A/N Special thanks to the people who reviewed!
Kristen- I don't really hate Richard and Emily. During the first season, Lorelai and her parents had tons of stuff to still work out and there was still a lot of emotional baggage there in between them. They tried to work it out, but there was so much there that it was hard. Lorelai reacted the way she did to Emily's message because what she confessed to Luke, she's been feeling from them ever since she was a little girl. So, even the smallest thing brought that feeling back up again. I do really hate Christopher though. Hehe. Thanks for reviewing!
Sugary sweet- Whenever I watch the very end of Kill Me Now I always end up feeling sorry for Lorelai. Lorelai and her parents will end up getting a better relationship. It will just take time. Lorelai just started seeing them regularly and talking to them regularly. Thanks for reviewing!
Disclaimer- Considering I didn't even bother to try that Freaky Friday with ASP this time, I don't own it. Please don't sue.
Lorelai, Rory, and Luke are all in the kitchen on a Saturday morning. Luke is making Lorelai and Rory breakfast. Rory is holding her school supply list in her hand.
"Okay, so I have to get legal pads, tons of pens, number 2 pencils, three highlighters, an eraser, a staple remover, and a folder." She said reading off her list.
"Why do you need three highlighters?" Luke asked and began to set their breakfast on plates.
"One gets lost, one dries up, and I have one left." Rory said.
"Of course." Lorelai said. "Oh, yummy!" Lorelai said when Luke set pancakes, eggs, and bacon in front of them.
"It's so much more convenient to have Luke here to cook us breakfast rather than walking all the way to Luke's." Rory said and took a sip of her coffee.
"Yah, especially since we can wake up at noon like we did and still get to eat all the great breakfast food and not have to have lunch instead." Lorelai said.
"Yah, and then we can have lunch an hour later." Rory said.
"Jeez, you're gonna have lunch in an hour?" Luke asked.
"Yah, then we're going to go school supply shopping." Rory said.
"Woohoo! Party!" Lorelai said sarcastically and took another bite of her pancake.
"Can't you use the stuff you had at Stars Hollow High?" Luke asked.
"All my stuff I used at Stars Hollow High is pink and funny. I need serious stuff for a serious school." Rory said.
"But it's fun to have funny paper." Lorelai said. "Like one time I was in the 8th grade and I had this really boring teacher. He would go on and on about nothing and his voice always put us to sleep. So, one time I bought this paper that had a bunch of jokes on it. So he was talking one day and I looked at a joke on the paper, I think it was something about a pickle, and started laughing. When he asked me what I was laughing about, I couldn't stop. Of course, I was sent to the principal's office which made mom and dad really mad but that was just a perk." Lorelai ended her story.
"Wow, Rory, you've got a great role model there who laughs at pickle jokes." Luke said.
"Yep, that's my mother." Rory said.
Lorelai pouted. "I don't like it when my boyfriend and my daughter team up against me." She said.
Luke got up and grabbed his wallet and keys. "I'll see you guys for lunch right?" He asked.
"Yah, we just have to change and we'll be there." Rory said.
"Okay bye." He said and gave Rory's shoulder a squeeze and gave Lorelai a kiss.
"Bye hun." Lorelai said and Luke left.
"Okay, so are you done with breakfast yet babe?" Lorelai asked Rory.
"Yah, I'm done. Be ready in an hour okay mom?" Rory said.
"Yes, I'll be ready in an hour. Then we go to that rave you were talking about." Lorelai said and left to go take a shower and change.
A couple days later Lorelai and Rory walk in to the diner. Lorelai is talking non stop but Rory hardly seems to notice. They find a table and Luke comes up to them to take their order.
"What do-" He asks but Lorelai cuts him off.
"What no kiss?" Lorelai asks.
Luke rolls his eyes. "Right sorry." He says and kisses her. "You were too busy talking to kiss you anyways." He said.
"Hey! I resent that!" She says. Rory still seems lost in her own world.
"What do you want?" Luke asks again.
Lorelai smiles seductively. "Well, I want to-"
"Don't finish that. Rory is sitting right here." He says and blushes.
"Fine. I'll have blueberry pancakes with a side of bacon." She says.
"Okay. Rory?" He asks.
Rory doesn't answer.
"Rory?" He asks again.
Rory doesn't answer and keeps staring out the window.
"What's wrong?" Luke asks Lorelai.
Lorelai looks concerned. "I don't know. At home last night she was really grumpy and didn't want to watch TV or eat ice cream. Which a Gilmore never turns down. All she wanted to do was study." Lorelai says.
"Did something happen at school?" Luke asks Lorelai.
"Maybe. She hasn't told me anything." Lorelai says.
"Do you wanna take her upstairs to talk or something?" Luke asks.
"Yah thanks." She says and starts to shake Rory.
Rory comes out of the day dream. "What mom? What's going on?" She asks.
"Let's go to Luke's apartment to talk okay hun?" Lorelai says.
Rory looks confused. "Okay." She says and follows Luke and Lorelai upstairs.
Rory sits on the couch in between Lorelai and Luke.
"Rory, what's wrong?" Lorelai asks gently.
"Nothing why?" She replies.
"It's just you're acting really weird." Lorelai says.
"No I'm not." Rory says.
"Yes you are. You didn't want ice-cream, you stare off in space for no reason, and you won't stop studying. Now, what's wrong?" Lorelai asks again.
"I got a D." Rory whispers and looks down at her fiddling hands.
"That's what this is about?" Lorelai asks.
"Yah." Rory answers.
"Why didn't you tell your mom, Rory?" Luke asks.
Rory looks at Luke. "It was too humiliating. I mean, I got a D. I never get a D!" Rory says.
"Rory, you just switched schools. It's going to take some adjusting. Plus, you and your mom can study and raise your grade." Luke says.
"Yah, I guess." Rory says.
"Rory, when is your next test?" Lorelai asks.
"Friday." She mumbles.
"Okay, so all this week, we're going to study. We are going to eat, sleep, and study. And nothing else, okay?" Lorelai asks.
Rory smiles, cheering up. "Yah, that sounds good. Mom, don't you have that parent/teacher thing tonight?" Rory asks.
"You have a parent/teacher thing tonight? We were supposed to go out tonight." Luke says disappointed.
"Yah, I totally forgot about it. Sorry, Luke." Lorelai says sympathetically.
Luke sighs. "That's okay. Rory's education comes first anyways." He says.
Lorelai smiles. "Thanks Luke." She says and hugs him.
"Come on, kid. Let's get home and study our butts off." Lorelai says and Rory and Lorelai walk home.
After the parent/teacher meeting and embarrassing herself in front of all the parents at Chilton, Lorelai felt she needed a coffee fix and a Luke fix. Rory would be in bed already anyways.
Lorelai opened the door to the diner and found Luke closing up. He had his back to her.
"We're closed." He said.
"But whatever will I do?" Lorelai said in a fake southern accent and put her hand to her head.
Luke turned around and smiled. "Hey." He said and gave her a kiss.
"Mmm, that just improved my night my 50." Lorelai said.
"How was the meeting thing?" Luke asked and went to get Lorelai some coffee as she sat down at the counter.
"Ugh, bad. I got there late and then embarrassed myself in front of all the rich snobs. One even made a comment about how Rory was here on a scholarship and that she already knew who I was just by the way I acted. Then I talked to one of Rory's teachers and he uh..." Lorelai stopped.
Luke handed her her coffee. "He what?" He asked, now giving her his full attention.
"He kind of flirted with me." She said.
"What! Did you flirt with him?" Luke asked her outraged.
"What? No, of course not! I didn't flirt back at all. After he flirted with me I said I had to go and left." She said.
Luke calmed down. "Okay good." He said.
"Luke, you know I would never cheat on you. You're my boyfriend. I'm staying put." Lorelai told him.
"Yah, I know. I just still get jealous some times." Luke said.
"Well, you don't have to. It's okay. I promise." Lorelai said and put her hand over his.
"Yah, I know. Thanks." He said.
Lorelai got an evil glint in her eyes. "Hey Luke?" She asked.
"Yah?" He answered.
"Did that count as a fight?" Lorelai asked.
"No, why?" Luke asked confused.
Lorelai pouted. "Because if that would have been a fight, we could have had crazy make- up sex." Lorelai said.
"Lorelai, Rory's at home." Luke said.
"Yah, she's asleep by now. Anyways, she knew I might stop here after the meeting anyways." Lorelai said.
"Jeez, Lorelai, you shouldn't be telling Rory that kind of stuff." He said.
"Well, I already did. I guess I'll just go then." Lorelai said and got up, pretending to be leaving.
"It counted as a fight!" Luke said from behind her.
Lorelai smirked and kissed him.
Lorelai tip-toed in to the house at midnight that night. She quietly walked to Rory's room and opened the door. She then sat on Rory's bed, waking her up.
Rory squinted in the darkness. "Hey mom. How was the meeting?" Rory asked.
"Ugh bad. Everyone was really mean and your teacher tried to flirt with me." Lorelai said.
"Eww, Mr. Medina?" Rory said.
Lorelai nodded her head.
"How did Luke take it?" Rory asked.
"He got kind of mad, but I reassured him." Lorelai said.
"Obviously. It's mid-night." Rory said and yawned.
Lorelai smirked wickedly.
"God, mom, stop making that face." Rory said.
Lorelai looked innocent. "What face? I do not know what you are talking about, child." Lorelai said.
"The 'I just had fantastic sex with Luke' face. It's creeping me out." Rory said.
Lorelai smiled. "Night hun. Love you." Lorelai said.
"I love you too mom." Rory said.
Lorelai walked quietly to the door and opened it a little more so she could get out.
"You still have that face on, mom." Rory whispered from behind her and Lorelai just laughed.
Lorelai woke up on Friday morning with a bad neck pain. She lifted her head from off the table and remembered that she and Rory had fallen asleep there last night after having studied for half of the night.
Lorelai groaned loudly, waking Rory up.
"Mom?" Rory asked and looked at her watch. "Oh no! Oh no!" Rory said and ran in to her room.
Rory came out a few minutes later in her Chilton uniform. "Mom, I missed my bus! I'm going to miss my test! Get up!" Rory yelled.
Lorelai got up quickly. "No, you aren't. I'll drive you." She said and started towards the door with Rory.
"I can't take you." She said and stopped abruptly right before exiting the kitchen.
"What!" Rory yelled.
"I have a meeting at the inn at 8 that I can't miss!"
"Mom!"
"No, wait I have an idea!" Lorelai said and walked back in to the kitchen and grabbed the phone. "Come on, pick up."
"Who are you calling?" Rory asked.
"Hello?" Luke answered.
"Luke? It's Lorelai. Look, Rory missed her bus and I need you to drive her to school." Lorelai said.
"What?" Luke and Rory said at the same time.
"Luke!" Lorelai said.
"I'll be right there." He said and hung up.
"Luke will be here in 2 minutes to take you to school." Lorelai said relieved. "Now, do you have everything you need?" Lorelai asked.
"Umm, yes." Rory said after checking her back pack.
"Okay. Now give me a hug." Lorelai said and pulled Rory in to a hug. "You'll do great kiddo." Lorelai said and they heard Luke pull up. Rory ran out to his truck and jumped in.
"Good luck!" Lorelai called from her porch as they pulled away.
"Thanks mom!" Rory said from the window and waved.
Rory was studying her notes on the way to Chilton with Luke.
"Rory, did you guys stay up all night to study?" Luke asked.
Rory looked up from her notes. "I think we fell asleep around 2." Rory said.
"Jeez. I bet you memorized your notes by now." Luke said.
Rory laughed. "Just about." She said. "Thanks for doing this, Luke."
"Oh, you're welcome. You know I would do anything for you and your mom." Luke said sincerely.
Rory smiled at him. "Thanks, Luke. Oh, we're here." She said and waited for him to pull up to the large school.
"Do you, uh, want me to, uh, walk you in or anything?" Luke asked unsure of how to proceed.
Rory opened the truck's green door. "I'm pretty sure I'll be okay, Luke. Thanks though." She said and ran in to school.
Luke arrived back in Stars Hollow half an hour later and went back to work. At about 10 Lorelai stopped in for her regular mid-morning coffee fix.
Lorelai came in and sat at the counter and gave Luke a quick kiss.
"Hey" Luke greeted.
"Hey. So did Rory get to school okay?" Lorelai asked as Luke gave her a cup of coffee.
"Yah, she got there fine and she was even reading her notes on the way to school." Luke said.
"Don't know where she got that from." Lorelai said. "Okay, so do you want to hear about the really weird morning so far?"
"Yah, tell me." Luke said and began to clean the counter.
"Okay, so we got the review back from the food critic and he said only great things about the inn and everything. But he said that Sookie's magic risotto was only fine. So Sookie began to make a bunch of different recipes until she realized that the food critic had a wrong wine or something. So, she made some risotto and is at his house now, getting him to try it." Lorelai said.
"Isn't that the risotto that made her mother live longer?" Luke asked.
"Yep." Lorelai replied. "That's why she got she worked up about it."
"Well, I have to get back to the inn. See you later, hun." Lorelai said and gave Luke a quick kiss.
Lorelai was at the inn when she got a call from Headmaster Charleston. He said that Rory was yelling at students and causing a disruption.
Lorelai rushed to the school and found Rory sitting on a bench.
"Hey kid, what happened?" Lorelai asked.
Rory sighed. "After the test, Paris came up to me and started bugging me. Apparently she saw Luke drop me off. Anyways, she went on and on insulting me, which I could handle. But then she insulted you and Luke. She said that you were so poor and stuff that you had to have your grubby boyfriend drop me off in his old truck. Then I snapped. I started yelling at her. You would have been proud at my references too." Rory said.
"Aw hun, you don't have to defend Luke and I. You know that none of that stuff is true, so just ignore Paris." Lorelai said.
There was a pause in the conversation for a few minutes. "So, you have good references huh?" Lorelai asked.
"Oh, yah, you would have been proud." Rory said and smiled.
The door opened to show Headmaster Charleston.
"Miss Gilmore, please come in here so I can speak with you." The Headmaster said.
After Lorelai had yelled and screamed at Headmaster Charleston then got lectured herself, her and Rory went back home for an all day movie night. Luke joined them at 7 that night.
"Lorelai, Rory, I come with food!" He said when he entered.
"Yay! Food!" They said in together and made room on the couch for Luke to sit down.
"What are you watching?" Luke asked as he pulled a salad out of the bag for himself.
"Bonnie and Clyde." Rory answered and reached for her burger without taking her eyes off the screen.
"What's that?" Luke asked.
"You have never seen Bonnie and Clyde?" Lorelai and Rory asked astonished.
"Uh, no." He said and took a bite of his salad.
Lorelai put her hand over her heart. "I'm in too much emotional pain right now to explain it. Rory, you explain it to the monk." Lorelai said.
"Okay, so the movie is set in the Great Depression. Bonnie is bored with life and Clyde wants to live a life of crime to escape the Depression. They fall in love and go on a crime spree all the way from Oklahoma to Texas. They rob small banks and they start to become famous. The people are proud of them and the government is not in this nail biter." Rory explained.
"Okay. Did it just start?" Luke asked.
"Yah, it we just put it in." Lorelai said.
Halfway through the movie, Luke spoke "Oh, Rory, how was school?" He asked
Rory looked at Lorelai uncomfortably. "Oh, um, well something happened at school." She said and shifted on the couch.
"What? What happened at school? Are you okay?" Luke asked concerned.
"Yah, I'm fine. It's just, well, after you dropped me off, Paris I guess saw. So, she came up to me after the test and started insulting me and stuff which I took. But then she insulted you and mom and I snapped. I started yelling at her. So, I got sent to the principal's office and mom had to come." Rory explained.
Luke looked shocked. "Oh, well, Rory, you don't have to defend us you know. But thanks for doing it." He said. He looked touched.
Rory smiled. "You're welcome." She said and they went back to watching Bonnie and Clyde.
A/N So, that's Deer Hunters. Thank you so much to the people who reviewed the last chapter. Though, I only got 2 reviews. Please review this chapter peeps! If I get enough reviews, I'll try to get another chapter in a couple days! Please click Bob!
