Lorelai managed to squeeze Rory and Pete in one of the bigger rooms, much to Michel's annoyance, even though he did seem overly pleased to see Rory again. They got settled into the room and as soon as Pete dozed off Rory sneaked out to see her mother. She walked straight into the kitchen, knowing where her mother was likely to be, and was greeted by a high shriek and giant bear hug from Sookie.
"Oh, Rory, your mom was just telling me that you're back. I'm so glad to see you. I'll make you something special for lunch. Your mom said you brought your boyfriend with you, said he seems like a nice guy, what's his favourite thing to eat? Does he like pork? Such nice meat pork but not everyone appreciates it. I've got some lovely loins in the back, could make it with some nice roast potatoes and herbs…" Sookie drifted off into her thoughts about ways to serve the pork loins and barely heard Rory's answer agreeing to the pork.
"She's completely lost in thoughts about pigs with apples in their mouth, lets go to Luke's and talk" Lorelai said and turned Rory out of the kitchen again.
When the pair walked through the door at Luke's, he was no where to be seen, but they were greeted by an ecstatic Lane instead.
"Oh my God, Rory! You're here!" the little Korean woman shouted and ran over to her friend jumping and screaming like they were still teenagers.
When the two stopped jumping Rory had a better look at her friend and noticed her belly.
"Lane! You're pregnant again! Why didn't you tell me?" Rory asked. Even though they now lived far apart the two still spoke often.
"Yeah, I didn't want to tell anyone but suppose I can't hide it anymore" Lane said shyly, stroking her growing belly.
"Honey, we've all known for weeks" Lorelai said laughingly. "I just assumed you had told Rory already"
"I guess that means you tried sex with Zach again?" Rory jokingly teased her friend, remembering their conversation from when Lane had gotten back from her honeymoon complaining about the horrible sex vowing never to do it again.
"Yeah, turns out when you're not stuck in a horrible vacation in the sucky part of Mexico, it's not that bad" Lane laughed as she went behind the counter to pour the two women some coffee.
"Where's Luke?" Lorelai asked as it was clear the man was not in the building.
"He's gone to New Mexico for the weekend. Some big thing at April's school. Surprised he didn't tell you, you guys are friends again now" Lane answered as she put some doughnuts on plates before getting out her notepad to take the Gilmore Girls' actual orders
"Oh yeah we are, just haven't seen him in a while I suppose" Lorelai mused. "I'll have a burger and fries, please Lane"
"Make that two please. And some cherry pie please" Rory added.
"It's a good thing really that Luke's not here" Rory continued as Lane went to give the order to Caesar. "I wouldn't want to say what I need to with him hearing"
"Dear God, kid, what have you done?" Lorelai asked, concern starting to creep over her.
"Well, like I said earlier, you're not going to like this. It all started on Monday night when I bumped into Jess" Rory started. She saw the guilt and anger swoop over Lorelai when she mentioned Jess.
"Yeah, thanks for the heads up he was in D.C. by the way" Rory continued, giving her mother a dirty look.
"I wasn't sure if I should tell you. It's a big city, he could have left without you ever seeing him" Lorelai said, her manner genuine.
"Well, I did. And to make a long story short, I slept with him the next day" Rory blurted out.
Lorelai just sat there staring at her.
"What?! Please, Rory, please God let me have heard you wrong"
Rory just shook her head, looking at the floor.
"And you think you can just blurt this out in the middle of Luke's over some burgers? What is wrong with you Rory? What were you thinking?" Lorelai kept hammering into Rory, the way only she could do when her daughter had done something wrong.
"I wasn't. I wasn't thinking at all. I was miserable, I'd ditched my newspaper deadline, I was feeling lost and unhappy and I got drunk and it just happened" Rory started to tear up as she could see the clear disappointment all over her mother.
"Does Pete know?" Lorelai asked, voice blank.
"No" Rory said, stirring her coffee, avoiding any eye contact.
"Are you breaking up with him?" Lorelai asked again, in a straight matter-of-fact manner.
"I don't know" Rory answered, continuing to stir her coffee.
"Why did you bring him here Rory? To meet me and your dad, everyone in the town, your grandparents, if you're not even sure you're staying with him. After you cheated on him"
"I don't know"
"Are you going to tell him? He deserves to know. He clearly likes you a lot Rory, driving through the night to come meet your family, after you just met his parents"
"I don't know"
"Well you need to figure out what you're doing and you need to do it fast. You are of course still welcome in our house and your grandparents will expect you to join us for dinner tonight but I am not lying to the boy for you Rory" Lorelai said as she stood up and left, apologizing to Lane on the way out that she couldn't stay for her burger.
Rory just sat there, stirring her coffee.
