Note: Hey you all! Thanks for the great reviews. You rock. So here is the next chapter. I know it is a bit short, but I don't have a lot of time at the moment. I hope you like it though. It is sort of a filler chapter.

Chapter 23:

It is Friday afternoon and Rory just finished the last sentence on her paper. She smiled when she went through it one last time. This definitely was some of her best work so far, she thought while pressing the print button.

It had been three weeks, since she broke up with Logan. She had allowed herself some wallowing time in the evenings and had visited her mom frequently during the first two weeks. During the day she had tried to keep herself as occupied as possible and allowed herself only to focus on her classes, homework and the paper. She had seen Logan twice, but he had just given her a sad smile and waved when he turned around, never attempting to try and talk to her.

The last sheet was coming out of the printer as Rory walked over to it to gather her paper. Suddenly her phone rings. She looks at the display, which says 'Absolutely Fabulous Patsy'. Rory smiles. Her mom had changed all the names in her phone again during her last stay at the inn.

Rory answers her phone. "Hey Patsy!"

"Hey Saffy!" Lorelai replies in a thick British accent. "How is everything going?"

"Well absolutely fabulous." Rory answers in an equally thick British accent.

Lorelai drops the accent. "Okay enough with the accent. I really must change my name again, cause the last 10 phone calls we already went through this British phase. If we don't watch it, it will become a permanent thing and we wouldn't want that now would we?"

Rory starts to laugh. "Thank god, cause my jaw was starting to hurt in trying to speak like they do." She says while rubbing her jaw. "So, what's up mom?"

"I was calling to see how my little girl is doing and to see if she had any plans on coming over to the inn this weekend."

"I'm doing fine, mom. Actually, I haven't thought about coming over yet. I guess I've been to busy."

"To busy doing fun things I hope and not just to busy with studying." Lorelai says in an accusing tone.

"Mom!" Rory replies.

"See I knew it! Didn't I give these boys clear instructions on entertaining you?"

Rory starts to chuckle. "Well it hasn't been because of a lack of trying from their side. They have been bugging me non stop."

"Well good for them. I suppose I don't have to send the dogs after them after all." Lorelai replies.

Rory decides to change the subject. "So why do you want to know if I'm coming or not. Have you got something special planned?"

"Well as a matter of fact I have. I just talked to Luke and he's coming over for the weekend. You see it will be my last weekend here, before I return to Stars Hollow. The last weekend before all of the nosy inhabitants of Stars Hollow will know about my condition. So it will probably be the last weekend we can spend in peace."

"Ahh, I see. You don't want me to come over and spent all your time doing dirty things to Luke." Rory replies.

"Yeah, you see I'm planning on getting him naked all weekend and do….."

"MOM! Eww, gross." Rory let's out in a yell.

"Hey you asked for it." Lorelai says innocently. "No but serious, you're welcome to stay, just let me know in advance when you will be coming."

"No, you just enjoy your weekend with Luke. I've got plenty of things to do here at Yale."

"Okay, sweety. But you have to promise me that you won't spend all of your time studying and will try to have some fun."

"I promise mom. Besides, I am going to Friday night dinner tonight."

"I said fun, not a living hell!" Lorelai says.

"Well at least I won't be studying, won't I? Besides, Tristan and Paris were trying to convince me to go to some party on Saturday. Maybe I'll check that out."

"That's my girl! Finally getting her tattoo and going to ride with bikers." Lorelai replies. Okay, fill me in on all the juicy details later, Okay?

"I will. Have fun, mom. And, oh, go easy on Luke. He's been out it for quite some time."

"I know!" Lorelai replies in a mysterious voice and then hangs up.

Rory just shakes her head. "Crazy." She mutters to herself.

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Rory was sitting with her back to her favorite tree, reading 'The Discovery of Heaven'. This really was a perfect day. The sun was shining pleasantly and she had no more homework or articles to finish, so she finally had the time to catch up on her reading.

She had returned late from her grandparent's house, where they had showed her all the pictures they had taken on their second honeymoon. They had told her about all the places they had visited and actually been very pleasant company. In the end of the evening, Emily had asked her about Lorelai and how she was doing with the inn. Rory had told her about how great everything was going with the inn and that she was planning on returning to Stars Hollow the next week. Then Emily had asked her about Luke and if they were back together again. Rory had felt very uncomfortable, but decide to tell her the truth. So she told her that they had recently reconciled and was relieved when Emily actually looked happy about that. It had already been 23:30, when Rory finally left Hartford to return to Yale.

So there she was, sitting against her tree, enjoying the sun, reading the whole afternoon. Suddenly she feels her stomach rumbling and she starts to talk to it.

"Yes, it is time to feed you, isn't it?"

"Hey Mary! Talking to your bodyparts again. How many times do I have to tell you they won't talk back to you." Tristan gives her a big smile.

"For your information, ET. My stomach was just talking to me, telling me that it is hungry.

"Well, we better start feeding it then. That's why I came to pick you up. Paris told me I would find you here. The rest, that is Paris, Jess, Marty, Lisa, Bridget, Gloria, Jake and Derek, are already waiting at the restaurant."

"Wow, fancy! What's the occasion?" Rory asks him.

"We are all going to the party tonight and decided to start the festivities early. And you Mary, you're coming with us, we don't take no for an answer. We all know that you don't have any excuses left, because Paris told us you have finished al your homework. So what do you say?" Tristan says while holding out his hand.

Rory grabs his hand and lets him pull her up. An electric sensation going through her hand. "Well, we better get going then, ET." She says, giving him a big smile.

"Let's go, Mary!" Tristan says, never letting go of her hand.

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Lorelai had spent a perfect day with Luke. He had made a picnic basket full of delicious food from Luke's. She hadn't realized how much she had missed his coffee, his food and his company. After lunch she had persuaded him to take the boat onto the lake. So there they were, just the two of them. Lorelai was sitting and enjoying the view, while Luke did all the hard work and was rowing the boat.

"You are enjoying this, aren't you?" Luke says, with clawed jaws, because of the effort that went onto rowing.

"Of course I am." Lorelai says smiling. "This way I get to see all your beautiful muscles in action."

Then the boat stops suddenly and they feel something scraping down its bottom.

"The boat seems to be stuck. Let me see if I can get it loose." Luke says standing up and trying to push the boat away with his paddle.

Lorelai just smiles at him and sees a beautiful swan swimming towards the boat.

"Hey there gorgeous! Would you like something to eat?" She says grabbing the picnic basket to see if there is some food left.

"No! Don't start feeding the thing. Those things are vicious." Luke cries out.

Lorelai starts to laugh. "Don't tell me you are afraid of swans, Luke. They are totally harmless." And she starts to feed the swan.

"They're not harmless. The can break your arm with one flap with there wings." Luke says and starts to scare the swan away with the paddle he is still holding.

The swan doesn't like that very much and starts to flap his wings, making Luke take a step to the back. The boat isn't prepared for this change in balance though and starts to tip over.

Lorelai tries to grab him to steady him, but she is too late. With a loud splash Luke falls into the water.

Lorelai looks shocked first and then starts to laugh hysterically, when he tries to climb back into the boat, cursing and mumbling.

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A/N: Okay, that's it. The next two chapters will describe the party and Lorelai's return to Stars Hollow.

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