By the way in case anyone was wondering the story rory was reading bella is called 'RainbowMagic'. Stories and pictures by Shirley Barber. I chose that book cause it was my favourite when I was little.
After work Rory picked up Bella from Colin and Finn's place, on the way home Rory asked "Alright baby girl your turn to pick dinner?"
"Umm how about Chinese." Bella answered.
"Sure let's stop by Dengs Diner on the way home."
"Yummy!" Bella told her mum
The girls grabbed their dinner and headed home. While eating dinner they watched 'Aliens in the attic' in the lounge room. Once the movie had finished Rory put Bella to bed then worked on her article for a bit before going to bed herself.
"Wake-up! Wake-up! Time to get up! " yelled excitedly jumping on her mother's bed.
"Alright let's go get you some breakfast then. How does scrambled eggs sound?"
"Yes please and don't forget the cup of warm Milo." She reminded her mother.
Rory just laughed "I won't forget your Milo."
"Good, cause Uncle Finn ALWAYS forgets" she said matter of factly.
Rory gave her daughter her breakfast and had several cups of coffee herself. They finished their breakfast and left and Rory dropped Bella off at Colin and Finn's place. Colin was sitting in the kitchen having breakfast and as Finn isn't really BFF"s with the sun he was in his room asleep.
"Okay pretty girl, mummy's gotta go to work now, but have fun and I'll see you after work" Rory said then kissed Bella, waved by to Colin and left.
"So what would you like to do today?" Colin asked Bella.
She thought for a minute "how about we watch some movies?"
"Sure thing, how about you pick them out."
Ever since Bella had started watching movies at their place on a regular basis Colin and Finn had developed quite a collection, it didn't rival Rory and Bella's by a long shot but it was decent.
Bella had decided on 'Ella Enchanted', 'Remember Me' and 'The Pacifier'.
He looked down at the movies doubtfully and said "does your mum let you watch this?" he asked her referring to 'Remember Me'.
"Oh yeah we watch it all the time." She said sweetly, giving him the bambi eyes she learnt from her mum.
"Alright" he said slowly. He knew he was probably going to regret it later but he just couldn't say no to those baby blues.
They put in the first movie and started watching it. About 20 minutes into the third DVD Rory came and found them asleep, she didn't want to wake them and she hadn't seen 'The Pacifier' in a while so she decided to sit down and watch it as they watched it through their eye lids. As the end credits started to roll up Bella and Colin started to stir.
Rory turned the TV off and said "well, well hello sleepy heads."
"Mummy." Bella said
"Rory how long have you been there?" Colin asked her
"Long enough to watch the whole movie, I didn't want to wake you." She told him.
"I guess we were pretty sleepy huh" Colin said
"Yeah, where's Finn? Normally he's bouncing around this time of day"
"Yeah, I guess he hit it pretty hard last night" he said
"I need to get Bella home and you had better check Finn's mental state."
When Bella and Rory got home they had pizza for dinner and watched 'Just Visiting'. Once Bella was asleep Rory called her mother and instead of saying hello Lorelai answered "daughter of mine"
"Hey mum, how are you?" Rory asked
"I just talked to yourgrandmother…"
"Uh, oh. When you say it like that something has happened"
"Not really… she just gave me hell for my answering machine greeting message."
"Are you sure that's all it is?" Rory asked knowing that it wasn't.
"Yeah, I'm just sick of having to hear her go on and on about how 'inappropriate it is'. Argh. I'm really not liking that woman right now." Lorelai grumbled.
"Aren't you always?" Rory asked
"True. Very true. As always you're the smartest cookie in the jar." Lorelai responded
Rory just shook her head at that response; her mother could say the nuttiest things sometimes.
"Well how would you like to spend some time with you granddaughter to help cheer you up?" Rory asked.
"Really? I'd love to look after her." Lorelai told her daughter bouncing up and down.
"Thanks. You can stop bouncing up and down now." Rory told her mother knowingly
Lorelai stopped with a guilty grin on her face.
"So how about this weekend? I'll pack her a bag and give it to you after Friday night dinner?"
"What are you doing this weekend, that requires the sudden need to send your daughter to the crazy town we call Stars Hollow?" Lorelai asked her daughter.
"How did? Doesn't matter. If you must know I have a lot of work to do and as well behaved as she is having a little girl running around makes it a bit difficult."
"It's okay you don't need to explain it to me, I love that little girl." Lorelai said
"Thanks mum." Rory said
"No problem. Bye sweets." Lorelai replied
Bella gave Rory her usual wake up call.
"Morning baby girl."
"Mummy!"
"what would you say if I told you you're gonna spend some time in Stars Hollow with your grandparents?" Rory asked Bella.
Bella's eyes lit up "really! Can I stay the WHOLE weekend there?"
Rory laughed lightly and said "Sure you haven't stayed there in a while so yeah you can stay the whole weekend. Right now though we need to get ready."
Rory and Bella were just coming out of the elevator on Colin and Finn's apartment floor when a man blast past them as they started walking down the hall when they heard Colin yelling "Finn! Finn Rostchild get back, Finn!"
The two girls realized the man was Finn, a very naked Finn. But all he did was get in the elevator and scare the hell out of an elderly lady.
The girls went into the apartment they should have been shocked but they weren't and actually come to think of it they really shouldn't be because in the 8 or so years since she had met Finn she had discovered that when it comes to Finn strange things such as this were a common occurrence.
Colin was just standing there just inside the doorway.
"So I see Finn is going through another one of his naked phases." Rory said
"Yeah, but he'll come back eventually. He always does." Colin said the last bit was more to himself then anyone else.
"Alrighty then let me know if there's anything I can do." Rory told him
"Thanks Rory." He told her.
"No problem." Rory said
"See you guys this afternoon." She told Bella and Colin.
Rory went to work while Colin and Bella watched all the Harry Potter movies. Just as the credits for the last one came up Colin's phone started to ring.
"Hello" Colin answered.
"Is this Colin McCrae?"
"Yes." He told the man on the other end on the phone.
"This is Detective Frank Taylor of the New York police department; I'm calling about Finn Rostchild."
Just as Rory walked in Colin sighed and said "where did you find him this time?" Colin sighed again and said "uh huh alright I'll be right." With no sense of urgency in his voice. He turned to see Rory with Bella in her arms.
"So they found Finn?" she asked Colin.
"Yeah. Apparently he was pole dancing on one of the giant mushrooms that are in the middle of the local pool. As there were people in the pool some of them freaked out then one of them called the police. When he saw the police he ran across the road to the park and up the big old oak tree in the attempt to get away from them." Colin told the girls who by the end of the story were laughing so much and when Colin really thought about it he started laughing too.
"Classic… Finn…" was all Rory managed to get out. "You had better go get him. I have to pack Bella a bag for this weekend. Thanks Colin. Oh and good luck with Finn" Rory said
"Thanks" Colin said
