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Christmas rolled on by, and then before they knew it, it was Valentines Day. Lorelai was beyond tempted to send Luke a letter, but felt embarrassed. Sookie told her to go for it, but Lorelai in the end, decided not to. Luke had the same debate with his friends. They told him to send the letter, but Luke was nervous she wouldn't feel the same way.

February fourteenth. A day where everyone in the halls were either kissing, holding hands, or hugging. Sookie and Jackson were holding hands walking up to Lorelai by her locker.

"Happy Valentines Day!" cheered Sookie.

"Bah!" said Lorelai. "Easy for you to say, you have a Valentine."

"Aw, I'm sure by the end of the say, you will have guys lined up to give you their Valentines Day cards."

"Yeah right." said Lorelai walking away. Luke closed his locker and walked the other direction. Sookie looked at Jackson and they both rolled their eyes.

Winter Break rolled along and Lorelai missed everyone at school. Her mother didn't allow her to go to Stars Hollow, and she certainly didn't want to hang out at her own house. So for eleven days Lorelai didn't see or talk to Luke. When the first day of school came around again, Lorelai was so excited to see everyone, especially Luke she didn't mind getting up at six.

Lorelai walked up to her dresser and picked out dark blue jeans with a checkered belt, a black sweater and a long necklace. She curled her hair into loose curls and let them hang in her face.

Lorelai skipped into the building and rounded to corner for her locker, when she saw Luke talking with some girl. They were laughing and Luke was smiling. Lorelai only saw Luke smile to her, jealously hit her hard in the stomach. She quickly walked past them, and went to her locker. After putting all her books in, she closed it and started to walk, but couldn't. Something was holding her back. Lorelai looked and realized she closed the locker on her sweater. She sighed and did the combination again, but her sweater jammed the locker from opening. Lorelai looked up and saw Luke say goodbye to the girl and start walking over to her.

"Hey Lorelai."

"Hey."

"How was your break?"

"Alright..yours?"

"Boring, had to help out around the store."

"Bummer."

"Yeah." smiled Luke. Then he noticed Lorelai not moving. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing..so, who were you were you talking to over there?"

"That's Ana. She's my sister's friend."

"Oh."

"Yeah, she left her jacket at the house yesterday, and since Liz is sick today, I had to bring it in." Lorelai smiled a little.

"Well, I hope she feels better."

"We should get to homeroom."

"Yeah." Lorelai started to walk but got pulled back. Luke noticed Lorelai stop.

"What?"

"I'm..sorta..stuck." Lorelai moved a little to show the black fabric stuck in the locker. Luke laughed and walked over.

"Its not funny."

"Oh, alright." laughed Luke.

"Help."

"Alright, I'll try and pull open the locker and you pull at your sweater."

"Alright." Lorelai pulled and Luke pulled. Just then Lorelai jerked back and was free.

"Ah, thank you." Lorelai hugged Luke. They both wanted to stay like that forever, just breathing in each others scent, but the bell was going to ring any second. They both let go and smiled, as they walked into homeroom.

Five days later, Lorelai ran into school with a huge grin on her face. She ran to her locker to find Luke, Sookie, Jackson and Andrew standing around her locker.

"Whatcha doing?" asked Lorelai. They all jumped apart.

"Happy birthday!" cheered Sookie. Lorelai smiled and hugged all her friends. She looked at her locker and saw a sign that read

'To our new best friend Lorelai. Happy Birthday! Love, Luke, Sookie, Jackson, Andrew and Liz.'

"Liz wanted to sign it too." said Luke.

"Well, I'll have to thank her.." they smiled and started walking. But noticed Lorelai wasn't with them. They turned around and saw her looking at the sign.

"Lorelai?" asked Luke. Lorelai turned to face them tears in her eyes.

"What's wrong?" asked Luke concerned.

"I'm really your best friend?" they smiled.

"Yeah, of course you are." Lorelai smiled.

"I never had a best friend before...my only friend in my old school was Rebecca, and I never really even talked to her...you guys are my best friends too." she smiled. Lorelai started walking and soon the rest followed.

Lorelai walked into her house that same day. She walked into the living room and saw her mother reading.

"Hey mom."

"Hello." Lorelai waited for a 'Happy birthday' but she got nothing.

"How was your day?"

"Alright."

"That's..good."

"Go do your homework." Lorelai nodded and walked up the steps. She crashed down on the bed and opened her Bio book and started reading.

"Ms. Gilmore." said the maid walking into her room a few hours later.

"Yes?"

"Dinner is ready."

"I'll be down in a second."

"Alright, Ms. Gilmore." Lorelai turned off he music and left her room. There she saw her father and mother sitting at the table already.

"Hey dad."

"Hello, Lorelai."

"Richard, Mich Becker called before."

"Your kidding." laughed Richard.

"No, and he wanted to have lunch tomorrow with you."

"And what did you tell him?"

"I told him that was entirely up to you."

Lorelai sat in her seat shaking her head. 'They forgot my birthday." she thought.

"So, I found something interesting on my locker today."

"What?"

"This." Lorelai took out the folded piece of paper from her pocket and laid it on the table. Emily and Richard leaned over and started to read it. Both of them looked up at one another.

"Oh no." said Richard.

"Oh dear." said Emily, both at the same time.

"Today's March third." stated Richard.

"Oh, Lorelai, were so sorry." said Emily. "I'll have Celia whip up.."

"Forget it, what's done is done...I'm gonna get to bed, excuse me." Lorelai got up and walked out of the room. Emily and Richard sighed. They felt horrible. They forgot their daughters birthday.

As Celia was clearing the table, Emily decided it was time for her and Richard to talk with Lorelai. They walked up to her bedroom door and heard muffled cries coming from inside. She was talking to someone on the phone.

"They forgot my birthday, I mean they don't pay attention to me, and I never say anything, but the one day I actually get attention from my parents, and they forget...why do they have to hate me?...yes they do, they hate me Luke, believe me...yeah, well did your dad ever forget your's or Liz's birthday?..see...yeah..I guess..." they heard Lorelai laugh. "Yeah, alright..thanks Luke I gotta go...see you tomorrow..bye." Emily and Richard looked at one another. They nodded and knocked.

"What?"

"Lorelai, may we come in?"

"If I say no, your still gonna come in anyway.." Emily opened the door.

"Lorelai, we never meant to forget your birthday, we just didn't know it was March third."

"People loose track of the date all the time." said Richard. Lorelai smiled.

"Luke said that."

"Well, hes right."

"Yeah..it's alright, I really never acknowledge your birthday either, so now were even."

Emily hugged her daughter, which Lorelai returned oddly and Richard patted her head. When the door shut, Lorelai fell back on her bed and closed her eyes, before she knew it she was asleep.

Months past. It was a week till graduation. Everyone was leaving to go to Stars Hollow High. Lorelai begged her parents to let her go, but they said that the deal was that they allow her to go to the Jr. High and she goes to a fancy highschool. This made Lorelai so upset, she cried every day that grew closer to graduation.

Andrew was having a graduation party, and invited a lot of people. Emily and Richard allowed Lorelai to attend. It was the day before graduation.

Thanks again for all the reviews! There's gonna be probably be like three more chapters, four at the most. Anyway, hope your enjoying it and I'll keep updating unless you beg me to stop as i said before lol. Thanks again!

-Maddie