Four months. That is how long she had been dating her current boyfriend. That is also how long she had gone without telling her mom anything about her love life. In reality she had not told anyone. The only people who knew about this relationship were her, her boyfriend, Paris, and his two best friends. How had they managed to keep their relationship from everyone was beyond her. But now only three small words that he said were racing through his head. "Meet my parents." He wanted to take her home for the Christmas Holidays. His older brother was having an engagement party and he wanted her to be there at his side.

But she had already made plans for herself for the Christmas holidays. She had to be home for the annual Stars Hallow Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony on Christmas Eve followed by her moms first annual Christmas Eve Bash. And she had on good account that her mom would be getting a very beautiful piece of Jewelry for Christmas form Luke. She had to be home as the only child of Lorelia Gilmore it would be noticeable if she did not show up for the middle of the night walks in the snow.

They both had made plans without thinking of the other except he expected her to be at his parents for Christmas and she really did not care where he was as long as she was in Stars Hallow with her mom and Luke.

"Ace we need to discuss this. You have to come home with me. My parents expect me to have a date and I had planned on you being my date. Even Colin has a date."

"Good for him, I am going home. End of Story."

"What is so important in that small town that you can not spend Christmas Holidays with me?"

"I don't know Logan, maybe the people I love, who love me, the woman who gave birth to me, and if you drive 30 minutes you get the people who are paying my college tuition that is not paid for by scholarship." Rory's sarcasm to Logan's question did not go unnoticed by him.

"Oh, so I don't love you now? Fine Rory go home for the holidays and when you get back you can forget about me." Logan said getting off the couch and grabbing his coat.

Before Rory could respond he was gone.

"Paris, you are still coming with me to the party?" Finn asked the girl curled up on the couch next to him. They had been set up on a date by Rory mainly because she had gotten tired of hearing Paris whine of being lonely on a Friday night.

"Yes. And you are still going to Rory's for Christmas Eve with me?"

"Wouldn't miss it," Finn replied before going back to the movie.

It had probably been thirty seconds later that the door flew open and slammed shut followed by the door to Logan's room.

"I think I better go check on Rory. If he came in that mad, there is no telling what she is doing." Paris said pushing herself off the couch. "One time I heard doors slam like that she didn't wait thirty minutes to start the 'Box'."

"Ok, I will see you tomorrow to head to your house."

"Love ya Aussie boy."

"Love you too."

Paris quickly kissed him and headed for her room to make sure Rory was ok.

After Logan had left Rory just stared at her door. He had just broken up with her for really no reason what so ever. All she wanted was to spend Christmas with her mom and Luke. And he wanted her to go with him to his brother's engagement party. He did not care that she wanted to see her mom.

Rory got off the couch she had been sitting on for the past ten minutes staring at the TV not noticing that the show she had been watching before Logan came over was off and that Willy Wonka had started. She went to her room to call her mom.

"Gilmore Christmas hotline, if you want to know what to buy me press one, if you already bought my gift press two and tell me what it is, if you want to know what I bought you press three and hold for dial tone."

"Ok, what do I press if I may not make it to Christmas?" Rory asked her mom.

"Not a funny question. That is not an option Rory." Lorelia said.

"I know mom, but I don't think I can come, Paris will be there for your party, but I really need to go with Logan."

"But you missed last year when you decided that you could not be in the same small town with Dean. So you and Paris packed up and left for the whole entire Holidays."

"Mom, I need to talk to Logan, I think he broke up with me because I would not go to the stupid engagement party with him originally because I wanted to come home and be with you."

"Fine, but I am not happy about this. And if he broke up with you why do you need to go anyways. You aren't with him anymore. Please come home for Christmas, I miss you, Lane misses you, and everyone else in this one horse town."

"Mom, I know, but I really do think I love him and I guess my heart tells me I need to go. If I don't show up that means that I talked to him and I will be with him on Christmas, but Paris will still be there and so will her boyfriend. Please welcome them with open arms on my behalf, don't forget the plan was for her to stay that night so they can sleep in my room." Rory told her mom.

"Sweetie, at least call me Christmas morning so that I can tell you everything I got for Christmas. And I can tell you what I got Luke."

"Deal, I got to go, Paris should be back soon from Finn's."

With final goodbye and good lucks from Lorelia, Rory hung up the phone and exited her room to see Paris opening the door.

"Are you going to be ok?" Paris asked noticing Rory at her bedroom door.

"Yeah, he got mad because I want to be with my mom on Christmas and he wants me with him so that I can be his date for some stupid engagement party. He doesn't care that my mom is getting engaged Christmas morning, or that I missed last Christmas because I couldn't go home."

"You go home, and I will bring the best gift to you Christmas Eve."

"A year's supply worth of coffee?"

"If it will make you smile on Christmas Eve. Plus I have better for you and this one calls you 'Mary'." Paris told her before going to her room.