A/N-You guys were right about Rory being too open in the last chapter. If it bugged you, I'm sorry about that. Thanks for the reviews. You guys are great.

P.S- I noticed that almost all of the reviews aren't signed. If you had a log in name, it would be nice if you used it so I could check out what you've written and review your stuff. Okay, on with chapter Seven.

Chapter Seven- Canceled

Lorelai and Rory drove home in silence. Lorelai had a frustrated look on her face. One of her hands was on her head and the other, on the steering wheel. Rory watched her mother the whole time, wondering why she wasn't saying anything. Finally, Rory broke the silence. "What's wrong?"

Lorelai quickly glanced at her daughter. "Is it true?" She asked.

"What do you mean?"

"Were you at Jess's because you wanted to borrow books?" Lorelai asked.

Rory wasn't sure why, but she lied, "Yeah, Jess has way more books than me, and I just wanted to check them out. When I picked all the ones I wanted to borrow, Jess suggested I stay a little while to watch T.V. I said yes. I was about to leave when you walked in."

Lorelai studied her daughter closely and decided to drop it. "So, did you eat anything?"

"I haven't eaten since breakfast at Luke's. I'm starved. How 'bout you?"

"Same." Lorelai pulled into the driveway and parked the car. "How 'bout we order some pizza?"

Rory and Lorelai stepped out of the jeep and shut their doors at the same time. "Sounds great."

"You told me you might be going to Washington. What's up with that?" Lorelai asked as she unlocked the front door.

"Still not positive, but it is a possibility," Rory answered as she took off her shoes and walked inside the house. "I really don't wanna go. Six weeks alone with Paris sounds like hell. What have I done to be punished this harshly?"

Lorelai could think of a thing or two. Kissing Jess, dumping Dean, spending the whole day with Jess, lying to her. "Nothing that I can think of." She lied.

Rory shrugged as she headed for her room.

~*~

By eight, both Gilmore's were in their pajama's, sitting on the couch, watching television, drinking coffee, and eating pizza. "So, has dad called yet?" Rory asked.

"No, but I don't really care. I knew it was too good to be true, I'm over him anyway."

And it was true. Lorelai was over Chris, but it still didn't make it better because he lied to Rory and didn't even say goodbye. Rory was disappointed about that, but agreed with her mother. "It was too good to be true. I knew he'd find some way of getting out of this. He always does."

Lorelai decided not to say anything about Chris anymore. She faced the T.V. "Look, its Emeril! BAM!" They both said in unison. Lorelai and Rory watched as Emeril Lagasi made a chicken salad and some kind of cheesecake for dessert.

~*~

At nine-thirty the phone rang. Lorelai and Rory looked at each other and said at the same time. "You're closer," followed by, "no you're closer," and "nu-uh," also, "uh-huh."

"Fine I'll get it." Rory said and quickly got off the couch and ran to the phone. "Hello?"

"Rory?" A voice asked.

"Yeah, who is this?"

"It's Paris. I have some bad news."

"What is it?"

"They canceled it."

"Canceled what?"

"The convention in Washington! They canceled it!"

"Huh? Why?" Rory asked with a hint of happiness in her voice.

"Paris!!!" A person in the background at Paris's house called.

"Something about one of the counclers having a better ised since another counclers dad or something died. I gotta go."

"All right, um see ya." Rory tried hard too contain her happiness but couldn't. And Paris noticed.

"You sound happy. Are you smiling? I knew it. You didn't want to be part of this in the first place. Why did you make me believe that you were eager to participate in this? You were all like, 'Yeah Paris, this is going to be great' and all that crap. At first I didn't believe you but then I was stupid enough to by into you're act. I can't-"

"Paris, I am disappointed but um... you know my mom. She's um dancing around to some um Christmas music. It's funny, that's why I sound happy, okay?" Rory sounded pretty convincing considering the word 'um' was used quite frequentely.

"All right, whatever. I'll call you back later to fill you in on what we're going to have to do now."

"Sure. Bye."

"Bye."

Rory hung up and ran up to her mom, who was closely watching the T.V. "Who was that Rory?" Lorelai asked, seeing the happy expression on Rory's face."

"It was-"

"Nooo, let me guess. Oh oh! It was George Clooney inviting you and I over to his house so we can help him plan another Casino robbery, since you've got the brains and I've got plenty of experience when it comes to casino robberies. Ohhh, is Brad gonna be there too?"

"No, it wasn't George Clooney, and Brad was not there."

"Okay, it was Kirk inviting you to spend the night at his house and you said yes."

"NO WAY! Don't be gross." Rory's smile faded and A disgusted look came onto her face. "It was Paris."

"Paris? What did she want?"

"I'm not going to Washington!" Rory said happily.

"What?"

"It was canceled! They're going to add a class at Chilton teaching kids the same thing we would have learned in Washington! I'm staying in Stars-Hollow for the summer!"

"YAY!" Lorelai ran up to Rory and hugged her. "Summer is back on!"

A/N- Sorry about the lateness of this chapter but I spent all of yesterday in the hospital. I'll have the next one posted either tomorrow or Tuesday. Please review.