"Hey, sleepyhead," Lorelai said, smiling, as Rory opened her eyes, and sat up.
"So, do you have any idea where we are? Rory asked, looking at their surroundings, which consisted of trees.
"Well, we are somewhere that is surrounded by trees… hey maybe we're in the redwood forest!" Lorelai said, playfully.
"How long have I been asleep?" Rory asked.
"Just about two hours," Lorelai replied, looking at the dashboard clock, which read eight o' clock.
"So, you think that in two hours we've already reached the redwood forest?"
"It's possible," Lorelai said, grinning.
Rory sighed. "So, why aren't you listening to any music?" She implored, realizing the absence of music.
"Well…" Lorelai began, but before she could continue Rory interrupted.
"You forgot the tunes!"
"Maybe…"
"No! What are we supposed to do now?"
"I have an idea!" Lorelai said, cheerfully, "Why don't we play a game?"
"Like what?" Rory asked, unenthused.
"Well, we ask a question, like 'When will Michael Jackson stop hanging babies out windows?', and then we turn the radio to a random station, and the song that is playing is the answer!"
"Okay, anything to bide time, I suppose."
"Okay, I'll go first… radio, oh godly radio, when will we find some good coffee?" Lorelai asked, jokingly. She turned the radio on, and pressed a button. The song 'I Would Walk 500 Miles' by The Proclaimers comes on, right at the part that says '500 miles'.
"Ughhh, does that mean that it's going to be five hundred miles before we find good coffee?" Rory groaned.
"Well, it must be true if that's what the godly radio says… now it's your turn, ask a question!"
"Um…" Rory murmured, looking around, "How crazy is my mom?"
"Hey!" Lorelai snapped, as Rory turned to a station, and the song 'Bye Bye Bye' by N'Sync plays.
"Haha," Rory laughed, pointing at her mom, "your boy band crazy!"
"That's not very nice! Radio, oh radio, how long until I kick Rory's butt out of the car?" Lorelai teased, turning to a different station, and the song 'Don't Wait Too Long' by Frank Sinatra is playing.
"Hah, I guess what Frank is trying to tell is that I shouldn't wait too long to kick your butt out!" Lorelai laughed.
"Well, go right ahead, but then whatever will you do for entertainment?"
"Maybe I'll stop at a roadside shack and by a squirrel," Lorelai said, wistfully.
"Suuure, too bad the squirrel won't have my ability to talk. Now, radio, what is the meaning of life?" Rory says, as she turns to another station and the song 'Bang on the Drum all day' by Todd Rundgren plays.
"Wow, I was right all along, the meaning to life really is banging on drums!" Lorelai exclaimed.
"Okay my turn," Lorelai continued, "Radio, what is Luke doing right now?" Lorelai wasn't sure why she had asked that, it had just sort of came out. She hoped Rory didn't get suspicious; she was so tired of telling people that she and Luke were just friends. But, she thought, is there a reason for Rory to get suspicious? No, no of course not, Luke is just my friend, and that's it, she told herself. She changed the radio to another station, and 'Macarena' plays. Lorelai and Rory burst out laughing.
"You really think Luke is doing the Macarena right now?" Rory managed, through giggles.
"I don't know," Lorelai replied, still laughing, "Want to call and see?" Lorelai thought that it'd be absolutely hilarious to call and annoy and confuse Luke, but she knew, deep down, that there was other reasoning behind wanting to call Luke. So, Lorelai got out her cell phone, and began dialing the diner's number.
"Luke's," Luke answered, on the first ring.
"Wow, that was quick, were you taking a break from Macarenaing?" Lorelai asked, sniggering.
"What? Lorelai? What are you talking about?" Luke asked, clearly confused.
"Luke, you don't have to hide it anymore, we know that you secretly do the Macarena in the storage room at the diner," Lorelai replied, covering the mouth of the phone while she laughed with Rory.
"What? Lorelai, I can't be bothered every time you want to play a joke on me. I'm a very busy man."
"Dirty! But anyways, you're going to have to be bothered, because I'm not going to be coming to the diner for a few days, so I have to do all my annoying over the phone," Lorelai told him matter-of-factly.
"Why aren't you going to be coming to the diner?"
"Oh well, Rory and me decided to go on a little road trip."
"More like you decided," Rory said in the background.
"Oh, god. Did you at least bring a map this time?"
"Hey, maps are no fun!" Lorelai declared, childishly.
"Hey, whatever you say."
"Yes, whatever I say, because I am ruler of all!"
"Oh god," Rory murmured, taking the phone from Lorelai, who defiantly said 'Hey!'
"Luke, stop boosting her ego, it's already big enough," Rory said, commandingly into the phone.
"Hey!" Lorelai exclaimed, again, grabbing the phone back from Rory.
"Well, Luke, this is where I say ta-ta. But don't worry, I'll be back," Lorelai said, in mock of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
"Yeah, yeah," Luke said hanging up.
Lorelai clicked the 'end' button on the phone, and said, "Well, as long as I have the phone out I'd better call Sookie." And she dialed the number of the Independence Inn.
"Independence Inn," Michel answered the phone, sounding like his always annoyed self.
"Hello, this is, uh, Tookie Clothespin, and I want to book a room for October 5th of 2020," Lorelai said trying to disguise her voice, while suppressing giggles.
"Lorelai? Is that you? Why do you annoy me like this? Why, oh why, do you constantly torture me?" Michel said, and Lorelai thought she could hear him stamping his foot.
"Yes, Michel, it's yours truly, could you please give the phone to Sookie?"
"Fine," Michel said, impatiently.
Lorelai could hear Michel walking into the kitchen, and calling Sookie's name, then she heard Sookie saying something about stirring. Finally she heard Sookie's voice.
"Hello?" Sookie asked.
"Hey, Sook, it's me."
"Lorelai! Honey where are you?"
"Well, I'm on a road trip with Rory."
"Oh," Sookie paused for a second, and then continued, "Why?"
"Um, well, because…" Lorelai said, racking her brain for an answer. Why had she gone on this trip? She asked herself.
"Because why?"
"Uh, for fun," Lorelai replied, hoping Sookie wouldn't ask about it anymore.
"Well, how long are you planning on being gone?" Sookie asked.
Lorelai hadn't thought of that. "Um, no longer than a couple days."
"Okay, well have fun!"
"We will, thanks Sook," Lorelai said, hanging up her phone.
"So, wanna continue the radio game?" Lorelai asked Rory, who was now reading Middlemarch, by George Eliot.
Rory looked up from her book, "Not really," she said, and went back to reading.
"Well, wanna play a different game?"
"No, not really," Rory said, not looking up from her book.
"Well, what do you expect me to do for entertainment?"
"Fine, I'll play a game—"
"Yes!"
"But," Rory continued, "Answer me one thing first."
Oh no, Lorelai thought, but smiled and said, "Okay, shoot."
"Why are we really on this road trip?"
The eternal question, Lorelai thought, why are we really on this road trip? Lorelai couldn't even answer that for herself, though deep down, she did know the real answer, but she didn't want to think of that, so she pushed it away, and with a deep breath she answered, "Honestly? I don't know."
Her answer was partly true, when she had originally decided on the road trip, she really hadn't known why, or maybe she had deep down, but all she'd known was that she needed to take a break. Now she knew why she needed to take a break, to think. To think about him. How could she think about him if she was seeing him every time she went into the diner to have some coffee, and every time she went in there he was smiling at her. Oh how she loved that smile. Lorelai began to smile just thinking about it.
"Mom?" Rory aroused Lorelai from her thoughts.
"Yeah, hon?"
"What are you smiling about?"
"Oh, nothing, you know just random smiling. does it all the time."
"Alright…"
"Okay, so we gonna play a game now?" Anything to change the subject, Lorelai thought.
"Yeah, sure, but not the radio game," Rory said, dog-earing her book, and putting it away.
"Aw, you're no fun!" Lorelai pouted.
"Well, choose a game, or I'm going back to reading."
"No, you choose! I can't think of anything."
"Then I'll go back to reading, and you can concentrate on driving," Rory said, reaching for her book.
"But concentrating on driving is no fun!" Lorelai protested.
"Try it, maybe you'll find it fun," Rory said, as she begun reading again.
"Fine," Lorelai relented, focusing her attention on the never ending road.