OKay well, I guess Richard dying won with a whopping.. two votes. haha. Sorry the last chapter wasn't all that interesting or long. I needed to put it in though. This one will be longer and a bit more interesting, I promise.
Lorelai walked into Luke's diner, with a distressed look on her face. Without even looking up to see if Luke was there, she began talking when she walked into the diner.
"So, my parents have invited us to dinner. Apparently 'Elizabeth' told them we were dating and now they want to meet you. Now, you don't have to go, I mean it will be a night of them degrading you, you thanking them, not realizing what they're doing because they'll do it in a way that you will not even notice, in fact, you'll think they're complimenting you." Lorelai's rant had only just began when she looked up from what she was doing, and saw no Luke. "And who the hell am I saying this to?" Lorelai asked.
"I was listening." Kirk replied.
"Hey, Caesar, where's Luke?"
"He's upstairs, you can go get him if you like." Caesar told her. Lorelai began upstairs and knocked on the door, before she opened the door, not even waiting for a reply. She checked to make sure Luke was actually in the room before she began talking again.
"What are you doing up here?" Lorelai asked.
"I was running late. Where's Rory?"
"She's at Mrs. Patty's" Lorelai told him. Rory had began dancing with Mrs. Patty only recently. When the confused look disappeared from Luke's face, Lorelai restarted the rant she had begun earlier in the diner. "So what do you say? Let me remind you, you do not have to go. I'll just make up an excuse if you want, I'm very good at that" Lorelai ended her rant with an evil grin.
"I'll go." Luke said, to Lorelai's astonishment.
"You'll go? Just like that?"
"I have to go sooner or later."
"Yes, sooner or much much later." Lorelai pointed out. "This is Emily and Richard Gilmore."
"Do you not want me to go?" Luke asked confused.
"It's not that I don't want you to go, I'm just looking out for your safety."
"It'll be fine," Luke told her. He threw on his belt baseball cap and began downstairs, Lorelai following him closely.
"Okay well, I have to go get Rory, kiss." Lorelai said, before leaning over the counter for a kiss. She then walked out of the diner and toward Mrs. Patty's. From a distance Lorelai saw Rory swirling toward her. "Hey Kid, how was dance?" She asked as they got closer to one another.
"Fun!" Rory exclaimed.
"Good." Lorelai told her. "Did you learn anything new?"
"No, we just practiced." Rory informed Lorelai. Lorelai was glad. As much as she loved how happy Rory was do be dancing now, every time she was taught something new, Rory would dance around the house, tripping over her feet with almost every step she took.
"So, we're going to grandma and grandpa's house tonight, are you excited?" Lorelai changed the subject rather quickly.
"Yeah!" Rory exclaimed. "Are Luke and Jess coming also?" Lorelai nodded her head. They made their way home so that Rory could change and Lorelai could call her mother to inform her that they would be coming to dinner.
"Change quickly! I'll be off the phone soon." Lorelai told Rory as they made their way into the house. Rory ran toward her room, and Lorelai made her way to the phone. She dialed her parents number and the phone rang twice before a maid picked up.
"Gilmore Residence" A new, and unfamiliar voice said on the other side of the receiver,
"Hi, this is Lorelai; can I speak to Mrs. Gilmore, please?"
"One moment, please" The maid said, before Lorelai was put on hold for only a few short seconds and Emily answered the phone.
"Hi, mom?" Lorelai said, startled to hear her mother answer the phone so quickly.
"Hello, Lorelai"
"Hi, I just wanted to tell you that Rory and Luke and I would be coming to dinner tonight. Also, Jess would have to come too." Lorelai informed her.
"Oh! Wonderful." Emily said. "Is 6:00 alright?"
"That's fine, see you tonight."
"See you tonight." Emily heard a click on the other end of the receiver and then hung up the phone herself. She got up and walked into Richard's office to tell him the news. "Richard, Lorelai and Rory will be joining us for dinner tonight, with Luke and his nephew."
"Splendid." Richard said. Both Emily and Richard were genuinely excited to mean Luke.
"Rory come on, it's almost time to go." Lorelai screamed down the hall as the doorbell rang. "Come in" Lorelai screamed, putting on her shoes. When she was done she walked to toward the door to greet Luke with a kiss. "Hey Jess, nice to see you again" Lorelai said, bending down to Jess's height. He gave her a slight smile. Rory came walking out of her bedroom a few seconds later and Lorelai turned around to notice. "Okay time to go." Lorelai said, grabbing her jacket and then helping Rory with hers.
Lorelai pulled up to her parent's driveway. Once again she sat there for a moment, breathed deep and pulled off her seatbelt.
"This is the house?" Luke said, as he got out of the car. Lorelai nodded. "This doesn't even look like a house. Only two people live here?" Luke asked. Lorelai nodded again. "This is why there are so many starving and homeless children in the world. It's so unnecessary to have such a huge house for only two people. You grew up in this house?"
"Unfortunately" Lorelai said, before ringing the doorbell. A maid came to the door and Lorelai told her who they were. The maid took all of their jackets and lead them all into the living room where Emily and Richard were sitting like usual.
"Hi mom, hi dad" Lorelai said, making her way into the living room. "This is Luke, Jess and I believe you already know Rory." Lorelai said, nervously, pointing to each individual person as she said their name. Richard took his nose out of his newspaper, and Emily rose from her seat.
"I believe we do." Emily said. "Nice to meet you Luke," Emily said.
"Nice to meet you too, Mrs. Gilmore, you have a beautiful home." He smiled at her, and offered her his hand.
"Nice to meet you too, Jess." Emily said the way an adult would talk to most toddlers. At that point Richard rose from his seat.
"What can I get you to drink, Luke?" He asked. "A beer?"
"That would be fine," Luke said. Lorelai began shaking her head. Already they began insulting him in her mind.
"What would you like Lorelai," Richard made his way around the group. The evening got off on a good start. Throughout the hour before dinner, Emily and Richard seemed friendly enough, and Lorelai made hardly any remarks to displease her parents.
"Dinner is served, Mrs. Gilmore" A maid came to tell them. They all got up and followed the maid to the dining room.
"I hope you're not a vegetarian, Luke. I forgot to check with Lorelai, but we're having duck for dinner." Emily said, sounding genuinely sorry for not checking first. She was a good actress.
"Duck is delicious." Luke replied. Throughout the dinner, tensions seemed to rise.
"So, Luke, I hear you own a diner?" Emily began.
"I do, in Stars Hollow." Luke informed her. "It was my fathers, it was a hardware store."
"What made you want to make it into a diner?" Emily asked.
"Well, I guess my heart wasn't into the hardware business like my father's was, and I knew how to cook, so I decided to make it a diner. I left everything the same, the shelves are still up, even the sign. It seemed nice to remember him by. He would have called me a damn fool." Luke explained.
"Oh, well." Emily was lost for something to say. "I hear many diners are very dirty. I mean mice not just running around, but in the food."
"Luke's isn't like that, mom." Lorelai was beginning to get angry.
"Oh, I'm not saying Luke's is like that, just some diners." She informed Lorelai.
"No. You weren't saying straight out that his diner is like that. You would never say something like that straight out loud, but you were implying it."
"Your mother was not implying anything, Lorelai. Now sit down, and stop being rude." Richard chimed in.
"I'm not gonna come over here and let you degrade Luke like this. What's wrong with owning a diner? He's made a good and honest living. Just because he isn't in the insurance business and doesn't own a house that could house about 50 people, spending his money on useless crap doesn't mean he's less than you. You can't do this to him." Lorelai screamed at her parents. "He's a great guy, and you're not even giving him a chance. Automatically you judge him, just like you judge everyone. You don't give anybody a chance. Nobody's good enough for you." Lorelai got up from the chair and started to storm out. Emily got up and followed her.
"This has nothing to do with me, Lorelai. This is about you. He doesn't have to be good enough got me, he has to be good enough for you, and some diner owner, making a minimum wage salary is not good enough for you." Emily tried to reason.
"You have no idea what you're talking about, or what's good enough for me, mom. Just stop it. I'm leaving!" Lorelai screamed. Luke, Rory and Jess came running to where Emily and Lorelai were standing. Insulted, it was time for Luke to stand up for himself.
"I'm sorry you don't think I'm good enough for your daughter, that's your problem." Luke began. Rory, Jess and Lorelai were already outside in a huff. "You don't have any idea what your daughter needs or wants, and I'm sorry about that, too, but I can't fix that. You need to get over yourself, you're not better than anyone, you don't even know your own daughter." And with that, Luke slammed the door behind him and ran out to Lorelai's car.
Okay, I think the last part was a little awkward, but I don't know how to fix it. I hope ya'll like it. It's really freakin' long. This is the last day of my vacation, but there's a chance of a snow day tomorrow, so if there is one I shall probably be updating again. Here are some new choices for my new story. The two that have won already are Luke's teenage years and Richard dies at Christmas Party. Here are the other two choices:
What if Emily hadn't loaned the money to Lorelai? What if Friday night dinners never began?
OR
Rory's been working her whole life to go to an ivy league school. The only schools she applied to? Harvard, Yale and Princeton. The schools that accepted her? None.
