Summary: Luke and Lorelai are married and have 16 year old twins; a son and a daughter, but when they go to Chilton they met some unexpected people.

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A/N2: This story is written by starshollow108 and co-authored by my sister, Purple Eyed Cat

Old Rivals, New Friends

Chapter 3

A week later…

Mia wandered through the halls of Chilton, wondering where her brother might be. The Franklin's meeting had run later than expected, and Will wasn't waiting for her when the meeting ended.

As Mia turned a corner and continued down the next hallway, a voice behind her asked, "Are you looking for your brother?" Mia spun around, eyes wide, and confronted the person that had come up behind her.

Georgia watched Mia, slightly amused, and asked again, "Are you looking for your brother?"

Mia nodded and told the older girl, who Will had introducedher to afew days ealier,"He wasn't waiting for me like he usually was."

Georgia nodded. "He asked me to tell you that he had already left because he had a lot of homework that he needed to get done."

Mia nodded, it made sense. "So what are you doing today?" She asked Georgia.

"Nothing much," Georgia told her, then brightened. "Hey, would you like to come over to my house today? My dad doesn't get home from work until six, and I'm tired of having the house to myself all the time." Mia grinned and nodded her consent. Still chatting, the girls made their way out of school and into the courtyard, and then Mia stopped.

"Hang on, I have to call my mom," she told Georgia. "Can I have your address so my mom knows where to pick me up?"

Georgia nodded and grabbed a pen and scrap piece of paper out of her bag.

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"Hey mom, this is Mia. I'm going over to a friend's house for a while."

"Which friend, Mia?" Lorelai asked, holding the phone between her ear and shoulder while she directed a couple of workmen on where to fix the stairs.

"Here's the address," Mia told her quickly, ignoring the question. "134 Catherine Drive."

"Which friend, Mia? Mia?" Lorelai pulled the phone away from her ear and stared at it for a moment, and then hung up. "Weird," she muttered, but was then distracted as loud crashing noises erupted from the kitchen.

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Still giggling, Georgia and Mia burst through the door of 134 Catherine Drive, a small two bedroom house with small kitchen space. "He did what?" Georgia said, bent over laughing.

"I know," Mia agreed, also out of breath. "And I had to put up with it!" The two girls continued laughing as they made their way to the stairs and climbed, occasionally stopping as a fresh burst of laughter overtook them.

Between bursts of laughter, Mia asked, "So, Georgia, you mentioned that your dad wouldn't be home for awhile. What about your mom?" Georgia plopped down on her bed, all laughter gone.

"First of all, you can call me Gigi. Second, my mom and dad separated when I was a baby," she told Mia, who looked guilty that she had asked such an insensitive question.

"I'm sorry," she murmured, "I didn't mean to ask that kind of question—"

"Don't worry about it," Gigi muttered, then brightened. "So, what other things did you and Will get into when you were little?"

Mia started laughing, and explained one of the latest escapades that had Gigi bent over laughing in a heartbeat.

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"Mom, calm down," Rory told her mother, trying to keep Lorelai from screaming.

"Rory, she didn't tell me who it was! She just gave me the address and hung up!"

"Mom…" Rory trailed off, because Lorelai wasn't finished yet.

"And I can't go get her because I'm tied up at the inn, and Luke's tied up at the diner, Will's at home…" Lorelai trailed off, stressed to the point of tears.

"Mom, Mom," Rory soothed, "I will go get her and see whose friend's house she's at."

"Thanks, hon," Lorelai said, sated a bit by this reassurance.

"Now, what's the address?" Rory inquired, and getting it, hung up, but not before promising to check on this friend of Mia's.

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"Gigi, I'm home," a male voice floated up the stairs, disrupting the giggle fest that the two girls were having upstairs in Gigi's room.

Gigi mouthed "my dad" to Mia before calling down the stairs, "I'm up here with friend, Dad," The two girls laughed as they heard Gigi's father mutter, "Good, good," to himself before they heard the water in the sink start to run.

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"Mommy, are we there yet?" Jessica asked from her place behind Rory in her car seat.

"Not yet, Jessie," Rory answered, consulting a scrap of paper with an address scribbled on it and then glancing at the passing mailboxes.

"Can I ring the doorbell?" Jessie asked, kicking the back of Rory's seat.

"Sure you can," Rory said absently, having just located the house and mailbox in question and pulling into the driveway.

Without waiting for her mother to help her, Jessie managed to get her car seat undone and had pushed open the car door and run up the driveway as fast as her legs could carry her.

"Jessie!" Rory called after her, but the four-year-old paid no heed. The little girl stood up and reached as high as she could to press the doorbell.

Pleased with the ringing sound it made, Jessie clapped her hands and beamed up at her mother, "See, Mommy, it works!"

At that moment the door opened, and Rory glanced at the person standing there, framed in the doorway, stuck out her hand, and said, "Hi, I'm Rory, and I'm here to pick up my sis--"

Rory stopped mid-sentence as she finally got a good looking at the person standing there. Blue eyes wide in surprise, she stared wordlessly at the person, and then gasped, "Dad?"

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