The next week flew by, and the dress was back at the shop they got it in, being altered for the big day. The wedding was now in three weeks, so all were going crazy, including Sookie, who has set into a schedule of hyperventilating around 3 every day. It seemed like it was all going to work out in the end though, so the girls weren't too worried.

Saturday morning, the girls woke up at a somewhat reasonable time, ready to clean the house up, and made their way to Luke's for some coffee.

"Hey Luke!"

"Ladies, what can I get you this morning?"

"A kiss, and coffee!" Lorelai says, pointing to her lips, and waiting for Luke to lean down and give her a proper greeting.

"Good morning crazy lady, did you sleep well?"

"Not really, I'm too excited and I'm too nervous, and you weren't there, so I was miserable."

"Well, I'm sorry that I made you miserable." he says, and then turns to Rory and asks her if she wants the same as her mother.

"Yup, but hold the kiss…"

He laughs, and then turns to the counter where Lane already has two to go cups ready for the fabulous twosome. He hands both cups off to the girls and they stand up to leave.

"You're leaving already? Why aren't you having any breakfast?"

"Obviously you weren't listening last night, cause I told you that we were cleaning today, silly man!" Lorelai says, with a "duh" expression on her face.

"Wait, you were actually serious about cleaning?" Luke replies with an expression of wonder.

"Well, it's either we clean, or you throw all your stuff in a big pile on my bedroom floor, and we can jump in it when you need to find your clothes in the morning."

"uh-"

"ooh, wait, that sounds fun!" she says, sitting back down. "we can order now, cause I don't have anything planned for the rest of the day!"

"Mom, you are not doing this to poor Luke, now come on, we've got work to do missy!" Rory says in her commanding, but still too soft to be really threatening voice, while pushing her mother out of the diner."

Luke looks after his future wife and step daughter with a smile on his face, shaking his head. He really was a lucky man, even if she was a little bit crazy.

Once the girls finally get back to the house, Rory decides that they need to start with Lorelai's room, and they head up stairs.

"So, what do we tackle first, the mountain of shoes, or the plethora of clothing?"

"umm, neither, cause I'm not giving any of that up! Now that I'm married, I have to make sure that I look exceptionally hot, cause then when the guys want me, I can flash my ring and tell them that I'm married."

"You realize how wrong that is, don't you?"

"I never said that my thought processes were normal to average human beings, Rory, but they suit me just fine."

"We're going through the closet first."

Lorelai whines a bit and sprawls out on the bed with her eyes closed as Rory starts to yank clothing off of the hangers that she knows that her mother doesn't wear anymore.

With each piece of clothing, Rory gives an explanation to justify her making her mother give it up.

"What were you thinking" Toss.

"Too School marmish." Throw.

"I don't even want to know." Toss.

"Flashdance phase." Pitch.

"Mine." Toss out the door.

"Won't go out in public with you if you wear this." Toss.

"Luke won't go out with you in this." Pitch.

"Mine again." Toss out the door.

"Rory, these are some great clothes! The eighties are back in style again, haven't you been reading Cosmo?"

"Yeah, but it's the modern eighties look, not the flashdance eighties look mom, and you are not going out of the house in that shirt."

"But Rory!"

"Okay, I'm going to make you go clean the attic all by yourself if you don't get rid of more of these clothes."

"Fine." she says, sitting up and stomping out of her room.

"Tell the big spiders up there that I say hi!" Rory yells, from inside the closet.

When she gets back out again, she jumps, noticing her mother standing in the doorway again.

"What? Did Mr. Daddy Long Legs kick you out too?" she says with a pout.

"Fine, I'll get rid of more clothes, but you have to get rid of some of yours too!"

"Me? Why? I'm not the one with a boy moving into my room!"

"Yeah, but – " Lorelai starts, but is interrupted by her cell phone ringing downstairs.

She runs down the stairs and picks up the phone without checking the caller ID.

"Miss Gilmore?"

"The one and only… well, not really, cause my daughter… anyways, yes, this is she."

"I'm just calling to let you know that your bridal gown is ready, and you can pick it up at any time."

"Oh, really! Thank you very much! I'll probably be in soon then!"

"We'll see you then Miss Gilmore."

With this, she hangs up and runs upstairs to where Rory is still emptying her closet. Obviously excited, she's jumping up and down when she reaches her bedroom.

"Guess what!"

"What!"

"My dress is ready!"

"ooh, that's exciting!"

"I know! I think I'm going to call Sookie and see if she wants to come with me, and go pick it up… do you mind?"

"No, it'll let me clear out part of your wardrobe without you freaking out behind me the whole time."

"Just don't try to donate everything, okay?"

"yeah, I considered that, because I've always thought that Star Hallow should really be a nudist colony… who knows what Kirk and Taylor are hiding under there."

"Rory… you just went to a place that I never want you to go again."

"Oh my God, you're right… that was disgusting!"

"We'll both be so freaked out for a month that we probably won't ever talk to Taylor, so I guess that's a positive."

"Eww.."

"What?"

"Bad Mental Image… stupid, stupid comeback!"

"You are your mother's child, you ramble before you think… the Gilmore way!"

"Go get your dress."

She leaves Rory, and before she knows it, is standing in the mall with Sookie, walking towards the wedding boutique where they bought the dress.

"ooh, this is so exciting!" Sookie says, clapping her hands together.

"Sookie, calm down, we're just picking my dress up, it's not like I'm getting married today."

"I know, but I finally get to see what it looks like on you, so I'm excited!"

"Well, then I'm glad that you could come with me."

They reach the store, and approach the counter, explaining what they were there to do. The sales associate grabs the dress out of the back, and directs Lorelai to the changing room to try it on so they can make sure that it fits.

As Sookie is waiting for Lorelai to come back out, she is snapped out of her reverie by a familiar voice.

"Sookie? What are you doing here?" Emily Gilmore says, walking into the store with curiousity.

"Oh, we came by to get Lorelai's dress, cause she was getting it altered."

"It fit perfectly when she bought it, what was wrong?"

"Well, we were trying on our bridesmaid dresses, and we made her try on her wedding dress, even though she was secretly doing that right after she bought it, and it didn't fit any more. She couldn't get it to zip, so we rushed it over her to get it let out a little bit for the big day."

"I see." she says, taking in their reason for being there. There was hesitation in her reply though, that could only mean that she had suspicions as to why the dress no longer fit.

As she was about to ask Sookie more about what happened, Lorelai came out of the dressing room in her gown.

"Mom? What are you doing here?"

"I was actually shopping for yours and Luke's wedding gift when I saw Sookie in here, so I thought I would say hi."

"Lorelai, it looks beautiful! Rory was right, and Mia really did pick out the perfect gown."

Emily flinched, and it seemed like all they had worked for in the past months was starting to slip away.

"Sookie tells me that you had to get the dress altered, is that right?"

"Yeah, I went to try it on again the other day, and I couldn't get it to fit right, so we brought it back to alter."

"hmm…well, it looks good now."

"yeah, I think it does. I'm really happy that they were able to let it out a bit… I think I'm going to take it off so Rory and I can get back to cleaning out the house for Luke's stuff."

Lorelai makes her way off the podium and into the dressing room when she hears her mother call for her. Knowing exactly what is going to happen, Lorelai stays right where she is, and waits for the assault.

"Lorelai?"

"yes." she says with an even tone, not wanting to show any attitude and make this any worse.

"When were you going to tell me? Or were you going to wait a month or so like the last time your dress didn't fit. I can't believe that you did this again! I mean, at least you're getting married in a month and you can pass it off as a honeymoon baby, but really! Did we raise you to be so irresponsible?"

"I'm not pregnant mom…I thought I was, and I freaked out, and I ran to Luke, and I took the test, and I'm not pregnant. I think that all the stress with the wedding and everything made me gain and inch or so."

"You sound disappointed."

Looking down, Lorelai didn't want to share her feelings with her mother.

"You are disappointed?"

"Well, yes and no, because we didn't want to have me pregnant for the wedding, but yes, because we realized that we really do want to start a family right away."

"You and Luke want to start a family?"

"yes, mom, Luke… you met him… I'm marrying him in three weeks."

"Lorelai, please! I know who Luke is, it just surprised me."

They stood together in silence for a few moments. For the longest time, Emily and Lorelai had the worst relationship, and it seemed like, for once, all was going well with the two of them. She really had grown to like Luke, certainly not love him, because that would be very un-Emily Gilmore, but she did like him. Her granddaughter approved and loved the man more than her own father, and it seemed like Lorelai glowed when she was around him. She knew that this wasn't a battle worth fighting.

"Why would it surprise you?"

"I don't know, you've just never mentioned having another child before, so I assumed that Rory would be your only."

"Well, I've never been so in love with someone that I wanted to have another kid."

"Then, I guess that I think that is a wonderful idea…" she said, trailing off, but not sounding insincere.

"Then I'm glad." she smiled. "Do you think that you could let me change, so Sookie and I can head out?"

"Oh certainly!" she says, stepping out of the room, but staying close enough to still converse with Lorelai. "So, you and Rory are cleaning the house?"

"Yeah, the crap shack needs to have room for the boy, so we're cleaning some stuff out that we don't need anymore to make room for him."

"The crap shack?"

"Don't ask mom, you don't want to know."

"All right then, I won't…so lots of changes then?"

"Yes, but certainly good ones. Luke and I have been friends for so long that we're just natural together though, so it doesn't seem like big changes." she yells from the dressing room, and then throws the curtain open to get out.

"Well, are you all set then?"

"Yup, the dress is perfect and the wedding is 3 weeks away, and all is well with the world."

The two walk out to join Sookie, who was admiring the wedding dresses in the store with a gleam in her eye.

"I wish I could get married!" she says in her Sookie-like manner.

"Uh… hon, you are married… remember… Jackson… father of your two children."

"Yeah, I know, but I like doing all the wedding stuff though! It's so exciting!"

"Well, you get to do it with me, and one day when Rory gets married, and then one day when your little girl grows up too… so you've got plenty of weddings in your future."

She shrugs and the girls walk up to the counter to tell the woman that the dress is fine. All three of them then leave with the dress in tow, and step out into the crowded Hartford mall. It seems like everyone in the town came to the mall today.

"Well, I will see you ladies soon, because I have some shopping to do."

"What'cha gonna get us mom?" Lorelai says excitedly.

"I'm certainly not going to tell you!" replies Emily, very matter of factly.

"Why not, we're going to find out eventually!"

"yes, but I don't want to spoil the fun of it, so I'm not going to tell you!"

"Ooh, will you tell me!" Sookie asks her.

"Fine, I'll tell you…" Emily says, and then notices a sly grin come across the face of her daughter. "Wait, no I won't… you'll tell her."

"No I won't!"

"At least not voluntarily…" Lorelai hints.

"I'm sorry, Sookie, but I can't tell you… you'll just have to wait like Lorelai and Luke do."

"Man, and I thought I would have you if you told her… this stinks!" Lorelai pouts at her mother who starts walking away from her.

"Goodbye Lorelai." she calls over her shoulder.

Present forgotten, Sookie and Lorelai make their way through the mall. Unknown to them, someone is watching them as they walk through the mall. He didn't expect her to be here, but he was glad she was. She looked gorgeous as always, but there was something different about her. She seemed so happy, which means that she's obviously got a new man in her life. That wouldn't be an issue though. He continues to watch her and Sookie as they stroll casually, laughing at each other as they walk. A few minutes into his spy efforts, his eye catches on something. It sparkled as it caught the light for a few seconds, so he made a point to get a little bit closer. He quickly realized that this wasn't the typical Lorelai fun jewelry that she was donning, but a delicate but gorgeous engagement ring attached to her left hand.

He stepped back mentally, wondering who she could meet in less than a year that she would jump into marrying. Shaking his head, he kept wondering as he walked to the other side of the mall away from him and towards his car.

"I'm just going to have to find out." he said, getting into his silver Volvo and pulling off towards his hotel.

dun dun dun! hehe… I LOVE cliffhangers! They are sooooo evil, but then I thought about it, and at least fanfic writers are nicer than the actual show creators… I mean come on… with X-files between 4th and 5th season you thought Mulder was dead and between 7th and 8th, Scully was pregnant and Mulder was abducted. With Gilmore girls, between 4th and 5th, Luke and Lorelai kiss and Rory sleeps with married Dean, and then the mother of all that is mean to fans, at the end of 5th season, Lorelai proposes to Luke! Oh my gosh, are they hoping for us to all drop dead, cause this isn't the way to go. Shame on them for making us wait. I will update soon, and thank you for reviewing, cause it really does mean a lot to me that you guys like my writing! And it keeps my creative juices flowing, so R/R! Thanks… and Mia will be back in the next chapter, I Promise!

P.S. Lukelandroryndean… I promise that I'll do the Chris thing really short, and it will end in a good way that hopefully you can appreciate… cause honestly, I hate him too! It totally matters to me what you think of the story, and I appreciate that you gave me some feedback. Chris will be like a band-aid… quick and painless, I promise! Let me know after the next chapter how you like the Chris turnout…