Well this is a short chapter, but it only took me two days. I am guessing that this chapter will make you all very happy. I don't have much to say except that this might be the last chapter for a while. I have been having some trouble writing this story. It is just not turning out the way I want it to, and it's just taking so long to write! This fic will probably end up being around 90 pages total. So far it's up to 48 pages. Makes you feel like there's no ending. It is kind of intimidating to me. I don't know why, but it might be because I have to find a way to keep my writing up to par for another 13 chapters or so. Anyway, I hope you like this story, but remember, all goods come with bads.

Disclaimer: do I have to explain this over again?

Chapter 13: Water, Squid, and a Meeting

As Lorelai approached her parents' house she hoped that Rory had told them that Luke wasn't coming. She could just imagine them yelling at her for not telling them that Luke wasn't going to be there. She pulled into the driveway and got out of the jeep. She saw that Rory already had arrived. She walked over to the door and rang the bell.

"Hello. May I help you?" the maid asked.

"I'm Lorelai, Emily and Richard's daughter." Lorelai answered. The maid granted her entrance and took Lorelai's coat.

"Lorelai! How are you?" her father asked as she walked into the living room.

"I'm good. And you?" she responded. She sat down next to Rory. Emily was holding Jake now, who had been brought by Rory. Before her father could answer, Emily interrupted.

"Where's Luke?"

"What?" Lorelai asked.

"I was informed that Luke would be coming." Emily answered.

"Well, he couldn't make it." Lorelai said flashing Rory a face that said 'change-the-subject-now!'.

"So, Grandpa, can I have more to drink?" Rory interrupted the little thing going on between her mother and grandmother.

"Certainly. Lorelai would you like something?" Richard asked.

"Uh, maybe just some water." she said. And then she realized she had just walked into a trap.

"Water? What's wrong with you?" Emily asked. God she is just so full of questions tonight isn't she?

"I'm driving home tonight." Lorelai answered simply. Did she buy it? Thankfully she did and they went back to talking about what Rory was planning on doing this summer.

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"Mmhhh. This is good grandma! What is it?" Rory asked as she stuffed her face with her fork.

"You don't want to know. Trust me." Lorelai commented before Emily could answer. Rory gave her a puzzled glance before turning to her grandmother.

"It's squid." Emily answered before taking a bite of her food. Rory's face went pale as she dropped her fork. Lorelai just laughed at this.

"What did I tell you?" Lorelai said as she dropped the fork that she had been feeding Jake with. He had now refused to eat anymore of his applesauce so Lorelai gave up.

"Lorelai. Why don't you let me have Harriet clean the child up?" Emily suggested.

"Uh, for one thing, she said her name was Hannah, and two, he needs to be able to play with his food every once in a while. I will get to cleaning him up eventually." she said as she picked at her food. She had not eaten anything all evening long because it made her stomach queasy.

"What's wrong with the food?" Emily asked when she noticed Lorelai picking at her food.

"What?" Lorelai asked.

"You're not eating? What's wrong with the food?" she asked.

"It's squid." Lorelai answered quickly.

"But you have been picking at all of your food. What's wrong with you--oh my god!" Emily screamed. Everyone looked at her quickly. "You're pregnant!" Emily said as she freaked out.

"What?" Lorelai asked. Don't tell the truth, don't tell the truth. Lorelai kept telling herself.

"You're not drinking, you're not eating. You're pregnant. Admit it!" Emily said.

"What?" she asked in astonishment. How does she do that? No one can figure that out except for Mrs. Emily Gilmore. Maybe she should be studied for scientific purposes.

"Please Emily. If Lorelai was pregnant she would tell us. Wouldn't you?" Richard asked Lorelai. When all that Lorelai did was sit there silently, Emily found it necessary to resume her attack.

"You are pregnant! I know you! The last time you didn't eat was when you were pregnant for Jake. And now you are here trying to tell me you aren't? Why that's just ridiculous! Are you too hateful that you refuse to admit to your only parents that you are pregnant?" Emily ranted in her anger. What is with her? Why is every thing about her? Lorelai thought to herself.

"Fine, I'm pregnant! Happy?" she said defeated.

"Is that why Luke isn't here? You told him and now he's running? Is that it?" she said accusingly as if she had won something.

"No mom, that's not it. Luke doesn't even know" Lorelai retorted. She could feel the anger start to rise up inside of her.

"So what? You're running now? Like last time? Or are you being original and thinking of some other way to get out of having a man there for you?" her mother accused with a look that showed her disgust for her daughter at that moment.

"Oh my god! You don't even like Luke! Why are you defending him now?" Lorelai yelled.

"I never said I didn't like him." she responded calmly.

"What planet are you from? You broke us up over a year ago! It's your fault I was alone for all of those months while I was pregnant!" she screamed at her mother.

"So now you feel like repeating that?" Emily asked sharply.

"I can't take this." Lorelai said as she got up and threw her napkin on the table and walked to the door.

"Mom! Wait!" Rory said as she chased after her mother.

"What Rory?" Lorelai asked as she turned around. She had tears streaming down her face.

"What about Jake?" Rory asked quietly.

"Oh, crap. That's right. Can you just drop him off at the house when you leave? I really can't take him now. I might get in an accident on the road and I can't chance him being in the car for that." Lorelai joked. The fact was that she actually saw that as a possibility. In the state she was in, she might get into some sort of accident.

"Ok, but mom, you know that grandma is right, don't you?" Rory added quietly. It was true. Rory saw it as the truth. Her mother had always been the one to keep these things a secret to protect herself. Rory couldn't take it any more. She had to tell her mother.

"Oh my god! Not you too! God Rory! I will tell him! But not now!" she yelled at her daughter. She really didn't want to talk about this now.

"But when? Soon? In a week? In a month? The day you go into labor?" Rory asked sharply. These questions cut into Lorelai like a knife.

"Rory! This is none of your business! Just go back and enjoy dinner with your grandparents." she said as she turned to leave.

"You need to just forgive him! This is hurting him too! And you know it! But fine. Be selfish mom. Luke is hurting and you know it. And you can't even give him a chance!" Rory finished. She then turned and walked back into the dining room. Lorelai was frozen on the spot. Had her daughter just lectured her? Rory had NEVER talked to her that harshly. NEVER. Tears streamed down her face as she grabbed her coat and made her way out to the jeep.

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She had somehow ended up there. She had parked in the empty driveway and had made her way onto the porch. She didn't feel like going inside the house because that would make it so much harder to think. She just sat on the porch steps. What was going to happen? What would Luke say when she told him about the baby? Would he be happy? She knew he wouldn't run but what would his exact reaction be? How was she supposed to bring that topic up during the fight that was almost inevitable?

"Lorelai?" she heard Luke call her name from in front of her.

"Luke?" she said quietly.

"What are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to be at your parents' dinner?" he asked as he approached the house with a couple of Doose's bags in hand. Lorelai noticed that she still had tears streaming down her face. Wow, Rory and her mother had really affected her. She never realized how much other people could get to her.

"Uh…" she sniffled. "Yeah, but it was cut short by a sudden change in conversation." she said dancing around the subject. She was still sniffling. Luke placed the bags down and sat down next to her, pulling her body into his. "Why does she have to be so rude? Why does it always have to be my fault?" Lorelai sobbed into Luke's shoulder.

He didn't know what to say. She was probably talking about Emily and he didn't know what Emily had blamed Lorelai for this time.

"Do you want to tell me what happened?" he asked slowly trying not to upset her more.

"Yeah. But first I have to tell you something else Luke. Promise you won't freak out because I didn't tell you right away." she begged as her eyes glittered with tears that were just waiting to erupt from her eyes.

"What?" he asked. What the hell is she about to tell me? Oh god! What is she going to tell me? He asked in his head. He was now panicking inside but he couldn't show it.

"Promise you will just hear me out Luke." she asked again. God! Don't freak out! Don't freak out! If there was ever a time that I need a miracle, it would be now so Luke won't freak out!

"Ok. What do I need to not freak out about?" he asked. Warning! Warning! Unidentified topic about to be thrown out into the open air that you can't stop! He thought to himself.
"Luke," she paused. "I'm pregnant."

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Cliffhanger! Oh god! I love 'em! They are so fun to write! And to hear your reactions! I don't actually know how I want to have Luke react. Well, I do, but I don't know how I'm going to write it. But anyway, please tell me what you think? Do you now hate me because of the nice little cliffhanger I left you? Do you think Emily and Richard were in character enough? Please tell me what you like about this chapter, and what part of this chapter you don't like. Review!

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