Phone Conversations – Chapter 3 "Decorations & Disco"

Rating: T

Disclaimer: Not mine – just having fun. I promise I'll put them back when I'm done playing

"Y'ello."

"Whatcha doin'?"

"Right now? Walking down the sidewalk while talking on the phone, trying to figure out what exactly is in my shoe, and remembering that I may have left my hot rollers plugged in. You?"

"You have hot rollers? Seriously? I know Madonna said Disco was back, but this, just,...I may have to disown you."

"For owning hot rollers or for leaving them plugged in?"

"Hmmm, lemme think about it and get back to you."

"Sure. So other than a disinheritance and my possibly have to give up the reigning Lorelai crown at some point in the future, what's up?"

"Oh! Yeah, that. Seriously, what are you up to right now?"

"Shopping for decorations for the Halloween party we're having."

"You? They let you shop for decorations?"

"What? I can't pick out good ones?"

"Sweetie, do you remember Sookie's last baby shower?

"I was on a budget!" Rory tells her mom indignantly. "Anyway, Stephanie and Finn are with me."

"Good girl. So you're in New Haven, then?"

"Umm, Hartford actually."

"Party's in Hartford?

"No, it'll be at Yale."

Lorelai could tell she was hedging something. "Soooo, what? New Haven has sucky party supply stores? Sold out of candy corn? Ran out of plastic spiders and that fake spider-web stuff?"

Rory mumbled something that Lorelai didn't catch.

"What babe? I didn't catch that."

"Finn isn't, um, allowed in the any of the party supply stores in New Haven."

"He's been banned from Party City? Huh, there's my daily dose of irony right there. Hey, what's he doing shopping for party supplies anyway? I thought rich kids hired people to take care of that for them."

"Long sordid story involving circus animals, peanuts, and a trip to the emergency room."

"Is that why he's banned or why he started doing the shopping in the first place?"

"Honestly? I'm not sure. Did you need me for something?"

"Nah, it can wait. I needed your input on something."

"Oh, okay. I'll call you later?"

"Sure, kiddo."