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Fathers and Daughters 3
Rory
I've always had a tentative relationship with my Dad. He was a parent, but not a best friend. He was more in my mother's life than I and I felt cheated. I wouldn't say anything, because I could see what his absence did to my mom. She would smile and dance around and try to distract me, but in those first quiet moments in our little shed, I could see exactly what his lack of interest did to her. Not for her sake but for mine. I never questioned why he wasn't so interested. Frankly I didn't care until much later, all I was concerned about what my mother. She was my world.
When I started school that was when I first noticed that you are supposed to have a dad. I had only heard his voice once a year over the phone. He would call three days late for my birthday and always promise that a card was in the mail. He would promise that he would come see me soon, once he was done school. Something my mother was never able to go to. Lane's father had pretty much the same involvement in her life, but she never seemed to bother by it. Mr. Kim had stayed in Korea, and Lane received three cards a year each with some money in it. She put it in her mother's bank account and never talked about him. Maybe that's why we got along so great. Because our father's had abandoned us in the most simplest ways.
Luke had always been a semi father figure and I adored him. At first he was a small influence, like any other Star Hallows townsperson was. I would see him and smile and wave at him, and I would watch him look at my mother. Luke Dane's crush on my mother was legendary. At first it was the town joke, but eventually, it became something like the scenery. Luke would always adore my mother na din turn I would adore him. He was what I wanted for a father. An involved, respected man, who showed love with something other than a card and broken promises. He was there, in the good and bad, and I almost told him I wanted him to my dad once. Instead I chickened out and said he was a great cook.
After I had found out my father's part in the break up of my mother and Luke, I finally decided that something needed to be done. Not for my mother or for Luke, but for me. So one night a couple months later, and with Luke and Lorelei safely tucked into their lives completely unaware, I visited him.