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A/N: Thanks to all my reviewers! You guys keep me going!
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Later that day, Rory and Colin were at a little café about 3 blocks away from Yale.
"Coffee!" Rory said, smiling as the waitress put the steaming cup in front of her.
"Rory, you just had a cup before we left your dorm." Colin stated.
"So?" Rory said glaring at him.
"Nothing, just saying that it can't be good for you!" Colin defended.
"You would so get along with Luke. Do you drink tea and eat salad?" Rory asked with disdain in her voice.
"Yes I do." Colin said firmly.
"Ick. How am I at all interested in you?" Rory joked.
"Cuz I'm adorably cute."
"Nope, its your bank account." Rory said with a straight face.
"How is that possible? That's why I'm with you, GILMORE-HAYDEN."
"Shut up McKray! Its Gilmore. Just Gilmore." Rory scolded
Colin watched her face as she tried not to laugh after playfully scolding him.
'God, she is so cute. What did I do to deserve her. Thank God for Logan bringing her into my life. So what if he slept with her, she is with me now, what did I do to deserve this?' He thought as she stared at him oddly.
"Colin? Helll-lo? This is earth to Colin." Rory said waving her hands in front of his face.
"Huh?" He asked dumbly as he tried to regain his composure.
Rory smiled coyly.
"What cha thinking about, Col-Col?"
"Noth... wait! What did you call me?" He said with narrowed eyes.
"Colin Alexander McKray." Rory said with a hint of a smile.
Colin got a wicked idea, and smirked evilly, he grabbed her coffee and demanded for her to repeat what she said.
Rory gave him her patented Bambi eyes, "Please give me back my coffee!" She said sweetly.
He avoided her gaze as he firmly replied, "No!"
Rory pouted until her cell phone went off.
"Hello?" She answered
"Hi!" She said sweetly. "I've missed you!"
"Aw, so you just decided to call me?" She responded to the person on the other side of the phone.
Colin stared at her dumbfounded as she spoke to this unknown person.
"Well, I will just have to come and visit you soon!"
Rory bit her lip to hold in a laugh as she saw Colin's eyes narrow.
"And how is my little Gigi?" She asked.
Colin went from steaming mad to shocked.
"Aw, sweetheart, please don't be mad at me for not choosing Harvard to be closer to you."
"HARVARD?" Colin shrieked.
"Hold on a second baby." Rory told her caller. "Please be quiet Colin. I'm on the phone." She said "Yes. I have agreed to meet with her."
"Ok, I love you too. I will talk to you later." Rory said as she closed her cell phone.
"WHO WAS THAT?" Colin demanded as soon as she ended her call.
"Give me back my coffee and I will tell you." Rory negotiated.
"Fine. Now who was it?" Colin asked returning her coffee.
"My dad." Rory said with a smirk as she sipped her coffee.
"What? You evil girl."Colin said embarrassed as he realized he over-reacted.
"Hey, desperate times call for desperate measures! You were withholding my coffee! It was either that, or face my wrath!"
"Fine, I guess this was less painful." Colin conceded.
"Damn right mister!" Rory shot back as she sipped her coffee.
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On Saturday night, Rory was on the phone with Lorelai, having semi-made up at the previous night.
"So when are you going be back?" Lorelai wined over the phone as Rory got ready for her dinner with Francine.
"Mom, I told you last night, I'm meeting someone for dinner. I will call you later." Rory said.
"Who are you meeting anyway?" Lorelai asked, curiously.
"Just someone I haven't seen for a while." Rory said vaguely. Checking her watch, Rory gasped. "Mom, I've gotta go, I'm going to be late. I will call you later." Rory said quickly before Lorelai could ask anymore questions.
Rory hurried to her car and raced to a little restaurant, Bertucci's, in Hartford to meet with Francine.
"Hello Francine." Rory said cordially as she sat down across from her grandmother.
"Lorelai! Hello!" Francine said with a smile on her face. "You have no idea how much it means to me that you agreed to meet with me."
"Well, I also did it for myself. I always wished that we could of had a relationship." Rory said stiffly.
"As did I. You have to understand, I felt so bad about that dinner at Emily and Richards. We had just found out about your grandfather's heart condition, he was stressed, and he and Christopher had gotten into a fight earlier that day. I just feel so bad about how we treated you. I cried for days after that." Francine confessed.
"Really?" Rory asked as her eyes got misty.
"Yes."
"I do wish that we could please start over." Francine pleaded.
"Of course!" Rory said, tears now streaming down her face.
"Thank you." Francine whispered as she leaned across the table hug Rory. Her face now mirroring Rory's.
The two talked for an hour and were walking out when Rory ran into somebody while putting on her coat.
"I'm sorry!" Rory called as she continued to walk away.
"Rory?" A familiar voice called after her.
Rory froze. "SHIT!"
"Grandpa! Grandma!" Rory said, as she gave each a hug.
"Rory, what are you doing here? On a date, perhaps?" Emily asked, her eyebrows raised.
"Um, no, just meeting somebody for dinner." Rory said, silently pleading to leave soon.
"Who? Anybody we know?" Richard asked.
"Um, well, you see..." Rory faltered while Francine came up behind her.
"Rory, are you ready to go?" She asked, while Rory took on the deer-in-headlights look.
"Francine?" Emily asked, her voice dripping in disdain.
"Hello Emily." Francine replied coldly.
"Rory, is this who you were meeting?" Richard asked.
"Yes." Rory replied.
"Why? After the way she and her husband," Emily spat out. "Treated you at our house, why?"
"Because I wanted to know where I came from! OK? I know the Gilmore side of myself, why can't I know the Hayden side?" Rory asked.
"Rory, we aren't mad at you, we completely understand. We are just a little shell shocked." Richard replied. "Right Emily?"
"Yes. Well we do have reservations. We should get inside. Rory, I will talk to you sometime this week, and see you on Friday?" Emily said.
"Yes. Bye Grandma, Bye Grandpa." Rory replied kissing each on the cheek as she and Francine continued to the parking lot.
As the Valet came with Rory's car, Francine called out to her.
"Rory? Would you stop by sometime during the week? I would like to talk to you about something, privately."
"Of course. I will call you during the week to let you know when I'm free?"
"Ok, talk to you later dear."
Rory waved as she called out her good-bye.
"Bye, Grandma!" Rory said as she drove off.
Francine smiled as she got into her car.
"Maybe things will finally turn out right." She thought as she drove away.
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While Rory and Francine were saying their good-byes, Emily was frantically dialing her cell phone.
"Lorelai! I just saw Rory!"
"Wow mom! When did you go blind and miraculously get your vision back? Does it only work on Rory? Or can you see dad too? OOH! Can you see me now?" Lorelai asked, mocking the Verizon guy.
"Lorelai! This is no time for Jokes! She was with Francine Hayden!" Emily cried
"Wait," Lorelai said slowly. "She was with Francine. As in her grandmother. As in the evil bitch who attacked her at your house?"
"One in the same."
"I've got to go mom. I will talk to you later." Lorelai said as she quickly hung up the phone.
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Rory was driving back to Yale as her phone started to ring "My Humps" by the Black Eyed Peas.
"Hey Mom." Rory answered.
"So a little birdy told me that you had dinner with Francine Hayden." Lorelai spat into the phone.
"Shit, shit and double shit!" Rory thought as she tried to think of a response.
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A/N: I AM SO SORRY I TOOK SO LONG TO UPDATE! I was in a car accident last Friday and I was freaking out about if I was going to get charged with anything, and trying to figure out a way to fix my car. I got my accident report back yesterday though, and it was declared an 'Act of Nature' because a deer caused me to swerve and I went off the road, then when I swerved again and got back on the road, I lost control when I hit gravel, and went headfirst into a guardrail. I've been working on this for over a week, and finally finished it when my mind was clear of all worry! So please RR and don't hate me!