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A/N: yeah well this chapter kinda got cut off so Im going to add the rest to chapter three. Sorry about that!!

Chapter 2

Rory Gilmore was ready for the last day of school. She woke up early today and was ready early so she thought maybe she and her mom could have some extra time at Luke's before school. She thought this to be a good idea since she would be leaving next week for her summer in D.C. with Paris and the other student body kids. She missed her mom already Lorelai was just right up stairs but for the past couple of weeks it she seemed half way around the world. The more Rory thought about it the more she was convinced that the two of them spending the morning together was a good idea. She quickly ran upstairs to wake up her mom.

"Mom," Rory said as she knocked on the door to Lorelai's bedroom.

"Mom come on wake up I know it's early but…MOM!"

There was no answer. This concerned Rory so she opened the door and walked in.

"Mom?" she said searching for Lorelai.

She clearly wasn't upstairs Rory concluded so she went through the rest of the house. She looked in the living room and bathroom and the back in her own room but no mom. Rory turned around from her door a little frustrated but more disappointed she thought she might cry so she walked into the kitchen and sat down at the table. She was thinking of what to do now since her mom wasn't home when she heard a strange noise, Rory quickly turned around to see what it was but instead she found Lorelai asleep against the wall. This startled Rory to the point of speechlessness but it didn't stop her from running to her mothers side.

"MOM!" Rory said as she shook Lorelai's arm.

"what?" Lorelai gurgled

"Mom why are you on the floor….In the kitchen?"

"Because I was too comfortable upstairs in my bed." Lorelai replied sarcastically.

She shifted and tried to sit up but her muscles were clenched from being in one position for too long so she stayed still.

"What's wrong kid?" She asked after a moment of silence between them.

"Nothing I just…I just didn't know where you were." Rory said her eyes filling up with tears. She had no idea why she was getting so emotional. Her mom was right here, everything was okay so why the water works?

"Rory, honey it's okay. I'm right here. I'm sorry." Lorelai said apologetically.

"It's okay I was just thinking we could head to Luke's before school. Is my last day you know." Rory beamed.

"Definitely," Lorelai said rushing to her feet. "Just ahh…just let me go get cleaned up."

Once she was standing Lorelai flashed a quick smile to her daughter and then headed up stairs to get cleaned up. There were still a million things pressing her mind but Rory was number one. She always had been, and as far as Lorelai was concerned she always would be.

Rory and Lorelai walked into Luke's Diner the way they did every morning. They sat at their usual table in the middle of the parlor. A familiar middle aged man in a flannel shirt and a backwards baseball cap walked up to them with a note pad ready to take their order.

"Good morning Ladies." he said.

"Good morning Luke." Rory and Lorelai said in sync. Rory was truly happy to see him. Not that Lorelai wasnt it was just that she and Luke werent really speaking. They wouldn't have even come here this morning but Rory wanted to and she wanted to make Rory happy.

"We'll just have coffee and a muffin thanks Luke" Rory said with a smile.

Lorelai was reluctant to eat anything considering she wasn't keeping much down but still couldn't tell Rory so she nodded in agreement.

"So mom what's new," asked Rory "It seems like we haven't really talked in a couple days."

"Yeah I know. I don't know. Where have we been?" Lorelai joked.

Lorelai opened her mouth to say something else when her phone began to ring. She pulled her phone out of her purse and looked at the caller ID.

(Chris). The thought of his name brought vomit to the back of her throat. She quickly slammed the cell phone on the table and ran to the bathroom.

Rory picked the phone up from the table and rolled her eyes when she saw the name. She clicked ignore and waited for her mother to return.

Lorelai felt bad about letting Rory see her like that at the diner but she was glad that she didn't ask questions when she returned from the bathroom. Lorelai really wanted her coffee and she knew she couldn't have it but the wonderful smell of the coffee bean flowing from the kitchen was calling her name. She began to walk in the direction of the aroma convincing herself that one cup wouldn't hurt anything, besides she drank coffee behind her mothers back the whole time she was pregnant with Rory. She laughed out loud at herself thinking of how Emily Gilmore would have crapped a golden goose if she knew about the gallons of coffee consumed in her first sixteen years of life. She remembered the first taste of her addiction she'd been six years old…

"Lorelai Victoria Gilmore, I wont tell you again to get your butt down here for breakfast." Emily called.

She took one last look in the mirror and tied the blue ribbon in her hair. It matched her uniform perfectly her mother made sure of that. She smiled at her reflection and skipped down the stairs.

"Lorelai you're a young lady walk like one please." Emily complained.

Lorelai sighed and took her seat at the table between Emily and Richard.

Helga her mothers latest maid set a plate in front of the child with Fruit on It and a bowl of oatmeal on the side. Then she returned with a glass of orange juice. Emily looked up from her own plate and noticed that the fruit wasn't cut. This didn't bother Lorelai at all but Emily was enraged.

"That idiot," Emily screamed as she picked up Lorelai's plate and carried it back into the kitchen "I remember saying to cut this into small pieces…" her voice trailed off. Richard had his nose in the paper so deep that he didn't even notice his wife's outburst.

"Daddy…" the six year old said.

"Yes Lorelai?" he asked without looking up.

"What's that?" she asked pointing toward the steaming cup of black liquid sitting in front of him.

"Why this is coffee." he said bringing the cup up to his lips and taking a sip.

She liked the sound of the word. COFFEE COFFEE COFFEE. She repeated in her head.

"Daddy…" she said again.

"Yes Lorelai?" he asked putting his paper down.

"May I try it PPPLLLEEEAAASSSSEEEE!!" Lorelai asked

"You most certainly may not," Richard said with a stern type of voice. "Your most too young?"

She didn't say another word but he could see the disappointment in his young daughters face. He thought to himself One sip couldn't hurt anything. He took a look back toward the kitchen and slid the cup in front of Lorelai.

"Don't tell your mother." he whispered as she took her first sip.

"Hello Lorelai" Michele said stopping her on the way to her coffee.

"Hi Michele" she said back trying to get around him. She really wasn't in a mood for whatever it was that he had in store for her.

"Your looking very lovely today Lorelai" he said trying to brown nose her.

"Thank you Michele." she said still trying to get around him. She would have asked what he wanted because it was clear he was trying to get something out of her but she was nauseous and dizzy and really wanted her coffee.

"Is there something you need?" she asked after realizing he wasn't going to let her by.

"Well as a matter of fact…" Michele started before Sookie St.James, Lorelai's best friend (besides Rory) came dashing through the kitchen door and grabbed Lorelai by the hands and pulled her in. She would never know how thankful Lorelai was at that moment.

"A raise would be nice." Michele yelled in his French accent. His voice trailed off into the kitchen

Rory sat on the bus which would carry her to the last day of her Junior year at Chilton. Next year she'd be a senior and she'd apply for Harvard which is what she'd been waiting for since she was four years old. This was the dream that she and her mother had. A dream that involved a backpacking trip through Europe right after High School and then college where Rory would become a Journalist like she had always wanted to be. She would live a fabulous life and travel to fabulous places. This was the plan, Rory liked this plan. She sat back and enjoyed her last bus ride of the school year.

The bus came to a stop and she got off rushing to her first class. Because Chilton was such a extraordinary school they still had work to do even on the last day. She turned in her mounds of school work and homework from last night and went through the day as best she could trying to avoid conflict from Paris Gellar. It wasn't that she didn't like Paris well they kind of use to hate each other and in the last year they almost were what you could call friends but she figured she would be seeing enough of Paris during their summer together in D.C.. She went through the whole day anticipating the last day of school ceremony. After school got out she called her mom to see how her day was going. With everything that happened this morning she even more sure that something was going with her.

She heard the phone begin to ring.

"Hello. Fruit of my womb" Lorelai said answering the phone.

"Hi mom," Rory laughed "what's going on?" she asked.

"Well not much around here. How was your last day babe?

"Well actually it was great. Paris talked about nothing but going to D.C. all day and while that was pretty annoying it also made me think about how exciting it's going to be, and then we got our summer reading lists but when I looked at I realized that I have already read every book on my summer reading list."

"That's great kid. I'm glad you had fun."

"Me too mom, me too"

"Okay well I have to get Michele away from the children