Rory manages to avoid her mother until the first week of June, and manages to get out of Friday night dinners for a month by June because the Gilmore's went to Europe.

June 4th at 11 A.M.:

Luke and Lorelai find Rory waiting for them to arrive outside her dorm. Because it is a little bit chilly Rory manages to pull of wearing an oversized Yale sweatshirt. Lorelai and Rory begin to chat as Luke carries boxes to the car. Within 45 minutes everything is loaded and the three of them head back to Stars Hollow. Luke takes everything that Rory doesn't need and puts it in the empty garage. When Luke is finished he drives back to the diner leaving the girls to talk.

"So is it just me or have you been avoiding me?" Lorelai asks as she watches Rory awkwardly sit down at the kitchen table.

"No."

"Rory!"

"What?"

"I know you haven't been having dinner with your grandparents for the last four weeks."

"So?"

"Why haven't you called or dropped by?"

"I've been busy."

"For four weeks straight?"

"Yeah."

"What's going on?'

"Nothing."

"Whatever."

"I'm going to go change I'm hot."

"Ok."

Rory returns wearing a baggy t-shirt in place of her Yale sweatshirt.

"Why are you wearing that shirt?"

"Because I like it."

"I know but it's huge on you."

"So I want to be comfortable."

"Rory spill the beans."

"Beans? What bean?"

Rory manages to be clueless into August but Lorelai tricks her by turning the air conditioning off one night. When Lorelai knows Rory is asleep she opens the door and tiptoes into Rory's room. Rory's back is facing the door so Lorelai crawls to the other side of the bed where Rory has a sheet covering her up. Lorelai studies her carefully and notices Rory's hand on her stomach, but Lorelai is extremely confused when she notices

where her stomach is. Knowing that Rory is an extremely heavy sleeper Lorelai removes Rory's hand and pulls down the sheet. Lorelai in shock goes back to bed to put it all together. Around 10:30 Rory finally wakes up gets dressed and goes into the kitchen where her mother is sitting with a cup of coffee.

"Do you want some coffee?"

"No."

"You know I just realized you haven't had coffee the whole time you've been here this summer?"

"So?"

"We love coffee, and I don't see you giving up coffee unless someone made you."

"So?"

"I also noticed you only wear baggy clothes."

"So?"

"I also noticed that you haven't said a word about Logan in many months."

"So? We broke up."

"Why Rory what really happened?"

"Look I don't feel like talking."

"I do sit down."

"I don't have to I'm an adult."

"I don't care sit down, I'm still your mother."

"What do you want?"

"Rory tell me what's going on."

"I can't."

"Rory!"

"Ok. Logan and I didn't really break up he left."

"He left you?"

"NO he left town."

"Why?"

"Because he's a jerk."

"Rory if you don't tell me the truth right now I'm calling your grandmother."

"What for?"

"To tell her that there is an emergency and she needs to come home immediately."

"Fine."

"Just tell me."

"Why don't I show you let me go change."

"Fine."

Rory comes back out minutes later with a shirt that actually fit on.

"Here is what I haven't told you. I'm pregnant. Are you happy now?"

"No, I want you to tell me what happened."

"What do you mean?"

"I want to know how, and what happened."

"Fine."

"Rory didn't you use protection?"

"Yes."

"Every time?"

"No."

"Why not?"

"The first time Logan and I had sex I wasn't really expecting it and I got caught up in the moment and I just forgot."

"You can't just forget this is what happens."

"I know, anyway I went for a physical and I didn't even think I was, but then the doctor called and told me I was, and I was really shocked and confused."

"What happened to you and Logan?"

"I told him, and then I said that I knew it was confusing so I let him go home and think about it, but when I went over there the next morning he was gone."

"He just left?"

"He left this lame note, and some money."

"Why didn't you tell me?"

"Because, I didn't know what to do."

"Oh."

"Mom I don't know what to do, I have so much I have to figure out."

"Rory you're not quitting school are you?"

"NO I know quitting isn't an option."

"So what are you planning on doing?"

"Getting a job, and an apartment near campus."

"What are you going to do with the baby while you are at school?"

"I don't know I don't even want to think about it right now."

"Ok."

"Oh, hold on." Rory rushes into her room, goes under her bed and pulls out a book.

"What's that?"

"Look at it."

Lorelai opens the cover of the book and finds ultrasound pictures.

"Oh wow, do you know what it is?"

"No, it's a Gilmore though it's stubborn, it refuses to open it's legs."

"That sounds about right."

"Go in the living room."

"Why."

"I have something I want to show you."

"What?"

"Just watch." Rory says as she pops a tape into the V.C.R.

"Wow."

"This is the most recent ultrasound."

"When is your next appointment?"

"The week I go back to school."

"Which is when?"

"The week I have to go back to Friday night dinner."

"Which is when?"

"The first week of September."

"So how far along are you now?"

"5 months."

"Can I go with you?"

"If you want. Mom will you go to Friday night dinner with me?"

"Why?"

"Do you think I've told grandma yet?"

"Right. I'll go."

"Good. You're mad at me aren't you?"

"No, I'm just disappointed in your choice that led you to being pregnant."

"I'm sorry."

"I know. Rory move back in."

"What? Why?"

"I can take care of the baby while you're in school."

"Mom you don't have a place to put a baby in this house."

"You've forgotten we have a spare bedroom."

"No you've forgotten we have no spare room in the spare room."

"No I haven't we have an almost empty garage."

"I guess."

"We can put all the junk from the bedroom in the garage."

"I guess."

"Rory, please."

"Mom I don't to be one of those people who lives with her mother until she's 40."

"Until I'm 40 or until you're 40."

"Until I'm 40."

"Don't worry I'll kick you out before then."

"Oh, thanks."

"You're welcome."

"Mom, I don't know if I can do this."

"Do what?"

"This whole parent deal."

"You'll be fine."

"The baby isn't even here yet and I already feel like a bad parent."

"Rory you're underestimating yourself."

"Mom I can't do this alone."

"Yes you can."

"I don't know, I mean anything else I would have planned way into the future. I don't have anything for the baby."

"Listen to me. There was once a wise man who said ' If you take life inch by inch life will be a cinch, if you take life yard by yard life will be hard.'"

"Who said that?"

"I don't know."

"Oh, but mom I don't have anything, and only 3 people know excluding the doctor and I'm 5 months pregnant."

"3?"

"I told Paris."

"When?"

"After Logan left."

"Rory why didn't you tell me earlier?"

"I couldn't I was too afraid."

"I understand."