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A/N: Thanks for all your encouraging reviews! Sorry this took so long—I had writer's block for a while and then school has been crazy!

Chapter 5: Touring Stars Hollow

The small group of 5 made their way to Luke's Diner and when they arrived, they found the small diner packed with the exception of one table by the window. Lorelai found this a bit odd, but Rory just looked around and tried to smile at everyone. Luke nodded at the group as they sat down at that table and waved to let them know he'd be right over.

Rory took a seat between Maddy and Lorelai and Christopher placed Brooke in her high chair on the other side of him. Rory opened up one of the menus and tried to ignore that fact that everyone in the diner was staring at them.

Luke sauntered over, and said, "Good afternoon."

Lorelai just smiled, but Rory answered, "Hello."

This was the first that Luke noticed Rory and he held out his hand to her, "I'm Luke, the owner, and a good friend of Lorelai's."

Rory shook his hand and smiled, "I'm Lorelai's daughter, Rory. Nice to meet you."

The whole diner gasped at this and they all began whispering amongst themselves. Luke looked surprised, but quickly recovered and asked what they would all like to eat. Everyone, but Rory ordered the usual. Rory ordered a bacon double cheeseburger with chili on the side and french fries and a coffee. Luke looked at Rory in disbelief at how much she could eat, but then turned to Lorelai and gave a small smile.

"She really is your daughter," he quipped, before walking back towards the counter.

There was light chit-chat throughout the diner and Lorelai tried to explain to Rory about the first time she found the diner. "It was about 8 years ago, when Maddy was just a little baby and we had lived in Stars Hollow for about a year. I needed my daily dose of caffeine and I was walking by this place and I was surprised I'd never been in, but I ran in and found Luke running around the diner serving everyone and I ran up to him and begged him for coffee. He turned and told me that I had to wait my turn just like everybody else. Of course, I couldn't wait, I was late for work and I needed coffee right then and there. I kept following him around and when he wouldn't give me coffee I asked him for his birthday. After asking a couple of times he finally told me and I pulled out a newspaper and a pen and found the horoscope section and wrote next to the Scorpio section, 'You will meet an annoying woman today. Give her coffee and she'll go away.' Guess what he did next!"

"He, uh, gave you coffee?" Rory asked uncertainly.

"Yup, but, unfortunately for him I didn't go away," Lorelai responded proudly.

"She's been so annoying, but good business, so I don't kick her out," Luke told Rory as he came back to the table with their orders.

As they were eating, it was Patty who was asked to represent the rest of the diner and she approached the table.

"Hello, darling, I'm Miss Patty. I run the local dance studio and I'd like to be the first to welcome you to our lovely town. Have you ever taken dance lessons?"

Rory glanced at Miss Patty and quietly answered, "When I was little, my parents had me in dance lessons for a couple of years, but I never got very good."

"Well, that's a shame, honey, but it's nice to meet you."

"You too Miss Patty, thank you," Rory answered looking at Lorelai.

The rest of lunch went relatively smoothly although there was gossip among the rest of the diner patrons about how Rory could be Lorelai's daughter. One such bit of gossip was that Rory was Lorelai's daughter from another man before Christopher and that she and Chris were on the brink of divorce now that this had been brought forth. Luke tried to make sure that the gossip-mongers did not disturb the rest of his customers.

Finally after Chris paid, the family left the diner and Lorelai offered to give Rory a tour of the town while Chris dropped Maddy off at her piano lesson and took Brooke home for her nap.

After warning Rory about the gossip of the town and about Taylor's antics, Lorelai took Rory to Kim's Antique's. She figured that maybe Rory would like to meet some one her own age.

When they entered the store, Mrs. Kim came over saying, "Everything is 20 off this weekend only," but when she saw Lorelai, she stopped.

"Lorelai, how can I help you? Do you need Lane to baby-sit?"

Lorelai smiled at Mrs. Kim before answering, "Actually, Mrs. Kim, not this weekend, but I wanted to introduce someone to you and Lane. This is my daughter, Rory," she said looking over at Rory.

"Lorelai, I know your daughters and this is not one of them. Now what do you really want? I have to get back to work"

Rory tried to hide a giggle at this woman's lack of patience, but Lorelai just sighed.

"Mrs. Kim, really this is my daughter, I had her when I was young and gave her up for adoption. She's here visiting this weekend."

"Oh, well then it's nice to meet you. Here take some pamphlets," she said and she shoved a handful of pamphlets all about the Devil and how to save oneself from evil and to find God. Then, she turned toward the stairs and called, "Lane, come down here."

A young, Korean girl about Rory's age walked down the stairs wearing a black skirt and a conservative brown sweater.

"Yes, Mama," she answered looking at her mother, and then she turned to Lorelai, "Hello, Lorelai."

"Lane, this Lorelai's daughter, Rory."

"Hello, it's nice to meet you," Lane said holding out her hand.

Rory took her hand and smiled, "It's nice to meet you too."

Lorelai asked Mrs. Kim about a set of chairs and they went off to look at them, leaving Rory and Lane alone.

"So, um are you living with Lorelai now?" Lane asked.

"No, I actually live up in Boston with my adopted family. I actually just found out that I was adopted yesterday, but I wanted to come down here and meet my blood family."

"Oh, I'm sorry," Lane said, looking incredibly uncomfortable.

"It's ok, everything is just very confusing and I don't ever want to hurt my family in Boston, but I also want to figure out exactly who I am now."

"Ok…what type of music do you like?"

"Well, I'm a big fan of most everything, especially PJ Harvey and anything rock."

"Really? Me too! I want to be in a rock band and play the drums!"

By the time Lorelai came back, the two girls were deep in conversation, but as soon as Mrs. Kim walked up behind her Lane immediately stopped talking and looked at the floor.

"Are you ready to go?" Lorelai asked looking at Rory, who nodded and smiled at Lane before she followed Lorelai out of the store.

A/N: So what do you think? Please r/r and let me know. I promise to try and update this sooner next time! The next chapter will have a scene between Chris and Lorelai and also one between Lorelai and Luke. We will also see some more of Rory's thoughts about the adoption.