A/N: Hey guys. Thanks for all the reviews and the forgiveness of the late update. I'm also glad that some of you said you liked the Taylor scene. I wasn't sure about that. I feel bad that I'm starting to always have apologies in my A/N, but I've got another one. I didn't know this, but my story was set up so that it couldn't receive anonymous reviews. I'm very, very sorry for that and I hope no one's mad at me. I changed it, and now un-signed reviews are allowed. Again, I'm sorry.
Problems
[Cut To: Luke's Diner, LORELAI is at a table with her head in her hands and RORY is reading from her book]
Luke: Coffee?
Lorelai: (lifting her head)I am so tired.
Luke: Really? Huh. (he fills her mug and starts to walk away)
Lorelai: Duke! Come on. Don't you even care?
Luke: (sighing)Yeah. What?
Lorelai: I'm so tired, Dukey, so tired.
Luke: I've heard.
Lorelai: And are you wondering why I'm tired?
Luke: No.
Lorelai: I'm tired because of this one. (she reaches over and touches RORY's head)Our little reader. She wakes up early, did you know that? And she goes to sleep late. She always awake, reading. Reading but not really because (she cups her mouth to whisper)she doesn't know how.
Luke: (imitating her whispering)I don't think that's a secret.
Lorelai: They're two-letter words, how hard is that?
Luke: She's three. Most three year olds can't read at all.
Lorelai: Well it should be all or nothing! None of this!
Rory: (now able to be heard)Eh. Ne. Eh. Ne. Eh. Ne.
Luke: Didn't she do that one already?
Lorelai: She's done them all already. But she just keeps going. (fake crying)She keeps going. She's never going to stop.
Luke: Eventually she won't have to read out loud anymore.
Lorelai: (she stops fake crying)What?
Luke: You don't read out loud, do you?
Lorelai: (thoughtfully)No.
Luke: Well, that was rhetorical, but okay. No, you don't read out loud because you already know how.
Lorelai: Yeah, that's right.
Luke: So...
Lorelai: (excited)So when she learns she'll finally shut up! (RORY looks up at her)I wasn't talking about you. I was talking about...Alissa.
Rory: Oh.
Lorelai: Yeah. (to LUKE)And maybe Alissa can learn to read quietly even now.
Luke: That's not what I-
Lorelai: We could teach her.
Luke: We?
Lorelai: We taught her to read.
Luke: Again, "we?"
Lorelai: You were the one who was all "Hey, man, look at me, I'm cool. I taught her to read."
Luke: I don't remember saying those exact words.
Lorelai: I may have paraphrased them. (looking at her watch)Anyway, okay, we've got to be going, it's almost noon.
Luke: Aren't you gonna eat?
Lorelai: Uh, no. No. (to RORY)Let's go.
Rory: I'm reading.
Lorelai: You're always reading. C'mon. (she tries to get up but LUKE blocks her way)
Luke: You haven't eaten in a while. Just coffee.
Lorelai: Well, the coffee's good.
Luke: The first few days you ate everything I had, and now you eat nothing?
Lorelai: Oh, we're eating at home, you know. Hence us leaving. (she sits down)
Luke: Really?
Lorelai: Yeah, of course.
Luke: You're not...not eating?
Lorelai: (laughing)Yeah, I couldn't get through an hour without eating.
Luke: So have a burger.
Lorelai: We have to go, we'll be late.
Luke: It's ten thirty.
Lorelai: Takes a girl a long time to pretty up.
Luke: Why won't you eat?
Lorelai: We buy food at the market...
Luke: Where you have to deal with Taylor.
Lorelai: ...Then we bring it home and eat it. Everyone wins. Okay, bye. (she runs out of the diner, LUKE looks after her)
Miss Patty: Luke?
Luke: Huh?
Miss Patty: Will you be able to make time to serve any of us today? (LUKE looks around and notices that the diner is full of people who need to be served)
Luke: Oh. Sorry.
Miss Patty: It's no problem. We all understand flirting.
Luke: (delivering plates)What?
Miss Patty: She's very pretty, Luke.
Luke: Who?
Miss Patty: Lorelai.
Luke: Um...I guess.
Miss Patty: Don't act like you don't see it.
Luke: She's not ugly, I guess.
Miss Patty: Uh-huh.
Luke: What is it, Patty?
Miss Patty: There's no need to hide it, Luke, she seems nice.
Luke: Hide what?
Miss Patty: God, it's like talking to a child. Your feelings for her.
Babette: Yeah, we all see it.
Luke: I'm done talking about this.
Babette: Oh, you should marry her.
Luke: What?
Babette: I saw the way you talked to the kid. Like her father.
Luke: I've known them for a week.
Miss Patty: Oh, he's counting the days.
Luke: I am not.
Babette: We're just saying, Luke.
Luke: Well stop saying! (BABETTE and MISS PATTY are silent for a minute before they start talking to each other)
Miss Patty: Speaking of marriage, when are you tying the knot?
Babette: I'm thinking of a spring wedding.
Luke: Morey proposed?
Babette: No, why?
Luke: Uh...no reason.
[Cut To: Independence Inn, room 23, LORELAI is cleaning and RORY is on the bed, reading]
Rory: Aww. Nuh. Aww. Nuh.
Lorelai: Remember what I told you? How 'bout you say it silently?
Rory: I can't.
Lorelai: Yes, you can.
Rory: (sighing)Fine.
Lorelai: (sighing like her)So dramatic. We're almost done, what do you want for dinner?
Rory: What about turn up?
Lorelai: Turnip?
Rory: Turn up.
Lorelai: Oh, no, honey, it's turn down. And we've got time, it's only five.
Rory: We're fast.
Lorelai: Yeah, I guess.
Rory: And now we have time to go to Luke's!
Lorelai: Oh, uh, well-
Rory: Why don't we eat there?
Lorelai: 'Cause.
Rory: 'Cause?
Lorelai: 'Cause we eat here.
Rory: (quietly)Money?
Lorelai: Yeah, hun. We don't really have enough. But don't tell Duke, okay?
Rory: Why not?
Lorelai: I don't want him to know that part of our life. Promise?
Rory: Sure.
Lorelai: Thank you.
[Cut To: Doose's Market, LORELAI and RORY are shopping]
Lorelai: What else do we need?
Rory: Nothing.
Lorelai: How little you know.
Rory: There's too much.
Lorelai: But we can eat whatever we want! We can buy everything!
Rory: But we don't have to.
Lorelai: Fine, we'll stop. (they walk up to the register)
John: Hi, Rory. How's it going, Lorelai?
Lorelai: Uh, pretty good, I guess. Thanks. How's everything here?
John: Well, Taylor's still around, so not perfect, but it's okay.
Lorelai: Good. (she hands him the basket and he rings their food up)
John: Twelve seventeen.
Lorelai: Oh, wow.
John: What?
Lorelai: It's just a lot. It's-it's nothing. (she hands him money)Bye.
John: Bye. Bye, Rory.
Rory: Bye.
[Cut To: Luke's Diner, LORELAI and RORY walk in and sit at the counter, LUKE walks over with a mug and the coffee pot]
Lorelai: No.
Luke: No what?
Lorelai: No coffee.
Luke: You gonna eat?
Lorelai: Uh, no.
Luke: Then why are you here?
Lorelai: (looking confused)I don't know.
Luke: You don't know?
Lorelai: I just-I didn't want to go back home and this was the logical place to go, I guess.
Rory: Can I have some juice, Luke?
Lorelai: She'll just have water.
Luke: Okay. (he gets a cup of water)
Rory: Thanks.
Luke: Sure. So, you're pretty outgoing, right?
Rory: Um...
Lorelai: Rory? Uh, no. She never talks to anyone.
Luke: How come she talks to me?
Rory: You're nice.
Lorelai: She's just comfortable around you. Why?
Luke: Uh...no reason. Nothing. So, no coffee?
Lorelai: Nope. We have to go, anyway. I gotta change and (lifting up her bag)eat.
Luke: You brought food in here?
Lorelai: Yeah.
Luke: You went out and bought food, and then brought it to a diner? A diner that serves food?
Lorelai: Yes, I did.
Luke: You don't feel bad about this at all, do you?
Lorelai: Nope. Bye, Duke.
Rory: Bye. See you tomorrow.
Luke: Bye.
[Cut To: Independence Inn, lobby, LORELAI is at the counter talking to MIA, RORY is on the couch]
Lorelai: Can I talk to you?
Mia: Oh, of course. My, I haven't seen you in days! I'm so sorry, it's just these meetings are one after the other, and-
Lorelai: Yeah, that's gotta suck.
Mia: I don't know if I'd describe it that way, but it's not fun, that's for sure. What did you need to talk about?
Lorelai: Oh, um, okay. Man, it's getting harder and harder to do this. You said I get paid every other week, right?
Mia: Yes.
Lorelai: Is there a way to get paid this week?
Mia: What do you mean?
Lorelai: Well, I'm not supposed to be paid until next Saturday, but maybe I could be paid earlier?
Mia: Oh.
Lorelai: I don't know if it's possible, or...? (LUKE walks in and hears them talking, but LORELAI doesn't see him)
Mia: Is there a reason you need it?
Lorelai: Oh, well...I didn't, um, I didn't come with a lot of money, so now...I have less.
Mia: Less as in less, or less as in none?
Lorelai: Less as in none. (LUKE, feeling as if he shouldn't be listening to this, leaves)
Mia: Well, I'll see what I can do.
Lorelai: Thanks, Mia.
Mia: And until then (she reaches for her purse)-
Lorelai: No, Mia. I'm not taking anything from you. You've helped so much, maybe too much. I don't want this.
Mia: Lorelai, don't be silly. You need it.
Lorelai: Mia, no. I'm serious. I'm not taking this from you. No.
Mia: Maybe you could get it from your parents.
Lorelai: (laughing a little)Yeah.
Mia: Have you called them again? After last time?
Lorelai: Because that went so well? No.
Mia: You really should.
Lorelai: Maybe. But I won't.
Mia: Lorelai-
Lorelai: Mia, please.
Mia: No, you can't get out of this one. You need to call them. (thinking)Every Wednesday.
Lorelai: What?
Mia: I gave you a job, you're living in the inn's tool shed, this is a condition of that.
Lorelai: You're using it against me? I can't believe it! The one person I trusted.
Mia: If this is the only way to get you to call your parents, then this is what I will do.
Lorelai: So every time you want me to do something, this is what's going to happen?
Mia: No, this is an emergency. I'll only be doing this once.
Lorelai: No!
Mia: You have no choice.
Lorelai: I'll leave.
Mia: You'll get another job? Another house?
Lorelai: Stop it! Stop it, Mia! Don't do this.
Mia: I don't want to-
Lorelai: Then don't.
Mia: I have to.
Lorelai: I can't do that. (neither says anything and LORELAI gets RORY and they leave)
Problems
[Cut To: Luke's Diner, LORELAI is at a table with her head in her hands and RORY is reading from her book]
Luke: Coffee?
Lorelai: (lifting her head)I am so tired.
Luke: Really? Huh. (he fills her mug and starts to walk away)
Lorelai: Duke! Come on. Don't you even care?
Luke: (sighing)Yeah. What?
Lorelai: I'm so tired, Dukey, so tired.
Luke: I've heard.
Lorelai: And are you wondering why I'm tired?
Luke: No.
Lorelai: I'm tired because of this one. (she reaches over and touches RORY's head)Our little reader. She wakes up early, did you know that? And she goes to sleep late. She always awake, reading. Reading but not really because (she cups her mouth to whisper)she doesn't know how.
Luke: (imitating her whispering)I don't think that's a secret.
Lorelai: They're two-letter words, how hard is that?
Luke: She's three. Most three year olds can't read at all.
Lorelai: Well it should be all or nothing! None of this!
Rory: (now able to be heard)Eh. Ne. Eh. Ne. Eh. Ne.
Luke: Didn't she do that one already?
Lorelai: She's done them all already. But she just keeps going. (fake crying)She keeps going. She's never going to stop.
Luke: Eventually she won't have to read out loud anymore.
Lorelai: (she stops fake crying)What?
Luke: You don't read out loud, do you?
Lorelai: (thoughtfully)No.
Luke: Well, that was rhetorical, but okay. No, you don't read out loud because you already know how.
Lorelai: Yeah, that's right.
Luke: So...
Lorelai: (excited)So when she learns she'll finally shut up! (RORY looks up at her)I wasn't talking about you. I was talking about...Alissa.
Rory: Oh.
Lorelai: Yeah. (to LUKE)And maybe Alissa can learn to read quietly even now.
Luke: That's not what I-
Lorelai: We could teach her.
Luke: We?
Lorelai: We taught her to read.
Luke: Again, "we?"
Lorelai: You were the one who was all "Hey, man, look at me, I'm cool. I taught her to read."
Luke: I don't remember saying those exact words.
Lorelai: I may have paraphrased them. (looking at her watch)Anyway, okay, we've got to be going, it's almost noon.
Luke: Aren't you gonna eat?
Lorelai: Uh, no. No. (to RORY)Let's go.
Rory: I'm reading.
Lorelai: You're always reading. C'mon. (she tries to get up but LUKE blocks her way)
Luke: You haven't eaten in a while. Just coffee.
Lorelai: Well, the coffee's good.
Luke: The first few days you ate everything I had, and now you eat nothing?
Lorelai: Oh, we're eating at home, you know. Hence us leaving. (she sits down)
Luke: Really?
Lorelai: Yeah, of course.
Luke: You're not...not eating?
Lorelai: (laughing)Yeah, I couldn't get through an hour without eating.
Luke: So have a burger.
Lorelai: We have to go, we'll be late.
Luke: It's ten thirty.
Lorelai: Takes a girl a long time to pretty up.
Luke: Why won't you eat?
Lorelai: We buy food at the market...
Luke: Where you have to deal with Taylor.
Lorelai: ...Then we bring it home and eat it. Everyone wins. Okay, bye. (she runs out of the diner, LUKE looks after her)
Miss Patty: Luke?
Luke: Huh?
Miss Patty: Will you be able to make time to serve any of us today? (LUKE looks around and notices that the diner is full of people who need to be served)
Luke: Oh. Sorry.
Miss Patty: It's no problem. We all understand flirting.
Luke: (delivering plates)What?
Miss Patty: She's very pretty, Luke.
Luke: Who?
Miss Patty: Lorelai.
Luke: Um...I guess.
Miss Patty: Don't act like you don't see it.
Luke: She's not ugly, I guess.
Miss Patty: Uh-huh.
Luke: What is it, Patty?
Miss Patty: There's no need to hide it, Luke, she seems nice.
Luke: Hide what?
Miss Patty: God, it's like talking to a child. Your feelings for her.
Babette: Yeah, we all see it.
Luke: I'm done talking about this.
Babette: Oh, you should marry her.
Luke: What?
Babette: I saw the way you talked to the kid. Like her father.
Luke: I've known them for a week.
Miss Patty: Oh, he's counting the days.
Luke: I am not.
Babette: We're just saying, Luke.
Luke: Well stop saying! (BABETTE and MISS PATTY are silent for a minute before they start talking to each other)
Miss Patty: Speaking of marriage, when are you tying the knot?
Babette: I'm thinking of a spring wedding.
Luke: Morey proposed?
Babette: No, why?
Luke: Uh...no reason.
[Cut To: Independence Inn, room 23, LORELAI is cleaning and RORY is on the bed, reading]
Rory: Aww. Nuh. Aww. Nuh.
Lorelai: Remember what I told you? How 'bout you say it silently?
Rory: I can't.
Lorelai: Yes, you can.
Rory: (sighing)Fine.
Lorelai: (sighing like her)So dramatic. We're almost done, what do you want for dinner?
Rory: What about turn up?
Lorelai: Turnip?
Rory: Turn up.
Lorelai: Oh, no, honey, it's turn down. And we've got time, it's only five.
Rory: We're fast.
Lorelai: Yeah, I guess.
Rory: And now we have time to go to Luke's!
Lorelai: Oh, uh, well-
Rory: Why don't we eat there?
Lorelai: 'Cause.
Rory: 'Cause?
Lorelai: 'Cause we eat here.
Rory: (quietly)Money?
Lorelai: Yeah, hun. We don't really have enough. But don't tell Duke, okay?
Rory: Why not?
Lorelai: I don't want him to know that part of our life. Promise?
Rory: Sure.
Lorelai: Thank you.
[Cut To: Doose's Market, LORELAI and RORY are shopping]
Lorelai: What else do we need?
Rory: Nothing.
Lorelai: How little you know.
Rory: There's too much.
Lorelai: But we can eat whatever we want! We can buy everything!
Rory: But we don't have to.
Lorelai: Fine, we'll stop. (they walk up to the register)
John: Hi, Rory. How's it going, Lorelai?
Lorelai: Uh, pretty good, I guess. Thanks. How's everything here?
John: Well, Taylor's still around, so not perfect, but it's okay.
Lorelai: Good. (she hands him the basket and he rings their food up)
John: Twelve seventeen.
Lorelai: Oh, wow.
John: What?
Lorelai: It's just a lot. It's-it's nothing. (she hands him money)Bye.
John: Bye. Bye, Rory.
Rory: Bye.
[Cut To: Luke's Diner, LORELAI and RORY walk in and sit at the counter, LUKE walks over with a mug and the coffee pot]
Lorelai: No.
Luke: No what?
Lorelai: No coffee.
Luke: You gonna eat?
Lorelai: Uh, no.
Luke: Then why are you here?
Lorelai: (looking confused)I don't know.
Luke: You don't know?
Lorelai: I just-I didn't want to go back home and this was the logical place to go, I guess.
Rory: Can I have some juice, Luke?
Lorelai: She'll just have water.
Luke: Okay. (he gets a cup of water)
Rory: Thanks.
Luke: Sure. So, you're pretty outgoing, right?
Rory: Um...
Lorelai: Rory? Uh, no. She never talks to anyone.
Luke: How come she talks to me?
Rory: You're nice.
Lorelai: She's just comfortable around you. Why?
Luke: Uh...no reason. Nothing. So, no coffee?
Lorelai: Nope. We have to go, anyway. I gotta change and (lifting up her bag)eat.
Luke: You brought food in here?
Lorelai: Yeah.
Luke: You went out and bought food, and then brought it to a diner? A diner that serves food?
Lorelai: Yes, I did.
Luke: You don't feel bad about this at all, do you?
Lorelai: Nope. Bye, Duke.
Rory: Bye. See you tomorrow.
Luke: Bye.
[Cut To: Independence Inn, lobby, LORELAI is at the counter talking to MIA, RORY is on the couch]
Lorelai: Can I talk to you?
Mia: Oh, of course. My, I haven't seen you in days! I'm so sorry, it's just these meetings are one after the other, and-
Lorelai: Yeah, that's gotta suck.
Mia: I don't know if I'd describe it that way, but it's not fun, that's for sure. What did you need to talk about?
Lorelai: Oh, um, okay. Man, it's getting harder and harder to do this. You said I get paid every other week, right?
Mia: Yes.
Lorelai: Is there a way to get paid this week?
Mia: What do you mean?
Lorelai: Well, I'm not supposed to be paid until next Saturday, but maybe I could be paid earlier?
Mia: Oh.
Lorelai: I don't know if it's possible, or...? (LUKE walks in and hears them talking, but LORELAI doesn't see him)
Mia: Is there a reason you need it?
Lorelai: Oh, well...I didn't, um, I didn't come with a lot of money, so now...I have less.
Mia: Less as in less, or less as in none?
Lorelai: Less as in none. (LUKE, feeling as if he shouldn't be listening to this, leaves)
Mia: Well, I'll see what I can do.
Lorelai: Thanks, Mia.
Mia: And until then (she reaches for her purse)-
Lorelai: No, Mia. I'm not taking anything from you. You've helped so much, maybe too much. I don't want this.
Mia: Lorelai, don't be silly. You need it.
Lorelai: Mia, no. I'm serious. I'm not taking this from you. No.
Mia: Maybe you could get it from your parents.
Lorelai: (laughing a little)Yeah.
Mia: Have you called them again? After last time?
Lorelai: Because that went so well? No.
Mia: You really should.
Lorelai: Maybe. But I won't.
Mia: Lorelai-
Lorelai: Mia, please.
Mia: No, you can't get out of this one. You need to call them. (thinking)Every Wednesday.
Lorelai: What?
Mia: I gave you a job, you're living in the inn's tool shed, this is a condition of that.
Lorelai: You're using it against me? I can't believe it! The one person I trusted.
Mia: If this is the only way to get you to call your parents, then this is what I will do.
Lorelai: So every time you want me to do something, this is what's going to happen?
Mia: No, this is an emergency. I'll only be doing this once.
Lorelai: No!
Mia: You have no choice.
Lorelai: I'll leave.
Mia: You'll get another job? Another house?
Lorelai: Stop it! Stop it, Mia! Don't do this.
Mia: I don't want to-
Lorelai: Then don't.
Mia: I have to.
Lorelai: I can't do that. (neither says anything and LORELAI gets RORY and they leave)
