After the grand tour of Stars Hollow Lorelai and Rory took Shelby home to unpack her things, and thought they might be able to get to know her and then they would get pizza and watch the movies. After an hour of looking at all of Shelby's clothes and discussing how cool some were and how disgustingly horrible some were they decided to watch movies. Lorelai ordered the pizza and just as they were settling down to watch Willie Wonker and The chocolate factory it came. But half way through the second movie the phone interrupted them.

'Mum were did you put the phone?' yelled Rory from some were in her mum's room.

'Try under my pillow,' said Lorelai.

'Got it, Hello, hi grandma, yeah mum had hidden it, yes again, yeah we are fine, yes, we are bringing her next Friday, we did find her thanks grandma, no you can't talk to her, she will be freaked out by it grandma, alright mum wants to talk to you,' said Rory walking downstairs and giving the phone to a upset mother.

'Hi mum, yeah, you tried earlier, yeah, Rory does need new school clothes, no I'm getting them on Monday when we go to pick Shelby's clothes up, good bye mum,' said Lorelai.

'Bummer we missed the funniest part,' said Rory.

'Hey, we don't have any food left, who ate the last Twinkie?' asked Lorelai.

'Told you it wouldn't be enough,' said Shelby.

'God that girl can eat,' said Lorelai, pretending to whisper it just Rory but Shelby could here it.

'Hey Lorelai, Rory, I'm really tired and I just want to go and have a shower and get some sleep,' said Shelby.

'Yeah the towels are -'

'Right here,' said Rory, giving her a pink towel.

'Hey I like, my towel I have at home is lime green,' said Shelby. She then walks into the bathroom and turns on the shower.

Meanwhile out side Lorelai and Rory were discussing how nice she was and that they would have a nice time with her over the next year, and thinking that there has to be something wrong with her cause she seemed so perfect.

Meanwhile inside the shower, Shelby was thinking how nice they were and that they were probably be talking about her right now, that was her and her mums favourite thing to do, to talk about people behind there back's.

15 minutes later Shelby popped out of the shower with her pink clouds pyjamas on, with the writing of cloudland on them.

'It's not nice to gossip about people when there in the next room, they have to be two rooms away!' said Shelby 'Hey, what time is it?'

'Ummm 9.30, tell me you can't be tired?' said Rory.

'No not really after that shower,' said Shelby.

'Good cause we still have heaps of things to ask you,' said Lorelai with an evil grin.

'Ok what do you want to know, you've asked me if I have any boyfriends, asked me all the questions even your best friends shouldn't ask, or mothers, only the counsellor's should ask them! And you've asked me if I nope can't think of anything more,' said Shelby.

'Maybe so but now were going into more in depth questions, like what is your favourite food? Your favourite band, your favourite colour, what is your type of guy, what your house is like, what is your school like in Australia, all those sort of questions,' said Lorelai.

'Ok well my favourite food is pasta, I don't have a favourite bands that I like most, but I hate Emniem, I love pink and red, tall and well built guys are more my style, well all guys are tall for me since I'm a shrimp, my house was small, one story with three rooms, very messy rooms, and my school was scary and big and had very, very high expectations and I started there only about three years ago when I was in year nine,' answered Shelby.

'So tell us more about you family,' said Rory.

'Well, it's just me and my mum, she's had some boyfriends but they never worked out, my dad and her nearly got to gather but he got back with his ex- girlfriend, and then I have no brothers or cousins, my mum disgraced her family and she never really saw them until I was about 7 or 8 but my mum took so many pictures of me it was not funny, and she worked at in a bar, as a barmaid, cleaned etc and she only did that for a while though, I am so proud of her though cause she finished school not so long ago and she has a degree in teaching, so yeah that's basically that part of my life anything else?' asked Shelby.

'Well, ok you've said you've had a few dozen boyfriends so let's see are you a virgin?' asked Lorelai, with another cheeky grin on her face.

'Well I am not at liberty to answer that question, sorry mammee,' said Shelby with an upset look on her face.

'You can tell us we wont judge you,' said Lorelai.

'Yes you will,' said Shelby said looking only down at her fluffy PJ's.

'So we don't need to talk to you about the birds and the bees any more do we?' asked Lorelai.

'What?' she asked confused.

'Just tell us,' said Lorelai, 'a mother needs to know things like these.'

'I got into some pretty bad things when I was in Year 8 and 9,and you know how I said my mum had a few boyfriends well a few of them hit me and did other things,' said Shelby.

'Oh, we shouldn't have pushed,' said Rory.

'Oh hey don't worry, I was going tell you guys sooner or later,' said Shelby, smiling, jumping out of her chair Shelby said in a bubbly voice 'Hey can I check my email?'

'Sure I'll get on now,' said Rory turning the Internet on.

Five minutes later they were checking her email.

'Hey I got an email from him!' yelled Shelby.

'Ok, who is him, is he a guy friend from back home?' asked Rory.

'No, I meet him on a chat site and we email each other regularly and we just talk about issues like books, current day things, etc, he use to live in New York and then he moved to a small town near by and the town in full of freaks, but he says one girl isn't so bad,' said Shelby to the intent Lorelai and Rory.

'So what is he's email?' asked Lorelai.

'Um jmny17@email.com, why?' asked Rory.

Running through both of the heads, at the same time *oh my god that's Jesse email address she can't be writing to him that's just to weird*

'Hello earth to Lorelai and Rory, any one in?' she asked, irritated.

'Oh nothing,' said the two.

'Ok well I need to talk to Rory about you behind your back, so were going two rooms away,' said Lorelai.

'Ok, just no bad gossiping only good,' said Shelby.

Shelby replied to his email and was soon replying to her best friends and mothers email and she got shock as well, there was an email from her father, she hadn't seen or heard from here for a long time, she had only talked to him on the phone, and never really saw him, well she had never seen him, only in her mum's high school pictures.

Five minutes later

'Hey guys umm I can't read that email can u read it for me, umm no forget about it,' said Shelby.

'Ok settle, ok talk to me slowly,' said Lorelai.

'Um no this is just one thing I can't talk about tonight, I'm to sad, upset, scared and mad, to many emotions running wild, its like going through grade 7 again,' said Shelby, going off to her bedroom.

5 minutes later she was joined by Lorelai and Rory, 'So care to explain?' asked Lorelai.

'Um no not really, this one I want to keep bottled up,' said Shelby.

'Ok, if you need to talk then just come, even in the middle of the night, well just give me warning ok like turn on the lamp or through something at me,' said Lorelai jokingly.

'Thanks guys but I think I want to go to bed,' said Shelby.

Rory and Lorelai realised the Shelby did have some problems, and wasn't so perfect. She was scared by an email from some one. And looked like she was really worried about it. So Lorelai did something she never had done to Rory and didn't even know if she should do it. She checked the email that Shelby asked for them to read. It was no biggy just her dad asking to see her when she's back in Australia.

'Hey, mum I think I might go to bed as well, it been a long day, and I'm really tired, sleep deprivation ain't good on holidays,' said Rory.

Lorelai hugged her good night and gave her a kiss and said, 'good night babe sleep tight,' as she said every night she went to bed.

'You to mum,' answered Rory.

After flicking channels on the TV and realising that there wasn't anything worthwhile on TV Lorelai had a shower and went up to bed, she checked in on Shelby, she had a books open and she was reading it, 'I couldn't get to sleep, don't worry it usually happens to me I just got to read a books to relax,' said Shelby.

'Nice glasses,' said Lorelai as she walked off to her room.

Half and hour later Shelby was asleep, but in the next room, Lorelai was tossing and turning there was something about Shelby, that made Lorelai just want to hug her and never let go, she seemed like she was out of love and didn't have enough of it.

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The Next Day

The three girls slept in until 11.30 not realising that they were that tired. Shelby was the first to get up, startled at were she was as first. She walked out side to find the toilet, after washing her face etc, she went out side to find Rory was up, 'Good Morning.'

'Morning,' said Rory groggily.