A/N: After a long debate, Lissa won and we are now adding another flashback, this one actually serves as a flashback though. We were going to put it in a later chapter, but she felt this was the perfect time for it. The first line of this one is from the last chapter, but it shows how they are connected. Originally these two chapters were going to be one chapter.
Reviews:
LostMarauderx3: Yeah, that's something I noticed and actually caused me to respect Emily a little in the show. Before that episode, I saw her as extremely uncaring and very bitter, but that scene showed she actually does have a heart for her daughter.
dancingchick0407: Yeah, it was really apparent. I did, however, like who they cast as young Lorelai, I thought she was perfect.
LukeNLorelaifanatic: Here's more. :)
gilmore fan 4life: I'm glad.
Bookworm1214: Yeah, as a member of the higher society (Abby speaking) I've seen a lot of people like Lorelai and Chris and in real life I feel sorry for them too, it makes me really feel bad for the characters.
MrsPhantom: I do too, it gives quite a bit of insight into Lorelai's life at sixteen.
Disclaimer: We still don't own Gilmore Girls.
Chapter Seven: Change of Plans
Lorelai sighed and rested her head against the wall, closing her eyes. She couldn't believe this was really happening. They were planning out her life, once again and she had no say whatsoever.
It really wasn't anything new. True, the circumstances were new, but such is the life of a society kid, her life had been planned for her since before she was born. Her memories came back, before she found out she was pregnant, life really hadn't been much different.
Lorelai and Christopher came to the Gilmore home after school. Lorelai was attempting to unlock the door, but her boyfriend had decided to tickle her. "Christopher, stop it. I'm trying to open the door." Lorelai said, trying to get Christopher to stop. She finally got the door open and they fall into the house. "Graceful and lovely they enter." She said sarcastically.
"Is she home?" Christopher asked, referring to Lorelai's mother.
"I don't know." She replied. "Mom, are you home?" She called into the house.
"Mom, are you home?" Christopher said, mocking Lorelai's voice.
Lorelai shushed him. "She'll hear you."
"So?" Christopher asked. "She likes me."
"Oh, that's right." Lorelai said. It was only her her mother despised. "Mom! It's me, Lorelai and I'm home." She called. Still no response, so she decided to try to get her mother's attention in other ways. "I'm home and I'm taking my sweater off. I'm taking my sweater off and dropping it on the floor. Dropping it on the floor and walking away from it. I'm walking away from it and leaving it on the floor. And in two years I'm gonna register Democrat." Lorelai still got no responses, she turned to Christopher. "Looks like no Emily."
"Where's Sophia?" Christopher asked, referring to the maid.
"Fired." Lorelai responded.
"Already?" Christopher asked. He knew Emily didn't keep maids long, but he hadn't expected Sophia to get the axe so soon.
Lorelai nodded.
"What did she do?" Christopher enquired.
"She touched the Baccarat unicorn." Lorelai informed him.
"My God is she insane?" Christopher asked mockingly. Emily really did fire her maids for insane reasons.
"Apparently so." Lorelai said.
"So to recap:" Christopher started, "there's no Emily, and there's no Sophia."
"And there's no supervision whatsoever." Lorelai finished for him. "What will we do?" She asked, mocking as though it were a huge tragedy.
"Let's celebrate." Christopher said.
"Celebrate what?" Lorelai asked.
"No more midterms." Christopher told her.
"Hear hear." Lorelai agreed.
"I say we drink to it." Christopher added.
"Hear hear."
"Scotch, vodka or gin?" He asked.
"Hear hear." She said, once again. "And put a cherry on it." She walked over to the coffee table. "It looks like the Gilmores are planning a trip again." She said, picking up a book and sitting on the couch.
"Where to this time?" Christopher asked, as he made the drinks.
"Someplace fabulous where we will stay in a fancy hotel with a lot of other rich Americans that don't want to talk to anyone who actually lives in that country." Lorelai said, mocking the Gilmore lifestyle once more.
"Myra Waldo's Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe." Christopher said, reading the title of the book Lorelai held. "Hello Myra." He handed Lorelai her drink and sat next to her.
"Oh god. I hope they go over Christmas. That'll be about as holly jolly as it gets." Lorelai said, then she took a drink from her glass. "Smooth."
"Guess what I decided." Christopher told her. "I'm not gonna go to college." He watched for her reaction.
"Are you serious?" Lorelai asked him.
"I'm taking a year and I'm going to Europe. I'm gonna backpack, train and sleep on a bench, see the whole world." He explained.
"And you've told Strobe and Francine about your big plans, I'm sure." Lorelai said, knowing the Haydens would never approve of his plans.
"That doesn't matter." He told her.
"Uh huh." She said, not buying it.
"I'm out of here the second that diploma's my hand." He told her. He was set on this, he wasn't going to let his parents ruin it for him.
"Sounds good." Lorelai said, knowing this meant he was gone for a year and away from her.
"You're going with me." Christopher told her.
"Oh, I am?" She asked.
"Yep." He said, matter-of-factly.
"I'm sleeping on a bench? Okay, how does that picture look to you? Cause to me it looks like a big no."
"Fine, then you can get a room and I'll just sleep on the bench outside." He said, refusing to let her out of this.
"Much better arrangement." Lorelai responded.
"So you'll go?" He asked.
"Christopher! You're supposed to go to college. I'm supposed to go to college. Then you're supposed to join your dad's firm where you'll get a corner office and a big stick to shove up your butt."
"Change of plans." Christopher said.
"You can't just change the plans. The plans came over on the Mayflower."
"Come on Lore, let's get out of here! Let's get away from this place. Let's take Myra and just bolt. Leave a note on the dining room table. "Dear Richard and Emily, I don't belong here. I'm going somewhere else. I'll call you when I get there. Love, Lorelai." How does that sound?"
"Well, the word whoopee comes to mind." She responded.
"So it's a plan?" He asked her.
"It's a plan." She confirmed.
They kissed to seal their plans.
Lorelai sighed. It looked like their plans changed yet again. No trip to europe. No backpacking. No sleeping on benches.
A/N: And that's it. Beginning with the next chapter, we will be returning to our own creations. Read and review please!
