Chapter 8- Boys, Bedrooms and Babies
Phone ringing.
Rory reaches around in a sea of blankets and finds her cell phone.
"Hello." she said her head still groggy.
"Hi hun." Her mothers voice said on the end of the line."Mom it is early. On..Saturday...why are you calling me." Rory said."Ahhh hung over are we?" Lorelai joked."Well..."Rory said looking at the desk by her bed and seeing the champagne bottle. She smiled then realized the person who had brought her that bottle still lay sleeping next to her."Celebrated the big story huh?" Lorelai said."Yeah...a little just some champagne with a friend." she said. Just then Logan woke up and started kissing her neck. He mouthed the words "Just a friend?" to her. Rory waved him off, he continued to kiss her."A friend huh? A friend named I don't know...Logan?" Lorelai guessed."Mom!" Rory balked."He is still there isn't he...you have a boy in your bed don't you!" Lorelai said."Mom!""Well do you." Lorelai said.
"Like I am going to tell you.""Yes you will. I know you."
"Well then you need to believe me when I tell you there is no boy." She said again. Logan was really distracting her from her conversation.
"If you say so. Well I was just calling to tell you congratulations...how does one get involved with a secret society? I mean how did you get in there?" Lorelai asked."Well mom, there is a reason they call it secret now isn't there.""Ha ha...so...uh... can you come home this weekend? I have some wedding stuff I need to talk to you about." Lorelai said.
"Uh sure mom, I just have to finish a few things her and I can be there later today.""Ok, well I will see you then hun, I will let you get back to sleep." Lorelai said implying still that Rory had a boy in her room.
"Bye mom." Rory said.She hung up the phone and looked a Logan.
"She knew you were here." she said kissing him.
"Good." He said."How can so much arrogance fit into one person?" Logan said."Hey it isn't arrogance when it is all true." Logan said tossing her onto her back for another round.Meanwhile back at the Gilmore house."So did you talk to Rory?" Luke said."Yeah...she is coming home this weekend...I'd rather tell her in person." She said. "Besides, I think she had company over." Lorelai said."Company? It's 8 am on Saturday how could she have company?""It's really easy when someone stays the night." Lorelai said.
"What? No...not Rory." Luke said."Luke she is 20 years old...she is at college...of course there will be boys, that is what kids do...thank God I got her out of high school first.""So you are saying that Rory...had...with...last night."
"If I know my daughter...and I do..yep that is what I am saying."
"But, it is like...her boyfriend right I mean Rory wouldn't just..."
"Hook up to hook up? No that isn't her. I think she is seeing someone. She hasn't really told me,
but she is."
"Why hasn't she told you? I mean doesn't that bug you?"
"I don't know maybe it isn't serious, maybe she just wants it to herself for a while like you and I did...I don't know...when she wants to tell me she will."
"So do you want me to tell her...I mean. I...think I should." Luke said.
"Nah, I'll do it. I am sure she will be fine with it I mean they are history have been forever." Lorelai said. "She is over him.""Yeah I don't know that I can say the same for him." Luke said.
"Well she is a big girl now, and if you want Jess to be your best man...then I think he should be." Lorelai said."There just isn't really anyone else, but that would put the two of them together a lot.""I think she can handle it, she isn't 16 anymore, neither is he, I mean...he has a life in California now. I am sure they will be fine."
"All right, I have to get to the diner. Come by later I'll fix you guys dinner." He said kissing her on the head and walking out the door.
It was about five when Rory got to the house."Hello!" Rory yelled."Kitchen!" Her mother yelled back.Her mother was sitting in the kitchen looking at brides magazines and drinking coffee."Hi." Lorelai said kissing her daughter on the cheek."Hi." Rory said sitting."So, what's up hows life." Lorelai said."Good, good everything is good." Rory said smiling."There is a boy isn't there.""Ok, fine, yeah, but...it isn't...I like him I don't want to jinx it so...can we change topics."
"Can I just have a name? Is it Logan?" Lorelai asked.
"Yes. Fine there you have the name now I am refusing any further comment.""So you really like him huh?"
"Yeah I do."
"Great then you won't care that Luke is going to ask Jess to be his best man."
"What?" Rory said.
"Rory, listen I know that he was a big jerk to you and he keeps hurting you but..."
"No...I mean. I was just surprised I mean Jess. I would have thought he would have someone else."
"Well honey you know Luke he is kind of a loaner."
"True. Jess, huh...well I guess...I mean you, you want me to say if it is okay?" Rory said.
"Well yeah, we at least wanted you to know so that when he was there in a tux you would know why.""Sure, yeah, I mean of course." Rory said. She wasn't sure of this situation at all but it was for Luke.
"Really? Because we could always ask Kirk.""No...really mom, Jess is fine...it will be fine."
"See that is what I told Luke. Plus it isn't like you guys would hook up anyway...you are going to be cousins." Rory looked at her mother shocked.
"Ewe gross!" Rory said."Well honey, you will be.""I know...I just never thought about that." Lorelai laughed.
"You kissed your cousin... you kissed your cousin!" She said."You are evil." Rory said."Yeah, ain't it great." Lorelai said.The next day started with a bang."Rory!" Lorelai yelled standing over her daughter.Rory shot up."What,what, whats the matter...what.""Sookie is having the baby!!!"Lorelai shouted.
They both yelled."Get dressed." Lorelai said."Got it...get coffee." Rory said.Twenty minuets later coffee in hand the two were out the door and off to the hospital."I am so glad they decided to have the baby in a hospital this time." Rory said as they walked into the hospital."Yeah no joke...no scary midwife." By the time they got there they had already taken Sookie to the delivery room."Wow I guess it is true what they say...after the first they just kind of walk out." Lorelai said."Ahh mom, don't be gross.""Sorry ,just relaying information."
"So uh...mom." Rory said.
"Yeah.""When are you...and Luke...I mean...you told me about the car and what he said and why you now own the yellow submarine...but...you never said...you know...when."
"Well, hon...when ever it happens really. I mean...we definitely are trying if that is what you mean."
"Really."
"Yeah."
"Huh."
"Are you okay with that?"
"What that? Yeah...oh yeah I mean...I have always wanted a sibling."
"I know."
"I mean I have Gigi and she is great...but I never really get to see her...and I just. I don't know. It just kind of makes me sad that I won't be there for everything you know. Be a good big sister."
"You'll be there...I mean Yale isn't that far away, you'll visit. We'll come and see you." Lorelai said.
"Yeah but mom I only have a few more years at Yale, and then who knows where I will be. It just won't be like us you know. It will be different.""Honey. I guess everything thing is going to be different now, but I don't think that it is bad do you?"
"No, I just. I guess I will miss the way it was a little." Lorelai pulled her daughter to her.
"Yeah, I will too kid. I will too. I mean...after all, it will be harder this time...how do you out do perfection." They laughed.It was an hour later that Jackson came into the waiting room."It's a girl." He said."Congratulations." They said."How's Sookie." Lorelai asked."She is good, she is resting. She is down in the nursery if you want to go have a peak.""Yeah I think we will, tell Sookie I will come back later to see her okay. We'll let her rest for now." Lorelai said hugging Jackson.
The two walked to the nursery and looked though the window.
"She is so small."
"Yeah she is." Lorelai said putting her arm around her daughter.
"I'm gonna be a big sister." Rory said with a smile."Yeah kid, I sure hope so." Lorelai said."Lets go buy her some flowers, and some clothes...and...uh...stuffed animals." Rory said."You are going to make a great big sister." Lorelai said as they walked out of the hospital.