June 1st, 2002

Lorelai flipped through a bridal magazine.

"I think for a bride's maid dress I will pick an orange taffeta dress." She said. Rory looked up form her book.

"I won't be doing any of that." She said, "Nothing orange is going on me."

"Okay, maybe blue." Lorelai said.

"Baby blue." Rory said.

"We'll see." Lorelai chuckled as she got up to get more coffee, "We don't even have a date set yet."

"Maybe you should pick a date." Rory said, "If I have a say in it I say early October. Right when the leaves turn red and orange. It'll look wonderful."

"Hmm, you may be right." Lorelai said, "I do like autumn. I will run it past Luke."

"Great." Rory said. "As for me, I need to go study. Finals are in like seven days." She said.

"And then your senior year. Year of the college essay, and Harvard acceptance letters." Lorelai grinned.

"You're going to jinx me mother." Rory groaned walking into her bedroom.

"Jinx sminx." Lorelai chuckled getting up and walking into her daughter's bedroom. "Come on. Why don't we go into town and get an ice-cream sundae."

"Mom, I need to study." She said.

"No you don't you're smart."

"And how do you think I got that way?" Rory frowned, "It certainly wasn't genes. I studied." Lorelai frowned as she looked at her daughter.

"Fine." She mumbled leaving Rory's room. Rory sighed deeply and slammed her book.

"Mom, I didn't mean it that way." She said getting up, "I just really need to study."

"I know, go ahead." Lorelai said, "I think I'm going to go to the diner." She grabbed her purse. Rory bit her lip as she leaned on the doorframe.

"Are you mad at me?" Rory asked. Lorelai shook her head.

"No. I just want some ice cream. You stay here and study." Lorelai said walking to the door, "I'll be back later." With that she was gone. Rory sighed deeply and went into the freezer There was tons of ice cream in there. Rory sighed deeply.

* * *

Lorelai pushed her dark curls off of her shoulders as she walked into the diner. She sat down at the counter and glared at her fiancée. Luke smiled when he saw her.

"Hi there." He smiled kissing her softly.

"Hey." She sighed.

"What's wrong?" He asked.

"Rory hates me." Lorelai said, "Well, she said I was stupid."

"You're not stupid." Luke said.

"I know, but she said I was." Lorelai shrugged, "All I wanted was for her to come get some ice-cream."

"Well, doesn't she have her finales to study for?" He asked. Lorelai shrugged.

"So…No, I know they're important, but she's been studying forever." She said.

"She's trying to get into Harvard and win Scholarships." Luke pointed out. "Just give her some time and this summer maybe we can do a family thing."

"Family thing." Lorelai giggled, "I'm still getting used t the fact that we're a family. Families, who haven't set any wedding dates, but fancy this. You're future step-daughter and I have been talking about it."

"Yeah. I've been thinking about that too." Luke said. "I was thinking around October 12th, 2003." Lorelai grinned brightly.

"I was thinking the same exact thing." She giggled.

"Are you serious?" Luke smiled. She nodded.

"Leaves are perfect." She smiled, "I want to then."

"All right." Luke grinned kissing her. "We can use the hoopla if you want." Lorelai smiled gently and nodded.

"I would love to if you feel comfortable with using it." She said, "You did make it for Max and I."

"No I didn't." Luke said, "I made it for you only. Not him." Lorelai smiled softly.

"We'll use it again." She said. Luke stood there for a moment.

"Can you and Rory get dressed up and be here at seven?" Luke asked. Lorelai arched her eyebrow.

"Yeah. Why?"

"I want to give Rory something." He said, "Just be here."

"Okay. We'll be here."

* * *

Rory smoothed out her green dress and looked at her mother.

"Why are we dressed like this?" she asked.

"Because Luke asked us to." Lorelai said walking towards the diner. She smiled seeing there were candles in the window. "Ooh what do we have here?"

"Candles." Rory smiled walking in.

"Hey girls." Luke grinned, looking nice.

"Hey." Rory smiled skipping to a table. "So, what are we doing here?"

"I thought should treat my two favourite ladies to some dinner." Luke said, placing a silver platter on the table in front of the girls.

"Oooh fancy." Rory winked playfully. Lorelai took the cover off and burst out laughing. They're was Hamburgers and fries there.

"You know us too well." Lorelai laughed. Rory nibbled on a fry

"Yeah, this is really good." Rory giggled. Luke handed Rory a box. "What's this?"

"Well, I wanted to give something to you. Since you know, you're going to be my step-daughter soon." Luke said, "I thought…You know, I should give you something."

"The box is lovely." Rory smiled running her hand over the detailed work on the wooden box.

"I made it in my spare time." Luke said.

"This guy does everything in his spare time. Make hoopla's, fly planes, save orphans from burning buildings." Lorelai chuckled. Rory opened up the box.

"Oh Luke." Rory smiled. She pulled out a silver locket. "It's beautiful."

"You can put pictures in it or something" Luke said, "There's a small engraving." Rory turned it over.

"Dreams do come true, Luke." She looked up at her soon to be stepfather, "Thank you so much, Luke." Rory slipped it over her neck.

"You like it?" He asked.
"I love it." Rory said, "It's the best gift I've ever gotten."

"Hello. I gave you the gift of life." Lorelai said. Rory chuckled.

"Okay, it's the second best gift." Rory winked, "Thank you so much."

"Anything for you, Rory." Luke said softly, "Anything."