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Chapter 2: Start Spreading The News

Rory took off school the next day and Lorelai took her to the doctor that Sookie had been going to. This was the first step in nine months of change. The first step was another pregnancy test, which also came back positive. A few other tests, a prescription for prenatal vitamins and they were through, possessing a piece of knowledge they both were curious about. The new baby Gilmore would arrive in late November.

The drive home was quite and thoughtful for both of them. Rory was the first to break the silence.

"So we are going to have to tell people." Rory said.

"Only when you are ready." Lorelai said.

"I don't want anyone to just find out accidentally." Rory said.

"That is true."

"We have to tell them." Rory said.

"I know."

"I don't know how, I can't disappoint them like this." Rory said.

"I'll be there with you, they are used to disappointment from me." Lorelai said.

"I want to tell them on Friday."

"Tomorrow?"

"I don't want to hide it, I want to get it out there and let everyone know. I don't want to hide from it."

"People are going to talk hon." Lorelai said.

"I know."

"They are going to say things, and some of them, a lot of them aren't going to be nice." Lorelai said.

"I know."

"Honey, I have been there and I am not sure that you want to just come out and shout from the roof tops that you are pregnant, you are going to be bombarded with questions and you won't have the answers that they want to hear."

"What, I have thought about it. Who is the father, I am going to stick to no one that you know and we aren't together anymore."

"That will work for about ten minutes."

"What do you mean?"

"No one is going to take that answer for what it is. Especially not your grandmother."

"I think it will."

"Ok Rory, how about this. So will he be there for the birth?"

"No."

"Uh huh, will the baby have his last name."

"No, it will be a Gilmore."

"Will you receive child support?"

"I let him off the hook."

"Rory honey, this is never going to work people will pry, they will ask those hard questions, they will find out, eventually that your baby will be a Gilmore mostly because you don't know what other name to put down. When people ask if it looks like it's father, you won't be able to say. They are going to find out that you are not their little innocent girl anymore, you are going to have to just be okay with that." Lorelai barked at her daughter.

Rory sat stunned, she couldn't believe how painfully truthful her mother was being. Each word stung a little more than the first.

"So what am I going to do, just tell them, hey I went to Ft. Lauderdale for spring break and I got knocked up by a near stranger, oh and to add to that I don't even know his name?"

"Well."

"I can't tell them that."

"It is the truth honey, I didn't raise you to be a liar."

"You also didn't raise me to be pregnant at 19, but I am."

Rorys point was made but, so was her mothers. She didn't know what to do Lorelai knew what had to be done, neither one of them wanted to do it. They both knew they had to.

The next day was Friday, Rory went back to classes and Lorelai went about trying to figure out the least painful way to tell her parents that the last hope of the Gilmore clan, was pregnant.

Lorelai paced in the driveway waiting for her daughter to arrive. She was terrified for the two of them, she could feel the cold shoulder coming on, she was positive that it was about to be a repeat of 19 years before and all the things that they had worked so hard to put behind them were about to blow back up again.

Rory pulled up in the drive and marched up to her mother with more determination than Lorelai had ever seen her muster.

"I am going in there, I am telling them. I am handling any reaction, I am answering all the questions, this is my thing, I don't need you to throw yourself infront to protect me."

"I don't think you know what you are saying Rory, you are going to need back up in there."

"Back up is fine, I don't need my mommy to make it all better or to defend me at every turn, I need to do this on my own, and I can't keep expecting you to cover me all the time."

"Ok." Lorelai recognized this phase. It hit her right before she told her parents as well, it was the first inklings of her fierce maternal instincts, she needed to protect her child, and she had to start immediately.

They were greeted at the door by the maid ushered into the sitting room offered drinks and began the mindless small talk with the grandparents. They hit every subject from the Inn to Rorys School and then Rory just decided to go for it.

"Grandma, Grandpa I have something to tell you." Rory said.

"Did you make the Deans list?" Richard said practically drooling.

"No, well, I mean yes, I did but…no. That isn't my news this is bigger than that." Rory said flustered.

"Bigger than making the Deans list?" Emily said.

"I think so yeah."

Lorelai squeezed her daughters' hand. Rory glanced her way with a look that told her she was ok.

"Well get on with it." Richard said pleased.

"Ok, well first of all, I want you to know that this was all my doing and I am not asking you for any help with it. This is my thing."

"Okay." Emily said.

"Grandma, Grandpa, when I was on spring break two months ago, I met someone, and he and I hit it off and we had a lot of fun and we talked and I admit we had a few drinks and things went a little further than I would normally go."

"What are you getting at Rory?" Richard said his brow was furrowed and his tone was annoyed.

"Grandma, Grandpa, in November, you are going to meet for the first time, your great grandchild."

Lorelai cocked her eyebrow at the way Rory decided to phrase it. She guessed she must have decided cute was going to be her best survival skill.

"Lorelai is she trying to tell us that she is pregnant?" Emily said.

"Yes, mom that is what she is saying."

Emily stood up tears welling in her eyes. Richard was silent and couldn't keep eye contact.

"It is going to be fine, I am going to finish up classes this month, and I will live with mom all summer and prepare, and then the baby will be here around winter break and I will be home with her or him then. I am not sure what will happen second semester, but I know I will figure it out, worse come to worse I take it off and go back in the fall."

"You can't just take off from Yale and go back when you feel." Richard yelled. "What on earth were you thinking! Rory you are smarter than this!"

"You are right, I am, I made a mistake and it is a big one."

"What about this boy, is he taking some sort of responsibility?" Emily yelled.

"No, he isn't, I mean he doesn't know." Rory said.

"He dosen't know! Lorelai honestly not only is your daughter pregnant but she isn't telling the father either!" Emily said.

"This isn't her thing Grandma, and I don't know his last name, I don't know where he is from and I don't know anything about him, other than, he and I made a mistake and…."

"And in 7 more months, she is naming it." Lorelai said trying to lighten the mood.

"Now is not the time for your jokes Lorelai. Rory I have never been more disappointed in you. You have throw everything away, just like your mother."

"Hey!" Lorelai said.

"I haven't thrown anything away. I made a mistake and I have to live with the consequences, this doesn't change my goals or what I hope to do."

"Your mothers' goals didn't change either but she never went to Sarah Lawrence now did she? She never did all the things that she said she was going to do, she has a GED, a degree from a junior college."

"No mom, I didn't but I have Rory and I wouldn't change a thing." Lorelai said.

"Mom and I had a fine life, and maybe I won't end up graduating from Yale, but I am not the only person I have to think about now." Rory said defending herself and her mother.

"You are going to finish at Yale, we will figure it out." Lorelai said. "She is going to finish Yale, there is a big difference between her and me, she has me, and I had no one, so she is already one step up." Lorelai said raising her voice.

"I don't know what else to say." Richard said. "I…I thought that you would be different. I thought you would never go down such an unpleasant path, I expected more."

Rory watched as her grandfather walked out of the room. "I haven't thrown anything away. I made a mistake and I have to live with the consequences, this doesn't change my goals or what I hope to do."

"Grandma?"

"I just don't know Rory, I don't know what you want me to say, you can't expect for everything to be fine can you? You aren't that unintelligent are you? You made a horrific mistake, one that will be with you for the rest of your life."

"You know what grandma, when you meet your great grandchild, please refrain from calling it a horrific mistake, it will make me feel better." Rory said gathering her things and walking to the door.

Lorelai sat for a moment shocked at how much her daughter was acting…well like her. It was like looking into a mirror.

"This is all your fault you know." Emily said as Lorelai stood.

"I was sure it would be."

"You didn't discipline her enough you are too much like her girlfriend how could you ever expect her to not turn out just like you. I shouldn't have let you keep her, I should have demanded to keep her, demanded custody, I would have won too."

"Whoa pull back mom, you are way out of line. You think I am thrilled that my nineteen year old daughter is pregnant? It isn't really my idea of a good time either and if you think that somehow, you raising her would have changed that think about your history, I got pregnant at sixteen didn't I? What makes you think you would have done any better with her? The way I see it I did three years better than you did." Lorelai said gathering her things to leave.

"I…" Emily started.

"Mom, just take a while and cool off, we will call you." Lorelai said walking out the front door.

She found Rory leaning against the Jeep.

"Why did I think that I could do this?" Rory said as she turned to her mother with tears in her eyes.

"Because, you still see the world through rose colored glasses and you may never understand that your grandmother is the axis of evil all to herself."

"Mom." Rory said not amused at her mothers joke.

"They will come around, they kind of have to. I mean like it or not, there is going to be another little Gilmore girl or, a first…a Gilmore boy…and they can't stay mad at that." Lorelai said.

"I, I am going to be a mom." Rory said.

"Yes, you are, and from what I saw in there, you are going to be a damn good one, and with me in your corner, this kid is going to be…just fine."