AN: Well, well, well, would you just look at that! An update in just one week! You totally did not expect this did you? What you shouldn't expect is another update so soon. It's just that this chapter was really easy to write I guess, not a lot of drama in it. I hope you like it.
Oh, and thank you to: aancha, finnaddict, special, evelyn and Gilmorecrazed2010 whom I couldn't reply to! You guys are great!
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Chapter 9: And starring John Travolta as Han Solo
"How does May sound for you?" Lorelai asked Luke as they sat in the diner after hours talking about their upcoming wedding. "It's Spring, so the weather won't be either cold or hot, and there'll be lots of flowers so it'll be pretty!" she exclaimed.
Luke smiled, "May sounds good."
"Unless you have another suggestion. Maybe you don't like May."
"I have nothing against May. May sounds good."
"Ok, so month of ceremony check," she said putting a check mark on an imaginary list on the table. "Next up, date!"
"Whenever is fine."
"I'm glad you have an opinion about everything, Luke," Lorelai said sarcastically.
"Well, I just don't know why you're making me sit here and talk about this. You know everything you want to do will be fine by me!"
"I just wanted you to take an active role. It's our wedding, Luke."
"I know, but this is such a... girly thing."
"Oh, a girly thing, is it? You're really something else, Luke," she said laughing. "Fine, I won't bore you with any of these things anymore, we have some more important things to deal with. For instance, have you thought about your Best Man?"
"I have actually."
"Oh, let me guess! TJ?"
"You're joking, right?"
"Not him then. Humm, Taylor perhaps?"
"Lorelai!"
"Oh, I know! Kirk!"
Luke didn't even bother replying this time and just shot her a disapproving look.
"I'm out of ideas then," she said with a shrug.
"Thank you. Now, what would you say," he started, "if I told you I'd been thinking about asking Jess?" he asked almost afraid of her reaction.
"I'd say I saw that coming," she said nonchalantly.
"So you're ok with it?"
"He's your nephew, Luke, he's part of the family. I have to stand him just as you have to stand TJ."
"Oh, he's not as bad as TJ."
"From your point of view," she replied. "But it's ok, you can ask Jess, I don't mind."
"You sure? Cause I could ask someone else?"
"No, you couldn't. Ask him, it's fine."
"So, is Rory going to be the Maid of Honor?" he asked afterwards.
"You know something? I'm not sure."
"What?" Luke asked incredulous.
"I have to talk to her about it. She'll be here this weekend, I can talk to her then."
"She will not be your Maid of Honor?" He was becoming agitated.
"I don't know."
"How can that be?" Luke asked now really agitated.
"What? It's not the end of the world if she's not my Maid of Honor."
He gasped, "yes, it is! You have to ask her!"
Lorelai laughed at him. "Luke, calm down. I didn't say she wasn't going to be in the wedding, I just said I was not sure if she was going to be my Maid of Honor. Relax! Everything will be fine."
Luke shook his head. Lorelai touched his shoulder as if trying to console him, "I promise."
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"So, here we are once again, fellow Brigaders, for another edition of our famous re-enactment show!" Paul, one of the members of the Life and Death Brigade and Master of Ceremony for this year, started to announce. It was Thursday night and they had all driven to Robert's house, which was the nearest from campus, and now they sat in one of the sitting rooms and listened to the rules of the game.
"What's the re-enactment show?" Rory asked Finn, who was sitting next to her.
"It's my favorite game. I wait impatiently for it every year," he answered excited.
"Great, now you haven't answered my question."
"Paul will explain, Ace, just listen." Logan was sitting on her right.
"We gather here tonight to divide ourselves into groups. Four groups. Each will be assigned a scene from a movie, according to this year's theme, and then each will have to rehearse and 45 days from today we'll present our scenes. It's a week before our midterms so you won't get so screwed."
"How thoughtful," Rory whispered to Finn.
"Shh! He's going to say the theme now!"
"He really takes this seriously," Rory said turning to Logan.
"I think it's the only thing in his life he takes seriously," Logan answered with a chuckle.
"Shut up, Logan," Finn replied without taking his attention off Paul.
Rory and Logan exchanged looks and laughed at him.
"First, let's assign the groups," Paul continued. "Remember, each group has 6 members only. If you're not assigned to a group, that means you'll be working with the set and will be responsible to build an exact copy of the set used in each particular scene. Also keep in mind this is a luck game. Your names are all in this bag and I will draw them out to put you into groups. That other bag contains four themes and those other four bags have several names of movies, with the scenes already specified, for each of the themes in this first bag. It will be luck, so imagine yourselves in Vegas and let's get to it!" Everybody cheered and Paul reached into the name bag, "ok, first name of the first group: John Mitchel! First name of second group: Stephanie Hilton! First name of third group: Finn Morgan! First name of fourth group: Henry Green!"
"Oh, man, Stephanie and I are in separate teams," Finn complained.
"Steph loves this game as much as Finn and she's really good at it. Last year they won with a scene from Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. He played Han Solo and she played Princess Leia," Logan told Rory.
"What was last year's theme? Science fiction?"
"No, it was Star Wars. We only had three groups last years, so we had three trilogies to pick from: Lord of the Rings, Star Wars and Indiana Jones. Finn wanted to get Indiana Jones, but Star Wars was the draw."
"I wish I could have seen that."
"Now for the second names!" Paul continued drawing the names. Stephanie's team had also Colin in it, two other girls, Jessica and Tina, and one guy, Steven. Finn's team had Logan and Robert and another guy, Nathan and one other girls, Laura. It was down to the last name for each group and Rory hadn't been assigned to any and was hoping not to be, since acting was not really her thing. Maybe building a set could be fun.
"All right, last names! Team number one: Aaron Parker! Team number two: David Mathers! Team number three: Rory Gilmore! Team number four: Howie Johnson! There you have folks, get together with your group so we can pick the theme!" Paul announced.
When Rory heard her name she was a little disappointed, she really was hoping to be with the set people.
"We're in the same team, love," Finn said with a smirk.
"And we're going to lose."
"Hey, what's with the attitude!"
"I'm really not into this whole acting thing, sorry."
"But it's going to be fun, trust me."
"Yeah, Ace, it'll be fun."
"Whatever," she shrugged and stayed near them to listen to this year's theme.
"Are you all set? Good, now, Harry, bring me the theme bag," he asked his helper. "I'm going to tell you the four themes in this bag tonight: we have classics, we have musicals, we have suspense and we have comedy."
"I hope it's musicals," Finn said.
"Are you crazy? Besides 'acting' I'll have to sing? I hope it's comedy," Rory replied making air quotes when she said the word acting.
"And this year's theme will be..." Paul made a little suspense and people started to shout the themes hoping they would guess. "Musicals!" he finally said.
"Yes!" Finn exclaimed happily and hugged Robert, who was also thrilled with the chosen theme.
"Now, friends, to the scenes! Harry, the musicals bag please," Paul asked. "Ok, group number one, you'll have to re-enact a scene from... The Wizard of Oz! Dorothy in Munchkin Land!"
Some people laughed at the team, some said they were lucky, and some said it was a tough one. For Rory, every scene would be tough.
"Team number two! Your film is: Chicago! The scene when each prisoner tells their story." Stephanie cheered at their luck and the guys thought what the heck they were going to do in an almost all girls cast.
"Team number three, your movie is... Grease! The last scene, with Sandy in black leather!"
Finn didn't know what to do with himself he was so excited.
"Who'll be John Travolta?" Robert asked.
"I think the obvious answer here is Finn," Logan said.
"But I want that part too," Robert argued while Paul announced the last movie to be re-enacted was Gigi. Rory just didn't listen to the scene people were talking so loudly and Robert and Finn were in an actual argument over who would play the role that Travolta did.
"Can I make a suggestion? Since this whole thing was pure luck, or lack thereof it in my case, why don't you guys flip for it?" Rory suggested.
"Good idea, Ace," Logan said taking a quarter from his pocket.
"Heads," Finn called.
"Tails," Robert said.
Logan threw the coin in the air and caught it in his hand. "Heads it is," he said as he opened his hand.
Finn did a little dance around Robert while Robert just made a face.
"Now, who will be my Olivia Newton-John? The beautiful Laura? Or the sweet Rory?" Finn asked while going around the two girls.
"I think Laura can do it. I can be one of the backup singers really, I don't mind."
"Oh, no, no, no! If you're in the rain, you're gonna get wet, let's have a draw with the two lovely ladies," Finn said.
"No, Finn, really, I don't want to, leave me out of it, please," she almost begged.
Logan laughed, "Ace, no one will be expecting an Oscar winning performance from you, it's just for the fun of it. We're all going to look ridiculous"
"But the whole standing in front of an audience, really not my thing."
"Weren't you on the debate team at Chilton? Weren't you Valecditorian? Speaking in public was never a problem for you," Logan replied.
"Speaking in public! Not singing and dancing!"
"Tell you what," Finn started, putting his arm around her shoulder, "if you do win the draw, we'll have a trial run. We can practice for a week and see how you go. If you suck in a major way, we'll switch to Laura. How does that sound?"
"Finn, come on..."
"Let's just see! Hey Paul, let me borrow one of these bags and get me the papers with Laura and Rory's names on them, we're having a little draw here as well." Paul brought them the bag with the two names inside.
"May I?" Logan volunteered. Finn allowed him to get one name out. Logan couldn't help but laugh when he read the paper.
"Who is it?" Rory asked nervously.
"Oh, Ace, you really have no luck at all," he said through his laughter while showing her the piece of paper and her name on it.
She rolled her eyes, "of course."
"When do we start rehearsing, love?"
"I don't care, I'll suck anyway."
"You can't have that attitude! Here, why don't you picture Colin dressed as that Russian girl from Chicago dancing on a chair. Even if you do suck, there's no way you're gonna look more pathetic than him," Finn said trying to make her feel better. And he succeed when a smile was set on her face.
"Well, I can't tomorrow, because of Friday Night Dinners, but we can start on Saturday."
"Saturday it is. I'll start easy with you, we can just watch the movie on Saturday and assign the rest of the roles. We start the actual rehearsal on Sunday. How does that sound?"
Everyone agreed that was fine. "Oh, I promised my mom I'd be in Stars Hollow this weekend!" Rory remembered.
"Can't you call her and tell her you're not going?"
"And tell her I can't go cause I have to watch Grease for a stupid secret society game? I don't think so."
"But this is serious stuff, Rory. There's actually a prize involved."
"Oh, really? And what is the prize?"
"Well, it's only revealed after the winner is announced."
"What did you win last year?"
"A trip to New Zealand."
"You're joking, right?"
"No, ma'am. Craziest bungie-jumping of my life."
"Well, that's not a prize I'm interested in winning."
"It's never the same one, sweets. Now stop being such a whiner and call Lorelai and tell her you're not going home this weekend!" Finn almost ordered.
"Fine," she said and grabbed her cell phone from her back pocket.
"Hey, mom!"
"Rory! I was hoping you'd call. Listen, when you come home this weekend, we really need to talk about something really important. According to Luke, you hold humanity's fate in your hands."
"Well, that's a pretty big responsibility."
"Sure is. Up for it?"
"What is it about, mom?"
"I don't want to say it over the phone. All I can say is that it's wedding related," Lorelai answered trying to sound mysterious.
"That's not fair! Now you've only made me more curious!"
"Good thing it's only two days till the weekend, right?"
Rory just didn't feel like disappointing her mother, besides she really wanted to know what it was about the wedding her mother wanted to talk about. But she had also committed to the LDB thing. She had to think fast. Finn said they'd only watch the movie on Saturday. That could be done in Stars Hollow, she thought. They did have a video store there.
"Well, mom, look, would it be ok if I took a few people home to watch a movie?" she asked without even consulting the others. When they heard her all eyes and ears were on her.
"A few people? A movie? You'll have to be a bit more specific there, daughter."
"Well, the few people would be Logan, Finn, Robert, Nathan and Laura."
"Three of them I don't know."
"They're all from school."
"I guessed as much. What's the movie?"
"Grease."
"Really? Why so many people want to watch Grease at the same time?"
"Not the point. The point is, we either go to Stars Hollow and watch it, or I don't go home this weekend and watch the stupid movie here."
"You wouldn't do that to your dear mother! Humanity's fate, Rory! In your hands!"
"Well, humanity can just kiss my behind. So, can I take them home with me?"
"Fine. Hey, why isn't Colin and Stephanie in it?"
"They're in another team, they're watching Chicago."
"Another team? Rory, what's going on?"
"I'll tell you later, mom. I have to go now. I think my life is at risk right now. Bye!" Rory said as she noticed the not so friendly looks of Diana, Laura and Robert.
"Kick them in the nuts!" Lorelai managed to say before Rory hung up.
"I'm not going wherever it is you want to take us," Laura was the first to protest.
"Yeah, you can home another day," Nathan agreed.
"Come on, guys, it's not even an hour from here," Rory replied.
"Stars Hollow really is a lovely little town," Finn said.
"If Rory can go home I want to go home too. I don't care how lovely her city is," Laura again protested.
"You're from Florida, Laura," Logan pointed out. She just ignored him.
"But my mom's getting married, she wants to talk to me about something," Rory said.
"My mom could get married too. She's done it three times already," Laura replied.
"This discussion really isn't going to lead us anywhere," Logan started, "can I make a suggestion? You three don't know Rory's mom, so I guess it could be kind of weird staying at her house. So why don't we do it like this? Finn and I will go to Stars Hollow with Rory and the three of you go wherever you want to go to watch the movie. Then on Sunday we'll meet back at school and we'll divide the rest of the roles. Does that sound fair to everybody?"
Everybody agreed that was the best solution to their small problem and Logan and Finn settled with Rory that they'd arrive on Saturday morning with the necessary supplies - read junk food - and she'd rent the movie.
"Don't worry, love, it'll be a very fun 45 days," Finn said with his arm around her shoulder.
"Yeah, I bet," she said with a not so pleased countenance.
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AN: Ok, so I don't know what it is about this chapter but I really liked it. One of my favorites so far actually. Nothing really big happened, but I liked it. I hope you enjoyed it too. Now, like I said, don't go expecting another update so soon, though I have already started working on a new chapter I won't be able to post for another two or three weeks at least. Anyway, all that's left for me to do is ask you to review! So review, please!
