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It was the morning of her daughters first day at school, so she knew that she would have to put on a brave face. Rory was growing up so quickly, moreso than Lorelai cared to admit. She could tie her own shoes, dress herself, could spell her own name and could almost read already. Rory had been talking about it all summer and had gone so far as to lay her own outfit out on the chair next to hers and Lorelai's bed in the potting shed. Whether Lorelai was ready to send her off to school, she wasn't too sure. She had just been promoted to the front desk at the inn so it meant that she could work while Rory was at school. Lorelai looked at her five year old who was fast as asleep and reminded herself that she is still a little girl who likes to sleep with her teddy bear. Mia knocked on the door as Rory was getting dressed not long after, and Lorelai had opened the door for her. Mia wanted to see Rory before she went to school and had offered to take a photo of her and Lorelai to mark the occasion.
A couple of photos later and almost everyone who worked at the inn wishing the five year old luck on her first day, and they were walking to school. She had tried to convince Rory that she didn't need to go to school yet, but Rory wasn't believing her and grabbed her school bag. Lorelai liked that they would now have this now. Twenty or so minutes of walking and talking in the morning and afternoon. Soon enough Rory might not want to walk with her anymore, but Lorelai swore to herself that Rory would have to be thirty before that happened. They got to the school and Lorelai felt herself take a deep breath. She walked in with Rory and they found her cubby and her desk. That was when a girl came up to Rory and offered to sit with her. Lorelai knew this was a good start, a kid wanted to sit with her daughter. She put on a brave face as she hugged and kissed Rory goodbye and started tearing up as she walked away from the school. A part of her wanted to go in and check on Rory, but she knew she would be fine – she was Rory afterall.
She had a little time to kill, so she walked into the town and a few people came up and asked her how Rory was going to school. She wanted coffee, so she walked to the diner. She had never been in there before, but she figured the coffee might be okay. The diner was pretty full so she was trying to get the attention of the man working there. She eventually did and he reluctantly gave her a coffee after asking her how old she was and thinking she was meant to be in school. And he didn't look much older than she did, either. She walked back to the inn with the coffee and she had to swear it was the best that she had ever had, so she had to go back and get more on the way back to Rory. Seeing her five year old run out to her after school and basically jump into her arms made her smile. Rory talked about how much she loved school almost the whole way back to the inn and then Lorelai told her all about the grumpy diner owner and the great coffee.
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