A/N: I did a little research before writing this chapter. I hardly knew anything about menopause except that you get hot flashes and mood swings, not that I knew what a hot flash was. The few things that I did learn was that caffeine is one of the reasons why people have hot flashes, and what happens during one. Anyway if any of you guys know stuff about menopause feel free to tell me, I'm sure it would help me a lot!

Gilmoregrly4life, here is the answer to your question. Emily does not suspect anything about Laci, at least not yet. I don't think I'm going to have her suspect anything. I think she'll just happen to be at the right place at the right time and then the secret will be out.

Kylie1403I do not know when Luke will come to terms with Laci being pregnant, but I am hoping to write a Laci/Luke conversation in this chapter or the next one. Thank you for the idea about doing a thing where Laci is in school.

Brandy Thanks for telling me the title of the song and who sings it. Like I said in the last chapter, the boys I baby sit for refer to their 'things' as their 'ding-a-lings'. So thanks again for telling who sings it and the title.

Thank you everyone else who reviewed.

The next day started out great for Lorelai. In the morning she and Laci went baby shopping and had lunch together. When they got home Lorelai decided to take a nap but she was woken up when the phone rang. Luke answered it as fast as he could, hoping it wouldn't wake Lorelai up. When he hung up the phone, he looked over to his left and found Lorelai looking at him.

"It's nice to wake up to you." She said as she snuggled up to him.

"It's nice to watch you sleep." He responded.

"How long was I sleeping for?"

"An hour, maybe two."

"I've never really taken naps before, except for when I was pregnant, but that was a long time ago. I guess this is the start of something new."

"Yeah, it was and yeah, it is."

"Who was on the phone?"

"That was random."

"Well, the phone is what woke me up so I assume somebody called, and since you told them that I would call them back, I assume they called for me."

"Rory."

"Did she say what she wanted?"

"Baily is giving her the night off from her parental duties so she was wondering if you wanted to hang out with her tonight."

"Oh. I guess I will. I'll call her back."

"Ok?"

"What?"

"It's just that you don't seem very happy about spending time with her."

"I am, it's just that after I told my mom off yesterday, she's been on my case."

"You still don't want to tell her?"

"No. You know how she acts around people who are sick; it's the same way she used to act around pregnant women, until she became pregnant. I just don't want her to act like I'm sick. I don't want things to be different."

"Ok. I can understand that."

"I'm going to call her now."

"I'll go downstairs and see what Liam is doing."

"Ok."

Lorelai picked up the phone and dialed Rory's number. She was hoping that Rory wouldn't answer, but she knew Rory would. The phone had rung four times and just when Lorelai was about to hang up, Rory picked up the phone.

"Hey mom."

"How'd you know it was me?" Lorelai asked.

"Caller ID. Baily is giving me the night off, so I was wondering if you wanted to do something with me tonight."

"Like what?" The fact that Lorelai didn't want to was evident in her voice.

"I don't know. I just really want to get out. All I do is change diapers and make bottles and read bedtime stories. I need to get out Mom. I don't care what we do; I just can't stay in tonight. I'll even come to the house, please Mom?"

"Sure. Where do you want to go?"

"I told you, I don't care."

"What about the movies?"

"Nah. Why don't we just have a movie night?"

"Sure. I'll get some movies out."

"Cool. Should I bring some coffee?"

"Um…no. It's to hot for coffee."

"To hot for coffee?" Rory was stunned

"Yes! Don't sound so shocked."

"Fine. I'll see you in about twenty minutes."

"Ok. Bye."

Lorelai went downstairs to tell everybody that Rory was coming. Luke knew that this meant that he and Liam were supposed to leave, so he took Liam out for an overnight fishing trip, and Laci was at her best friend's house.

A half an hour later the doorbell rang, and Rory let herself in. She walked into the living room with two ice-coffees, one in each hand. Rory went over to the couch where her mom was sitting, and handed her one of the coffees. Lorelai got up and hugged her daughter, and then got the movies ready.

"We have Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Titanic…" Lorelai would have continued, but Rory interrupted her.

"Mom, stop! Any movie you pick out is fine with me."

"Well, which one do you want?"

"Mom, whichever one you want."

"Just pick one."

"Fine, how about Titanic?" Rory tried to reason.

"Fine with me." Lorelai said as she put the DVD in, and returned to her spot on the couch.

"You don't like the coffee?" Rory asked after a few minutes.

"No, I like it."

"You haven't had any…"

"I haven't had a chance." Lorelai snapped.

"Okay, I guess we'll just watch the movie."

"Okay."

Over at Laci's friend's (Mandy) house, things were going great. The girls were eating junk and talking about the new boy at school. They were giggling at the stupid things that kept coming out of each others mouths. With in time they were on the bed watching a movie.

"How many times have we seen this?" Mandy asked.

"Too many to count." Laci answered.

"It's getting kind of boring."

"Yeah. What do you want to do now?" Laci asked.

"I don't know. We could go in my hot tub?'

"Nah."

"Do you want to go in my pool?"

"No."

"Why not? We always have fun in the hot tub."

"I don't have my bathing suit." Laci somewhat lied.

"You can use one of mine."

"I don't think so."

"Why?"

"I'm…ah…I'm on my period." Laci lied again.

"I though you used tampons."

"No, not anymore."

"Laci, you don't have your period. You get your period the same time I get mine; it's been that way since we were twelve. You're not going to get your period for another week or so."

"Mandy…"

"I want to know what's going on."

"I can't tell you."

"Yes you can, you can tell me anything. You know that, right?"

"Yeah, I know that."

"Then what is it?"

"I'm pregnant."

"Oh."

Meanwhile over at Lorelai's house, Lorelai had started to drink the coffee, so that Rory wouldn't catch on. Soon enough she had drank the whole cup. During the scene in Titanic in the car, Lorelai started to get dizzy and nauseous. Before she knew it her whole face and upper body was hot. Lorelai didn't know what to do, she had never had a hot flash before, but she knew that she was having one. She looked over at Rory who was still paying attention to the movie. Lorelai got up and started walking to the downstairs bathroom, not saying a single thing to Rory. Lorelai made it to the bathroom and locked the door. Once she was in the bathroom, she sat down on the toilet and waited for the hot flash to pass. Within five minutes, Lorelai felt a chill go through her body, and then it was over. She stood up still feeling a little dizzy and looked in the mirror. What she saw surprised her, her whole face was bright red and covered with sweat. She stayed in the bathroom for a few more minutes, waiting for the redness to go down. Before she left to go back to the living room she checked the mirror one more time, and put some new deodorant on. She walked back to the living room to find the movie paused and Rory staring at her.

"I'm fine." Lorelai said as she made her way back to the couch.

"No your not."

"I'm fine. I just had a little stomach ache."

"Mom…"

"Rory, I said I was fine."

"Okay. Why are you sweating?"

"I'm not sweating."

"You look like you were…"

"Well I wasn't, okay? Now can we please just get back to the movie? We were just at the part were Rose and Jack were doing it in somebody else's car, and if I'm not mistaken they were about to be chased through the basement of the ship."

"Fine."

There you go. Please review!