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Chapter 4 – This is my life
Lorelai felt relief rush over her as she heard her baby girl take her first cry. Lorelai lay back tiredness filling over her. The tiny girl wriggled and wined in the arms of the nurse.
"Here she is" said the nurse placing the baby in Lorelai's arms.
She was beautiful, she was perfect and she was mine. She held her daughter in her arms, this immense un-explainable feeling washed over her. The baby settled a bit in her mother's arms. She looked down at the tiny baby.
"Hello" she said, smiling at her. A happy yet tired expression on her face.
"What are we going to call you then?" she said talking to the baby. She had dark hair like her mother, and to Lorelai she was the most amazing thing in the world.
"Umm hey I know a good name, it's worked so far for me, and men name babies after themselves all the time, so why cant I" she said, talking to the baby in baby talk.
"Hello little Lorelai, my…Rory"
"Mum, give me her back!" Lorelai yelled over her own daughter's cries.
"She won't stop crying!" exclaimed Emily rocking the baby back and forth.
"Mum just give Rory to me!" she exclaimed trying to pull Rory free.
"Emily please just give the girl to her!" Richard cried exasperatedly, his head buried in his hands.
"Oh fine" she said passing back her Granddaughter.
Rory calmed down the minute Lorelai took her in her arms. Richard sighed in relief, leaning back into the couch.
"How did you do?" asked Emily in shock.
Lorelai rolled her eyes and took Rory, walking up stairs to their room.
She had been back from the hospital for 2 weeks and had only see Christopher once. Her parents were driving her crazy. Especially her mother, always telling her how she should look after Rory, what she should dress her in and telling her everything she was doing with Rory was wrong.
She lay Rory down on her bed, lying down next to her. She brushed her hand across her daughter's cheek. It had been an exhausting and exhilarating few weeks. Lorelai felt her eyelids starting to close, tiredness falling over he, but she abruptly disturbed by a knock at her window.
She bundled the tiny girl up and lay her in her crib before walking over to the window. Surprise, surprise on the other side of the window was the guy she wanted to see so much, yet at the same time felt like she never wanted to see again.
"Christopher" she sighed opening the window.
He climbed in and they stood awkwardly for a few seconds.
"How are you?" he asked his eyes on the floor.
"Alright" she walked away from him, picking up various things from around the room and putting them away. Chris slowly followed, he stoped at Rory's crib, looking down at his daughter. Lorelai watched as he looked down at Rory, she wanted her to have a relationship with her father but it was hard. He wasn't here, he wasn't helping and she felt angry with him for that. She couldn't just forget his lack of attention, or the fact he had cheated on her. She turned away angrily and was about to walk into the bathroom when she heard Rory cry. It was a reflex reaction now, at any sound of Rory crying she would be there in a flash.
She looked back around, Chris had picked up Rory and was now awkwardly holding a screaming baby. Lorelai quickly crossed the room to them.
"Lor I'm sorry I don't know what happen, I just picked her up and…"
Lorelai took Rory out of his arms and rocked her back and worth until the crying subsided. Chris sunk down onto the bed, his head in his hands.
"I can't do this Lor"
She just shook her head and placed Rory back in her crib, spinning her mobile round.
"I can't be some kids dad"
She rolled her eyes and headed across the room. Chris caught her arm and she turned to look at him. His eyes were red and tired, and although she didn't want to feel this, to some degree she felt sorry for him. She shook off the feeling. He wasn't the one who carried Rory inside for 9 month, or gave birth to her, or got up at crazy hours to feed her, he wasn't here.
"Chris…" she trailed off.
The emotions off the past few months over coming her. She buried her head in her heads, and took a deep breath, before looking down at him again.
"Please…just go Chris" It hurt her to see him, and she didn't want to fall to pieces in front of him.
He nodded and silently crossed the room to the window. He took one last look at Lor before he climbed out the window. He was gone.
Lorelai woke the next morning, she looked at her clock 6am. She's slept through the whole night, but what about Rory. She sat up quickly and crossed the room to Rory's crib. The crib wasn't there. She panicked. Rory wasn't there! Rory wasn't there! What was she going to do! Where was she? She ran out of her room down the stairs. She heard her daughter's cries and headed in the direction of them, her mothers' intuition guiding her. She found Rory in the maids' chambers, with a desperate and tired maid rocking the screaming baby back and forth. Lorelai crossed the room yanking Rory out of her arms. Holding Rory close to her, never wanting to let her go. After a few minutes, Lorelai had regained normal breathing and Rory had calmed down. Lorelai walked through to the lounge room to find her mother sitting on the couch.
"Oh Lorelai did you have a good nights sleep?" she asked brightly.
Lorelai looked at her with the uppermost loathing.
"You took Rory away from me!"
"I thought you needed some time off" she said
"You took her, you didn't even ask me? Do you know how freaked I was to wake up and find her gone!"
" I just thought I would be a nice thing to do, give you some time off"
"What and next till ill wake up and find you sent her off to some boarding school!"
"Lorelai?"
"No mum, not anymore, you can't tell me what to do! This is my life and this is my kid and I will raise her the way I want!" she stormed out of the room, leaving an angry and shell-shocked Emily in her wake. Lorelai rushed up stairs, placing Rory in her crib and starting packing. She was out of here, no more parents telling her what to do. She grabbed a bag from the top of her cupboard and started shoving clothes in.
'Ring ring'
She heard a phone ringing, the sound was coming from her bed. Strange. She walked over and starting pulling back the covers, she found the source of the ringing. Christopher's phone lay at the end of her bed.
The name 'Cherry" flashed on the screen.
She answered the phone, and heard the voice of a girl her own age on the other end of the phone.
"Hey I missed you last night" the voice on the other end said seductively. Lorelai's anger grew.
"Sorry Christopher can't come to phone right now, he's off being a jerk somewhere, bye!" she yelled down the phone, before hanging up and walking purposely to her bathroom and depositing the phone in the toilet.
No more Mum. No more Dad. No more Christopher. Just me and Rory. She said to herself as she packed up and their belongings. It's just you and me kid.
So she left, heading to the only place she could think of, to the only person she felt would be there for her.
He flipped the sign on the door to open and walked back behind his counter. His daily routine becoming more and more natural. 'Luke's Dinner' had been open for 2 months now and business was doing really well. He was slowly leaning all the trick of the trade and the ways of the food industry. He had regular customers and people seemed to like his food. Even his sister Liz had helped out. But most of all he owed his gratitude to Buddy, who had given them the idea in the first place and helped him, set everything up. It had been a big decision for Luke to decide weather to change his fathers store to a diner.
He didn't want to dishonour his father's memory, or do anything with the store his dad wouldn't have wanted. But he knew he couldn't keep it as a hardware store, it just was…feasible.
But Luke had kept all his dads old stuff there. The sign still hung outside saying 'Williams Hardware", but it now had an accompanied by a sign which read 'Lukes Diner".
There had also been some other developments recently. Liz and her boyfriend Jimmy had moved to New York City, amidst many complaints from Luke. But as Liz reminded him regularly it was her life and this was what she wanted, and he had to respect that.
Luke had moved out of his family home and taken up residence in his dad's old office up stairs from the Diner. It made more sense, even though it was suppose be used as an office it made an ok apartment for Luke. He had hated being in that big house all by himself. He was still getting used to living by himself, and he did miss his father a lot.
Luke made the rounds with the coffee pot, filling up empty mugs and clearing plates. He had just returned to behind the counter, as he heard the bells jingle as someone entered the diner. He looked up and stoped when he saw who had entered the door.
There she stood the girl of his dreams, mystery girl, and next to her in a stroller was what could only be described as a mini her. She looked at him, a tired yet happy smile across her face.
"Hey" she said, her blue eyes ever sparkling
"Hey" he said back
To be continued… (If you want me to of course :P)
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