A/N: thank you all of the people that reviewed…and thank you to Samantha! I couldn't have even gotten a sentence out without her! On with the story

Disclaimer: no harm no sure…I own nothing

THOUGHTS ARE IN ITALICS FOR ALL YOU PEOPLE WHO CAN'T TELL!

APRILS POV

"April, home already?" Mom asks me. I don't feel like talking to her. I know she'll ask if he has a girlfriend and I don't know what to say. He's getting divorced and he has a best friend that he's in love with? He laughs now? Actually I only ever saw him laugh around Lorelai and Rory. I don't have that relationship with my mom. The one that Lorelai and Rory seem to have and I'm fine with that. I have school.

"Yeah." I replied as I went into my room.

"So, how's your dad?" There it was. The question I didn't want to hear.

"He's fine." I reply shortly.

"How's his life?" Wow, mom is pressing me. She must still have feelings for him. What do I do? I want dad to be with Lorelai. It sounds like he wasn't as happy with mom as he is being friends with Lorelai.

"Fine. Getting divorced." Ok, keep going. Seriously, mom's going to think that he's available. He is but if I think I can get him to crack. "He has a best friend. Her name's Lorelai." Ok I added she's a girl. Where do I put: a huge flirt and is in love with dad? "She has a daughter but she's a single mom." Ok I said she's single. "You said he was grumpy but he doesn't seem so grumpy." I added.

"He always was the king of monosyllabic." Anna sighed softly.

"Mom, do you still have feelings for him?" Please say no! NO, NO, NO. She shook her head.

"If I did then he wouldn't even go out with me again. We grew…apart." Wow, she really still loves him. What do I do?

BACK TO THIRD PERSON

Rory's makeup was smudged but she didn't care. Her cheeks where tear stained but she didn't care. She just wanted her mom. She wasn't at home or at the Dragonfly. She could be at work but it's such an odd hour to be there. Half past one. Rory looked into the mirror and tried to fix her makeup but it wasn't working. She contemplating weather to look for her mom or stay home and wait for her but she was in dire need of some girl talk and Lane was in band practice. She walked into Luke's looking strong. She didn't feel strong. She felt stupid. She couldn't be strong like her mom. She had to be, but she couldn't be. Her posture was faltering and her smile was fake. But Rory knew she couldn't compare herself to her mother but they where so alike how could she not?

"Luke, have you seen my mom?" she asks as if this where a normal occurrence. As if it where normal for her to come into the dinner at 1:30 on a Monday, cheeks stained with black tears, asking for her mother.

"Rory what happened?" Luke was so protective. Like a father. Like the father she never had. Luke is so good he was a father to me and now he's being a father to April. Like mine should have been. But Rory just shook her head to get the thoughts of her own father out of her mind.

"Nothing. I just really need to talk with my mom. Important." She got that much out.

"I haven't seen her since breakfast." Luke says. "Coffee?" He asks passing her a cup. She nods.

Thank God it's the mid-afternoon lull. I'd be so embarrassed if somebody was here. Anybody. Even Kirk.

"Thank's Luke." Just then the bells rang and a woman came in with a girl she thought was April. Rory turned her head down, embarrassed by being seen like this even if it's by people she doesn't know.

"Hi, Luke." Anna said. She was looking at Rory but talking to Luke. Luke didn't introduce Anna to Rory yet because he knew she needed space from whatever she was crying about.

"Anna, April." He nodded to them.

"Luke is it ok if I try my mom?" She asked. Rory knew about the cell phone rule but she hoped he would let her call her mom. Luke nodded. Luke started talking to Anna while April set up her homework.

"Mom!" Rory cried when she answered the phone.

"Rory, what's wrong? Don't you have classes?" Lorelai asked.

"No. Yes. I'm at Luke's come meet me here. Please. I'll explain then." She said.

"Ok. You sure you don't want to do that at home?" Lorelai asked.

"He's got the coffee." She said looking up at him smiling. He smiled back.

Luke Danes just smiled. Whoa. Alternate universe maybe? Anna thought.

"True. We're out." Rory could hear Lorelai pouting through the phone and she laughed.

"Mom. Do you want me to go over to Doose's and get coffee?" She asked giggling.

"Nah. We'll pick it up after." Lorelai said.

"Mean!" Rory pouted.

"I know." Lorelai laughed.

"See you when you get here." Rory snapped her phone shut and sighed. Even a simple conversation with her mom could make her feel better.

Rory walked over to a table and Luke put down two cups of coffee.

"Extra strong?" She asked.

"Extra strong." He confirmed. "Your moms is decaf though."

"No!" She feigned shock.

"Oh yeah." He smirked.

"Luke?" Anna asked trying to get his attention. Who was this girl and why did SHE get to break the rules. Why was she so tear stained?

"Yea?" He asked returning to his monosyllabic self.

"Rory!" Lorelai shouted entering the diner.

"Mom!" She ran up to her mom and hugged her. Anna has never seen a daughter so happy to see her mom.

Lorelai looked at Luke and said, "Food." He nodded and yelled at Cesar to get them some burgers and fries.

Lorelai and Rory sat down and began to talk. "Rory? What happened?" She asked wiping some tears off her face.

"Logan." She choked out. At this name Luke's ears perked up. Lorelai saw this and giggled. Rory perplexed followed Lorelai's gaze and it landed on Luke.

"Luke! Let her get the story out! I won't let you beat this one up!" Lorelai laughed.

Luke got red in the face and laughed. "You've got two minutes to tell your story and then I'm sending out a search party for him." Luke played along. Anna annoyed that these girls caught his attention again cleared her throat.

"I should be going now." She said.

"See you later Anna." He waved.

"Bye April." He didn't ask me to stay. That must be the best friend April was talking about.

"Jess." Rory managed to get out.

"Rory baby we can only presume so many things when Jess is involved." Lorelai said.

"The last time I broke up with Logan was when…" Rory started.

"Jess came and showed you the book?" Lorelai offered.

"Right." She said. "Well he read the book. Surprising…he can read!" Lorelai stifled a giggle and Luke chuckled. "And it's about me. Or I don't know if it is. I guess he thought it was. It might be. It's about a girl showing a boy what he can be." Rory said.

"Dirty!" Lorelai said.

"Oh my God! I just realized what I said." Rory said and cracked up. "About a boy whom he thought was Jess and a girl he thought was me. It might be. I don't know. Right so lets say it is. It's basically his life. I show him what he can be…"She stopped and then continued, "maturity wise! Something you lack!" She said sticking her tongue out at Lorelai.

"The tongue…wow very mature for an ivy league student!" Lorelai mock praised her.

"The tongue!" Rory and Lorelai both burst out laughing.

"Immature." Luke says shaking his head. "April you want something?" April shakes her head, brows furrowed, staring at her homework.

"Need help?" Rory offers. April nods and Rory walks over.

"You see (A/N MAKING THIS UP I KNOW NO MATH WHAT SO EVER) this should go over there but it's not there so now the problem makes no sense." She says.

"No. Think outside the box." She says.

"This is math. It's an equation. There's an answer." She says.

"No. I mean yes. But here trust me." She says taking the pencil away from her. She makes a whole new problem.

"How did you get hat," she asks pointing to the problem she just wrote "from that?" She asks pointing the previous problem.

"You multiply this," she says pointing to a fraction, "to that." She says pointing to another fraction.

"Outside the box." April mused.

"Mom taught it to me." She shrugged and pointed to her mom. Lorelai rolled her eyes at her daughter.

"When you where about six. After that you started teaching me things." She said pointing her finger at herself. And then started cracking up. "A seven year old teaching me THINGS." She giggled. Rory laughed. "So what happened? Logan read the book and then realized you made an impact on somebody else's life?"

"Kind of." She said looking down.

"Rory?"

"Jess said he loved me." She blurted out. "But-but-but he said he'd always love the girl that helped him. And-and- then he said now more then ever. Our love is at it's strongest because we're only friends." She sobbed.

"Rory? He got mad at that?" She asked. Rory nodded her head. "He said he loves you as friend…right?" She asked. Rory once again nodded and walking over to her mom and sat down on her lap. "He got mad over THAT?" she asked. Rory nodded again. Luke came out when he heard Lorelai scream.

"Can I send out the search party now?" Luke asked. He noticed Lorelai and Rory's positions and decided to let them have their mother daughter moment.

"We'll see you later Luke." She smiled and led Rory out to the car.

"Mom, ring the doorbell." Lorelai and Rory both stood outside of the elder Gilmore home arguing about ringing the doorbell.

"I can't." She whined. "We're late Rory that means yelling."

"We'll be even more late if you keep whining!" Rory was frustrated and it was cold outside.

"Here goes nothing!" She ran the doorbell and a maid answered it. "Hi." Lorelai said dully. The maid looked frightened. "If you set the table right she wont bite you." Lorelai laughs.

"Mom." Rory scolds.

"I was just kidding. Where's my mom?" Lorelai asks.

"Lorelai, Rory you're late!" She shrieks walking into the foyer. But Gilmore's never shriek so she simply "yelled really, really loudly."

"Let the games begin!" Lorelai plastered a fake smile on her face and walked over to her mother. "Traffic! It's Friday and there's traffic! Can you believe it mom?" She asks.

"Lorelai don't take that tone with me." Her mother says.

A minute and there's tension already! Rory sighs. "Sorry grandma. Where's grandpa?" She asks hoping to take the spotlight off of the fact that they where late and onto to something they could talk about without her mother or grandmother getting angry.

"I'm here Rory." Richard said walking out of his study. Just then Lorelai's phone started to ring.

"Lorelai…" Her mother warned but it was to late she answered it and walked away for some privacy.

"Luke?" She asked. She knew that if Luke called something must have happened. He knew it was Friday.

"Lorelai?" He asked.

"Luke, you're the one who called me." She chuckled.

"I thought I called...Anna." He said her name lowly. "She hadn't come to pick April up yet." He explained. Lorelai felt much better and sighed in relief. He heard but ignored it. "I guess I dialed your number out of habit. April gave me her mom's number but I guess I didn't look at it." He said. He felt stupid. "Sorry?" He offered.

"Sorry? Thank you!" She exclaimed lowly. "You got me out of about five minutes of Friday night dinner!"

"You're welcome." He smiled. "Anna's here bye Lorelai."

Lorelai? Anna wondered. That girl again!

"Sorry." Lorelai said as she went into the living room for drinks.

"Lorelai who was that?" She mother pressed.

"My secret boyfriend." She snorted.

"Freddy won't leave you alone again?" Rory played along.

"Nope. He says he should call me during Friday night dinners so I'd HAVE to tell you guys about him. His plan worked obviously." She said smirking.

"Lorelai, who was it?" Her mother pressed again.

"It was just Luke chill." Lorelai said.

"Why was Luke calling you?" Her mother asked.

"Force of habit?" She offered. Rory shook her head knowingly.

"Do you talk a lot?" Her mother pressed.

Ok, getting a little personal here mom! "Not much. He hates phones. He only ever talks to me on the phone or his bread guy. Or meat guy. And what other guys do they have Rory?" She asked about to go into full rant mode.

"Not sure. Maybe coffee guy?" Rory said.

"We should get his number!" Lorelai said excitedly.

"Stop acting like children!" Emily said horrified.

"Coffee is not for children." Lorelai said seriously but hen burst into laughter. Rory giggled too but held most of it in.

"Honestly girls I don't understand why you insist on acting this way!" Emily said.

"Dinner is served." The maid says timidly.

"Thank God." Mutters Lorelai.

"Sorry, Lorelai I didn't hear that." Emily smirks.

Lorelai glares and says, "I said sounds good." She smiles.

A/N: IM DONE FOR NOW. I'll get back to the Rory and Logan thing don't worry I just really wanted it to be an LL story but with Rory having her problems too. RR...don't worry LL soon!