A.N: Okay guys! I couldn't resist posting thie part! I might even post Part 3 Sunday shrugs I'm not sure yet! Thank you all for the wonderfull reveiws! I didn't expect so many! Now i got an E-mail fromstardust19sky and well i tried e-mail you back but i kept getting these messages saying that it wasn't able to go through! So whatI was going to say was go ahead and send me whatever ideas you have! I'll try to work with them! (SorryI had to get to you this way!) Ok now on to the next chapter!

Part 2: I'm Getting What?

"Excuse me?" Rory said turning to her grandmother.

"You're getting married."

"I'm getting what!"

"Once you turn twenty-one you and Logan are to be engaged."

"Yeah, right, and mom's Queen Elizabeth."

"I've lost a lot of weight." Lorelai tried joking. Rory turned to her.

"Oh my god, you two are serious!" Rory yelled.

"Rory, I'm so sorry." Lorelai said.

"When did this happen and why didn't you tell me?"

"It was part of the arrangement for you going to Chilton."

"Since Chilton!"

"Rory."

"And you didn't tell me because?"

"Because this is the way you would react."

"Damn right!" Rory yelled. She made her way to the stairs

"Rory!" Lorelai yelled and followed her. Emily right behind her.

"Who, the hell, gave you two the right to make life altering directions on my part! I can't and won't get married, I have a boyfriend! Remember Dean! Me and Dean equals boyfriend and girlfriend! There is no way in hell I'm marrying someone I don't even know just because you made a bad choice and decided to sell my soul to the devil!" Rory screamed as she ran upstairs. Lorelai sighed.

"This is why I wanted you to tell me before you brought them. So I could prepare her. God, mother, you don't think before you act, do you?"

"Now, wait just a minute, Lorelai, when exactly were you going to tell her? The day of her birthday? Or during her honeymoon!" Emily and Lorelai continued their fight. Richard sighed.

"I'm sorry for this. Lorelai should have told Rory." Richard said.

"I didn't expect her to feel so strongly against it." Mitchum said.

"Dad, they just told her she's marrying a complete stranger. You got to admit that she reacted pretty well." Logan said.

"You didn't act this way when we told you." Logan shrugged.

"Not everyone reacts the same way." Logan stood up. "I've got to get going Richard, it was nice meeting you. Please, tell Emily and Lorelai good bye for me as well as Rory."

"Will do son. Welcome to the family." Logan nodded. He didn't know whether that was a good or bad thing. The maid handed him his coat and he walked out of the house over to his black Jag. He opened the door and was putting on his seatbelt when he heard the sound of a girl crying. Being the gentleman that he was, he got out of the car and walked over to the sound. He saw Rory sitting on the balcony with the phone to her ear. Logan sighed. Probably talking to her boyfriend. He shook his head and walked back to his car and drove off. A girl, as nice as her, deserved to choose her own husband, not have her grandparents choose for her.

He remembered when his parents had told him. He was opening his presents for his eighteenth birthday when his father handed him the engagement ring. In front of all his friends and a girlfriend at the time he informed him that he already had a fiancée and when they both turned twenty one they would be married. Logan knew very little about Lorelai Leigh Gilmore the Third. All he knew was that she had an addiction to coffee and she was valedictorian in her senior class at Chilton. He had learned more about her at this disastrous dinner than he had in the four years that he knew he was marrying her. He now knew she had a boyfriend, went to Yale, worked on The Yale Daily News. That one he already knew seeing as he read all her articles when they came out. And that she liked kids. He shook his head. This engagement was going to be a long one.

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Rory sat on the balcony crying. She tried dialing Lane's number, but found her fingers shaking so much that it took her a good five minutes when she finally achieved her goal. She put the phone to her ear and waited for her best friend to answer the phone.

"Hello?" She heard Lane say.

"Lane?" She sobbed.

"Oh my god, Rory?"

"Yeah."

"What's wrong?"

"Um, something happened at my Grandmother's house."

"Oh my god, did someone die?"

"No, no, nothing like that. It's just... can I sleep over there tonight? I don't want to be alone and Paris is on a date with Doyle."

"Yeah, of course, can I ask you something?"

"Sure."

"Why can't you stay at your house?"

"I'm mad at my mom."

"This must be serious then."

"Yeah, it is."

"I'll get the bed ready. See you in a few."

"Yeah." Rory hung up and stood up. She looked over the edge of the balcony and saw that the black Jaguar was gone. She scoffed. Out of all the people in the world her grandmother wanted her to marry, she chose some high society rich boy who was spoiled and probably had an arm charm for every day of the week. She ran a hand through her hair. Her grandmother didn't know her very well if she expected her to marry him or to marry anyone like that. Her grandmother didn't know her very well if she thought Rory was going to take this sitting down. She was going to fight. She wasn't going to marry some rich guy and sit at home and do nothing, but be the perfect trophy wife. What she couldn't believe was that her mother had agreed! She shook her head and looked at the height of the tree to the ground.

"So tempting." She muttered. But the maid had her purse and coat and she needed her keys to turn on her car and get away from the gates of hell. She sighed and climbed through the window and down the hall back down to the living room. She saw her grandfather bidding goodbye to the Huntzbergers.

"Rory, come say goodbye." Richard said. Rory sighed and smiled. She shook their hands.

"I have to get going Grandpa." The maid came with her purse and coat. She slipped it on and walked away. She loved her Grandpa, but he had to have had a say in this whole situation. She saw her mother and Grandmother arguing in the dining room. She walked past them without a word and out to her car. She got in and stuck the key in the ignition and let out a breath as she drove off towards Stars Hollow.

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"God, mother, I can't believe you dropped the bomb like that. Rory is a sensitive girl and you just tell her she's engaged and has been since she was sixteen!"

"You weren't going to tell her!"

"Damn right I wasn't cause I wasn't going to put her through all of this!"

"What did you plan on doing, picking up and moving to Canada!"

"I was thinking Mexico, it's much warmer!"

"Oh, here comes your twisted sense of humor!" Lorelai glared at her mother, she grabbed her coat and purse and made her way to the door. "We have not finished this conversation Lorelai!"

"It's a fight, mother, and yes, we're done!" Lorelai stopped dead in her tracks when she saw that Rory's car wasn't in front of her jeep anymore. Her daughter had left without saying goodbye. She knew Rory was mad but she never left without saying something to her. Tears ran down Lorelai's face. Her daughter hated her.

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Rory parked in front of Luke's. Lane, Brain and Zach now rented the apartment from Luke since he had moved in with her mother. She saw Lane outside waiting for her with coffee. She got out of the car and hugged Lane.

"You okay?" Lane asked with concern. Rory shook her head. Lane gave her the cup of coffee and led her inside. "Hey Luke, can you keep the coffee coming?" Luke looked at his future step daughter and frowned.

"Can I talk to you Lane?" She looked at Rory.

"I'll meet you upstairs." Rory said as she walked up the steps. Lane walked over to Luke.

"What's the matter?" Luke asked

"I don't know. She called me a half an hour ago, really upset. I think she got in a fight with her mom."

"Huh. I'll ask Lorelai when she comes." Lane nodded.

"You think you can sort of keep Lorelai from coming up. I don't think Rory really wants to see her right now."

"Yeah. I'll send up some food in a minute." Luke said.

"Thanks." Lane said. She turned around and headed up the stairs. She opened the door and found Rory sitting at the end of her bed crying into her hands. She looked at Brian and Zach who were standing there awkwardly.

"We're not very good at the whole comforting thing so we didn't know what to do." Zach said. Lane smiled.

"Thanks for staying with her." Lane walked over and sat down next to her best friend.

"Rory?"

"My mom arranged my marriage!" Rory cried. Lane looked at her.

"What?"

"My mom, Grandmother, and Grandfather arranged my marriage. The second I turn twenty one I am to marry some high society guy who I don't even know."

"Lorelai did this?" Rory nodded. "I don't believe it. Lorelai doesn't seem like the person to do this. My mom, yeah, she's tried countless times, but not yours."

"This has been arranged since my first year at Chilton."

"Wow." There was a knock at the door. Zach opened it and let Luke in.

"Hey Ror, I brought you guys some food." Rory didn't look up, she just buried her face in her knees. Lane rubbed her back and hugged her as she cried.

"Thanks Luke."

"Lorelai just came in." Luke said.

"Not a good time for a daughter-mother chat." Lane said. Luke nodded and walked back downstairs.

"Thanks Lane." Rory sobbed.

"What are best friends for." Rory laughed weakly causing a fresh batch of tears to flow. Lane shook her head. Nobody deserved their life planned for them, Rory especially.

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Lorelai started pacing in diner not caring who looked at her. Luke came back down and she looked up at him.

"She's up there, isn't she?" Luke nodded. Lorelai was about to go up there, but Luke stopped her.

"Now is not a good time Lor." Lorelai gave in without a fight knowing it would do her no good. Rory was up there surrounded by friends who would kill before they let anyone hurt her. And Luke seemed to be protecting her too. She sighed and sat down.

"What happened at dinner Lor?" Luke asked sitting next to her. Lorelai looked up at him and decided it would be best just to tell him.

"You remember when I asked my parents for money to send Rory to Chilton?"

"Yeah."

"Well Friday night dinners wasn't the only thing my mother wanted."

"What are you talking about?"

"My parents wanted to choose Rory's husband."

"What, like an arranged marriage?"

"It's not like an arranged marriage, it is an arranged marriage. I didn't want them to do it. I hated the idea. But Rory really wanted to go to Chilton. I mean she was so happy. My mother told me that it wouldn't happen until she was twenty one." Lorelai stopped to wipe the tears away. "I agreed. I was going to have a plan, you know, to get her out of it. But my mother decided that today was the best day for Rory to meet her future husband."

"No." Lorelai nodded.

"You should have seen Rory when she found out. She was so mad."

"I bet."

"She just yelled at us and ran upstairs. I just can't believe that my mother brought them without telling me. At least then, I would have been able to tell Rory."

"When were you planning on telling her." Lorelai scoffed

"Never was the plan."

"What, you just thought that on the day of her twenty first birthday you would take her wedding dress shopping? You should have told her at her first year at Chilton that in five years' time she was going to get married.

"Luke, I didn't tell her then cause I wanted her to have a normal teenage life. I wanted her to date and feel the good and bad things about love before she entered this agreement."

"But now she's getting married, against her will, to a man she doesn't even know, much less love."

"I know." Lorelai cried. Luke hugged her to him.

"You hate me now, don't you?"

"No, I don't. I don't agree with the whole thing. But I know where it's coming from."

"She hates me."

"No. I don't think she could ever hate you. She just has a strong dislike for you." Lorelai laughed.

"Luke Danes just made a joke everybody." Luke smiled.

"Yeah, I did."

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Lane looked down at her sleeping best friend. Rory had been crying the whole time and it finally got the best of her. She leaned her on the bed and got Zach.

"Hey Zach." He looked up from the TV to her.
"Yeah?"

"You think you could help me put Rory to the bed?" Zach nodded and got up. He picked up the sleeping girl and Lane turned down the bed. She had let Rory borrow some sweats and an oversized shirt. Her black cocktail dress lay on the floor. Zach carefully laid her down on the bed and Lane covered her up. She picked up the dress and put it on the nearest chair and put her purse on top. She got Rory's cell out and put it on the nightstand. She walked out of the room with Zach behind her.

"She going to be okay? Brian asked.

"I don't know. I'm still having a hard time believing that Lorelai did this."

"It is hard to believe that such a cool mom could be so uncool." Zach said. Lane smiled.

"Yeah, it is." Lane ran a hand through her hair. "I'm gonna get some sleep. Thanks for this."

"We didn't do anything." Brian said.

"Believe me, just being here is a huge help." Lane gave the boys kisses on their cheeks and went off to her room.

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