"So Rory... I was thinking."

"Always a good sign." Rory replied.

Lorelai ignored the remark. "Why don't we go on vacation this summer?"

"A vacation?" Rory asked. "Continue."

"Somewhere we've never been before you know?"

"Like, Paris?" Rory let her eyes sparkle a bit.

"Well, not quite ... I was thinking somewhere in the US."

"Hawaii then." Rory said with a little disappointment.

"Actually, somewhere with the centennial US."

Rory sighed.

"Hey, a vacation is a vacation is a vacation." Lorelai replied trying to make her see the brighter side. "I'll just be happy to be spending time with you." Lorelai smiled.

Now Rory felt bad. "You're right." Rory smiled in return. "Anywhere can be an adventure."

"Right. So you can be thinking about it, and we'll decide on final plans once school is out."

The phone ring, and Rory had a good hunch on who it was. She took off to answer it.

"Hi Calvin." Rory said happily as she answered the phone, and then walked back into her room for some privacy.

Lorelai smiled, it was cute to see how Rory reacted around a boy. Sad however that she had better luck with the guys than Lorelai did. Lorelai looked at her watch is 7:30 on a Friday night and she was sitting at home. What ever happened to the fun energetic Lorelai. Oh yeah, she grew up back when the strip turned pink. Lorelai hadn't had fun in years, and for a brief moment she really began to miss Luke. At least he was good company, and she had somewhere to go, and someone to see of the evenings. Lorelai sighed, finding she had depressed herself. She grabbed her purse and decided to take a drive around town and see what was going on. Anything was better than sitting at home all evening while Rory talked to her boyfriend.

"Hey, Ror... I'm going out for a bit okay." Lorelai called through the door. "I'll be home soon."

Rory shook her head to let Lorelai knew she understood and continued talking to Calvin as if nothing had ever distracted her from it. Lorelai walked outside and immediately noticed how bright the stars were. "Maybe it'll be my lucky nigh." she whispered.

She hopped in her jeep and started driving without a destination, hoping she'd find something to brighten her evening. As she was heading around a sharp curve all she could see was bright lights. Lorelai was blinded, and couldn't see the road ahead, in a panic and not knowing what else to do she slammed on the breaks and guided the jeep off to the side of the road. Suddenly she heard a loud squeal followed by a crash. Lorelai quickly got out of her jeep and run over to the car.

"Oh my god!" Lorelai shouted as she saw the woman laying in the seat motionless. Lorelai grabbed her phone from her purse. "Yes, there's been an accident."

Luke poured another glass of whisky and turned up the radio. This was really unlike him, but tonight he didn't feel like himself. A few days ago, he told the woman of his dreams that he couldn't love her. He felt like such a fool, yet it was true, he couldn't love her. He was still in love with Lorelai, but Lorelai didn't want him. He felt so empty, so alone. Colleen hadn't called, or stopped by or anything, and honestly it only made Luke feel worse he wasn't given the chance to apologize. How could he live a life if he couldn't love anyone else, but couldn't have the one he loved? It didn't seem fair, it didn't seem possible. Luke let a tear fall down his cheek, and that was the first time he had cried in years.

"Why?" Luke asked himself "Why can't she just love me?"

"Ma'am we'll need you to come down to the station." The officer replied.

"What?... No.. I can't." Lorelai objected. "I have a daughter at home who is expecting me to be back soon and I can't be away all night."

"You can call your daughter from the station." the officer offered.

"I'm not leaving my kid home alone all night." Lorelai snapped.

"Look, I understand you're under a lot of stress right now. But you have to understand, we need you to answer some questions, and get all of this on file. Tell you what, why don't you drive home and get your daughter and then both of you can come down to the police station." Lorelai finally agreed. "Great, Officer Johnson here will follow behind you."

Lorelai too off in the direction of her house leaving behind the mess of red and blue lights. When she pulled up into the drive way she noticed every light in the house was off. It was only 9:30 Rory should still be going strong in her conversation with Calvin. Lorelai tried to hurry inside, as her mother instinct kicked in. She walked straight to Rory's room wasting no time. What she was a sleeping Rory laying peacefully on her bed. Lorelai sighed in relief, and wondered what it was exactly she was expecting to find. She gently shook Rory to wake her.

"Hey..." Lorelai smiled, trying not to panic Rory immediately.

"Hey." Rory replied.

"I need you to do me a big favor."

"What's that?" Rory asked sleepily.

"Get some clothes on and go to the police station with me."

"What?" Rory asked sitting up in bed.

"I saw a wreck tonight." Lorelai began calmly. "The lady was hurt pretty bad. They had to fly her out to a hospital. They want me to come down to the police station but I told them I had a daughter at home, so they said you could come down too."

Rory rubbed her eyes she didn't really feel like going down to a police station. In fact Rory was fed up with all the drama that followed her and Lorelai around. For once she'd like to have a normal life. Rory grunted and squirmed off her bed to put on some jeans.

"I'm sorry." Lorelai replied, feeling guilty.

"It's not your fault." Rory answered. "This is just life."

"It shouldn't take too long. There isn't much that could be said." Lorelai stated.

"Thank you for your time and cooperation Ms. Gilmore." The sheriff replied.

"You're welcome." Lorelai replied standing with her arm around a worn out Rory.

They headed out of the police station.

"There isn't that much that could be said." Rory mocked as he head lay limp on Lorelai's shoulder.

"Well I didn't count on them asking me to tell the same story over 300 times." Lorelai remarked.

"I just want to go to bed." Rory groaned.

Lorelia sighed. "I'm sorry sweetie."

By the time the two arrived home it was nearly 1:00 am. Rory didn't even bother taking off her street clothes, she fell right into bed. Lorelai, who didn't feel like climbing the stairs, or being alone at the moment fell down on the bed beside her.