AN: Yay chapter 16! Longer note at the end. Thaks for the reviews, more to come.
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Something So Simple
She's marrying Jess.
I saw Rory running towards me tears in her eyes, and my first thought was, Damn it Jess Mairiano what did I tell you? As she came closer to me, I ran up to her and asked, "Honey, what's wrong?"
She hugged me and shook her head, "No everything's fine. No it's not fine, everything is perfect."
I rolled my eyes, "Rory, you don't honestly expect me to believe that my daughter is crying for no reason."
"Mom, have you ever thought they could be tears of joy?" Rory asked.
I shook my head, "Nope, that never occurred to me."
"Well I'm crying tears of joy." She said in a muffled voice, and handed me a box. I opened it, and saw a massive ring, with a picture of Jess and a word bubble.
He asked her to marry him! He asked him to marry him, how dare he ask my daughter to marry him?
Instead I said, "Did Jess pull a bank job?"
She rolled her eyes, "No, he has money."
There was silence, and I uncomfortably broke it, "So are you um going to say yes?"
She nodded with a smile on her face.
"Hun, you don't have to marry him just because your pregnant." I told her.
"Mom, I'm not just going to marry him because I'm pregnant. I'm going to marry him because I love him." Rory whispered.
"I just don't want you to make a mistake." I told her.
"How could marrying Jess be a mistake?" She questioned angrily.
"He could leave you." I whispered honestly.
I knew my words stung Rory, but instead of responding to that she snapped, "Just because you got pregnant and didn't get married to the man you love, doesn't mean I have to make the same idiotic mistake."
Her words stung me like a million bees at once. I felt my eyes fill with tears, "Ouch Rory!"
"Rory… we want you to see your present," My father yelled.
"Just a minute Grandpa," Rory shouted and then turned her attention back to me, "And just so you know, I'm not going to Yale this year, I pushed my admission back a year."
As the shock of my daughter's words sank in, and I was able to say something, she was gone.
"Alright so we thought we thought we'd get you something you need." My grandfather told me.
"That's always good." I said honestly.
"Okay. So here's the first gift." Grandma said, and snapped her fingers and a man took off a cloth that covered something.
I gasped. My grandparents had bought her a blue jeep. Just like the one mom drove, except the color was different.
"Oh my god! Thank you!" She said and ran to hug her grandma and grandpa.
"Well it had good amounts of room, and I even approve it." Grandpa said.
Grandma nodded and said, "God knows you'll need room with a baby!"
I smiled and rubbed my stomach, "That's true."
"And you will of course need money to raise this baby." My grandfather said.
I nodded.
"So we have decided to lend a hand every month by sending you two thousand dollars." Grandma said chirpily.
I gasped again and hugged her and then went for grandpa.
And for some reason this all made me feel really secure. Not only because of the car and the money but because I knew my grandparents were behind me.
"Luke…" I cried.
He suddenly appeared, "What are you crying about? We have coffee."
"Luke, it's Rory." I whispered.
"What? What happened to her?" He asked truly concerned.
"Nothing, she's fine. It's just we had a fight." I told him.
"Ah." He said understanding.
I nodded as tears continued to drip down my cheeks, "I told her Jess could leave, and then she bought up Christopher and my pregnancy, and then she told me she wasn't going to Yale."
"What!" Luke asked startled at the last part.
I shrugged still tears in my eyes, "She pushed her admission back…"
"What? She can't do that!" He shouted.
"Luke, I'm more mad that she used my pregnancy against me then that." I sobbed.
"Lorelai, I know." He whispered.
"And now she's going to marry Jess," I told him.
"What?" He asked shocked.
"Jess proposed, she said yes." I told him.
"Wow, I don't know what to say." He mumbled.
There was silence, then I broke it by saying, "I don't want to lose her."
He nodded, and came to hug me, an awkward hug but a hug nonetheless.
"Look Lorelai, it's going to be okay. We'll figure this out, and as for Rory, well hello pregnancy, mood swings? She'll get over it, in the mean time let me get you extra coffee." Luke said and went to get me coffee.
I couldn't get what he'd said out of my mind.
"We'll figure this out."
Yeah that sounded nice.
I groaned as I picked up the phone.
"Hello?" I asked groggily.
"You better tell your fiancé to apologize to Lorelai. I can't stand her being so miserable over this fight. It hurts when she cries it nearly breaks my heart. Control your woman, Jess." Luke's voice told me.
"My what?" I asked.
"Your woman…" Luke answered hesitantly.
"No before that, it started with an 'F'." I told Luke.
"Oh fiancé." He mumbled nervously.
"Yeah, well you see she's never said yes." I told him.
"She hasn't?" He questioned.
"Nope." I replied simply.
"So I er basically ruined your surprise?" Luke inquired.
"Pretty much." I told him.
After that, I knew he'd hung up so I hung up and called Rory.
"Hello." She answered perkily.
"Hey, so I'm your fiancé?" I questioned.
She laughed, "I have no idea what you're talking to, so when are you coming home?"
I smirked, "Don't change the subject."
"I'm not. What's wrong with a woman wanting to know when she'll next see her fiancé?" She asked.
I smiled, and I doubted she'd ever know how happy I was. I doubted I'd ever let her know how happy I was.
AN: Next chapter is it okay if I skip ahead next chapter? Or would you prefer I keep going with this time, I'd only skip ahead a bit like a few months. Please tell me. Oh I know the chapter title isn't original, but whatever. Tell me what you thought. Thanks!
PS- The proposal wasn't from Emily, it was all from Jess. Sorry to confuse some of you.
