My dear Readers I know that I'm having a delay again, but Right now I'm having so much on My plate called life. But now I don't want to let you wait and please leave a comment after reading this. It is Pretty important for me. Now let's start, thanks for your support
Nathalie arrived home, thirty minutes later and walked into the kitchen. Her parents were sitting at the kitchen counter Talking.
She noticed that her mother was drinking a glass of wine and her father had his glass of scotch in front of him.
She tried to avoid them but, they saw her walk past the kitchen doorway. "Nat, will you come and join us?", asked her mother.
Nathalie took a deep breath and thought what she should do now. Running away wouldn't be the best solution, even if she would love to do it now, but she had to face this situation.
Nathalie hesitantly walked through the kitchen door then entered the kitchen with slow steps, she headed to the refrigerator to get a Coke for herself.
"Hi.", Nathalie said quietly, turning around and not making eye contact with her parents feeling so helpless and alone.
"Hey, Nat, I just finished talking to your grandmother. Is everything alright?" her mother asked her as Logan placed his hand on hers giving it a gentle squeeze.
"What did Grandma want?"
"She said you left upset. Is something wrong?" her father asked standing up walking towards her.
Nathalie took a step backward away from her there with her earbuds around her neck and her arms across her chest.
"Maybe, I don't know."
She looked nervously at her parents not sure what she should say or if she really wanted to know what happened. She wondered if they would tell her the truth. They have lied for fourteen years would they continue to lie?
Looking at her mother, she got the courage and said," I need to ask you about.." Her mother went to respond but stopped when Logan's phone rang. Logan picked up his phone and seeing number he knew that he needed to take this call.
"Oh sorry, honey, it's your Uncle Finn. I have to take this. Can we talk later? " Logan took a step closer to her and gently kissing her on the forehead he went to his office talking on the phone to Finn.
"Great, really great..", Nathalie muttered to herself loud enough for her mother to hear.
Rory looked up at her daughter. "Nat, what do you want to ask us? Maybe I can help you?"
"Never mind mom, I'm going to my room to be alone." As she was turning around her mother called to her.
"Nathalie, honey, please can we talk?"
Nathalie looked at her mother with sadness in her eyes and put her earbuds back in her ears and walked to her room.
"Hey, Finn." Logan greeted him.
"Logan I just received a phone call from Mr Dellinger a new business partner from one of the hotels I had bought. Unfortunately, the meeting was moved up on Monday at three in the afternoon. The plane leaves Bradley International airport tomorrow Sunday at 16:30 and arrives at Vienna airport on Monday at 8:30 in the morning. Will you still be able to go along with me to Vienna, mate?"
"Sure that works for me."
"When we arrive on Monday we can meet Liam and his girlfriend at 6pm at the restaurant Skopik & Lohn. I still can't believe my son likes a girl."
"That sounds great. I'm really looking forward to see Liam tomorrow. It has been quite a while since I last saw him."
"Me too mate we will be staying in the Grand Hotel Wien. That's not far away from the restaurant Skopik & Lohn." Finn replied
"Sound good to me mate. See you later.." he nodded.
Rory sat there at the counter watching her daughter leave, as the tears returned to her eyes she wiped her eyes when she heard the slamming of the kitchen door behind her a when their five-year-old son Jacob came running into the room,.
"Mommy I'm hungry," he said as he rushed into the kitchen straight to the refrigerator pulling out the freezer door.
"Hungry? You're always hungry little man. What would you like?"
"Remember when we went shopping and, you bought that Chunky Monkey Ice Cream? Can I have some? Pretty please?" he asked smiling with his big toothy grin and his blue eyes twinkling. Jacob had his father's blonde hair, but her blue eyes and just like his father he knew how to give her that special smile that would make her say yes to anything he asked for.
"Sure, Bud, but you promise that you will eat your dinner later?" Nodding his head up and down he said, "Yes, Yes, I promise."
Rory pulled out the ice cream and bowl for him and handed him the Scoop. "Okay one scoop," she told him as he dug into the ice cream in the carton.
He scooped it out and plopped the ice cream into the bowl. He climbed up on the chair that his father had vacated a few moments ago and began to eat his ice cream.
Rory ruffled his hair as she picked up the carton and returned it back into the freezer.
"So Jake, what do you want to do tomorrow? " Rory asked him as she sat beside him.
Jacob looked at his mother and wrinkled his forehead. "Mom, aren't you going to have any ice cream with me?"
"Oh, no sweetie not today, so what do you want to do tomorrow." He thought about it as he put a big spoonful of ice cream in his mouth.
"Can you, Grace, Nat, Dad, and I go to Grandma and Grandpa's house in Stars Hollow tomorrow? Grandpa Luke promised me that we could watch Finding Nemo and Finding Dory. Grandpa said he never saw those movies," he said as he stuffed more of his ice cream in his mouth.
"Well that sounds like fun, but we need to check with your dad and sisters to make sure they don't have other plans."
Jacob sighed then he dropped the spoon in the bowl with a clatter. He went to get up from the counter and Rory looked at him.
"Where do you think you're going?"
"Outside to ride my bike," he replied. Rory pointed to the dish, and he looked at her and gave her a little grin.
"Oh yeah, sorry mom. I forgot." He picked up his bowl and spoon and brought it over to the dishwasher and sink. He quickly rinsed it out and put it into the dishwasher.
"Thank you," she said and leaned over so he could kiss her cheek.
He wrapped his arms around her neck and kissed her and said, "I love you, mommy."
"I love you too, baby." He turned and smiling he started singing and walked out of the door.
After Jake had left the kitchen, she decided to check on Logan. She stopped for a moment standing in front of Logan's closed door. Taking a deep breath, Rory , knocked on the door and opened it.
"Hey, Ace."
"Logan, what did Finn want?", she was asked.
"He asked me if I would come with him to Vienna. A few days ago, Sam Paulsen, a former employee of my dad's staff had called me. We had originally scheduled the meeting for May 15th but unfortunately something has changed, and so we postponed the meeting to Monday at 13:30 noon.
Sam, I and his editor-in-chief are discussing on Monday furthers steps to bring "The Vienna Chronicle" back on track. Finn also has has a meeting with one of his newest business partners on Monday at 13:00, in Vienna. While we are there he wants to visit Liam. We can save money by going together." Logan explained to her, and she shook her head in disbelief.
"Are you running away? Can't you postpone your meeting?" Rory was upset that he was was leaving so she sat down in the wing Chair.
"Rory, I'm not running away, but I can't postpone the meeting.. "
"And what about us Logan? How am I going to get through the next week without you? Nathalie will ask me questions. You know her.. what should I tell her ?"
Logan, got up from the couch and approached his wife,"Ace, please don't make this any harder on me than it already is. I will be home again on Thursday afternoon ."
Logan grabbed Rory's hands and stroked a strand of her brown hair behind her ear while looking closely at her. "Rory please say something." he whispered and looked deep into her blue eyes. Rory took a few steps back, looked into Logan's eyes and from one moment to the next she became angry.
"What" she huffed and continued "What do you want me to say Logan!" She threw her hands in the air, shaking her head disbelievingly.
"That we will find a solution to this problem? And everything will be be ok? Or pretend that nothing has happened, that Nathalie doesn't need to know the truth? God, Logan wake up," Rory yelled at him before Logan could respond.
"Damn it, Rory! I'm sorry that I'm leaving tomorrow," Logan said strongly, trying not to show her how upset he really was.
"You should be sorry! You are turning into Mitchum again, putting business first! Don't you realize our daughter needs us right , that I need you too? Oh Logan, just forget it, I'm tired of arguing. with you all the time."
"Rory" he stood in front of her looking into her eyes. "I am not becoming my father again. I promise, but I have to go to this meeting. I swear to you, we will tell Nathalie, Jacob and Grace about their sister as soon as I return."
"Fine! It is obvious your mind is set, but if you ever pull this again, just know I won't drop it as easy as I did today."
Rory turned to walk out of the room, but before she could, Logan said, "Rory, I love you."
"I know Logan. " changing the subject Rory asked him glancing over her shoulder, "What time do you need to leave for the airport tomorrow?"
Nathalie entered her bedroom and sadly sat down on her bed. She looked around her room wondering what it would have looked like if her twin sister shared it with her. She couldn't stop thinking about what Sookie had told her.
After a few minutes, Nathalie plopped herself on her bed and turned the music back on. She needed to do find out answers about her sister she sat up on her bed and grabbed her laptop. Leaving her earbuds in her ear, she began to look for information about her twin sister Norah on her MacBook Pro. She opened the safari browser and typed her parent's name into the search engine.
In just a few seconds there appeared over 1 million results about the Gilmore Huntzberger family. She clicked through several news sites and glanced through them.
There was very little information about the children. Most of the articles were about her parents and their success at HPG, her mom's books "The Gilmore Girls", and her career at the Huffington Post.
There was just one article about the birth of the Gilmore- Huntzberger twins. This frustrated Nathalie, she wondered why there wasn't anything else written. She sat there scrawling through the articles when she heard a soft knock on her door.
"Yeah come in..", she said closing her Macbook pro.
"Hey, Nat, do you want to go to Grandma's for movie night? Grandma just wrote me a message.."
"No offense Gracie, but I want to stay at home tonight and the rest of the weekend. We can have, a movie night here." Nathalie proposed to her little sister.
Grace looked at her and wondered why her sister didn't want to go out tonight or go to Grandmas for movie night. She and her sister loved going to Taylor's to buy the junk food and grandpa Luke always came home with burgers and fries for them.
"Why don't you want to go there?" Grace asked her.
Nathalie stood up and put her MacBook Pro on her desk. Not looking at her sister she replied, " I don't want to see grandma now. I was over there earlier, I'm not in the mood, Grace. "
"But why? Come on we always have fun. Plus Dad and Mom are talking, and they sound upset. You know I don't like being here when they are upset." Grace begged her sister taking hold of her Hand,
"Please?"
"Grace, I'm sorry, but I don't want to go. Why don't you and Jacob go instead? I just want to be alone in my room." She quietly went to her door and opened it so that her sister would leave.
"Fine, I don't understand why you don't want to go."
Grace walked out the door and sadly walked into her room pouting. Trying to distract herself, Grave picked up "Lord of the Rings" one of her favorite books and sat down trying to read it.
Nathalie was afraid to ask her parents why they never said a word about Norah. She wondered how her parents would go about finding out more information on a story they were reporting on. Nathalie wondered how she could have access to her father's or mother's office without getting caught. Maybe her parents had some newspaper articles under lock and key. She knew that her parents would be very angry if they caught her and her father always kept the office door locked.
She just had to dig deeper into her parent's privacy. She picked up her laptop and returned to her bed. Opening her laptop again, she began another search for the name Norah Gilmore Huntzberger but again found nothing. If she had a twin sister what happened to her and why isn't there an obituary if she died.
Nathalie found only one single website reporting about the birth of the Gilmore-Huntzberger twins. That was strange usually the media portals would report on any news about Nathalie's parents.
She sighed loudly, she turned when she heard her iPhone rang. A smile spread across her lips when she saw Nicole Grimaldi's name light up on the Display.
"Hey, Nici!", she greeted her.
"Hey, Nathalie. What are you doing?" Nic asked her while she was flicking through a teen Magazine.
"Nothing, how about you?" Nathalie inquired while she scrolled through the web pages looking for information about her twin sister Norah.
"Oh, I'm just reading the latest edition of Seventeen. I'm really bored, but I don't want to go out tonight," she told her.
"Well, I'm staying at home too. Why don't we do something together?"
"Oh, this would be awesome Nat. How about a pajama party at my place about 7 tonight? Including a nice movie night with all the old classics like Casablanca.
We could order Chinese or Indian food whatever you like. How does that sound to you? " Nicole proposed to her best friend.
"Just one moment hang on, I will go and ask mom if I can come over to your place tonight.", Nathalie answered her, put the conversation on hold while she was looking after her parents.
"Alright.", Nic sighed, and a few minutes later Nathalie was back on the phone.
"And what did your mom said?"
"Can I call you back? My mom and dad are talking in dad' Office."
"That's fine Just give me a call? Bye Nat." Nici ended her call and continued to look through her magazine.
Nathalie shoved her smartphone into her pocket and walked into the kitchen, her earbuds hanging around her neck, looking for her mom. She saw her little brother sitting at the table with his coloring books, crayons and colored pencils.
"Hey Jake do you know where Mom is?" she asked her brother who was sitting in the kitchen coloring.
"I think mom is talking to dad about plans to go to Stars Hollow tonight and maybe spend the night there.
"So what did you do today?" Nathalie asked her little brother.
"Today Michael and I rode our bikes to the woods where we caught a lot of bugs. Do you want to see them Nat? I am going to write a story about them. When I grow up in going to be a Bug reporter, " he told his sister.
"Wow it sounds like you had a lot of fun with Michael, " Nat smiled at her little brother as she sat beside him at the table, picking up a crayon to color with him.
"On Monday Michael, Levy, and I are going to the cinema with Uncle Colin. Hey, Nat, do you want to come to go, Stars Hollow, tonight? It will be so much fun. Grandpa Luke is going to watch Finding Nemo with us and we are going to sleep on the floor in the room where the big tv is. He promised me we could do that, "
"Oh, Jacob that sounds like fun, but I made plans with h Nici to have a pajama party, " Nathalie told her little brother.
They sat quietly coloring when their parents walked into the kitchen with Grace.
"Mommy, Daddy, finally you're done. Are we going to discuss the plans for tonight and tomorrow?" Jacob asked excitedly and jumped up from the kitchen counter.
"Well, Mom and I it talked about and we're visiting Grandma and Gramps Luke's tonight in Stars Hollow, but tomorrow I have to be at the airport at half past two because Finn and I are going to Vienna for a business meeting and we also will visit Liam." Jacob looked at his father with a little bit of disappointment in his face.
Nathalie watchedher father and wondered if her dad had planned this or if it was a coincidence that he had to go on a business trip for the next few days.
Nathalie wasn't sure if she should ask her parents about Norah now or wait until he returned from his trip.
"How long will you stay in Vienna Daddy? Because next Sunday I have a soccer game", Jacob asked his father a few minutes later.
"Just till Thursday bud. Don't worry, I wouldn't dare miss your soccer game I promise I will be there with Grandpa Mitch and Gramps Luke, and after the soccer game we will go and have pizza at Pete's Italian restaurant."
Jacob smiled and got up from the table and seeing the family cat sleeping on the counter stole he went over and began to stroke her fur.
"Jake I have to be at the airport early tomorrow so maybe you can with mom to bring me. Nathalie, you wanted to ask mom and me something. If you want we can.."
"No , Dad it t can wait. Mom, Dad I want to ask you if I can go over to Nici's tonight for a sleepover, "
"Well today isn't good honey, how about next weekend, because we want to spend tonight at Stars Hollow. I would like it if you would come with us ," Rory said to her.
"Mom I don't want to spend tonight in Stars Hollow! Can't I go to Nici's house. Aunt Gabby said I could."
"Well, I don't have a problem with that. Go ahead , you can stay at Nici's place for the weekend. ," Logan replied before Rory could have any objections.
"Thank you, Daddy," she said hugging him and ran into her room to pack her bag for the Weekend.