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"Moving house is hard work!" Lorelai gasped as she dropped another box on the floor in her living room. They had finished packing Luke's stuff late last night due to the fact that Luke didn't have many possessions. He was happy with just his shirts and his cooking utensils. Lorelai managed to convince him to pack up the few books he had and his old trophies, though she hadn't a clue where he would put them. The rest of the stuff was left at the apartment.
"Lorelai you've moved two boxes"
"And they were both heavy!"
"I've moved the other five boxes"
"It's your junk we're moving"
"It's not junk"
"Seriously, what do you need this pan for? I have pans"
"Yes, which you bought before non-stick pans were invented"
"Yet you left the leather chair, I like that chair!"
"I'll go back and get it after lunch, which reminds me, shouldn't you be in Hartford?" Lorelai looked up at the clock on the wall.
"Shit, I'm going to be late" She grabbed her coat and her purse.
"Good luck with Rory" Luke gave her a goodbye kiss.
"Thanks" They kissed again. Lorelai rushed out of the door and into her jeep, hoping the roads would be clear enough so she would get to the café in time. The last thing she needed was for Rory to be mad at her.
Lorelai shut off the engine and jumped out of the car. She crossed the empty street and into the café. She quickly scanned the room for her daughter, spotting her at the back behind a big fake plant.
"Hi" She spoke as she arrived at the table.
"Hi" Rory replied.
"Sorry I'm late"
"It's ok"
"Have you been waiting long?" She asked politely. She hated this stiff conversation, like the ones she had with her own mother.
"Not really" Lorelai sat in the chair opposite and smiled nervously.
"This is a nice place"
"Yeah, it is" Lorelai ran out of things to say. She didn't want to jump straight in with the major talk yet everything else seemed so trivial. Suddenly she remembered something.
"I'm getting married" Lorelai spoke up.
"What?" Rory's head jerked up.
"Luke proposed, well actually I did but he doesn't want people to know that" Lorelai held out her hand and showed Rory the ring.
"This is amazing…wow"
"I know" Lorelai smiled again, it seemed that these days she couldn't help it. "You are happy for me right?"
"Totally"
"Good" Lorelai pulled her hand back and grabbed a menu with it. "I thought I should start with something else, you know, something cheerful"
"Always a good idea"
"So we should talk properly now"
"Another good idea"
"Let's talk as if the last couple of days didn't happen ok? You haven't told me about Yale yet and let's go from there"
"Sounds sensible"
"So Rory, tell me what's up with you?" Rory was so used to her mother's craziness that it was easy to play along.
"I think I want to take a break from school"
"Why?"
"I don't whether I want to do journalism any more. Mitchum Huntzberger said that I wouldn't make it as a journalist"
"Is there any other reasons?"
"Yale's changed me Mom, I've been so set over journalism that I've ignored every other career. You've always said I could do whatever I want but. How can I know exactly what I want to do if I haven't tried everything else first?"
"You wanna know what I think?"
"Sure"
"Well first of all I'm gonna find Mr Huntzberger and kick his ass, who is he to tell my daughter what she can and cannot do?" Rory smiled. "Second of all I think that Yale is good life experience for you and you would be crazy to give it up" Rory opened her mouth to speak but Lorelai jumped in again "-But, if I told you what to do or interfered in anyway I would just as bad as my mother. I don't want to be her!" Rory laughed. "You can do whatever you want; you've proved that by getting accepted at Chilton, Harvard, Princeton and Yale. I want you to have different experiences and I want you to have a school education. But most of all I want you to be happy, and if your not happy at Yale then you do what you feel is right. I'm not going to agree that it's the best thing for you but you are twenty therefore old enough to make your own decisions"
"Thank you"
"Your welcome"
"I wish you'd said in the first place"
"Me too…so are we okay?"
"We're good"
"Good" Just then the waiter came by and took their orders. "There is one thing I would like though" Lorelai began.
"What?"
"Take the year off, try new things, get a job whatever, but if you don't find something you want to do or if you get bored, fired or uninterested, promise me you'll go back to Yale. Finish your degree so you have something to fall back on"
"I'll think about it"
"That's all I ask" The waited in silence for the food. It came five minutes later, both accepting chicken sandwiches from the young waiter.
"So how's life in the pool house"
"It's like living in the main house"
"Mom breathing down your neck?"
"Totally" Lorelai gasped and put down her sandwich. "What?"
"I have the most brilliant idea"
"What, what is it?"
"We've just moved all of Luke's stuff into the house so the apartment above the diner is totally empty. You'd have your own space without Emily Gilmore around. Luke'll be downstairs if you ever need anything, you'll be close to home plus coffee and pie whenever you want it!"
"I don't know"
"Come on, it'll be great. You'll actually have some privacy with a lockable door and people who have to be invited over, that is, if you want to see them at all."
"Luke won't mind?"
"Please! He wouldn't want anyone else living there"
"It does sound kinda cool"
"It's perfect, think about all that coffee you can drink!"
"The coffee is tempting…ok, you've won me over. We'll talk to Luke and start moving stuff over as soon as possible"
"Not today though, I've been moving boxes all day and I'm exhausted!"
"Ok"
"Hey, you wanna go shopping after lunch? Spend some quality mother daughter time together"
"Sounds fun"
"And Luke is paying"
"What?" Lorelai pulled out a card from her purse.
"I swiped his credit card!"
"Mom!"
"Calm down, god you're so easy to tease! He gave it to me this morning told me to have fun"
"He did? I thought it was easier to get into area 51 than Luke's wallet"
"What can I say, he loves me!"
"I'm so happy for you mom"
"Good, you're gonna be my maid of honour right?"
"You know I would say yes to that even if we were fighting"
"Good, now let's eat quickly cos Momma needs a new pair of shoes!"