Because tomorrow will be a holiday (don´t ask me which one, I just know that I won´t have any courses at university and the shops will be closed) here in Germany and I will have the time to write chapter 8 (Yes, I already finished chapter 7) I´m gonna publish chapter 6 now.
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Chapter 6: Badly insert
Two days later, Friday evening:
"Hello Lorelai! Luke..., come in!" Emily greeted the couple. Lorelai walked in first and handed her mother her coat, Luke followed, pushing the stroller with the twins, while William was still standing outside.
"Hello Emily! Well, I want to apologize for... you know... I overreacted... and I... I just... I´m sorry!" Luke said when he had reached Emily.
"It´s all right Luke. Let´s just forget about it." Emily said with a smile and took his coat from him. Luke raised his eyebrows and shot Lorelai a questioning glance. It was strange that Emily forgave him so easily. Something was wrong here and he knew it.
The twins were still asleep, like always after a drive to Hartford, so Emily turned to greet William, but he was still standing outside.
"William, why don´t you come in?" Emily asked him.
"I can´t grandma" he told her with a serious expression and shoved his hands deeper into the pockets of his jeans.
Emily looked confused at Lorelai, but when she grinned, Emily knew it was nothing serious, but a new trick of William. She decided to play along and kneeled down so she could look him in the eye.
"And why can´t you come in?" she asked him.
"I can´t walk grandma. I´m badly insert!" He answered with the same serious expression. Lorelai started to laugh and Luke grinned, but Emily fought hard to keep a straight face.
"Poor boy. Why are you badly injured?"
"I jumped of the swing and fell on my knee and there was a looot of blood. And then daddy came and tooked me to the hospital. I needed stiches!" he told her. This time Emily had to laugh also. She stood up and turned to Lorelai.
"He talks just like you! Always with a lot of drama!" then she turned and looked at William again.
"Well, that´s just horrible! Especially because you´re not able to join our dinner if you have to stand outside all the time. But I´m sure you´re parents will bring you some food which you can warm up!" she said and started to close the door.
"Oh mum, you´re cruel!" Lorelai said with a smile and held the door open, then walked through it and picked William up.
"Well, babe, looks like your badly-injured-number backfired this time!" she grinned and kissed his forehead.
"But I´m sure your grandfather will pity you and carry you around the whole time!" She placed him on the ground and took his jacket.
"Really mommy?" William asked.
"I think so! Go and try it!" William ran to Richards office door and knocked.
"Ah, jeez Lorelai, do you really have to encourage him? He did this the last two days with every person in Stars Hollow. Which caused Babette and Patty to organize this stupid "carry-Will-around-service! I still can´t believe that 45 people signed in a time table when they will carry around our son! He didn´t walk one single meter the last two days! And then I had to hear Kirk complaining about his back , because he took three shifts in a row and carried this boy around for twelve hours!"
"Well sweety, be happy that you don´t had to carry him the whole time! And now shoo, I´m hungry!" she grinned and walked into the living-room.
"Grandpa I can´t walk, I´m badly insert!" they heard William saying and Lorelai started to laugh again.
Of course Lorelai had been right and Richard carried Will around the whole evening. They were halfway through dinner when Laila woke up. She slid out of the buggy and walked into the dinning room.
"Well, hello sleeping beauty!" Lorelai said, stood up and picked her up. Laila yawned and snuggled closer into her mother. Lorelai hugged her for some more seconds, then placed her in the high-chair which already stood next to the table.
"You wanna eat something?" Emily asked her grand-daughter.
"This!" Laila said and pointed to the fruit-salad which already stood on the table.
"No, something real first, princess! Look there are potatoes." Luke said.
"No, this!" Laila said and pointed at the fruit-salad once again.
"Come on princess. Eat this first!" Lorelai said and placed a plate with potatoes and fish in front of her.
"No!" Laila said and crossed her arms in front of her chest and started to pout, looking at her mother.
"This is so not working anymore, princess! First dinner, then desert! No dinner no desert! It´s up to you!" Laila's eyes fixated on Lorelai and watched every move. But Lorelai was used to it and decided to just ignore her this time. Emily smiled and also just kept eating, while Richard was oblivious to the scene, because William was still telling him stories about what had happened with his knee. Luke tried not to look at his daughter and also kept eating.
When the doorbell rang, Emily got up and soon came back with Rory.
"Look who is here!" Emily smiled.
"Hey everybody!" Rory said and hugged her mother, then Luke.
"Hi mum! Dad!" she said. William jumped off his chair and ran to his big sister, his knee forgotten, which caused Richard to look really surprised.
"Rory!" William screamed and she picked him up and hugged him.
"Hello little brother! I see your knee is fine again!" Rory grinned. Lorelai had told her over the phone what had happened and how he used his injury to trick the people into carrying him around. She also knew of the talk Lorelai and Luke had. She wasn´t living with her parents and her siblings anymore. When the twins turned one year the house had just become too loud to learn in it and she had moved back into a dorm at Yale.
"No, it´s bad! I can´t walk!" William said and the smile on his face vanished and he looked serious again.
"Wow, he is good mum! No wonder Babette and Patty believed him!" Rory said and sat him back on his chair.
"And your grandfather!" Emily grinned.
"You knew that he was faking the pain? And you did not warn me!" Richard asked her.
"Richard, we are watching this boy for two years now and he is still able to trick you! Why should I warn you?" she said and continued eating.
"I´m sorry I´m so late but this course I´m having just finished!" Rory said and sat down on the empty chair next to Laila's chair.
"And what´s wrong with you? You don´t like your big sister anymore?" Rory asked her, while Laila was still fixated on Lorelai and did not react.
"She wants just desert and refuses eating. And because I won´t give in to her pouting she is fixating on me now." Lorelai explained and then ate another potato.
"Mmmmhhhmmm, such a good potato!" she grinned into Laila's direction.
"Where is the wild one?" Rory asked.
"Still asleep" Luke said.
Two minutes later they were all done with the main-course, Rory also, and went on to desert. Laila had switched from fixating on her mother to fixating on her father. While all the others were eating, Luke couldn´t. After some minutes he made the fault and looked at her. Like on command her eyes teared up and then the tears spilled, while she was still pouting and staring at her father.
"Ok, that´s it. Here eat this and stop crying!" Luke said and placed his own fruit-salad in front of Laila. Her tears stopped immediately and she smiled brightly at her father and started to eat. Luke had to smile too.
"Luke!" Lorelai said angrily.
"Oh come on Lorelai. She has to eat something. She must be hungry and fruits are good for her!" Luke defended himself.
"That´s not the point! And you know it!" Lorelai said louder.
"She has to eat!" Luke said just as loud.
"Yes, she can eat what I gave her! That was the deal. She won´t eat it, fine, then she is not that hungry. But now you gave in again and the next time it will just go the same way!" Lorelai yelled.
William looked confused t his parents. He had never heard them yell at each other.
"Mommy, I'll eat Laila's potatoes!" he said unsure and tried to reach his sisters plate. Lorelai stared at him, her eyes tearing up, then she stood up and threw her napkin on the table and walked towards the living-room. In the doorway she stopped and turned around and looked at Luke.
"I told you this is not working anymore! And you agreed. You said we will change things. And the first time a situation comes up you don't keep your promise. And now look at your son! Is that what you want for the future?" she yelled at him and left the room.
"Mummy?" William called after her, crying, and Laila started to cry also. Their parents never yelled. Their dad sometimes yelled at Taylor or Kirk, but they never yelled at each other.
Rory was also shocked. Of course they yelled at each other from time to time. But never in front of the kids.
"I'll go and look after her" she said and followed her mother, while Luke also stood up and left to the backyard and Emily and Richard soothed William and Laila.
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