A/N: I'm gonna try to explain the answers to your questions in this chapter but if I don't think I did it well enough see the A/N at the end. Thanks for reviewing!

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2 Weeks Later

"Mom…I saw a few dresses that I liked when I was shopping with the girls the other day and I wanted you to help me pick," Kelsey said coming into the office where Finn and Rory were kissing softly.

Finn groaned as Rory tore her lips away from his. "That's fine…we can go this weekend. We have dinner with the grandparents on Friday night but we can go Saturday or Sunday."

"Can't we just skip Friday night dinner? I mean the stupid ritual was made when Gammy couldn't pay for Chilton like a bazillion years ago," Kelsey groaned.

"Logan, Kim, Oliver, Kelly, and Mike will be there," Rory tried to persuade her.

"Mom…I don't care, Oliver is thirteen, Kelly is twelve, and Mike is eleven…it's not like I hang out with them," Kelsey rolled her eyes impatiently.

"They're your cousins! You damn well better be nice," Rory reminded her.

"They aren't my cousins! Logan is Dad's best friend so that automatically makes them my cousins? That's not how life works!" Kelsey groaned at her mother getting quite impatient.

"Kelsey Elizabeth, you're going to dinner on Friday night because you haven't seen Logan and his family for a month and just because I said so. End of story. Do you want to go shopping on Saturday or Sunday?" Rory finally lost it.

"Saturday," Kelsey moaned and skulked off.

"Kids," Finn muttered.

"Now where were we darling?" Rory asked looking into his eyes and pulling his face closer.

"About here love," he said and pushed her down on the couch so she was on her back and he was on top of her.

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Friday Night

"All of you down here right now!" Rory called up the stairs.

One by one the kids came trooping down.

"All right, let's hit the road," Finn said.

"Can I ride with Kevin?" Ryan asked.

"It takes ten minutes, you can hang out with Kevin and Mike, and Oliver when we get there," Finn shook his head.

Ryan grumbled but got in the SUV.

Rory and Steph waved to each other across the yard as they got into their respective cars.

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Later that night

"Twister what is wrong with you?" Emily asked harshly.

Twist had been sitting there saying almost nothing the entire evening.

"Nothing, I'm fine," Twister looked up and shrugged.

Finn glanced over at him and knew he was lying but didn't want to push the subject in front of everyone else. He would talk to Twist later at home.

"Why do you kids go out and watch TV at the pool house?" Richard suggested.

All the kids nodded and followed Lori outside and into the other building.

Normally Twister and Adam would be goofing around and teasing the girls but neither of them were really saying much and they weren't even looking at each other.

"God I hate this!" Kelsey burst after a few minutes and ran back into the main house.

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Rory was talking to Lorelai when Kelsey came running though the sitting room and up the stairs.

"What was that?" Lorelai asked staring after her.

"I guess we'll find out," Rory got to her feet and ran after her.

"KELSEY!" she called when she got upstairs.

There was no answer but Rory heard a sniffling coming from her old bedroom.

She cautiously opened the door and saw Kelsey curled up on the bed.

"Muck…what's wrong?" she asked quietly. They had called Kelsey Muck since she was little, don't ask why.

"Nothing," Kelsey choked out.

"Really? Could have fooled me. Come on…tell me what's going on," Rory said sitting on the bed and leaning against the pillows.

"I ruined everything," Kelsey told her in a nasally voice.

"What's everything? Please, tell me what happened," Rory was trying desperately to understand.

"It's just…I've liked Adam for a really long time but I couldn't really say anything because he's Twister's best friend. But then he asked me to homecoming and I was hoping that it would really work out and that Twister and Daddy would understand. But they don't! They just want to ruin the date and now Twister and Adam aren't talking and it's my fault," Kelsey explained after taking a few shaky breaths.

"Honey…its not that they are trying to ruin your date with Adam it's just that they aren't used to you dating. You've never dated before and now suddenly you are and you aren't dating just anyone, you're dating Adam. It's just going to take the boys awhile to get used to," Rory soothed her.

"But why do they care so much?" Kelsey asked pitifully.

"They still think of you as the baby that Daddy held for the first time or the little girl that used to follow Twister around like a dog. They just are scared for you. They don't want you to get hurt and I think it scares them that after all this time you and Adam are getting things together. It's especially weird for Twist, I think, because Adam is his best friend. If you guys break up then he'll have to choose sides," Rory tried again.

"But that's so dumb! I'm not a little girl anymore! I'm fourteen…I'm a freshman in high school and there's nothing they can do about it. I mean don't get me wrong I love Twister and Daddy but they need to back off! I'm not even going out with Adam and they're freaking out. If they're so scared that I'm going to get hurt then they better just let it go because they're hurting me," Kelsey sighed with her head on Rory's shoulder.

"I know babe…I know," Rory said resting her head against Kelsey's.

"Hey…is everything okay?" a timid voice asked in the door.

Kelsey and Rory looked up to see Lori standing in the door.

They scooted over. "Come on," Rory smiled at her other daughter.

"What happened? All the sudden you just freaked," Lori commented.

"I know…Twister and Adam not talking just got to me," Kelsey explained. The twins didn't usually get along but it seemed that they had reached a truce, at least for the time being.

"They were being really weird," Lori agreed.

"Why is being a teenager so complicated?" Kelsey asked softly.

"I wish I could tell you. Things were hard for me too," Rory sighed.

"But you didn't have a dad to be over protective! It was just you and Gammy," Lori pointed out.

"I know…but sometimes that was the problem. It would frustrate me that she was only trying to be my friend and then would completely switch and pull the mom card on me. And since Dad was never around it was hard for me to accept that he didn't want me," Rory explained reluctantly. She had never really talked much about Chris and her relationship with the girls. True, Chris was in her life now and they were fine but it was still hard for her to think about the past.

"He didn't want you?" Kelsey asked.

"You know…I've never told you guys this story but I guess you're old enough. When I was about seventeen Sookie married Jackson. Before the wedding Dad had been around and him and Mom were actually going to give a relationship another chance. Obviously, I was totally excited except for the little part of me, which was still hoping for Luke and Mom to get together. So Dad came to the wedding with Mom and then he got this call from his girlfriend, Sherri. She was pregnant and he didn't want to miss out on another kid's childhood so he left Mom, again leaving us trying to understand. It was over before it really even started…it was awful. After that things were never really the same…he didn't even come to my high school graduation," Rory sighed after a moment.

"He didn't come to your graduation from Chilton?" Kelsey asked after the had absorbed the story.

"Nope."

"Why did Sherri have to get pregnant? Everything would have been perfect," Lori commented.

"I know but things turned out okay. I mean Mom and Dad wouldn't have lasted I don't think and if they did then Luke wouldn't be downstairs right now…and neither would Krissy and Will or Gigi so I guess it all turned out the best. I love them all and everything but somewhere in my heart I will always wish my real mom and dad are together I suppose," Rory said after thinking about it.

"You wish that Gammy and Pop didn't get married?" Kelsey asked staring at her.

"Of course not! I love Pop and I'm so glad him and Mom finally got it together but I don't know…there's just a tiny piece of every kid's heart that wishes for their parents to be together," Rory explained.

"Oh…I guess that's understandable," Lori nodded.

Rory shrugged.

"Guys?" Finn said coming into the room.

The girls looked at him.

"It's time for dinner," he told them.

"Okay," they all nodded together and he left.

"I love you girls," Rory said kissing each of them on the head.

"I love you too," they said in unison.

There was an awkwardthree-way hug type thing and they all stood and walked down to dinner together.

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A/N: Okay so this chapter is a bit sugary at the end but I don't know I just kinda went where it took me. For those of you who didn't get it, Twister and Finn don't hate Adam, they just hate the idea of Kelsey (or Lori for that matter) dating. They're just being over protective. It's not Adam. Well gimme questions, comments, concerns, ideas, any of that. Much love 33