A month had passed since my birthday and I was now 19 weeks pregnant. I couldn't believe I was almost halfway there! I placed a hand on my stomach as I felt the baby kick, it had happened for the first time almost 2 weeks ago. It had been an amazing moment, Jake and I had been in my apartment watching a movie and talking. I had been feeling little flutters for awhile, but that was the moment we both got to feel it.

Today was a big day too; in about a half hour Jake and I were going to my doctor's appointment where we would be finding out the sex. The morning had been passing by way too slowly; I was trying to keep myself occupied when someone came up to the desk. "Excuse me, I have a complaint that I need to talk to the owner about."

I looked up and saw an older woman with short white hair, "I'm sorry ma'am, she is in a meeting right now, is there anything I can do for you?"

She seemed firm in her choice, "No I need to talk to the owner."

I continued to be polite, "Then can I offer you something to drink while you wait?"

"No thank you, I'm fine. I'll wait right here for her."

I wasn't quite sure what to do; we didn't get many complaints unless they were about Michel. True to her word the lady did not move, I glanced at a clock Lorelai's meeting was almost done and it was just with Michel about his weekly complaints. I decided I'd go ahead and interrupt it, Lorelai wouldn't mind, in fact she'd probably be happy for the distraction.

I knocked on her office door and she yelled for me to come in, "Lorelai, there's a woman out here who says she has a complaint to talk to you about. I tried to help her but she insisted she talk to you."

"Ok, thank you Grace. Tell her I'll be right out."

I relayed the message and was helping someone get checked out when I heard Lorelai enter the room and yell, "Mia!" I turned to see her running over to give the woman a hug.

Mia hugged her back then started with her complaint, "Now Lorelai, you have owned this inn for years now and you still haven't had me come and see it."

"I apologize, but since you are here now why don't I give you the grand tour."

"That would be great." She linked arms with Lorelai, quickly said hi to Michel then they were off.

I turned to Michel, "Who is that?"

"That is Mia, she was the owner of the Independence Inn."

That's cool, I thought to myself, I had heard a little about her from Lorelai and Rory and she sounds like a very neat lady.

I heard the door open and saw Jake walk in, "Hey, you ready?"

I smiled, "So ready! Just let me go grab my coat."

I got my coat and after what seemed like an eternity we finally arrived. We were seated in the waiting room waiting to be called, after what seemed like another eternity they finally called my name.

We went into the small room and I quickly got changed into the gown, and another eternity later the doctor finally came in and started the ultrasound. Jake grabbed my hand; he was just as excited. We had both decided we really didn't care what it was, as cheesy as it may sound, we only cared that it was healthy.

The little booger, or bug as Jake would say, wasn't being very cooperative at first. Finally the doctor got it to wiggle around enough that we got a clear look. "It's a girl!"

Tears came to my eyes, "A girl! Are you sure?"

The doctor looked again, and pointed out some parts, "I'm sure, it can be hard to tell for sure with girls, but I'm positive about this one." She looked back at us and smiled, "I'll leave you two alone for a moment."

I turned to Jake, "A girl Jake! We're going to have a little girl!"

He smiled and gave me a kiss, "A beautiful little girl."

After another moment the doctor came back in and informed us that everything still looked great and that we were still right on schedule. She also brought in a couple of pictures from the ultrasound. We got back in the car so Jake could take me back to work, I was practically bouncing up and down in my seat, I couldn't wait to tell Lorelai!

Jake dropped me off, as he also had to get back to work and I ran in to find Lorelai. I quickly asked Michel where she was and he pointed to her office and started to say something else, but I didn't listen I just ran in.

"Lorelai, it's a girl!" I said holding out the pictures.

She gave a squeal and came running over to give me a hug and look at the pictures. "Oh, a little girl! This is so exciting! We so have to go shopping later!"

I excitedly nodded my head yes, and as I did I noticed Mia was sitting in the office, "Oh I'm sorry, I didn't realize anyone else was in here." I said as I shot Lorelai a look.

Mia stood up; "Oh it's no problem, congratulations by the way. And I'm sorry if I flustered you earlier, just think of it as a test you passed with flying colors."

I blushed, "Thank you." I turned to Lorelai, "Well I'm going to go tell any and everyone that I can find, and get back to work of course."

"Have fun, and shopping later don't forget!"

I ran out of the room to start telling other people.

Still in Lorelai's office

Nobody's POV

Lorelai and Mia took their seats again and continued talking, "She seems like a nice girl."

Lorelai smiled, "She really is, and she has come so far since she moved here."

"Oh?" Mia said, more as a question.

"When she first came she was so quiet and scared, she was afraid to do anything that might upset anyone. She comes from a truly awful family that makes the Gilmore's look like Mike and Carol Brady. And when she first found out she was pregnant she was so freaked out by it, and trust me she still has her moments, but now she's so excited and she has grownup so much in the last couple of months. She finally seems happy."

Mia set down the cup of coffee she had been drinking, "Sounds like someone else I know, someone who was in a very similar situation 21 years ago."

Lorelai smiled, "I hadn't really thought of that, it's funny how things come around, isn't it."

After telling every person I saw in the inn, I pulled out my phone and dialed a familiar number. The phone rang and rang until finally I got the voicemail. I waited for it to finish then left my message. "Hey Ty, it's me. I figured you'd be waiting by the phone to hear the news, maybe I'll be cruel and not tell you, that could be fun." I left a long pause, "Ok I'm just kidding, it's a girl! Call me back, I love you. Bye."

I paused for a moment so I could figure out whom all I still needed to call, as I was thinking my phone started ringing. I looked at the caller ID and saw that it was Rory, "Hey Rory!"

"So what's the verdict? I've been practically waiting by the phone for your call."

I smiled and decided to have a little fun, "Guess," I told her.

"Hey that's not fair, I don't want to guess. I suck at guessing."

"Come on Rory, you only have two options."

"Um, a girl?"

"Yes!"

Rory squealed almost as loud as Lorelai had, "Wow! That's so cool! Is mom taking you shopping?"

I laughed, "Of course! Do you want to come?"

Rory sighed, "I wish I could but I have a massive paper I have to work on. We'll go some other time, ok?"

"Sounds great, bye Rory!"

I hung up the phone and thought of one more person I needed to call, he needed to know before the word spread around town. I went to call the diner, but I accidentally called Luke's cell phone instead. Oh well, it works either way, I thought.

The phone rang and he answered, "Hello."

It was hard to hear him, it was really loud wherever he was, "Luke? What's going on?"

"Oh, Grace sorry It's just the lunch rush."

I glanced at a clock, whoops, I guess it was, "Sorry Luke, I didn't mean to bother you. I just had some news."

"You're not bothering me, let me just find a quite place." I heard him yell something to someone and when he came back on the phone there was no noise in the background, "That's better, so what's your news?"

"Well you might remember that I had my doctor's appointment today, and we found out that it's a girl."

"That's great Grace! Congratulations!"

I smiled, "Thanks Luke, I'll let you get back to work now. Hey wait a minute, you're at work?"

"Yeah," He answered, unsure of my point.

I started laughing, Lorelai was gonna love this, "You were talking on your phone in the diner?"

He seemed flustered, "Jeez, I'm never gonna live this down, am I?"

"Nope. Have fun at work! And no cell phones in the diner!"

I hung up the phone as Lorelai was coming out of her office; "You ready to go?" She asked.

"But I thought I was supposed to work until 4?" I asked her.

"Well you were, but I just had a talk with your boss and she said that if you don't go shopping now, you're fired. Since I would hate for you to lose your job, we better get going."

I laughed at her rambling, "Ok let's go!"

Mia walked out of the office and Lorelai pulled me off to the side; "Do you mind if Mia comes with us? I kind of already asked her but I can get us out of it, if you want."

I thought about it, I didn't know Mia, but Lorelai obviously liked her. I was about to reply when Mia walked over. "Are we ready to go?"

Lorelai looked at me and I smiled back at her, "Ready!"

We had been shopping for about an hour and I think that already my baby girl owns more than I do. It had been fun though, Mia was awesome, I can see why Lorelai likes her so much. I was getting tired so I decided to skip the next store and rest instead, Mia had offered to sit with me but I told her to go ahead with Lorelai and not to let her buy the whole store.

I found a comfy chair, sat down and started looking through some of my shopping bags. I've never seen so much pink and purple in my life! There was suddenly a lot of noise in the toy store that was across from me and I turned to look. I saw a little girl who was about 3 or 4 years old and she was screaming, crying and throwing a huge fit about something. I watched as the woman, who was with her tried to calm her down, but nothing was working and the girl just kept screaming.

It all suddenly became very real to me; I was going to have a little girl, a baby that it was my job to raise and to take care of. I mean, I always knew I would have a baby to take care of, but that's a baby. It can't be that hard, but I actually will be responsible for another human being. I suddenly got up, grabbed all my bags and ran into the store that Mia and Lorelai were in.

They were looking at a pair of baby tennis shoes when I came running in, "Lorelai, I can't do this!" I exclaimed.

They both stopped what they were doing and looked at me with concerned looks on their faces. Lorelai came over and put a hand on my arm, "Honey, what's wrong?"

"I can't do it Lorelai, I can't have a baby. I don't know what I'm doing and I'm going to mess it up before it's a week old!" I dropped all my bags and brought my hands to my face.

Lorelai wrapped her arm around me, "Grace, you need to calm down. You know you aren't supposed to get yourself worked up like this."

I pulled out of her grasp and turned so I was facing her, "I can't calm down Lorelai, I don't know anything. I've never even had a dog or a fish; I haven't even had a plant! How can I take care of a baby when I don't even know how to take care of pet!" I cried, I had nearly worked myself into hysterics.

"Ok, we need to get you out of here. Mia can you grab her bags and go get us a table in the food court? We'll be there in a minute." Mia agreed, gathered up my stuff and left.

I stood there wiping a few tears from my eyes when Lorelai again put her arm around me, "Come on, let's get out of here."

We walked around the mall in silence for a few moments before Lorelai spoke up, "So tell me, what was all that about?"

"It was nothing." I said, trying to be believable.

"That was not nothing, that was a full-scale freak out. Now come on, what brought it on?"

"I don't know, I guess I just finally realized what was happening." I went and sat down on the nearest bench and Lorelai joined me.

"You just finally realized you're pregnant? Because that's kind of obvious to everyone right now," She said as she patted my ever-growing stomach. I gave her a look, "Sorry, not the right time for that. You just seemed so excited before, what happened?"

"I just, I really know nothing about babies or kids. I've probably only held a baby 5 times before. How am I supposed to be a parent to one?" I said, once again leaning over and placing my head in my hands.

Lorelai gently rubbed my back, "Honey, no one knows how to be a parent until they become one. Look at Rory and I, I had no clue and she turned out ok didn't she?"

I sat up again, and took a deep breath. "I guess your right, but I'm going to need help, a lot of help."

She put her arm around me, "Anything you need Hun. Ooh! I have my first piece of advice for you!"

I looked at her; unsure I wanted to ask my next question, "What is it?" I slowly asked.

"You need to name her after yourself!"

"No." I answered quickly; "You know the story behind my names."

We stood up and started walking to the food court, "But that's what I did with Rory. Don't you want your daughter to turn out like Rory?"

"If I did then maybe I should just name her Rory."

"Ooh! That's a good idea too, or an even better one name her Lorelai! It would be a great way to thank me for all my help."

I suddenly remembered something; "I have something even better. I called Luke on his cell phone earlier to tell him about my appointment and he was working."

Lorelai failed to see the point, "So?"

"Lorelai, he was working and he was on his cell phone. He was on his cell phone in the diner."

She gasped, "That is so much better!"

A/N: This was a very important full circle chapter, with Mia coming back and all. This was orginally one of the very final chapters, but I've extended it some, there should be about 4 more. Also, I'm thinking of doing a sequel but it will probably focus more equally on everyone, but I'm not sure yet. Let me know if you even want a sequel, and if you have any ideas they are always appreciated! Thanks for reading and please review!