"Am I calling him or are you?" Lora shrugged.
"You?" Rory frowned at her daughter. "It was a hypothetical question."
Lora sighed. "I know, mom."
Rory pushed a familiar number on the phone and gave it to the teenager.
"Hello?" A young woman answered.
"Gigi?" Lora asked surprised at hearing her 'aunt's' voice.
"That's me. Who is this?"
"I'm sorry, it's Lora. Is grandpa there?"
"Dad! It's for you!" Gigi yelled of the phone. "He's on his way." She announced.
"Thanks. What are you doing in Boston?" Lora inquired.
"Came home for the week-end. Well, here's dad, talk to you later. Bye Lora." Georgia said in one breath.
"Bye."
"Lora?" An older male voice came to the phone.
"Hey grandpa."
"Hey kid, what's up."
Lora took a deep breath. "Could you sit down for a minute and listen?"
Chris frowned, what was going on. "Sure honey."
"Okay, here it comes." Lora paused. "I'm pregnant."
It became quiet on the other side of the telephone.
"Grandpa?"
After a few seconds, Christopher answered again. "Y-you're pregnant?"
"Yeah."
Rory was standing next to her daughter and tried to say something with her hands. Lora immediately understood and gave the phone to her mother.
"Dad, it's Rory."
"Oh god."
"I know, dad."
"Are you all right?"
"I'm fine dad. Are you?"
"Not really. I'm think I'm going to help myself to a drink and calm down."
"She'll be fine dad."
"Tell Lora I love her."
"I will. Bye dad."
"Bye Ror."
Rory put down the phone. "Two down, two to go." Lora raised her eyebrows. "That's not funny." Rory sighed. "I know, hun, I know."
Jess entered the living room and looked at his two girls. "What's wrong?"
"We just called my dad." Rory answered. Jess nodded. "How did he take it?" "Better than when we told him we were getting married." Rory answered with a grin on her face. Humour was the only thing that could save them…
"Liz and TJ are coming over tonight." Jess told them.
"I'll call grandpa Jimmy." Lora said, pushing the buttons once again.
Jess hugged his wife, she might have been smiling, but he knew how hard this situation was for her.
"This is Sacha."
"Hey, Sacha, it's Lora, is grandpa there."
"Sure sugar, just a sec." Lora could hear her yelling in the background.
"Lora?" A surprised Jimmy took the phone.
"Hey."
"How are you?"
"Well, eum." Lora hesitated for a moment. "I have to tell you something and it's quite, euh, big."
"What's wrong?"
"I'm pregnant." Like Chris, Jimmy became silent for a moment.
"You're what?"
"I'm having a baby."
"Did I miss something? Have you aged, are you married yet or something?"
"No, I'm still sixteen."
"Aha."
"How are your parents taking it?"
"Okay I guess."
"I would normally say congratulations, but I don't think that is very appropriate her, is it?"
Lora grinned, Jimmy was even weirder than her two other grandfathers together.
"Thanks anyway."
"You're welcome, honey. So, how's school?"
"Boring."
"Good. You know that if you feel like coming to Miami, there's always a bed for you."
"Thanks grandpa, but I'm good in New York for now."
"I'm just saying."
"Thanks for the offer, anyway."
"Keep me informed, okay? And call Lilly."
"I will. Bye grandpa."
"Bye Lora." And another phone call had ended.
"How did he take it?" Jess wanted to know. "He congratulated me." Lora answered, a bit startled. "That's just Jimmy." Her father rolled his eyes.
"He wanted me to phone Lilly as well."
"I'll call her." Jess offered. Lilly was like a real sister to him. "Thanks dad." The doorbell went. "That'll be Liz and TJ."
Lora sighed. "Why do I have to have so many grandparents?" Rory grinned. "Because you get extra Christmas presents."
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"So, wanna tell us why we are really here." Liz had just finished her plate.
"I'm pregnant." Lora blurted out, even surprising herself. She'd just gotten tired over the whole rimram to tell her family what had happened. Their reactions probably wouldn't change a lot.
TJ started chocking in his food until Jess hit him on the back. "That's new."
Liz just stared at her granddaughter, the girl they were all so proud of, with the bright future. She just wanted to get angry at her, but she had learnt to control that anger over the years.
Jess was watching his mother carefully, she was too much like Luke and he was afraid that their reactions would be very alike.
The silence was beginning to get very very awkward. "Who wants coffee?" Rory got up and looked at everyone.
"A strong drink perhaps, mom?" Jess suggested.
"Coffee will be fine, thanks." Lora wanted to ask for coffee as well, but reconsidered just in time.
As the conversation slowly began to unfold again, there was only one thing Lora could think of. The last 'grandparent' she had to tell…
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"Miss Mariano?" Lora nodded. "Mrs Gilmore is waiting for you in the patio." Lora followed the new maid to the place where her great-grandmother was sitting.
"Hey Grams." The girl silently said as she placed a kiss on the old woman's cheek.
"Hello Lora, how are you?" "Good thank you."
Lora sat down in a chair across her grandmother. She had told her parents she wanted to come here by herself, but she was already regretting it.
"How are you doing at school?" Emily asked while she poured some tea in her cup. "It's good, I'm working for the school newspaper now."
"You are so much like your mother when she was your age." Lora sighed. More like her grandmother.
"And how are your parents?" "They're both very busy." Lora answered the question politely.
Emily would always start with small talk, because that was the polite thing to do, but she knew something was wrong, her great-granddaughter didn't just come by from New York just to pay a visit, she came with her parents every month to have dinner.
Lora knew this as well. It was only a matter of time before…
"So, why did you really come to visit me?" Emily said it in a friendly way, not like she would used to do with Lorelai.
"I know you didn't come here just for the small talk. I might be old, but I'm not stupid." Lora grinned, stupid was indeed the wrong word.
"I have big news." Emily frowned. "Good news or bad news?"
Lora looked at her feet. "Bad news, I see."
Lora wanted to say something, but Emily didn't give her the chance. "You've decided you're going to leave school? You've been expelled from school? Good heavens, you're pregnant!"
Lora looked up, surprised. "How did you know?" This was certainly not the way she had intended this conversation to go.
"Lorelai had the same look in her eyes when she told me about Rory." Lora couldn't help but wonder if anyone had already told her.
"How could you be so stupid Lora?" There was the angry Emily.
We were drunk The little voice in Lora's head said. "I'm not quitting school." Maybe she could throw some salt in the wound.
"I think you better go now, I will see you next Friday." Emily stood up. "Helena!" The maid came running again. "Miss Mariano is ready to go."
Lora looked Emily right in the eyes. "I'm sorry I let you down." She whispered.
To her great surprise, the woman gave her a hug. Lora followed Helena outside and went on her way back to New York.
