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Author: Mei AnimeSummary: It's the summer after Rory graduates from college. But her work is far from done. She now has two choose what's more important: Love or London.
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Chapter Three:
The house was pitch black when Rory entered. Out of the darkness, she suddenly heard Lorelai slam the door, rather hard. Nothing happened.
"What was that for…,"Rory started to ask her mom, but was cut off by the sound of her mom opening and banging the door shut yet again.
"Just making sure it was shut," Lorelai said, accompanied with a nervous giggle.
Rory looked at her mom crazily, even though she couldn't see her. Rory reached for the light switch, but before she could turn it on she heard…
"SURPRISE!" The entire room lit up and the whole town popped out from the Gilmore's living room.
Rory jumped back and let out a small scream out of shock. "Is this for…me?" Rory asked, obviously still stunned.
Her mom walked up from behind her, and put her arm around her shoulder. This time Rory could see her mother's face that was beaming with pride. "Yep, it's all yours," Lorelai said as she handed her daughter a large envelope with London as the return address.
"Open it up," her mother said to her.
Rory opened the large packet that evidently had already been opened by her mother. As she read the letter, her eyes grew wider.
Then, she swung her arms around her mother to give her a hug.
"Congrats, Miss London Foreign Correspondent! They want you to start at the end of August.
So you should start looking for an apartment because you'll have to move there," Lorelai told Rory.
Rory went around and hugged everyone in the room, including Sookie. She later learned that her mother wasn't asking Sookie about the menu, but inviting her to the party. She had run out of the back door of the inn, and ran about five traffic lights to get to their house before Rory and Lorelai did. And the run-in with Emily at the mall was to invite her to the party, but she insisted on having a proper dinner party.
"All this excitement has made me hungry. Anybody else?" Lorelai asked as the whole room nodded in agreement. "Well then, let's eat. Luke?" Lorelai indicated for him to get the food.
"Oh right," Luke said, heading off to the kitchen. He came back with plenty of food and definitely coffee, fresh from "Luke's", for everybody.
The guests immediately went for the food and drinks.
Babette walked up to Rory and said," You're such a smarty. Hey, and I hear the boys in London are hot as chicken pot pie." Miss Patty, who was standing nearby, gave a sign of agreement.
"Thanks for the tip, Babette. I'll make a mental note to pack oven mitts," Rory said with a smile as she moved on to talk to the next guest.
When Rory had finished speaking to some people, she finally got the chance to escape to her room.
She picked up the phone, but all she could do was stare at the receiver. She wanted to call someone, but whom?
"Jess," Rory thought in her head. Then she remembered that she didn't have Liz's number, so she walked back to the living room where she found Luke on the couch, talking to Lorelai.
"Do you have Liz's number? I want to tell Jess about the job offer," Rory asked Luke.
"Yeah, here. By the way, congratulations," Luke said, reaching in his pocket for the number. He handed Rory a piece of paper with the number on it. Rory saw that he had shaved and styled his hair with gel. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that Luke doesn't get tidied up very often.
"Thanks," she said as she headed back to her room.
Sitting on her bed, she punched the number into the phone. It rang twice before there was a voice at the other end.
"Hello?"
Rory could tell it was T.J.'s voice. "Hi T.J. It's Rory. "
"You're Jess's friend right? You want to talk to him?" T.J. rambled.
"Yeah, thanks." Rory said as she twirled the phone cord around her finger.
A few seconds later, Jess's voice came on the line. "Hey."
"Hey, how's it going at Liz's?" Rory questioned back to start conversation.
"Fine," Jess replied plainly, "except that T.J. keeps talking about how much he loves the tights her wore at their wedding, or as he calls them, 'air pants'."
Rory laughed at the tight joke. "Well, I have something to tell you."
"Should I be sitting down for this?" Jess asked.
"No, it's nothing like that…"
"Okay, so what is it?" Jess asked, growing impatient.
"Well," Rory began slowly, "you know how I applied for a few jobs at the end of the school year? One of them was a foreign correspondent job in London. And I got it!"
"That's great," Jess replied. He could tell over the phone that she was so happy, that it made a week of 'air pants' disappear. "Wait, so does that mean you'll be moving to London?" he added realizing that you can't exactly ride your bike, or even a car, to London. He was disappointed that she would have to move, but she sounded so happy that he didn't want to ruin it for her.
"I'm pretty sure I will, but I'll be home during all the holidays, and the summer." Rory said, as there was a knock on her door. Her mother peeked in and motioned for her daughter to hang up the phone so they could talk. "Oh, sorry I have to go. My mom needs me. But call me when you get back. Bye." Rory finished off.
"I will, and congrats again. See you next week." Jess said and then hung up.
Rory put the phone back on her nightstand and turned her focus to her mom.
"Who was that?"
"Jess. I called him at Liz's to tell him the news."
"Oh. Do ya mind coming back to the party now? The whole town's waiting for you to cut the cake. And then presents."
"Just the town? I thought you would at least have brought all of the state, but I get it, I'm not worthy of the state," Rory joked, still smiling.
"Well…I figured that I should save the state for when you become the President."
"Yeah…that works, too," Rory laughed as she headed back to the living room with her mom.
After the party
"You know, I really needed that," Rory said, while cleaning up wrapping paper from the presents.
"Hm?" Lorelai asked.
"The party, the job offer, I needed it," Rory restated.
"Glad you liked it."
"How long have you known about the job offer?"
"I just got the letter in the mail three days ago. But the thing is…we only have two months to do to everything before you go to London. We have to get you an apartment, furniture, finding a way to send you food from Luke's every week…" Lorelai rambled on.
"Mom, relax.
"Will do," Lorelai said, sinking in to the couch, followed by Rory.
"Speaking of Luke…"Rory began.
"Uh-oh, this sounds potentially dangerous."
"Well after I leave for London, you're going to have him all to yourself. You guys have been chasing each other around for a really long time, and everyone in town knows that you two are perfect for each other, except…you and Luke. So, I'm just saying, take a chance. Promise?" Rory smiled when she finished her sentence. She'd been wanting to talk to her mom about this for a while now. This seemed like the perfect chance.
"I hate it when you 're right," Lorelai pouted, but then broke into a grin.
"Promise?" Rory asked.
"Promise."
"Okay, good."
"Now get to sleep. Your grandmother insisted on having a dinner party at her house tomorrow because "we cannot properly celebrate an important event such as this without proper planning," Lorelai said, mocking her mother, "So your going to need all the energy you have when she introduces you to all of her tea party friends."
"Yeah, I know, I know."
Next morning
"There's my little foreign correspondent," Lorelai said as Rory walked out of her room.
"Mornin'. Is the coffee done yet?"
"Spoken like a true Gilmore. I raised you well."
"I can drink to that." Rory said pouring herself a cup of coffee."
"Okay so I was thinking, since grandma wants you to get there at 4, we could go eat at Luke's then you can come to the Dragonfly with me and check out the new wallpaper I'm getting for the dining area."
"Sounds fine with me."
"But first thing's first. We have to finish this coffee."
A/N: I know, it's a short chapter…but I don't really know where I'm headed with this story. I haven't written it in a while and during that time…well a lot's happened on Gilmore Girls…including Logan. I think it's easier to write about him since they're currently together on GG so…I may have to start another story and end this one…we'll see. But meanwhile…READ AND REVIEW!