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A/N: I am soooooooo sorry it took me this long to update. Summer is coming soon and so I should have a lot more time, especially because my friends and I always end up on vacation when the other one is home! I hope you enjoy the next chapter of the story! If you have a better title name, let me know because I can change it. It is a working title that will likely stay that way if someone doesn't give me an amazing name! I am not very creative with titles, as shown by my other story, "Luke and Lorelai teens"! If you want to read and respond to that story that would be great. If I get some more reviews for it I just might continue it! Well, I've babbled long enough! On with the show!
Chapter 3: Dad?
Rory ran forward, forgetting all about Logan at the first sight of her mother's misery.
Oh My God, what happened? Did anything happen to Luke? Is anyone sick or dieing? Shit, is mom sick or dieing? No, this isn't a deathbed breakdown. It's a relationship breakdown. Luke, oh God. What happened? They were just fine when I left grandma's house.
"Mom, what happened?" she said as she lies down on the bed and envelops her mother in a great big hug.
"Linda… " (A/N: I don't remember the psychiatrists name and I am far too lazy to look so I will call her Linda. I also don't remember if Rory met her. Oh well.) "car… talk… ready… diner… Luke… April…damnit… Chris…"
Rory has to interrupt there, because her mom's "sob talk" had veered in a direction that completely threw Rory off balance. "Mom, what does Dad have to do with anything?"
Lorelai realized her mistake 2 seconds too late.
Shit! Now I have to tell my kid that I cheated on my fiancée by sleeping with my kid's dad. Or I have to lie to her.
Neither situation sat well with Lorelai, and in an attempt to decide what to do she realized that she had no idea what kind of story would save her ass, so she opted for the truth.
Lorelai took a few deep breaths and sat up, rubbing her face, which was soaked and red, not to mention her hair was a mess.
"Okay, I'll start at the beginning. After you left Chris had his Emily Gilmore Matchmaking Dinner. After it ended I walked out to the car and saw Linda sitting in her car waiting for me to move the Jeep. I apologized and then I did something, I don't remember what. All I know is that I ended up laying in the back of her car spilling my life story out to her. I got to talking and realized that the only person that I truly loved was Luke. I told her that I was ready."
Sensing that her mom needed a break, and that the hard part hadn't even begun, Rory interrupted her. "Ready for what?"
Lorelai took her big breath and went on, a little slower and more nostalgic. "The whole package. Marriage, kids, the commitment of a lifetime. I realized I was ready to buy matching jogging suits and have Luke there to pick up the slack if it got to be too much for one person."
"Oh, gotcha. What happened next?" Rory asked carefully.
"I went to the diner, still dressed for Friday Night Dinner. I went right up to him and said 'let's elope!' He was a bit confused at my suddenness so we went outside to talk. That's when I told him I was ready and I didn't care that he had a daughter. She should have too fit into our lives, not the other way around. He just wanted time to think. Stupid me, I didn't care that he really is the type who needs to process these things. I just barged on. I told him I loved him, for the very first time, might I add, and that I was not just going to sit around and wait for him. I gave him a frickin' ultimatum. Now or never. Then I left. I didn't even give him 5 seconds to answer me, let alone think about it."
"Oh, Mom!"
Rory thought. I should give her time to tell me the rest. I don't want to force it all out of her in 5 minutes. Darn it all! I am too darn curious as to what dad has to do with Luke.
"Mom, I'm still confused about what dad has to do with this."
Lorelai thought. Crap, she didn't forget. Now I have to tell her the truth.
"Ok, here it is. I was upset. You were at Yale spending your last night with Logan. I couldn't go to Luke's and, despite the recent truce, I didn't want to go to my parents, but I didn't want to be alone. So I went to Christopher's place. Well, I was upset so he invited me in. I asked him for some tequila."
Crap, mom and tequila, not good. Mom, tequila, a broken heart, and dad; now that's horrible.
Rory needed some reassurance. She needed to hear her mom tell her that last night was nothing more than a shot of tequila and some talking. "Mom, please tell me that all you did last night was talk."
Lorelai started sobbing again right then and Rory had lost that tiny glimmer of hope.
"I'm so sorry honey. I can't tell you how much it hurts me that I did that to you, Chris, and Luke." She paused for a second. "Ohhh Luke! What have I done!" She falls into Rory now sobbing uncontrollably.
Rory had to take action. "Mom, I want you to try and get yourself together. I am going out for a few minutes. I promise I will be back ASAP. Okay?"
"Okay. Thanks hun. I really needed that shoulder and the ventee." (A/N: FYI, a ventee is the receiver of a venting session! At least in my book)
About 5 minutes after Rory left, Lorelai heard a knock at the door. She ignored it because she knew how bad she looked and she really didn't want to talk to anyone. The door opened a few seconds later.
"Rory?" Lorelai asked.
But the body that entered her room wasn't her precious daughter. "Luke."
A/N: I know a mean and overused cliffhanger, usually used with the appearance of other ex-boyfriends of our favorite girls!
OK, I know I said I would try to make them longer chapters, but you see I am way to excited to wait to post and I am too tired to continue tonight, so sorry. This is however about 2 or 3 times my last two chapters and longer than both chapters combined! The best way to find out what happens is to review! I am seriously starved for reviews. I have 2 on this story and 6 on my 17 chapter story! Do the math and you will see that that is fewer reviews than other people get for one chapter, good or bad. The real sad thing is that about half of my reviews are from 2 people. One who I sort of knew before I posted and the other who actually reviewed of her own free will! Thanks you two! And thanks to the other people who have reviewed!
Wow, that was way too long of an A/N, so I am going to post this so that I can get those pretty reviews!