Chapter 8

Lucy turned around and saw who was calling her. "Rory?" she whispered to herself. Rory and Lucy ran to each other. "Rory!" Lucy called as she was running. Though Lucy was mad at Rory, she couldn't help but smile when she saw her. When they got to each other, they hugged for awhile. When they let go Lucy said, "Rory, I'm sorry."

"Ssh. I'm going to go first. I was an idiot by dropping out of Yale. I never should have done it. I knew I was going to hurt people, but I didn't realize how much. All these weeks of me not talking to you and…and to Mom and Luke, I realized what I was missing out on. You shouldn't have to apologize to me; I have to apologize to you. So, I'm sorry." Rory said.

"You don't have to be sorry. I shouldn't have let this thing get between us. I mean sure I was really mad at you, but when Grandma came here-"

"Wait, Grandma came here?" Rory said sounding surprised.

"Wait, you didn't know?"

"No."

"Damn it. Me and my big mouth." Lucy said to herself.

"When did Grandma come here?"

"I think it was last week or a few days ago. I can't really remember."

"What did she do?"

"She got into this huge fight with me and Mom. Well…actually me."

"You?" Rory said. Lucy nodded. "What did you say?" Rory said raising her eyebrow.

"I kinda just…told her off."

"Let's go to Luke's, and you can explain it to me."

"Geez, there's a lot of explaining going on today."

They started to walk towards Luke's Diner. While they were walking, there was an awkward silence.

"So," Rory said breaking the silence. "Mom and Luke are umm…'

"Getting married? Yeah."

"When did he propose?"

"Last night."

"Oh, that's good. You know what I mean. Finally."

"That's what I said."

They walked into Luke's. When Luke saw them he looked surprised. "Rory…uh hi."

"Hey Luke. How are you?"

"I'm good I'm good. How are you?"

"I'm good. Congratulations."

"You know?"

"Yeah, Lucy kinda…"

"Don't tell him about Christopher" Lucy mouthed to Rory.

"Lucy kinda told me."

"I thought you were going to let your Mom tell her?" Luke asked Lucy.

"Yeah, but I couldn't wait. You know me, I'm a blabber mouth." Lucy said uncomfortably. She felt as though Luke were reading her thoughts.

"Coffee?" Luke asked Rory looking at Lucy suspiciously.

"Yes please." Rory said. She and Lucy sat down at the counter. "Okay, continue."

"Well let's see, it was Friday night, we were at Luke's"

"You and Mom?"

"Me and Mom. Luke, Mom, and I were talking about something, then Luke was getting Mom coffee, and Grandma was just there."

"Who saw her first?"

"Luke, when he turned around to give Mom coffee."

"Then first Mom and Grandma were fighting than I got really mad, and then started fighting with Grandma because of what she did."

"Uh huh, wait what did she do?"

"Me and my big mouth. I'm guessing you never heard the whole story out there."

"Thanks." Rory said to Luke. "No, probably not."

"Okay, I'm not going to hang around, but I'll talk to you after this busy lunchtime rush." Luke said leaving Lucy and Rory.

"Okay."

"Lucy, tell me what Grandma did."

Lucy looked at her watch. "You can ask Mom."

"Mom?"

"Yeah, she's really busy today, so I told her I would bring her the mail from home. She thinks that something that was supposed to go to the inn went home."

"Uhh," Rory started to say feeling a bit uncomfortable. "I don't think I can go talk to Mom umm right now. Why don't you just tell me?"

"What? Why? Isn't that the reason you're here?"

"Yes and no." Lucy looked confused so Rory said, "Last night, I got a call from Lane, and she told me to come and see you, so uhh now I'm here."

"To see me?"

"Uh huh."

"I'm going outside for some air I'll be right back." Lucy said getting up from her. "Oh yeah, and don't follow me."

"Luc-" Rory started to say, but Lucy was gone.

Outside, Lucy made sure she was out of windows view, so Rory couldn't see her. She took the cell phone her grandmother gave her out of her handbag, and dialed a number.

The phone rang. "Drangonfly Inn-"

"Lorelai speaking yeah yeah yeah. Hey Mom, it's Lucy."

"Thank you for that very kind statement you just gave me. What's wrong?"

"Umm, I really desperately need you to come to Luke's within the next 10 minutes."

"What? Why?"

Lucy took a candy wrapper out of her pocket and crinkled so it would make noise, and make it seem as though she was breaking up. "Mom…shrhsrhr…are you there…shrhsrhshrhs…I can't hear you…" She closed her phone.

"Lucy…" Lorelai stared to say, and then she heard the dial tone. "She takes after me oh so well. Hey Michel, I'm just going to run out for a while, I'll be back." Lorelai said taking her handbag and leaving.

"Whatever." Michel said looking at files on the desk.

15 minutes later…

From a window at the diner, Lucy saw her mother's jeep pull up in front of the diner.

"I'll be right back Rory." Lucy said getting up.

"Okay." Rory said, not paying attention to where Lucy was going.

Lucy got outside and saw her mother and smiled.

"You are an evil child." Lorelai said giving her a kiss on the cheek.

"I know." Lucy said.

"Okay, what did you 'desperately' need?" Lorelai said with air quotes.

"Come with me." Lorelai looked through the window. "Oh Lucy no." Lucy grabbed Lorelai's wrist tight, so she wouldn't be able to escape. "Lucy Gilmore, you are not taking me in there."

"Oh yes I am. I am going to go in there and Luke and I are going to try to knock some sense into you." Lucy said dragging Lorelai to the diner.

"Lucy Gilmore, let go of me immediately young lady."

They got into the diner. "Lucy…" Lorelai struggled to release herself. Rory turned around with a shock look on her face when she saw Lorelai.

"Lucy…" Rory said, sounding like she was going to cry.

Lucy ignored them and said pulling Lorelai and making her sit on the chair beside Rory, "Now, you are going to sit here until you work this out. I don't care if that's until next year. You guys have to get over the fact that you know you want to talk so now here is your opportunity. I am going to sit here with you."

"What if you get bored?" Lorelai asked.

"I'm going to sit here until you work out your issues."

"But, Lucy, there was something I didn't tell you." Rory said.

Luke came behind the counter and saw Lorelai, Lucy, and Rory sitting there looking at each other.

"Okay. This is awkward. I'm just going to continue serving my customers." Luke said.

"Luke." Lorelai said.

"Hey, I think this is a great idea. All three of you get to talk and make up and get all your issues out in the open."

"By open you mean…" Rory said, thinking about Stars Hollow and Babbette and Miss Patty.

"Why don't you guys go upstairs instead?" Luke said realizing what Rory was talking about.

"Okay…" Lorelai said slowly.

The three of them stood up.

Lorelai and Rory were in front of Lucy and Lucy as they walked up the stairs said, "Go, go, go," because they were very reluctantly walking up the stairs.

When they got upstairs Lucy commanded them to sit down. They sat without question. "Now," Lucy said walking up and down the apartment. "We are gathered here today to reunite Lorelai Gilmore II and Lorelai Gilmore III."

"We're not getting married Lucy." Rory said slouching in the couch.

"Quiet! Now as I said before, we'll be here all day unless you work out your problems. Now, Lorelai Gilmore II, what would you like to say to Lorelai Gilmore III?" Lucy said. She at this point felt superior and she was on a roll. I've always wanted to be a judge, well no not really, but this fun. They better start talking, I can't live like this anymore, Lucy thought.

"Well, let's see. I feel betrayed. Yeah, I think that's it, betrayed. After everything we worked for, you decided to drop, and that hurt Rory, it really did. And-" Lorelai said, and Lucy cut her off.

"Okay thank you, Now Lorelai III, what would you like to say?" Lucy said and Lorelai gave her a look.

"Well, I would like to say that I'm sorry, if I hurt you. What I did was stupid, and I'm sorry Mom that I hurt you. You to Luc, and I would also like to say. I've been thinking about this all summer, but I've decided to go back to Yale in the fall." Rory said, let out a breath as she finished.

It was silent. Lucy and Lorelai looked at each other with their mouths open, trying to process all that information. Finally, Lucy said, "What?"

"Is that all you can say? I said, I'm going back to Yale." Rory said and looked at Lorelai. "Mom say something."

Lorelai got a huge grin on her face and shouted, "Lucy, she's going back to Yale!" She got up from the couch and started jumping up and down and all three of them stood there and hugged.

"She's going back to Yale!" Lucy said.

"She's going back to Yale!" Lorelai said.

"I'm going back to Yale!" Rory said.

All three of them jumped up and down and smiled at each other. Rory was going back to Yale.