"I want a chocolate birthday cake." Rory answered.

Lorelai smiled, "Okay, that's not a problem. Chocolate ice cream too?"

"No." Rory smiled. "Vanilla ice cream."

"Oh, of course." Lorelia replied. "To balance it out."

"And strawberry cookies." Rory ended.

"You're very diverse, kid." Lorelai laughed.

"It'll be a Napoleon party."

"Ah, clever." Lorelai granted.

Chris walked into the kitchen where Lorelai and Rory were planning the party. They both stopped talking and looked at him.

"What?" Chris asked annoyed. "Every time I walk in on you two, you do that."

"We're planning Rory's party." Lorelia stated semi-cheerfully.

"Great." Chris said in a low grunt. "How much is this going to cost me?"

"What does the price matter Chris? I thought we made plenty of money."

"Work's not been going so good, okay." Chris snapped. "I don't know how much longer I'll even have a job."

Lorelai couldn't believe her ears. Not again... Not after the way he talked to her, not after the way she fell right back for him. He was going to go back to the same old ways.

"Chris, you do whatever it takes to keep that job." Lorelai stood up from the table.

"Don't talk to me like I'm a child Lorelai!"

Lorelai got closer to him. She immediately smelled alcohol reeking from his breath and body.

"God, Chris not again. You said you had quit going to the bar."

"I didn't go to the bar." Chris replied with a smart aleck tone.

"Then explain your disposition and smell."

"I have a cooler full of beer sitting on the porch." Chris smiled and raised his eye brows, "Surprise." he laughed.

Lorelai shook her head and turned away from him. Rory was sitting at the table staring directly at Lorelai. Lorelai felt so childish. How could she have believed that Chris had changed. She felt belittled by the fact that her 7 year old daughter could tell it was a bad idea, and yet she allowed herself to be blinded by love. Chris had left the kitchen, and walked back out on onto the porch. Rory finally decided to speak.

"Let's leave."

Lorelai walked over gave Rory a kiss on the head. "I'm sorry Rory. I'm so sorry for bringing you back to this."

"Then let's just go away again." Rory pleaded.

Suddenly, there was a loud crash noise from outside on the porch. Lorelai and Rory ran through the house and outside to where they heard the loud noise. Chris was laying on the porch with the cooler turned over beside him. He had stumbled and fell over the cooler spilling all the beer and ice that was inside it. Lorelai looked down at her husband in disgrace as he lay there unable to get up from the mess he was surrounded in.

"Well don't just stand there!" Chris shouted "Help me up."

Lorelai grabbed Rory by the hand and guided her around and down the steps of the porch.

"Where are you going?" Chris asked trying to get up.

"Don't worry about it Chris." Lorelai replied.

"Don't you dare get in that car!" Chris yelled. "That's my car!"

Lorelai and Rory continued walking. They walked all the way down the street and stopped at the corner. Lorelai looked around for a moment until she found a pay phone.

"Stay here a moment sweetie." Lorelai said to Rory. She walked over to the pay phone and put in a quarter. The phone rang a few times, and suddenly an old and familiar voice picked up on the other end.

"Hello?"

"Mom... I need you." Lorelai's voice broke.

"Lorelai!" Emily gasped. "Oh my god! Richard! Emily yelled in the background. Richard took the phone from Emily "Lorelai where are you?"

"I'm at a pay phone, near my house." Lorelai replied.

"What happened?" Richard asked terrified.

"Can you come get me and Rory?"

"Of course we can. How do we get there?" Richard's heart was beating uncontrollably fast.

Lorelai gave them directions, and then hung up the phone. She walked back over to where Rory was standing.

"Who did you call?" Rory asked.

"Your grandparents." Lorelai replied softly.

Rory looked away and then back into her mother's deep blue eyes. She had never heard Lorelai use that word "grandparents."

"Are you sending me away?" Rory asked sadly.

"Oh, God no!" Lorelai replied picking Rory up into her arms. "I would never send you away." Lorelai began to sob. "You're the only thing in my life that's right." Lorelai rubbed Rory's back as Rory rested her head on Lorelai's shoulder. "We're leaving sweetie. Grandma and Grandpa are coming for us."