"Are you sure you want to do this?" Rory asked as they stood outside the place where Lorelai determined she wanted to go.
"Yes." Lorelai confirmed.
"One hundred percent certain because once we go in there you can't change your mind."
"Are you trying to talk me out of this?" Lorelai asked.
"No I'm just making sure your certain you want to do this."
"I always planned on doing this before I had grandchildren and since I thought I'd have a few years yet I wasn't too worried, but since you moved the date up on me and I only have four months left, it's now or never." Lorelai explained.
"Okay. But you're going to need to open the door and go inside."
"I know." Lorelai said.
"Good because we've been stood here for ten minutes and I'm getting cold."
GG
Lorelai and Rory had several large bags when they entered the diner later that afternoon.
"Buy out wherever you went?" Jess asked.
"Something like that." Rory replied.
"Coffee." Lorelai begged.
"I'll take a strawberry milkshake."
"Okay." Jess stated.
"Oh and Jess, tell Luke Mom has something she wants to show him."
"I'm not even going to ask. He's in the store room; he'll be out in a minute." Jess headed off to get their drinks.
Luke came out of the store room, and put the item he'd gone to fetch on the counter and came over to say hello to Lorelai and Rory.
"Mom's got something to show you." Rory told him.
"What?"
"Stand up." Rory suggested.
"Okay, give me a chance." Lorelai got to her feet. "Okay." She took a breath and pulled down the top of her pants to reveal the black outline of a heart on her hip about a centimetre high.
"You got a tattoo?" Luke questioned.
"Sort of."
"You know this is a respectable place." Jess joked as brought their drinks over. Lorelai covered it up.
"Do you want to explain the sort of?" Luke asked.
"It's not what she was originally going to have."
"What were originally going to have?" Luke asked.
"This cute dragonfly." Lorelai replied.
"And why did you end up with a heart outline?"
"She couldn't take the pain. Which bodes well for my pain threshold."
"I told you hun, that's why they have the nice doctors with the drugs." Lorelai told her.
"She made them stop at half a curved line. But I managed to talk her into letting them turn it into a heart. Although she wouldn't let them fill it in." Rory explained.
"That part hurts less." Luke stated.
"I still got a tattoo which will drive my mother crazy. I bought you something." She went through the bags to make sure she pulled out the box and handed to him.
"Build-a-bear." Luke read from the box. He opened it, inside there was a bear dressed in jeans, a plaid shirt and a backwards baseball cap. "Thanks."
"Looks just like you Uncle Luke." Jess teased.
"This one is for you." Rory handed Jess a bike. "It has whole Rebel Without A Cause thing going."
"Thanks."
"We got bears two, mine has a whole Hello Kitty outfit and Rory's has a Yale shirt on."
"Mom bought one for the baby too. It's got a Snow White outfit." Rory told Jess.
"Sounds great. Give me the bags I'll take them upstairs."
"Okay." Rory handed them over.
"I'll be back." Jess went to take them upstairs."
"Is he okay?" Rory asked. "He seems a little grouchy."
"Liz called she and TJ will be back next week."
"And that got him grouchy?" Lorelai asked.
"TJ insisted on talking to him. He wants to 'bond' when he gets here." Luke explained.
"That would be enough to make him grouchy." Rory said. "I'll take him to the book store as soon as I've drunk this. That will cheer him up."
TBC