Here it is, the sequel you've all been waiting for you. I apologise in advance if it's not as good at the first but I wrote this for all the people that wanted it so much. Please tell me if I've gone totally downhill in my writing (some chapters are better than others) and encourage me to write more as I have a habit of starting things and not finishing them. I have the whole story planned out but I only have the first 10 chapters written. Thank you for supporting Small World so much and I hope you enjoy this as much as you enjoyed that. Thanks.
"What are you doing?" Jess grumbled loudly as Rory jumped out of bed. It was way too early for anyone to be up. He pushed his head further into the pillow and grabbed Roy's half of the covers for himself. Rory put on her dressing gown and went to stand over the bed by Jess.
"Mom and Luke get back in a couple of hours and I said you would pick them up from the airport" He turned over and glared.
"How nice of you"
"I thought so"
"So that explains what I'm doing awake but what are you doing up?"
"Morning sickness so if you don't let me get the bathroom you'll be washing sheets when you could be having a lie in" Jess' eyes widened.
"Go!" She smiled a weak and smile and left the room, a second later Jess heard the bathroom slam shut. He sighed loudly. This pregnancy this was harder than it looked. He sat up and pulled the covers back. His bare feet touched the cold wooden floor and he winced. "Carpet, must remember to buy carpet" He mumbled. He walked out and stood by the bathroom door. "You need anything?" He winced again as he heard her retch.
"Coffee!"
"No coffee!"
"Water then" Jess left to go get her the water. When he came back he opened the door and sat down on the tile floor next to Rory.
"Feeling any better?"
"A bit" He handed her the water and waited while she took a sip. "Thanks" He shrugged, telling her it was no big deal. She patted his leg.
"Come on, we've got to clean this apartment up ready for their arrival" Jess groaned. "Hey, do you know how much mess a baby creates?"
"Do you?"
"Mom's told me things"
"Please! Lorelai Gilmore is one of the biggest exaggerators that I know"
"Lorelai Danes" Rory corrected.
"Semantics!"
"Surnames" Rory smiled. Jess brushed her damp hair away from her face.
"Come on" He stood up and pulled her up with him. "If I've got to do this then so do you"
"Fine but you're doing the dishes, the polishing and the hoovering"
"What does that leave for you?"
"Hmm" Rory pretended to think about it.
"Nice try, you can do the dishes" Rory pouted. "That's not going to work"
"Damn" Jess put his arm around his waist and led her out of the room.
"Luke stop pacing" Lorelai tried for the fourth time. She sat on top of her suitcase with her head in her hands.
"He's late" He put his hands on his hips and stood over Lorelai.
"It's New York! there's traffic, what do you expect?"
"That he would leave a little early because he lives in New York and knew that there would be traffic" Lorelai shook her head and smiled slightly at her husband.
"What?" He asked, noticing her slight grin.
"Nothing" She replied innocently.
"You wanna go look in the duty free shops till he turns up?"
"Nah, he'll be here soon?"
"How do you know that?"
"Cos I can see him from here" Lorelai pointed to a figure walking across the large airport car park towards the entrance where they were waiting.
"Smartass" Lorelai covered her stomach with her hands.
"Hey! No "A" words in front of the baby"
"The baby is a peanut that doesn't even have ears yet"
"You just remind yourself of that when our kid becomes a potty mouth"
"I think I'll be more worried over their addiction to caffeine and sugar"
"Well seeing as you won't let me drink any coffee and you practically have a stroke when I eat anything with sugar in, I don't think it will be a problem." Before Luke could reply, Jess walked up to them, his hands stuffed firmly into the pockets of his leather jacket.
"Hey, how was the honeymoon?"
"Do you even care?" Luke asked.
"No but Rory told me I should ask"
"Hey!" Rory greeted her mother excitedly, pulling her into a tight hug. She led everyone into the living area. "How was the honeymoon?"
"Horrible" Luke began, "The plane was delayed getting there, the hotel double booked our room, all the menus were in French so I had no idea what i was eating, everything was way too expensive, it rained most days and all the good tourist spots were busy" Rory turned her head towards her mom.
"Mom?"
"It was great, we ended up staying in the small little inn down a small street, all family run so non of that corporate hotel business crap, the food was amazing, the Eiffel Tower romantic and the weather was so European!" Rory laughed.
"Are you sure you two went on holiday together?"
"Hmm, debatable" Lorelai replied, giving Luke a look.
"Hey, there were some good things, I liked spending some alone time with you and just because I didn't know what I was eating doesn't mean it wasn't good"
"That's good to know" Lorelai placed her hand inside Luke's." We brought photos and presents" she added.
"Ooh presents!" Rory grinned excitedly.