"Grandma…grandpa I'd like you to meet my husband Dean."

The room fell silent after Rory's words.

"Well technically you've already met him but not as my husband." Rory clarified.

"It's nice to see you again Mr. and Mrs. Gilmore." Dean finally spoke up. "It's been a while."

"Not long enough." Richard muttered as he took a seat on the couch.

"We would have called and invited you guys to the wedding but everything was such short notice for everyone. Dean and I both just really wanted to go ahead and get married so we decided to have a big wedding later this year."

"It would have only taken five minutes for you to pick up the phone and call us. If nothing else to just let us know that our only granddaughter would be getting married."

"Hey baby resents that." Lorelai said pointing at her stomach. "Besides Rory did try to call you mom…"

Rory quickly looked over to Lorelai trying to figure out where she was going with this considering she never really did call her grandparents.

"The two of you were out of town that week. Remember you celebrated New Years at Martha's Vineyard?"

"Yes well Lorelai they do have phones there too."

"Yeah but we had no idea how to reach you there. Besides you know now, so don't you want to ask more important questions like…how did the two of you get back together? Or let me see that gorgeous rock on your finger."

No one seemed to want to start a conversation at this point and Dean now felt more awkward then ever.

"I'm going to check on dinner. Why don't you guys sit and talk for a while as a family. It's been a while since you've all been together like this…you should catch up." Dean suggested as he gave Rory a quick kiss on the cheek and headed back towards the kitchen.

"Is he cooking dinner?" Emily asked.

"Yes he is."

"He cooks."

"Yes he cooks." Lorelai answered. "And it's a good thing too because if he didn't Rory might starve."

Rory took a seat next to Emily on the couch. Richard had since found a book lying on the table beside his chair and was now skimming through it oblivious to the activity going on around him.

"Grandma you know Dean and I are really happy and we love each other very much. This isn't a mistake. It would mean a lot to both of us if you could accept the fact that we're married and that Dean is part of the family now."

"You always did find your way back to this boy. Even when we insisted that you never see him."

"That's because I love him and I always will. It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks of us."

Emily's eyes were now focused on Rory's left hand as she admired the ring. Rory realized what she was trying to do and raised her hand closer to her to help.

"That is a really beautiful ring. I have to admit I wasn't expecting that many diamonds. How much did this cost?"

Rory laughed. "Grandma I didn't ask him that. Besides it doesn't matter."

"How could he afford this?"

"Dean isn't exactly poor…neither of us have money problems. I thought mom told you Dean is part owner of a construction company now."

"Construction…" Richard mumbled again behind his book.

"Dad come on don't do this. You acted the same way when you found out that me and Luke were getting married. You criticized him and his business. Dean is doing really well now…I mean look at this house it's amazing." Lorelai tried to defend Dean.

"He built this house?" Emily asked Rory.

"Yeah and all of the other houses in this neighborhood as well. They also just finished remodeling mom's house." Rory interjected.

Lorelai gave Rory an evil stare and then smiled back at her mother.

"You remodeled your house Lorelai…why haven't you invited us over to see it. Or why didn't you mention it before?"

"I just found out about it myself when Luke and I got back home. It was a present from Luke."

"I see."

"Well Rory if you are so proud of this house and your new husband why haven't you offered us a tour yet?"

"Oh well I just thought we could all talk for a while first. But if you're ready for the tour follow me."

Everyone including Richard who quickly put down his book followed Rory up the stairs.

"Upstairs we have the guest bedroom and the master bedroom." Rory headed towards the master bedroom first and opened the door. "This is mine and Dean's bedroom and right in there is our bathroom." She said pointing around the corner to the other door in their room.

Emily and Richard both walked in first admiring the room but Emily was drawn more to the bathroom.

"This bathroom is incredible. Richard this is bigger then our master bath." Emily called out to him while he was still in the bedroom. "They even have walk in closets inside of the bathroom. Richard come look at this."

Rory and Lorelai stayed close to the doorway snickering at how the two were reacting. Dean had now made his way upstairs and found Rory and Lorelai by the door of the bedroom.

"What's going on?" He whispered into Rory's ear.

"They are admiring the bathroom closets."

Dean nodded and stayed quiet beside Rory until her grandparents returned to the bedroom.

"Rory you have so much space in here. This bathroom is huge and the Jacuzzi tub…"

Emily walked out of the bathroom and now found Dean standing with the girls as well.

"Well thank you. So few people bother to notice the hugeness of the bathroom anymore." Dean said in a mocking tone.

Dean was able to maintain a straight face through the entire thing but Rory and Lorelai couldn't hold it in anymore as they both burst into laughter eventually causing Dean to smile as well.

"What on earth is so funny?" Richard asked returning to the group.

"Dean made a joke." Emily simply replied.

"Well I missed it perhaps you could tell it again."

"No Richard you wouldn't understand anyway." The smiles seemed to quickly fade away from their faces as they realized Emily wasn't laughing with them. "But I must say it was a good one." Emily replied as she began to laugh a bit.

At that point the tension in the room dropped drastically and they all began to laugh a little more leaving Richard to continue to wonder what was so funny.

"So Rory is the guestroom as nice as this…if the bathroom is any resemblance you might just see your grandfather and I around here more often."

"Oh well Grandma actually the guestroom is sort of being used for storage right now."

"Well that's okay; we'll take a look at it anyway."

"Alright then it's right down the hall." Rory began to walk in the direction of the room and gave her mom one last look before opening the door to reveal the guestroom that resembled her childhood room so much.

Emily and Richard stepped in without saying a word and carefully began to look around.

"Did you do this on purpose?" Emily asked.

"She didn't…I did though." Lorelai answered.

"I should have known."

"It's nice." Richard stated. "The girl can always look back on her childhood memories this way."

"Aw I see that's exactly what you've been doing." Emily replied as she made her way to the closet after noticing Rory's old Chilton uniform hanging from the doorknob. "Does this still fit you?"

"Yes better then it used to actually."

Lorelai began to laugh and cough a little as well. Dean's attention was now shifted to Lorelai as he tried to figure out what could be funny in this situation.

"Really? Why don't you put it on…for old time's sake? It has been too long since we've seen you walk through the front door wearing this. We were always so proud of you for all of your accomplishments."

"No grandma…I mean I'm all dressed for dinner already. And besides I haven't had it cleaned since the last time I wore it."

"Oh well when was that?"

"Halloween…it was part of my costume."

"Rory that has been quite some time I insist that you get this dry cleaned right away. One day you will have very fond memories looking back at this outfit and you don't want it to get ruined."

"If you only knew." Lorelai muttered with a big smile.

"I will grandma, don't worry."

Dean cleared his throat trying to politely interrupt the conversation. "You know I bet dinner is almost ready. We should all go downstairs."

"Of course…we must finish our tour of the downstairs as well." Emily mentioned as she and Richard led the way out of the room followed by Lorelai.

Dean and Rory were the last to leave the room and stayed a little behind on purpose.

"I think this is going well." Rory said excitedly.

"Yeah it seems to be. But can I ask you something really quick?"

"Yeah what is it?"

"Is there anything that you and your mother don't talk about…including what we do in our bedroom?"