Chapter 14

Three Weeks Later…

School has already started for Rory and Lucy. Rory went back to Yale as planned. Lorelai, Rory, and Lucy still haven't talked about the visit from Emily and Emily's phone call.

Lorelai Gilmore's House
Lucy just gets home

"Mom, I'm home are you here?" Lucy called out as she dropped her backpack on the floor. She looked around. "Mom?" she said again. "I guess you're not here." Lucy said to herself.

Ring! Ring!

"Hello?" Lucy said as she answered the phone.

"Lucy, it's your grandmother." Emily said on the other line.

"Oh great." Lucy said under her breath.

"What was that?"

"Oh…nothing…is there something you need?" Lucy said walking around towards the couch.

"Well, I was wondering if you and Rory would like to come to Friday dinner this week."

"If Rory's going, I guess, I could come too…" Lucy said uncertainly. What have I gotten myself into? She thought.

"What do you mean if Rory's going? She is there isn't she?" Emily said demandingly.

"Grandma, Rory's at Yale."

"She's at Yale? She's at Yale, and no one even bothered to tell me?" Emily said furiously.

"We thought she would tell you."

"I cannot believe this. The most important thing that has happened-"

"Grandma, I gotta go. It's been great but there's homework to be done. Bye." Lucy said hanging up the phone quickly. This isn't going to be good, she thought. She picked up the phone and dialed a number.

"Pick up, please pick up." Lucy said into the phone.

"Hello?" the person on the other line said.

"Did Grandma call you?"

"Huh, Lucy?" Rory said.

"No kidding, did Grandma call you or not?" Lucy said hurriedly.

"No, why?"

"You didn't tell her you were going back to Yale and she's probably going to call you and start yelling at you then call Mom and start yelling at her and call me again and yell at me too."

"What, start from the beginning." Rory said.

"Grandma called and asked if we wanted to come over for dinner on Friday. She thought you were here still. I told her I'd go if you'd go. Then she started asking me questions, I hung up on her, and here we are with this problem."

"Why is it a problem?"

"You're clueless! We haven't talked about Grandma since like what seems forever. Now she has something to call about and then Mom has to tell her about her engagement, which might I add, Grandma already knows about." Lucy said ranting.

"How does she know about the engagement?"

"Because, you told her! You told her when we were down there last!"

"This is not good, this is really not good." Rory said walking into her dorm room she was sharing with Paris.

"What are we going to do?" Lucy said worriedly.

"We are not going to do anything. You will relax. Right now it's me and Grandma, and Grandma and Mom." Rory said slouching in the couch.

"Should we tell Mom?"

"I think that we should and we shouldn't. I don't know. It's so confusing. We kept so many secrets from Grandma, now there back to haunt us." Rory sighed and said, "Let's just relax until something actually does happen. Okay?"

"Okay." Lucy said quietly.

"Okay, well I'm going to go study, I'll call you if anything and you call me if anything."

"Okay, bye Rory."

"Bye." Rory said. They both hung about the phone. This isn't going to be good, Rory thought.

"Hey babe!" Lorelai called as she got home.

"Oh hey, Mom, hey." Lucy said uncomfortably hanging up the phone.

"What's that look?" Lorelai said looking at Lucy suspiciously.

"Hmm, what look?"

"That look that says 'I'm nervous about something'. What's the matter?"

"Nothing." Lucy said abruptly.

"C'mon Luc, I know when you're hiding something from me."

"It's nothing Mom really."

"Okay, well anyways, let's go to the mall."

"Why?" Lucy said with confused look on her face.

"I'm tired of these clothes. I think it's time for some new ones."

Lucy looked at her funny and said, "I have homework Mom."

"Oh please, Luc, just this once, and we don't even have to stay very long. Please?" Lorelai said with a pout.

"Oh alright, let me get my coat." Lucy said going over to her coat.

"Haha, you're the best Hon!"

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, let's go." Lucy said and they were out the door.

Shopping Mall
Lorelai and Lucy are walking around in the mall

"Oooooh let's go in to that store." Lorelai said excitedly.

"What's so special about that certain store that all the other stores you've been in?" Lucy said following her mom everywhere she went.

"This store, my love, has wedding dresses!"

"Oooooh let's go to that store!" Lucy said rushing ahead of her mother.

"I know I'm great." Lorelai said following her.

"Whatever, come on."

"Is there anything I can help you with ladies?" the sales clerk said when they got into the store.

"We're looking for wedding dresses." Lorelai said with a smile.

"Okay, they are in the back next to bridesmaid dresses."

"Okay thank you." Lorelai said and she and Lucy went over to the wedding dresses.

"I like this one." Lucy said.

"I do too, what about this one; I like the little sequins on the bottom." Lorelai said pointing to a dress and going over to it.

"Yeah, that is nice." Lucy said joining her mother. "I feel bad that we're doing this without Rory."

"Yeah, me too, maybe we should just-" Lorelai started to say.

"Lorelai?" a familiar voice said.

"Please let this be a bad dream." Lorelai said to Lucy. They turned around. "My day just keeps getting better and better." Lorelai said sarcastically. "Hi Mom, uhh what are you doing here?"

"What, I can't go shopping too, like any other person?" Emily said.

"No, it's just that uhh…"

"Honestly, Lorelai, you shouldn't stumble on your words. You should always speak very clearly."

"Okay Mom." Lorelai said without meaning it.

"Now what would you girls be doing in this store. I mean Lorelai couldn't possibly be getting married, I mean she would tell me if she were." Emily said sarcastically.

"You think she knows?" Lorelai whispered to Lucy.

"She does know." Lucy whispered.

"What, how?"

"Don't you girls know that it's rude to whisper in the presence of someone else? You can be so rude sometimes." Emily said. Lorelai rolled her eyes and Lucy looked worried.

This isn't going to be good, Lucy thought.

"Lorelai when were you going to tell me?" Emily said seriously.

"Uhh, tell you what Mom?" Lorelai said nervously. Please let her not know, Lorelai thought.

"Oh, Lorelai, don't play this foolish game. You know exactly what I'm talking about."

"Uhh, no, I-I don't."

"You won't say then fine, I'll say it. Why didn't you tell me you're getting married Lorelai?"

"How, how do you know?" Lorelai said.

"Well, do you remember that wonderful conversation we had on the phone a dew weeks ago, about Lucy and Rory and how we saw each other."

"Vaguely."

"Well, your daughters just happened to tell me that you were engaged. And I thought 'No, Lorelai couldn't be engaged, because is she were, she would tell me.'" Emily said.

Lorelai shot a look at Lucy, who at the time looked very pale. "Fine, Mom, fine. I'm getting married!" Lorelai said angrily.

"Are you engaged to the Diner Man, Lorelai?" Emily asked, also getting angry.

"Luke, Mom, his name is Luke, and yes, I am getting married to Luke."

"When were you planning on telling me? Were you planning on telling me?"

"Mom, you don't need to know every little aspect of my life." Lorelai said raising her voice.

"Something as important as this Lorelai, I should know. I don't care whether or not you don't want me there, the least you could do is tell me."

"Who said I wouldn't have? Huh, who said I wouldn't have told you today?" Lorelai said loudly.

"Well by the looks of things, it seems as though you were never planning on telling me." Emily also said quite loudly.

"I was angry Mom, hell, I still am angry!"

"You don't think I'm angry? Of course I'm angry! The fact that you didn't bother telling me that you were getting married and Rory was back in Yale made me angry!"

"Excuse me, do you think you could take this argument somewhere else please?" the sales clerk said calmly.

"No need, we're finished here. Let's go Lucy."

Lucy hopped off the bench she was sitting on and followed Lorelai, who was walking very fast ahead.

"I'm not finished Lorelai!" Emily called after her.

"You might not be, but I am!" Lorelai said continuing her walk.

On the Way Back to Stars Hollow
Lucy is sitting in the backseat and trying to get in eye contact with Lorelai in the mirror

"Mom?" Lucy said.

"I don't wanna here it Luc." Lorelai said.

Lucy sighed.

When they got home, Lorelai went inside the house and closed the door. Lucy lingered around the car, until Lorelai closed the door. She got out her phone from her handbag.

"Hello?" Rory said on the other line.

"It's happened." Lucy said plainly.

"What, what's happened?"

"There is now a rift between you, me, and Mom."

"Oh no, what happened?"

"We went to the mall and we were in this dress store. We were hanging around a bit until BAM! There's Grandma. It started out innocently, and then went into a horror film. It was scary. Mom's really mad at you and me and Grandma." Lucy said walking around the yard.

"This is bad, this is very bad. Oh, this is not good. What do you think she'll do?"

"I donno. I'm outside right now. I'm too afraid to go inside. Who knows what she'll do to me."

"You're going to have to eventually, you know to sleep and eat."

"No, but see, that is why I have Luke and Sookie and Lane."

"Luke is Mom's fiancé."

"Okay, scratch Luke, but I still have Sookie and Lane." Lucy said.

"Okay, anyway kid, I'll come down as soon as I can alright."

"Okay."

"Okay, so I'll see you in a few days."

"Alright, love you Rory."

"I love you too, bye."

"Bye." Lucy said and closed her phone. She sighed and walked up the walkway to her house.