Title: Life As I Know It
Chapter 18: Saturday Night At The Movies
Disclaimer: No, I don't own the Gilmore Girls. I'm watching Gilmore Girls right now, and I am so hyper that every little thing is funny, although it's always funny anyway, but now it's, like, hysterical. Hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe. Okay, got that out of my system: shutting up now.
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"I'm dreaming of a white Christmas... just like the ones I used to know." Lorelai walked around the Inn, singing. The Inn was very Christmas-y, seeing as how it was two weeks till the happy holiday. Lorelai hang garlands while singing and dancing.
"Deck the halls with boughs of holly....Falalalalalalala la..." Lorelai spun around and hit Sookie.
"OOF!"
"Oh, my god, I'm so sorry!"
"Oh, it's okay. I've done worse."
"Are you sure you're okay? I mean, totally sure?"
"Yeah, I'm fine."
"Completely and absolutely sure?"
"Yes, Lorelai, I am completely, absolutely and totally sure that I am fine. I've done much worse to myself."
"Okay. I just wanted to make sure."
"Yeah, I figured that."
"Okay." Lorelai headed to the desk and picked up her coat and started to head out the door. She paused and turned around and looked at Sookie sitting on the couch. "Hey, Sookie?"
"Yeah?"
"What are you doing tonight?"
"Probably working on next week's menu."
"No, no, you can't work tonight! It's Saturday night! And it's almost Christmas! You're coming home with me." Lorelai headed over to the couch and pulled Sookie up.
"What are we going to do?"
"We're going to have a slumber party!"
"We are?"
"Yeah! I'm sending you home for an hour, but you have to show up on my doorstep exactly at seven o'clock with a healthy appetite for junk food and movies. Ooh, and jammies! You're going to be a part of Lorelai and Rory Gilmore's annual Christmas movie night!"
"O-kay."
"Okay! See you in an hour!" Lorelai ran out of the Inn, leaving a very shocked Sookie to stare after her.
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Sookie showed up at the Gilmore house at seven on the dot. She rang the doorbell.
"Just a minute!" Lorelai called. "Hey, dancing queen, get the door, will ya?"
"Kay, Mamma Mia!" Sookie heard Rory yell. There was a thud against the door. "Ow!" Rory yelled again. Then the door was slowly pulled open to reveal the ten-year-old in a leotard, tights, and ballet shoes rubbing her left arm.
"Aw, sweetie, what happened?"
"I twirled into the door." Rory said miserably. Lorelai walked down the stairs just in time to hear this. She burst out laughing. Rory turned and glared at her. She shut up.
"Sorry. Hey! Sookie's here! Yay!"
"Okay, should I go get the movies?"
"Well, take Sookie into the living room with the movies and I'll grab the food and meet you there."
"Okay."
"Break!" Lorelai called as they headed in opposite directions. Two seconds later, Lorelai dumped a large pile of candy on the coffee table.
"Mom! You covered up the movies!"
"Sorry. I'll find them for you." Lorelai shoved the bags of candy off the table to reveal ten videos.
"Whoa, that's a lot of movies." Sookie looked taken aback.
"Yep, we'll be up till--" Lorelai tried to calculate it in her head--"really really early in the morning."
"Or late afternoon." Rory said.
"Ooh, show her what we've got!" Lorelai poked Rory in the arm.
"I thought you were gonna do that, and, ow."
"You're showing her the movies and I'm gonna interrupt with insane little tidbits from my head and I'm showing her the candy where you interrupt with insane little tidbits, again from my head."
"Okay. Chronological or alphabetical order?"
"Hmm. Alphabetical works better."
"Okay. Number 1: Babes In Toyland." Rory lifted up the video and showed it off.
"But the 1986 version, not the 1961 one, because this one has Gertie from 'ET: The Extra-Terrestial'; Pat, the original hamburger diner owner from 'Happy Days'; and Keanu Reeves, from, like, 'Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.' Whoa!"
"Like, mind-blowing! Okay, number 2: Holiday Inn."
"Because it's Christmas, and this has the song 'White Christmas,' and it's got Fred Astaire, Rory's idol, and you just need black and white movies at every slumber party." Lorelai nodded seriously. "Ooh! And, you always have to prance around, which we're gonna do when we're watching it, and then we'll take a break after other movies and do it again, and then we'll end the party tomorrow morning by doing another dance in the snow."
"It hasn't snowed yet this season." Sookie pointed out.
"Oh, it will, trust me."
"Trust her. She has a weird sixth sense about snow. She can smell it in the air, just like coffee brewing within a hundred miles--"
"Good coffee." Lorelai interrupted.
"Right,good coffee. Anyway, number 3: Home Alone." Both Rory and Lorelai lifted their hands to their faces and screamed, a la Macaulay Culkin.
" 'Nuff said."
Sookie nodded like she had some idea of what they were talking about.
"Number 4: How The Grinch Stole Christmas." Sookie and Rory looked at Lorelai. She shrugged.
"We needed thirty minutes to kill. I'll let you in on a secret: I pretend like I believe in the whole 'no presents for Christmas thing,' but the truth is, I wake up before Rory does to run to the tree on Christmas morning."
"It's true, she does. Many a year I've woken up to pinches and water on the face. Okay, number 5: Miracle on 34th Street. This one's mine. I've always liked this movie because the six-year-old got to meet Santa Claus."
"Yeah, and the cool thing is, she found it when she was six, which was four years ago, and now it's 1994, and a new one's out." Sookie and Rory looked strangely as Lorelai giggled. "What?"
"Number 6: The Muppet Christmas Carol."
"It's not easy being greeeeee--eeeen!" Lorelai hit a high note.
"Is someone shaving a cat while drowning it, cause that's what you sound like."
"Ah, Sookie, you're so sweet."
"Annnnnd, number 7: hehehehehehehehe, I can't stop giggling." The three of them succumbed into giggles for a few minutes. "And..." giggle giggle "...number seven is..." giggle giggle "...National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation."
"That's a pretty ribbon. Yeah." Lorelai started stroking Rory's hair. "What? Shut up, shut up! Don't talk!"
"That's Lenny from 'Of Mice And Men.'" Sookie pointed out.
"Yes, played by Cousin Eddie!"
"That's my mom, Randy Quaid. Movie number eight of the night is..." Rory looked for the video, but Lorelai was holding it behind her back. "Moooom." Rory whined.
"No, I wanna show it off!"
"We agreed that I would present the movies and you would present the candy."
"But candy's boring!! I don't want to do candy anymore!!"
"Well, you can't switch now, I've got three left!"
"But I love Tom Hanks! I love Meg Ryan! I love them together! I can sing along with her and sound good!"
"Give."
"No!"
"Now."
Lorelai pouted and whimpered. Rory just held her hand out. Lorelai frowned and slapped the video into Rory's hand. "Fine. Meanie."
"Number 8: Sleepless in Seattle."
"It's got Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Rosie O'Donnel, Rob Reiner, and Rita Wilson. The fourth highest grossing movie of last year, and when Meg Ryan sings, it sounds like someone's scratching a cat's nails on a blackboard while it's being shaved as it's drowning."
"So, better or worse than you?" Sookie asked. Lorelai glared and Rory high-fived Sookie.
"You're gonna fit in fine, Sookie."
"Yeah, okay great! Now, number nine and number ten are A Very Brady Christmas--Heeheeheehee, the Bradys make me laugh--and White Christmas--obviously, again because of the song. Now, let's watch movies!"
~~~~~
By five-thirty in the morning, Lorelai was the only one still awake. She turned off the "snowing" TV and placed "Christmas Vacation" back in its case. She looked at Sookie, all curled up on the couch, squeezing her stuffed chef's hat, and Rory, sprawled on the floor, hugging the life out of her rooster. Lorelai pulled a blanket over Sookie and headed to her room to get another blanket for Rory. She came back downstairs, and as she was fanning the blanket over Rory, she glanced toward the window to see...
"Snow! Rory, Rory, get up, it's snow! Sookie, get up, it's snow!"
Sookie and Rory stretched. Rory popped up.
"Snow! Midnight snow walk! Come on, Sookie, we're going out to walk in the snow!"
"Oh, is this the famous snow walk?" Sookie yawned.
"Yep!" Lorelai threw Sookie's coat on top of her. "Let's go, come on, we're gonna miss it!"
Sookie threw on her jacket and made it out the door seconds before it closed behind Lorelai.
The girls stood with their arms around each other. The sun was coming up to the right and the snow was falling all around them.
"This is perfect." Sookie whispered.
"Absolutely perfect." Rory agreed.
"I love you guys." Lorelai, standing in the middle, squeezed the other two towards her.
Chapter 18: Saturday Night At The Movies
Disclaimer: No, I don't own the Gilmore Girls. I'm watching Gilmore Girls right now, and I am so hyper that every little thing is funny, although it's always funny anyway, but now it's, like, hysterical. Hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe. Okay, got that out of my system: shutting up now.
~~~~~~
"I'm dreaming of a white Christmas... just like the ones I used to know." Lorelai walked around the Inn, singing. The Inn was very Christmas-y, seeing as how it was two weeks till the happy holiday. Lorelai hang garlands while singing and dancing.
"Deck the halls with boughs of holly....Falalalalalalala la..." Lorelai spun around and hit Sookie.
"OOF!"
"Oh, my god, I'm so sorry!"
"Oh, it's okay. I've done worse."
"Are you sure you're okay? I mean, totally sure?"
"Yeah, I'm fine."
"Completely and absolutely sure?"
"Yes, Lorelai, I am completely, absolutely and totally sure that I am fine. I've done much worse to myself."
"Okay. I just wanted to make sure."
"Yeah, I figured that."
"Okay." Lorelai headed to the desk and picked up her coat and started to head out the door. She paused and turned around and looked at Sookie sitting on the couch. "Hey, Sookie?"
"Yeah?"
"What are you doing tonight?"
"Probably working on next week's menu."
"No, no, you can't work tonight! It's Saturday night! And it's almost Christmas! You're coming home with me." Lorelai headed over to the couch and pulled Sookie up.
"What are we going to do?"
"We're going to have a slumber party!"
"We are?"
"Yeah! I'm sending you home for an hour, but you have to show up on my doorstep exactly at seven o'clock with a healthy appetite for junk food and movies. Ooh, and jammies! You're going to be a part of Lorelai and Rory Gilmore's annual Christmas movie night!"
"O-kay."
"Okay! See you in an hour!" Lorelai ran out of the Inn, leaving a very shocked Sookie to stare after her.
~~~~~
Sookie showed up at the Gilmore house at seven on the dot. She rang the doorbell.
"Just a minute!" Lorelai called. "Hey, dancing queen, get the door, will ya?"
"Kay, Mamma Mia!" Sookie heard Rory yell. There was a thud against the door. "Ow!" Rory yelled again. Then the door was slowly pulled open to reveal the ten-year-old in a leotard, tights, and ballet shoes rubbing her left arm.
"Aw, sweetie, what happened?"
"I twirled into the door." Rory said miserably. Lorelai walked down the stairs just in time to hear this. She burst out laughing. Rory turned and glared at her. She shut up.
"Sorry. Hey! Sookie's here! Yay!"
"Okay, should I go get the movies?"
"Well, take Sookie into the living room with the movies and I'll grab the food and meet you there."
"Okay."
"Break!" Lorelai called as they headed in opposite directions. Two seconds later, Lorelai dumped a large pile of candy on the coffee table.
"Mom! You covered up the movies!"
"Sorry. I'll find them for you." Lorelai shoved the bags of candy off the table to reveal ten videos.
"Whoa, that's a lot of movies." Sookie looked taken aback.
"Yep, we'll be up till--" Lorelai tried to calculate it in her head--"really really early in the morning."
"Or late afternoon." Rory said.
"Ooh, show her what we've got!" Lorelai poked Rory in the arm.
"I thought you were gonna do that, and, ow."
"You're showing her the movies and I'm gonna interrupt with insane little tidbits from my head and I'm showing her the candy where you interrupt with insane little tidbits, again from my head."
"Okay. Chronological or alphabetical order?"
"Hmm. Alphabetical works better."
"Okay. Number 1: Babes In Toyland." Rory lifted up the video and showed it off.
"But the 1986 version, not the 1961 one, because this one has Gertie from 'ET: The Extra-Terrestial'; Pat, the original hamburger diner owner from 'Happy Days'; and Keanu Reeves, from, like, 'Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.' Whoa!"
"Like, mind-blowing! Okay, number 2: Holiday Inn."
"Because it's Christmas, and this has the song 'White Christmas,' and it's got Fred Astaire, Rory's idol, and you just need black and white movies at every slumber party." Lorelai nodded seriously. "Ooh! And, you always have to prance around, which we're gonna do when we're watching it, and then we'll take a break after other movies and do it again, and then we'll end the party tomorrow morning by doing another dance in the snow."
"It hasn't snowed yet this season." Sookie pointed out.
"Oh, it will, trust me."
"Trust her. She has a weird sixth sense about snow. She can smell it in the air, just like coffee brewing within a hundred miles--"
"Good coffee." Lorelai interrupted.
"Right,good coffee. Anyway, number 3: Home Alone." Both Rory and Lorelai lifted their hands to their faces and screamed, a la Macaulay Culkin.
" 'Nuff said."
Sookie nodded like she had some idea of what they were talking about.
"Number 4: How The Grinch Stole Christmas." Sookie and Rory looked at Lorelai. She shrugged.
"We needed thirty minutes to kill. I'll let you in on a secret: I pretend like I believe in the whole 'no presents for Christmas thing,' but the truth is, I wake up before Rory does to run to the tree on Christmas morning."
"It's true, she does. Many a year I've woken up to pinches and water on the face. Okay, number 5: Miracle on 34th Street. This one's mine. I've always liked this movie because the six-year-old got to meet Santa Claus."
"Yeah, and the cool thing is, she found it when she was six, which was four years ago, and now it's 1994, and a new one's out." Sookie and Rory looked strangely as Lorelai giggled. "What?"
"Number 6: The Muppet Christmas Carol."
"It's not easy being greeeeee--eeeen!" Lorelai hit a high note.
"Is someone shaving a cat while drowning it, cause that's what you sound like."
"Ah, Sookie, you're so sweet."
"Annnnnd, number 7: hehehehehehehehe, I can't stop giggling." The three of them succumbed into giggles for a few minutes. "And..." giggle giggle "...number seven is..." giggle giggle "...National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation."
"That's a pretty ribbon. Yeah." Lorelai started stroking Rory's hair. "What? Shut up, shut up! Don't talk!"
"That's Lenny from 'Of Mice And Men.'" Sookie pointed out.
"Yes, played by Cousin Eddie!"
"That's my mom, Randy Quaid. Movie number eight of the night is..." Rory looked for the video, but Lorelai was holding it behind her back. "Moooom." Rory whined.
"No, I wanna show it off!"
"We agreed that I would present the movies and you would present the candy."
"But candy's boring!! I don't want to do candy anymore!!"
"Well, you can't switch now, I've got three left!"
"But I love Tom Hanks! I love Meg Ryan! I love them together! I can sing along with her and sound good!"
"Give."
"No!"
"Now."
Lorelai pouted and whimpered. Rory just held her hand out. Lorelai frowned and slapped the video into Rory's hand. "Fine. Meanie."
"Number 8: Sleepless in Seattle."
"It's got Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Rosie O'Donnel, Rob Reiner, and Rita Wilson. The fourth highest grossing movie of last year, and when Meg Ryan sings, it sounds like someone's scratching a cat's nails on a blackboard while it's being shaved as it's drowning."
"So, better or worse than you?" Sookie asked. Lorelai glared and Rory high-fived Sookie.
"You're gonna fit in fine, Sookie."
"Yeah, okay great! Now, number nine and number ten are A Very Brady Christmas--Heeheeheehee, the Bradys make me laugh--and White Christmas--obviously, again because of the song. Now, let's watch movies!"
~~~~~
By five-thirty in the morning, Lorelai was the only one still awake. She turned off the "snowing" TV and placed "Christmas Vacation" back in its case. She looked at Sookie, all curled up on the couch, squeezing her stuffed chef's hat, and Rory, sprawled on the floor, hugging the life out of her rooster. Lorelai pulled a blanket over Sookie and headed to her room to get another blanket for Rory. She came back downstairs, and as she was fanning the blanket over Rory, she glanced toward the window to see...
"Snow! Rory, Rory, get up, it's snow! Sookie, get up, it's snow!"
Sookie and Rory stretched. Rory popped up.
"Snow! Midnight snow walk! Come on, Sookie, we're going out to walk in the snow!"
"Oh, is this the famous snow walk?" Sookie yawned.
"Yep!" Lorelai threw Sookie's coat on top of her. "Let's go, come on, we're gonna miss it!"
Sookie threw on her jacket and made it out the door seconds before it closed behind Lorelai.
The girls stood with their arms around each other. The sun was coming up to the right and the snow was falling all around them.
"This is perfect." Sookie whispered.
"Absolutely perfect." Rory agreed.
"I love you guys." Lorelai, standing in the middle, squeezed the other two towards her.