"Why exactly did we agree to this?" Rory asked yawning.
"Because you told you're grandparents that we'd go to dinner." Jess replied. "And take Libby."
"What was I thinking?"
"We're exhausted I doubt you were thinking." Jess answered. "But we're supposed to be going, unless you want to call and cancel."
"No." Rory replied. "But I think you'll have to drive."
"Not a problem. She ready?"
"As she'll ever be for her first Gilmore Friday Night dinner."
"She does look cute." Jess remarked.
"She always looks cute." Rory stated.
"And you might want to put some shoes on." Jess told her.
"What?"
They both looked down at her feet where she was wearing fluffy slippers.
"I'll put some shoes on."
"Good idea."
GG
"It goes a lot quicker if you ring the bell hun." Lorelai came up behind where Rory was stood in front of the door.
"It's too much effort." Rory replied.
"Which is why we decided to stay in the car." Jess said from where he was sat in the car next to Libby's car seat keeping warm.
"You could have called and cancelled." Lorelai pointed out.
"We said we'd come."
"Then let's get inside." Lorelai rang the doorbell.
Jess grabbed the seat from the car, and slung the diaper bag over his shoulder before closing the door and hit the centre locking device.
"Hi." Lorelai said to the maid. "Three and a baby for dinner."
"Please come in." The maid let them in.
"Rory, Jess, Lorelai." Emily said. "Let me see her."
"She's asleep right now." Jess replied. "Try not to wake her up."
"She looks very cute, doesn't she look cute Richard?" Emily asked.
"Just adorable Emily." Richard agreed. "How are you Rory?"
"Tired." Rory replied. "She didn't sleep very well last night."
"She just needs to get into a routine."
"We're working on it." Rory stated.
GG
They were half way through dinner when Libby woke up.
"Excuse me." Rory pushed her chair back and went to check on her daughter who was in the other room.
When she was still crying a few minutes later, Jess excused himself.
"Hey everything okay?" Jess asked.
"It's fine." Rory replied.
"Do you want me to take her so you can go and finish your dinner?" Jess offered.
"Her diaper isn't wet, she isn't too hot so I think she's hungry, so I'll take her up to my room and feed her."
"You have a room?" Jess questioned.
"Unfortunately. I stayed here the night after that who black eye thing. Shush honey." She rubbed Libby's back.
"We can leave as soon as dinner is over, we have a good excuse the baby needs to be in bed, we wouldn't want to upset her routine."
"Save me some desert." Rory told him. "Come on honey let's go and get you fed."
"Okay."
"Is everything okay?" Lorelai inquired when Jess returned to the table.
"She's just hungry; Rory's taken her upstairs to feed her." Jess replied. "She asked that we save her some desert."
"Of course we'll save her some desert." Emily said.
"And we should probably head home after dinner is over, Libby needs to have her bath and go to bed."
TBC