A/N: In two half days I'm going to be done with school! And then I'm done! Three more exams, and I'm outta there! Yay!
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Calls.
[Cut To: Luke's Diner, LORELAI and RORY are having breakfast. LORELAI looks exhausted and RORY is obviously happy]
Rory: Can we call now?
Lorelai: No.
Rory: Why not?
Lorelai: Rory, honey, stop. We will call them today, I promise. It's not like we have a choice.
Luke: Who are you calling?
Lorelai: My-
Rory: (excitedly)Gramma and Granpa!
Luke: (to RORY)You look excited. (to LORELAI)You...don't.
Lorelai: I'm not.
Rory: And I am!
Luke: Then why are you bothering to call?
Lorelai: Mia. (long pause during which LORELAI doesn't elaborate)
Luke: Mia...
Lorelai: Said that we had to.
Luke: Oh, that's rough.
Lorelai: Yeah. It's worse than rough.
Luke: What's so bad about them?
Lorelai: What's so bad, he asks. I couldn't even give a list, Duke.
Luke: Well, that's life, huh?
Lorelai: Oh, yeah, life's great.
Luke: Coffee?
Lorelai: Keep it coming.
[Cut To: Independence Inn, lobby, LORELAI and RORY walk in and see MIA]
Mia: Lorelai?
Lorelai: (walking up to the counter)Hey.
Mia: Do you know what today is?
Rory: Gramma and Granpa!
Mia: Well, I guess Rory knows.
Lorelai: She can't stop talking about it.
Mia: So are you ready?
Rory: Yes!
Lorelai: Uh, yeah, after work.
Mia: Oh, after? Sure.
Lorelai: Okay. So...see you later, then.
Mia: Bye.
Rory: Bye.
[Cut To: Independence Inn, room 15, LORELAI is cleaning and RORY is at the desk, reading her book]
Rory: So we'll call after work?
Lorelai: I said we would.
Rory: Yeah, but will we really?
Lorelai: Yes. We've got to call today, so we'll call today.
Rory: Sometimes you say things but then don't do them.
Lorelai: Well, we have to do this.
Rory: Okay, so-
Lorelai: New topic, please.
Rory: Fine. When am I going to get my new book?
Lorelai: What new book?
Rory: I finished this one a million days ago! So can't I have a new one?
Lorelai: Maybe, I don't know. They take a while to make. All night, actually.
Rory: Then I want one of yours.
Lorelai: Those are for when you get a little better at reading, babe. When you're older.
Rory: But I can do it now.
Lorelai: I don't think so.
Rory: You used to say that I could do anything.
Lorelai: Totally different context.
Rory: (frustrated)I want to read it!
Lorelai: (mocking RORY's voice)I know you do!
Rory: (innocently)Please?
Lorelai: Fine, we'll go get one later. But it's going to be hard.
Rory: I know it will.
Lorelai: Really, really hard.
Rory: Okay.
Lorelai: This isn't making you want to read it any less, is it?
Rory: Nope.
Lorelai: Making you want to read it more, huh?
Rory: A little.
Lorelai: Then we'll get it later.
Rory: After we call-
Lorelai: Buh, buh, buh. I don't want to hear it again.
Rory: But-
Lorelai: No.
Rory: I-
Lorelai: Stop.
Rory: Fine.
Lorelai: Fine. Read.
[Cut To: Independence Inn, potting shed, LORELAI is sitting on the bed and RORY is looking at a shelf of books]
Rory: We had more at home.
Lorelai: This is our home. (RORY looks at her) And I know.
Rory: There's only (counting on her fingers)five here.
Lorelai: Smart girl.
Rory: They're long.
Lorelai: So maybe you shouldn't read them, huh? Maybe we should just find some shorter ones.
Rory: No, I can do it.
Lorelai: Okay, then pick one. We should get back.
Rory: (pulling a book off of the shelf)This one.
Lorelai: Let me see.
Rory: (handing it to her)Here.
Lorelai: "The Scarlet Letter?"
Rory: Yeah, letter. Like my letters. (singing)A, B, C, D, E, F-
Lorelai: Not quite like your letters.
Rory: Let's go.
Lorelai: You sure you want to read this one?
Rory: Yes.
Lorelai: (sighing)Okay. (to herself)I don't believe in censorship anyway.
[Cut To: Independence Inn, room 18, LORELAI is making the bed and RORY is sitting on the floor with her book]
Rory: Pl-ant-ied dep in the town's ear-liest...
Lorelai: Planted deep in the town's earliest...
Rory: ...in-fan-ky and kildhood-
Lorelai: What page did you say you were on?
Rory: (excited)Did I say it right?
Lorelai: Infancy and childhood. Now, what page?
Rory: Nine.
Lorelai: Oh, great. Only ten million more.
Rory: Really?
Lorelai: Really what?
Rory: There's that many more pages?
Lorelai: No, honey, Mommy was just being...funny.
Rory: Oh. It was funny.
Lorelai: Thank you.
Rory: You're welcome.
Lorelai: Aren't we polite.
Rory: "Politeness is close to godliness."
Lorelai: Excuse me?
Rory: That's what Gramma tells me.
Lorelai: Really, politeness? I remember back in my day when it was, "cleanliness is close to godliness." Do you know what it means?
Rory: What?
Lorelai: Godliness and politeness and all that.
Rory: Yeah. Of course.
Lorelai: Okay, what does it mean?
Rory: It means...to...uh...I have to read. (LORELAI smiles)
[Cut To: Independence Inn, room 25, LORELAI is done cleaning, but she's straightening things on the desk, etc and RORY is reading]
Rory: But then, what (trying to sound it out)re-re-rems of other man-you-scrip-tees...
Lorelai: I need to see that one. (RORY shows her the book)But then, what reams of other manuscripts. Why don't you take a break?
Rory: I've taken a whole bunch of breaks already.
Lorelai: Exactly. So one more can't hurt.
Rory: Are we taking our break to call Gramma?
Lorelai: Uh...I thought you forgot about that.
Rory: You said not to talk about it.
Lorelai: And yet, here we are.
Rory: You said we had to.
Lorelai: We do.
Rory: You said if we had to, then we would.
Lorelai: We will. (RORY gets up and picks up her book, getting ready to leave)Later.
Rory: Isn't now later?
Lorelai: No, now is now.
Rory: But later was later, so now now should be later.
Lorelai: I'm confused. (pause)You learned that from me.
Rory: So we're calling?
Lorelai: (sighing)Yes, we're calling.
[Cut To: Independence Inn, lobby, LORELAI comes out of the maintenence room and walks very slowly over to RORY at the counter. RORY gives her a look]
Lorelai: What? I'm here.
Rory: Took you long enough.
Lorelai: I'm old! My bones are...cracking.
Rory: (to MIA)Miss Mia?
Mia: Yes?
Rory: Can we have the phone? Mommy's ready to call.
Mia: Of course. (she turns and takes the phone off of its base)Here. (to LORELAI)Dial nine to get out.
Lorelai: (with a fake smile)Thanks. (LORELAI and RORY walk over to the couches and sit down, LORELAI dials)Hello? This is Lorelai. Is Emily there?
[Cut To: Gilmore House, dining room, EMILY and RICHARD are eating dinner. A MAID comes in]
Emily: Janet.
Janet: Yes, ma'am?
Emily: Well is there a reason that you're in the room?
Janet: Phone call, ma'am.
Emily: Do I take my phone calls while I eat, Janet? (before JANET has a chance to answer)No, I don't. No calls.
Janet: (on the phone)I'm sorry, Miss Lorelai? (both EMILY and RICHARD look up suddenly)Mrs. Gilmore isn't-
Emily: (jumping up, to JANET)Give me that. (on the phone)Lorelai?
Lorelai: (on the phone)Mom. Hi. How are you?
Emily: How am I? When are you coming home, Lorelai?
Lorelai: (on the phone)Mom, I'm-I'm not. I live here. I work here. I...eat here.
Emily: Oh, you eat there, so you're not coming home? (RICHARD gets up)
Richard: I have work. (he leaves and goes into his office)
Lorelai: (on the phone)No, that's not why.
Emily: I tried to look up Stars Hollow in the Phone Book, but I couldn't find it anywhere.
Lorelai: (on the phone)You don't need to know where it is.
Emily: If you're not going to tell me then I'm certainly going to find it myself.
Lorelai: (on the phone)No, I don't need you to find it. Really, we're fine.
Emily: Let me speak with Rory.
Lorelai: (on the phone)What?
Emily: Let me talk to her, please, Lorelai.
Lorelai: (on the phone)Okay.
[Cut To: Independence Inn, lobby, LORELAI hands the phone to RORY, who grins widely]
Rory: Hello?
Emily: (on the phone)Rory! How are you, sweetheart? Are you alright?
Rory: Yeah, we're really, really good.
Emily: (on the phone)Can you tell me the phone number to the place you're staying?
Rory: Um, I don't know the number here. I could ask-
Lorelai: (grabbing the phone)Mom, come on. Don't ask things like that.
Emily: (on the phone)Don't you think I have a right to know?
Lorelai: Let me think. No.
Emily: (on the phone)It's not as if I can't use the caller ID.
Lorelai: You don't have caller ID.
Emily: (on the phone)Can I talk to her again, or have my rights been revoked?
Lorelai: Play nice. (she hands the phone to RORY)
Emily: (on the phone)So, what have you been up to? How's school?
Rory: Oh, school hasn't started yet. Not 'till August.
Emily: (on the phone)Well what have you been doing? I mean, if your mother won't even send you to school-
Rory: I just come with Mommy to work.
Emily: (on the phone)To work? What does she do?
Rory: She's a really good cleaner.
Emily: (on the phone)A cleaner? What does she clean?
Rory: She's a maid.
Emily: (on the phone)A maid? Oh, dear Lord. Rory, don't worry, we'll come and get you, I promise.
Rory: I don't need you to come get me, Gramma. I'm fine.
Lorelai: (grabbing the phone again)Bye Mom. (she hangs up and RORY looks at her, confused)
Rory: Mommy.
Lorelai: I'm sorry. I know, I'm sorry. Next time, I promise. I'm sorry, honey. But I'm just afraid that she's going to make you want to leave. And you don't want to leave, do you?
Rory: No.
Lorelai: (looking at RORY's sad face)I'll be better next time.
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Calls.
[Cut To: Luke's Diner, LORELAI and RORY are having breakfast. LORELAI looks exhausted and RORY is obviously happy]
Rory: Can we call now?
Lorelai: No.
Rory: Why not?
Lorelai: Rory, honey, stop. We will call them today, I promise. It's not like we have a choice.
Luke: Who are you calling?
Lorelai: My-
Rory: (excitedly)Gramma and Granpa!
Luke: (to RORY)You look excited. (to LORELAI)You...don't.
Lorelai: I'm not.
Rory: And I am!
Luke: Then why are you bothering to call?
Lorelai: Mia. (long pause during which LORELAI doesn't elaborate)
Luke: Mia...
Lorelai: Said that we had to.
Luke: Oh, that's rough.
Lorelai: Yeah. It's worse than rough.
Luke: What's so bad about them?
Lorelai: What's so bad, he asks. I couldn't even give a list, Duke.
Luke: Well, that's life, huh?
Lorelai: Oh, yeah, life's great.
Luke: Coffee?
Lorelai: Keep it coming.
[Cut To: Independence Inn, lobby, LORELAI and RORY walk in and see MIA]
Mia: Lorelai?
Lorelai: (walking up to the counter)Hey.
Mia: Do you know what today is?
Rory: Gramma and Granpa!
Mia: Well, I guess Rory knows.
Lorelai: She can't stop talking about it.
Mia: So are you ready?
Rory: Yes!
Lorelai: Uh, yeah, after work.
Mia: Oh, after? Sure.
Lorelai: Okay. So...see you later, then.
Mia: Bye.
Rory: Bye.
[Cut To: Independence Inn, room 15, LORELAI is cleaning and RORY is at the desk, reading her book]
Rory: So we'll call after work?
Lorelai: I said we would.
Rory: Yeah, but will we really?
Lorelai: Yes. We've got to call today, so we'll call today.
Rory: Sometimes you say things but then don't do them.
Lorelai: Well, we have to do this.
Rory: Okay, so-
Lorelai: New topic, please.
Rory: Fine. When am I going to get my new book?
Lorelai: What new book?
Rory: I finished this one a million days ago! So can't I have a new one?
Lorelai: Maybe, I don't know. They take a while to make. All night, actually.
Rory: Then I want one of yours.
Lorelai: Those are for when you get a little better at reading, babe. When you're older.
Rory: But I can do it now.
Lorelai: I don't think so.
Rory: You used to say that I could do anything.
Lorelai: Totally different context.
Rory: (frustrated)I want to read it!
Lorelai: (mocking RORY's voice)I know you do!
Rory: (innocently)Please?
Lorelai: Fine, we'll go get one later. But it's going to be hard.
Rory: I know it will.
Lorelai: Really, really hard.
Rory: Okay.
Lorelai: This isn't making you want to read it any less, is it?
Rory: Nope.
Lorelai: Making you want to read it more, huh?
Rory: A little.
Lorelai: Then we'll get it later.
Rory: After we call-
Lorelai: Buh, buh, buh. I don't want to hear it again.
Rory: But-
Lorelai: No.
Rory: I-
Lorelai: Stop.
Rory: Fine.
Lorelai: Fine. Read.
[Cut To: Independence Inn, potting shed, LORELAI is sitting on the bed and RORY is looking at a shelf of books]
Rory: We had more at home.
Lorelai: This is our home. (RORY looks at her) And I know.
Rory: There's only (counting on her fingers)five here.
Lorelai: Smart girl.
Rory: They're long.
Lorelai: So maybe you shouldn't read them, huh? Maybe we should just find some shorter ones.
Rory: No, I can do it.
Lorelai: Okay, then pick one. We should get back.
Rory: (pulling a book off of the shelf)This one.
Lorelai: Let me see.
Rory: (handing it to her)Here.
Lorelai: "The Scarlet Letter?"
Rory: Yeah, letter. Like my letters. (singing)A, B, C, D, E, F-
Lorelai: Not quite like your letters.
Rory: Let's go.
Lorelai: You sure you want to read this one?
Rory: Yes.
Lorelai: (sighing)Okay. (to herself)I don't believe in censorship anyway.
[Cut To: Independence Inn, room 18, LORELAI is making the bed and RORY is sitting on the floor with her book]
Rory: Pl-ant-ied dep in the town's ear-liest...
Lorelai: Planted deep in the town's earliest...
Rory: ...in-fan-ky and kildhood-
Lorelai: What page did you say you were on?
Rory: (excited)Did I say it right?
Lorelai: Infancy and childhood. Now, what page?
Rory: Nine.
Lorelai: Oh, great. Only ten million more.
Rory: Really?
Lorelai: Really what?
Rory: There's that many more pages?
Lorelai: No, honey, Mommy was just being...funny.
Rory: Oh. It was funny.
Lorelai: Thank you.
Rory: You're welcome.
Lorelai: Aren't we polite.
Rory: "Politeness is close to godliness."
Lorelai: Excuse me?
Rory: That's what Gramma tells me.
Lorelai: Really, politeness? I remember back in my day when it was, "cleanliness is close to godliness." Do you know what it means?
Rory: What?
Lorelai: Godliness and politeness and all that.
Rory: Yeah. Of course.
Lorelai: Okay, what does it mean?
Rory: It means...to...uh...I have to read. (LORELAI smiles)
[Cut To: Independence Inn, room 25, LORELAI is done cleaning, but she's straightening things on the desk, etc and RORY is reading]
Rory: But then, what (trying to sound it out)re-re-rems of other man-you-scrip-tees...
Lorelai: I need to see that one. (RORY shows her the book)But then, what reams of other manuscripts. Why don't you take a break?
Rory: I've taken a whole bunch of breaks already.
Lorelai: Exactly. So one more can't hurt.
Rory: Are we taking our break to call Gramma?
Lorelai: Uh...I thought you forgot about that.
Rory: You said not to talk about it.
Lorelai: And yet, here we are.
Rory: You said we had to.
Lorelai: We do.
Rory: You said if we had to, then we would.
Lorelai: We will. (RORY gets up and picks up her book, getting ready to leave)Later.
Rory: Isn't now later?
Lorelai: No, now is now.
Rory: But later was later, so now now should be later.
Lorelai: I'm confused. (pause)You learned that from me.
Rory: So we're calling?
Lorelai: (sighing)Yes, we're calling.
[Cut To: Independence Inn, lobby, LORELAI comes out of the maintenence room and walks very slowly over to RORY at the counter. RORY gives her a look]
Lorelai: What? I'm here.
Rory: Took you long enough.
Lorelai: I'm old! My bones are...cracking.
Rory: (to MIA)Miss Mia?
Mia: Yes?
Rory: Can we have the phone? Mommy's ready to call.
Mia: Of course. (she turns and takes the phone off of its base)Here. (to LORELAI)Dial nine to get out.
Lorelai: (with a fake smile)Thanks. (LORELAI and RORY walk over to the couches and sit down, LORELAI dials)Hello? This is Lorelai. Is Emily there?
[Cut To: Gilmore House, dining room, EMILY and RICHARD are eating dinner. A MAID comes in]
Emily: Janet.
Janet: Yes, ma'am?
Emily: Well is there a reason that you're in the room?
Janet: Phone call, ma'am.
Emily: Do I take my phone calls while I eat, Janet? (before JANET has a chance to answer)No, I don't. No calls.
Janet: (on the phone)I'm sorry, Miss Lorelai? (both EMILY and RICHARD look up suddenly)Mrs. Gilmore isn't-
Emily: (jumping up, to JANET)Give me that. (on the phone)Lorelai?
Lorelai: (on the phone)Mom. Hi. How are you?
Emily: How am I? When are you coming home, Lorelai?
Lorelai: (on the phone)Mom, I'm-I'm not. I live here. I work here. I...eat here.
Emily: Oh, you eat there, so you're not coming home? (RICHARD gets up)
Richard: I have work. (he leaves and goes into his office)
Lorelai: (on the phone)No, that's not why.
Emily: I tried to look up Stars Hollow in the Phone Book, but I couldn't find it anywhere.
Lorelai: (on the phone)You don't need to know where it is.
Emily: If you're not going to tell me then I'm certainly going to find it myself.
Lorelai: (on the phone)No, I don't need you to find it. Really, we're fine.
Emily: Let me speak with Rory.
Lorelai: (on the phone)What?
Emily: Let me talk to her, please, Lorelai.
Lorelai: (on the phone)Okay.
[Cut To: Independence Inn, lobby, LORELAI hands the phone to RORY, who grins widely]
Rory: Hello?
Emily: (on the phone)Rory! How are you, sweetheart? Are you alright?
Rory: Yeah, we're really, really good.
Emily: (on the phone)Can you tell me the phone number to the place you're staying?
Rory: Um, I don't know the number here. I could ask-
Lorelai: (grabbing the phone)Mom, come on. Don't ask things like that.
Emily: (on the phone)Don't you think I have a right to know?
Lorelai: Let me think. No.
Emily: (on the phone)It's not as if I can't use the caller ID.
Lorelai: You don't have caller ID.
Emily: (on the phone)Can I talk to her again, or have my rights been revoked?
Lorelai: Play nice. (she hands the phone to RORY)
Emily: (on the phone)So, what have you been up to? How's school?
Rory: Oh, school hasn't started yet. Not 'till August.
Emily: (on the phone)Well what have you been doing? I mean, if your mother won't even send you to school-
Rory: I just come with Mommy to work.
Emily: (on the phone)To work? What does she do?
Rory: She's a really good cleaner.
Emily: (on the phone)A cleaner? What does she clean?
Rory: She's a maid.
Emily: (on the phone)A maid? Oh, dear Lord. Rory, don't worry, we'll come and get you, I promise.
Rory: I don't need you to come get me, Gramma. I'm fine.
Lorelai: (grabbing the phone again)Bye Mom. (she hangs up and RORY looks at her, confused)
Rory: Mommy.
Lorelai: I'm sorry. I know, I'm sorry. Next time, I promise. I'm sorry, honey. But I'm just afraid that she's going to make you want to leave. And you don't want to leave, do you?
Rory: No.
Lorelai: (looking at RORY's sad face)I'll be better next time.
