A/N: I'm taking the story where I want it to go from here, now. There isn't going to be the Harvard visit in this fic, so you know. You guys, I am so, so, so sorry! I just went back to make a few changes in chapter two and realized I completely messed up! I know you must have gotten really confused about the whole Sookie thing. I changed it now, so it makes more sense.

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Rory came out of the bathroom the next morning showered, dressed, and ready to begin the day. As she walked out, she noticed her mother sitting up in bed, an expression of sadness on her face.

"I think I'm ready to talk now." Lorelai said in a monotone voice.

Rory quickly walked over to the bed, sitting on it and placing a hand on her mothers arm, encouraging her to go on. Lorelai took a deep breath before speaking.

"You know how I got home late the other day? The day I had the freak out and told you we'd be taking a road trip?" she asked.

"Yeah." Rory said, nodding.

"Well, I was at Max's. He had called earlier and told me he had something important to tell me."

Lorelai paused before continuing.

"So, after work, I headed over there. When I got there, he opened the door. He had a sort of guilty look on his face. I decided not to think anything of it, though." she said. "He told me to come in, and then we sat on his couch."

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Max closed his hands, and then brought them apart, setting them on his knees before bringing them together again. He seemed really nervous, which was making Lorelai a little uncomfortable. She didn't know what to think, so she just waited for him to talk.

"Lorelai." he began.

"Yeah?"

"I, uh, I wanted to talk to you today about something very important." he said.

"I know, you told me over the phone earlier."

"Yeah, I-I know. This is just a little hard for me to say." Max said nervously.

Lorelai, who had been feeling a weird vibe ever since her arrival, started to get worried. This definitely couldn't be a good thing if Max was having difficulty saying whatever it was he wanted to say.

"Max, what is it? You know you can tell me anything." she said softly.

"Lorelai, I, uh, I've been lying to you." he confessed.

"Lying to me?" she asked, taken aback.

"Yes, well, no. Actually, I've been hiding something from you. Or... um... rather someone, not something."

Lorelai's heart began to thump inside of her chest. Someone. He had been hiding 'someone' from her. Who was this 'someone' and why was he hiding them from her? Max looked at Lorelai and saw a frightened expression on her face. He could tell that she was dreading the answer from him, yet strongly anticipating it as well.

"Lorelai, I'm married. I have a wife, her name is Katherine. Now, before you jump to conclusions here, let me explain. When I met you, Kathy and I were going through really tough marital difficulties. We had been seperated at the time, and we both agreed to see other people to see whether or not it would work out between the two of us. I didn't want to tell you because I was afraid you wouldn't give me a chance. I was pretty certain things with Kathy and I weren't going to work out at all. Well, things between you and I were pretty good, and then we broke up. Kathy, who hadn't been seeing anyone at the time, and I, decided to give us a second chance. Well, it still didn't work out, and then you came back. After that, I asked you to marry me, not realizing that I was still currently married to another woman. As soon as you said yes, I filed for a divorce with Kathy. It's been months now and I was positive the divorce would be finalized before we got married. Well, I soon came to find out it would not. My lawyer called me yesterday and told me that it would be at least another month before the divorce would be finalized." he paused to look at Lorelai. Her face showed one of complete and utter shock. A stricken expression, as if she had been slapped right across the face. "Kathy knew we were engaged, and so I called her up. I asked her what I should do, that she knew we were getting married in four days. She said the only thing I could do was to tell you the truth."

Max took a deep breath, dreading what he was about to say next.

"Lorelai, not only am I telling you the truth right now, but I also have something else to tell you. During our little seperation, breakup, whatever you want to call it, I got back together with Kathy, as you know. Well, we ended up sleeping together. I know what you're probably thinking. That I lied to you, told you I didn't sleep with anyone the night I proposed to you. Well, I did lie. I lied because I was afraid. And I am very sorry for that, I really am." he said, looking up at her once more before continuing. "Kathy's pregnant. She just told me about it yesterday. Lorelai, I love you very much, but..."

Lorelai shook her head, not wanting to hear the rest.

"Don't." she pleaded.

"Now, Lorelai, please. I'm sorry, I really and truly am. But, Kathy is still my wife, and she's carrying my child. And... I think a little part of me still has some kind of feelings for her."

"I said don't!" Lorelai said angrily, standing up from the couch.

She couldn't believe this. Of all the worst case senerios she'd been thinking of since Max had told her he'd been lying to her, not one had come anything close to this one. This, this was beyond unreal. She couldn't believe she had dated and been engaged to a married man. A man who lied to her, completely betrayed her trust. This was possibly the worse thing that could happen to her in such a case. Such a case as being dumped the week of her wedding.

"I'm sorry. I just can't marry you. I'm sorry." he said, standing up as well, giving her an apologetic look.

"You are not! Do not tell me you're sorry. Max, I can't believe you!" she yelled, tears springing to her eyes. "You dated me, proposed to me, told me you loved me. And all this time you've been married! How could you, Max? How could you?"

"I was scared. I didn't think-"

"You're right. You didn't think. If you would have thought, you would have had the decency to tell me all of this in the first place. Our whole relationship, our whole engagement, it's all been a lie. I can't believe you were actually going to marry me, marry me, and never tell me any of this! I trusted you, Max. I trusted you! I trusted you enough to let you in my life, in my daughters life. And this is what I get in return? And, here you stand before me, having the nerve to tell me you love me! I-I can't handle this right now. I can't see or talk to you. I-I-I have to go."

With that, Lorelai grabbed her purse off the couch, quickly made her way to the door, slamming it on her way out. She climbed into her car, attempting to put the key in the ignition. Her vision was blurred through tears and she was being a real clutz. She had to get away, she didn't want to be anywhere within a five hundred mile radius of Max.

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"And, so, now we're here." Lorelai said, wiping a few tears away from her eyes.

Rory sat there stunned. She couldn't believe what her mother had just told her. It was all too much for her right now. She was overwhelmed with anger, hatred, and hurt. This was the least she had expected out of Max, her English teacher, her mothers ex-fiance, her would have been step-father. For a moment, she just sat silently, letting everything she had just been told sink in.

"Mom," Rory said barely above a whisper before wrapping her arms around her mother. "I am so, so, so sorry. I-I can't believe that this happened, that he did this to you."

"I know." Lorelai said, squeezing her daughter closer to her. "But, it's even worse than this."

"What do you mean?" Rory asked confused.

"I feel horrible, absolutely horrible, Rory. You don't even know. I'm an awful person." Lorelai choked out.

"Mom, what are you talking about? You are not an awful person, Max is the awful person." she told her.

"No, Rory, you don't understand. You remember the night I called your dad?"

"The night of your bachelorette party?"

"Mhmm."

"Yeah, what of it?"

"Well, I had to get away from you all. Mom was going on and on about how she wanted to try her wedding dress on every night and how deeply in love she was with dad. I just couldn't take it. I felt horrible because I never wanted to try on my dress, and that just made me feel awful. I sat there and listened to her talk, and all this time my dress was still in its cover, hanging in my room. Still untouched since the day I bought it, which was months ago."

"Mom, I'm not seeing the point here. You've got me in a fog." Rory said.

"I didn't love him, Rory. I didn't love him, and yet I still said yes. I got engaged to him, planned our wedding, I did all of that and I never even loved him." Lorelai said, beginning to cry again.

It was true, everything she said was true. She never had loved Max, never. But, she thought that by the time they got married, that she would have fallen in love with him. She had had strong feelings for him, but it wasn't love. She had lead him on this whole time into believing she felt the same way he did. But, everything was a lie. Abosolutely everything. She hadn't lied to him, but she hadn't been honest with him. He should have known, though. Never once had she said those three little words to him. The three magic words she had longed to say to him, but couldn't because she didn't feel that way.

She was still going to marry him, though. Even though she didn't love him, she was still going to go through with it. She figured, with time, maybe, just maybe, she'd fall in love with him. That everything she hoped for would come true. And then he brought her world crashing down the night he confessed his other life to her.

It was all too much. Everything just made her feel completely and totally awful. She wasn't in love with him, and he was married with a baby on the way. She couldn't bear it, having to deal with both of their secrets. He had been disloyal to her and she hadn't been completely honest with him. Why, why was this happening to her? Why couldn't everything just have gone the way they should have? She almost had it, almost had that package she had been dreaming about. And in a puff of smoke, it had vanished.

"Maybe it's for the best. I mean, I didn't love him and he had been lying to me this whole time. I guess this is the way it should be. And, I called your dad because I realized I hadn't told him about the engagement. I felt bad because he had no idea that there would be this new guy around, this new father figure permanently in our lives. In your life. I thought I should tell him, and I couldn't stand listening another second to my mom drone on, so I took up the opportunity."

"Oh, mom. I'm so sorry. You did what was right by calling dad, but it shouldn't have happened this way. The engagement being broken off, it should have gone differently."

"I should have told him. I should have been the one to break it off long ago. I shouldn't have even accepted his proposal. Maybe then I wouldn't even know about this, maybe I wouldn't be experiencing this pain. I just feel so bad about it all."

"I know you do, I know." Rory said, rubbing her hands up and down her mothers arms.

"I'm never going to have it, Rory. The package. The whole package." Lorelai said, sobbing into her mothers arms.

"Yes, you will." Rory said certainly. "You will find Mr. Right, fall madly in love with him and you'll get married and live in a house made of cheese."

Lorelai laughed a little with a hiccup combined with it.

"A house made of cheese?" she asked, wiping away her tears.

"Well, Lane and I have concluded that the perfect house would be one made of cheese."

Lorelai smiled at her daughter and Rory smiled back.

"I love you, Rory. You always here for me, whenever I need you. You always know how to cheer me up."

"You do that for me, too. I love you, mom." Rory said, hugging her again. "Now, why don't you go take a nice, hot shower, get dressed, and I'll plan out our day. I'll plan out the best day ever."

"You really are the best friend a girl could have. The best daughter a girl could have." Lorelai told her, smiling a little.

"Well, I'm glad to hear it. There's something I can mark off of my to-do list of things I need to accomplish before taking over the world." Rory said, smiling.

Lorelai smiled back, then got up and headed over to the bathroom.

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A/N: Well, I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. You now are fully informed of why the wedding was called off. To some of you guys, I know it seemed as if I was just taking transcripts and making a few adjustments towards them. I'm sorry if that bored you, but the last two chapters were kind of necessary. But, it's all me from now on. Tell me what you think! That pretty little purple button is calling your name. Oh, and also, I'm starting a new thing with all my fics. From now on, I'd like a few critics. Just regular reviewers who can tell me what they liked, didn't like about the chapter/fic and what I can do to make the fic better. It will help me a lot. Thanks. Another thing, I'm not going to be able to update everyday, but I most certainly will try to update ASAP.