Leigh spent Christmas Eve with her biological parents; sister and grandparents then spent Christmas with Dean's family. During the week Leigh was in Connecticut, she went shopping with Alyssa and her friends and met Lane. It was two days before Leigh and Dean were going back to Cali and Leigh was at Lane's house talking.
"So what is it like being adopted?" Lane asked.
"Its weird…more weird now that I've met my biological parents. I am having dinner with them and Alyssa tonight. I still don't know why they gave me up and it's started to bug me." Leigh replied, "When I knew less about them, it was easier to go live the life I had always thought was mine. I was mad when I found out that my parents had adopted me."
"What's Cali like?" Lane asked.
"Oh my! Cali is the best place on earth to live. I love living in Cali. Which by the way is why I never went to Harvard, going to Harvard was like the biggest dream I'd ever had then I decided I liked Cali way to much to leave." Leigh replied, "You've got to come to Santa Cruz one day."
"I will, only if my mother lets me she hasn't accepted the fact that at eighteen I can make my own decisions. Its annoying to be eighteen and living under the same roof you grew up with." Lane said.
"My adoptive parents never cared much what I was up to as long as they knew where I was. That got annoying sometimes. When I was 13 I was mad they didn't give me more limits. I've pretty much raised myself." Leigh replied.
"I wish I had less. I only have so much because my mother is an old fashioned Korean." Lane said, "What time do you have to be in Hartford?"
"I have to be there for 7. Lorelai said that dinner would be at 7." Leigh asked, "Do you think I should ask them why they gave me up?"
"If you really want to know you should." Lane replied.
"I will. My biggest fear is that they never wanted me and that they are only doing this because I want to know them." Leigh said.
"So you've known for like forever that you're adopted but weren't legally allowed to contact your biological parents until you were eighteen?" Lane asked.
"Yes. I've always wanted to though. Even when I thought I was better off not knowing them." Leigh said, "Now that I've met them I'm over most of my fears about them and meeting them but I still wonder why they gave me up. When I first found out I was adopted I had nightmares that they hated me. I still do. My best friend Liz is also adopted but her biological parents live in Cali. They actually live in Santa Cruz. She only just found them though. Sometime before Christmas then she went on a trip with them. She has five adopted sisters and zero biological sisters. She's knows since she was 6 that she was adopted."
"How long have you known you're adopted?" Lane asked.
"Since I was 10. I grew up knowing something about me was different though. Neither of my adoptive parents is a coffee drinker and I drink a million cups a day." Leigh said, "Mom always said that was because I was born in Connecticut and not Cali.
"The really weird thing about meeting with my biological parents is that they called me Rory. Which I think is a cool name but I've been Leigh for eighteen years. And Alyssa is cool but I grew up an only child now I have a sister. It's a lot to get used to after eighteen years of not knowing. Alyssa is 15 so I would have been three when she was born and Lorelai and Christopher would've been 19." Leigh continued.
"You'll live. I know I've only known you for a short time but I can tell you'll live and get used to all the newness. Have you talked to your best friend Liz yet?" Lane asked.
"No. She went with her adoptive and biological parents to Hawaii for Christmas break. I should get going. I told Dean I'd meet him at Luke's for coffee before going to Hartford." Leigh said, "I'll see you tomorrow."
Okay this fic is almost done being reformatted. Yahoo!