A/N: Hi guys! I'm still mourning the loss of 'Drunk or Not' so to help me move on I thought I'd start a new story! Yay me. I got this idea from the movie 'The Wedding Date' with Debra Messing and bare with me guys because believe it or not I haven't actually seen the movie. Lol. So, whatever. Hope you guys like this.
Disclaimer: If you sue, you won't get much anyway.
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Rory crosses the reception hall and walks up to her secretary, Gloria, and smiles. "Any messages for me?"
She shakes her head, before signaling towards the chair. "But your mother's here." Rory's smile fades as she spins around and sees Lorelai, who jumps up upon seeing her and hurries over and smiles knowingly.
"I wanna meet him." She starts.
Rory doesn't know what to say. She wanders whether to play the confused card or just admit she knows what she's talking about. She opts for confused. "Meet…?"
"Don't. Act. Stupid." Lor punctuates. "This infamous boyfriend of yours. Josh. Why haven't I met him yet?" She wonders.
Rory ponders. "Because…he's been busy." She lies. Truth is there was no 'infamous boyfriend'. No 'Josh'. She'd been looking at a magazine with Josh Hartnett at the time and just used the name—she'd been so busy lately she didn't have time to go out.
"Uh huh." Lorelai says skeptically. "Well all that's about to change."
"Change?"
"Yes. Saturday." She continues.
"Saturday?"
"Stop repeating everything I say." She scolds Rory.
Rory sighs. "What about Saturday?"
"We decided to move the rehearsal dinner up."
"We?"
"Well," She hesitates, correcting her statement. "Not so much Luke as me. The entire thing was actually my idea, since you and Josh are always so busy." Rory goes to protest but Lorelai cuts her off. "You can't exactly skip the rehearsal dinner since you are in the wedding."
Rory sighs. "Fine."
"You'll be there?" She double-checks.
"Yes." Rory agrees reluctantly.
"With Josh?" Her grin widens.
"With somebody." She mumbles. Lorelai waits expectantly. "I mean, yes. We'll both be there." Lorelai throws herself at Rory, smothering her, mumbling a 'finally!' before pulling back.
"I have to go meet Fran about the cake, but I will be waiting expectantly." She points her finger in Rory's face. "You better show!"
"I will." Lorelai squeals and jumps up and down pulling Rory's hands in hers. Rory squeals mockingly much to Lor's ignorance, before she hurriedly exits throwing a 'Bye!' over her shoulder. Rory huffs watching after, before walking back over to Gloria. "Is there anyway you could start screening visitors?" Gloria looks at her blankly. "No? Okay." She pouts. "We're gonna need another shovel. Do you have one? No?"
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"Don't sulk." Lane tells her. "You've been sitting there for the last hour, pouting. I mean I only come out here to see you twice a month, the least you could do is not sulk while I'm here."
"What else am I suppose to do?" Lane shrugs and goes to make a suggestion when Rory continues. "I mean mom expects me to show up with some guy I'm supposedly dating—"
"Josh." Lane corrects.
Rory flings her hand up. "He's a pretend boyfriend! It doesn't matter what his name is."
"At one point in time you loved pretend boyfriends." Her friend tries to soothe her.
Rory scowls again. "I was eight!"
"Yes but Lorelai was happy because all the other girls at the time still thought boys had cooties."
"You're not helping."
"Sorry." Rory doesn't continue with her rant she buries her head into the couch and sighs again. "No, don't sulk! Look, we'll…do something. We'll find you a pretend boyfriend."
"I don't want a pretend boyfriend!"
Lane quickly amends. "Then we'll find you a real one!"
"How?"
"We'll think of something."
"By Saturday?" Skepticism is lacing her voice.
"Yes. We'll find you a real boyfriend," She emphasizes the words. "By Saturday who you can go to the rehearsal dinner with."
"What about the next time she wants him to come over?"
"Just say that you broke up. It'll work." She assures her. "It has to."
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A/N: Ta da! So...? Since this just the introduction the chapters will get longer. Did you guys get the shovel reference? You know she's digging herself into an even deeper hole so she needs another shovel yada yada...you guys are so smart! I knew you'd catch on. Its from all those years of hearing all those witty comments from Lor and Rory on the show. I have a plan in my head of how I want this story to go, but I don't have anything written out chapter-wise, so it'll be pretty much improv. Review and let me know if I should continue this story guys!!
