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Chapter 12
I wanted to move the story a little closer to the birth. The first paragraph is just a summary of what happened over the months.
Fast-forward a few months. Rory was 4 months pregnant and had begun to show a while ago, so she had left Stars Hollow High. She was attending night school and doing some home schooling with Lorelai as her teacher. Jess had gotten a new tutor and his grades had gone up to at least a B- or more in all his classes. He and Rory had sent applications to several colleges. The baby was doing fine, but they chosen not to find out the sex.
It was Saturday morning. Jess and Luke were painting the guest bedroom which was upstairs, next to Lorelai's room. They decided to do the room with a pale green and light yellow color scheme, because those colors would work for a boy or a girl.
"Okay, I'm sorry but there is no way I'm going to sleep with a crying kid next door," Lorelai complained. "My turn is over. It was over when Rory started sleeping through the night and that was the best day of my life. We threw a party and everything, it was great."
"That's funny, 'cause I don't remember that."
"You were a baby," Lorelai stated matter of factly.
"Why would you have a party, the music would just wake me up and there would be no point to the party."
"Okay, fine, maybe there wasn't a party," she admitted with a sigh. "You know what! Who made you so smart cause it definitely wasn't me.... Nope I wanted a stupid kid. One who I could play tricks on every day of the week and they would never be none the wiser," Lorelai continued. "Yup even after a week of switching their shampoo with glue they still wouldn't get the point and say 'Hey, maybe I shouldn't put this in my hair...because it's GLUE,' but NO, not you, you would probably smell the stupid glue before you even put in your hair and what fun would that be?"
"So you're the one who switched my shampoo!" Luke yelled with anger.
Rory, Jess, and Lorelai burst into laughter. Luke stood with the paint roller covered with green paint in his hand. "You think this is funny?"
"Yeah," Lorelai cried through her laughter. Luke approached her and ran the painter roll up her back.
"Now that was funny."
"HEY!" Lorelai growled with a smile and grabbed the yellow roller, she smudged it into his face and rolled it up and down, side to side till his face was covered. Lorelai stood back and admired her work. "There." She laughed. "Come on, Luke, what do you got for me now?" she questioned mockingly as Jess and Rory watched with amusement. Luke turned and walked back toward the wall then began painting again. "What are you YELLOW!"
Luke had to laugh at that one. He turned and grabbed a paint brush then walked towards her. She back up, her eyes on the dripping brush. She grabbed the paint sprayer. "Move any closer and I'll spray you."
Luke up his hands up then looked past Lorelai. "Hey Emily," He greeted politely.
"Oh yeah, right, like I'm gonna fall for the old someone's behind you trick."
"No, Lorelai, she's really there," Jess insisted.
"Yeah okay," she scoffed, "so if I did this..." She stopped, pointed, and sprayed the paint behind her towards the door way. "That wouldn't be good."
"No, it wouldn't," Emily's voice cried as she wiped the paint from her face and watched it drip down her suit.
"Oh my God. You have to be kidding me," Lorelai sighed, not wanting to turn around. 'Rory, please tell me you do a really good impression of Emily and that she's not standing behind me." Rory shrugged as Lorelai turned slowly and found her mother stand in the doorway, covered in green paint. "Hi Mom." She smiled, hiding the sprayer behind her back.
**10 minutes later**
After 5 minutes of hearing Lorelai apologize, Luke suggested that instead of having Emily stand in dripping wet clothes, she should get a tee shirt to change into. Lorelai agreed and found her mother one of her old "Budweiser" tees. 5 minutes later Emily exited the downstairs bathroom and found all four of them waiting for her in the living room. "Well, that was fun," Emily sighed sarcastically.
"I'm soooo sorry Mom," Lorelai stated for the hundredth time.
"She knows!!!" Rory, Luke, and Jess yelled together.
"Yeah, so anyway." Lorelai smiled. "What brings you to Stars Hollow?"
"I brought something for Rory," Emily announced excitedly.
"For me?" Rory questioned with a smile. "What is it?"
"You'll see. I'll go get the men." She grinned and ran to the front door.
"She brought men?" Jess wondered out loud. "Should I be worried?"
"Knowing her....Probably," Lorelai joked as Emily enter again.
"This way boys." Emily motioned to two men who appeared to be movers. "Put it right here." She instructed and the men placed a beautiful dark wood rocking chair on the floor in front of them. The designs on the back were beautiful and her grandmother had gotten beige cushions, which were attached to the back and seat.
"Oh my gosh. Grandma, it's amazing," Rory gushed as she struggled to stand and admire that chair. "Can I sit in it?"
"Well, it's yours! Of course you can."
"Wow. This is great." Rory smiled running her hands along the detailed wood armrest.
"This is really beautiful Mom," Lorelai agreed with a grin. Maybe her mother had actually begun to understand that Rory needed her to understand and be there for her.
"Isn't it? I saw it in an auction at the club last month and I just had to get it," she told them. "Supposedly, it belonged to one of the Kennedy's aunts."
"Wow, I have a Kennedy chair!?" Rory asked with excitement. "This must have cost a fortune."
"Well, yes." She paused. "But I never got you a present to congratulate you on the baby...so here it is.
"Thank you." Rory smiled as she stood and hugged her. Emily smiled with satisfaction.
"Oh Jess," Emily remembered. "I have a little something for you too. Rory's grandfather told me that he had a little talk with you about literature and he said that you enjoyed 'Oliver Twist'."
"Yeah, It's a great book," he agreed as he stood to talk to her.
"I found this in an antique book store in Vermont the other week when we vacationed there." She pulled out a book and handed it to him. He took it and opened it. "It's signed by the author himself, it's 5th edition." She told him as he stared at it with amazement. "I know it's not first edition or anything, but...."
"NO, this is really great. Wow." He was speechless. "Thank you so much. This amazing."
"You're welcome." She beamed at the wonderful reaction that her gifts had received. "Well, I have to be going. I have a bridge game at the club in an hour."
"Thank you for stopping by, Mom." Lorelai smiled as everyone said good-bye and Rory hugged her again. "It was really nice of you," she told her as she escorted her to the door.
"She's my family Lorelai. You don't turn your back on family," Emily stated simply, then opened the door. "Good-bye Lorelai."
"Bye Mom." She smiled and closed the door behind her.
**Later**
RING RING
Lorelai ran to answer the phone. She and Rory were having a movie night together and the call was interrupting Willy Wonka. She sighed and picked up the phone. "Who is it?"
"Lorelai?"
"Christopher?" she questioned nervously. This was the first time she had had contact with him in almost 6 months; he had no idea about Rory's pregnancy. "It's been awhile."
"I know. I'm really sorry that I haven't called. Things been so crazy with work, traveling, Sherry...and the baby."
"Yeah, well, pregnancy is very crazy. I can see how it would make you forget your daughter." She was angry that he hadn't called in such a long time.
"Look, Lorelai, I'm really sorry, but I just felt awkward calling after everything that happened between us," he told her.
"Yeah, well, Rory shouldn't have been punished for something that happen between us."
"I know. It was wrong of me. I was just being childish."
"Hold on, I'll get Rory, I'll see if she wants to talk to you," she told him, changing the subject. "RORY!" she called and her daughter appeared in the kitchen.
"What do you want? I'm missing Willy," Rory complained.
"It's your dad," she mouthed slowly and Rory took the phone reluctantly.
"Hey Dad, what's up?" She paced back and forth.
"Hey Ror. Not too much. How are you?"
"I'm okay, I guess. You miss a lot of stuff around here."
"I know," he sighed, "But I've been so busy lately."
"With the baby?" she questioned.
"Well...yeah." He paused uncomfortably then added, "And work."
She sighed, giving Lorelai a look of desperation. "So when's the baby due?"
"She's about 4 and a half months now," he told her and Rory's eyes widened. It was kind of weird to be as far along as her father's girlfriend. "So we have a while to go."
"Yeah. So boy or girl?" she wondered.
"Girl."
Rory's heart sank, she couldn't help but feel like she was going to be replaced by this baby. It wasn't fair, her little sister would grow up with her dad there with her all the time. While Rory will have to wait half a year before getting her next phone call. " Well, that's great," she lied, getting uncomfortable. "I think I'm gonna go now."
"Wait," he stopped her. "I wanted to know if it would be okay if I came and visited for the weekend."
"This weekend?" she repeated. "I don't know..."
"What's he saying? What about this weekend?" Lorelai whispered; she was listening to the conversation.
Rory covered the phone. "He wants to come see me," she replied.
"But you're..." She pointed to her stomach.
"I know, but he has to find out somehow." She sighed. "What should I tell him?"
"It's your decision, kid."
Rory took a breath then uncovered the receiver. "Dad? Sorry." She paused. "Yeah, that sounds like a great idea."
"Great! I'll be there tomorrow, bright and early," he told her and she heard Sherry call in the background. "I have to go."
"Yeah, I heard," she replied, trying not to sound disappointed. "Before you go...what time do you think you'll be here?"
"Probably around 10 or so."
"Mom and I will probably be at Luke's having breakfast," she told him. "You know where Luke's is, right?"
"Yeah, I remember."
"Okay, meet us there then." He agreed, she paused. "Dad, Sherry's not coming, is she?"
"No, not this time," he replied, knowing that Sherry wasn't Rory or Lorelai's favorite person. She heard Sherry call louder this time. "Rory..."
"I know you have to go." She sighed. "See ya." She didn't wait for his answer before hanging up.
"He's coming?" Lorelai asked, taking a seat at the kitchen, as Rory hung up the phone.
"Yup." She sighed and sat down across for her. "Do you think that if I wear really baggy clothes I can hide my stomach?" she asked seriously.
"Oh, please, with that huge thing!"
"Mom!"
"You have to tell him, sweets. Otherwise the next time you see him, you're going have a one year old kid with you."
"I guess so," she agree reluctantly. "Let's go to bed, I'm tired."
"Me too." The girls stood and headed to their rooms, thinking about how weird tomorrow's visit was going to be.
Chapter 12
I wanted to move the story a little closer to the birth. The first paragraph is just a summary of what happened over the months.
Fast-forward a few months. Rory was 4 months pregnant and had begun to show a while ago, so she had left Stars Hollow High. She was attending night school and doing some home schooling with Lorelai as her teacher. Jess had gotten a new tutor and his grades had gone up to at least a B- or more in all his classes. He and Rory had sent applications to several colleges. The baby was doing fine, but they chosen not to find out the sex.
It was Saturday morning. Jess and Luke were painting the guest bedroom which was upstairs, next to Lorelai's room. They decided to do the room with a pale green and light yellow color scheme, because those colors would work for a boy or a girl.
"Okay, I'm sorry but there is no way I'm going to sleep with a crying kid next door," Lorelai complained. "My turn is over. It was over when Rory started sleeping through the night and that was the best day of my life. We threw a party and everything, it was great."
"That's funny, 'cause I don't remember that."
"You were a baby," Lorelai stated matter of factly.
"Why would you have a party, the music would just wake me up and there would be no point to the party."
"Okay, fine, maybe there wasn't a party," she admitted with a sigh. "You know what! Who made you so smart cause it definitely wasn't me.... Nope I wanted a stupid kid. One who I could play tricks on every day of the week and they would never be none the wiser," Lorelai continued. "Yup even after a week of switching their shampoo with glue they still wouldn't get the point and say 'Hey, maybe I shouldn't put this in my hair...because it's GLUE,' but NO, not you, you would probably smell the stupid glue before you even put in your hair and what fun would that be?"
"So you're the one who switched my shampoo!" Luke yelled with anger.
Rory, Jess, and Lorelai burst into laughter. Luke stood with the paint roller covered with green paint in his hand. "You think this is funny?"
"Yeah," Lorelai cried through her laughter. Luke approached her and ran the painter roll up her back.
"Now that was funny."
"HEY!" Lorelai growled with a smile and grabbed the yellow roller, she smudged it into his face and rolled it up and down, side to side till his face was covered. Lorelai stood back and admired her work. "There." She laughed. "Come on, Luke, what do you got for me now?" she questioned mockingly as Jess and Rory watched with amusement. Luke turned and walked back toward the wall then began painting again. "What are you YELLOW!"
Luke had to laugh at that one. He turned and grabbed a paint brush then walked towards her. She back up, her eyes on the dripping brush. She grabbed the paint sprayer. "Move any closer and I'll spray you."
Luke up his hands up then looked past Lorelai. "Hey Emily," He greeted politely.
"Oh yeah, right, like I'm gonna fall for the old someone's behind you trick."
"No, Lorelai, she's really there," Jess insisted.
"Yeah okay," she scoffed, "so if I did this..." She stopped, pointed, and sprayed the paint behind her towards the door way. "That wouldn't be good."
"No, it wouldn't," Emily's voice cried as she wiped the paint from her face and watched it drip down her suit.
"Oh my God. You have to be kidding me," Lorelai sighed, not wanting to turn around. 'Rory, please tell me you do a really good impression of Emily and that she's not standing behind me." Rory shrugged as Lorelai turned slowly and found her mother stand in the doorway, covered in green paint. "Hi Mom." She smiled, hiding the sprayer behind her back.
**10 minutes later**
After 5 minutes of hearing Lorelai apologize, Luke suggested that instead of having Emily stand in dripping wet clothes, she should get a tee shirt to change into. Lorelai agreed and found her mother one of her old "Budweiser" tees. 5 minutes later Emily exited the downstairs bathroom and found all four of them waiting for her in the living room. "Well, that was fun," Emily sighed sarcastically.
"I'm soooo sorry Mom," Lorelai stated for the hundredth time.
"She knows!!!" Rory, Luke, and Jess yelled together.
"Yeah, so anyway." Lorelai smiled. "What brings you to Stars Hollow?"
"I brought something for Rory," Emily announced excitedly.
"For me?" Rory questioned with a smile. "What is it?"
"You'll see. I'll go get the men." She grinned and ran to the front door.
"She brought men?" Jess wondered out loud. "Should I be worried?"
"Knowing her....Probably," Lorelai joked as Emily enter again.
"This way boys." Emily motioned to two men who appeared to be movers. "Put it right here." She instructed and the men placed a beautiful dark wood rocking chair on the floor in front of them. The designs on the back were beautiful and her grandmother had gotten beige cushions, which were attached to the back and seat.
"Oh my gosh. Grandma, it's amazing," Rory gushed as she struggled to stand and admire that chair. "Can I sit in it?"
"Well, it's yours! Of course you can."
"Wow. This is great." Rory smiled running her hands along the detailed wood armrest.
"This is really beautiful Mom," Lorelai agreed with a grin. Maybe her mother had actually begun to understand that Rory needed her to understand and be there for her.
"Isn't it? I saw it in an auction at the club last month and I just had to get it," she told them. "Supposedly, it belonged to one of the Kennedy's aunts."
"Wow, I have a Kennedy chair!?" Rory asked with excitement. "This must have cost a fortune."
"Well, yes." She paused. "But I never got you a present to congratulate you on the baby...so here it is.
"Thank you." Rory smiled as she stood and hugged her. Emily smiled with satisfaction.
"Oh Jess," Emily remembered. "I have a little something for you too. Rory's grandfather told me that he had a little talk with you about literature and he said that you enjoyed 'Oliver Twist'."
"Yeah, It's a great book," he agreed as he stood to talk to her.
"I found this in an antique book store in Vermont the other week when we vacationed there." She pulled out a book and handed it to him. He took it and opened it. "It's signed by the author himself, it's 5th edition." She told him as he stared at it with amazement. "I know it's not first edition or anything, but...."
"NO, this is really great. Wow." He was speechless. "Thank you so much. This amazing."
"You're welcome." She beamed at the wonderful reaction that her gifts had received. "Well, I have to be going. I have a bridge game at the club in an hour."
"Thank you for stopping by, Mom." Lorelai smiled as everyone said good-bye and Rory hugged her again. "It was really nice of you," she told her as she escorted her to the door.
"She's my family Lorelai. You don't turn your back on family," Emily stated simply, then opened the door. "Good-bye Lorelai."
"Bye Mom." She smiled and closed the door behind her.
**Later**
RING RING
Lorelai ran to answer the phone. She and Rory were having a movie night together and the call was interrupting Willy Wonka. She sighed and picked up the phone. "Who is it?"
"Lorelai?"
"Christopher?" she questioned nervously. This was the first time she had had contact with him in almost 6 months; he had no idea about Rory's pregnancy. "It's been awhile."
"I know. I'm really sorry that I haven't called. Things been so crazy with work, traveling, Sherry...and the baby."
"Yeah, well, pregnancy is very crazy. I can see how it would make you forget your daughter." She was angry that he hadn't called in such a long time.
"Look, Lorelai, I'm really sorry, but I just felt awkward calling after everything that happened between us," he told her.
"Yeah, well, Rory shouldn't have been punished for something that happen between us."
"I know. It was wrong of me. I was just being childish."
"Hold on, I'll get Rory, I'll see if she wants to talk to you," she told him, changing the subject. "RORY!" she called and her daughter appeared in the kitchen.
"What do you want? I'm missing Willy," Rory complained.
"It's your dad," she mouthed slowly and Rory took the phone reluctantly.
"Hey Dad, what's up?" She paced back and forth.
"Hey Ror. Not too much. How are you?"
"I'm okay, I guess. You miss a lot of stuff around here."
"I know," he sighed, "But I've been so busy lately."
"With the baby?" she questioned.
"Well...yeah." He paused uncomfortably then added, "And work."
She sighed, giving Lorelai a look of desperation. "So when's the baby due?"
"She's about 4 and a half months now," he told her and Rory's eyes widened. It was kind of weird to be as far along as her father's girlfriend. "So we have a while to go."
"Yeah. So boy or girl?" she wondered.
"Girl."
Rory's heart sank, she couldn't help but feel like she was going to be replaced by this baby. It wasn't fair, her little sister would grow up with her dad there with her all the time. While Rory will have to wait half a year before getting her next phone call. " Well, that's great," she lied, getting uncomfortable. "I think I'm gonna go now."
"Wait," he stopped her. "I wanted to know if it would be okay if I came and visited for the weekend."
"This weekend?" she repeated. "I don't know..."
"What's he saying? What about this weekend?" Lorelai whispered; she was listening to the conversation.
Rory covered the phone. "He wants to come see me," she replied.
"But you're..." She pointed to her stomach.
"I know, but he has to find out somehow." She sighed. "What should I tell him?"
"It's your decision, kid."
Rory took a breath then uncovered the receiver. "Dad? Sorry." She paused. "Yeah, that sounds like a great idea."
"Great! I'll be there tomorrow, bright and early," he told her and she heard Sherry call in the background. "I have to go."
"Yeah, I heard," she replied, trying not to sound disappointed. "Before you go...what time do you think you'll be here?"
"Probably around 10 or so."
"Mom and I will probably be at Luke's having breakfast," she told him. "You know where Luke's is, right?"
"Yeah, I remember."
"Okay, meet us there then." He agreed, she paused. "Dad, Sherry's not coming, is she?"
"No, not this time," he replied, knowing that Sherry wasn't Rory or Lorelai's favorite person. She heard Sherry call louder this time. "Rory..."
"I know you have to go." She sighed. "See ya." She didn't wait for his answer before hanging up.
"He's coming?" Lorelai asked, taking a seat at the kitchen, as Rory hung up the phone.
"Yup." She sighed and sat down across for her. "Do you think that if I wear really baggy clothes I can hide my stomach?" she asked seriously.
"Oh, please, with that huge thing!"
"Mom!"
"You have to tell him, sweets. Otherwise the next time you see him, you're going have a one year old kid with you."
"I guess so," she agree reluctantly. "Let's go to bed, I'm tired."
"Me too." The girls stood and headed to their rooms, thinking about how weird tomorrow's visit was going to be.