Did you think I abandoned this story? Well I didn't. I've had a lot going on recently which left very little time for writing but I'm back with a new chapter. Hope you enjoy!
This chapter is long though and sets up a few different things.
Luke cursed under his breath when his hands fumbled with the knot of his tie and caused it to just hang loosely around his neck, the cycle he started several minutes ago now repeating itself. He let out a heavy sigh before his hands went back to work as he tried once again to adjust his tie. After he called several law firms in towns surrounding Stars Hollow and turned down an offer from Kirk who claimed he could play the part of a lawyer, he finally found a lawyer that he thought of as competent enough to handle his case. Hence the reason for trading the usual flannel and baseball cap for his rarely worn suit and tie.
"Having some trouble?" came Lorelai's voice as she entered the bathroom, still clad in her pajamas and with her glasses on.
"Just a little," Luke replied. "There's something wrong with this tie."
Lorelai chuckled, "There's nothing wrong with the tie. The man wearing the tie however..." When she earned a glare from Luke, she chuckled again and stepped forward, "Here let me help."
Lorelai placed her hands on his shoulders and gently nudged him until he turned away from the mirror and faced her. Her hands slid from his shoulders to his chest where they quickly went to work to fix his tie. She savored the opportunities where she got to dress him or to help him dress. Although she reassured him several times that everything would work out fine, she knew his inability to tie his tie came from his nerves over meeting with his lawyer today.
"There you go," Lorelai announced when she finished with the tie and smoothed down the collar of his shirt. She smiled at him and because she knew that he needed to hear it, she added on, "Your meeting today will go fine. He'll be able to help you."
Luke stepped past her and headed into the bedroom, "He sounded confident that he could help when I talked to him on the phone."
"And he will be able to help," Lorelai reassured him as she followed him out of the bedroom. She picked up his suit jacket from the bed and helped him to put it on, "You did call several people, I'm surprised you finally found someone. I thought for a minute there I was going to have to call my parents and ask for help."
"I told you that I didn't want to involve your parents in this, I wanted to do this for myself without their help," Luke replied.
"I know babe," Lorelai sighed. "I was just thinking of a way that I could help you."
"I know you were."
Lorelai brushed a miniscule piece of lint of his suit jacket, "There you go, now you look very handsome."
"Don't get used to this look," Luke warned, the glint in his eyes let her know that he was joking. At least a little.
"Well as much as I love seeing you all GQ-ed up, I love it even more when you just in your flannel or the white shirt you wear underneath the flannel. That Luke is much sexier," Lorelai purred, her arms wound around his waist and she held him against her. "GQ Luke is a very nice treat every now and then."
Luke smirked, his fingers brushed up against the frame of her glasses as he tucked a strand of hair behind her ear, "You know how I feel about you wearing your glasses."
"You seem to be very fond of them," Lorelai grinned.
Luke's fingers trailed across her cheek until they tapped under her chin and tilted her head up to his. "I am very fond of them," he confirmed before his free hand slid into her hair and brought her closer until their lips met.
The shrill ringing of the phone interrupted their embrace as Lorelai pulled away from Luke and went to answer the phone that rested on her nightstand. She answered the phone and chatted with April for just a couple of minutes before she passed the phone off to Luke so he could talk to his daughter.
While Luke talked on the phone with April, Lorelai resigned herself to getting ready for work and lunch with her mom later. As she searched through her closet for an outfit that was fashionable yet work-appropriate in her mind seeing as it was her Inn and she got to make that decision, she spied the dress bag that contained her perfect wedding dress at the back of the closet. She tossed a glance over to Luke, who sat down in the chair in the corner of the room as he talked on the phone, and noted that while not as formal as her dress Luke's suit could almost be for a wedding.
An image popped in her head of her standing before Luke in her dress while Luke was in his suit and she smiled. She quickly and literally shook the image from her head as to not think about their wedding day, whenever that would be. She and Luke had talk of being married and that they would get married one day but they still hadn't talked about setting a date or making any plans. She figured that maybe once things settled down a little more with April, Anna, and this custody case, that they could then talk about setting a date and making more concrete plans for their future but for now she would be content with how well things were going for her and Luke.
With Luke still on the phone with April, Lorelai selected her outfit and laid it across the bed before she disappeared into the bathroom to begin getting ready for her day.
"Bye Luke."
April placed the receiver back down in it's cradle after a conversation with her father. Lately her visits to Stars Hollow had been rescheduled, according to her mother, so the only interaction she had with her father and sometimes Lorelai was through the phone. She never brought up the non-visits on the phone with her dad, it was only mentioned if he said something about missing her when she couldn't visit. Her mother had been vague on why the days were rescheduled and with the way her mom reacted when she asked why she wasn't going to Stars Hollow that day made her drop the subject almost as soon as she brought it up.
April walked through her mother's store, she was supposed to man the front of the store for a few minutes while her mother went over some paperwork in the back. It had been a slow day for business and not exactly how she would have chosen to spend part of her summer vacation but she didn't have much of a choice as summer was winding down as well as her plans. It didn't help that she hadn't made trips to Stars Hollow recently although on the phone just now, her dad did say that she was free to stop by this afternoon as long as it was okay with her mother.
"Still no customers?" Anna asked as she emerged from a backroom, a stack of papers in her hand.
April shook her head, "Nope, no customers."
Anna settled herself by the cash register and set the paperwork down, she needed to go over invoices for the store. "Oh I thought there was a customer. I thought I heard you talking to someone."
April shook her head again, "Nope. I did call Luke though, that's probably what you heard."
"Oh," Anna said, her tone clipped. She hadn't told April about the custody case and even though April was already technically involved since she was the child, she didn't want to bring April into the mess unless absolutely necessary. "What did you two talk about?"
"Just caught up since I haven't been to Stars Hollow to see him recently," April replied. "He did say that he had something to do this morning but that I could come visit with him this afternoon if it was okay with you. Can I go?"
"April," Anna sighed. "I don't know."
April knew that sigh and that expression on her mother's face. It was rarely heard and seen but she still knew it well. Her mother only pulled that out when she wasn't going to like the answer given. The same look that she had when she asked about her father as she got older and the same look that she received over the past couple of weeks when she wanted to go to Stars Hollow. She already knew the answer but today she was determined to get answers.
"Mom," April complained like the teenager that she was, "I haven't been there since almost the beginning of summer. I like it there, I already had to miss one of the festivals. I want to go visit with Dad."
Dad. That word stopped Anna in her tracks. April sometimes referred to Luke as her father but mainly called him Luke around her, her referring to him as her father was only acknowledgment that he was the biological counterpart to her mother and never really out of love. But now she was openly calling him Dad. She was getting attached. One of her fears coming to life. She never knew Luke as a kid person and even though he swore that he would always be there for April, she just couldn't be sure. He could easily just leave though his promises said different. Her past experiences proved that to be true on a few accounts.
"April, I just don't know if I have the time to take you out there today," Anna tried to come up with an excuse. "Plus I need a little help in the store."
April glanced around at the still empty store-front, this time of day was usually dead and she knew that her mother could handle the store on her own, even at the busiest time of a day. She thought something was going on but wasn't quite sure. Her mom had taken a few private calls recently that she always passed off as just business calls. At first April thought her mom might be seeing someone and just keeping it from her but that didn't quite add up with a few other small things that she noticed. Something else was definitely going on.
"It would just be for a few hours," April reasoned, "I could go have dinner with him. Plus he said that he could come pick me up, or I could just ride my bike there. I've done that before."
"Not today April, you can visit with him another day," Anna quickly dismissed her daughter's reasoning. "I have work to do."
"That's what you said last time," April pointed out. "Last time I was supposed to go to Dad's and then didn't, you said the same thing. Why can't I go to Stars Hollow?"
"April, I said no," Anna addressed her daughter. "I am your mother and you will listen to me."
"I just want to know why," April prodded on. "Every time I was supposed to go to Stars Hollow, you made a vague reason on why I couldn't go. Is this because of what you and Luke talked about last time? You were mad when you left."
"What happened then is between Luke and I," Anna replied. "You don't have to concern yourself with that right now. You're not going to Stars Hollow today, just drop it."
April stayed quiet for a few minutes while she tried to think of a reason, any reason that would make her mom decide that she could no longer visit with her father or in Stars Hollow. Since she thought of herself as quite intuitive for thirteen years old, she thought that coming up with a reason would be easy but not too much came to her mind. One thing did occur to her, it would make sense although not much, at least not to her, but she could still ask. There was no harm is asking a question.
"Does this have something to do with Lorelai?" April asked.
Anna looked up from her paperwork, "What? Why would this have anything to do with Lorelai?"
April shrugged her shoulders, "I don't know. It was just a guess. It took Dad a long time to introduce her to me and then this only happened after the day I hung out with her and Dad."
"That was Luke's choice on when to introduce the two of you," Anna pointed out although she knew that it wasn't entirely true and that she did play a part in it, especially more recently.
"Maybe. Still I was able to go to Stars Hollow until the day that I spent time with Lorelai, after that I haven't been back to Stars Hollow. I don't understand why," April replied.
When her mother stayed silent for several minutes with a look of concentration on her face, April decided to continue on with her thought from earlier.
"I'm sure if you met Lorelai you would like her, you two are alike in some ways. She's really fun to hang out with," April said. She noticed the way her mother's face changed at the mention of Lorelai, the same way she looked at her when she spilled about her day with Luke and Lorelai in Stars Hollow. A look that she couldn't quite place. "I talked to her on the phone too before I talked to Dad, she said she also missed me the days when I couldn't go to Stars Hollow, she's very nice."
If Anna feared April getting too attached to Luke in just a short period of time then they were only escalated to hear the way that April talked about Lorelai. As well as the way it seemed Lorelai talked about her daughter.
"I don't want you going to Stars Hollow today," Anna said.
April was about to give up, she knew when to push her mother and when to just leave her alone. It was nearing the time when she just needed to leave her alone. "At least tell me why you don't want me to go."
"I don't want you spending that much time with Lorelai," Anna admitted before she was even aware of what she said. She knew she had to back it up before April asked. "I'm sure she's nice like you said but I don't want you spending time with her right now. Your dad knew that and went against my rules."
"Why don't you want me spending time with her?"
Anna sighed, "It's complicated April."
"I'm not a little kid anymore," April gave the typical teenager response. "You can tell me. I'm old enough to understand."
"April, I said it's complicated so just leave it at that," Anna said, getting more agitated by the minute. "I said I didn't want you to get to know her right now. You're not going to Stars Hollow today, just drop it."
"But that doesn't make any sense," April argued. "I should be able to spend time with both of them, especially Dad. You're just doing this because you're mad at him."
"April I said just leave it so just drop it," Anna snapped. "I am your mother and you will listen to me."
April crossed her arms and fought the urge to storm off. All she was asking was to spend time with her father. She knew that Lorelai would be included in that time, at least some of it, and she was more than okay with spending her time in Stars Hollow with them. But her mother was mad at Luke so she wasn't going to get what she wanted, at least that's the way that she now saw it. She figured that here had to be more to this, there had to be something else going on but it's not like she was going to get any answers from her mother. She might have to investigate herself, just like she did to find out that Luke was her father. In the end, the urge to storm off won as she announced that she was heading home before she turned on her heel and stormed out the door, in a moody teenager fashion.
Anna let out a deep sigh as she leaned down on the counter and placed her head in her hands. She lifted her head just a little and watched as April hopped on her bike and headed in the direction of home. Even though she did ask for April's help at the store this particular day, she knew that it would be better if April were to head home. If she remained there, they would just end up in an argument over her father and Stars Hollow and the whole bunch that came along with her visits. It wouldn't help that lately April was showing more of all the moodiness that most kids gained throughout their teen years.
Anna could admit, at least to herself, that she was doing some of this because she was mad at Luke for going against what she wanted and introducing Lorelai into April's life. At the same time, her recent actions were also fueled by fear, irrationally, and maybe a hint of jealousy of the way that April spoke of Lorelai. She was only trying to protect April so she wouldn't get hurt but she couldn't explain any of that to her, she wouldn't understand. No matter how much her daughter insisted that she would. Coincidentally by doing what she thought was necessary to protect her daughter, she only ended up hurting her as well. She had no idea if what she was doing was right for her daughter or if it would work out in the long run but this was the path that she had chosen, that her gut had chosen, so she would continue along it and hope that, in the end, she was doing what was right.
Lorelai should have known that lunch with her mother wouldn't just be lunch with her mother where they would catch up and exchange pleasantries. They weren't the type to just get together and do lunch. The lunch usually came with a hidden agenda of something that Emily wanted to talk about since she was usually the one who requested the lunch. However, Lorelai figured that since Rory was joining them for lunch and the lunch was to take place at The Dragonfly that they were just simply having lunch with no hidden agenda.
What a fool she made herself out to be.
Before Lorelai and Rory could even place their drink order, Emily jumped right in to talk about place settings, centerpieces, flowers, invitations, and heated tents all of which would be absolutely perfect for a winter wedding to be held on the grounds of the Dragonfly.
"Slow down Mom," Lorelai held her hand up to impede her mother's rambling before she could launch into just how the interior of the Dragonfly would be decorated for the reception following the ceremony. "Now who's getting married?"
"What kind of game are you trying to play Lorelai?" Emily asked incredulously. "You know very well that I am talking about you and Luke. I've told you of these ideas before. Who else would I plan a wedding for?"
"I don't know," Lorelai shrugged. She paused to take a sip of her drink that she managed to order sometime during Emily's rambling earlier. "You seem fond of Logan, you may be trying to marry Rory off."
"Which I am not okay with by the way," Rory chimed in. "I'm so not ready to be married."
"Logan is a nice young man and I do approve of their courtship but I'm now talking about them right now. This wedding, this planning, would be perfect for you and Luke. I've always imagined you having a snowy winter wedding, a winter wonderland," Emily admitted. "I can even call Miss Celine if you need dress choices, she is the best after all, dressed your father and I for years but you know that."
"Mom," Lorelai sighed. "There is no need to call Miss Celine. There's not a wedding to plan."
"Well there can be," Emily insisted. "You and Luke are engaged-to-be-married, as far as I know there is no wedding date set yet but I don't know what's holding you two back from setting a date now. I was thinking December, I know it's short notice but we have a few months, we can get it planned."
Lorelai shook her head, "No Mom, you're not listening. Yes, Luke and I are engaged and we will be married one day but we're not planning right now." She locked eyes with her mother, "You're not planning anything right now."
"Why aren't you two planning anything right now?" Emily asked. "You're back together with Luke, things seem to be going well, you're engaged, it seems right to start planning your wedding."
"Things are going well for us," Lorelai agreed. "But that doesn't mean I'm planning anything right now. Luke and I haven't talked about setting a date or when we're getting married, we just know that it's going to happen. I'm not going to plan anything without talking to him first."
"Unlike how you managed to plan almost an entire wedding in one day last time," Rory pointed out. The expression that crossed her mother's face, which she quickly masked, caused Rory to emit a whisper of, "Sorry."
"It's fine babe," Lorelai assured her daughter with a soft smile. She turned her gaze to her mother, "Luke and I haven't talked about any of this recently, not in a planning way anyways. There's stuff going on right now, it's not the time. Can we just drop it?"
Emily stared at her daughter for a few minutes before she finally relented, "Fine," she said tersely.
Lorelai sighed, grateful that her mother decided to drop the subject though she knew it might not last for long and also grateful that the wait staff served lunch at that exact moment to hopefully distract her mother from asking what else was going on that would prevent wedding planning. As they began to eat lunch, Rory took hold of the conversation as she began to talk about her upcoming and last year at Yale. She talked of plans for her classes and plans for the upcoming year that involved going to visit Logan who was still in London.
Lorelai picked at her lunch in spite of the fact that it was one of her favorite dishes prepared by Sookie. She was happy with Luke and knew that there wedding was going to happen someday, she didn't doubt that but with her mother talking of wedding plans and even discreetly mentioning the 'perfect' house to Rory just moments ago, she managed to put herself in a funk. It didn't help that she was also faced with the reality of Rory starting her last year at Yale and not being able to spend a ton of time with her daughter since their lives were getting more different by the day. Then she was also trying to be as supportive as she could be for Luke during this time since she knew that he needed the support. She knew that she had a lot on her plate and some of it seemed to push her own worries to the back-burner but she was confident that she wasn't going to let it get as bad as it did before.
Lorelai's head snapped up when she heard her name called, "What?" she asked Rory.
"I asked if you were okay, you seemed a little out of it there," Rory answered.
"I'm fine, just thinking," Lorelai assured her daughter with a smile.
Rory didn't buy into the smile and asked once again if something was wrong and if that something had to do with Luke and his current situation.
"Why would this have to do with Luke?" Emily asked, first her granddaughter and then her daughter. "Is something going on with Luke? Is this why you two aren't planning anything for your wedding?"
Lorelai debated with herself in her mind whether or not she should tell her mother what was going on. She knew that Emily would insist on helping even though they didn't need the help, or Luke didn't want their help. But she also knew that if she didn't tell her mother, that she would eventually find out because the Gilmores' were highly connected and she was sure that one of her parent's friends or a friend of a friend would inform Emily of the custody battle as soon as they made the connection between Luke, Lorelai, and her parents.
"Anna, Luke's daughter April's mother," Lorelai started, giving the background information just in case her mother forgot the two people, "Wants sole custody of April. Luke was served with papers and everything. She's prevented him from seeing his own daughter." Before Emily could even offer help, Lorelai added on, "But he's handling it, he's talking to a lawyer. Luke's fighting for custody."
"Your father and I do know some very prominent lawyers," Emily pointed out.
Before her mother could say anything else, Lorelai quickly jumped in, "Luke already has a lawyer, he doesn't need help. We're handling it."
"I was just offering," Emily replied.
Lorelai nodded her head, "I know, but Luke wants to do this on his own which I understand." She stabbed at the food on the plate in front of her. "However I do think it's ridiculous that Anna hit him with this now. I'm sure she's doing this because she is mad at him, it's not as if he is an unfit parent."
"Why is it so ridiculous?" Emily asked. Both Lorelai and Rory looked at her as if she had suddenly grown an extra head. "Why are you two looking at me like that?"
"Because I think you're starting to lose it," Lorelai replied in a tone that was more 'duh' than anything else.
Rory nodded her head, "Yeah, what she said."
"You're the one that reminds me that I made a mistake years ago by not marrying Christopher at sixteen since a child needs a mother and a father but now you're saying that it's not ridiculous that Anna wants sole custody of her daughter," Lorelai swiftly pointed out. "That seems a little contradictory to me. What Anna is doing is not right, not for her, not for Luke, and definitely not for April."
Emily cleared her throat, "I didn't say that I thought what she is doing was right, I just said that I do not find it ridiculous like you and Rory do."
Lorelai furrowed her brow, "Okay then, I don't understand how you can view this situation as anything but ridiculous since it is clearly not the best thing to do in regards to Luke and April. Remember you're the one who time and time again told me that a child needs a mother and a father."
"A child does need a mother and a father, I stand by that," Emily replied. "I'm just saying that I don't find it ridiculous that she wants sole custody. If she does gain sole custody, Luke will still be in her life. The same as he is now."
Lorelai shook her head, "No, you're not understanding me. This is ridiculous because there's no reason for it. And the point is that at the moment, she's not allowing him in her life. She's just doing this out of spite because Luke didn't exactly follow her rules. Luke deserves to be in his daughter's life."
"I do think Luke deserves to be in his daughter's life," Emily agreed. "But it's not like he'll never see his daughter again with what Anna is doing now. He'll still be a part of his daughter's life."
"Not in the way that he wants to be. Luke doesn't just want to see his daughter on scheduled visits anymore. He wants to be an active part of her life," Lorelai informed her mother. "He wants to be able to make decisions and not have Anna make all the choices. He doesn't want to be the type of father that just sees his kid every other weekend with no other involvement. Or the father who rarely sees his kid like someone I happen to know."
Emily knew right away who Lorelai slyly referred to, "Lorelai if you would have tried with Christopher, he would have been more of a part of his daughter's life. If you two would have just gotten married when you found out you were pregnant..."
"Not this again," Lorelai scoffed. "That is not the point nor will it ever be the point of anything. I always left the door open for Christopher, it was his choice when to spend time with his daughter, not mine. That is not the same as what is going on now. She is actively keeping April from her father and has for most of the girls' life, except for the recent months. She's only doing this because Luke stood up to her and decided to be a part of the decision making in his daughter's life."
"You're right," Emily acknowledged with a nod of her head, "It's not right that she is keeping April from her father but she's probably upset since he just came into her life and so much has changed for the both of them. She is scared of losing her daughter so she is doing what a mother is supposed to do, she is doing what is best for her daughter."
"Except it is not what is best for April," Lorelai argued. "Anna kept her father from her for most of her life. Now that's he is actually in her life and wanting to be there for her, she is trying to take all of that away. I can't see how that would be best for anyone, especially a young girl."
"All mothers have their definition of what is best for their children, just because yours doesn't match up with Anna's that does not mean that she is wrong," Emily replied. "This is what she believes is right."
Lorelai shook her head, "I can't believe what I'm hearing." She paused for a minute and rubbed at her temples. "You, the one person that has told me again and again that a child needs a mother and father in her life is siding with a mother who is essentially trying to take her daughter away from the father all because she got upset that the father stepped up to his fatherly duties. Who the hell are you and what have you done with Emily Gilmore?"
"Lorelai do not cause a scene, this is your Inn. This is bad for business," Emily warned. "And watch your tone when you speak to me."
Lorelai blew out a breath and crossed her arms, "I'm not causing a scene, I'm just trying to understand whatever wacky idea you have in mind."
"A child does need a mother and father and April will have that even if she does gain sole custody. Luke will be in his daughter's life, I believe that," Emily commented to which Lorelai rolled her eyes and wondered if her mother heard anything she said for the past few minutes. "Look at this way, Luke can still play a role in his daughter's life but this will give you and Luke a chance to move forward with your lives. With your wedding and future children, if that's something that you want."
Lorelai scoffed, "I can't believe you." She leaned across the table and kept her voice low as not to cause a scene. "Are you that concerned with me getting married and my future life? Because my future involves both Luke and April and Rory," she cast a glance over at her daughter who had been quiet for awhile now. "We can't just forget about April because this is happening and move on."
"I didn't say you would forget about her," Emily pointed out.
"But you implied that our lives would be easier if Anna had sole custody so April wouldn't necessarily be a big part in our lives," Lorelai replied sharply. "That's not the solution and equally as ridiculous as Anna doing what she's doing."
"Lorelai," Emily sighed.
Lorelai shook her head and braced her arms on her chair, "You know what, I can't deal with this right now. I can't listen to you anymore."
"Where are you going?" Emily asked when Lorelai threw her cloth napkin down on the table and hurriedly stood up from her chair, just seconds away from storming off. "You can't just leave. We're in the middle of lunch."
"Yeah, well suddenly I'm not very hungry anymore," Lorelai replied, her tone clipped. "I'll just leave you two to have lunch."
Emily turned slightly in her chair as her daughter marched out of the dining area and towards the lobby of the Inn. She could no longer see her daughter but she could definitely hear her talking with Michel, she assumed he was at his regular post of the front desk. She heard him tell Lorelai that she couldn't just leave work but Lorelai was swift to quip that she was the boss and had just given herself the afternoon off. A clacking of heels against hardwood floor and flash of dark hair whipping out the front door was all the evidence that Emily needed to know that her daughter had now left the Inn's premises.
Emily turned back around in her chair to face Rory, "I don't see why your mother has to be so dramatic about everything."
"She's not being dramatic Grandma," Rory pointed out. "Breaking out into song and dance before she stormed off would be dramatic but right now was not dramatic. She's just upset that you don't see her side."
"I don't see what was so wrong with what I said," Emily said defensively.
"Luke deserves more time with his daughter than what Anna would allow him if this sole custody thing goes through, he doesn't deserve just limited visitation time with her," Rory replied. "April would not be a hindrance to their relationship."
Emily huffed, "I never said that April would be a hindrance."
"You implied it, that's good enough," Rory pointed out. "Luke's a good father, I know that first hand. He was there when my dad wasn't. April is incredibly lucky to have a dad like him. Anna may think what she is doing is right, but it's not. Not for April or for Luke."
Emily pursed her lips. "Is lunch over? Are you going to go after your mother?"
"I think I can stay. Mom probably wants a little time to herself to cool off," Rory replied knowing in the back of her mind part of the reason that she was staying behind was for Grandma since it seemed the relationship that she built with Lorelai recently was now crumbling. "Besides Sookie's chocolate cake is for dessert and there's no way I'm missing that."
"That sounds delightful," Emily forced out while she tried not to worry that her new found relationship with her daughter may now be over all over one blow-up.
"Trust me, it is the best you'll ever have," Rory replied.
Okay so I'm not fully aware of how Emily would handle things but I knew at this lunch that I wanted things to start to crumble for Emily and Lorelai. (The tension is needed, they were too happy.) But I just used Emily's desire for Lorelai to get married and the experience she has when it comes to kind of losing her daughter to someone else. (I'm thinking Mia.) So yeah.
Also I wanted April to find out what is going on and trust me she will. It just has to be in her own April way.
I'm trying to get updates out regularly but I'm also looking for a new job and dealing with a lot of stuff right now. Is it possible to have a mid-life crisis at 22? Because, if so, I am there. (Quarter-life crisis I guess.) Writing is my creative outlet though, so it helps with everything else.
As always, reviews are appreciated!
