I'm an idiot. I am now going to start proofreading before I post. I just realized that Maria asked Luke for Orange Juice and he brought her out ketchup. Anyhoo… You are lucky that the Internet is currently not working as I write this because you are getting a faster update because of it. Also, I will be posting the final installment of Different Plans soon, so watch out for that.
Okay, this is another Author's note written later.
I'm so so so so so so sorry. It's exam time, so you are lucky that I currently have a 30min. window of time and am using it to add on to this lovely story. And I'm not lying about exams. Where I go to school they changed the starting date and so now the exams are at like a random time of the year. Also, it's 70 degrees outside. It is January! Last year it was in the 30's! It was sad that my friend was wearing capris today. But it supposed to be like really cold next week. Welcome to North Carolina!
I'm also a little upset because I missed the new episode because I was babysitting. I gave a tape to my friend Sarah to record it for me, but I am a dumbass and did not rewind it, so she only got like 2 seconds of it. I found some of the clips on the internet, but I am not satisfied.
At least I got paid.
Moving on…
THIS IS IMPORTANT, IT ACTUALLY PERTAINS TO THE STORY AND IS NOT MORE INCESSANT RAMBLING FROM ME!
Apparently some of you are confused about the Lorelai/Rory situation. I don't know if I made it clear before exactly when the story takes place. So if I didn't I will now, this story takes place post-season five. Luke said yes and Lorelai found out that she actually WAS pregnant. Also Luke and Lorelai moved into the Twickham house (in case you didn't figure that out from the first chapter) She and Rory aren't speaking, and Luke and Lorelai haven't told anyone except the twins about being pregnant. Lane told Rory about the engagement and them moving into the Twickham house.
Well, time to carry on. Enjoy!
A Different Kind of Family They look really happy here, don't they?"I'm home." I hear Maria call from the foyer.
"Okay." I reply and continue on with the cyber pinball game that I'm currently playing on the computer.
"So," Maria begins. 'Oh no she's got that look in her eye, here we go' I sigh and turn to look at her. 'This won't be short.' "Something strange happened in the diner to day." She tells me with a teasing grin.
'I'm getting a little tired of the "You won't believe what stupid thing Kirk did…" tories that I so often hear about' I think to myself. I roll my eyes and turn back to the computer screen. "Is Kirk involved in this story?" I ask with an air of annoyance.
She looks away thoughtfully for a moment and then turns her gaze back on me. "Surprisingly, no." She tells me. "Anyway Janis and I are in the Diner talking to Dad and this girl comes in and starts talking to him. She was looking for Lane's age, one of her friends or something, anyway she obviously knew Dad because he HUGGED her." Maria said pausing for a dramatic effect.
'Why is eh telling me about some random girl that my father hugged? I could care less.' "So?" I ask.
"SO?" She replied with wide-eyed exasperation. "Dad was hugging someone. Don't you find that the least bit odd?" She asks me.
I think for a moment. 'Hmm maybe she has a point. He never does hug anyone except for Lorelai and Maria.' "I guess." I tell her.
"Yeah so anyway, she came again later and when I asked Dad for some Orange Juice her eyes almost popped out of her head. She seemed shocked that I was Luke's daughter." She said with a strange look on her face.
"Maybe she's been out of town for a while. It's not like anyone in this town even knew we existed until a couple of months ago." I tell her. 'God, she's going to try and become a detective when she gets older. I can tell already.'
"Maybe." She says and pauses deep in thought for a moment. Then a look of realization washes over her face. "Or maybe she's a part of the family." Maria says bouncing up off of the bed.
'What is she talking about now? She's going insane.' "What are you talking about?" I ask as I run out the door and follow her up to the third floor.
Maria is sitting on the floor in front of a large box popping open her pocketknife.
"Are you insane?" I ask her.
She completely ignores me and starts to cut open the box in front of her. I grab her hand and stop her from going any further. "Would you stop? Just stop! Stop!" I say exasperated. "Now, why are you up here cutting open boxes?" I ask her raising a confused brow.
"The first thing I noticed about…Rory! That was her name…was her piercing blue eyes. Her eyes were really beautiful, like Lorelai's. And Lorelai never really said how old her daughter is, and Luke hugged her, so hello!" Maria rambled as she wiggled out of my grasp and continued to cut open the large box placed in front of her.
"But why are you cutting opening boxes in the attic?" I ask her.
"To look for pictures. There aren't any photographs out anywhere. That's very odd for someone with a child." Maria said popping the cardboard flaps up, having finally opened the box. She sifted through it and then pushed it away disappointedly. "Nothing here."
Matthew grabbed a box and slid it over. Then he plopped down in front of her. He reached into his back pocket and pulled out his pocketknife. He popped it open and sliced open the box. He sighed. "Let's do this."
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"Anything in that box?" Matthew asked hopefully.
Maria bit her lip and looked through her box eagerly. She pulled out a roll of developed film. She grinned a toothy grin. "I think I just found something." She pulled out the photos and flipped through them.
I crawl across the floor and looked over her shoulder at the pictures. "Hey there's that blond chick who was ogling me in the music store, remember?" I exclaim pointing at a blond woman in renaissance dress.
Maria rolled her eyes. "How could I forget, you were freaked out for weeks." Maria said in a monotone. She continued flipping through the pictures and came across a picture with someone familiar in it. She smiled and looked over at me. "Look." She said slightly moving the pictures in my direction.
As I take a closer look at the picture I realize it is a photo of Lorelai and my Dad dancing. "I wonder when this was taken?" I hear myself say aloud.
"I don't know." Maria replies looking at the photo again. "They look really happy here, don't they?" Maria says darting her eyes back up to my face.
"Yeah." I say with a small smile. We look through the rest of the pictures.
There is one of a woman, presumably the bride, walking down the aisle escorted by a young man with dark hair with a lees-than-pleased expression on his face.
The next picture is a man pulling down his really tight pants. Then in the next picture we see that he is throwing them at the bachelors. 'Eww.' I think to myself.
After we had finished looking through those pictures, we continued searching through the boxes in the attic. I thought we would never find anything, but then I struck gold.
I looked in the corner and saw a box with a quilt lying over it. When I removed the quilt from the top of the box, it read the words 'RORY BOX'.
"Maria." I said quietly.
She snapped her head out of yet another box and looked over at me curiously.
"What did you say that girl's name was who came into the diner?" I asked.
"Rory." She said expectantly.
"Come here." I said motioning with my hand.
She eagerly hopped up and ran across the attic. Then sat Indian style beside me as I prepared to open the box.
"We better be careful opening this box." I told her. "I mean if we rip it someone will no that we were up here looking through stuff." I said looking Maria in the eye. She nodded. "Okay." I said with a nod. I grabbed my pocketknife and carefully cut open the box.
When I finally got the box open (it took a while, it was quite large), the first thing I pulled out was a blanket. That was followed by a clay handprint, a handprint collage, several books, a blue cast, and a myriad of Harvard and Yale merchandise. Underneath all of these items, were photographs. There were hundreds of them.
In the roll of film on top, there was a photo of Luke and Lorelai dressed up and a skinny pale girl with big blues eyes and brown hair in a tuxedo. They all looked happy. 'What happened?' I wonder to myself and shake my head in disbelief.
"That's the girl from the diner." Maria says.
I nod.
We continue to look through the film and see the girl, presumably Rory, dancing with a blond haired boy, Dad and Lorelai dancing, and a very uncomfortable Dad being hugged (and obviously not wanting to be) from a large woman. I chuckle a bit at that one.
The last picture in the roll of film has four people in it. It was Rory then an elderly man, an elderly woman and a very upset Lorelai. Lorelai had apparently just told the woman something, because she looks shocked.
"Something must have happened between this picture and this picture." I say pointing at the one of Dad and Lorelai dancing and then at the one of an unhappy Lorelai.
"Yeah." Maria says.
We continued searching through the box and come across a large photo of Rory. I realize that she is holding a sign and not looking to pleased, so I squint and look a little closer to read the sign.
"Oh my god this a mug shot!" I call out.
"What?" Maria questions in disbelief. "Let me see that." She tells me rolling her eyes then grabbing the picture out of my hands. She looks at it and then her eyes widen in surprise. "Wow this really is a mug shot." She says.
We didn't have time to finish looking through the rest of the pictures in the box though…
"Hey, I'm home!" Lorelai called as she walked into the door.
"Oh crap!" I exclaim as we rush to put everything back into its place. When we finish, in record time too might I add, we race down the stairs to our rooms.
Meanwhile Lorelai is climbing up the stairs to the second floor.
"Hey, guys! What's up?" She says smiling when she meets us in the hall.
TBCPhew! Finally got that done. I'm really sorry that I haven't been updating regularly. But I just thought that since I might not be able to update for quite a while, because today was my first day of new classes and oh my god I have 2 vocab quizzes tomorrow, already! So yeah I really should be studying now, but since we currently don't have ANY index cards in the house I am finishing the update for this chapter. Don't you feel special?