My name is Q, or Ramona Quinn I was a famous artist who was in her early 30s and lived in Brooklyn and was a celebrated Artist she lived with her theatre critic brother Trick. I had grown up in the 90s and early 2000s and my favorite show was still Gilmore girls, they had the kind of relationship i wanted with her parents. Her father was half workaholic pot addict and my mother was well was what you'd call a Helicopter mother. I was lucky to get into Yale art school, and move on. I didn't blame her mother for being one though I was a sickly child having been born at 32 weeks, and needing a lot of help most of my life, I was still small for her age. I was told I looked like a living doll. My mother still had troube letting her live her own life. My brother of course had to raise himself, because of it, and he was pretty bitter.
I went fell asleep on the couch, watching a Gilmore Girls marathon, dreamt of being Rory's little sister Quinn, they were just memories and not at all interactive. I woke up in what I remembered being in Quinn Gilmore's room. There was a knock at the door, and she almost had a heart attack when at the top of the stairs was a younger looking Alexis Bledel in a Grunge looking outfit.
"Quinn, it's time to get up for school." I dressed and came up brushed my teeth and grabbed my books it good thing she was OCD too and had packed her bag too. I went up the stairs, and Rory was already ready. I noticed she was wearing the outfit from the scene where Rory gets her Chilton Acceptance letter.
"Where's Mom?"
"Mom had to leave there was an emergency at the Inn the linen delivery is late."
They had Pop tarts, Rory had coffee, and I had chocolate Milk from a juice box. Then she walked me to Star Hollow Elementary from my memories I was in the 5th grade as a 10 almost 11 year, next year I would be in the sixth grade. And it would be my first year at Star Hollow Middle school. It was strange being in Star Hollow, being with these people in person.
"Okay, Quinn, Mom wants us to go to the inn after school, so meet me."
"Can JR come with me?" she remembered from her memories JR was her best friend. Juliana Rosa Gianelli played by Ali Shawkat from Arrested development, an Italian-American girl who lived with her parents, two older sisters, and Grandmother who lived next door to the Gilmore on the other side from the Dells. It was a semi large two and half bedroom house cape cod style house with a finished basement. JR lived in the attack room and had it just the way she liked it, the girls were as inseparable as Lane and Rory, and both girls could be found hanging out at the inn, or at JR's family's restaurant. The Gianelli's ran one of the nicer restaurants in Stars Hollow besides the inn. It was medium nice meaning you could wear casual clothes but they had cloth tables clothes and napkins. They also made Amazing Meatball Subs to go for a very reasonable price. Her sisters were played Lily from Popular, and Sugar from Glee, although I liked her American dreams better. Her parents were played by Brad Garrett, and Annabeth Gish, and their grandmother was played by Aunt Tweedy from Mystic Pizza.
"If she doesn't have to help her parents at the restaurant." I went to where I remember my classroom being, and go inside.
I go into my fifth grade classroom which I remember exactly how to get to, I hang my jacket on my assigned hook, and take the things out of my backpack, and put the backpack on the bottom part of the hook. I sat down at my assigned desk, and JR sat in front of me.
"You wanna come to the inn, after school?"
"Can't I have to help my Nonna."
I nodded. Class started Mrs. Weiss started class, and took roll. Then it was time for Math, we handed in our homework, and then worked on new problems, then after math it was time for Social Studies, we were learning about the American Civil war. I loved Mrs. Weiss, she said the standard 5th grade spiel about the emancipation Proclamation then said that Lincoln's motives were partially political, after all he only freed the slaves in the South, not in the Union Slave States. He was trying to make things difficult in the Rebel states. Then after history we did our reading, then it was time for lunch, JR had a packed lunch of course she always had a packed lunch. It was always amazing. She gave me half, her Nonna always packed extra for me and I give her my lunch money for the day. Then we save up the lunch money and get her Nonna something nice. Nonna as I'm allowed to call her loves the gesture. There was recess and we sat on the benches near the playground, JR was practicing her calligraphy with a calligraphy pen, and I was just sketching what I saw with sketching pencils, and writing captions. I was as much a writer as an artist. Or at least I was here. At home I just used my HSAM to remember specific scenes in my life, and paint them. Not that I never wrote in the other world, I wrote and drew several one-shot comic books. After recess, we had Science, where we learned about parts of a Plant Cell. Which I remembered and I was able to raise my hand, sometimes HSAM does come in handy. It's certainly going to help smoothing out all the twists and turns in this show I both enjoyed and didn't as a viewer but will dislike as a resident of this world. After science where we had computer and after I did the assignment easily, I checked to see if all the major sports teams won the same games, in this world they did, the college teams too. And all the political and world events and technology, even the bands are the same. That I knew. this show was set in our world, or it was supposed to. After Computer we had art where I dazzled them, then after that it was geography, then it was time to go home. I collected my homework for the day, and met Rory, and we walked to the inn where we chatted. I knew she wouldn't go with my number one plan of getting Luke and Lorelai together earlier because she still wanted Lorelai and Chris to me together.
We went into the kitchen to find Sookie and her telling Rory played out just as it did in the show. That night I knew Lorelai was freaking out about money. Or maybe that was tomorrow they were never specific in the show, the next few days went by quickly, I hung out with JR, and learned to cook from Nonna, I drew and painted. I practiced my Calligraphy. And Started Writing a beautiful letter to my grandparents to leave on Friday. I even used my fancy stationary with the wax seals. My mother knows I love old things.
Dear Grandma and Grandpa, I know we don't know each other very well, but I'd Like to get to know each other better. I'm giving you a head start. I'm an artist and a writer. My best friend is Juliana Rosa "JR" Gianelli. I'm in the fifth grade where I get Straight A's. I like jazz, Blues, the rat pack, the rock and roll of the 50s and 60s, and of course the music that Mom and Rory like, But my favorite Musicians, are Ella Fitzgerald, Kate Smith, Marian Anderson, and Billie Holiday. My favorite color is basically all the shades of blue because unlike any other base colors, all its shades have a way of expressing every possible emotion instead of just a select few. For instance red tends to be the polar opposite emotions of cheery and anger with the exception of during Valentine's Day. My favorite flowers are Freesias because they mean Spirited and Iris because it means Inspiration. my favorite meal is Chicken Marsala, and penne with Marsala sauce, garlic bread. And My favorite dessert is the Tiramisu. I want to be an artist. But my favorite subjects besides art are creative writing and history. I would like to go to Yale Art School, or RISD, Mom knows this. I could do both since Yale has a graduate program. I also like to right but unlike Rory's dream of being a foreign correspondent I would like to write in the vein of HG Wells, and Robert Louis Stevenson, and the non-abridged Jules Verne. Who are among my favorite Authors; my favorite books are Alice in Wonderland and Alice through the looking glass and what she found there. I look forward to getting to know you. Quinn
The scene at the dinner was the same, except I came prepared with Tupperware in my backpack and put my entire dinner, inside before we left. The time until the dinner went by, then we went and the fighting happened while they were fighting I disappeared and placed the not on Richard's desk.
The day before Rory's first day at Yale, I reminded Lorelai to get her dry cleaning, and I told her to test the alarm clock before she tried to use it. She set her old one. She got up in time and was up and dressed, Rory woke me up as usual. We got dressed and went to Luke's.
"Baby girl are you sure you're going to be walking to school by yourself from now on."
"Mom, I'm ten, besides I can walk home with JR. I usually hang out with her after anyway."
She smiled. She called Rory Kid and me baby girl. "Alright."
We had breakfast, Luke gave us all chocolate chip pancakes with whipped cream because it was a special day, and I got milk as usual. Then I walked to school. I told, JR, there was a new kid in school today I would befriend, Clara but she's in the 4th grade. The new girl was played by Mae Whitman I thought it was weird they were thrown together again since they were in Arrested development together and that family channel show State of Grace. We talked to her at lunch.
"Natalie sit here…" We said.
"I prefer Nat." She said. She sat down with her own bagged lunch. She had a lunch box and Thermos.
"I'm Quinn, this is JR, welcome to stars hallow."
"Nice to meet you." She preceded to take out her lunch, the Thermos had two hot dogs in them, the lunch box had the buns, condiments, napkins, and a can of coke.
"Wow, I never thought of that." I said. "Not that I ever bring my own lunch, JR always provides for me."
"Mom writes instructions and owners manuals for a living she gets a lot of ideas on how to use them in different ways."
"What does your dad do?" JR asked.
"He's a Surgeon, but he stayed in New York."
"Ah, I'm sorry. My parents aren't married not that they ever were and my dad he's not that good at being a dad."
"I'm sorry, my dad never really was either. He kind of relied on my Mom to, do everything. He always thought cutting people open was more important, but it's cool I got my Mom." We talked a little turns out she lives around the corner. And how she can see Monty the Rooster statue out her window. Our town as a giant Slinky, a Rooster Statue, and a life size person made of yarn at the Yarn store. It's not just a yarn store, it's also a fabric store where Lorelai gets the fabric and thread and stuff when she makes things. Which she has taught me to do. And I am actually starting to do myself. Interesting no. At recess, Tommy Presby is bothering us. He's just yammering on and on, and what shut up, and he's getting really vicious to me about well, my mom and lack of father, to JR about her crazy sister, (Angelia the one played by Lily from Popular is Bipolar and doesn't always take her meds.) he kept getting increasingly personal to the two of us until finally a snapped and punched him in the solar plexus knocking the wind out of him and landing him on the ground. My Mom was called. So was Mrs. Presby The Principal Mrs. Allen was sitting there.
"Hi, Ms. Gilmore, Mrs. Presby, they're both suspended for three days."
"Excuse me, my son was punched in the gut. He could barely breath…."
"He was bullying rather viciously the teachers heard the tail end before she had enough. There were words in there that if a grown man had said them to me, I'd punch them, but rules are rules. SO three days each. The rest of today and two more days."
Lorelai and I got into the jeep.
"What'd be say?"
"Some things about JR's sister."
"And about our family."
"He called you a whore, I don't mean that as slang, He suggested you don't know who Rory or my father is, and that's why no one in town's ever seen him, than he said something like Mother's like daughters."
"I see. Yeah, you are so my daughter."
"Am I trouble?"
"Well You're coming to the inn with me and you're going to actually work, while you're there the next two and half days but other than that no you're not in trouble."
We picked up Rory and we all hugged then had Pizza with Lane, and JR. I had plans to make, I had to look for cues, I had make things better.
