Well who said drama was over?

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Chapter 13: (ten weeks old): Annoying

"You are not kidding. You really make me go there tonight!" Lorelai said and then took a sip of her decaf, then put it back on the diner counter in front of her.

"Please don´t start this discussion again. I really can´t hear it anymore. They are you´re parents, it´s your father´s birthday and they invited us, you said yes. So just stop right here!" Luke said in a very annoyed tone, and then took some plates and carried them over to the waiting guests.

"I know, that I said yes. But he was going on and on how he wanted to see Will again and how cute he is and then I couldn´t say no. He blackmailed me into coming! And you did nothing to stop me!" she went on, when he was back behind the counter, refilling the coffee-machine.

"Lorelai, seriously, why shouldn´t we go? Give me one reason! A good one! Again: he is your father, it´s his birthday, we have time, you said yes."

"But I don´t wanna go! They have seen Will and the house, we have been to Friday night dinner last week and I don´t want to go there again that soon. I feel like I´m walking on egg-shells the whole time we´re in that house. I have to watch every word that I say, otherwise my mother will get that hurt look on her face. Before they were showing no feelings at all, beside their disapproval for my life, but we talked. In a weird way, but we talked. Now everything they say is how proud they are, how beautiful our house is, how nice I look in my dress and after that there is silence. I can´t deal with that. Disapproval? Yes! Disappointment? Yes! Mistrust? Of course! But this awkward silence? Nooooooo! And I would rather spend the time alone with you" she ranted.

"We will go, end of this discussion! And now go and change Will, take a shower and then change into something which is expected tonight. A dress or so. I will be home in half an hour and we will leave at six o´clock sharp!" he ordered and then went into the kitchen without another word.

She was driving him crazy. Not that she hadn´t before, but this time it was really annoying.

Since her breakdown on the couch four weeks ago, their relationship at first had been better again, he spend more time at home with Lorelai and Will, but something had changed, nevertheless.

The more time he spend with her, the more time she demanded. Sometimes she came into the diner and clung to him, following him through the diner, until he would give in and go upstairs with her, would sit down on the couch and hug her for at least twenty minutes. When he didn´t, the fear he had seen that night would reappear in her eyes and she would look so heart-broken, that he would give in then.

Also Rory had noticed that her mother was different and Emily had called him a week ago and had asked him if everything was all right between them. He had had a long talk with Rory about it, because he needed to talk with someone. They both had agreed that it were just the hormones and that she would be herself again soon. But the longer he saw her like this, the more he doubted, that it were just hormones. He thought that maybe Will reminded her of the time when she had Rory and had to do everything by herself. Maybe that had got more to her than she would ever admit.

But no matter what it was or why she was acting like that, he had reached his border of understanding and it was starting to make him angry.

He was kind of relieved that they wouldn´t be home alone that evening, but at her parents house. She hadn´t left the house since Will was born. She went to work and in the diner. Once to her parents, because he had forced her, but she never visited Sookie, Rory or anybody else. She was waiting at home for him to come home and wouldn´t let go of him until he had to leave the next morning.

He had always enjoyed spending time with her, she was funny and beautiful, sometimes sad and silent or angry, but always Lorelai. But this wasn´t the woman he had married anymore. She seemed more like a scared child with a baby on her arms, pleading for help and love everytime she would see him. And this might have been the situation when she had Rory, he thought. He had to talk with Emily or Richard. They weren´t his favourite people, but he needed their help, and he could just hope that they would do it. They owed him!

When he stopped the car in front of the Gilmore´s house he had to untangle his right arm first from Lorelais grasp before he could get out of the car. She looked like she would start to cry every moment, but he ignored it and opened the back door to take out Will in his car seat. He walked to the door and after he rang the bell he felt that she was grasping his hand. Lorelai just let it go so that they could both hand their coats to the maid after the door had opened and then took his hand again.

He pulled it away to greet her parents, congratulated Richard and kneeled down to get Will out of his car seat before she could take it again. He had never imagined that he could be annoyed of Lorelai touching him.

When the doorbell rang again, Lorelai knew that it must be Rory, but she felt nothing. In the last time everything she felt was fear. She didn´t really know of what she was afraid, but the only thing that helped was when Luke took her in his arms and held her as close as possible. She had tried to explain it to him that one night, but because she didn´t really know what she was feeling or why it was difficult.

When Rory entered the room she hugged her, then sat down on the couch again.

When she had entered her parents house the first time with Will last week the fear had intensified, but this time it was even worse. They hadn´t started dinner yet and everything she wanted to do was run.

Luke sat beside her, playing with William. The baby laughed and made noises that sounded like "Gaaah" everytime Luke would hold him over his head, just to let him down a few seconds later.

She should be happy about this, but again she just feared that it would be over soon.

During the dinner she was quiet, barely eating anything. She felt sick And when the dessert arrived, the urge to vomit was so strong that she stood up and ran up the stairs into her old bathroom.

At first Luke was shocked, but then he became worried and followed her, handing Rory her brother before he ran after Lorelai.

He found her on her knees, her head over the toilet, throwing up. Like he had done it during her pregnancy he kneeled beside her and rubbed her back slowly.

When she was done he picked her up and carried her to her old bedroom, lying her down in her bed.

Again he felt helpless, but he wasn´t annoyed or angry anymore, just worried.

She had rolled herself onto her side, brought up her knees nearly to her chest and stared into nowhere.

He watched her intensely for some seconds, then lay down behind her, his hands over her waist, caressing her stomach. He placed a soft kiss on her neck,be fore he spoke, nearly whispered.

"Lorelai, you need to speak with me! I can´t stand this anymore. Please tell me what´s wrong!" he was so worried now that he nearly started to cry.

"I don´t know. I´m scared. All the time I´m scared. I don´t know why" she whispered back, happy that she didn´t have to face him, because she knew that she would have started to cry immediately.

"I already told you that I won´t leave you. I love you, you know that!" he whispered back, he couldn´t speak louder, it would have ruined the intimate moment and he hoped that this time they could get out of the way, whatever was in their way.

"You say that. But maybe if I do something wrong, you won´t love me anymore and I will be alone again." she said a bit louder.

He turned her around and forced her to look at him.

"You could never do anything like that. You know, you´ve been really annoying the last few weeks and sometimes I think you are driving me crazy. But I´m far more worried than annoyed. I want to help you. I want my wife back!" he told her honestly.

"I want that, too. But when you´re not with me I feel like everything is falling apart. That you won´t come back, or something will happen to you, or Will or Rory. And that Ill be alone again. I don´t think that I will be able to deal with everything all by myself. I need you."

"I need you, too. But what made you so scared that you needed to vomit? That´s why you threw up, wasn´t it?"

"After my parents visited us and you started to work again this feeling of loneliness started to increase everyday. I started to see signs that you don´t want me anymore. After my breakdown on the couch it changed. I started to worry that I will be alone again. That maybe everything was just a wonderful dream. I don´t want to wake up."she tried to describe her feelings.

Luke looked at her and tried to understand what she was trying to say...

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