Chapter Two
Once her father has left the room Rory opens the Shakespear book and stares at the envelope she'd been staring at for nearly an hour already, wishing it wasn't there and wishing that it had never been sent in the first place. But most of all she was wishing she didn't want to read it so damn much. Carefully Rory opens the envelope and pulls out the letter on expensive looking paper with neat handwriting filling the pages of paper.
Dear Aurora,
I'm sure receiving this letter on your 18th birthday took you by surprise, possibly a surprise you weren't exactly expecting and I'm sorry if this letter has upset you in anyway. I'm sure you've wondered about me at some point in your life, or maybe you haven't an I'm making a fool out of myself for ever writing this. But I've wondered and thought about you every day of your life, I've wondered what kind of a woman you grew into and if you've had a good life. I hope you have, your father and I poured over applicants for months to try to find the perfect parents for you and even though they were young we had a feeling that they would be good parents; and I hope they are.
We think about you a lot, Chris and I and we talk about you too. We have two sons and they both know about their older sister, you're not a dark hidden secret, and I wanted you to know that. We didn't give you up for adoption because we were ashamed of you, we were never ashamed of you but Chris and I were able to see the reality of the situation and you're life never would have been easy if we'd gotten married and tried to bring you into the lives that we were a part of. We knew that even though we would have been able to provide a life of privilege to you it would have been hard for you emotionally because that's just the way people are here. So I wanted you to know that it was never a matter of wanting you, Chris and I loved you from the moment we set eyes on you, but we knew that you would have a much happier life away from us, our parents and their nosey friends.
I'd love to get to know you, but I also know that you may not want anything to do with me, because why should you let a woman you don't even know into your life after 18 years. And I respect that. But if you do want to meet me I'd love that, more than you can imagine, and you could bring anyone you wanted, your parents or a friend or something. It's just something to think about, I slipped one of my cards in here incase you're interested.
I love you kid, no matter what you decided, if you want me in your life or not.Lorelai Gilmore
I know it's short, and there's another chapter on the way but I wanted to letter to be a stand alone piece...