Just Another Lorelai Gilmore

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Chapter 13.

Christmas Morning. The one exception to Gilmore's hating early mornings. I loved getting up early, enjoying hot coffee around the Christmas tree, and spending the day with my mom. I looked over at Jess next to me, who was lightly snoring. I smiled at how vulnerable and innocent he looked asleep on my tiny small bed. Leaning in, I kissed his lips softly. He stirred slightly, but didn't open his eyes. "Wake up sleepy head, It's Christmas!"

"No." Was the only response I got before he promptly rolled to his other side. I kissed his cheek. "Too early." He grumbled.

I rolled my eyes. "You don't even know what time it is."

"I can tell by how tired I still am."

I glanced at the alarm clock, barely past six in the morning. He had a point, yet I shoved him gently anyway. "It's christmas!"

With a huge sigh and dramatic roll, he was facing me, eyes open. "You're really annoying."

I smirked and kissed him again. "Come on, lets get up."

I sat out of bed and started to pull on my christmas design robe over my pajamas. "You are seriously over the top with Christmas, Gilmore." He watched as I tightened the robe ties.

I stuck my tongue out, clearly handling this maturely. "You love me anyways. Now come on, get uuuuupppp!" I popped the 'p' at the end with emphasis. I waited and tapped my door as he stood up and pulled a shirt over his head.

"Alright, Alright I'm up." He stumbled toward me and gave me kiss on the forehead. "You are very lucky I do in fact, love you."

Just then the door ripped open and my mom stood in the doorway with her matching Christmas robe on. "I told you they would be up too, Luke!" She yelled towards the living room. I heard a slight grumble from Luke as my mom smiled wide. "Let's go see what Santa brought!"

I bounced off to the kitchen with my mom to get some coffee, while Jess joined Luke in the living room by the tree. Shortly after, we joined them, mom snuck over to Luke and dropped a Santa hat on his head. "Ah geez, really?"

She nodded her head and I laughed at the sight in front of us. He was closer to the Grinch than Santa, but I knew he would wear it through the morning for mom. "Alright, lets pass out gifts!" I announced, I went to stand up but Luke motioned for me to sit back down, and he started gathering the gifts from under the tree. "Don't forget the stockings… Santa!" I teased and he turned red in embarrassment.

Jess had surprisingly been prepare, and had gifts for us as well. He got my mom and Luke tickets to some show in New York, which thrilled Lorelai to no end. She always loved a good getaway date night. His present to me sat in my lap. A small box, a very small box. I let it sit there as mom gushed over the autographed record I had gotten her.

I looked over at Jess who was opening a first edition Hemingway I had Grandpa track down for me. "I cant believe you found one. This is amazing Rory." He gave me a quick kiss. "I love it." He looked down at my gift. "Aren't you going to open it? Isn't that the point of all of us sitting around doing this?" His voice wavered ever so slightly.

My hands shook a little as I opened the paper carefully. Get a grip, Rory, its not going to be an engagement ring. Yet, a little velvet box showed under the wrapping. "Jess…?"

"It's not an engagement ring." He smirked, and I let out a sigh.

With a little more confidence now, I opened the box. A rose gold band inside with two connected hearts engraved on the top. "Two stories, one book." I said as I read the engraving on the inside of the band.

"It's way mushy and corny and all that gross stuff, I know. But its kind of a promise ring I guess. Anyways, I thought of the engraving myself, it just fit us because-"

"Because we are the stories from the same book." I looked up at him and he nodded, blushing. "Because our stories, our lives, go together." I kissed him, a little too passionately given we had an audience.

"Alright love birds, I'd say get a room, but its Christmas, no dirty allowed!" I laughed as I broke away from Jess' lips. "That was an awfully sweet gift, Jess. You did good." My mom gave him a smile.

"I love it." I took it from the box and slipped it onto my right ring finger. "Alright, me and baby are staving. Luke, what's for breakfast?" Lorelai nodded in agreement and pushed Luke into the kitchen. I sat back on the couch, resting my head on Jess' shoulder. "It really is an amazing gift jess. Thank you so much."

"You deserve it… we deserve this. I'm glad I came for Christmas. This has been kinda nice." He smiled down at me.

"Good. I like having you here for our traditions and holidays." I rested a hand on my small bump. "Maybe we can make some new traditions, too. Once the baby gets here, ya know…" I was hesitant with saying this, but pushed myself to anyhow.

Jess nodded and placed his hand on mine over my stomach. "I'd like that, a lot."

I sat up straight and looked at Jess. "So in a couple weeks, I'll be far enough along, I can go to these independent ultrasound places, and pay for packages that do picture print outs and they can also tell me the gender of the baby."I paused and tried to read his face, which was nearly impossible. "Anyways, I would really like it if you came. It's kind of a big milestone and I want you there. I can schedule a day that works best for you, whatever it takes."

He quieted me with a gentle kiss on the lips. "Tell me what day, and I'm there. No matter what."

"Really?" I couldn't hide the smile that spread across my face.

"Really. I'll be there. Look, I don't know exactly how to handle this or say this, so I'm just going to come out and say it. You know I love you, and you love me. By extension, I love this baby Rory. It's a part of you, and its going to be a part of our relationship and life. When I think of you, and you being pregnant, I don't think of it being Logan's kid. I mean I know it is, but what I'm saying is, I just kind of see it as…" he rubbed his face in aggravation, searching for words.

I reached up and pulled his hands off his face, and into my own. "As ours?" I questioned, softly. Not sure if I was being too bold with my assumption. But he looked me in the eyes, and nodded in response. Tears sprung to my eyes. "Oh Jess…" I hugged him tightly, not wanting to let go. "Thank you. Thank you for being this wonderful person. Ive never been so happy. Hearing you say that, that was the best Christmas gift by far."

"So that's not weird, or anything that I feel that? I mean is it too soon to even say stuff like that?" He looked nervous, probably feeling vulnerable.

I shook my head as I wiped the tears from my face. "We've wasted so much time apart, I don't want to waste anymore time worrying about if we're moving too fast. We know we love each other, and I know I want you in this baby's life."

I cupped his hand over my stomach and smiled. "Ours." He whispered as he stared at my belly, hidden under my robe.

I decide to speak up and break the silence. "Not to ruin our moment, but just to mention. Even if Logan changed his mind and wanted contact with the kid, I would never turn you away, or undo our progress together. And I would never-"

"It's ok Rory, I know. I'm here whether Logan wants to be a dad or not. A kid can have a step dad and a real dad. That won't bother me." I smiled. Jess always got me, always understood me.

"This is just the best Christmas I could ever ask for."

—Thanks for reading! Thanks for the reviews! Sorry this chapter took a while to get out! I had some writers block (and a sick daughter)! Many ideas for the next chapter!! Let me know what you think!—