Rory Gilmore spends summers with her grandparents either the Hayden's or the Gilmore's alternately. Spring and winter breaks are the same so her mom can work at the Inn and not have her underfoot. It is not that her mother minds but it does make work harder. This story is totally AU and Rory is the same age as Logan and friends so are Paris and Tristan.
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I Wanna Hold Your Hand
Chapter 7 – The Talk
Rory parked in front of her home and grabbed her backpack to settle in and get some homework done before meeting her mom for dinner at Luke's. She had just stepped in the door and was surprised to find her mother there.
"Hi mom, you are home early." Rory slipped into her room put her bag down and quickly changed into jeans and a t-shirt.
Lorelai sat quietly on the couch and her quietude was worrying.
"Mom, is everything OK, you are being so quiet." She sat across from her on the coffee table and placed her hands on her mother's knees.
"Are you having sex?" Lorelai looked past her as she said it, she couldn't bring herself to look her in the eye.
Rory was stunned, "NO! I am not having sex, why on earth would you think that?"
"You look different, you wear your hair and clothes different and you are dating Logan Huntzberger, a man of some experience for only 17." Lorelai finally made eye contact.
"Mom, what brought this on? Why are you acting like this?" Rory was stunned and moved to the wingback chair.
"I found this?" She pushed the Planned Parenthood brochure at her daughter. "Are you planning to have sex? Are you on birth control, how did you get it you have to be 18?"
"Mom, they handed those out in PE a while ago, and I thought I would look into it. I don't know if I am ready for sex, but I thought I should have my bases covered. You didn't and look what happened." She indicated herself with a wave of her hands ala a game show hostess.
Lorelai sighed, "He isn't pressuring you? I mean I know how boys can be?"
Rory laughed, "Mom, it took him a month to KISS me, I don't think he wants to rush things. He knows he is my first boyfriend. He may not be the first guy I dated but he is the first one I kissed."
"A month huh? And who else have you dated and why didn't I know?" she looked at her daughter with indignation.
"When I was in California the last week of summer vacation I had three dates with a boy named Finn Morgan, he is from Australia and a recent transfer to Chilton. We ate we talked, he bought me this t-shirt and he kissed me on the cheek. I don't know maybe if he would have stayed the entire time things would have been different but his trip was cut short and Logan stepped in. Mom, I have known Logan forever, you know Logan, he is a good guy." Rory sighed.
Lorelai looked at her daughter, really looked. She was becoming a woman no matter if she wanted her to grow up or not and in such a short time she would be at Harvard.
"Do you want birth control?" Lorelai conceded.
"I think it wise, I mean I may really like Logan but I don't think we need an children changing our lives anytime soon. I am not saying getting birth control will send me right to his bed, I am just saying if we lose our heads, we should have all our bases covered." Rory looked at her mom hopefully.
"OK kid, I'll make an appointment with your doctor and we will get this taken care of. Any preference?" She felt herself cringe.
"Actually, the nurse who came to talk with us said IUD was best because it can be non-hormonal and you never have the opportunity to forget it. Plus it protects for five years and is easily reversible." Rory knew this wasn't an easy topic for her mom, but she was glad to discuss it.
"If that's what you want…just warn me OK, if you can, give me a heads up you are getting close? We can talk about it. I don't want you to think you can't talk to me about these things.
"Mom, how did you get that pamphlet? It was in my bedside table." Rory looked at her mom and her mom looked nervous.
" lookedingyourroomIwaslookingforyourpillsandIwasgoingtoconfrontyouwiththem." She rushed out in one breath.
"I see, you didn't trust me? You did exactly what grandma would do, you snooped. Now it's my turn to be disappointed. I haven't lied to you, sure I forgot to tell you about Finn, but you never want to hear about my summers, breaks or trips. I hate not being able to tell you about what I do when I am with the grandparents and my friends. I have to lie by omission, not that I am doing anything wrong, but I did join the DAR, but that was just so I could have access to the genealogy room for a project. I hate that you hate that side of my life so much you pretend it doesn't exist and are you even going to be there for my debut? I asked dad and he is thrilled." Rory looked at her mom expectantly.
"You really like it there? You are DAR and you like it?" Lorelai was taken aback. "Kid you are nothing like me sometimes. My mother has begged me again and again to join if only so I can network."
"It's OK mom, I know your experience was different, and I get it. You wanted to work for all you have and look what you have accomplished. I work for what I have, it's just different. I get straight A's am on the paper; I am volunteering for head start and even going for spring queen. Some of it may be frivolous, but that is what makes life fun, silly stories to make the bad days easier." She enthused.
Lorelai contemplated what her daughter had said, she really liked living in society. "Kid, do you wish I had stayed there, let you grow up there all the time and not just on breaks? Did you hate growing up in a shed when all your friends had real homes?"
"Mom, NO, never think that. Do I love staying with my grandparents and having time with my friends outside of school? Absolutely, but I loved having a mom who was brave and strong and the shed may have been small, but it was home mom. Anywhere you are is always home. You gave me perspective and because of that I was able to share it with my friends. It is because of you we all do so many volunteer projects, we want to give back, help people who don't have it as well off as we do, heck even as well off as living in a shed behind an Inn. I will never really be a spoiled socialite and neither are my friends, because we have and respect you." Rory noted her mom's misty eyes and pulled her into a comforting hug.
The two Lorelai's held each other for a moment allowing the intensity of the conversation pass away.
"OK, enough serious talk, let's get dinner at Luke's and then grab some candy and watch Willy Wonka and Pippi!" Lorelai got up grabbed her jacket and purse and pulled Rory along behind.
