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Chapter 3: nothing extraordinary

Lorelai came back immediately after Luke had called her. Luke was still furious and when she entered the house a few minutes later, he was pacing in the living-room, Sara still in his arms. Lorelai dropped her purse in the entrance and walked over to Luke and Sara. She stroked her daughters hair, then placed her hand on his cheek and forced him to look her in the eyes. Slowly the hard and furious look changed, softenening a bit.

Then she looked around and saw Laila and William on the couch. Luke had mentioned that Will had needed stiches on his knee. Laila looked at her with huge eyes and an unsure look, like she had done something wrong. Lorelai melted. She walked over to her daughter and hugged her, then kissed her forehead. With the girls on their arms they left the living-room and sat down at the table in the dining-room, where the pens were still laying on the table.

"So, you threw her out?" she asked him.

"You didn´t hear how she talked Sara down. She spilled juice on her dress and she was talking to her like she was the devil in person. She blamed her, I mean... god, Lorelai... she is two years old."

"I know, hon´. I wasn´t allowed to spill something on my clothes either. I´m sure she didn´t mean it the way it sounded!" She defended her mother, although she had a very clear picture of what she must have said to Sara. But she also knew that Luke had reacted very harsh and she felt sorry for her mother.

"I can´t believe that you are defending her. She always talked you down, and you had so little self-confidence that it nearly ruined our marriage two years ago. I won´t let this happen to our children!" Luke said a little louder, what caused Sara to stirr in her sleep. He rubbed her back and lay his cheek on her hair.

"I will talk with her. But please Luke, she is looking after our babies for two years and it always went very well. We need her and dad to look after them. And I´m so grateful that they do it."

"Were you here when she looked after them? Do you know if this didn´t happened before and we just don´t know it? Lorelai you told me that Sara was crying when you left in the morning. She is scared. Scared of her own grandmother!" Luke pressed.

"But Laila loves her and William is going crazy when he sees dad. It can´t be that bad Luke. But I will find out what happens here and then we can discuss this again,okay?" she asked.

Luke took a deep breath. "Okay! But I need to get back to the diner for a moment. Can you stay here? I will be back in half an hour?" he asked and stood up.

"Yeah, sure. I took the day off. I want to look after Will. He will need someone when he wakes up and the pain will be there. How many stiches did he need this time?"

"Three. And it´s not that deep this time. Can you take her as well?" Luke asked and pointed with his chin in Saras direction.

"Sure, hand her over" Lorelai smiled and took her daughter. She walked with Luke to the front-door, the two toddlers still in her arms.

"Hey, Luke!" she asked when he was already out on the porch.

"Yeah?" he asked and turned around.

"Im sure she didn´t mean it like this. She adores her grandchildren." Lorelai said and closed the door.

"Mummy, Sara sleep?" Laila asked when Lorelai lay Sara on the couch with William, but took Laila and sat down with her on the floor.

"Yeah, we have to be quiet, they are both asleep. What do you wanna do? Shall we play with your dolls?"

"No, paint mummy" Laila smiled and stood up.

"You wanna paint?" Lorelai asked surprised. Laila walked into the dinning-room and climbed on a chair. She stood on top of it and grabbed one of the papers which lay on the table.

"´ma. Paint" she brabbeled.

"Wow, you painted that with your grandma?" she asked and the girl nodded and smiled.

"You know what, I´m gonna call your grandma. Maybe she comes over and paints with you again. Would you like that?" Again Laila nodded.

Lorelai took her cellphone and called her mother. When she answered Lorelai was relieved. At least she would talk to her.

"Hey, mum it´s me. Listen before you say anything, I just want you to know that I´m sorry that Luke yelled at you and threw you out. He didn´t mean it like this."

"Well, it sure sounded like he meant it" Emily said.

"Please ,mum, can we talk about it. As soon as possible. I can´t come over, because Will needed stiches again and I have to stay here with him, but maybe you could come over?"

"So I m allowed to enter your house again?"

"Yes, mum, I told you Luke didn´t mean it like this"

"Ok, I´m on my way back home, but I will turn around and be there in ten minutes. See you then Lorelai"

"Thank you mum, see you then!" Lorelai said and hung up, then sighed and walked into the living-room where she had heard something. William was still asleep, but Sara was awake and played with the remote-control.

"Hey babe. Stop playing with that. The last time you ate the buttons. Laila is painting. Do you also want to paint?"

"No, want video!" Sara said and slid down from the couch and ran over to the shelf were the videos were.

"No, Sara, it´s to early to watch TV. We will turn it off and then you come with me into the dinning-room, okay?" Lorelai said and turned off the TV.

"Mummy, video!" Sara screamed and wrinkeled her forehead, an unmistakeable sign that she was about to throw herself on the floor and scream. Lorelai picked her up as fast as she could and took her to the dinning-room with her, so that she would not wake up William. She wasn't really standing in the dinning room yet when Sara started to scream and to kick. It was hard to hold her, so Lorelai placed her on the floor, where she threw herself down and screamed as loud as she could.

Laila just continued painting. It wasn´t extrordinary that Sara or William was kicking and screaming furiously. She was used to it.

TBC

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