"I came to see you and my daughter." he said, smiling and walking closer to her.
"I told you not to come back."
"Lor, please, just let me explain."
"What's there to explain? You hurt Rory. You hurt me."
"I know. I'm really sorry."
"Apology not accepted."
"Come on, Lor. Take me back."
"Hell no! How could you even ask that?"
"I made a mistake! I'm sorry!"
"Mommy. why haven't you found me yet?" ROry said, peeking from behind the curtains.
When she saw Chris, her blue eyes went wide.
"Hey kiddo." Chris said, waving to her.
"Daddy!" Rory yelled, running into the kitchen where Luke was fixing something for Mia.
"Rory, daddy's right here."
Lorelai put her head in her hands.
Why? Why did this have to happen?
Chris followed Rory into the kitchen and saw her hiding behind Luke.
"Hey kid, come here. Don't you want to give daddy a hug?"
"Daddy!" she yelled again, holding her arms up to Luke.
Luke picked her up, but looked just as suprised as Lorelai had to see Chris here.
"Chris, come here." Lorelai said, pulling at his arm and dragging him into an empty room, shutting the door.
"I think you better go." she told him.
"Why the hell is she calling him daddy?" he asked angrily, pointing to the door.
"Chris, please."
"No! I want to know!"
"I don't know why. She just started doing thata month ago. We tried to stop her, but she won't."
"I'm her father! What's wrong with her? Why did she run from me?"
"Are you serious? She's terrified of you! You know what she told me, Chris? She told me she doesn't want you to be her dad anymore."
"So she replaced me? Are you with that loser?"
"What? No, I'm not. And don't call him a loser! He's done a lot for us. He actually cares!"
"Hey, I care!"
"Really?" she asked, crossing her arms. "Then where have you been the last two months? Why did you do what you did?"
"I said I was sorry."
"Shut up! Why did you tell me Rory ran into the coffee table?"
Chris just stood there, mouth open and not knowing what to say.
"Didn't think I'd find out, did you? I'm not stupid Christopher. I know what you did. You're damn lucky I didn't press charges against you. Now, I want you gone. I don't want you coming back here. I don't want to see you or hear from you anymore, got it?"
"Come on, Lor." he said, reaching for her.
Lorelai slapped him across the face.
"Don't touch me! Don't you ever touch me or Rory!" she yelled and stormed out.
Chris just stood there, shocked. It was then he realized he lost her. He wasn't going to get her back. She'd moved on now. As much as he hated to admit it, Luke was right. He had just left the two best things in his life. He walked out of the room and out the Inn's door.
"Come on Rory. it's time for your nap." Lorelai said, walking over to her.
"He gone?" she asked, looking up at her.
"He's gone, baby. Come here." she said and reached for her.
Rory leaned toward her mother who took her from Luke's arms. Luke didn't ask what happened. Obviously everything was ok now.
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Four months passed by. The whole summer had been Christopher free and it seemed it was going to stay that way. Things were going good for Lorelai and Rory. Rory's birthday was in two days and Lorelai was throwing her a princess themed party.
"You are coming to Rory's birthday party, right?" Lorelai asked Luke.
"Yeah, what time is it again?"
"Seven."
"I'm turning three." Rory said, holding up three little fingers.
Luke smiled at her.
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At 4:05 a.m. on October eighth, Lorelai entered Rory's room. She walked over to the sleeping child and sat on her bed. Rory felt her mothers presence and woke up.
"Mommy?"
"Happy birthday little girl." she said.
"I'm three." Rory said, yawning and climbing into her mothers lap.
Lorelai scooted up in the bed and leaned against the headboard. She wrapped her arms around her daughter.
"I know. You're getting so big. You know, it was three years ago today that I was lying in the same position with a big fat stomach."
"I was inside your tummy."
"Yes you were." Lorelai said kissing the top of her daughters head and continuing on with the story of Rory's birth.
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Lorelai couldn't believe it had already been three years. Her little girl was growing up so fast, it sometimes scared her. Before she knew it, she'd be starting her first day of school, then falling in love, going to college... She wanted the best for her daughter. She wanted Rory to have more than her. Her wish for her was that her life would become all the things she wanted it to. That her dreams stayed big and she'd never need to carry more than she could hold (anyone ever heard Rascal Flatts 'My Wish'? If you had, this should be familiar lol), like Lorelai had to.
Rory was her angel, but she didn't want her to live through the same worries Lorelai had had before she had Rory, and sometimes still had.. Raising a child at her age wasn't easy. She wanted her daughter to achieve all that she wanted to.
Ding. Dong.
Lorelai went to get the door and found a few of the townspeople had arrived.
"Hey you guys, come on in." she said, stepping back to let them through.
The house was decorated in pink, green, and yellow streamers. There were pink paper cups and plates that said Princess on them and a stack of matching napkins on a table that had a green table cloth. Rory's cake, which was sitting on the table, was chocolate with white frosting. On it it had 'Happy Birthday Little Princess' which Fran from Weston's had made.
Rory ran to the door in her pretty, pink dress Lorelai had made her and wearing a little tiara.
"It's my birthday!" she said, smiling.
"Oh honey, look at you! You look so pretty." Miss Patty said.
"Thank you. I'm a princess."
They all laughed.
"Yes, you most certainly are, suga." Babette told her.
"Jess! Wanna play?"
"Ok, how about tag?" he asked.
Rory ran up to him and touched his arm.
"You're it!" she said, giggling and running off, Jess running after her.
After about and hour, people were filling up the Gilmore house. Mia, Miss Patty, Babette, Taylor, Liz, Jess, and a few others had showed up. Luke was there, too, only he arrived a little late. Everybody was sitting around laughing and talking.
"Can you believe how big she's gotten?" Liz said.
"Oh, I know. She's growing up too fast. I wish she'd stop."
"Yeah, that's how I am with Jess. They don't stay small forever."
"Just wait till they get older." Mia said. "That's when it all starts. The teen years are the worst."
"I don't think I'll have too much trouble with Rory." Lorelai said.
"Oh, I'm sure Jess will be a little trouble maker. He's sneeky, that one. But he's not too bad." Liz said to them.
"Rory, don't you want to open your presents?" Jess asked her, pointing the the mountain of wrapped gifts.
"Yeah, presents mommy! Open!" Rory said excitedly, eyeing her gifts.
"Ok, ok. Cake first." she said.
She lit the candles on the cake and everyone sang happy birthday to the three year old who was smiling.
"Make a wish and blow out the candles!" Lorelai said.
Rory thought long and hard about her wish and then bent down and blew out the candles and everyone clapped.
"What did you wish for?" Miss Patty asked.
"It's a secret. I can't tell." Rory told her.
They ate the cake and when everyone had finished, Lorelai said, "Ok, present time."
"Yay!" Rory said.
Lorelai grabbed a gift out of the stack and handed it to her.
"This one's from Babette." she told her.
Rory tore at the paper enthusiastically.
"Look mommy! I got a doll!" she said, showing her mother.
"Cool. Ready for another?"
"Yup."
Lorelai handed her present after present. Rory had gotten books, which she loved, movies, clothes, and much more.
"Ok Rory, ready for your present from mommy?"
"Yes!"
Lorelai handed her a huge box wrapped in pink paper. Rory tore at the box eagerly.
"Help me, mommy." she asked.
Lorelai, who had the box cutter handy, cut the tape off the box. Rory looked inside and gasped.
"I got a bike! And it's pink. Oh, thank you thank you mommy!" she said, hugging her mom.
"You are very welcome." Lorelai said, hugging her daughter back and smiling. Mia, who had the camera ready, snapped a picture of them.
xox
Later that night, Lorelai was in the kitchen cleaning up. Luke had stayed behind to help out since he had arrived a little late.
"Man, what a mess." Lorelai said, throwing out some paper cups.
Luke laughed. "Yeah, all for a three year old's birthday party."
"Yeah, but she deserved it."
"She did."
"I'm glad she had a good birthday. Wonder what that wish was. She sure did put a lot of thought into it."
"Yeah, but kids think big."
"Yes they do. Thanks for helping me clean." she said, standing beside him at the counter and setting the trash bag down on the ground.
"No problem. Sorry I got here late, I had to clean the diner and then close up."
"It's fine. At least you came."
"Of course I came."
Lorelai smiled at him and he smiled back.
God, his eyes are so blue. I never noticed them much before. I just can't look away, they're hypnotizing.
She looks so beautiful. She's always been beautiful, but she looks really beautiful now. She looks happy, more happy than she's been in these past few months.
Lorelai started to lean towards Luke and he leaned in as well. Their lips met at the same time and began to move in rhythm. The kiss started out slow, but soon got more heated. The feeling between them was unreal. It was the feeling of hope, security, desire, love... something neither had ever experienced before.
Woah, I'm kissing Luke. I'm kissing Luke! My best friend! How did this happen? I definitely didn't see this coming... but I like it...
Wow... she's actually kissing me... I can't believe this... God, I've wanted this for so long.
"Yes!" a little voice behind them said.
Both Luke and Lorelai pulled back instantly and looked at Rory, who was standing there in her pajama's holding her Colonel Clucker.
"Wh-what?" Lorelai said, starting to panic.
Oh my God. What would Rory think of this? Crap! I never thought about Rory and how this would affect her.
"My wish came true, mommy!" she told her.
"Your wish?" Lorelai asked, confused.
"I wished for you and daddy to get together."
Lorelai looked at her for a minute, then began to laugh and Luke began laughing as well.
"What's so funny?" Rory asked.
"Nothing angel. Did you need something?"
"Water, please."
Lorelai made her a glass of water and then put her back to bed. She walked back to the kitchen, where Luke was.
"So..." she said, sitting beside him at the table.
"So..."
"That was some kiss."
"Yes, it was."
"Unexpected though."
"Yeah. Look, if you want to forget it happened, we can." Luke said, looking down.
"What? No, I don't want it to forget that it happened." she told him quickly.
"You don't?" he asked, looking up at her.
"No, I don't... unless you do."
"No, I don't want to, either."
"Ok... so what does this mean?" she asked him.
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So, what did you think? It finally happened! Ok, I need to ask you guys something: A lot of you keep saying you wished Luke was Rory's biological father and all, so I have a proposition for you (I sound like Richard, huh? haha) I can either A.) write another fic where Luke is Rory's biological father or B.) somehow make it to where he is her biological father in this fic. If you don't want either, that's fine, too. Just let me know. And I know that the town plays a small part and the grandparent's aren't in here much, but I'm getting to them, so just chill. And just so you know, Chris is gone now, for GOOD. I hate him. He's stupid!