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A/N: Italics are flashbacks, everything else is the present time, yada yada! it is the same as all of the other chapters.
Chapter 3: Names, Malls, and Secrets
As she walked in the front door of the inn, she immediately was yelled at my Michel.
"Where have you been? You are 20 minutes late!" he started, "And why do you insist on bring you child to work with you every, single, day?" he asked pointing at the baby in her arms as he complained.
"Ok. One, I was at home getting ready for work, two I bring him here because he needs to be taken care of during the day, not just given a bowl of food," she said knowing he was complaining because he still hadn't allowed him to bring his dogs to work, "and three, I am your boss, and I will do whatever I want. Ok?" she said not needing her day to start off bad.
"Fine!" Michel responded feeling defeated once again.
Lorelai walked into the kitchen to get her coffee when Sookie just popped out of now where. Lorelai clutched he hand to her heart and exclaimed:
"Oh my god! Sookie, don't do that! You almost gave me a heart attack." But Sookie didn't hear her.
"Oh, whatever, just hand the baby over!" she said holding out her hands for the baby. Lorelai easily gave her son up to Sookie as she went over to the coffee pot. She lived on the coffee at the inn. She never had time to make any at home so all she drank was coffee from the inn.
"So, how was your morning?" Sookie asked.
"Oh, it was good. My hair didn't get fully rinsed but it was good. What about you?" Was Lorelai's response.
"Good. So what are you doing around noon today?" Sookie asked finally looking up from the baby.
"Oh, I was planning to stay at work and, well working. Why?" she asked taking a sip of her coffee.
"Oh, well I was thinking you and I go shopping! How does that sound? We can drop the baby off with Jackson and the kids, so that we can have some girl time!" Sookie answered enthusiastically.
"Well…I guess…if it isn't too much for Jackson." She answered hesitantly. Sookie seemed to be acting really strange but Lorelai just brushed it off as her just being herself.
"Yay! We'll go to the mall get new clothes! When was the last time you had time to go shopping for clothes?" Sookie asked as she handed the baby to Lorelai and then started hopping around the kitchen. She then ran into Manny, who accidentally hit her in the face with a pan.
"OH! Sookie! Are you alright?" Lorelai asked as she rushed over to her friend.
"I'm ok!" Sookie said holding her hand up to her nose. "I think I just need some ice. Now!" she yelled. All of the kitchen staff members immediately ran to the freezer to get some ice for Sookie's nose.
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"Ready to go?" Lorelai asked as she walked back out of Sookie's house. She had just dropped off the baby and was now headed with Sookie towards the mall.
"Yep!" Sookie answered excitedly as she buckled her seatbelt.
As Sookie and Lorelai neared the mall, Lorelai remember the last time she had been there.
"Rory come on!" Lorelai said pulling her daughter through the aisles of baby items. It had been two weeks after finding out her precious little baby was going to be, no wait, was a boy. She had wanted to go shopping for the past month with Rory, but now she had a reason. Her reasoning was that now that she knew the baby was a boy, they could go shopping for baby clothes and maybe some for her also.
Over the past couple weeks she had also come up with a name for the child growing inside of her. She was really excited because she had not told a single soul what it was yet.
"Hold on!" Rory said trying to keep up with her mother. Rory still wanted to know what her little brother's name was going to be but Lorelai had made it clear that the name would not be known until all of the shopping was done and they were sitting down eating lunch. That was the one reason she had agreed to this little outing.
"No! We need to hurry up so you and I can shop for clothes for the mommy!" she said as she searched through the shelves. She piled in clothing item after clothing item.
"Mom!" Rory shouted at her mother.
"What?" Lorelai asked finally stopping and turning around to face her daughter.
"How are you paying for all of this?" she said gesturing towards the huge mountain of things in the cart.
"OH! You are going to love this! After mom's horrible display Dad gave me enough money to buy a whole country. I just haven't gotten to it till now. mostly because I wanted to wait until I knew what little BLANK here," Lorelai emphasized the word blank while rubbing her belly, "was." she finished. She then turned around again and continued her previous mission.
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"OOO! I want this!" Lorelai said as she looked at the maternity clothing. They had now moved on to the "more important things" but this was the first thing she had found she liked.
"Mom, that is way too small." Rory commented when she looked at the tag of the shirt her mother was holding.
"Well let's ask if they have it in a bigger size" Lorelai said with a smile on her face.
"Yes, mom, why don't you?" Rory said emphasizing the last word.
"But Rory, that would involve extra movement, and my ankles hurt. Plus you owe me. I gave birth to you. You gave me the same pain I am in now. Now go ask the scary lady up at the desk and I will keep looking for things. And then, in ten minutes we can go eat. How does that sound?" she said knowing there was no way Rory would say no.
"Ok, but I want to know the name the moment we get down there!" she demanded.
"Done!" Lorelai agreed.
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"So, what is his name?" Rory asked anxiously as they walked over to the food court.
"Well I don't have a middle name picked out yet, but for the first name I was thinking about Jacob." She said trying to read her daughter's expression.
"Well, are you going to give him a nickname like you did with me?" Rory asked thinking Jacob was not a name she pictured he mom choosing.
"OH, way ahead of you! I have figured out that I will be calling him either Jake or Jakey! What do you think?" Lorelai asked hoping Rory liked the name choice.
"Jakey is such a cute name! ooooo! Hello Jakey!" Rory said rubbing her mother's belly.
"Enough with the rubbing already!" Lorelai yelled as she removed Rory's hand away from her abdomen. She then took a few seconds to evaluate what she had just said before giggling out a "Dirty!"
"Mom!" Rory yelled appalled at her mother's comment.
"So, Sookie, where to next?" Lorelai asked as they left the fifth baby store they had visited so far.
"well, how about we go check out the mommy clothes?" Sookie suggested. Each was carrying bags of some sort; Sookie with 4 and Lorelai with two. Lorelai had been feeling a little out of it and Sookie noticed. She noticed that Lorelai Gilmore had only 2 bags of things for her son after at least 5 stores! This was not the Lorelai she knew. But of course she knew something this Lorelai didn't know.
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"So, you going home now?" Sookie asked Lorelai as they had stopped at Sookie's house. They had planned to have Lorelai drop Sookie off at her house while Lorelai grabbed Jake so she could head home. As they both got out of the jeep and stood halfway in between the vehicle and the house, Lorelai answered the question.
"Actually, I think I am going to go stop at the inn. Pick up some of the paperwork that I have to get done. I will then bring it home. Try to start it, get distracted by Jake, not actually get started until I put him to sleep until around 9:30, 10 ish. I will then proceed to stay up for an extra 2 hours doing nothing but that paperwork which I so utterly failed to get done earlier. I really have a fun night ahead of me don't I?" Lorelai summarized while rubbing her eyes.
"No! Don't do that! I mean, why don't you just take some time off from paperwork to spend with your son. You can do the paperwork tomorrow." Sookie suggested. Now Lorelai knew something was wrong. Sookie had been trying to convince her all afternoon not to go back to the inn after they got done shopping but to go straight home. Lorelai wanted to know why Sookie was so set on her staying away from the inn for the rest of the day.
"Sookie, what is going on?" she asked eying her friend suspiciously.
"Nothings wrong." She answered. A little too quickly to convince Lorelai that what she was saying was true.
"Sookie, I have known you how many years? I can't even remember, but in that time, I have always known when you were lying to me. Sookie, this here, you are lying to me. What happened at the inn that I need to know about?" she said seriously.
"Well…I heard that…that he was coming to town and then I saw his name on the list of people staying at the inn and I… didn't want you to have to deal with that right now." She answered nervously.
"Sookie who are you talking about?" she asked not knowing she really didn't know the answer. "Sookie, who?" she asked again.
"I promised I would keep you away from the inn for the rest of the day. That is the only reason Michel let you go without to much of a fuss." She added. Lorelai was so confused and she realized she wasn't going to get an answer from her best friend anytime soon. So she decided to hop in her jeep and go see for herself. "Wait Lorelai! Wait!" Sookie yelled as Lorelai ran out to the jeep.
"Lorelai, please just trust me! You do not want to know!" she tried convincing her but Lorelai had already turned the key in the ignition. She then quickly sped out of the driveway. She was on her way to the inn to find out who the hell would cause Sookie to act like this. Why won't she tell me? She asked herself.
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As soon as she parked the jeep in front of the inn she ran inside to figure out what was going on.
"Lorelai, what are you doing back? Sookie said you were leaving for the day." Michel asked.
"Well, Sookie obviously forgot to tell me why I was leaving for the day!" she muttered under her breath.
The next thing she did was look through the reservations made to see who Sookie could have been talking about. Michele didn't even try to stop her. He saw how she was acting and didn't want to risk his job for the orders he had gotten from Sookie earlier that day. Her orders were to keep Lorelai from finding out who was staying at the inn.
She ran down the list with her finger until it hit a name she remembered very clearly. "No." she said under her breath. Why would he come! He will just screw everything up! She had tried so hard do block him out of her life and now he was coming back? She was thinking to herself as some one walked through the front door. He walked through the doorway looking at her as if he was surprised to see her there. It was her inn! She thought. Why is he shocked?
"Lorelai?" he asked not knowing if it really could be true. Could she really be standing in front of him after so long?
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