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Chapter 3: Counterfeit fruit and Casualty Cases

A/n: Oregano-Heloo, my lovelies... Emjai's just like a lightning bolt with the updates!  Unlike, herm.. uh.. *coughs and looks away* Glad people liked it!  Thanks for the reviews!

Emjai – well, last chapter was lovely!! I use lovely too much I think… oh well! Lovely jubbly! By the way in answer to your questions: lorelai is 16 (pregnant at 16) so luke is 17/18.. a senior in high school. Okidoki? Well. I aint got no more to say to y'all.. so catchya later, hope you enjoy it! :D

I don't understand plastic fruit.

Lorelai sat on the green and brown paisley lounge in the St.James living room, staring at the wooden bowl  that rested on the coffee table.

I mean, seriously, what's the point? Why not just buy REAL fruit? Surely if you bought plastic fruit it just becomes a huge mess? It's so misleading!

She leaned forward and picked up a synthetic pear.

You look at a bowl and you think 'gee whiz that fruit looks so fresh! So tasty! Did you ever see such shiny pears! Mmmm, pears…' and you lean forward and sink your teeth in only to find that they don't.

Sink in, that is. . . the teeth… they..

Ah forget it.

She turned the piece of 'fruit' over in her hands.

I wonder what they taste like? Do they flavour the plastic? Cause that'd be really cool! It'd be like that flavoured wall paper in willy wonka!

If you needed a fix of pear but you didn't wanna actually digest, just lick the plastic!

She poked out the tip of her touge and touched it to the pear.

Hmm not bad. A bit stale.But on the whole… not bad.

She stared at the fruit.

Ah, what the hey.

She opened her mouth wide and took a tentative bite.

Juice flowed into her mouth and she tasted the sweetness of the pear.

She gasped,

"Holy hell! They become real when you eat them!"

She heard a giggle behind her,

"well, you'd hope so! What's the point in having fake fruit in the first place!"

Lorelai giggled too, craning her neck so she could see behind her,

"that's exactly what I thought!"

She turned fully to see a short girl with strawberry blonde pigtails, hovering in the door frame with a giant grin.

Lorelai smiled to herself.

Wow, that's gotta be a million watt smile – somebody get my sunglasses!

She heaved herself up off the sofa and lifted up her hand in a frozen wave,

"hey, I'm lorelai!"

The girls smile brightened as she repeatedly nodded her head,

Hmmm she looks sorta like those car toys that bob their heads… on some form of LSD.

"yup, yup, yup! I'm sookie, you're staying at the dane's place, right? That's so great! They are just so nice! All of them! Nice nice nice! They're the best!"

She moved quickly forward, walking straight into the door door frame. She giggled, rubbed her arm where she'd knocked it and stepped around the door,
"I heard they picked you up off the highway! Luke said something about you running away? That's so cool! I would never have the courage do actually leave! Not that I'd want to leave, my mom makes the best darn meatloaf this side of stars hollow! Not that stars hollow is that big, it's actually quite small- as you would have noticed," she laughed, accidentally bumping the lamp stand. She uprighted the falled lamp and moved closer, " So! Where did you come from? What is your family like?" she gasped, "oops, I probably shouldn't ask that! You did run away after all! Is it true that you're pregnant?"

Lorelai stared at the girl in mystified awe.

woah there stella, take a breath. She talks almost as much as I do! Yay, somebody will be able to keep up! SCORE!

"well, I'd certainly hope so! I'd hate to be this bloated after a meal, I wouldn't be be able to eat again for ages… a whole two minutes or so!" Both girls laughed, Sookie sat down on the couch, yelped, then removed her mothers sewing kit from underneath her, "sit back down, there's no need to stand on ceremony here!"

no wonder luke was wary about leaving me here, this girls a caution in her own right!

Lorelai raised an eyebrow and nodded slowly, "sure!" She lowered herself back down onto the cushions, "uh, are you ok?"

Sookie cocked her head to the side, "me? Yeah! I'm great! Why would I not be ok? I should be asking you that! Are you alright? Are there enough cushions to support you? I don't know much about pregnancy but if you have any problems I'd be totally there to help!"

"well, I don't know all that much about it either, but hey! We'll learn as we go!"

Sookie looked thoughtful, "I suppose that's a good motto 'learn as we go'… mom always says to me 'watch where you go' – that's about the same thing, isn't it?"

"ah yes, that's the way," lorelai grinned, "watch and learn, my friend, watch and learn."

Aside from being mayor of casualty city, she's nice.

At least I'll have a friend here… aside from lukey of course.

Speaking of which…

She picked up her pear and took another bite, "so, tell me about the danes family. I've only been living there about a day and I'd like to think that they aren't a bunch of stalkers, hitmen or homocidal rapists!"

Sookies eyebrows shot up, "oh no! nothing like that! Nobody in stars hollow is ever like that! Taylor would throw them out of the town – well, maybe not throw them out, but he'd certainly seriously encourage them to leave!" she giggled again, "The danes' are lovely people! Mr. Danes is really great, Butch is the one that gets all worked up when Taylor presses him during the town meetings. Butch is generally pretty nice, kinda quiet but you know.."

Lorelai frowned, "woah woah woah, hold up - butch, who is this 'butch' guy?"

"don't tell me you haven't met butch," sookie looked confused, "apparently he's the one that told Mr. Danes to pick you up in the first place…" she scratched her temple, "that just doesn't figure. How can he have told mr. Danes to pick you up if he wasn't even there? HEY! Maybe he's like, psychotic, psychillic or psychic or whatever it is.. you know, where they can see into the future – cool! He, like, KNEW you were going to be there!"

Lorelai steadied sookie by setting her hand on her shoulder, "do you mean luke?"

The bouncy girl nodded, "well, sure – who else?"

BUTCH! Butch!  People call him butch?

Lorelai smothered a laugh.

Hey there, butchy boy – flying through the air so fancy free… no wait that doesn't fit.

She coughed, aimlessly trying to cover up her giggles, "why do they call him butch?"

"oh, I don't know – he's a senior so I don't talk to him much at school… He's had that name for ages, he's a total jock at school – plays all the sports really well! I think Rachel gave him the name actually…"

"Rachel? I thought his sisters' name is liz?"

Sookie leaned forward and picked up an apple from the fruit bowl, "ugh liz, she doesn't call him anything much. Except mean things like bone-head. She's a cheerleader -  I don't like her all that much," Sookie took a bite, then spat it out, "huh, what do you know? There are plastic fruits in here!"

Lorelai rolled her eyes, "yeah I gathered that much. Who is rachel?"

"Rachel is luke's girlfriend," Sookie shrugged.

Lukey has  a girlfriend?

Huh.

Why was I not informed??

Not that I … well… I wouldn't…

I only just met him…

Besides – how can I say anything on the matter. I have chris.

Yeah… chris…

Luke has a girlfriend…

Lorelai frowned, "oh…"