Just Another Lorelai Gilmore

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Chapter 18.

I sat at one of the diner tables in Luke's picking at a salad and some cheese bread he had made up for me. I was set to leave for Philadelphia in a couple hours to meet up with Jess. I glanced down at my almost five month pregnant stomach. I wasn't sure how my bladder was going to survive the car ride, but I was excited nonetheless to finally join Jess in his world for once. It was nice that he came to Stars Hollow often, but I really wanted to be in his environment too.

"Hey sweets, thought I'd join you for lunch before you leave me all alone forever to have your love affair with the hoodlum."

I laughed as my mother sat in the chair at my table. She took out a bag and placed in front of me. "I will only be gone a week, mom. What is this?" I opened the bag and took out three books. One was a pregnancy book/journal and the other two were baby name books. "Thanks! These look promising, we've had such trouble with a name."

She nodded and took a gulp from the hot coffee Luke placed in front of her. "I know. Now my grandchild better have a name by the time you get home. I've been online window shopping at such cute personalized items, buuuuuut its hard to personalize without a name. Unless you don't mind "Rory Jr" printed on everything I buy?" I noted that she looked half serious and I shook my head.

"We will try our hardest to pick out a name."

—Philadelphia—

I looked up at the building in front of me, flashing back to the night I had been here back in college. The night I had kissed him while I was still with Logan. A smile played on my lips as I thought of all the times life had thrown us back at each other in the past. How had I never noticed it was meant to be? I shook it off and walked in through the doors. I recognized Chris and Matt in the corner talking to somebody, but didn't see Jess around.

"Rory, hey!" Chris waved at me and walked over. "Its good to see you again, and to have you here so Jess can finally stop talking about you 24/7."

"I doubt that's something he would want you saying to her Chris." Matt chimed in from across the room.

I laughed and waved at Matt. "Its good to see you too, Chris. Where is Jess by the way?"

"He's upstairs, you're more than welcome to go on up, I'm sure." He motioned to a staircase tucked away and I thanked him.

Making my way up the stairs, I could hear music blaring from the closed door. I knocked, no answer. Probably cant hear over that music, duh. I decided to just twist the knob, it was unlocked and I opened it slowly. Jess was sitting at a desk typing away furiously at his laptop. The stereo was directly to my right on a bookshelf, I reached over and turned the volume down. His head snapped up and he swiveled his chair to face me. "Hey you're earlier than I thought you'd be." He walked over and kissed me. I embraced the touch of his lips, having missed them so much. "I was just trying to get some writing in before you got here."

I pulled back and shrugged off my jacket. "Before we start anymore hello's, I really need to pee." I pecked him on the lips again and he showed me the bathroom.

When I came back out, he was saving the file on his laptop and powered it off. "What did you feel like doing today? I'm pretty much done here, so I'm all yours."

I smirked and locked the door. "Staying in for right now is all I want to do." He looked surprised as I started stripping off my clothes and making my way towards him.

My lips collided with his in hot, eager kisses. My hands wandered up his shirt and pulled it off. I slightly tugged at his jeans and he guided me into the bedroom.

—The next morning —

My eyes fluttered open and I glanced over at Jess who was laying next to me still. I shot up into a sitting position as I felt a weird sensation in my stomach. I panicked and waited. Unsure of what it was, I held my hand to my belly and felt it again. And then I knew. She was kicking… or punching, I wasn't sure. I had barely felt soft movements just from the inside before, but these were harder and I could feel them with my hands. "Jess!" I shouted, excited to share this with him.

His head popped up from the pillow. "What's wrong?" Worry was painted across his face as he looked at me clutching my belly. "Is it the baby, is something wrong?" I shook my head, tears in my eyes, and grabbed his hands. I placed them both on my stomach. Another sudden jab in my side and his eyes were wide. He smiled and rubbed me lightly. "She's kicking. That's… this is so weird and cool at the same time."

We both laughed and waited for another movement. She gave a few more kicks and settled down. "I had felt her move a few times before, but nothing like this. I hadn't been able to feel it with my hands before. I'm so glad you were here for it." I leaned over and kissed him. "My mom says we have to pick out a name before I come home."

Jess got up from the bed and started to get dressed. "You have any names in mind that you like?"

I got up and pulled on some clothes myself. "Honestly, not really. I mean there's names I like, but not names that I've loved. And I want to love the name we pick out. It's so hard, I don't know how women do this. I have to pick a name that I'm going to call a human being for the rest of their life. Unless she's a brat and changes it when she's older."

He rolled his eyes and gave a short laugh. "Our daughter is not going to be a brat, because I refuse to deal with two of you. So we'll raise her better than that."

"Did you just call me a brat?" I threw a pillow at him and furrowed my brows. "Better than a hoodlum, I guess." And I stuck my tongue out, childishly declaring that I'd won.

"Yeah, yeah, that's all a matter of opinion. So you ready for some breakfast? I am definitely starving since you had me chained to that bed all night." He smirked at me, the damn smirk that I could stare at for the rest of my life.

"Excuse me for missing my boyfriend, and for having raging pregnancy hormones. I just cant help myself. But yes, I am hungry as well." Putting on my coat, we started out the door.

"I'm not complaining one bit Gilmore."

We sat inside a small café around the corner from Truncheon, food covering the table and the baby name books in front of us, too. Jess was flipping through one, as I was still shoveling in my pancakes. "Find one yet?" I asked after swallowing my last bite.

"I really like Payton and Delilah."

"Payton was one I had circled in my book too!" I opened the book I had and flipped the pages. "I also found Sophie or Sophia, I'm really into those so far."

He nodded his head. "Sophia Payton Gilmore. Has a good ring to it. I like it."

I bit my lip and thought on it for a moment. "I was kind of hoping to have Mariano in there somewhere… I mean it's obviously up to you, because hello, your name, but we say she's our daughter, shouldn't she have our names?" I looked up nervously after my rambling.

Jess smiled and grabbed my hand. "If you want Mariano in her name, then I do too. I just didn't want to assume we were putting it in. Should it go before Gilmore or after?"

I took a deep breath, glad he agreed. "If you're really here for the long haul, and I mean the loooooong haul, then I say its her last name. She should feel like your daughter in every way, and I think this makes it a little better."

—Thanks for reading! Now sorry it took soooooo long for an update! I had some troubles with my iPad and couldn't get to my word documents or server! I have many ideas to get the next chapter up asap as well though! Hope you enjoyed the chapter!—