Chris couldn't take it anymore. He had to say something but he didn't want to say it in front of Sammie, Rory or Luke. Just incase it god a bad reaction.

"I don't want ..."

"Get on with it already," Lorelai said. She was getting a little fed up with how long this was taking.

"I don't want Sammie to stay with you. I know I said this before, but Sammie doesn't belong with you. You gave her to me to raise..."

"What! You forced me to give her to you! And you had my parents and your parents to back you up! You can't say that I willingly gave her to you," Lorelai said.

Sammie stood there in shock. She had never heard this before. She looked over at Rory. Rory gave her a a sympathetic look. That told Sammie that she didn't know about this either.

"Don't do that to me Lorelai. You know it was the fair thing to do. I just wanted to make sure that I got what I wanted."

"G-d Christopher."

"Don't G-d Christopher me. I've had enough of this. The day after Christmas I'm coming here and taking Sammie back to Boston with me."

"Dad please!" Sammie pleaded

"Sammie you're coming whether you like it or not. I'll see you then." Chris stormed out of the house. This isn't how he planned for this to happen but with Luke, Sammie and Rory with Lorelai he didn't know how else he could have said it.

He walked off to his volvo an drove back to his house.

Meanwhile inside the house everyone was quiet. Noone was making a sound.

"Well. We better hurry up decorating then. We'll need all the time we can get," Sammie said.

Everyone looked at Sammie with surprised expressions but did as she said. They decorated the tree in no time flat.

After that everyone walked to Luke's to get something to eat. All of that work could make you tired!

Christmas Eve

Sammie woke up early that morning. She was leaving in 2 days and she wanted to pack as much stuff into those days as possible. This was the longest time that she had ever spent at her mom's house. Even with her dad they had never stayed this long.

She walked out of her room to see that Rory was already awake and watching TV. Sammie joined her on the couch.

"Good morning." Sammie said.

"Good morning. Yesterday was tiring."

"Yes. In more ways then one."

"I agree."

They sat in a comfortable silence watching TV. About an hour later they heard foorsteps on the stairs. Sammie looked up.

"Luke?"

"Oh. Good morning. I didn't think that you guys would be awake yet."

"Well I'm only here for a little longer so I wanted to be awake for most of it."

"Good thinking."

"I thought so."

"I'm going to go back to my place and get some clothes and other stuff. I'll be back later."

"Okay see ya Luke."

As Luke left the house Sammie looked over at Rory. Rory shrugged. She didn't know what was going on either. She was going to have to ask her mom later.

9:30 pm Christmas Eve

Sammie, Rory, Lorelai and Luke had just finished watching 'The Way We Were'.

"Okay now since it's Christmas Eve I am letting you open one present and one present only." Lorelai said to Rory and Sammie.

"One is better then none," Rory said,

Sammie picked out the present from Rory and Rory picked out the present from Sammie. It was tradition that they open each others gives on Christmas Eve. Even if they weren't together.

Sammie opened Rory's first. She tore off the wrapping paper.

"AHH! Thanks Rory!"

"No problem! I always knew that you wanted book since you read mine while you were here last time and you wouldn't give it back to me. I had to sneak into your backpack and take it out."

"Oh. The good ol' days. Now open the one from me!"

"Okay."

Rory carefully peeled the wrapping paper off of the box.

"Open it already! I don't have all night you know" Sammie said impatiently.

Rory finally gets all of the wrapping paper off of the present.

"Thanks Sammie this is amazing!"

Sammie had made Rory a collage off all the pictures that she could find of her and Rory. And the words 'Sometimes the differance between a sister and an angel is simply a matter of wings' were embroidered on the border.

"It was no problem. It only took me about a week to make."

"Okay girls. Time to go to bed," Lorelai said.

"But Luke hasn't opened a present yet and neither have you," Rory said.

"I'm saving my presents for tomorrow," Luke said.

"Besides, I never opened a present on Christmas Eve before. Why start now? So off to bed with the 2 of you. You don't want to be tired for Christmas."

"You're right. Goodnight mom. Goodnight Luke." Sammie said. She walked over to Lorelai and kissed her on the cheek. She walked over and hugged Luke then walked to her room.

"Goodnight guys." Rory said. And with that Rory was off to her room.

x o x o x o x o x o x o x o x o x o x o o x o x o x o x o x o x o x o x o x o x o x o x o x o x o x o x o x o x o x o x o x o x o x o x o x o x o x o x o x o x o x

A/N Sorry it took me sooo long to update. Life just got in the way. Homework has been piling on me since it's the end of the school year soon. Hope you liked it.

Christmas Day next!