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(A/N: I made this longer for the people who wanted longer chapters and I tried my best to make it a little bit more detailed for you, Jason! Thanx for the reviews and keep them coming!)

There was a long silence before anyone said a word.

"Mom I..."

Rory's voice faded off. She didn't know what to say. She felt like she had let everybody down.

"What in the hell has gotten into you?" Lorelai finally asked.

"I didn't...I didn't think I'd...I didn't know...nothing has gotten into me mom, I just...I just wasn't thinking." Rory fumbled with her words.

"Damn right you weren't thinking! And I thought you were going to talk to me about this before anything happened! I thought I could trust you Rory!"

"You can trust me mom! Nothing has changed!"

"What do you mean nothing has changed? Everything has changed! Were you going to hide this? Did you expect me to not figure out what you were doing? And besides all of that, did you even do it safely?"

"Of course we did mom. Do you really think I'd be that irresponsible?"

"Things can still happen you know," Lorelai said quickly. "You may think you're safe but you can never be sure. I'm making an appointment tomorrow; you're going on the pill. And since you have lost my trust you are not going out with Jess for a loooong time now. It's from home to school and back home for you! If you think Boo Radley had it bad, you're in for a big, unpleasant surprise!"

"So all of this is just for doing something that most teenagers my age do?" Rory asked with an irritated tone in her voice.

"You're not most teenagers Rory! And plus some may do it but I wouldn't say most. You're smarter than all of them anyway; I thought you knew better than this!"

"You're not mad because of what I did! You're just upset because Grandma found us! Well I'm sorry but it's not the way I planned for it to turn out either!"

"That is not why I'm upset! I'm upset because I thought you could tell me anything! And I thought that you were going to hold off on all of this until after college. I also thought you had your priorities straight! I don't want what happened to me to happen to you!"

"Oh! Well I'm sorry that I ruined your life!"

"Rory, that's not what I meant and you know it."

"I'm not going to get pregnant anyway! We used protection, and obviously it's not going to happen again; not for a long time at least!"

"Did he pressure you?"

"What?"

"You heard me."

"No he didn't pressure me! It just happened! I wanted it to happen!"

"Why didn't it happen with Dean?"

"Oh my God! When will you get off this Dean thing? I know you liked him better but things end, Mom! It's over!"

"You didn't answer my question."

"I never felt the need to do it with Dean!"

"Why not? I thought you loved him."

"I did love him! He was my first boyfriend. I wasn't ready for it yet."

"Do you love Jess?"

Rory looked down and didn't say anything.

"Rory, answer my question. Do you love Jess?"

She looked up, "Yes, I do."

"Why are you ready with Jess if you weren't ready with Dean? Is there some reason you trust Jess more because if there is I'm dying to know," Lorelai snapped sarcastically.

"I'm older now. I'm surer about my future. I'm ready to make big decisions like this."

"Hun, nobody is ever really ready to make big decisions, and just because you got accepted to the colleges you wanted doesn't mean your life is set. You have a lot ahead of you! Anything can happen, don't forget that!" Lorelai stated, starting to calm down.

"I know that, but this is not going to affect my future."

"It could."

"It won't."

"Don't ever be so sure my dear, one thoughtless moment can change the rest of your life forever."

"I'm never thoughtless."

"Did you know this was going to happen tonight?"

"Well...no."

"Then you didn't really put much thought into it, did you?" She said accusingly.

"I guess not...but I thought enough about it to be safe."

"That's what you think."

"That's what I know. I'm not going to turn out like you, mom. I'm going to go to college and become an over-seas correspondent and live a happy, planned out life.

"Not everything goes as planned in life. Sometimes you can't control the future."

"I never fail at what I set my mind to."

"You haven't in the past, but you could if you slip up."

"I have control over this."

"This isn't something that is easy to control."

"Maybe it wasn't for you, but it will be for me."

"Are you sure this is what you want to do? Are you completely positive?"

"I'm as sure as I'm ever going to be."

There was a pause for a moment, and then Rory asked,

"Are you ever going to trust me again?"

"Not for a long time."

"Are you still mad?"

"Oh yeah, I'm still mad, but I'm tired of fighting tonight. Go to your room and get some sleep. We'll figure out the confinements of your punishment tomorrow."

"Oh god, I'm starting to sound like my mother," Lorelai thought.

That night, as she tossed and turned in bed, Lorelai had a horrific flashback in her dreams.

(flashback)

Lorelai's hands shook as she opened the package of the pregnancy test and read the instructions on the back.

"I couldn't be pregnant. The test is going to come up negative, I know it," she thought, trying to comfort herself.

"Lorelai! Dinner will be ready in 15minutes!" Emily called from down the hall.

She quickly did the test and waited about 10 minutes until it started to show up. When she saw the color it turned she instantly felt sick to her stomach. The room started spinning and she thought she was going to faint.

"Lorelai! If you don't come now you won't get to eat!"

The call of her mother snapped her back into reality.

"Oh no," she thought. "What am I going to do? How am I going to tell them? I should tell Chris first, yes, he definitely deserves to know first. Oh God, I can't believe this is happening!"

She quickly threw the test away in the trash can and ran downstairs to eat. She tried to act natural, but she couldn't get anything past Emily.

"Lorelai, you look pale. Is everything alright?"

"Yeah Mom, everything's fine." She answered trying to hide her anxiety.

"Richard, doesn't she look pale? Maybe you're sick. I'll call the doctor tomorrow morning and make an appointment for him to see you."

"No!" Lorelai exclaimed quickly. "No mom, I'm fine, I promise. I was just a little weak from being hungry that's all. You don't need to call the doctor."

"Alright, but if you still look that way tomorrow I'm making an appointment, no buts about it."

That night, Lorelai took a hot bath to relax and went to bed early. Emily was still worried and suspicious though, and wondered what her daughter wasn't telling her. She walked past Lorelai's bathroom and sighed as she bended down to pick dirty clothes up off of the floor, mumbling under her breath about how hard it is to find good help these days. As she was bent over, something caught her eye in the garbage can. She looked at it more closely and took the box out of the trash.

"Pregnancy test?" She said in disbelief.

Then she looked through the trash again, finding the strip itself. When she saw that it was indeed positive, she dropped both items and stumbled down the stairs to where Richard was reading, feeling light headed and ready to black out at any moment.

When she got into the study, she found Richard asleep in the chair with a book in his lap.

"Richard!" she whispered urgently.

"Richard!" she said again, louder this time.

"RICHARD!"

"(snort) What? Huh? Emily? What time is it?" he said, feeling disoriented.

"Richard, I was looking in the trash can in Lorelai's bathroom..."

"Why on earth were you looking through garbage Emily?"

"Richard, listen. I found a pregnancy test," she said, her voice shaking as she fought off tears.

"Emily, what are you talking about?"

"It was positive. Lorelai is pregnant."

"No, she can't be..."

"She is. And that would explain the way she looked and acted during supper....."

Emily's voice cracked and she broke down on her husband's shoulder. Through tears and cries, she said,

"How could she do this to us? How could she be so thoughtless? Everything is ruined. EVERYTHING!" she began to yell in rage.

"Emily, you need to calm down. Yelling is not going to help solve the problem," Richard said trying to be the level headed one.

"Then what do you propose we do?" She asked.

"I don't know."

Richard then left the room silently and went to bed.

The next morning, Lorelai got up and went through her regular morning routine of getting ready for school. When she got downstairs, her mother was waiting for her at the dining room table. Her father was not in his usual spot reading the paper, however. He was in his study with the door closed and locked. Lorelai noticed the disgruntled look on her mother's face and asked,

"Is everything ok mom? You look even more crabby and constipated than

usual---,"

Emily started crying again. She had been crying all night and had barely gotten any sleep. She was going to try to stay calm for Lorelai, but she couldn't take it.

"How could you do this to us?" she wailed, her face in her hands. "How could you go and ruin your future like this? You could have had anything, Lorelai, ANYTHING!"

Lorelai's heart started pounding, faster and faster. Her face got hot and red. She felt like an accused murderer...a murderer of her family's dreams. Then, helplessly, she started to cry too. After a while, eyes bloodshot, Emily looked up and asked,

"Do you hate us that much? Were you too confined? Did you do this in order to break out of the binds you thought we had you in?"

"Mom, it was an accident..."

"How was it an accident? You know what you did. There is no 'accident' in what happened."

"But I didn't think..."

"You didn't think what? That it could happen to you? Were you careful? Did you even take the proper precautions?"

"Yes...I guess it didn't work..."

"If you would have just told me, we could have gotten you on some

medication---"

"Bull shit Mom; you would have locked me up and thrown away the key!" Lorelai stopped her mother before she could finish.

"I don't appreciate your language young lady! I am trying to help you!"

"Well your interrogation is NOT helpful to me!"

For a few moments, nobody said a word.

"I'm late for school, I need to go," Lorelai finally said.

"I already called them and told them you had the flu. We need to go to the doctor today and get things checked out. Then you are going to go to your room and stay there. Rosa will bring your meals to you. You will not be able to watch television, talk on the phone, or listen to music for a long time. We will get you a private tutor for school and the only time you will come out of your room is for the daily 20 minute exercise program you will be on to keep the baby healthy."

"But mom...

"No buts. You got yourself into this situation and you will have to accept the consequences! Now go up to your room and take a nap. Your appointment is in three hours." Emily gestured that this was the end of the conversation.

(BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!)

Rory hit the off button on her alarm just as it went off. She wasn't sure how she was going to face the remnants of the events of the night before, but she knew she had no choice. She got up and went into the kitchen to start a pot of coffee. If she had to fight some more, at least she needed something to give her the energy to do so.