Chapter three: You're engaged and I'm rich could this day be any more eventful?

'Knock' 'Knock' 'Knock'

Rory knocked on her father's door with her grandmother by her side. "Okay, he's not home let's go!" Francine said quickly and turned around ready to leave. Rory sighed and rolled her eyes as she caught her and turned her around just as the door opened, revealing…Lorelai.

The three women just stood there looking at each other in a mix of shock and confusion. Something about her mother's appearance caught Rory's attention causing her to raise an eyebrow over the brim of her sunglasses. "Nice rock," Rory commented dryly. "Nice Versace," Lorelai said in the same tone, looking straight at her daughter.

Francine just stood there looking between her granddaughter and, by the looks of it, her future daughter-in-law, as they silently yelled at each other for keeping the other out of the loop. "Your father and I are engaged," Lorelai said seriously, with a blank look on her face. "I'm richer than my boyfriend," Rory said coping her mother exactly. The two women nodded at each other and then Rory began jumping up and down while squealing. It was when Francine saw the large smile on Lorelai's face that she knew the small argument was over.

"Oh my god! You and dad are finally getting married!" Rory jumped and hugged her mother tight. Lorelai laughed and held her daughter tight. "Ah, you have no idea how happy I am to know you're happy about this. I hadn't told you because I wasn't sure how you would take it." Then all of the sudden Lorelai pushed her daughter away and looked at her in confusion. "Sweets? How are you richer than, Logan? Isn't his family like take over the world rich?"

Rory grimaced and pointed to the apartment they were standing in front of. "Maybe we should do this inside." Lorelai nodded and moved aside to let her daughter in, and then seemed to remember that Francine was there.

"Hello, Francine." she said politely. Francine smiled at her warmly. "Hello, Lorelai. It's a pleasure to see you again. I can only hope that we can attempt to be friends." Francine said sincerely and then placed her hand on Lorelai's arm before following her granddaughter into the apartment, leaving a shocked and bewildered Lorelai standing in the entranceway, with the door still open.

By the time Lorelai finally made it into the apartment she found Francine reading the morning newspaper sipping some tea and Rory in the kitchen getting a cup of coffee. "Rory can you come in here and please explain to mommy what's going on and please bring mommy a coffee she's getting a headache." Lorelai said as she sat on the couch and began rubbing her temples.

Moments later Rory placed the largest cup, in the house, filled with coffee, on the coffee table in front of her mother. "Do you want me to start from the beginning?" Rory asked as she said down next to her mother. Lorelai nodded, "I kind of think that would be helpful there, kiddo." Rory sighed and nodded. "Okay, it all started two weeks ago…"

Rory finally finished her story about the day Francine came over and told her about everything. Lorelai just looked at her daughter in shock, "So what you find out you have more than enough money to splurge on so you go and by the most expensive clothes you can find?" Lorelai asked a little on the made side.

She was madder at the fact that her daughter would permanently be apart of that life she had ran away from more than anything.

However, before Rory could answer that question Francine gave an unladylike snort in amusement. This caught both of the Gilmore girl's attention.

"Please, Lorelai, she is your daughter. It took me 5 days to even get her to agree to get anything expensive. And even when I finally got her to buy something she went looking around the story for the cheapest thing she could find, and when she saw the price of it I believe her eye bulged and she claimed we had to go to a department store at the mall, cause everything was cheaper there," Francine said with an amused glance at her granddaughter who was currently blushing like crazy.

"I practically had to pull teeth to get her to buy the outfit she is wearing now. And then on top of that I had to steal clothes out of her closet every time I was at her apartment, just so eventually she wouldn't have a choice but to wear the only outfit she had left." By now even Lorelai was looking at her daughter in amusement. And Rory was looking at her grandmother with her mouth dropped open in shock.

"That's where all my clothes went!" Lorelai began laughing at her daughter. It was clear to her that her daughter had forgiven her paternal grandmother and that she had recently become a permanent fixture in her life; so she had to either deal with it or fight against it and maybe loose her daughter like she had before. Which was something she wasn't willing to do again.

"Come on sweets, mommy wants to try on those fancy sunglasses you've been wearing all morning," she pouted childishly until Rory finally sighed and handed them over. She then did a little victory dance that caused both Rory and Francine to laugh.

A little while later Lorelai still had Rory's sunglasses on and was reading over the documents Francine and Rory had brought with them. Lorelai had agreed that Rory should get her masters in business just in case, she wasn't naïve enough to think the her daughter would be able to carry out all of her childhood dreams with this enormous change. But, she also noticed that Rory seemed to be happy with the change, so who was she to say otherwise…unless, of course, she ever saw her daughter becoming unhappy with the new direction of her life.

None of the women looked up when they heard the front door open. And when Chris walked into the living room he stopped dead in his tracks and then looked around the apartment to make sure he had walked into the right one. "Okay either, I am in the wrong apartment or my life has just had a twilight zone moment," he said out loud, thus causing the three women to look at him. "Hi mom, kiddo, Lor. What's going on?"

"I've gotten to know Lorelai and Lorelai quite well again and for the first time," Francine said first.

"You're engaged," Rory said second causing Chris to wince at the tone of voice she had said it in. It was one that clearly stated she wasn't happy that they had waited so long to tell her.

"Rory's a rich socialite bitch of the world," Lorelai said casually in a tone that clearly said she was just being Lorelai.

Chris looked at them all in shock, but after a moment he turned to Lorelai, "SO I guess that would mean the designer sunglasses your wearing are our daughters, then?" he asked casually. Both Lorelai and Rory nodded and said, "Versace." This caused Chris to nod. He gad come to learn over time to just go along with whatever was going on with the two Lorelai's in his life. Not only did it make life easier it saved him a lot of money that would have been spent on asprin should he have tried to figure out half of the things they were up to, "Of course."

"Pull up a file, Dad. See if you can make any sense of all this business mumbo jumbo my grandfather left me." Rory said casually while she frowned at the file she had gone back to reading.

Chris just looked at them like they all had three heads, before finally deciding to just join in for now and get answers later. Besides it was always easier to get answers from the Gilmore and Hayden women when they were willing to talk about it and at the moment it didn't look like any of them were about to give up any information.

Rory smirked as her father picked up one of the files. She watched his reaction for a moment and then let a full-fledged smirk grow on her face as she saw his eyes practically bulge out of his head. He looked up and looked right at her, "You meant my dad not her dad!" he exclaimed pointing to Lorelai.

Rory just shrugged and pointed to her grandmother, who in turn glared playfully at her. "Thank you, Lorelai," she said sarcastically. Rory just smiled, "Anytime, Grandma," she said and went back to her reading.

Both Lorelai's got up and went to get some more coffee, a move that clearly said they were leaving mother to tell son something he really needed to be told.

Rory and Lorelai sat down at the kitchen table and set their folders aside and began having their usual mother/daughter conversations. "So have you and dad set a date yet?" Rory asked her mother with a smile on her face. Lorelai smiled at her and nodded, "Yup. Actually your dad came up with the idea. We're going to get married on the day I told him that I was pregnant with you," Rory's eyes widened. "Mom, that's in like…" "Well you're going to be 22 in two weeks and I told your father in April. You do the math." she smirked at her daughter. "Mom! That's in 6 months! -- Can you plan a wedding that quickly?" Rory asked in concern. "I can if we don't tell my mother until the very last minute," Lorelai said seriously.

"Hey, what about your birthday? Are you going to have time to have a party now that you're going to have all of this work to do?" it was now Lorelai's turn to ask in concern.

Rory just looked down and shrugged. "Sweets?" Rory looked back up at her mother with sad eyes and shrugged again. "I just don't want one this year." "Are you sure sweetie?" Lorelai asked again.

Rory just shook her head positively. "Yeah, I'm sure. I don't want anything either. -Well that's a lie. But what I want I can't have, so what does it matter." Lorelai saw the tears coming to her daughter's eyes and pulled her into a hug.

"Oh sweetie, he'll be home soon. You just have to wait a little bit longer," she said soothingly. "I know. It's just he was supposed to come home for Thanksgiving and Christmas and now the asshole is making him stay in London for both holidays. God it will be so nice to stick to his family when they find out I'm a Hayden." The two of them laughed a little and then even more so when they heard Chris yell, "WHAT!"

It appeared that Francine had finally let the cat out of the bag…and managed to shock her son in the process. 'All in a day's work' Rory couldn't help but think as she let a smirk grow upon her face.

A/N: Opps! I forgot the disclaimer. Well here's the deal, I don't own Gilmore Girls at all so that's that.

wailuku: Hey thanks for the review! Yep, Rory is one of the richest women in the world. Yes, I promise Logan and Rory are still together. This story is a Rogan. No Logan has no idea…at least not yet! J Rory graduated early because she needed to keep herself busy while Logan was gone, so she took extra classes and things like that and as a result she ended up finishing her last year early. Thanks for reading and reviewing my story! I hope you keep reading! Those were some great questions by the way, thanks!

L: Thanks for the review and don't worry about being confused. That is why I am here to answer your questions. You see sometimes people don't find things that is left behind by a loved one after they pass and that is just what happened now. Francine found some files in his home office that she hadn't gone through before and found it. Sorry if you were looking for something more dramatic, Francine wasn't trying to keep Rory from her inheritance or anything, she just didn't now about it.

I will try to reply to any of the questions you ask whether they be in the chapters or through review reply program, in some sort of orderly fashion. So I thought I should get moving on that. And please if I have missed any of your questions or something please feel free to ask me again or something of that nature.

I would also like to thank the following people for reviewing the last 2 chapters! You guys are the greatest! J

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