"What! You made yourself pretty clear back at the diner. You don't want any more kids for awhile. It's no big deal. I was joking anyway. I'm not pregnant." Lorelai could barely get the last part out.
"You weren't joking. I should've picked up on it before."
"It doesn't matter Luke. That's behind us now and I know how you feel. The truth is all that matters and I have that."
"Lorelai…"
"Hey look we're here. I'm gonna get Laci out of the back. Are you gonna come up?"
"Lorelai just wait. We need to talk."
"No. I have to get Laci up there. I was late for her nine month check up and the doctor wasn't very happy with me, plus I have a few questions I need to ask him. Are you going to come or wait in the car?"
"I'll come."
They went climbed the steps to the doctors office and sat down in the waiting room. Lorelai was on the verge of crying and it was easy to tell. They only had to wait a couple of minutes before the doctor came out. Both of them went into the room, neither of them talking to each other, only to the doctor. Once the appointment was over they went back outside.
"I'll drive." Luke volunteered.
"I have the keys. I'm driving."
"I have a set of keys too and I'm already next to the driver's side so I will be doing the driving."
"Fine." Lorelai got in the car and turned her head so he couldn't see her face.
"We need to talk." Luke had started driving and they were stopped at a stop sign.
"No we don't."
"Lorelai…"
"We don't need to talk. Will you just drive?"
"No. If were not going to talk while I'm driving I'm just going to pull off to the side of the road and we'll talk there."
"Fine. We can talk. What do you want to say?"
"Now that I've had time to think about this I'm really happy."
"That's BS."
"No it's not. The kids will be only a year apart in school and they'll have some of the same friends. I think this could work."
"Really? You're being serious right?"
"Yes. 100 serious here."
"Maybe you'll get a son."
"Maybe I will."
"What about the wedding?"
"I don't know."
"Should we still get married in November?"
"Okay, I've never wanted to get married in November. That was all Emily. I would say we should stick to the normal wedding date but it's May now and by the time its November I'll be six months pregnant."
"So what do we do?"
"We can ask my mother if we can push it up. Possibly some time within the next month."
"What are we going to tell people? Aren't they going to find out that were married already when we have a baby eight months after we get married?"
"No. We'll just say that it's a preemie. There's also the possibility of me going late again."
"That's true. When are we going to ask Emily?"
"Tomorrow at dinner?"
"Sounds good to me. I can't wait to tell Rory."
"Yeah." Lorelai's sadness returned when Luke mentioned Rory.
"I say we go home and get her and then we should all go out to dinner. We can tell her then."
"Yeah. That sounds good!"
Luke continued driving without asking Lorelai any more questions. He realized that something was bothering but he just figured that she was still trying to figure the whole wedding/baby thing out. When they got home Luke asked Lorelai if she wanted to go in and get Rory, but she said no and made him do it. He didn't understand why she didn't want to but he knew better then to question her ways. He got out of car and went inside to find Rory.
"Rory were home!"
"In here!"
"You know I hate when you do that! Where is here?"
"Right here!" She appeared in front of him and gave him a quick hug.
"There you are. Get your shoes on! We're going out to eat."
"Where's mom?"
"Car."
"Why?"
"I don't know. She just didn't want to come in."
"Okay. My shoes are on. I'll meet you out in the car." Rory had slipped a pair of flip flops on while she and Luke were talking.
"Um okay. I'll be right out."
"Okay."
Rory walked outside and to the car. As soon as Lorelai noticed Rory coming her way she wiped her tears. Lorelai was mad at Rory for lying to her nonstop this morning. She was also hurt because she felt that her daughter didn't trust her anymore. Rory got in the back seat and Lorelai turned her head so that Rory couldn't see any of her emotions.
"Hey mom! What's up?"
"Nothing." She tried to fake a smile because she knew Rory was watching her.
"How was your day?"
"Fine." She was praying that Luke would soon come out so the attention would not be just on her.
"That's good. How was the doctor?"
"Good." Laci started crying so Lorelai pulled a pacifier out of the diaper bag. "Can you give this to her?"
"Yeah sure mom."
"Thanks."
"Hey girls! I'm back. So where should we go?"
"About that place you took mom too?" Rory asked.
"Nah. Not that kind of a night. Anybody up for Applebee's?"
"That sounds good. Are you okay with that mom?"
"Huh?"
"Are you okay with Applebee's?"
"Oh yeah sure. That's fine."
They continued their drive to Applebee's. Rory and Luke talked the whole way there and Lorelai hardly said a thing. Once they got there Lorelai started walking to the door without waiting for Rory and Luke.
"Hey Rory I'm going to go catch up with your mom. Can you get Laci for me?"
"Of course."
"Hey Lorelai wait up!" Luke crabbed her arm and turned her body so she faced him.
"What Luke?" She revealed her tear covered face to him.
"Oh Lorelai…what's wrong?"
"It's nothing."
"Don't do this again. What's bothering? It's obviously something if its making you cry."
"Rory's on her way over here. I'll meet you inside. I'm gonna go to the bathroom and wipe my tears. Do me a favor and don't tell her I was crying?"
"Okay."
"Hey where did mom go?"
"Bathroom."
"Here take Laci; I actually have to go too!"
"Um…" Luke didn't think it was such a good idea for Rory to go into the bathroom and find her mother in tears especially since he had promised Lorelai that he wouldn't tell Rory that she was crying, but he changed mind. "Okay I'll meet you and your mom here. If I get seated before you guys come back just look for me."
"Okay."
Rory walked to the bathroom and went inside. She assumed Lorelai was in a stall because she didn't see her. She waited outside the stall so she could tell Lorelai that she was there.
"Hey mom."
"Oh hey."
"Were you crying?"
"No. Just allergies."
"Mom…"
"What?"
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing Rory."
"Are you mad at me?"
"Why would you ask that?"
"Because you've called me nothing but Rory ever since I got in the car. You haven't called me kid or babe or honey."
"Why did you lie?"
"About what?"
"Where you were last night?"
"I didn't want to upset you."
"And you though lying to me would make it better?"
"I'm sorry mom. You've been acting really strange these past couple of days and I didn't want to upset you by telling you that I broke my promise."
"But you did sleep with Baily?"
"Yes. Are we okay?"
"Yeah, were good."
"Now do you care to explain what's going on with you?"
"Not right now."
"Okay. I'm going to go to the bathroom and then we can go back out there with Luke. Crap!"
"Hmm?"
"Do you have a tampon I kind of left my purse at home?"
"Yeah just take the purse."
She handed Rory the purse and Rory disappeared into the bathroom stall. She opened the purse searching for the tampon but she stumbled up on Lorelai's pregnancy test. She dropped the purse and ran out of the stall hugging her mother.
"What's this for?"
"You're pregnant!"
"How do you know?"
"Some crazy person left this in her purse even though her daughter whom she hadn't told yet was given the purse by the crazy person."
"You make no sense."
"Yes I do. You're pregnant!"
"I know!"
"What about the wedding and grandma?"
"Not now Rory."
"Ok. I'll be right back and then we will eat!"
