I'm Sorry – Chapter 10

A/N: I know I haven't updated for a long time, but I hope that people will still read and review. I am still not sure will to take this story, but hopefully it will turn out…

Previously:

"What happened to your eye?"

"I got into a fight." Aiden said quietly.

"Lorelai you can't do that. You can't contradict me like that in front of the kids."

"I think we need some more time apart." Rory said quietly. She kissed him on his cheek and walked back into her grandparents' house.

"What did he want?" Emily asked as Rory sat down at the table.

"Nothing" Rory said. Emily stared at her, but it was obvious that Rory didn't want to talk about it, so she dropped the conversation.

The silence fell once again.

"What the hell is this?" Everyone stared at Kady, who was holding her fork up with a weird vegetable on end. Lorelai laughed.

"Do not laugh at her. There is nothing funny about a 15 yr old speaking like that at the dinner table. " Emily scolded.

"She's right," Luke agreed, and everyone, including himself looked surprised that he was agreeing with Emily Gilmore.

"It's a Japanese squash, now be quite and eat it." Emily said. Lorelai and her younger daughter exchange glances and it was they could do to keep their laughter in.

Dinner was soon over and the Danes family headed home. "Well, that went alright. I guess." Lorelai said once in the car.

But no one replied, they were too busy in their own minds.

Once back at the house, Luke told Aiden to go upstairs and wait for him and Lorelai. "So what are we going to do?" Luke asked Lorelai once Aiden had left.

"I don't know. This is so unlike Aiden. I mean first he's late and then he's fighting, and wont tell us why."

"I know." Luke agreed. "Well, I guess we should just go upstairs and talk to him, and get to the bottom of this."

"Sounds like a plan," the two headed upstairs to talk to Aiden.

The door was open and Aiden was sitting on his bed. "I'm quitting baseball." He said blankly.

"What?" Luke said surprised. "You love baseball. You are not quitting."

"Yes, I am."

"No, you are –" Luke began again, but was interrupted.

"Why?" Lorelai asked.

Luke stared at her. It kind of pissed him off that she had interrupted him again, but then again he probably should have started off with this question instead of getting angry.

Both Luke and Lorelai stared at Aiden waiting for his answer. He stared at the floor, obviously not wanting to answer. "Come on Aid. Why do you want to quit baseball?" Lorelai asked sitting down next to him.

"It's just that," he began, but quickly looked at the floor again.

"Just what?" Luke asked quietly.

Without looking up Aiden began to tell his story. "There's this girl and I really like her and instead of going to practice today I went and hung out with her, and I know I shouldn't of done that, but I never get to see her, and so I went to hang out with her. Everything was fined until I saw the guys after practice and they got mad at me and we got into a fight and that's how I got my black eye. They said I ditched them and that coach probably wouldn't let me play tomorrow cause I didn't go to practice, and now they would probably lose, and they made me mad so I punched Jimmy." Aiden spoke so quickly Lorelai was even amazed.

Lorelai looked at Luke, she knew this was a problem for a boy's father and so she quietly left the room. Her little boy, her baby had a girlfriend. Oh how the time flew, she thought as she headed back downstairs.

Kady and Rory were sitting on the couch watching TV. "Hey," Rory said as her mom sat down next to her. "So, what's going on with Aiden?"

"Oh nothing too serious. I guess he has a girlfriend and he ditched practice to hang with her and his teammates got mad."

"He has a girlfriend?" Rory said surprised.
"Yea, I know." Lorelai said.

They watched the show in silence for a little while. "So?" Lorelai said after a few minutes.

"So." Rory said, sarcastically.

"Come on Rory, tell Mommy what happened with Logan."
"Nothing, I told him that I thought we needed some more time apart." She said blankly and Lorelai knew not to push.