Why Me? - Chapter 25
"Temper, Temper"
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Lorelai raced over to the phone and dialed Rory's cell.
"Pick up, pick up, pick up..." Lorelai said outloud, pacing back and fourth. Finally, after a few rings, she did.
"Hello?" Rory said as nonchalantly as possible. She has seen her Mom's number on the Caller ID and wanted to make sure that she played everything out cool so her Mom wouldn't think something was wrong and come looking for her.
"Rory," Lorelai exclaimed, "where are you?? Are you Ok? Is Brad with you?"
Rory stopped in her tracks when she heard this, 'How does she know?' she thought.
"Mom, calm down I'm fine! I'm at... Lanes. She wanted me to come over for a little bit because she got in a fight with her Mom. And no, Brad isn't with me - where'd you get that idea?"
"Oh thank God Rory. You need to call me before you go places! I came home and found a broken chair, a hole in the wall, and two Dr. Pepper's dropped on the ground. I thought you might have made the horrible mistake of inviting him over or something, I guess I should have known you have more sense than that."
Rory winced when she heard her Mom say this and glanced over at Brad, who had stopped when she did and was looking at her.
"Um, yea..." Rory said uneasily, she wasn't sure what to say now. She has just lied to her Mom, twice infact, and she wasn't very good at it.
"Ror? There's something you aren't telling me... what is it?"
Rory thought about maybe telling her Mom, and just getting it over with. But after quickly going through the pro's and con's in her head she decided against it. Her Mom would never trust her again if she told her, so she decided to keep her mouth shut and get off the phone with Lorelai as soon as possible.
"Mom it's nothing, really, listen I'll be home in 10 minutes Ok? Will that make you feel better?"
Lorelai sighed, happy that her daughter wasn't in any danger, "Yea babe, that would be great."
"Ok, I'll see you then. Will you be awake?"
"Yea, but we still need to talk about Brad!"
"Oh yea, about that... can we do it tomorrow? I'm really tired. Lane kinda wore me out emotionally already with her crying and stuff. I'll be home in a little bit, you can just go to sleep and we can talk about everything tomorrow."
Lorelai, a little taken back by this, agreed and told her daughter she loved her before hanging up. She had forgotten to ask for an explanation to the chair, but figured she could ask tomorrow. Actually, she wasn't sure if she forgot to ask or if she didn't have enough time to considering Rory had rushed her off the phone so quickly. Something wasn't right, and Lorelai sensed it. She slowly made her way up the stairs after cleaning up the kitchen and to her room. She wanted to wait up for Rory, but if she didn't want to talk then there was no use in trying to make her.
Lorelai changed and crawled into bed, but not before grabbing her phone and dialing someone's number.
"Hello?"
"Hey."
"Lorelai, uh, hi."
"How are ya Lukey?"
"Good, and you?"
"I'm fine."
There was a pause, when both of them weren't sure what to say. Then Luke spoke up.
"Did you, um, need me for something?"
"No... not really."
"Lorelai its..." there was a quick pause as Luke checked the clock, "... 10:30 at night. You don't go around calling people at 10:30 at night when everything's fine."
"Aw but Lukey! I just wanted to talk!" Lorelai whined like a five year old, and smiled at her childish antics. So did he. She had been calling him late at night for the past couple of days, just to talk. Since she couldn't talk to Rory very much anymore, and Sookie was pregnant and extremely moody, Luke was the only one left to turn to.
"Yea yea yea," he replied, "so how is everything with Rory? She doin better?"
Lorelai dramatically sighed and rolled over on her back, "No! Now she's being all shady and mysteriously sneaking off to Lane's without calling first, leaving the house a mess and then rushing me off the phone when I try to talk to her about it."
"Maybe she really is at Lane's, forgot to clean the house, and wanted to get back to Lane quickly?" Luke offered, trying to comfort her. He had been doing this for the past couple of nights, as it was obvious Lorelai was having a hard time adjusting to Rory's memory loss.
"Luke, there was a broken chair, a hole in the wall and two dropped soda cans. Now if that doesn't spell scary I don't know what does."
"S-c-a-r-y spells scary."
"Lucas, now's not the time for your jokes."
"Sorry..."
"I just wan..." Lorelai stopped short as she heard the front door close and someone walk in, "Luke," she whispered, "let me call you back later." She hung up the phone before he got a chance to answer and tip-toed to the top of the stairs, stepping down a few so she could hear whatever was going on downstairs.
"Ror?"
"Yea Mom?" Rory answered.
"Ok, just making sure it was you!"
"It is! G'night Mom!"
"Night Ror."
Lorelai heard Rory's door close and made her way back upstairs, and once again crawled into her bed. Something still wasn't right, and Lorelai knew it but couldn't quite put her finger on it. She figured she would talk to Rory about everything tomorrow and then that would be the end of it. Atleast, thats what she thought...
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"Hurry!" Rory whispered, waving Brad into her room. Once he was in, she shut her door and leaned against it, "Oh my God that was close..." she sighed.
"Thanks for letting me over Rory, I just really didn't want to go home. Especially not now since we are getting things back together."
Rory nodded and knew that letting him come back to her house was a huge mistake. But this time, the feeling was so strong she couldn't just let it go. She decided to ask him to leave.
"Listen Brad, it was great that we are getting back on the right track and everything but I think you should go, its would be horrible if my Mom found you here with me."
Brads eyes shot towards Rory's and he got up.
"You don't want me here? I thought we were doing better!" Brad said, his voice raised a little above normal.
"Brad shh! Don't get mad, I do want you here I just don't want my Mom to know and this is getting to risky! Please don't do this, just leave and you can come back tomorrow. I promise."
"You want me to leave so you can call Jess up and be his little whore don't you?"
"Brad stop it, you know thats not true. Why are you getting so angry? We just had a perfect night, don't ruin it."
"Ruin it? So now IM ruining it? I should have known you'd run back to him as soon as I was gone. I was an idiot for thinking any different!" Brad exclaimed, now almost yelling.
"Keep it down! Thats NOT true Brad, don't even go there."
"I'm not going there, it's just the truth! Isn't it? It is. I know it is. So do you. You make me sick Rory, he doesn't love you... he just wants you for sex. You do know that right? Your his little fucking toy and don't mean shit to him, while I sit here not pressuring you to do anything and love you!"
Brad had been advancing towards Rory the whole time he was talking, and every step he took forward she took backward until her back was up against the door once more. She grabbed the knob.
"Brad stop it, please stop it!" Rory pleaded with him but it was to late. He was now face to face with her, and he had that look in his eyes as if he couldn't control what was about to happen. She looked into his eyes and flashbacked to all the other times she had seen those same, glazed over eyes, and she knew what was about to happen. She went to turn the knob and scream for help but he grabbed her wrist and ripped her hand off the knob and put his other hand over her mouth.
"Shut up Rory, shut up!"
She struggled against him but even though he was only a little taller then she was, he was much bulkier and obviously much, much stronger. He pressed her hard up against the door and got face to face with her.
"If you scream. I will kill you. Do you understand that?" He squeezed her wrists that he was holding to get his point across and she nodded quickly. He let her go and she slid down the door, in shock. He was standing right in front of her, but she didn't care. She deserved this. She had called him, she invited him over, she invited him in. She thought about what an idiot she had been and how she had let her Mom down. Then she looked up at Brad. He was hovering over her and was glaring down at her.
"What do you have to say now?" He said, his voice was husky and raspy. And it scared the hell out of her. It was like she had just been thrown into the situation she was in as her body began to tremble and hands began to shake, as though she suddenly realizing what was happening.
"You know," he started, "I loved you. I love you. How can I just let someone else take you like this? I can't. I won't. If I can't have you Rory... nobody can."
"You can have me! I want to be with you, I love you." Her voice was shaking as she spoke, and she hoped she had said the right things. Thats all she wanted to say, was the right things so he would leave her alone. 'I can't believe I thought about getting back with him...' she thought, staring up at him.
"Your LIEING!" He screamed, and kicked her in her stomach, causing her to double over in pain. She didn't scream, she didn't yelp, because she knew she couldn't. He'd kill her - and she knew he would.
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Lorelai sat up straight in bed when she thought she heard someone yell. It sounded like a man, like Jess maybe. She quickly got out of bed and made her way to the top of the stairs, listening intently to see if she heard anything. Then she heard a thud, as if someone had fallen, or been thrown, against Rory's door. Her heart jumped and she knew exactly what was going on. She ran downstairs, "Rory!" she screamed, but when she went to open Rory's door, it was locked. Lorelai shook it violently, trying to get it open, "RORY!" she screamed, but got no reply.
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A/N - See? Brad is always the bad guy. GR I hate him! Please R&R and thanks to JCtigerwolf4e for the very enthusiatic review, as well as a big ol' thanks to messy, Monique, and Tye for always reviewing and being so faithful :-) And also, thanks to Luke Rules for reading my whole story in one sitting, an amazing feat indeed! Hehe, remember to send in your E-Mail if you want to be notified when I update and, as always, R&R!
"Temper, Temper"
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Lorelai raced over to the phone and dialed Rory's cell.
"Pick up, pick up, pick up..." Lorelai said outloud, pacing back and fourth. Finally, after a few rings, she did.
"Hello?" Rory said as nonchalantly as possible. She has seen her Mom's number on the Caller ID and wanted to make sure that she played everything out cool so her Mom wouldn't think something was wrong and come looking for her.
"Rory," Lorelai exclaimed, "where are you?? Are you Ok? Is Brad with you?"
Rory stopped in her tracks when she heard this, 'How does she know?' she thought.
"Mom, calm down I'm fine! I'm at... Lanes. She wanted me to come over for a little bit because she got in a fight with her Mom. And no, Brad isn't with me - where'd you get that idea?"
"Oh thank God Rory. You need to call me before you go places! I came home and found a broken chair, a hole in the wall, and two Dr. Pepper's dropped on the ground. I thought you might have made the horrible mistake of inviting him over or something, I guess I should have known you have more sense than that."
Rory winced when she heard her Mom say this and glanced over at Brad, who had stopped when she did and was looking at her.
"Um, yea..." Rory said uneasily, she wasn't sure what to say now. She has just lied to her Mom, twice infact, and she wasn't very good at it.
"Ror? There's something you aren't telling me... what is it?"
Rory thought about maybe telling her Mom, and just getting it over with. But after quickly going through the pro's and con's in her head she decided against it. Her Mom would never trust her again if she told her, so she decided to keep her mouth shut and get off the phone with Lorelai as soon as possible.
"Mom it's nothing, really, listen I'll be home in 10 minutes Ok? Will that make you feel better?"
Lorelai sighed, happy that her daughter wasn't in any danger, "Yea babe, that would be great."
"Ok, I'll see you then. Will you be awake?"
"Yea, but we still need to talk about Brad!"
"Oh yea, about that... can we do it tomorrow? I'm really tired. Lane kinda wore me out emotionally already with her crying and stuff. I'll be home in a little bit, you can just go to sleep and we can talk about everything tomorrow."
Lorelai, a little taken back by this, agreed and told her daughter she loved her before hanging up. She had forgotten to ask for an explanation to the chair, but figured she could ask tomorrow. Actually, she wasn't sure if she forgot to ask or if she didn't have enough time to considering Rory had rushed her off the phone so quickly. Something wasn't right, and Lorelai sensed it. She slowly made her way up the stairs after cleaning up the kitchen and to her room. She wanted to wait up for Rory, but if she didn't want to talk then there was no use in trying to make her.
Lorelai changed and crawled into bed, but not before grabbing her phone and dialing someone's number.
"Hello?"
"Hey."
"Lorelai, uh, hi."
"How are ya Lukey?"
"Good, and you?"
"I'm fine."
There was a pause, when both of them weren't sure what to say. Then Luke spoke up.
"Did you, um, need me for something?"
"No... not really."
"Lorelai its..." there was a quick pause as Luke checked the clock, "... 10:30 at night. You don't go around calling people at 10:30 at night when everything's fine."
"Aw but Lukey! I just wanted to talk!" Lorelai whined like a five year old, and smiled at her childish antics. So did he. She had been calling him late at night for the past couple of days, just to talk. Since she couldn't talk to Rory very much anymore, and Sookie was pregnant and extremely moody, Luke was the only one left to turn to.
"Yea yea yea," he replied, "so how is everything with Rory? She doin better?"
Lorelai dramatically sighed and rolled over on her back, "No! Now she's being all shady and mysteriously sneaking off to Lane's without calling first, leaving the house a mess and then rushing me off the phone when I try to talk to her about it."
"Maybe she really is at Lane's, forgot to clean the house, and wanted to get back to Lane quickly?" Luke offered, trying to comfort her. He had been doing this for the past couple of nights, as it was obvious Lorelai was having a hard time adjusting to Rory's memory loss.
"Luke, there was a broken chair, a hole in the wall and two dropped soda cans. Now if that doesn't spell scary I don't know what does."
"S-c-a-r-y spells scary."
"Lucas, now's not the time for your jokes."
"Sorry..."
"I just wan..." Lorelai stopped short as she heard the front door close and someone walk in, "Luke," she whispered, "let me call you back later." She hung up the phone before he got a chance to answer and tip-toed to the top of the stairs, stepping down a few so she could hear whatever was going on downstairs.
"Ror?"
"Yea Mom?" Rory answered.
"Ok, just making sure it was you!"
"It is! G'night Mom!"
"Night Ror."
Lorelai heard Rory's door close and made her way back upstairs, and once again crawled into her bed. Something still wasn't right, and Lorelai knew it but couldn't quite put her finger on it. She figured she would talk to Rory about everything tomorrow and then that would be the end of it. Atleast, thats what she thought...
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"Hurry!" Rory whispered, waving Brad into her room. Once he was in, she shut her door and leaned against it, "Oh my God that was close..." she sighed.
"Thanks for letting me over Rory, I just really didn't want to go home. Especially not now since we are getting things back together."
Rory nodded and knew that letting him come back to her house was a huge mistake. But this time, the feeling was so strong she couldn't just let it go. She decided to ask him to leave.
"Listen Brad, it was great that we are getting back on the right track and everything but I think you should go, its would be horrible if my Mom found you here with me."
Brads eyes shot towards Rory's and he got up.
"You don't want me here? I thought we were doing better!" Brad said, his voice raised a little above normal.
"Brad shh! Don't get mad, I do want you here I just don't want my Mom to know and this is getting to risky! Please don't do this, just leave and you can come back tomorrow. I promise."
"You want me to leave so you can call Jess up and be his little whore don't you?"
"Brad stop it, you know thats not true. Why are you getting so angry? We just had a perfect night, don't ruin it."
"Ruin it? So now IM ruining it? I should have known you'd run back to him as soon as I was gone. I was an idiot for thinking any different!" Brad exclaimed, now almost yelling.
"Keep it down! Thats NOT true Brad, don't even go there."
"I'm not going there, it's just the truth! Isn't it? It is. I know it is. So do you. You make me sick Rory, he doesn't love you... he just wants you for sex. You do know that right? Your his little fucking toy and don't mean shit to him, while I sit here not pressuring you to do anything and love you!"
Brad had been advancing towards Rory the whole time he was talking, and every step he took forward she took backward until her back was up against the door once more. She grabbed the knob.
"Brad stop it, please stop it!" Rory pleaded with him but it was to late. He was now face to face with her, and he had that look in his eyes as if he couldn't control what was about to happen. She looked into his eyes and flashbacked to all the other times she had seen those same, glazed over eyes, and she knew what was about to happen. She went to turn the knob and scream for help but he grabbed her wrist and ripped her hand off the knob and put his other hand over her mouth.
"Shut up Rory, shut up!"
She struggled against him but even though he was only a little taller then she was, he was much bulkier and obviously much, much stronger. He pressed her hard up against the door and got face to face with her.
"If you scream. I will kill you. Do you understand that?" He squeezed her wrists that he was holding to get his point across and she nodded quickly. He let her go and she slid down the door, in shock. He was standing right in front of her, but she didn't care. She deserved this. She had called him, she invited him over, she invited him in. She thought about what an idiot she had been and how she had let her Mom down. Then she looked up at Brad. He was hovering over her and was glaring down at her.
"What do you have to say now?" He said, his voice was husky and raspy. And it scared the hell out of her. It was like she had just been thrown into the situation she was in as her body began to tremble and hands began to shake, as though she suddenly realizing what was happening.
"You know," he started, "I loved you. I love you. How can I just let someone else take you like this? I can't. I won't. If I can't have you Rory... nobody can."
"You can have me! I want to be with you, I love you." Her voice was shaking as she spoke, and she hoped she had said the right things. Thats all she wanted to say, was the right things so he would leave her alone. 'I can't believe I thought about getting back with him...' she thought, staring up at him.
"Your LIEING!" He screamed, and kicked her in her stomach, causing her to double over in pain. She didn't scream, she didn't yelp, because she knew she couldn't. He'd kill her - and she knew he would.
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Lorelai sat up straight in bed when she thought she heard someone yell. It sounded like a man, like Jess maybe. She quickly got out of bed and made her way to the top of the stairs, listening intently to see if she heard anything. Then she heard a thud, as if someone had fallen, or been thrown, against Rory's door. Her heart jumped and she knew exactly what was going on. She ran downstairs, "Rory!" she screamed, but when she went to open Rory's door, it was locked. Lorelai shook it violently, trying to get it open, "RORY!" she screamed, but got no reply.
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A/N - See? Brad is always the bad guy. GR I hate him! Please R&R and thanks to JCtigerwolf4e for the very enthusiatic review, as well as a big ol' thanks to messy, Monique, and Tye for always reviewing and being so faithful :-) And also, thanks to Luke Rules for reading my whole story in one sitting, an amazing feat indeed! Hehe, remember to send in your E-Mail if you want to be notified when I update and, as always, R&R!