Rory picked up her phone, then put it down again, for the tenth time that day. She knew what she had to do. She had to tell him. She had to. Or she didn't have to. She had gone back and forth all morning. She didn't want this baby to change anything. He had his life. He was getting married in a matter of days. Rory took another nibble of pop tart and reached for her phone again.
Dialed his number.
He answered on the third ring. "Hey, Ace. What's up?"
Rory froze. She suddenly couldn't remember how to speak.
"Rory? You ok?"
"Uh, hi. Um, so I need to tell you something. It's not a big deal or anything. Just thought maybe you'd like to know-" she took a deep breath, "I'm pregnant."
There was silence on the other end of the line. She tried to stay calm, she could feel the panic rising in her chest. "Logan?"
"I'm going to be in the states in 2 days. I want to see you then so we can talk, ok?" Logan was cool as could be. Rory wanted to puke and he was composed and collected.
"Yea, sure, that's fine I guess." She said with a huge sigh of relief. Maybe this was going to be ok. She hung up the phone just as Lorelai walked into the kitchen, heading straight for the fresh pot of coffee.
"Morning, kid. How goes it?" she asked while helping herself to the pop tart on Rory's plate, sitting across from her only daughter.
"I just got off the phone with Logan. He's going to be here in 2 days and wants to talk then." Lorelai could hear the tension in Rory's voice. She remembered this all too well.
"Hey, it'll be ok. Telling him is going to be nothing compared to telling my mother."
"oh god! Oh no! Grandma is going to kill me. She is going to skin me alive. First I fail at being an adult, now I'm pregnant. I didn't even think about that." Rory stammered as a feeling of dread came over her.
"Look on the bright side, Rory." Lorelai took a sip of her coffee before continuing, "After the raging and speeches about how much of a failure you are, she won't talk to you until at least your 5th month."
"Thanks, mom. That's really comforting." Rory sat back in her chair and slid her phone into her bag.
"Hey. I just tell it like it is." Lorelai said, getting up from the table. "C'mon, let's go get some breakfast at Luke's. He gave me the wifi password yesterday which I may have given to Miss Patty, so I'm sure the whole town knows by now."
"Mom! That's cruel! That's twisted! It's sick!"
"Yea, but I just love the way that little vein in his forehead bulges when he's mad. Let's go!"