Rory was sat on the bed wrapping her Christmas presents. It had been a few days since she had come home and all her stuff was packed away.

The door handle turned with no luck as she had locked the door to avoid unwanted intruders interrupting.

"Rory, open the door." Jess called through it.

"Come back in ten minutes." Rory replied.

"I just carried a real tree across town and up the stairs I'm going to drop it if you don't open the door."

"Hang on." Rory had already wrapped Jess's gift but she threw a blanket over the other presents before she got up and walked over to unlock the door.

"Thanks." Jess said as she stepped back to let him in.

"That's definitely a real tree."

"And I have to go and sweep up the needles it dropped through the diner in a minute."

"Put over there we'll decorate it later." Rory suggested.

"What exactly were you doing up here anyway?" Jess asked.

"Wrapping Christmas gifts." Rory replied. "So I need you to go so I can finish."

"You mean I can't see what you've bought me." Jess asked.

"No, not until Christmas."

"Do I at least get a kiss for buying you a tree?"

"What do you think baby? One kiss for yes, two for no." Rory paused. "She says you get a kiss."

"Good kid." Jess wrapped his arms around her and kissed her.

"You're very good at that."

"You're not bad yourself."

"No go so I can finish." Rory instructed.

"Yes ma'am."

GG

"Knock knock." Lorelai tapped on the door.

"Hey Mom, come in."

"Hey Rory, how are you doing today?"

"Getting fatter." Rory replied.

"I hate to tell you but you knew that was going to happen."

"I look like I swallowed a beach ball."

"You look great for it." Lorelai replied.

"Do you want anything?" Rory offered.

"I had some coffee downstairs."

"What's in the box?"

"Christmas decorations. Jess called and asked if I had any spare ones since he'd bought you a tree."

"He did. I said I like the smell and he went and bought one."

"Well here are some decorations to get you started."

"I was just about to put some popcorn in the microwave so I could string it, do you want to stay and help?"

"Does helping involve eating half of it?" Lorelai asked.

"Probably."

"Then I'm in." Lorelai agreed. "You've got everything put away?"

"Pretty much." Rory replied.

"Place looks good."

"I'll make that popcorn."

"Jess said you threw him out so you could wrap up presents." Lorelai commented.

"Maybe. It's done now."

"Good." Lorelai replied. "So I talked to Mom."

"How is Grandma?"

"Looking forward to diner on Christmas Eve."

"At least we didn't have to go to her Christmas party this year." Rory pointed out.

"You didn't." Lorelai corrected. "I had to go."

"You did?"

"I dragged Luke with me."

"Did you tell me that before?" Rory asked.

"I don't remember."

TBC