The second she saw the report, Emmeline stormed into her house, stomped right up the stairs, and slammed her bedroom door shut so hard that the windows shook.
She immediately scoured her room looking for the stupid metallic box filled with pictures of her supposed father, Christopher. It took a while, but when she finally found it, all she could do was glare at him. She ripped the photographs of her parents into confetti, but it still didn't release her of the terrible pain she felt.
She ignored her mother banging on the bedroom door. Begging, pleading, sobbing for her to open it up.
But Emmeline just couldn't. She was too shaken up with so much pent up rage that she just couldn't take it anymore. Emmeline let out a cry of unleashed rage and ransacked the entire room she shared with Rory to the point of total uncontrolled chaos. Lamps, mirrors, and delicate trinkets were shattered. Dressers, tables, and beds were flipped. Posters, photographs, and clothing were ripped to shreds. Everything and anything were competely destoryed.
And at the end of the storm, Emmeline still felt the pain. The never ending, heart aching, and competely uncontrollable pain.
She didn't even remember how it happened. All she remembered was Luke carrying her down the stairs and onto his truck. Then, it was a bunch of bright lights and urgent talking. Next thing she knew, she woke up at 3 am in a hospital bed all by herself with a cast on her left arm.
Nothing was the same in the Gilmore household after that melt down. Lorelai and Emmeline's perfect relationship was tossed into a dirty gutter. All the I love you's Emmeline used to tell her mother in the mornings was replaced with the silent treatment or eye rolls and grunts. She avoided Rory by switching rooms with Maddie and joining a ton of after school activities. Maddie was the only one that could speak to Emmeline without being yelled at. It was why their relationship grew stronger than ever before.
And as time went on, Emmeline became damn near unrecognizable. Her perfect grades became average. Her long blonde hair turned into collarbone length black. And her attitude was just awful. The amount of fights she got into was so alarming that she forced to go to a Catholic boarding school in Oregon.
Maddie became somewhat distant from her family the more Emmeline was gone. To cheer her up, Lorelai told her about her acceptance to Chilton with Rory. Instead it just made her angry, but was done was done. So, there she was. Forced to go to Chilton with Rory and attend really hard classes when everyone damn well knew she was public school average.
And this is where the story begins with Maddie and Rory in the dean's office at their new prestigious school.