Chapter 26: "I say we can finish this later, let's go bed shopping."
A couple weeks after their review from Mitchum, Rory and Riley ended their internship. They were going to wait until either the end of May or beginning of June to start their jobs at their papers so they had time to prepare for finals and also a couple of weeks to get moved into their new apartments. Even though they were spending the summer in New York, Rory and Tristan wanted to get everything in their New Haven apartment ready for when they came back at the end of the summer and also so they had somewhere to stay whenever they came to visit.
Friday afternoon the second week of May just after Rory finished her last final she received a phone call from Lorelai, informing her Sookie was on her way to the hospital. Not wanting to be there while the birth was happening, Rory told Lorelai she would come Saturday after the baby was born.
"Hey Mom. Hey Sookie," Rory said, walking into the hospital room Saturday afternoon, "How are you feeling Sookie?"
"Oh, I'm good hun. Glad to have her out of me though, cause that bedrest thing was driving me crazy," Sookie told her.
"She's so cute," Rory said, looking at the little girl in her mother's arms, "What did you decide to name her?"
"Say hello to Martha Daisy Bellville," Sookie told her as Lorelai offered the baby to her.
"Oh, I don't know if I should," Rory said, hesitating to take the baby.
"Come on, you've got to get some practice in," Lorelai told her, getting the little girl settled into Rory's arms.
"Practice? Practice for what?" Sookie asked.
"Oh, I guess I sort of spilled the beans," Lorelai said, "I'm pregnant."
"You're pregnant! Oh, that's great. It is great, right?" Sookie asked.
"It's really great," Lorelai told her, "I'm only nine weeks so not too many people know about it."
"I'll keep it to myself," Sookie said.
"Thanks, Sook," Lorelai said.
"Hey, where's Jackson?" Rory asked a few minutes later as she handed Martha to Sookie when she started to fuss so Sookie could feed her.
"Oh I sent him to get a vasectomy," Sookie said.
"What?" Lorelai asked.
"Seriously?" Rory asked.
"Absolutely. I know he wanted four and I wanted three, but we have one of each, we don't need anymore. We're good," Sookie said.
"And Jackson was just okay with this?" Lorelai asked.
"He was hesitant at first, but it's a less invasive procedure than if I had one done and if in a couple years we decide we want more it can be reversed," Sookie said.
"Okay," Lorelai said.
A couple hours later when Jackson came back and their babysitter brought Davey so he could meet his baby sister, Rory and Lorelai left for the day. Lorelai had to get back to the inn while Rory needed to get back to Yale to finish packing her things so they could get it moved over to the new apartment. They decided to start by moving the things they had at Yale and the few things they would be taking from Tristan's room at his parents house and Rory's in Stars Hollow before buying anything else they would need. Riley and Stephanie were doing the same for their apartment. The four of them already had a bit of furniture between them to fill their new homes, so they didn't want to buy anything knew until they were sure they would need it.
"Hey, you didn't have to do that," Rory said to Tristan when she came into her room and found him boxing up some of her things.
"I know, but I wanted to," he told her, greeting her with a kiss, "How's Sookie doing?"
"Good, the baby is adorable. Her name is Martha, by the way," Rory told him, "Martha Daisy Bellville."
"Cute," he said as he took another stack of books from her shelf and placed them in a box.
"You're keeping them organized?" Rory asked.
"Yep. I know you like to have your books in some crazy order so I'm putting them in boxes in groups exactly as they were on the shelf and I'm numbering the boxes so you can put them back in the same order."
"You're the best boyfriend ever."
"Anything for you, Mary."
They spent the next couple of hours boxing up all the things in Rory's room. Tristan had his last final on Wednesday so he already had everything in his room boxed up except the few things he would need before they officially moved out of the dorms. They hired movers to help move the big things like the couches in both dorms. Since Emily bought the couch and other furniture that was in her dorm, she was taking it with her to their new apartment while Tristan had told Riley he could take their couch and chair to his apartment.
"You know there is one thing we do have to buy before we can move in to our new apartment," Tristan told her.
"What's that?" Rory asked.
"We need a bed. The only thing that belongs to you is your mattress and I'm sure you want to keep your bed at your Mom's place for when you visit so we need a new bed," Tristan said.
"You don't want to just take yours from your parents house or will they not let you," Rory said.
"Honestly, I don't really want anything from my room there except a few small little things. That room doesn't hold the best memories for me," he told her, "Plus I thought it would be nice to pick out a new bed together."
"And then try it out as soon as it's set up?" she questioned.
"Maybe, if you're into that sort of thing," he said, walking towards her and placing his hands on her hips, kissing her briefly before pulling away, "What do you say, Mar?"
"Hmmm," she said before kissing him again, "I say we can finish this later, let's go bed shopping."
"Let's go," he said, taking her hand once she had her purse, leading her out of the dorm towards his car.
After a couple hours of looking and arguing over the size of the bed they needed since Tristan kept insisting on a king and Rory insisted they didn't need one that big, they finally settled on a black framed queen size bed with storage drawers underneath and shelving on the sides of the headboard.
"You know this is the same color of the couple dressers I had at my parents house," Tristan told her.
"Really? Are you going to see if you can take them?" Rory asked.
"I was thinking about it and we can always buy new one's if they say no, and we have the drawers under the bed if we need more storage space," he said.
"And the shelves will be nice so I can keep a few books close by to read at night," Rory said.
"Really, reading, that's what you plan on doing at night in our apartment," Tristan said.
"I have to find something to do on the night's you piss me off and I make you sleep on the couch," she told him, throwing her arms on his shoulders to bring him closer to her.
"Glad to see you're planning ahead," he said, placing his hands on her hips and kissing her forehead, "But I'm planning ahead too, and my plans are to never piss you off."
"Good to know," she said, giving him a brief kiss; pulling away when he tried to deepen it, "Tris, we're in a public place."
"Never stopped us before," he said.
"True," Rory said, running her fingers through his hair as she pulled his mouth to hers; quickly opening it to allow his tongue the access he desired.
"You know I really thought getting our own apartments would stop these moments where I want to stab out my eyes," they heard a few minutes later.
"Sorry. We just got carried away," Tristan said, pulling away from Rory, but keeping an arm around her waist.
"Yeah, sorry Ry," Rory told her brother as she avoided looking him in the eyes while she waited for the blush in her cheeks to disappear.
"Oh, hey guys. Are you shopping for a bed too?" Stephanie asked, "Nice shade of lipstick, DuGrey."
"Thanks, Marsh," Tristan said as Rory used her fingers to wipe away the lipstick that had made it's way onto his lips.
"So, is this the one you're getting?" Riley asked, pointing to the bed behind them.
"Yep. I love the drawers and the shelves in the headboard," Rory told him.
"You can hold a lot of books in these," Riley said, opening one of the drawers.
"Oh yeah, the one's that don't fit in the bookshelves Luke is building for sure," Rory said.
"And these are great to keep your favorites that you read all the time at night or first thing in the morning," Riley said when he looked at the shelves on the headboard.
"Exactly," Rory said.
AN: I'm glad you like the "I love you's" between Jay and April. And I have no idea where the piano thing came from. I wanted Jay to have some kind of interest like April with her science stuff and that just came out. Also, Martha having like eight middle names is ridiculous so I just went with one of them.