You're Just Like Me, You Know…
Lorelai Gilmore was fielding phone calls at the reception desk of the Dragonfly when a young girl with a baby on her hip comes in. Lorelai hangs up the phone and turns her attention to the teen.
"Hi, I'm Lorelai. Welcome to the Dragonfly."
The girl smiles, "Thanks."
"How can I help you?" Lorelai asks.
"I'm Lea and this is my daughter Sophia", Lea switches the baby to her other hip, "I'm actually here to beg for a job."
Lorelai smiles, for she admires the girl's bluntness, "Well, it's your lucky day. Come- sit in the lobby with me for a chat."
Lea nods.
"Michel?" Lorelai turns to the bored Frenchman.
"Yesss?" Michel whines.
"Watch the desk, please."
"Fine, but I won't do it happily."
Lorelai and Lea walk to the lobby and sit down.
"How old is Sophia?" Lorelai asks.
"Fourteen months. She's all over the place these days."
"I remember those days…", Lorelai smiles.
"Oh, you have kids?"
"One- a daughter. Rory, she's 21."
"Wow, you don't look old enough to have a daughter that age."
Lorelai smiles, "We're a lot more alike than you think."
Lea cocks her head to the side, "How so?"
"I was sixteen when I had Rory."
"Oh…"
"So, you need a job!"
"Yes, yes I do."
"Any experience?"
"Um, well. I grew up with maids…?"
"Not quite, but I'll take it."
"Thanks."
"Where are you from?"
"Hartford."
"Okay, well. Will you have a place to stay?"
"Can you recommend a good hotel?"
"Why don't you and Sophia stay at my house and once the Inn gets less booked, you can live here and work for your room and board?"
"Oh my G-d, Lorelai, that's too much."
"Never. Not for my min-me!", Lea smiles and Lorelai reaches over to tickle Sophia.
Later that afternoon, Lorelai comes into the diner. She sits at the counter and Luke pours her a cup of coffee.
"So, we need to talk", Lorelai states.
"Uh oh…"
"No. No uh-oh. Well, maybe uh-oh…"
"What's up?" Luke interrupts.
"I found a mini-Lorelai today", Luke looks confused so Lorelai continues, "A girl came into the Inn today to look for a job."
Luke interrupts, "And how does that make her a mini-Lorelai?"
"Hey hey, I wasn't done."
"Alright, go on."
"She has a baby and she's probably around seventeen."
"Ohh…"
"I gave her a job but since the Inn is booked solid for the next two weeks, I told her that she could stay with us."
"In our house?"
"Yes, in our house."
"Lorelai…"
"Luke, just trust me. She seems like such a sweet girl and her daughter is adorable."
"We'll see."
She reaches over the counter to kiss him.
"I have to get back. I'll be here for dinner."
Luke hands her a to-go cup of coffee and she scurries out of the diner.
Lorelai walks out of the diner to find Lea sitting in the gazebo playing with Sophia. Lorelai walks over to the girls.
"Hey Lea", Lorelai says as she sits on the bench.
"Lorelai! Hi!"
"Touring the town?"
"Yeah. Not much to tour, though."
"I know. It's small here, but I love it."
"Good, then there's hope for the rest of us."
Lorelai smiles, "Did you have bags?"
"Yeah, I left them at the Inn."
"Oh, alright. We'll go back there and then bring your stuff over to my house. I'll introduce you to some of the town loonies along the way."
Both girls laugh, so Sophia starts laughing, too, making all three girls laugh harder.
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