'What If?'

Chapter 2: I'm having a girl and telling off Christopher.

Disclaimer: I must have been in such a hurry to get the first chapter typed and posted, so… here it is- I don't own Gilmore Girls or anything associated with it except a few DVD's.

"Lorelai, is that what you were crying about earlier? When I came in," Lorelai nodded. Ann came over and sat next to her on the stairs. "I want you to know that, I'll be here for you, even though Mom and Dad aren't." Lorelai looked at her with hope.

"Wow, you know what?"

"What?" Ann gave her a comforting smile.

"That's the nicest thing anyone has said to me, in a really long time." Lorelai wiped away a few stray tears that fell while she was talking, and reached over for a hug. Ann smiled and returned the gesture.

"So what are you going to name it?" Ann asked, with a small laugh.

"I just found out, you really want me to name it now?"

"Well, no. But I think it'd be good if you had a selection of names ready to go at the drop of a hat."

"I see, and why is that?" Lorelai asked.

"Well, if you already set out some of a plan for it, Mom might not make you put he or she up for adoption." Lorelai was taken back, she never thought of adoption. She most certainly was not going to give her child up for adoption.

"Oh, adoption? No, no way. I'm not putting it up for adoption. I intend to keep it. It might be fun having a baby." Lorelai smiled at the thought of her and a baby. She was still small when Ann was so she couldn't remember what having a baby around was like. Except for the crying, she remembered only vaguely the amount of crying.

"But, Mom wasn't too thrilled about you having a baby. I could tell. It was like the time I told her I didn't want to skip a grade; I was perfectly content with the grade I was in." Ann smiled at the memory, and Lorelai laughed.

"Mom was really, really mad! You two set a record, a whole three hours without talking. I never thought the day would come." As Lorelai finished talking Richard walked into the room, he looked as though he had been crying a little so Lorelai gave him a comforting look.

"Ann, please go up to your room." He said bitterly.

"Daddy, I don't want to." Ann complained.

"Ann go-" Lorelai interrupted him.

"Dad, let her stay. It's safer that way." The last part was mumbled but Ann heard and smiled a bit, but the smile was soon washed away by the presence of Emily.

"I'm gonna, go up, to uh, my room now." Ann wasn't one to fight with her mother; they were quite close.

"Wise decision." Emily said coldly.

"Mom, don't be mad at her just be cause you are a tad frazzled with me."

"A 'tad frazzled'? Damnit Lorelai, A TAD FRAZZLED?" Emily shouted. Ann could hear the yelling from behind her closed door.

"Mom, don't shout."

"No, Lorelai, I can shout. Because I'm not sixteen and pregnant, you however have given up the right to shout. You now forfeit the right to do pretty anything in this house involving any type of freedom because you Lorelai Gilmore are a disappointment."

Lorelai looked up at her mother from the stairs she was sitting on, and cried. She let her head fall into her hands, but quickly regained herself.

"OK, that's just fine with me. I will go back to being the quiet unnoticed, ignored kid that I've always been. How's that?" Lorelai yelled, without letting her parents answer got up, turned around and walked back up the stairs and into her room, where she sat on her bed and cried again. "Damn hormones" She yelled referring to her crying, she was never very emotional.

A few months went by, and Lorelai didn't talk to either one of her parents; and when they tried to talk to her she reminded them about her decision to go back to being the ignored child that she was and has always been.

"Emily she can't keep doing this, if she is going to have this baby she has to talk to us."

"Richard, I don't know what to do, she's angry with me, and I have to say the same to her. Maybe it's better that she is as alone as she is, it might be better that way after she does have the baby." Emily whispered. She and Richard were standing in the hallway, very close to Lorelai's room.

"If you are going to talk about me, please do it away from my door." Lorelai shouted through the door.

Emily and Richard got the point and walked down stairs, where they went their separate ways, Emily to the DAR and Richard to his study.

Lorelai who was in her fourth month at the time, started going over baby names with Ann, soon after her parents left.

"I like Amanda." Ann suggested, with a smile.

"Yeah, but I don't know whether it's a boy or a girl yet. We have to broaden out horizons until tomorrow's appointment." Lorelai grinned at the fact that she would soon know the gender of her baby.

"Ok, how 'bout Amanda for a girl, and Jason for a boy." Lorelai made a face at 'Jason'. It reminded her of the not so great years at camp with Jason 'Digger' Stiles. "What's with the face?" Ann asked with a giggle.

"Digger's real name is Jason." Ann smiled and laughed a little more, because she heard Lorelai talk about some of her experiences at camp.

"So, Jason, the name, is out of the question…hmmm, how's Jeremy?"

"Maybe, I hope I have a girl though, I don't know anything about boys. I'd be clueless."

The girls finished their chat, still undecided on a name, but before they knew it, it was morning and Lorelai had to go to the Doctor's office. When she arrived, she greeted the receptionist and took her seat in the waiting room, to wait until the doctor came out.

"Lorelai Gilmore." Dr. Green called. Lorelai stood up and walked toward her Doctor.

"Hi, I'm ready." She said, not even waiting for her to ask if she was.

After the ultrasound, Lorelai had received the information that she was going to have a little baby girl.

When she arrived back at 'home' although it was hard for her to call it that, she immediately ran, well it was more of a jog then a run, because Lorelai's stomach had grown quite a bit and she was having a little trouble running at this stage.

"Ann!" She shouted about ten feet from her room.

"What, stop running, you'll hurt yourself." She joked, cracking a weak smile.

"I'm-having-a-girl!" She said between breaths.

"Oh, yea! So, wee can finally pick a name!" Ann jumped up and down for a moment but then realized the uncomfortable look n Lorelai's face. "You Ok?"

"I think I have to call Christopher."

"Oh, have you talked to him since…you found out?"

"Nope, he told me he was sorry and couldn't help me. And that was like four months ago, I can't call him. But He deserves to know right? I mean she will share half of his chromosomes. But he hurt me, and told me he wanted nothing to do with it, which is now a her. I just can't believe he would do that and the worst part is I thought I could do this by myself, but I can't I need him, hell I need someone, it doesn't have to be him, anyone. I just need someone to be there for me. Because apparently, according to my parents, I am a screw-up. No wait sorry! That wasn't their exact words, I believe my mothers words were "disappointment" I am a disappointment in her eyes. So really I am alone in this, there is no one to help me and-"

"Lorelai, you have me." Lorelai wiped a tear from her eye and embraced her little sister in a bone crushing hug. "I think that's the longest time one person has ranted without taking a breath" Ann joked to lighten the mood. It must have worked, because Lorelai let out a quick laugh, before letting go of her sister and thanking her for being the only stable thing in her life.

Imagine that, having a thirteen year old as the only stable thing in your life. Really makes you want to rethink your priorities, doesn't it?

"Lorelai?" Her and Ann were sitting on Lorelai's bed just before she was going to call Christopher.

"Yeah."

"I'll do it." Lorelai looked at her with questioning eyes. " I can see how much it could hurt you to talk to him right now, and that's not good for you, or little no-name in there,"

"Thanks, this really means a lot to me."

"Dial the number then give me the phone…" Lorelai did as she was told. "Hi can I speak to Christopher please….Yeah I can hold."

"Hello."

"Hi, this is Ann, you probably don't remember me but I know you remember my sister-"

"Look if this is about her being-"

"Don't talk until I'm done. Lorelai, my sister found out today the gender of your baby, and she thought you might like to know. However since you failed to call her in the last four months she didn't want to talk to you. Me, I wanted to give you a piece of my mind though, so here it is… I think what you did to my sister was wrong you shouldn't have left her with this responsibility, you have no idea what she is going through at this point. Did you know that she refuses to give the baby up, and as much as I admire her sense of independence a baby, my friend, is a lot of work, and you are doing nothing to help her. That's wrong and I thought by the time a guy was sixteen they would know the difference between right and wrong. I suppose I am sadly mistaken."

"Is it a boy or a girl?" He asked.

"You are unbearable. And fortunately it's a girl, that way it will take after Lorelai and not her low-life father." And with that, she hung up on him leaving him speechless.

OK, well, I always like to end chapters on a cliff hanger, even though I hate reading them…which doesn't make much sense does it? Oh well, please R&R I hope you liked this chapter, and I promise I will update soon, and it will get better.