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Jess stormed into the diner to find Luke serving Lorelai, among other customers.

"You know, if you end up dating her," Jess indicated Lorelai, "She'll go sleep with her ex-boyfriend Max and end up having his kid. It's in her blood," He yelled at Luke, causing everyone in the diner to hold their food- filled forks in midair and stare with their mouths open. Jess shook his head and snorted at Luke, who looked as much like a fish as the customers. Jess stalked upstairs and slammed the door. Luke chased after him, yelling, while Lorelai grabbed her coffee and made a silent exit with a confused but intrigued look on her face.

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"Ror I'm home!" Lorelai announced as she shut the door behind her. No answer.

"Rory?" Lorelai searched around for the mute Rory, finally finding her in her bedroom.

"I've got coffee," Lorelai commented.

"That's okay, it's not good for me."

"Since when do you turn down Luke's coffee, especially with a lame weight-watcher's excuse like 'It'll make me fat'?"

Rory didn't answer.

"What about ordering pizza? What do you - oh wait that's probably worse than coffee, forget I even mentioned it," Lorelai said sarcastically.

"No, pizza's fine," said Rory, like she didn't even care. She continued to stare at the wall, like she had been since before her mother found her.

"Are you okay? Did Babette's cat die or something while you were watching it?"

"Jess and I got in a fight, that's all."

"Must have been a pretty big fight," Lorelai said, although it was more like she was asking "About.?" without actually saying that 5 letter word.

"Something at that party the other night. And I don't blame him for his view, only there's no backing down for me from my position."

"Ah, the Gilmore stubborn streak."

"The things we inherit through microscopic genes." There was a long silent pause as Rory mentally made a pro-con list about telling her mother what she had told Jess.

"Mom." Rory started.

"Yes?"

"I'm pregnant," She admitted, sighing and then drawing in a large breath to start rambling which she did.

"I just don't know what to do. Jess is mad and he saw you and Luke kissing and it's not even his and I can't go to college and I don't want to go to dinner Friday night and I don't even know why it even happened and I'm scared and." Rory stopped to gasp for air, "I just am totally clueless, and coffee deprived."

"Oh God honey. We'll figure something out," Lorelai said, hugging her crying daughter with a bewildering look on her face that clearly said that the to-be-grandmother was as clueless as the to-be-mother.