love them so I hope you do too. I would love reviews but I'm not gonna beg :) Now onto the story.

Disclaimer: Obviously I don't own Gilmore Girls…

Lorelai Leigh Gilmore Hayden, known to most as Rory Gilmore Hayden, was at Yale for the first time. As excited as she was she knew that tonight was quickly approaching and tonight was the first night she would be on her own with out her best friend, her mother. They have always been best friends, a few rough patches on the way, when she was 8 and Lorelai bought her a doll instead of the dictionary she wanted, when she was 15 and Lorelai cut her gym clothes, and when she was 17 and she found out she had an arranged marriage since birth, but Rory got over the doll and bought new gym clothes and eventually learned to deal with the fact that she had a planned life and in a year she would be married to someone she hasn't even met yet. Speaking of, she would find out tonight at dinner who her "betrothed" was. Yay.

"Mom just go get the stuff you feel the need to buy tonight while I go to dinner and come back tomorrow and I'll help you bring it in." Rory said as she started to unpack a random box full of books.

"Fine I'm going if you're so quick to push me out the door, I mean I know you want to get rid of me but geesh!"

"Bye Mom."

"Bye Hun."

Once Lorelai was gone Rory unpacked a few more things and started getting ready. Shower. Hair. Makeup. Dress? What was she going to wear? She stared at her closet with all of her clothes that had been the first thing to be unpacked and looked at all of the dresses and still could see nothing that appealed to her.

"Go with the blue one honey, it'll match your eyes." stated a bouncy blonde who just waltzed into the room.

"Thanks, that's perfect, wait who are you?" Rory questioned

"Haha sorry I forgot the introduction part, I'm Stephanie Vanderbuilt, aka your new roomie!"

"Oh hi, Rory Gilmore, nice to meet you."

"So what's the occasion?" inquired Steph.

"Ugh, don't remind me, dinner with my grandparents especially exciting tonight, I'm meeting my betrothed." Rory stated in an extremely sarcastic voice.

"Sounds like a blast, not too many arranged marriages anymore." she said, suddenly grateful her parents hadn't thought of an arranged marriage instead of these ridiculous blind dates she's been sent on lately.

"Yeah I guess I'm just lucky."

"Sorry."

"It's okay it wasn't your idea but I gotta go we should hang out when I get back." Rory said as she slipped on her heels.

"Okay, sounds fun, I'll have plenty of ice cream."

"Wow you are like my soul mate." Rory joked.

Steph laughed, "See you later, good luck."

"Bye." Rory grabbed her keys and walked out to her car.

On the drive to Hartford Rory couldn't help but to want to turn around and just drive until she ran out of gas. Part of her was scared about meeting her "fiancé" but another part of her was relieved that the time was finally here, just one more tiny stretch of stress to find out if she was marrying a nice, polite gentlemen, or a rude, selfish pig. She pulled into the Gilmore's driveway, parked, and sat. It was 6:12 she was supposed to be inside no later than 6:15. Still she sat, too nervous to go inside. Around 6:20 she finally got out of her car and knocked on the mansion's door. Her grandmother answered the door looking extremely flustered.

"Where have you been Rory, we have company, you know it's rude to keep company waiting."

"Relax Grandma, there was a lot of traffic" she lied, "and plus I'm only five minutes late for drinks."

She walked off muttering something about "more like your mother" leaving Rory alone in the entry way waiting to walk into the room where her future husband and family awaited her.

A/N—C2…dinner and bonding w/ Steph