Chapter 1: A Motherly Concern
Lorelai Gilmore stepped out onto her front porch at midnight with the only thought in her mind to go back to the inn and figure out what to do with her daughter, who she had just caught in a very compromising situation with her now married ex-boyfriend. However, upon staring out over her yard, she saw her daughter crumpled on the front lawn and she could only imagine that she must be crying.
She walked behind her daughter and gently knelt on the ground to be the shoulder that was obviously needed at this moment in time.
As her mother's arm draped over her, Rory Gilmore shuddered at the thought of what she had just done. She had been so lonely and had started to really miss Dean, her first love who had chased her and protected her and loved her. But she never meant for things to go so far. Why hadn't she just stopped him before .... She couldn't even get the words to enter her thoughts. She had just called Dean moments before and gotten Lindsey and realized where the extent of her actions had just brought her. She hung up quickly, praying that they didn't have caller ID.
Lorelai: "Rory..."
Rory: "I don't love him, Mom. How could I be so stupid?"
Lorelai: "Rory, why don't you come back to the inn. I'd rather you not spend the night here on the grass or alone in this house tonight."
Rory: "I–I don't know..." her voice quivered.
Lorelai helped her daughter to her feet and with one arm around her, they made their way to the Jeep.
Rory couldn't hold the tears back in front of her mother so she just let them fall. Her mom had just caught her in the middle of the biggest mistake of her life and was not judging her for her actions. Instead, she was loving her in the most unconditional way that Rory had ever experienced.
The 10 minute trip to the inn was quiet, the only sounds coming from Rory's sobs. Lorelai knew enough just to let her daughter be. Rory knew what she had done and it was now up to her to choose the next course of action. Lorelai wanted so much to fix everything for her daughter but she also knew from experience that this was the time in her adult daughter's life where the line of responsibility was shifting from mother to daughter.