"Mom?" Rory called as she opened the door.

"In here feeling like a beached whale." Lorelai responded from the couch.

"Well you're only going to get bigger." Rory countered.

"Thanks for that stellar advice." Lorelai sighed.

"Grandma." Libby showed her the book she was holding.

"That's great hun." Lorelai smiled. "Is it new?"

"Jess let me lie in this morning and took her out for breakfast and bought her a new book. You know how she gets about new books."

"A little like her parents. So how many times have you read it so far?"

"Three." Rory admitted. "Jess got a flash of inspiration is it okay if we hang out here for the rest of the day so he can work?"

"Sure." Lorelai replied. "Michel is coming over with some paperwork for me later, but other than that."

"You were just planning on staying on the couch all day." Rory guessed.

"Read." Libby requested of Lorelai.

"We can do that. But Grandma needs to go to the bathroom first."

GG

After lunch Libby was settled down for a nap.

"So…" Lorelai said.

"I think you need a few more words to form a sentence."

"Any ideas about a date?"

"We only got engaged yesterday." Rory pointed out.

"That still doesn't mean you can't pick a date."

"I guess you don't want to look fat in the pictures and it would be nice to have my siblings in the pictures so probably some time next year. Unless we elope."

"Mommy would be very mad if she's not invited." Lorelai remarked.

"Well Mommy is going to have her hands full with Fred and Barney." Rory patted her mother's stomach and used the nickname Lorelai had been using for the twins.

"We're onto Laverne and Shirley." Lorelai corrected.

"Why didn't you find out when they asked you if you wanted to know?"

"At the time waiting was made a good incentive to push at the time."

"And now?" Rory asked.

"I've picked up the phone to call the doctor's office six times and then I put the phone back down again."

"So do you want to know or not?" Rory inquired.

"I'm not sure."

"If you want to know you don't have to call the doctor's office." Rory stated.

"I think you're going to explain hun."

"I know and Jess knows."

"How? Did you develop sudden psychic instincts?"

"We heard it from a good authority." Rory admitted.

"Would this be a man who likes checked shirts and wears a backwards baseball cap?" Lorelai asked.

"Possibly."

"Luke knows?"

"Yes." Rory replied. "I probably shouldn't have said anything."

"How did he find out?"

"The nurse told him."

"And he told you."

"Yesterday." Rory confirmed. "Apparently you pulled a Jackson, so I guess he was being Sookie in that analogy."

"I'm going to kill him."

"You can't kill him. Who would make us food and decent coffee for free?" Rory asked.

"I can't believe he knew for a month and didn't tell me."

"You didn't want to know." Rory reminded her.

"I don't entirely not want to know either."

"Get him to tell you what one is." Rory suggested.

"Then I'd want to know what the other one is." Lorelai countered. "Are you happy?"

"I'm happy." Rory replied. "But I was happy with any combination."

TBC