Chapter eight-Friday night dinner, telling the parents
Rory and Lorelai were on Emily and Richard's front doorstep. Both thinking about how the night was going to go. Lorelai was thinking about all the good thing she was going to say about Luke, then give them the news about them dating, and right before she left, slip in that she was pregnant
Lorelai slowly and shakily reached her hand up to the big knocker on the thick oak door. With a "knock knock." the door quickly and happily opened by a cheerful Emily Gilmore. Emily said, "Hello hello girls, come on in, let Freda take your coats and follow me to the den for drinks. A bit taken aback from the cheerful response, the girls slowly came in. Lorelai had a knot in her stomach, which was getting tighter and tighter each second she was in this grand house that she never had belonged in. Thinking that she was going to tell her parents the same news that made her run away from home and become so distant while just a child.
Drinks went as well as possible, they both talked Luke up as much as possible mentioning good things about him whenever he came up, or even when he didn't. They could tell Emily and Richard were getting the jest that something was going on with Luke, so during dinner Richard asked, "Lorelai, what is going on with you and this Luke man you keep talking about?" The knot in Lorelai's stomach just got tighter, knowing she had to tell them, starting to think it would be better to just get it all over with at once she said, "Mom, dad, I need to tell you some good news that I am very happy about." Saying this for Emily's sake, hoping it would make a difference about her opinion, but knowing it wouldn't. "Luke and I are dating, and that's not all, I'm… I'm pregnant, with his baby. He is going to help me support it, and be there for me and the baby and Rory the whole entire time, we might even get married. "
Rory, not knowing that they might get married, accidentally dropped her jaw involuntarily, saying, "What, your getting married? How come I didn't know anything about this?" She wasn't mad or anything, just shocked and a little upset they didn't tell her about this possibility.
Her parents were stunned, they had never liked Luke in the first place, and having another baby with out being married was already bad enough, but with Luke, they could hardly stand it. So here came the yelling and screaming from Emily, "Lorelai Gilmore, can't you control yourself? You already have one child to support, how are you going to support another one? What's the plan? How is a diner owner going to help you support a baby, or a family in that matter? What the hell were you thinking?" Richard sat there stunned, looking at his empty glass, just thinking, pondering about what to do.
Lorelai couldn't handle this anymore, she didn't need or deserve these things being thrown in her face, she expected them, but they didn't hurt as much when they were just a possibility of what she could say, or what may happen. She got up and stormed out, Rory knew what she was doing and followed her, being mad and shocked her grandmother would say things like this to her only daughter. Knowing there relationship had never been good and she knew Emily disagreed with her lifestyle, but she thought it was just mutually understood, she never thought she would actually verbalize things that hurtful and through them her own daughters face.
Emily followed them towards the door saying, "Where are you going? You can't just run out like that! We were in the middle of dinner, in the middle of a conversation!" After the door slammed she yelled as a last attempt, "Lorelai Gilmore come back here right this second!"