A/N:

I want to say thanks to everybody for reviewing. This part begins a little later at the same day. Please read, especially the ending, it almost makes you cry. :P

And I want to thank Sarah for betaing this chapter!

The streets outside the car passed slowly by as the car rolled by. Lorelai Gilmore was sitting in the backseat, trying to forget what would probably turn out to be the worst day in her intire life. She knew what lay ahead and now she was just waiting for it to happen. On the front seat her parents were sitting, both in silence. Neither of them knew what to say, but they were both firious with their daughter. She was pregnant and not to make that the end of the world, she had told the intire school that day.

Lorelai found it hard to believe where she'd just been. It wasn't very often anybody's parents were called to a meeting at school, but she had been the first from her class. The eternal Gilmores, her parents, had marched through the school until they reached the Headmaster's office. And there they had been in for almost and hour. They had left their daughter on a chair outside in the middle of the hallway.

Soon she heard the bell ring and all the other students had the day off. The young girl bit her lip. She knew the rumour, her secret would spread within a few moments. The first students started to pass and she could see on their faces that they already knew. A few minuets later a group of girls passed, it was her girls, her friends. But they just looked at her and giggled. One of them , Dana, made a belly with her hand in front of her own stomach and all of the other girls started to giggle loudly. Only one of them sent her a look with compassion.

She felt the tears coming. Why was she always the girl to end up miserable? Why on earth had the stork left her with the Gilmores? It could have flown just a little longer. Then she could have been a Dubster or maybe a Norrington. But she wasn't. She was a Gilmore and she wasn't proud of it, opposite both of her parents. They loved their name, and they used it to claim more power than they already have.

In the middle of all her thoughts, she heard footsteps. Somebody was walking towards her. She guessed it as more students that wanted to make fun of her, but she was wrong. She had always been popular at some point in school. She had always had friends, and now she had none. She was sitting all alone on a uncomfortable chair in the middle of her school. She felt like some animal that was sitting all day in a cage in the zoo and staring at people, who stared at it. Maybe she was a proud tiger from India, who was now forced to live the rest of its days as an object to view.

She knew what the future would bring. Every day when she got to school, they would look at her with those eyes, the eyes that just told you to stay away. She had never wanted to be that girl, but there she was, being that girl. She once promised herself to get through high school as one of the most popular girls, but now she knew that she wasn't even going to make it through high school. Not with the future that was lying ahead of her. But still, there she was. In the school she was going to leave anytime soon.

The footsteps got closer, and she was forced to look up. For her surprise it wasn't any giggling girls. It was Strobe and Francine Hayden followed by their beloved son, who had planned not to go to college, even though that was the plan. The plan for his intire life. He was going to go to Princeton, and now he was there. Walking behind his parents walking towards the end of that plan.

As they walked past her he looked at her. She looked deep into the eyes and understood what she once had fallen in love with, but that was back then.

"Lorelai" Strobe greeted her coldly before they sat down on the chairs beside her. She just nodded back at them and then looked at her feet again. She could hear him settle beside her, but she ignored him completely. She was pretty sure that the grown among them had no idea what had happened earlier that day. Nobody, except all the students at this school, knew. And that was a relief. More footsteps and she heard a familiar voice giggle. She looked up and saw the face of the person she hated the most.

Peggy-Sue Desmond, her worst enemy. They had never gotten along very well. In 2nd grade Peggy-Sue stole some of Lorelai's ribbons for a doll she had. Ever since they had hated each other ever since. Peggy-Sue started to walk slower when she passed them and when passed Mr. and Mrs. Hayden she stopped.

"Mr. Hayden, Mrs. Hayden. It's an honour to finally meet you." She shook the Hayden's hands and then took a few steps. She walked past Christopher, and then stopped in front of Lorelai.

"So, how's the stomach Gilmore? Fat?" she laughed hardly when she walked on. Lorelai scowled at her and mostly she wanted to pick a fight, but she was pretty sure that people would find it rather inappropriate. And she also had the baby to consider. It was a weird feeling, but it was the truth.

"A girl like that, Christopher. And you would not have been sitting here!"

The silence inside the car was heavy. All of them were just waiting for the big burst out, though all of them mostly wanted to ignore it. But they all saw it coming.

"Why did you do it?" The silence was broken. Lorelai looked up at her mother. She had no answer to that question.

"I don't know" she answered in a voice just above whispering.

"Why Lorelai? You've ruined our lives, and you know that!"

"Ruined our lives? I tell you I don't know!"

"Of course you do. Why did you do it in the first place and what was the big announcement. Did you really think it would make things better that you just spread the news?"


"No mom, I didn't. But still here we are. I can't explain why I slept with Christopher."

"Don't talk like that!" Emily shouted, but Lorelai ignored it.

"But things ended up the way they did. And I shouted the "news", because he asked me to marry him!"

There was silence for a while. Lorelai thought for a moment that she had won the fight but that was before her father started interfering.

"You have no right to decline!" Richard said harshly.

"I have every right! It's my life and I do with it what ever I want to!"

"You do not!"

"In fact yes"

"When the Hayden's are coming over for dinner tomorrow night you will accept Christopher's proposal. Afterwards we will have a little secret ceremony and Christopher will move in. He will get his own room of course. Both of you will stay in school and finish high school, then college. And then you can talk about moving out."

"Who's gonna look out for the little one?"

"A nanny of course. We will hire a qualified nanny, who will take care of the child you are bringing into the world. It will be safe while you work on graduating. In the meantime I will teach Christopher all about the insurance business and when he is ready, he will start working for me. Is that clear?"

"No" Lorelai whispered "No"

"Lorelai!" Emily sort of panicked. How could she say something like that?

"No!"

"You are marrying him!"

"No, I said no! We're not even together any more"

"What?"

"That's right. No longer together. We broke up, that's why the whole school knows! And would you excuse me"

For some reason the car had stopped and Lorelai took that in her advantage. She jumped out of the car and started running.

Her name resounded in the air, but she just kept running. The rain was pouring down from above and the raindrops hit the ground heavily. She was dripping wet after a few minutes, but she ignored it completely. Right now she could only think of getting away. Away from everything called Gilmore as their last name.

She couldn't stop running. Her feet carried her through the streets of Hartford. There in the rain everything seemed so peaceful. Every time it rained it was like the world was remade. Many people hated the rain, but Lorelai loved it. Every time she saw the rain fall to the ground she hurried outside. It was her way of getting everything evil washed away. She let the rain run down her skin and get rid of everything that wasn't supposed to be there at all.

This time the world was cleaned again. The rain ran like little rivers in the gutters. Every time it hid the ground the earth was giving new life from above. Not that Lorelai was Christian or anything. She didn't believe in God in any sort of way, she believed in the power of nature. Every since she was a little girl she had admired every time the weather changed. Seeing clouds cover for the sun and then start to rain, she found that amusing.

Hurricanes and tidal waves was terrifying, but still she thought there was something beautiful in them. Not at all what they did to the world, but it was somehow fascinating to see what the nature was capable of.

She had now run for what felt like ages. She had passed the rich neighbourhood and was now getting closer to the church. When she got to the gate that let into the graveyard she hesitated. She had never been very fond of the church and tombstones, but she felt like it was the right place to be right now for some weird reason. She took a deep breath and then placed a hand on the old gate. It squeaked when she slowly opened it, but it didn't scare her. Slowly she walked down a small path. She passed some small tombstones and then some bigger.

It was obvious that the yard had been divided in the order of how much money people who payed for the grave of their beloved ones. Lorelai walked across the lawn, towards the church. It looked big and dark, but she just ignored it. She turned left and then walked down a path that led through a little grove of small trees. On the other side there were more tombstones, but these looked different.

They were bigger and all of them were some kind of sculptures. Some of them were of grown men and other of women. In the middle of them she found a sculpture that pictured a little girl, a little angel girl. She was kneeling with her hands folded like she was praying. Lorelai walked around the sculpture so she was standing in front of it. The little girl was looking at the sky. Her eyes had some kind of warmth in them and she looked so real, except the fact that she was made out of stone.

Her little face was made with every little detail. Her nose was tiny and her lips looked so real. They were smiling a little. Lorelai was paralysed by the little girl. She was so adorable, that she wanted to embrace the girl. Slowly she reached out to touch the sculpture. When her fingers touched the angel girl's chick she felt the blood rush through her veins. After standing there for a while she looked down on the tombstone.

Annie Lightnet
1975-1982
A girl to remember
Lightened up the world around her

Lorelai could feel the tears in her eyes. It was last year some parents had lost their six-year-old daughter in a car crash and now she was actually standing on her resting-place. Lorelai looked at Annie's face. She was so beautiful and fragile. It was there Lorelai realised what her life would be from now on. She was going to watch out for the child inside of her. She was going to raise it by herself, not with any help from some nanny. Again she looked into Annie's eyes and knew it. She was going to have a girl just like Annie. Beautiful, fragile and hers...

End of chapter 2. I hope you liked it. Writing the ending almost made me sad. Well, what did you think? The more reviews, the sooner I'll update

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