"She's been acting weird all week, but last night…" Lorelai paused, "She sounded like my mother."
Luke squinted his eyes. "I can't really picture Rory sounding like your mother."
"Psht, I can." Lorelai replied. "Mom is always telling me that I should have married Christopher and be a part of a normal family. Rory has never acted that way over me and Chris not living together. I don't understand why she was so upset last night."
"Maybe someone told her that parents should be married?" Luke said as he handed Lorelai a coffee refill.
"That's what I thought too, but she says no one said anything." Lorelai took a sip of the hot coffee. "Don't me get me wrong," she continued, "I think it's great that Rory has this sudden interest in church. I just hope it's for the right reasons."
"So, is she going back to the revival tonight?" Luke asked.
"Yeah." Lorelai sighed. "She is."
"Want me to leave a little earlier this time?" Luke smiled.
"It may be better if you did." Lorelai replied. "I'd better get back to the inn. I think my lunch break was over an hour ago." Lorelai quickly leaned across the counter and kissed Luke. "Bye." She smiled as she turned and left the diner.
(Gilmore House)
"All I'm saying is, I don't like the way she talked to you last night." Lane replied.
"I don't think she meant anything by it." Rory retorted. "She seems like a really nice woman."
Lane huffed. "She seemed a few cards short a full deck in my opinion."
"What do you think about this whole youth group idea?"
"Gosh, Rory, I don't know. I don't think Mama would appreciate me doing something like that in another church. Plus, don't you think we're all a little old to be in a youth group?"
"I'd kind of like to give it a shot, just to see what its like." Rory bit her bottom lip. "Lane, please join. I don't want to go without you."
Lane took a deep breath and let it out. "I can't believe you're so interested in this church thing, but I'm glad you're going, so I'll talk to Mama about it and see what I can do." Lane smiled.
Rory leaned over and hugged Lane. "Thanks, Lane." Rory smiled. "You're the best."
As the two ended their embrace, the phone began to ring. Rory walked over and answered it.
"Hello? Hey, Sheena." Rory smiled. "What's up?" Rory listened very carefully, and then cast a look over to Lane. "Well, I don't know. I could try, I suppose." Rory replied. "I've never really done anything like that before. Sure, I'll let you know by tonight. Good bye." Rory hung up the phone.
"What was that about?" Lane asked.
"Sheena said Sheila wants us to come up with some type of program for the last night of the revival."
"What?" Lane asked in disbelief. "How does she expect us to do something like that?"
"Sheena told her that I do a lot of writing." Rory answered. "They're expecting a skit."
"Rory, there's no way we can come up with a skit in less than 24 hours."
"Well, it doesn't have to be a long skit." Rory added. "And it's not like we'd be performing in front of a lot of people. You said it yourself, the congregation is small"
"I guess Eric would like it. He's really into acting and stuff." Lane concurred.
"You tried out for a play last year didn't you?" Rory asked.
"Yeah, but if you remember I ended up as a stage crew member."
"So, here's your chance to step into the spot light." Rory giggled. "It'll be fun."
Lane thought about for a moment. "Okay… Let's do this."
The girls sit down at the computer and began to write out characters and plot lines. Three hours later, Rory was printing off scripts for everyone. They hurried to the Church just in time to catch Eric walking inside.
"Hey, I was wondering if you two were going to show up." Eric greeted. "What's that?"
"It's a skit." Rory said proudly. "Lane and I wrote it. Here this one is yours."
Eric took the pages of paper. "You two wrote a skit?"
"Yeah, we're going to perform for the church tomorrow night." Lane added.
"So, what's up? Did we like join this whole youth group thing or what?" Eric asked.
"Yeah." Lane smiled over at Rory. "I guess we did."
"Come on. Let's show this to Sheila and Sheena."
(Fellowship Hall)
"Oh, my." Sheila replied as she placed her hand to her mouth. "Tom! Tom! Come here, you have to see this!" Tom strolled over to the table. "Look at what these girls have written, Tom. Simply amazing."
"It was mostly Rory." Lane added. "She has a real knack for writing."
"But you know had to help me put all the funny stuff in." Rory replied.
"Hmmm," Eric began. "I'm guessing, since I'm the only male, that I'll be playing Joe?"
Lane and Rory laughed. "It's kind of like Three's Company." Lane added.
"This is really good." Tom stated as he flipped through the pages. "You girls have a real talent."
"A gift from God, that's what it is." Sheila answered. "I told you Thomas, I told you."
"Yes, dear, you told me." Tom replied.
"God promised me a youth group. And here they are." Sheila smiled. "We're going to do many wonderful things. I can already tell."
"We can practice the skit after church tonight." Sheena suggested. "I bet we could learn it in just a couple of hours."
"I bet it won't even take that long." Tom replied.
When church began, Sheila and Tom took their usual seat in the third row. Beside them set Sheena, Rory, Lane, and Eric. This time, Rory paid closer attention the preacher instead of Sheena, and she come to find that the bible was very interesting. She had always heard about Jesus and God and had been told a few bible stories when she was younger, but this was the first time she had ever truly desired to know more about the subject.
At one point during the service it crossed her mind why Sheena was so kind and so smart and always had such a good attitude. It must be where she attends church so often. Suddenly, Rory admired Sheena more than ever. It must be so hard to live a Christian life and only be seventeen years old. She looked over at Lane and Eric. They attended church service every Sunday. At that point Rory realized she was a sinner.