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A/N: And now…the story of the ring! I know you all have been waiting for this, I hope it lives up to your expectations! Enjoy!

Rory walked into her mom's room and set the coffee down on the nightstand. She thought about the best way to wake her mom up, or the most annoying. She finally had it. She knew how dangerous this was, but also knew it was payback as well.

Rory sat down on Luke's "side" of the bed and then began bouncing up and down, hard. She also began screaming, "You're engaged! You're engaged! You're engaged!"

Lorelai woke up quickly and reached out to stop her daughter. "I'm going to kill you!"

"You woke me up last night," Rory reminded her. "Besides, I'm excited. You're engaged!"

"Coffee!" Lorelai groaned.

"Aren't you glad I know you so well?" Rory said smiling. "It's on your nightstand."

"Too far," Lorelai complained.

"Oh Mom," Rory complained back to her. She got up and gave Lorelai her coffee. "I don't know how you survived while I was in college this semester. It's a good thing you are going to have a husband soon!"

Lorelai took a deep breath and smiled. "I still can't believe he asked me!"

"Can I see the ring?" Rory questioned. "Oh! It's perfect!" The ring was very simple, but very much something Lorelai would like. The diamond wasn't too big in the middle and was set off by the two smaller diamonds that were on the side of the middle diamond. Completed with the gold band, it was the perfect engagement ring.

"Mom!" Rory squealed. "You're getting married!"

"I know!" Lorelai cried. She had drained her cup of coffee and now was standing and jumping up and down with Rory.

"I saw Luke downstairs, fully clothed thank God, and he said breakfast was almost ready," Rory informed Lorelai when they both had tired of jumping and had collapsed on the bed. "By the way, I also asked him, that since you two are getting married, if I could call him dad. He gave me a mini speech about how he wanted to make sure I was doing this for the right reasons and how he didn't want me to do something I would regret, but I told him I was fully sure about all this."

"Rory," Lorelai said. "I know you never had a bond with Chris, and you probably have heard me berate him a little too much, but that doesn't mean you should just disregard him as your dad."

"Mom!" Rory exclaimed. "You have always said the only thing that ties you to Chris is me, so why can't you be the only thing that ties me to him. That and some DNA that I would rather not even have. Don't you remember when I was little you told me I could pretend Luke was my dad? Why has that changed now?"

"Well, now you had a chance to meet your dad," Lorelai began.

"And see what a jerk he was," Rory interrupted. "He was never here and he was only my father, only the person that gave me some DNA. He was never really my dad, the person who I could count on always. I'm sure about this Mom. Please, this is my decision. I've thought about it a lot, and I'm positive."

Lorelai shrugged, "If you're positive then I am proud of you, for recognizing that Chris gave you DNA and that is all. I still think you should try to get to know your father though, sweets."

Rory thought about it for a few seconds, "Maybe. But he has to come to me and convince me that he has changed. I'm not going to reach out to him; I've done enough of that."

Lorelai smiled at her daughter. "We're not going to go to Luke's, but we are going to eat Luke's breakfast. Let's go.

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Rory and Lorelai walked downstairs still chatting about the engagement and other things.

"Well, you know we have to go shopping again today," Lorelai brought up to her daughter.

"We just went yesterday!" Rory argued.

"I know, but we were shopping for regular stuff," Lorelai reasoned. "Today we can shop for wedding stuff!"

Rory smiled and agreed. Luke jumped into their conversation, "How about we eat some breakfast."

"Yay!" Lorelai cried. "And what has Lukey made for us today."

Luke rolled his eyes. "Don't call me that. Bacon, sausage, waffles and a cheese omelet that you two can split."

"What are you eating?" Rory asked. "I doubt you found something healthy in this house of ours. In fact, I'm surprised you found any food at all."

"The food is from Doose's," Luke admitted. "I made myself scrambled eggs with egg whites only. I would have eaten some cereal, but there was none. There was also no milk."

"And that surprises you?" Lorelai questioned.

"I guess not," Luke agreed.

"Okay, so I saw mom's ring upstairs and now I want to hear the story," Rory demanded.

"Story?" Lorelai inquired, interested.

"Apparently there's a story attached to your ring, mom. He didn't buy it here, and Lane and I couldn't figure out where he could have gotten it. We knew he didn't save it because he wouldn't have used the same one for Rachel and especially not Nicole," Rory said with a disgusted tone in her voice. She never liked that woman; she was a suit, not Luke's type at all. "We also knew Liz didn't make it because we didn't think she could get a diamond. So now I want the story."

"Oooh, yes," Lorelai squealed. "The story."

Luke couldn't help but smile at their excitement. "Okay, I guess it's story time. Here goes: when I was a baby, I loved to sit on my mother's lap and play with her jewelry. I loved her necklaces, her bracelets, her earrings and mostly her rings. Of course, the only one she wore was her engagement ring and I loved it. When I was older, about five, I would always ask her if I could hold it and look at it. She always let me look at it, but never let me hold it.

"After she died, I couldn't look at it anymore. I knew my dad did something with it, but I never searched for it, I just couldn't. One day, when I was about fifteen, I found it in my father's drawer in his office. I had forgotten how beautiful it was. After that, I continued to sneak up and look at it. I'm not sure if my dad ever knew I continued to look at it, but if he did, he didn't tell me.

"I had been looking for an engagement ring for Rachel for a long time. I, of course, was looking in Hartford and Litchfield so the town wouldn't catch wind of it. She managed to never catch wind of it either. I had finally found one, and I hid it in my sock drawer."

"So incredibly predictable," Rory sighed.

"Yep, every man hides the ring in his sock drawer," Lorelai agreed.

Noticing the look on Luke's face Rory stepped in, "Sorry, go ahead with the story."

"Anyway," Luke continued. "It was in my sock drawer, and I was waiting for the right time to ask her. During this time though, my dad kept getting sicker and sicker, until all my time was devoted to him and I had almost forgotten about the ring. One day before he died he showed me my mom's ring. He showed it to me and said, 'Your mom wanted me to give this to you. She wanted you to use it. I know you have already bought a ring for Rachel. Since that is the case, I want you to give this ring to the girl you want to spend the rest of your life with and not Rachel.' Therefore, that ring on your finger, Lorelai, is my mom's."

Lorelai gasped. She just stared at it, but couldn't bring herself to say anything. Who knew?

"Wait," Rory said, cutting into their little moment. "If that was supposed to be used with the woman you were going to spend the rest of your life with, why didn't you give it to Rachel, or even to…Nicole."

Luke shook his head. "That isn't what my dad said. He told me to give it to the woman I wanted to spend the rest of my life with, which is why they didn't get it. I didn't want to spend my life with either one of them." He turned his head to look at Lorelai. "It was always you."

Rory's eyes got wide and she suddenly knew where this would be headed. "Okay, so I am going to go in the living room for two minutes exactly, to let you two get that look out of your eyes. I'll give you a warning when you have thirty seconds left so you know. You only have two minutes, so please keep everything covered!"

"Dirty," Lorelai gasped.

"Yep," Rory confirmed. "Very dirty. And I don't want it happening in my kitchen! Two minutes!"

Yeah, most of you guessed where the ring came from, so I doubt it was a surprise, but I hope the story that came with it was a little bit entertaining! I hope you liked it and tomorrow, Lorelai and Rory will tell Richard and Emily…and we finally get to see some of this drama that has been looming. Review!