Ok, so ducky is having some difficulties with uploading. Thanks to one of my wonderful reviewers, I now know how to get my chapter up without uploading. That makes me happy. So who likes the fact that I am posting a new chapter, yet again? I bet I can name a few of you who are like 'Yay! We don't have to wait another week!'. Well I am glad you don't have to wait another week for this chapter. I don't have much to say so on with the chapter!
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Italics are thoughts.
Blue+Pink Equals Lorelai
(A/N: Hehe, purple is the color you turn when you can't breathe. So it works out rather well don't you think?)
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Lorelai had found her purse on the table in the kitchen; she dug through it and found her phone. She quickly dialed the number to her house, Rory answered within the first two rings.
"Hello?"
"Hey babe. Luke just left, so don't worry, he'll be home soon so you can go live your real life!" Lorelai said excitedly. She didn't know why, but she just was putting on this face for Rory. She was actually being torn apart on the inside by all of her emotions.
"What about you? Where are you?" Rory asked. She sounded worried.
"I'm spending the night at Sookie's. Which reminds me. Can you bring by the test on your way out of town?" Lorelai asked.
"Ah…sure. What happened between you two?" Rory asked. That's right! Rory hasn't heardabout mommy's little flip out! Lorelai thought to herself.
"I'll tell you when you get here. So can you bring it by?" Lorelai asked.
"Sure. Oh, Luke's home. Gotta go. See you in a bit mom." Rory said as a door closing was heard in the background.
"Bye babe. Love ya." Lorelai replied.
"Love ya too. Bye." Rory said back and then they both hung up.
Rory then threw the phone onto the couch and walked towards her room to grab the pregnancy test. She could see that Luke looked extremely hurt. What had happened?
"Hey Luke."
"Ah...hey Rory. Was that your mom?" he asked referring to the phone call.
"Ah…yeah, why?" she asked.
"Oh, ah, no reason. Just curious." he answered.
"Ok." Rory said. She stood there waiting for Luke to say something else but he just proceeded to take off his jacket. She decided that Luke wasn't going to reveal anything so she would just go get the test. She made sure to grab her purse before walking into the room and then left Luke to fend for himself against his boots which were obviously causing him some trouble at the time.
Once she had grabbed the test and shoved it into her purse, she walked out of her room, making sure that the test was not visible.
"Hey Rory?" Luke directed at her as she exited her room and shut the door. She jumped out of shock.
"Ah! Oh my god Luke! You scared me. What do you need?" she asked.
"Well…I baked these earlier today…for your mom, but considering the situation…I was wondering if you would mind giving them to her on your way out of town." Luke asked hesitantly as he held up a freezer bag full of brownies. What if Lorelai just throws them in the trash? What if she refuses to eat them? What did I do to screw this up? He asked himself.
"Sure. And I'm sorry Luke. I don't know what's going on between you and mom, but it'll get better. She'll probably come over tomorrow morning to talk." she comforted. She could tell how hurt he was. She just wished she knew what was wrong and what had happened between Luke and her mother. She wished she could help in some way. But that was her mother's choice. No matter how much she wanted to, she had to let her mother handle this situation with Luke.
"I know. I'll be fine for tonight. You just go see your friends." he tried to mask his pain but it didn't work, Rory could see it in his eyes.
"You sure?" she asked sympathetically.
"Yeah. Go, have fun." he said gesturing to the door.
"Ok, but I was going to spend some time with Jake tomorrow so I will come by around noon. So if you can't come to dinner, then I'll just take him." she said. All of a sudden it hit him. They were supposed to go to Friday night dinner tomorrow. He had forgotten all about, and chances were that so did Lorelai.
"Ah, sure. Could you just remind your mom of the dinner tomorrow, I don't think she remembers." he suggested politely.
"Sure. Bye Luke." Rory said sweetly with a little smile on her face. She then left the house and headed for Sookie's.
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"Rory!" Sookie yelled as she ran out to greet the 21 year old.
"Hey Sookie!" Rory responded in the same illuminating tone that Sookie had had in her greeting. Sookie embraced Rory until Rory felt as if she couldn't breathe anymore. "I…can't…breathe." Rory slowly let out. Sookie immediately let go.
"Sorry, I'm just so glad to see you!" she responded in giggles.
"How's mom?" Rory asked as she quickly changed the subject.
"Ah…well, it depends on how you look at it. From a normal persons point of view, fine." Sookie replied cautiously, trying not to cause Rory to freak out.
"And to me and you?"
"Well, she seems a little detached now. Come on in. see for yourself." Sookie encouraged when she saw the disbelieving face that stood in front of her.
They walked to the front door and Sookie opened it. She held it open until Rory was inside and then Sookie followed her. They both walked into the living room to see Lorelai staring at her cup of coffee that was in her hands. She had not taken a single sip and just held it against her bottom lip.
"Mom?" Rory said, trying to pull her mother out of her state of fascination in her cup of coffee. It worked; Lorelai looked up quickly to see Rory standing there with a worried look upon her face. Lorelai immediately put on a smile for Rory.
"Hey sweets. Come sit." Lorelai encouraged, patting the empty spot next to her on the couch. Rory sat next to her mother hesitantly. "So, what's been happening. Hey, what are those?" Lorelai quickly asked as she spotted a plastic freezer bag of something in Rory's grasp.
"Oh, uh. Luke gave these to me, to give to you. He said that he made them earlier today. Here." she said as she handed over the bag. Lorelai didn't know what to feel. Was she happy, mad, annoyed, was she falling head over heels because Luke was being so sweet?
"Thanks." Lorelai said as she slowly accepted the brownies.
"And he also wanted me to remind you about Friday night dinner." Rory added. She watched as a face full of total disgust formed on her mother's face.
"Is it too late to cancel?" Lorelai asked. She knew that over the years she had done it before, but nothing remotely horrible had happened between her and her mother in a while, and she would rather keep it that way.
"I think so." Rory answered sympathetically.
"Oh well. I tried. Maybe I could pretend I died! Do you think that the fact that I showed up for the next weeks dinner would give her any hint to the fact that I was lying?" Lorelai joked hopefully. That's not a bad idea. She thought.
"Maybe, but then again, maybe not." Rory answered with the only acceptable answer she could possibly come up with.
"Anyway. Do you have the test?" Lorelai asked.
"Yep!" Rory said as she pulled out the pregnancy test from her purse. Her mother grabbed it and got up from the couch. "Are you going to tell me what happened?" Rory asked anxiously. She had been waiting all night to find out.
"When I get back. Don't worry; I'll have to wait a few minutes for a result anyways. That should give us some time." Lorelai answered. She then walked to the bathroom.
When she came out two minutes later she found Rory talking with Sookie. They seemed to be talking about something and when Sookie noticed Lorelai come out she immediately stopped talking and retreated into the kitchen.
"Hey, what was that?" Lorelai asked gesturing towards Sookie's hiding place.
"Ah, nothing. She just wanted to know about school and stuff. So what is going on between you and Luke?" Rory quickly asked. Changing the subject now, are we? Lorelai said to herself.
"We got into a fight at Sniffy's. He just noticed that I wasn't eating, and he kept asking what was wrong. After about the fifth time I just snapped and yelled at him. I then left, and you can fill in the blanks." Lorelai tried to summarize.
"That's what happened? Why can't you work it out?" Rory asked.
"It's a lot more complicated. Luke and I have been through a lot. We were ok for the past two months or so, not counting that little misunderstanding a couple of weeks ago, we were fine, but before that, we had some issues. Now I think Luke is trying to make up by being there EVERY second he can." Lorelai said, emphasizing the word 'everything'.
"But isn't that good? He is trying to help you and support you." Rory said trying to persuade her mother to give Luke a chance.
"Not if he is going to strangle me. I need to be able to breathe. I am not a baby; I can do some things on my own." Lorelai pointed out.
"Well then tell him that!"
"Rory, it's not that simple. Even if I did tell him, it would take him a while to understand that that is the only way that our relationship will work. I still don't know if Luke is ready for all of this. Not to mention this little one." Lorelai said as she placed her hand on her abdomen.
"Well then give him the time." Rory added.
"Rory! I just need some time to think about these things. I told you what happened; now I just need to come up with the solution to my own problems. So plan to just have me and Jake at the dinner tomorrow." she said. Rory started to talk but Lorelai interrupted. "And if anything changes between Luke and I, then I will tell you and you can relay the message on to grandma that Luke will be coming. Now I have to go check on that test." Lorelai said. She got up, giving Rory no chance to respond. She walked quickly to the bathroom only to reappear five seconds later with a strip with a pink line on it.
"So you're pregnant?" Rory asked.
"Yep. I'm pregnant." she answered quietly.
"You don't have to sound so happy mom." Rory commented sarcastically. Why was her mother acting like this? What was wrong with her?
Lorelai just stood there with her mouth open. Why was Rory behaving this way? Why was she being so rude? Had she really taken Luke's side? Wait, there are sides? Lorelai asked herself.
"Rory, what is your problem? I already knew. It's not like I'm surprised! Why are you acting this way?" she was now yelling at her daughter.
"Because you are acting childish! Just go tell Luke! Go talk to him! Stop acting like you are five years old!" Rory responded.
"Ok, girls, I just made some lamb chops. They should be done in about 15 minutes and then we can eat!" Sookie said excitedly not aware of what she just walked in on.
"I can't stay. Save some in the fridge for me ok?" Rory asked politely. No way was she going to stay here with her mother acting like this.
"Oh, that's right. You have some friends to get to. Well sure, I'll save some for you. I'll see you later than hun." Sookie said sweetly.
"Ok, bye Sookie! Mom." and then Rory exited the house.
"What's that?" Sookie asked pointing to the strip that Lorelai was holding in her hand.
"Oh, the pregnancy strip." she said holding it up.
"It's pink! You're going to have another baby!" Sookie started to jump up and down as she ran over to hug Lorelai.
"Yep, another baby." Lorelai commented unenthusiastically. But at what cost?
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Dum di dum di dum. I feel like singing right now, but I will save you the torture. For now. So what did you think of this chapter? Not much going on, Rory and Lorelai disagreeing on some things, Luke being all sad, but that's about it. Please review though. The more reviews I get the faster my next chapter gets typed. Oh, and what did you think of the chapter title? Isn't it just so spiffy?
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