Title – Barriers and Brick Walls

Chapter Two

Disclaimer –I don't own Gilmore Girls, it belongs to Amy Sherman Palladino and Warner Brothers.

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A/N#1 Ħō£ă! How are you all? Thanx 4 all ure reviews! Just some replies to the reviews I got:

· Tayliz-I know my sentence structure is weird in Ch.1 but its back to normal now!

· CoffeeObsessed-I love ure pen name! Can u email me and tell me wat u think the connection is please?

· Emma (im_a_gilmore_girl@hotmail.com)-yeah, I no its not realloy their fault, but I feel better if I take the blame out on someone.

· Me-I no, I really did have to kill Lorelei off, soz! But everything ends up happy in the end! Lol.

· luke_lorelai_ash-do u really like my writing style in Ch.1 or r u just saying that 2 be nice? Lol, either way, I'm going back 2 my usual style.

· Somebody-thanx for the correction, but I cant be stuffed changing it. I'm an Aussie, which means I live in Australia.

· laura (lopezsexyangel@aol.com)-I will email u wen I'm about to upload a new chapter, k?

· blu3yes278-I haven't read those stories, but if Ch.1 sounds like it, sorry. I'm pretty sure the end product will not be like it tho, so keep reading, k?

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A/N#2 Just to let you know, if I put 'x' then x is thoughts, if I put "x" then x is speech. ~x~ indicates that x is something written or a letter.

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Rory was already seated at the dining room table when Emily emerged from her bedroom, dressed, pampered and also ready for another day.

"Grandma." Rory said and nodded her head.

'There's that nod again. I haven't got a single hug from her since she moved in. Rory seems so down lately. It has been a whole year since she moved in; I thought she would have gotten over this whole depression thing by now. Although she has changed. She never used to wear her uniform that way, did she? I hope that reply from the ice man comes soon, I just don't know how to cheer Rory up. But he knew her better, he'll be able to fix it.' Emily thought miserably as she sat at the table. She hated asking for help.

"Morning Rory. How are you today?" Emily asked politely.

She wasn't really expecting an answer – she never got one.

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Luke walked out to the diner There was mail.

'Odd. I never get mail anymore.' Luke thought as he picked it up.

'From Emily Gilmore….. Gilmore!' Luke ripped open the envelope.

~Dear Mr. Danes,

Hello. My name is Emily Gilmore. You may remember me. I am currently the legal guardian of Rory, whom I understand you were very close to. I have noticed a change in Rory lately and she's not acting herself anymore. Seeing as you knew her well, I was wondering if you knew anything that would cheer her up. She seems depressed.

Thanking you in advance,

Mrs. Emily Gilmore~

'Rory's in trouble! What could cheer her up? Coffee! I'll send her some of my special coffee blend!' Luke thought as he raced out to the storeroom and grabbed a medium packet of his coffee.

'But that's not enough. I can't just make everything better with coffee. Coffee didn't when Lorelei was….. Well it didn't. I have to send her something more. But what? I don't have anything more to send her. But Jess might.' Luke thought.

Grabbing a pen and piece of paper, Luke wrote:

~Jess,

I had a letter from Rory's grandmother today. It's enclosed. I couldn't think of anything except coffee, which I'm going to send her. I'm sure you would know what to send her though. Please send it to the return address on the envelope.

Luke

PS How are you? ~

Luke walked to the post office (A/N is there a post office in Star's Hollow? Oh well, there is now!) and sent the package to Hartford and the letter to New York.

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Rory walked into the halls of hell.

'Not hell, home.' Rory quickly corrected herself.

"Rory!" Summer bounded up to her.

"Hey Summer! How are you?" Rory replied, fake smiling while she hugged Summer.

"Good! But you wouldn't believe what happened?! You know Tommy?" Summer asked.

"Tommy….." Rory trailed off, not remembering.

"You know, your boyfriend? He hasn't dumped you, has he?" Summer asked, unsure.

"Oh, yeah!" Rory said, kicking herself from the inside.

'How could I have forgotten about Tommy? I made out with him yesterday afternoon. He's that forgettable; doesn't that tell you something about your relationship? NO! You keep telling yourself that, maybe you'll believe it' Rory had a fight between the two voices in her head.

Rory turned her attention back to Summer, who had been rambling on about something or other and then finally got to the point.

"So now we don't have a party to go to on Friday anymore!" Summer said exasperatedly.

"Why not?" Rory asked.

"Haven't you listened to a thing I said? Tommy got grounded. It turns out his mom doesn't approve of his choice of girlfriend." Summer said.

"But, I'm Tommy's girlfriend." Rory said, now thoroughly confused.

"Yeah, that's what I'm trying to tell you! Tommy's Mom hates you and it turns out Tommy is a Mommy's boy – so now not only are you boyfriendless, the party this Friday is off." Summer said.

"Don't worry about the party Summer, we can have it at my house. And the boyfriend thing, solved." Rory said as she walked up to James and began to flirt.

Summer smiled. 'That a girl Rory, I taught you well.'

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