She had thought it would be easy. Easy to forget what had happened at the vow renewal ceremony. But she couldn't. She couldn't forget that he had broken up with her like that in public again, that this was the third time they broke up. It as all getting to her now, that a possible chance of friendship like they tried before was completely gone now.
She then walked through her dorm room and headed for the kitchen counter to grab some lunch. She hadn't slept all night and around seven oçlock she had fallen asleep and woke up again around 11 o'clock. She had taken a quick shower and now she wanted something to eat. But then her roommate Paris walked into the dorm.
"Hey Gilmore! How was the party?" Paris asked her as she faced Rory at the counter.
"Teriffic," she replied sarcastically as she took a bite of her sandwich which she had just prepared.
"What's wrong? Did anything happen?" Paris asked her sincerely.
"Dean and I broke up and my mom and Luke were in a big fight," Rory summarized. She didn't know how to call the situation with Luke and her mom other then a fight, as far as she knew her mom was still making things up.
"I'm sorry."
"It's okay. I'm just worried about my mom," Rory told her as she sat down on the couch and flipped on the TV as Paris sat down beside her.
"And you're okay with the Dean situation?"
"I could feel better but I could also feel a lot worse. I do feel relieved," Rory explained.
"That's good. But I have to study, are you going to be okay? I can change my planning if you want to talk some more," Paris offered.
"I'll be fine. Thanks Paris, I'm not used to this, you listening without sarcasm," Rory joked.
"Don't get used to it!" Paris called out as she walked into her own bedroom to study some more.
Rory flipped through some more channels as her phone started to ring. Quickly checking the caller ID, she noticed it was her mom calling.
"Mom?" Rory answered the phone.
"Honey, it's Sookie," the voice on the other line said.
"Sookie? Are you at the house?" Rory asked her mother's best friend a bit surprised.
"Look, uh, something happened with your mom and Luke and your mom is in bad shape. I mean, she's down, hon. And I'm here now, but I think you should come. She needs you," Sookie explained over the phone.
"Oh my God. Is she hurt?" Rory asked concerned.
"No, not physically. Just come, okay?"
"I'm coming." Rory said as she shut the phone and immediately stormed out of her dorm after telling Paris she was going to Stars Hollow. In a record time, she drove back to Stars Hollow in seventeen minutes and quickly running into the house where she is greeted by Sookie who is standing in the middle of the livingroom.
"Where is she?" Rory asked the minute she walked into her house.
"Upstairs."
"Okay, I've got it from here, Sookie. I love you!" Rory called out as she headed up the stairs. Quickly walking down the hallway she walked into her mother's bedroom where she found her mother lying in bed with puffy and teary eyes and many handkerchiefs lying in bed with her.
"Mom? What happened?" Rory asked her mom as she jumped in the bed with her.
"Luke," Lorelai told her simply.
"What about Luke?" Rory asked her mother.
"He's gone! He hates me. I blew it. I blew everything." Lorelai told her daughter as she cried some more. Rory held her mother tight as she was still confused about what had happened between her mom and Luke.
"I don't understand. What happened?"
"I should have told him about Christopher. I hid it. I shouldn't have hid it." Lorelai kept telling Rory. "And mom just pushed him and ruined everything. And now they're putting up ribbons."
"Ribbons? Who?" as Rory became more and more confused.
"Taylor, the town. They hate me. They all hate me. I wrecked everything."
"Mom. This isn't good. Come on. Try to sit up."
"He said he needed time to think, but I pushed him." Lorelai said as she started to cry more.
"He'll come around," Rory tried to comfort her mother but it didn't seem to help as she saw her mother shaking her head.
"I pushed him, and now he's gone."
"He waited forever for you. He's not just going to walk away."
"It's over."
"Mom, this isn't you. Lying in bed like this. You should be up." Rory said trying to get her mom up and out of the bed.
"God, I really screwed up this time. He could have been the one."
"He'll come around," she tried to comfort her mother once again but all she tried to do didn't help. Her mother remained sad and all they could do was.. wallow...
It was silent for a few seconds until Lorelai began to speak again.
"So how do you feel about Dean, hon?" Lorelai asked her all of a sudden trying to change the subject. "Do you miss him?"
"I feel pretty okay with the situation," Rory told her mother honestly. "like I told you yesterday night, I feel okay about it and I don't really miss him that much at all and I kind of feel relieved. I am even beginning to believe that I stopped loving him a long time ago."
"It may sound weird but that's good!" lorelai told her daughter. Ï'm sorry I left you at the party yesterday. I just needed to be alone and find Luke."
"I understand," Rory assured. "I didn't stay that long. Logan brought me back to my dorm after I told grandma the truth."
"What did you say?"Lorelai asked eager to know what happened.
"She started about you not being polite with leaving all of a sudden and I said to her that breaking you and Luke up at their party wasn't polite either," Rory started to explain. "I just couldn't stand her acting like that."
"Understandable," Lorelai simply stated. "And Logan saw everything happen?"
"Yeah he did. He was really supportive," Rory said.
"Okay," Lorelai said with a smile. She didn't have a chance to speak to him at the wedding as she planned on doing but this way she could find out about Logan. "So Logan is that cute blond haired guy with the blond girl I saw you talking to?"
"Yes, why do you ask?"
"Just wondering. Now I know what kind of face I need to imagine. You had James Dean already so I didn't picture him like that. And Jess was, I don't know. Logan seems like a sweet guy, can't give him a name right away. I'll get back to you on that!"
"Why do you need a name for him? He's not my boyfriend and I just broke up! Are you assuming I like him?" Rory asked her mother with disbelief.
"I just want a name for him. Like Marty is Naked guy," Lorelai explained.
"Whatever," Rory said defeated.
"You know hon. You should go back to Yale! You have classes to study for and the paper."
"Too bad, they can wait! We are going to wallow!" Rory said cheerfully!
"I don't want to! I want to be in my bed and do nothing!" Lorelai whined as a little kid.
"You can do that! But with lots of junkfood and ice cream!" Rory said. "Weren't you who told me that wallowing should happen and is apart of the proces?"
"But," Lorelai tried to say but Rory interjected.
"No buts missy. I'll call Lane to go with me to Doosey's. I'll be back before you know it!" Rory said as she kissed her mother's forehead and left the room.
"Watch otu for the ribbons!" Lorelai called out as Rory replied with an 'I will' as Lorelai curled up in bed and continued to cry.
As soon as Rory picked Lane up in her car and explained what had happened with her and Dean and her mother and Luke, they went to Doose's. They parked the car in front of Doose's and when stepping out of the car, Rory noticed the pink and blue ribbons that were spread all over town and she became angry. How could Taylor do this? How could he set the town up against her mother and Luke? Had he no feelings?
She quickly headed inside with Lane and grabbed as much food as they could from ice cream to cookie dough. When Rory walked up to the cash desk, she noticed a familiar face, it was Dean. Of all people she had to pay for the food with Dean, even Taylor would be better. At least she could yell at him for putting those ribbons all over town.
"Hi," she said without even looking properly at him.
"Hi," he said uncomfortably as he was busy registering all the food.
"Busy day huh?" Lane dropped in as she noticed the tension between them and the staring of all the people in the store at them.
Apparently everybody also knew about their break up and not only her mother's and Luke's break up.
"Yeah pretty busy," Dean replied. "That will be $49,50" and Rory handed him the money.
"Keep the change. Bye," she told him as she left the store with Lane in tow quickly.
"Weird," Lane commented the minute they were outside Doose's.
"Yeah," Rory sighed. "Now let's go get a movie and head back home!"
After putting the food in Rory's car, they headed to the video store where they rented one of her mom's favorite movies "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" and another movie called "Murder she Wrote". The minute she walked out of the videostore shenoticed a big blue ribbon on the front of Taylor's soda shop, next to Luke's diner.
Angrily she walked over to Taylor who gave directions on how to put the ribbon up.
"Taylor!" Rory yelled as she stood in front of him. "Put that ribbon away!"
"Why?" Taylor wondered. "I am allowed to give my opinion aren't I? I think it says so in the law!"
"Yes you do have the right to give your opinion. I would also like to share the thoughts I have about you right now!" Rory exclaimed angrily.
"I don't think I want to hear that!" Taylor told her as he continued to give coordinations for the giant ribbon.
"Pearl Harbor is nothing compared to what I could do to you right now!" Rory yelled angrily.
"I see that the attitude of the 'I don't want to be the ice cream queen' has returned," Taylor commented.
"You never asked me to do that Taylor! I'm sure you never asked mom or Luke about this whole ribbon thing either, am I right?" Rory asked him as her eyes filled with anger. "Who gives you the right to put ribbons up like that? You're not the town mayor anymore if I am correct!"
"That's not fair young lady!"
"Deal with it! Life is unfair!" she shot back at him. "Now I want the big ribbons to be put away and I want all the extra ribbons you still have in boxes to be on our porch by tomorrow morning. If not, you'll finally feel a Gilmore's wrath!" as Taylor remained silent for a few seconds.
"Fine!" Taylor gave in. "Put the ribbon away" he ordered his employees and at the same time Luke walked out of the diner.
"Taylor!" Luke yelled as he noticed Rory and Lane standing next to Taylor. "Hi Rory, Lane."
"Hi," Rory said as she put on her best smile but still she felt uncomfortable. Something she felt a lot these last few days. Then she realised what Luke was doing outside. "It's all been taken care of Luke. Taylor is putting the ribbons away and he won't be giving them to anyone anymore. Right Taylor?"
"Right. But of course I can't do anything about the ribbons that have already been spread across town," Taylor said with a smirk.
"I know, but I'll find a way to get those back. All though it might be hard to get it away from Kirk," Rory said as Luke spoke up again.
"Thanks," he said quietly as he walked back to the diner while murmering a 'bye'. Taylor also walked away, back into his store as Rory and Lane remained on the porch thinking about the weird situations that had happened today.
"Weird day," Lane told her best friend.
"Definately," Rory commented as she walked back home to tell her mom everything about what had happened in that one hour that she went to do some wallowing shopping. But now they were going to watch a some sappy movies and eat lots and lots of food! It indeed was a weird day.
Author's note: Sorry for not having Logan in it. Just wanted to show you guys how Rory feels about this all and to let you know how the Luke/Lorelai thing went. And it was time to put Taylor in the story, wasn't it?
Anyhow, the next chap will include Logan but also Finn and Colin and another Lorelai/Rory talk, this time it will be more about how Lorelai tries to convince Rory that she might have feelings for Logan! Will she succeed? You have to wait before you find out :)
Next chap: Life Goes On!