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uhm... I said somethign wrong in my AN in the last chapter... there are not two chapters left after this one... there are three... so be prepared for really fast updates 'cause I'm flying to america on monday. Someone asked me in a review where I was going... I'm going to visit a friend in Port Huron/Michigan...
Well... thank you all so so so so much for reviewing. I love you all XD
here is the new chapter and I will not repeat our mantra today... read and see why ;)
Chapter 10
Since the doctor's appointment and the conversation after with Luke Lorelai felt much better. She ate again without anyone forcing her to. Even if it was only for the baby. She also was more interested in Leo and Linnea again. When they got home from the Kindergarten she listened to their stories and laughed with them. Yesterday she even talked to Michel on the phone to ask if everything at the Inn was ok.
But Lorelai still didn't leave the house and didn't get out of bed so often. Her little walk through town before the doctor's appointment went surprisingly good but she still wasn't brave enough to do it again.
This day around lunch Luke was putting on his coat when he yelled upstairs:
"Lorelai, I'm going to pick Leo up from his baseball training. Linnea is coloring in her room. Please keep an eye on her."
Even if she didn't answer he knew that she heard him and so he stepped out of the house and into the warm fall air. A warm breeze blew over his face and he closed his eyes for a moment.
In the last few weeks his sorrow about Leyla was overshadowed by his worry about Lorelai. He was scared that she wouldn't be able to get over Leyla death but now he slowly started to hope again.
To hope that his life would soon be normal again even if there will always be a part missing. To hope that Lorelai would soon be her old self again and to hope that his family would be okay again. Deep in thought he continued walking through the streets of Starts Hollow.
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Linnea was sitting in her room and was coloring the many funny figures and shapes in her coloring book. She was humming a song quietly while she moved the pen over the paper.
After some time the coloring book started to bore her. She stuffed it back into the drawer with all her coloring things and instead grabbed normal white sheet of paper and started to color on it.
When she was done she stuffed her pens into the same drawer to the coloring book and looked proudly at her just now finished picture.
With the self colored picture in her hand she hopped from the small chair in her room and walked over to the door. Linnea walked through the hallway until she stopped in front of her parent's bedroom. She stood on her tiptoes and tried to reach the door handle and after some time her small hand grabbed around it.
Lorelai heard the door being opened and saw the brown curls of her daughter appear. She started to smile and turned the TV off.
"Come here, angel" she said and sat up. Linnea entered the bedroom, closed the door and then ran over her parent's bed and climbed it up. She crawled over Lukes empty side of the bed and sat down on her mother's lap.
"Hey baby, what's that in your hand?" Lorelai asked and pointed at the picture in Linneas hand. Linnea looked at the picture, then at her mother and after a few seconds she showed it to Lorelai.
"That's for you, mommy. These are Daddy and you" she pointed at the two tall stickmen she had painted. "And these are Leo and I" this time she pointed at two smaller stickmen.
"And this is our new sibling. Daddy said that it'll be really small in the beginning so I painted it smaller than Leo and me" Lorelai laughed. Linnea was always so cute. Lorelai looked at the picture a little more and then saw a stickman that was painted in the air.
"And who is this?" Linnea looked at her mom skeptically as if she wasn't sure if she should answer the question. Then she looked at the blanket and answered really fast.
"That's Leyla. Daddy said that she's in heaven now and looks out for us from up there so I painted her in heaven." Lorelai was speechless. She just sat there starring at the picture. Linnea got a little anxious because Lorelai didn't react. Suddenly Lorelai grabbed Linnea and hugged her. Tears started to rum down her cheeks. Linnea broke free from her mother's embrace and looked at her.
"Mommy, don't be sad" with her small hand she started to wipe awaythe tears from Lorelai's face.
"You know, Mommy, Mrs. James taught us a song at kindergarten today. She had said that we should sing it when someone is sad. It makes the sad go away she had said" Linnea lied down on the bed with her head on her mother's stomach and slowly started to sing.
The sun will come out
Tomorrow
Bet your bottom dollar
That tomorrow - There'll be sun
Just thinking' about
Tomorrow
Clears away the cobwebs and the sorrow
'Till there's none
When I'm stuck in a day
That's grey
And lonely
I just stick out my chin
And grin,
And say;
The sun come out
Tomorrow
So you gotta hang on
'Till tomorrow
Come what may
Tomorrow,
Tomorrow
I love ya, tomorrow
You're always a day away
None of the two realized how Luke and Leo got home. When Luke and Leo had heard noises coming from upstairs they had climbed the stairs and Luke was now standing in the doorframe with Leo in his arms and listened to his daughter sing.
When I'm stuck in a day
That's grey
And lonely
I just stick up my chin
And grin,
And say;
Leo jumped out of Lukes arms and ran over to the bed. He, too, climbed up the bed and lay down besides his sister. Together they sung the song to the end.
The sun
Come out
Tomorrow
So you gotta hang on
'Till tomorrow
Come what may
Tomorrow
Tomorrow
I love ya tomorrow
You're always a day away
Tomorrow
Tomorrow
I love ya tomorrow
You're always a day away
Luke looked at the view in front of him. When the kids stopped singing Lorelai just held them in her arms. Luke slowly stepped away from the door and went downstairs. He knew that Lorelai needed the time alone with the kids. He left a note fro them that he went to the Diner for a few hours.
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Lorelai opened her eyes. The sun was still up outside. She wanted to sit up but couldn't. Something was lying on her.
When she looked down she saw Leo and Linnea cuddled up to her sleeping. She had to smile. The song Linnea had been singing earlier had touched her. She felt relieved somehow. She carefully started to shake the kids to wake them up. If they'd sleep longer they would be awake the whole night.
Both opened their eyes sleepily.
"Hey you two, you can't sleep longer"
Leo sat up und looked at Lorelai.
"I'm hungry, Mommy"
"Me too" Linnea agreed with her brother while she sat up as well. Lorelai thought for a few seconds then threw away her blanket and got up. At first she was a little shaky on her legs because she wasn't really up in some time except to go to the bathroom. When she had her legs under control again she looked at her kids which looked at her in question.
"Come on. Up, up. Mommy is going to look what she can fin to eat for you"
Linnea and Leo looked at each other as if they couldn't believe what was happening right now but then they hopped off the bed and ran out the room and down the stairs. Lorelai laughed and followed them.
All three stood in front of the open refrigerator and starred inside. Even thought he was filled to the brim they looked really helpless.
"It doesn't look like Daddy has anything in here that I would be able to make for you. Except if you are okay with me burning our beautiful house down?!" Linnea and Leo shook her head really hard and Lorelai had to laugh again. She closed the refrigerator with a loud bang! and looked at her kids.
"And what are we going to do now?" Linnea just shrugged and Leo did the same.
"Uh… then I will go to the living room now and staaaaarrrve to death…"
As if she was bout to die she carried herself into the living room and fell down on the couch. Leo and Linnea ran in behind her and shook her arms and legs.
"No Mommy, come up. We have to do something, Mommy" When Lorelai sat up again she saw the note Luke left them and read it.
"oooh Kids, I think we are saved. You two wait here while mommy changes into something else and then we're going to daddy's Diner."
"yaaaaaaay" the kids yelled, clapped their hand and jumped up and down.
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Twenty minutes later Lorelai came down the stairs and saw that Leo and Linnea were watching tv.
"Okay, kiddos, let's go to Daddy" She grabbed the remote and turned the TV off. Then she helped the kids into their coats and together they started their way to the Diner. Linnea and Leo ran around her laughing. Lorelai couldn't stop laughing herself. How she missed that. Just laughing. Having fun. Together with her kids.
The townspeople were all speechless. A laughing Lorelai playing with her kids. No one had thought they'd see her like that again.
The Diner door was opened with the loud ring of the bells and Leo and Linnea came running in laughing flowed by a even more laughing Lorelai. Everyone in the Diner immediately stopped eating and starred at Lorelai but she didn't even realize it. She helped the kids onto the chairs at the Counter before she also sat down.
Luke came out of the kitchen and stopped in his tracks when he saw his smiling family sitting at the counter.
"Oh look, there is our lifesaver" Lorelai smiled.
"Daddy, Mommy didn't find anything at home that she could make us to eat and we are sooooooo ungry" Leo said and looked at Luke with his puppy eyes that he obviously had learned from Lorelai.
"Right Daddy, we are hungry. Go, make something to eat for us" Lorelai said in her little kids voice.
Luke shook his head and laughed.
Maybe everything will be good in the end.
tadaaaaa... see now you knwo why I didn't repeat our mantra ;) what do you think? did you like it?
the song Linnea was singing is called "tomorrow" and is from the musical "Annie" my absolute favorite musical. boy, I totally love it.
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