A/N : I dont own anything
rating :R
Summary: Lorelai has a super secret she has been witholding for years. Didn't you ever wonder where she got that energy? Rehab brings her closer to Luke, craziness ensues. My first ever ff or anything. So r/r please... be mean if you have to. following chapters will be up shortly.

CHAPTER 1: Intro


"Rory, there's a note here for you. You need to go to the headmaster's office immediately. Here's your pass."

It was a sunny day in Hartford, and with one sentence a small black cloud seemed to form over Rory's head. She had never been called to the principal's office before. Ever. It couldn't be something bad...She did a mental inventory of everything she could possibly get in trouble for to date. The list was practically nonexistant.
After taking the hall passed, she made her way down the pristine halls of Chilton to the headmaster's office. Timidly, she entered.

"Take a seat, the headmaster will be right with you," the secretary looked up and motioned for Rory to take a seat. Rory swallowed hard, and sat.

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"Mom? Mom. Are you home?," Rory called out, after noticing the door to the house was slightly ajar. She thought nothing of it, Star's Hollow was a perfectly safe place to leave a door unlocked.

"Moooom? Where are you?," Rory climed the steps and heard a noise in her mother's room. She pushed the door open slowly with the tips of her fingers.

"Woah!! What are you doing? Ok, Knocking, great concept, heard of it?"
Lorelai popped out of the closet and almost ran into the opening door.
"How long have you been standing there? You were supposed to be working on the paper with Paris after school? Why are you here now? Thanks for letting me know what's going on in your life. Anything else I need to know? Do you have an alter ego too? Fight crime by night?"

"Mom! Slow down!! what is going on with you? I don't have to work on the paper untill tomorrow, I told you this. And I was calling your name for a good five minutes and--- what were you doing in the closet?"

"Oh, well, you know, little of this, little of that. Some spring cleaning... You know, I could use some coffee, how about you?"

"Oh my god, I think coffee is the last thing you need right now, unless it's a coffee-flavored sedative. Why are you so hyper? Whats going on?"

"Nothing's going on. I just have a lot of energy right now. No Coffee? Fine. I'm gonna run out really quick, be back super soon," And with that, Lorelai slipped past Rory and sped down the steps. Rory heard the front door slam, and looked after her with a perplexed look on her face.

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It was past dark by the time Lorelai returned home. A confused Rory trudged through her homework half-heartedly. An instinctual feeling that something was not right with her mother would not leave her. She looked up sharply as she heard the door open.

Lorelai looked terrible. Dark circles sagged under her eyes, her close were dirty and there were leaves stuck in her hair.

"MOM! What is going on?"

"What are you talking about?"

"Okay, you've been acting really strange for a while, but today totally takes the cake. Not to mention that I had a meeting with the headmaster today, during which he informed me that someone stopped payment on the last check for my tuiton. I know grandma wouln't do that, so please, enlighten me."

"Rory, it's too late to talk about this. You have school tomorrow, go to bed," Lorelai deadpanned, very out of character.

Rory closed her books and walked into her room. It was a very sleepless night, filled with worrisome thoughts about her mother, and noises from Lorelai's bedroom that didn't stop untill the sun rose.

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The next morning, Lorelai was up and dressed before Rory's alarm went off. She sat at the kitchen table behind a mug of coffee. Rory entered the kitchen rubbing her eyes.

"Morning mom. You were up late last night. Bela Lugosi gets his inspiration from you."

"Yeah, well, I had a lot to do...at... four a.m. ... you know, when the muse strikes..."

"Um, sure. Ok. Forget it. But I do need to talk to you about this tuition thing. I told the headmaster I would find out what was going on from you, that there was
probably some reasonable explanation why someone would stop payment on the check."

"Oh, honey, don't worry about it. I'll go to the bank during my lunch break and get this all straigtened out. Do you have time to get breakfast?"

"Luke's?"

"Absolutely."

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The diner was slow, being about 'that' time in the morning. Rory only had time to sit down and look at her watch before realizing she was going to miss her bus. She was out the door before Luke approached the table with a full coffee caraffe, but stopped dead when he saw Lorelai's sunken eyes and tired face.

"Hey. What the hell happened to you?"

"Good morning to you too, Luke. And what, may I ask, are you talking about?"

"Well, I don't know, you just uh, look, um, unwell."

"Un WELL???"

"Yeah, are you coming down with something?"

"Coming down with something?? COMING DOWN WITH SOMETHING?!?!? What is going on with everyone?!?," Lorelai shreeked and stood up abruptly, knocking her chair down loudly. Everyone in the diner stopped talking and looked at her with some interest.

"First Sookie, and then my mother, and then Rory, and now YOU?? What are you all talking about?!?!? Just because I don't feel like being funny and witty and chipper and gorgeous every freaking day does not mean anything! Everyone needs to butt out of my life and leave me alone! You especially, Luke! Who are you to tell me anything!! Stay out of my life and away from me! All of you!!"

Luke stared at her, speechless. His jaw dropped further and further as her rant progressed, hitting decibles dreamed of by fighter jets and rock bands. Lorelai finnished her monologue in near tears, and stormed out of the diner, leaving a very confused and upset Luke behind.

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