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Since Lorelai and Rory had started their feud over Rory leaving Yale, Zoe had almost been put in the middle. She felt bad every time she would meet with Rory and Lorelai had been miserable around the house.

"Where where you?" Lorelai asked.

"No where." Zoe went to walk to her bedroom.

"No where?" Lorelai asked. "School ended hours ago and you didn't have ballet today."

"I was with a friend." Zoe said now.

"Which friend?" Lorelai asked.

"Does it matter?" Zoe snapped now.

"Yes it does matter where my thirteen year old is." Lorelai snapped back.

"I was with Rory," Zoe yelled. "I was with Rory and we had ice cream. I didn't want to tell you because you look like your about to cry."

"I'm not," Lorelai caught up to her. "I am not about to cry."

"I have homework to do, can I just have some quiet." Rory said now.

Lorelai had gone to work early the next day so Zoe who was thirteen, was left to go to school by herself. She was in the middle of answering emails when she got a phonecall from Zoe's school saying that she hadn't shown up. In an immediate panic, she rang Luke. Lorelai and Luke spent the entire day trying to find Zoe but no one in the town had seen her. Luke had rang Rory because Lorelai wasn't speaking to her and she hadn't see Zoe either, but was trying to find her.

"We will find her," Luke reassured Lorelai who was sitting in the diner now. "She will come home."

"I messed up," Lorelai said quietly. "I really messed up. Rory doesn't talk to me, Zoe ran away. I'm a bad mother."

"You are a great mother." Luke said now, pulling Lorelai into a hug.

Another half an hour had passed before Lorelai got a strange phonecall saying that someone had tried to use her credit card to check into a hotel in New York and was a teenager. It took her a moment to put two and two together before she realised it was probably Zoe.

"I think Zoe is at a hotel," Lorelai grabbed her car keys. "I will be back."

Lorelai drove to New York and got a phonecall from Rory as she was leaving so she answered her phone.

"Have you found her mum?" Rory asked in a concerned voice. Suddenly their months long feud didn't matter.

"I think so," Lorelai said focussing on the road. "In New York trying to use my card to book a hotel."

They ended their phonecall and Lorelai made it to the hotel to see Zoe sitting there at the reception desk with her dufflebag.

"Zoe," Lorelai pulled her into a hug. "I don't even want to start with you going into a stange city alone."

"I am sorry," Zoe started crying. "I messed up. I just, I miss Rory and I miss us all being together. I hate having to see her behind your back, I hate you being upset because of her."

"It's okay," Lorelai said now. "I want you to talk to me though, not run to New York. I almost had a heart attack."

"Zoe?" They turned and Rory ran into the lobby and hugged her thirteen year old sister.

"Why are you here?" Zoe asked now.

"Because I heard my sister ran away from home and got a bus to New York." Rory said now.

"I know I am probably grounded when we get home but maybe we can get dinner because were all together." Zoe said now.

"I could have dinner." Rory said first.

"Well then were going for dinner." Lorelai said now.

A/N: As usual, let me know what you think