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Rory woke the next morning to Finn kicking around in his sleep muttering something incoherent under his breath. She turned to the clock 6:48, "urgh" she groaned, "Too early." She slowly extricated herself from Finn's arms and moved into the kitchen. Today was going to be a long day she thought to herself sitting down and staring at the oven. Doing the unimaginable Rory moved over to the neat stack of cookbooks that were kept over the oven, who knew why they had them in the first place but they were there in the kitchen that was also never touched by the two women who lived in the house. Searching through the cookbook she found a recipe for pancakes, and one for chocolate chip cookies. To Rory's surprise and relief she didn't have to visit Doose's before she started. Bless Suki, for insisting to cook them a snack whenever she came over.
It was relatively straight forward making the cookies, with them in the oven she began mixing the pancake mix when she heard a scream behind her and almost dropped the bowl.
"Rory? What are you doing?" Lorelai said with a shocked expression prominent on her face.
"I'm cooking breakfast." Said Rory as if it were the most ordinary thing in the world.
"Haha, yeah yeah nice Betty Crocker impersonation, but seriously why are you … cooking." Lorelai said the word as if it was a disgusting piece of profanity coming out of her mouth. "You know there is this wonderful little place about a 5 minutes walk from here where a wonderful man in a hideous plaid shirt that will make you anything you want."
"Mum it's nothing I just needed to get my mind off a few things."
"What things, your 16 you should be thing free for another year at least."
"Grandma rang last night."
"To declare war in the Gilmore household. World War II had nothing on what she has coming." She looked at the coffee pot and wheeled around to face Rory, "It's empty, why is it empty?"
When Rory looked to see what she was talking about she ducked her head. "Because I didn't make any this morning." She mumbled going back to what she was doing.
"I'm sorry I thought that you said you didn't make any, but if that was the case you would be an impostor posing as my one and only daughter."
"Mum… Grandma."
"Oh yeah, so did she call to declare war?"
"No mum," Rory said rolling her eyes at her mother's antics. "Francine rang last night."
"Francine well it's close enough to war I suppose, although we shouldn't be surprised she did say she would call." Said Lorelai remembering the previous night, however her love for her daughter stopped her from saying the thing that was really going through her head at that moment, she really did want Rory to have a good relationship with her paternal grandparents, however the thought of her becoming their heiress just made her think that Rory would get too close. "When's the big shopping trip?"
"At one." Said Rory with a bitter edge to her voice, why didn't she give herself more time to prepare herself.
"Today?"
"Yeah today."
"You know that's in like five hours right?"
"Thankyou captain obvious." Said Rory not wanting to remember how shorter time she had before they started their 'shopping expedition' as Francine had so eloquently put it on Friday night.
"Ooo superhero names, but mines boring. Why can't I be something fun like the sexy falcon. Ha I like it very predatoresq. And provocative yay double points."
"Mum, ooo sorry still being serious got it. Well babe I hate to be the one to say it, but maybe its better if you just go along with the whole thing, I mean you are going to be their heiress."
"Fine but you have to help me find something to wear." She said in a huff starting to cook the pancakes.
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By the time everyone had woken up breakfast was ready on the table, it wasn't until halfway through breakfast that anyone made any comment on where the food came from. To say that everyone sitting at the table was shocked by Rory's cooking skills was an understatement.
"Luke has outdone himself yet again." Said Steph getting a second helping of pancakes and making her way back to the small round table.
Lorelai snorted into her fifth cup of, coffee for the morning.
"Ew gross mum."
"Well… do you guys wanna know who really cooked the pancakes." She said raising her eyebrows to the waiting teens. "I'll give you a clue, she bears a remarkable resemblance to me and her name rhymes with story." Barely able to contain her laughter at this point when she looked at her daughters red face Lorelai got up from the table and went upstairs to get ready for work.
"Rore you can cook?" said Logan looking at her with an amazed look on his face.
"Hey if journalism doesn't work out you know what you could fall back on, you could be a female Ainsley Harriot." Said Finn with a teasing tone to his voice
"No Jamie Oliver." Offered Colin.
"No no the two fat ladies then she can always have Lorelai by her side." Said Steph with an excited look in her eye.
"Yeah my mother with a knife I could imagine the carnage now, and didn't one of them die." Rory said hoping desperately to get off the subject of her cooking.
After breakfast Rory started to get ready for her shopping date with her Grandmother, after modelling several outfits for her friends she finally found something that was Hayden appropriate, everyone was going to head back to Hartford just before her grandmother was due to arrive and would see each other that night when she got home.
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When one o'clock came Rory wasn't surprised to hear a knock at the door, as she looked out the window she gasped seeing a limo parked in the drive of her house.
"Grandma." She said as she swung the door open to greet Francine.
"Hello dear, you look lovely today. Are you ready to leave or do you need a few minutes?"
"Nope, ready as I'll ever be." Rory said with a smile walking out onto the porch and locking the door behind her. "Where are we going anyway."
"Just to the mall today dear, don't want to overwhelm you the first time now do we," she said with a light laugh to her voice that Rory hadn't heard in Francine's voice before.
"Before we leave I would like to introduce you to Noah." Said Francine looking intently at Rory urging her to greet the man before her, "He will be your diver from now on."
"My what?" Rory asked her eyes bulging at the thought of having a personal chauffer.
""Your driver dear," said Francine containing her laughter at her granddaughter's reaction. "You don't have to use the car all the time, but its there and on call if you ever need it, or want it."
They sidled into the car and made their way to the mall, mostly discussing their upcoming shopping ventures before they arrived. When they pulled up to the mall Francine immediately led Rory to the first clothing store she saw, going towards the rack and pulling off pants, shirts, tops, sweaters, skirts, trousers, jackets and dresses until each of their shopping assistance arms were laden with clothes. Francine then requested a private dressing room, where Rory proceeded to try on each article of clothing they had picked up, listening and arguing with some of Francine's comments. The arguments between the two ladies were not on the style of clothes picked out by Rory's Grandmother, she actually had quite good taste, the arguments came about upon Rory seeing the price that came with the clothes. When Rory voiced her concerns on each piece of clothing Francine stubbornly crossed her arms and insisted that the price was nothing to worry about.
After what seemed like hours they finally left the first store, Rory had stood well away as Francine purchased the clothing so as not to hear how much was spent in such a short time. She looked at her watch 2:30 how had only an hour and a half passed it seemed like so much more. it wasn't that she was having a bad time with Francine, the shopping was just a bit extravagant for her. Francine joined her and smiled before leading her onto a shoe store that they walked past.
Francine smiled at her Granddaughter, she had been so looking forward to spending time with her since the phone call last night. She must have checked the clock at least thirty times before leaving the house at a quarter past twelve.
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By 6:00 Rory felt like they had bought everything humanly possible within the mall, walking out into the limo and looking at all the bags in the trunk of the car, Rory realised that she must have an entirely new wardrobe by this point. Where was she going to put all of these clothes?
When they arrived back at the 'crap shack', Stephanie was waiting on the porch swing for them to arrive. She ran up to car and insisted she help carrying in the bags, saying that she needed to help and see the goodies. Francine graciously accepted an invitation to come in for some coffee. Once inside they took a quick tour of the house and Francine quickly went over a few things that the lawyers needed to discuss with her. The whole process seemed very tedious to Rory who took in everything that her Grandmother told her. She was not looking forward to meeting these lawyers anytime soon.
When Francine saw her Granddaughter look overwhelmed by everything that was going on she stopped and smiled placing her hands on Rory's before telling her that everything would be ok and over and done with before she knew. After setting a weekend in a fortnight's time to go on a proper shopping trip for 3 days in New York, Francine left leaving Rory and Steph to make enough room for Rory's new wardrobe.
Halfway through putting the clothes away Steph turned around frustrated, "Hey, you guys don't use the kitchen maybe your Mum will let you turn it into a wardrobe, your gonna need it at this rate and just think what your wardrobe will look like after you come back from New York."
At 7:30 the girls gave up and simply folded the rest of the clothes and placed all of the shoes on the floor at the end of her bed. Steph insisted that she be allowed to pick out Rory's outfit for the evening. Lorelai wouldn't be coming back tonight, she said to Rory that she was going out for the night and would fill her in, in the afternoon. Rory was going to stay at Steph's tonight so that they could go to school together the next morning, the boys were meeting them there so that they could hang out and didn't have to stay in their own houses.
Steph dressed Rory up like her own life sized Barbie, finally deciding on a pair of skinny cut jeans and a simple tank top with a pattern of swirls of blue in different shades and designs. She pulled back Rory's hair and gave her a once over before deeming her suitable to leave.
By the time that they arrived at Stephanie's the boys were already there waiting in her room, playing video games and laughing at Colin's third loss in a row.
"Ahem" Steph cleared her throat and Colin, Logan and Finn's heads all snapped to attention when they realised that the girls had arrived. Finn went to get up when Rory came behind the couch and pulled him into a hug from behind. He turned his head and kissed her head before whispering to her, to get over there with him.
"And what if I don't?" she said hoping to bait him, she watched his face turned into a pout and sighed dramatically, as she went to sit on the floor in front of him, Rory felt a pair of hands take her waist and pulled her onto someone's lap.
She turned to see a smirk on Finn's face before he tutted and asked, "Where did you think you were going love?"
"Well you know that Logan gets jealous when I spend too much time with you," she said sticking out her tongue at Finn before his lips came down on hers. She let her tongue move into his mouth and Finn let out a low moan from his throat, before behind next to them Colin, Logan and Stephanie all began to make retching noises at the couple.
"What are we auditioning for 'Drop Dead Fred' or something, because you guys have the barfing thing down just right, what's next are you going to start snot flicking?" Rory said in a terrible British accent and winking at Steph who had a brilliant smile on her face.
Steph went to get up, "Hey Logan, Colin why don't you guys come with me to bring up the lollies and ice-cream." She said shooting a knowing glance at Rory who mouthed a thankyou.
"Yeah, like you need two of us for that job," Logan said grumbling as he and Colin got up to follow Steph out of the room.
Once they had left Finn and Rory burst out laughing until Rory was holding her sides and Finn was left chuckling to himself at what had just taken place. Apparently both parties had completely forgotten the presence of their friends after Rory had entered the room. Once they had gotten their composure together Finn tuned to Rory with a hard look in his eyes.
"Hello, Rory." He said, smiling at the beautiful girl sitting in front of him.
"Hey Finny," she said ignoring Finn's groan at the use of the nickname.
His eyes quickly roamed her body as he looked up with laughter in his eyes. "Had a fun day shopping then? I see that Steph managed to get her claws into you."
"Apparently I wasn't allowed to leave the house until I had gotten her approval and you know Steph, it's easier if she just does it herself."
"Very true darling but I must say you do look ravishing," Finn said as his hands made their way up her thighs and to her hips in order to pull her close to him.
Before they could move again the door slammed open to Colin hauling in a bag of lollies, "Oh come on we gave you 15 minutes." He said emptying the bag onto the table in front of Steph's T.V. "How you two are going to get to sleep after eating all of this I have no idea." He said watching Steph and Logan come in with ice-cream and popcorn.
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They spent the rest of the night talking, eating and watching movies, Finn kept whispering a running commentary of the movie in Rory's ear until she threatened to move and went to get up. Finn pulled her closer to him, placing her firmly in his lap telling her she wasn't going anywhere. By twelve o'clock the girls headed to bed after yawning loudly and receiving orders from the boys that they could do this again next weekend.
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The morning had gone quite smoothly so far, Rory's first classes went by quickly, she had gotten an A on her American History paper and was sitting down to lunch when her phone rang. Colin's name flashed on the screen and she picked the phone up warily.
"Rory?" he said before she even had time to say her greeting, his tone was anxious and Rory needed to pull the phone away from her ear from the sheer volume of his voice.
"What's wrong Colin?" she said her voice laced with concern. "And please don't shout at me again." She added before he could speak.
"I have a really big problem." He said as Rory's mind went into overdrive wondering what it could be.
"Are you alright? What's wrong Colin?" Rory asked again trying to sound as calm as possible although she wasn't quite sure that she pulled it off.
"I was shopping for Stephanie's Christmas present," he said as Rory let out the breath she had been holding. "I searched for hours on end and nothing I found was good enough and it just hit me…I'm in love with her. I mean I knew I loved her before but you know it was Stephanie so I figured it was just friendly and then it kind of escalated a bit form there and I know I told Logan and Finn that I was in love with her but now…Rory I love her. I love her and she will never know 'cause I have no balls and will never be able to get her a present let alone tell her how I feel. I'm freaking out here." He said so fast that Rory wasn't sure he had taken more than one breath.
Rory saw Steph entering the cafeteria and offered her a small wave before coming back to her conversation with Colin, "Ok Colin she's coming over here so I can't talk for long but here's what we're going to do okay? Meet me tomorrow after school and we will go and find Steph the perfect gift, I'll call you later tonight so that we can figure out a bit more, but for now just try and relax, call Finn and Logan I'm sure they are bored as hell right now and I'll call you later tonight okay?"
"Thankyou thankyou thankyou, Rory you are an angel, I'll talk to you later, and Rore?" he said hurriedly.
"Yeah?"
"Thanks for this?" with that he hung up the phone and Rory only heard the dial tone in her ear.
Rory had always been concerned that Colin didn't like her as much as the others did, it made her feel good to think that he had called her for help when he needed it. She turned back to Steph and enjoyed the rest of her lunch.
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When Rory walked out of school in the afternoon she was shocked to see her mothers jeep parked at the front of the school waiting for her. She walked up to her mother and looked at her face seeing a huge grin plastered on it.
"Did you do something dirty?" Rory asked as a greeting.
"Is that how you greet your own mother, child?" Lorelai said with a mock-affronted look on her face.
"You did, didn't you?" Rory pressed again already half knowing the answer.
"Maybe." Said Lorelai getting into the Jeep and waiting for Rory to do the same.
This was going to be an interesting afternoon.
Thankyou everyone for reading my story:
I have absolutely no concept of school terms in America, and no idea about any of the stores in New York. If anyone can help me for the next few chapters I would greatly appreciate it and you would get a snippet of the next chapter in advance.
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