Part 15 'I Don't Believe'
"Rory, Rory wake up, its Christmas" 5 days had passed since the court had ruled Libby wouldn't be spending Christmas with her Mom. Rory hadn't left her room since she slammed it upon returning home. For all Lorelai and Luke knew she hadn't eaten or drank either, all they knew was the door had been locked, except during the night when Rory woke to use the bathroom. Skye didn't quite understand why Rory wouldn't leave her room, but nobody had bothered to tell her about Libby quite yet.
Skye was running down the stairs, Lorelai and Luke slowly following behind her, Lorelai moaning and Luke rubbing his eyes. Instead of stopping by the tree surrounded by presents, Skye ran into the kitchen and began banging on Rory's bedroom door. Rory wasn't answering and after 5 minutes of Skye's continuous banging Lorelai started to panic. Rory had never not answered before, everytime they had shouted in the last 5 days she had said go away. However horrible that made Lorelai feel it also made her feel reassure that Rory was at least ok enough to answer.
"Rory, Rory, answer me now if your in there, come on Rory" Lorelai as banging n the door now.
"Lor, calm down, she's probably sleeping. Not everybody wakes up at 5am like Skye" Luke reassured Lorelai, he didn't like the pain that Rory was putting Lorelai through so he had been doing his best to ease t for the past week.
"Yeah that's true," Lorelai began to smile and followed Luke into the other room, Skye then gave up and followed behind.
Skye, Luke and Lorelai all sat waiting for Rory to wake, Skye refused to open her presents until Rory got there, so they all sat waiting.
7am came and Rory still wasn't awake.
"Come on Skye, why don't you just start to open them, Rory should be awake soon."
"No, I'm waiting for my sister" Lorelai and Luke were both taken a back by this, Skye had never called Rory her sister before and they hadn't ever really instilled it into her, most kids just know they have a sister because they grow up with them but it hadn't been like that for Skye.
"Ok then sweetie, we'll wait for Rory" Lorelai seemed really happy that Skye was calling Rory her sister and she wished Luke seemed as happy as she was. But Luke couldn't help thinking that this was wrong, he didn't want Skye to get too attached to Rory incase Rory got up and left again.
8am came and people were already walking around in the street. Christmas was not a time for Stars hollow to stop like it was in most towns, Stars Hollow loved Christmas and spent ages preparing for it.
"Maybe we should try to wake her again" Skye toddled off into the kitchen and started banging on Rory's room door again. Lorelai followed her, finally getting the chance to see if things were ok. Lorelai had been worrying or hours, where was she, was she ok, or was she just sleeping. Lorelai did the most sensible thing that no one had thought of before and tried the door handle. The door creaked as it opened up to an empty room. The bed was made, no mess laid around the room, all of the memorabilia and posters were still in the place they had been for so many years, the only thing missing was Rory.
"Where is she?" Skye had started to panic and her face got all scrunched up and sad.
Lorelai was scared, how long had Rory not been there, the last time Lorelai remembered shouting in was 7pm last night, she could have been gone 24 hours, that qualified her as a missing person. Lorelai wandered into the room, it seemed cold and dark with her mind-racing full of things. She turned to Rory's desk and saw a note stuck onto her mirror. Lorelai snatched the note form the mirror and read it.
Dear Mom and everybody,
Sorry I left without telling you, but I have some things to deal with, I'll call. Rory x
Lorelai dropped the letter to the floor and slowly her body followed it. She sat, slumped on the floor of Rory's room, Skye and Luke looking over her and began to cry. She wasn't crying for anything in particular, she just felt that right now, she should be crying for everything. The fact that she couldn't help her daughter whom was in desperate need for help.. And the fact that the 2 people whom had been with her through it all, she was neglecting.
Tears fall on your skin and wash a way the pain
The colours of your eyes light up your face with fear
The place you love most
Fades away to dust