A/N: Lucas is 21… I hope you guys like this chapter. I'm introducing a new character in this chapter…Hope you like her.

Lora was just showing Jen Stars Hollow when a familiar voice called. "Lora!" Lora turned around with a grin. "Mare!" The two teenagers jumped in each others arms.

Even though Mary lived in Stars Hollow and Lora in New York, they had been friends their entire lives and whenever Lora was in Stars Hollow, the two of them hung out together.

"I didn't know you were coming?" "Me neither." Jen was standing next to them, a bit lost. She'd of course heard of Mary, but that didn't mean they had to ignore her.

She gave her friend a nudge."Oh sorry." Lora apologised. "Mare, this is Jen, Jen, this is Mary." Mary smiled. "Nice to meet you, I've heard a lot about you." "Likewise." Jen answered.

"When did you guys get here?" Mary wondered out loud. "Yesterday, we got here by bus." "You just jumped on a bus and came to Stars Hollow?" "Yeah." Mary frowned.

"Why?" Lora looked at Jen as if she was asking 'should I tell her?'. Jen shrugged. Lora looked around. There was nobody watching them or close enough to hear. "Promise me you won't scream."

Mary looked surprised. What was going on here? "I promise." Lora sighed. "I'm pregnant." She whispered, still scared someone would hear her. Mary's jaw dropped. Was she kidding? She had to be. "What?"

"Yeah." Lora sighed. Mary took her friend in her arms. "You didn't tell Rory did you." Mary just knew her friend too well, they'd been friends ever since they were toddlers.

"My parents are coming tonight." She confessed. "But let's talk about something else. How are Dean and Lindsay?" (A/N: did you expect that?)

"They're okay, Dan is driving them mad, but they'll get over it." Lora laughed. "Dan's my older brother." Mary told Jen. "He tends to get into trouble, a lot." Jen grinned. "Sounds familiar, mine does too."

"Anyway, he put the chem. Lab on fire." Lora couldn't believe it. "Again?" "What can I say? He really doesn't like chem. class" Lora smirked. "Even Jason isn't that bad." Jen had to confess.

"He got suspended and now dad is thinking about sending him to military school." "Poor Dan, though a little discipline might do him good." Lora remarked.

The three girls arrived at Luke's. Mary opened the door. "Après vous, mes dames." Jen and Lora grinned and entered the diner. "Merci."

They sat down at the last empty table. "Had the grand tour?" Luke asked Jen. "I see you met Lora's twin." Jen frowned. "Grandpa!" Lora objected. "Luke likes to say we're twins because we look so alike, and because my dad and her mom used to date." She explained to her friend.

"Your dad is THAT Dean." Jen was starting to get it. "So you have heard of it." Mary grinned.

"I'd like a blueberry muffin with a chocolate milkshake." Mary was on the verge of saying something about no coffee, but she remembered just in time to shut up.

"Pancakes and banana milkshake?" Mary put on her sweetest face. "And you Jen?" "Do you have apples?" Luke frowned. "Are you mocking me?"

"Grandpa, as much as I regret it, she's serious." Luke's face cleared up. "Will you please try to reason her?" He begged Jen. "You're the only one who might be able to save her. It's too late for Lorelai and Rory, Lora is my last hope." The girls couldn't help but laugh.

"I'll try." "Thank you." The man disappeared to his kitchen again.

"Your family is so cool!" Jen told her friend. "Wait till you meet Liz and Jimmy and their respectable entourages." Lora sighed. Her mother's family was weird, but her father's was just insane.

"I thought they were nice." Mary told her friend. "Mare, you met them once at a dinner party five years ago, and that were only Grandma Liz and TJ." Mary shrugged.

"Every family is weird." Jen tried to back Mary up.

"What is this, everyone against Lora?" Lora looked at her two friends who were both grinning.

Lorelai entered the diner and sat with the three friends. "Hello girls. So Mary you found them?" "Hey Lorelai."

Lorelai looked at Lora. "She knows." Her granddaughter answered. Lorelai nodded and turned to Jen.

"Jen, I think it's better that you go home tonight, I don't want you getting mixed up in the situation tonight." Jen nodded, she was actually rather relieved.

"There's a bus leaving at five to New York." "That would be great. I'll just call my mom." Jen took her cell phone. "Honey, you can use the diner's phone." Lorelai took the girl by the arm and led her to the phone.

"Here." "Thank you Mrs. Danes." Lorelai sighed. "For the last time, it's Lorelai." "Thanks Lorelai."

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"Aren't you going to push the bell?" Rory shrugged. "You're like Lorelai before a Friday night dinner."

Rory sighed. "I'm scared that when we'll go in there, something bad is gonna happen."

Jess looked at his wife, frowning. "Why do you assume something bad has happened?"

Rory stared at the door. "She didn't just run for nothing, you know." "Hey! It'll be fine, all right, whatever it is, we'll get through it."

Rory grinned. "You've said that before." Jess rolled his eyes and pushed the doorbell.

Lorelai opened the door. "Hey guys!" She hugged her daughter. "Put that worried look of your face, you'll scare your kid." She whispered into her ear.

"Hey hoodlum!" "Hi Mom." Jess shot back at her. Lorelai squinted her eyes. "You guys!" Rory sighed. No matter how old her mother or her husband would get, they would never stop teasing each other.

They went into the living room where Lucas, Luke and Lora were talking. They turned around as soon as they heard Jess and Rory. Lora jumped up and went to hug her mother.

Rory frowned. "What did I do to deserve that?" She wondered out loud. Lora just shrugged and hugged her father as well.

"There's Chinese on the table, so serve yourselves." Lorelai said to break the ice a bit. Lora eagerly heard her and served herself to a box. "Where's Jen?" Jess asked, trying to get that conversation going.

Rory couldn't help it. "What's going on here?" She looked from her mother to her daughter. "You guys are keeping something from us, and I can't stand it anymore."

Lorelai sighed and looked at her granddaughter. "Lora, you will tell them." Lora ignored her for a moment. "Lora!" Lorelai didn't like to rise her voice and she knew that Lora wanted to tell them when she felt like it, but Rory and Jess needed to know what was going on. It was their right.

Lora bowed her head and then looked from her mother to her father. She scraped her throat and mumbled: "I'm pregnant." Rory and Jess frowned. "What?"

"I'm pregnant, okay, your stupid screw-up of a kid got herself pregnant." Lora yelled and surprised everyone, including herself.