Again it took forever and I'm sorry, I'm really trying to speed up I really am.
Kylie well u rule and blah blah blah weee)
Pen and Pad cause it's long.
"What the hell are they wearing?" Luke asked entering the nursery from their room, Lorelai was dressing the twins, and beanies were always on now.
"Jess bought it for them" Lorelai said with a proud smile.
"Why?" Luke frowned looking at Sean as Lorelai dressed Ricky.
"Because they're cute and funny"
"No they're not" Luke scoffed at the writing on the tiny shirts.
"Yes, Luke, they are" Lorelai finished dressing Ricky and passed him over to Luke; he looked down at the baby in his arms and kept staring at the 'all daddy wanted was a blowjob' shirt Ricky was wearing.
"Don't take them outside wearing this" Luke begged.
"Don't be such a cry baby, I won't. Although we are making those family videos later"
"Lorelai…"
"Just kidding, we're only taking those family portraits" Lorelai added with a teasing smile.
"You think you're so funny" Luke narrowed her eyes at her, kissed Ricky's forehead before putting him down in his crib. "Please take them off?" Luke asked her again and Lorelai shook her head. "Fine" he sighed and kissed her before kissing Sean's forehead. "Bye"
"Bye" Lorelai smiled sweetly. "Let's go ask cousin Jess if he can get us more of these shirts for when you're bigger" Lorelai said putting Sean into that little backpack thingy she wore to carry him around, Sean liked to be held. Ricky, however, liked his vibrating seat better than being carried.
ThE DiNeR
"Luke?"
"What, Kirk?" Luke asked annoyed as he moved around filling breakfast orders.
"When can I baby sit your twins?"
"Let's see, today is December 28th so… never Kirk" Luke told him why the hell does he think I'd let him baby sit?
"But Luke" Kirk whined.
"No Kirk"
"Luke, darling" Miss Patty called.
"Yes?" Luke asked thinking she wanted to order.
"Do you have new pictures of those gorgeous boys of yours?"
"No" was all Luke said before going to the kitchen and sending Caesar out to deal with costumers.
ThE HoUsE
Lorelai was in the kitchen making herself breakfast, well just cereal, she had the radio on softly and they were having a Jimmy Buffet marathon, 'Brown Eyed Girl' was starting and Lorelai swayed from side to side dancing with Sean. Lorelai sashayed her way to the dinning room with her plate of cereal, one hand was on the round part of her baby backpack. Ricky was on his vibrating seat on the middle of the dinning room table. In the middle of the songs, during the 'sha la la la' part Lorelai grabbed Ricky's foot and used it as a microphone before landing a kiss on it.
"Hey guys, did you know Daddy is a Buffet-head?" Lorelai asked both sleeping boys. "Don't worry we can mocking him later. That is if you two aren't already Buffet-heads" Lorelai pondered and kept eating with her right hand and playing rubbing Ricky's foot with her left. After the song ended 'Margaritaville' started and Lorelai started laughing, she wanted to call and tell Luke but then she remember that Caesar didn't have that radio in the kitchen anymore because of Luke.
"Isn't there anything else on?" Jess grumbled walking into the kitchen.
"Don't you dare change it" Lorelai called back.
"Don't tell me Luke converted you" Jess said moving away from the radio and over to the fridge.
"He didn't convert me, it's just mellow enough to sooth the boys without driving me completely insane"
"Tsk, if you say so"
"Aren't you supposed to be sleeping? Or at the diner? Or, where was it…. Oh yeah, not here?"
"Funny" Jess said dryly. "Just came down for some juice" he jiggled the apple juice container.
"Samantha is not drinking or eating anything apple" Lorelai said not even turning around.
"Sure" Jess ignored her and served the juice, put the container away, and left the kitchen.
"Let's count to twenty backwards, and twenty…" Lorelai told the twins. "… three, two, and…"
"Damn it!" Jess said walking into the kitchen again, he put the glass on the sink and got some orange juice. "Not a word" he said between clenched teeth before Lorelai said anything, she just laughed when Jess left.
"You see that? That's why you always have to do what the Mommy says" with that Lorelai kept eating her breakfast.
LaTeR
Rory was helping out at the Diner with Lane, Caesar and Clara. Luke was at the house with Lorelai and the twins; sshe was making Luke fix up Jess' old room as the new guest room. Jess and Sam had gone out to see a movie.
"Luke come on, it's not that hard" Lorelai said.
"Stop pushing me" Luke mumbled. He was pushing the mattress he had in his apartment upstairs the new house and to the new guest room, although he was having trouble with the whole pushing it up by himself.
"Let me help you" Lorelai said from the railing upstairs.
"Are you kiddin? Because it's not funny" Luke grumbled still pushing it up.
"I don't want you to get hurt"
"Ditto. I don't want to have to drive you to the emergency room because you blew your stitches" he was almost all the way to the top.
"Gross" Lorelai made a funny face, there was fussing heard from the baby monitor hanging from Luke's belt. "I'll go" Lorelai went to the nursery and came back with a fussing Ricky; Luke had the mattress leaning against the wall in the second floor.
"What's wrong?" Luke asked frowning.
"Don't know, he doesn't need a diaper, and he's not hungry" Lorelai shrugged.
"Here…" Luke walked up to Lorelai and took Ricky from her and cuddled him to his chest, he instantly got soothed. Lorelai frowned at a smiling Luke. "I read that sometimes hearing the heartbeat sooths them because it reminds them of when they were inside the womb" Luke shrugged.
"You're just too cute" Lorelai said smiling.
"I'm not cute, and neither are the boys" Luke grumbled.
"Of course not, you're all way too manly to be cute" Lorelai teased. Luke handed back Ricky to her and went back to fixing up the guest room.
"Don't listen to your Daddy, you are cute" Lorelai said taking the baby back to his crib. There she saw Sean's eyes open on the other crib. "What are you doing up? Wanna go see Daddy work and curse?" Lorelai asked picking him up.
ThE DiNeR
"I thought the baseball hat was part of the uniform" a voice teased Rory.
"It is, I'm just a maverick" she said walking over to where the voice was. "Hey there, I thought you weren't able t get here until tomorrow"
"What can I say, I got here a little early" Julian smirked and wrapped his arms around Rory's waist.
"I see that" she smiled. "That's the whole greeting you had planed?" Rory asked with puppy eyes.
"Is your Dad around?" Julian asked looking around.
"He's at the house" Rory said and as soon as she had he kissed her. "A little" she said with closed eyes when Julian pulled a little back.
"I'm not good with PDA's in your Dad's Diner with people watching me" Julian told her lamely.
"Fine" she pulled a little more back and smiled up at him.
"How long do you have to stay here?"
"Why? Had something planed?"
"Maybe" Julian shrugged. "What do you want to do?"
"You can take me to a movie and then to dinner" Rory told him.
"Sure, if that's what you want" he smirked.
"Let me say bye to Lane" Rory said with a smile and skipped off. "Oh, check this out" she called from the kitchen door and threw her ipod at him, he caught it. "Good thing you caught that otherwise I'd have to kill you" she tease before going into the kitchen.
"Where did you get it?" Julian asked as he walked over to the counter. "Nice selection" he mumbled at her songs.
"We got em' for Christmas" Rory's head popped from the kitchen.
"We?"
"Jess, Samantha and I got one each" Rory's mumbled voice came form the kitchen.
"Nice, from whom?"
"Santa'' Rory teased.
"Funny"
"Mom and Luke got them for us, and I filled them up" Rory said proudly walking out of the kitchen. "We can go now"
"So even though the boys were born you still had a normal Christmas, that's nice"
"Better than a normal Christmas, an extraordinary one…" they were walking out of the Diner. "Did I tell you that Luke…?"
"Proposed? Yeah you already told me three times"
"Sorry, I'm just exited" Rory smiled as he opened the car door for her.
"I'm glad you are" he leaned down to kiss her before closing the door.
ThE HoUsE
"Aw geez, gross! Why does it have to be warm and sticky" Luke grumbled as he grabbed a rag and wiped up the split-up Sean had so nicely left on Luke's neck while Luke burped him. "Don't laugh"
"Sorry babe" Lorelai tried to stop laughing but couldn't. "Here, I'll take Sean and you go get cleaned up"
"Thanks"
ThE MoViE ThEaTeR
"Wanna sneak into another movie?" Jess whispered, he and Sam were in the last row on corner of the cinema, they had been quietly making out throughout the movie.
"MmmHmm" Samantha smiled; they hadn't spent time alone like this in a long while. "Get me some popcorn though, we're hungry"
"Sure, lets go" he grabbed her hand, helped her up and they left the cinema once outside he wrapped an arm around her shoulders.
About two hours later the movie ended and people slowly started leaving, Jess and Sam were again in the back corner.
"Hey look" Sam pointed a few rows ahead of them to a couple where the guy was very into kissing the girls neck. "What are you doing?" she asked after Jess had thrown a few pieces of popcorn.
"Shh" Jess said and kept throwing popcorn.
"What the…? Hey!" Julian stood up and turned around angrily.
"Hey to you too, beautiful" Jess teased and sent a kiss to Julian. "Whatcha guys doin?" he smirked, Sam elbowed his ribs.
"Hi, Julian" she said politely. "I thought you were getting here tomorrow"
"Yeah" was all Julian said blushing.
"He came early" Rory said, she wasn't blushing or anything.
"Aw you came early" Sam cooed and that only made Julian blush more. The people who clean between movies walked in.
"You guys wanna go catch a bite?" Rory asked; Sam turned to look at Jess who shrugged.
"Sure, let's go"
A LiTtLe LaTeR
"Sorry about this" Jess said to Julian. They had ended up at a Peter Piper Pizza because Sam was craving their pizza.
"It's ok, don't worry about it, it's actually been a long time since I was last here" Julian said looking around; the girls had run off to play air-hockey while they waited for their pizza.
"Can't believe she didn't want Dominos, I mean pizza is pizza right?" Jess ranted.
"It actually has a different taste to it" Julian said. "Sorry" he mumbled once Jess glared at him. Silence fell between them and Jess kept a close look at Sam and Rory while Julian just looked around.
"That's not fair…" they heard Rory's voice. "I demand a rematch since it's two of you"
"Fine" Sam said. Jess smiled at the scene.
"Rory said you guys are already in the attic" Julian suddenly said.
"Yeah, on Christmas we got fully moved in" Jess said.
"And umm… how's it going?" Julian asked he was trying to smooth things over with Jess, not that they had been bad or anything. It was just that Jess was part of Rory's life and Julian wanted to a big part in Rory's life and he wanted to have a good relationship with everybody that was part or had a say in her life.
"Good" Jess said looking at him funny.
"Are you… do you, do you regret…?"
"No" Jess interrupted Julian who's eyes got wide.
"Nothing?"
"Nope. Yes, things will get tough and we'll fight, we already do, but Luke and Lorelai had been great, they're helping us out so much with everything and they're not letting us give up. Things would've been easier if we were older but… Lorelai was even younger and look at where she's now. Sam and I are gonna be ok, the baby is gonna be ok, we're all gonna be ok"
"Wow, I never though you could say so much" Julian teased to break the tension that had built during Jess' monologue. "And it really shows that you care"
"Number 328 your pizza is ready. Number 328" the announcer said.
"That's ours" Julian said getting up.
"I'll go get them" Jess.
"Jess, she's mean" Sam pouted.
"Hey! I'm he one who's losing" Rory said.
"How can she be losing if you both suck?" Jess said from his standing place next to Sam.
"Hey!" both girls shrieked but only Sam smacked him.
"Pizza's ready" Jess smirked.
"Why didn't you say that before?" Sam asked on she started walking back to their table.
"Have you noticed that a pregnant Sam eats as much as a normal Lorelai?" Jess wondered.
"Shut up!" Rory said and pushed him slightly to the side as they walked over to their table where Sam and Julian were already grabbing a slice of pizza.
"Yeah, I don't know why I said that because it's not true" Jess said and Rory nodded. "Not even a pregnant Sam can eat as much as Lorelai" With that Jess hurried his pace to the table.
"Jess!" Rory followed him.
Rory and Jess kept bantering and annoying one another throughout the whole pizza.
"You put a stupid sponge bob square pants sticker on your ipod and then go on saying you're a grown up" Jess scoffed.
"You dress like Rocky Balboa and say you hate his movies" Rory shot back.
"I don't dress like him"
"Yes you do, and you talk like him too" Rory said.
"You held a funeral for a caterpillar" Jess said and that shocked everybody, even Rory.
"How do you now that?" Rory asked.
"Lorelai" Jess said with a smirk.
"You once dressed like Elmo" Rory said and Jess' jaw almost hit the table top.
"Who…?''
"Liz" Rory stated proudly.
"That doesn't count! She dressed me, I had no say in it" Jess defended.
"Sure, whatever you say" Rory teased.
"You were dressed like a pumpkin" Jess said.
"Whatever, Elmo" Rory teased.
"I'll get back at you" Jess promised.
"Whatever. Wanna play air hockey, Elmo?" Rory teased.
"Why don't you play Sam?" Jess asked with a serious face.
"Because she is good at it and you're not" Rory said in a duh voice.
"Who do you think taught her how to play?"
"Not you?" Rory said.
"Oh you're going down" Jess narrowed his eyes at her.
"Bring it" Rory said getting up.
"I'll be back in two minutes" Jess told Sam and gave her a kiss. "Pepperoni-y" Jess said pulling back; he gave her another peck and left. Rory kicked the side of Jess' foot and made him trip, Sam giggled from where she had been watching them.
"Is it me or do they act little spoiled little brats?" Julian asked.
"I know. I can't believe they used to date" Sam said still looking at Jess with awe.
"They used to date?" That got Julian's attention; he turned to look at Jess and Rory, she had just scored and was doing a little dance.
At ThE HoUsE
"Hey, I'm gonna go close so Caesar will open tomorrow" Luke whispered to Lorelai who was napping.
"MmmHmm, don't be too late" Lorelai mumbled.
"I'll try" and with that Lorelai fell back asleep and Luke left. It had been barely two minutes since Luke was gone when Lorelai was woken up by a cry. Lorelai groaned and got up wincing slightly.
"What's wrong?" Lorelai asked lifting a crying Ricky. "You're the one that doesn't cry" she held him close to her chest just like Luke had before, only this time it didn't work. "You're gonna wake your brother up" Ricky kept crying so Lorelai took him over to her bed and laid him on it. "Please stop crying" Lorelai begged as she looked for the baby book Luke had been reading.
PeTeR PiPeR PiZzA
When Rory and Jess walked back to the table, Rory having kicked Jess' ass, Sam jumped up and pulled Rory over to the arcade and challenged Rory to a drive off. Jess smirked and sat down where Sam had been sitting before. Julian kept glaring at Jess who had no idea what Julian and Sam had been talking about earlier.
"You ok?" Jess asked looking at Julian funny.
"You dated Rory?"
"Umm yeah, a couple years back. She didn't tell you?" Jess frowned.
"How long ago?"
"I don't know… like three years" Jess shrugged it off. "Before I left to California, well… actually during"
"So, you two dated?" Julian had a look of disgust.
"Yes" Jess repeated what's wrong with this guy? Jess thought.
"Did you…" Julian gestured wildly with his hands.
"If you have so many questions, why don't you just ask Rory?" Jess asked as he became annoyed.
"Does that mean you did?" Jess sighed loudly.
"No, we didn't. But you really have to ask her, because if you keep asking me you might get punched"
"So… you didn't?" Julian wanted to confirm, Jess gave him a weird look and went off to find the girls.
LoReLaI's RoOm
"Are you colicky?" Lorelai asked a still crying Ricky who was bright red now, his little fists shook slightly with the force of his cries. "Daddy's book said that swaddling might help, I'll go get your blanket" Lorelai walked fast over to Ricky's crib and she saw that Sean was up and just lying there. "Hold on" she told him and went back to the crying baby in her room. "I know your tummy hurts but Mommy's ears are starting to hurt also, Baby. Ok, ok, let's get you swaddled" Lorelai was in the middle of swaddling Ricky in his blanket when Sean decided to pipe in. "Damn it" Lorelai hissed. "Hold on" Lorelai said in the direction of the nursery. "Don't move" Lorelai told Ricky, she still had her sense of humor, sort of. "Why are you crying? I fed you a little while ago, you're not colicky like your brother are you?" Lorelai asked wincing, but Sean stopped crying once Lorelai held him. "You were crying for attention weren't you?" she smiled down at him and went back to Ricky.
PeTeR PiPeR PiZzA
"Ready to go?" Jess asked Sam.
"Yep…" she nodded. "I'm out of tokens anyhow" she shrugged.
"Want more?" Jess frowned.
"Nah, lets go. You can bring me back later" Sam smiled sweetly at him.
"Fine…" Jess smirked. "Let's go" Julian watched their little interaction with an annoyed look, all he could think of was how Jess acted when he was with Rory.
"Hey… hey?... Julian!" Rory called giggling. "Where are you?" she looked sweetly at him.
"Wha…?" Julian turned to look at Rory.
"Hey, we're going now" Jess told Rory and Julian narrowed his eyes at him.
"Sure, are you feeling ok?" Rory asked Sam who nodded with a big smile; Jess had his arm wrapped around her waist.
"Bye Julian, nice to see you" Sam said with a smile.
"Sure" Julian said and Rory frowned.
"Later" Jess nodded at them and then guided Sam out of the restaurant.
"Are you ok, you're not feeling sick are you?" Rory touched Julian's cheek lovingly.
"Sick? Yeah a little sick" Julian nodded.
"Oh, was it the pizza?" Rory took a seat and waited for Julian to do the same, he did but a little away from Rory.
"No, not the pizza"
"Oh…" Rory thought a little. "The popcorn at the movies, or did you eat something on your flight back"
"It wasn't something I ate" Julian said a little annoyed.
"Ok. How do you feel exactly?"
"Nauseous"
"Are you pregnant?" Rory teased.
"Were you ever gonna tell me you dated Jess?"
"Wha…?" Rory's mouth dropped open.
LoReLaI's RoOm
Ricky had finally stopped crying and was falling asleep just like Lorelai, until Sean woke up crying.
"No" Lorelai whined. "Why do you have to eat every two hours?" a couple minutes later Ricky woke up also.
PeTeR PiPeR PiZzA
"You dated Jess"
"How did you…?"
"Sam told me, then I asked Jess and he confirmed it" Julian said a little angry. "Were you going to tell me?" Rory sighed.
"Honestly? No, I wasn't''
"What?"
"I wasn't going to tell you about Jess, because I knew you'd react this way" Rory simply said.
"Jess told Sam"
"Good for him, he knew Sam wasn't going to freak…"
"I'm not freaking" Julian said a little angry.
"Yes you are. And you're probably thinking that I'd go back to him any day now, aren't you?" Rory looked at him pointedly and he looked down blushing. "You're stupid" Rory said with a giggle.
"You two are living together" Julian said. "It's not stupid"
"He's in love with Samantha and they're having a baby together. We're not living together, we're living in the same house, there's a difference a very big one"
"What if he and Sam weren't together?"
"What, I still have you. Jess and I were in the past, it was… my bad boy phase" Rory said with a smirk. And Julian frowned. "Forget about what happened with Jess and me, it's in the past" she pouted.
"You were really not going to tell me?"
"I was really not going to tell you" Rory said with a smirk. Julian sighed.
"I guess you were right about me freaking out"
"Honey, I'm always right" Rory smiled and Julian scoffed. "What do you say to some hot wings?" Rory asked before he kissed her.
"I say: hold on one minute" Julian teased and kissed her.
ThE HoUsE
Lorelai finally had both boys asleep and she went to nap a little. She had just fallen asleep when the phone rang.
"What?" she groaned.
"Are you still sleeping?" Luke asked.
"I'm trying but I haven't been successful" Lorelai whined.
"Ok, I'm gonna be a little later than expected…" Luke said and Lorelai whined. "… there's inventory and Caesar dropped some stuff in the storage room earlier that I have to clean up now"
"Uhuh" Lorelai was practically asleep.
"Lorelai? Lorelai hang up the phone" Luke said.
"Uhuh"
"Lorelai!"
"What?" Lorelai said a little too loudly and a whimper was heard from the nursery. "Crap" she mumbled.
"Sorry" Luke said. "Now hang up the phone"
"Sure, I lo…" but Luke had hung up the phone, Lorelai sighed and went over to the nursery.
At ThE InN
"There's a reservation under my name" a voice said.
"Of course" Michel was about to leave but walked back in when he saw who was coming.
"Thank you"
"I'll show you to your room" Michel said politely with a smile.
"I understood that" the voice sounded happy for that.
WaY LaTeR At ThE HoUsE
Luke got home a little after twelve; he sat on the living room's couch for a little while. Damn Caesar dropping syrup on the storage room floor that takes forever to clean Luke sighed and pressed the bridge of his nose. Luke's head shot to look at the front door when it opened.
"Had fun?" Luke mumbled turning his head back to normal.
"You scared me" Rory's hand flew to her chest. "Why are you sitting there in the dark?" she walked over to the couch.
"Just go home"
"It's twenty after twelve" Rory said looking at her watch.
"Yeah I know. I had to close and clean up some syrup" Luke mumbled.
"You're sleepy aren't you?"
"MmmHmm" Luke opened his eyes. "You're home late"
"Yeah…" Rory said shyly. "… Julian showed up at the Diner and we went out" Rory looked down.
"That's nice" Luke said getting up. "I think I'm going to bed now"
"Goodnight" Rory said reaching for the remote; she checked all the channels before going upstairs to sleep.
Luke walked around in their room getting ready and trying to be as quiet as he could. Once he got into bed Lorelai shifted towards him.
"Luke?" she mumbled.
"Shh it's late, go back to sleep"
"MmmHmm" Lorelai mumbled after side glancing at the clock.
ArOuNd OnE ThIrTy Am
Lorelai shifted and groaned, she turned to look at Luke how was still sound asleep, even though both boys were crying. Instead of waking him up she walked over to tend to the twins, she thought he needed rest also since he had just gotten home not even an hour ago.
"We don't want to wake up Daddy, now do we?" Lorelai said picking them up and going over to the rocking chair.
Luke didn't wake up at all, he actually didn't even move from when Lorelai left to when she came back. Lorelai had some trouble with getting Ricky to burp and then to fall asleep.
PaSt ThReE ThIrTy
Again the boys woke up, and again Lorelai did and Luke didn't. She mumbled under her breath and got up, Luke didn't even fuss.
"Damn it" Lorelai grumbled when she tripped with her own slippers. Luke still snored the night away. "Isn't this supposed to be the nice problem free stage?" Lorelai wondered out loud.
Sean was already sleeping and Lorelai was still having trouble with Ricky, the last couple of day's he'd been having colic's and Lorelai was in the verge of losing it.
"Luke, get up" Lorelai said frustrated still carrying a crying Ricky. "Get up!" she nudged him, hard.
"What?" Luke mumbled squinting; Lorelai had turned the light on.
"Get up"
"What's your problem?" he sat up on bed rubbing the tiredness out of his eyes.
"You! You're just sleeping there while your son cries the night away and you're not even bothered by it"
"That's why you woke me up?" Luke sounded irritated. "You've been sleeping ever since I left for the Diner!"
"No I haven't! Every time I fell asleep someone woke me up!"
"That's not my fault; I only woke you up once!"
"He's driving me crazy! He doesn't stop crying!"
"Maybe if you stopped yelling" Luke said getting up, and cracked his back and neck. "Do you have any idea how tired I am?" he said annoyed.
"I think I do" Lorelai shot back.
"Why is he crying?" Luke asked taking Ricky from Lorelai, she just gave Luke a pointed look.
"Same reason as the past few days" Lorelai said walking over to the bathroom. Luke sighed and looked down at Ricky.
"Does it hurt a lot, buddy?" Luke asked walking over to the bed again. "I bet you're mad at your brother right now, huh?" Luke talked to Ricky as he pulled the sheets from the bed. "He's over there in his crib sleeping pain free, while you're here keeping Mommy and Daddy up. On the bright side, you'll be able to brag because you got to sleep with us" Luke placed Ricky in the middle between his and Lorelai's side. "I'm assuming Mommy burped you already so I'm not trying that" Luke was rubbing Ricky's tummy with one hand and offered his index finger of his other hand, Ricky sucked at Luke's finger. When Lorelai walked out of the bathroom, there was no crying heard but Ricky's legs kept stretching out and scrunching back towards his body in a pumping motion.
"He's not crying" Lorelai said in awe.
"Can you hand me a binkie?" Luke asked and Lorelai giggled because he hadn't said pacifier, and then went to the nursery.
"Here, baby" Lorelai said, Ricky cried when Luke pulled his finger away but stopped when it was replaced by the binkie. "I read your book today" Lorelai said turning off the light.
"I wrote a book?" Luke smirked.
"Ha-ha" Lorelai got in bed and raked her fingers through Ricky's hair, or the hairs she whished he had.
"Read anything good?" Luke mumbled, hand still massaging Ricky's tummy.
"Yeah, some reasons why he might have colic" Lorelai whispered. "I'll try to change what I eat, and also the twins feeding position so he won't swallow any air"
"MmmHmm" Luke mumbled and silence fell, besides Ricky's sucking and slight fussing.
"Whoa, baby" Lorelai giggled, the silence allowed them to hear Ricky pass gas through his diaper. "Feeling better?" Lorelai teased, Luke chuckled and Ricky did it again before his legs stopped pumping. "Stinky baby" Lorelai giggled. "Let's sleep, ok?" she asked an almost snoozing Ricky.
"I'll put him in his crib" Luke said getting up.
"Thanks babe" Lorelai whispered. Luke went to the nursery, placed Ricky down and took out the binkie, he didn't like the idea of them but tonight they had helped him out a lot.
The next time the twins woke up Luke also woke up to prevent another argument.
ThE NeXt DaY NoOnIsH
"Could you bring me back something?" Lorelai asked pouting; Luke was going to go and buy all he'd need to make the New Year's dinner.
"Like what?" Luke was walking around their room getting his wallet and stuff.
"Like… Peep's?"
"It's not Easter, Lorelai" he looked at her funny.
"They make Christmas Peep's now" Lorelai said with a big nod and puppy eyes.
"It's not Christmas either" Luke pointed out.
"Then if you can't finds Peep's bring me some Twizlers"
"I thought you were going to change your diet?"
"I am. When I was pregnant I ate Twizlers all the time, the boys got used to them, now that I'm not pregnant I haven't eaten them so the boys miss them" Lorelai reasoned.
"That doesn't make sense"
"It makes perfect sense to me"
"But… fine, I'll bring you back Twizlers" Luke resolved instead of fighting with her.
"Thank you" she smiled and gave him a peck before he walked out of the room.
Luke walked downstairs and past the living room where Rory was reading to the twins.
"They're nine days old, they don't understand you" Luke said.
"But it helps develop their brains" Rory shot back not taking her eyes off the twins. "Dad?"
"Yeah?"
"Kettle Korn please"
"Sure" Luke said chucking and left, leaving Rory behind to continue reading to the boys.
"Do you think that watching TV has the same effect than reading?" Lorelai asked walking downstairs.
"No, why?" Rory turned to look at Lorelai.
"Because I feel like watching TV with my offspring's" Lorelai took a seat next to Rory on the couch, the twins on their vibrating seats in front of them.
"As long as we watch something educational" Rory said putting the book down.
"Like 'The Fairy Oddparents'?" Lorelai asked with a smile.
"Yes, exactly like 'The Fairy Oddparents''' Rory said nodding.
A FeW MiNuTeS LaTeR
"Cosmo always cracks me up" Lorelai said.
"He is the best, even though he's green" Rory agreed and the doorbell rang.
"Not it!" both girls said slightly at the same time, although Rory said it first.
"Agh, fine I'll get it. Me who just had twins, me who had a C-section, me who didn't sleep well last night, me who… Chris?" Lorelai said opening the door, Christopher stood there with a somewhat big teddy bear and two presents.
"Hi" he said shyly.
"Mom, Cosmo just said the funniest thing!" Rory yelled walking over to the door. "Wanda said 'two wrongs don't make a right' and then Cosmo said… hi" Rory said shocked also.
"Cosmo said 'hi'?" Christopher asked trying to break the ice but failing, a cry from the living room did break the ice though. Chris' eyes shot to the living room. Lorelai hesitated a few seconds before going over to check on who was crying. "Hey Rory"
"What are you doing here?"
"It's kinda cold, mind if I…" he motioned to the house.
"Sure" Lorelai said reappearing with Sean in her arms.
"Mom?"
"I don't want the house to get cold because we have the door open" Lorelai explained. "Why are you here?" Lorelai asked Chris.
"I came bearing gifts" he offered Rory a box and Lorelai the bear.
"My hands are kinda busy" Lorelai said with some attitude.
"Yeah, sorry. Where's Ricky?" He asked and both Lorelai and Rory were stunned.
"How do you know their names?" Lorelai asked a little angry, Sean was still crying because he was hungry and it was a mattered of time before Ricky cried also.
"I read it on the newspaper, Sean William and John Richard, Sean and Ricky right? Born on the 20th?"
"Newspaper?" Lorelai turned to Rory who shrugged.
"The new grandson's of the prominent Richard and Emily Gilmore" Chris continued with the newspaper quote.
"What!" Lorelai's eyes popped open.
"I have the copy in the car if you want to read it, beautiful picture also"
"Picture?" Lorelai was a little white.
"Shouldn't you tend to him?" Christopher pointed to Sean who kept crying.
"There's a picture in the newspaper about the boys?" Lorelai still couldn't believe it.
"I can go get it if you want" Chris offered pointing with his thumb to the door.
"Please" Rory said and Lorelai nodded.
"I'll be right back" Christopher said and left with the bear and the other present.
"Christopher is here…" Lorelai said. "…and the boys were on a paper, a paper that made its way to Boston!"
"Mom… Sean" Rory pointed to the crying baby.
"Oh, right! I'll go get Ricky and we'll be upstairs, keep Christopher down here until I come back down you hear me?" Lorelai said walking to the living room.
"Mom, what about Dad? I mean Luke, He'll be back soon"
"Oh my God! He's not gonna take this good, shh baby I know you're hungry" Lorelai rocked Sean, she hadn't picked up Ricky yet. "Call him and send him on some errands, that'll win us some time" Lorelai said and picked up Ricky.
"What errands? I don't need anything" Rory followed Lorelai as she walked out of the living room.
"Diapers!"
"We have a diaper castle upstairs" Rory pointed out.
"Make him pick up something from Al's!"
"He hate's Al remember?"
"Sookie! Send him to the Inn and then call Sookie and have her stall him"
"Sookie sucks at lying" Rory reminded Lorelai.
"Send him to Fran's!"
"Fran is dead, remember?"
"I know, I meant the bakery. Tell him we want mocha cake"
"Think he'll bite?"
"If not mocha then try some other flavor but stall him" Lorelai was already going upstairs.
"Ok!" Rory yelled upstairs and grabbed the phone form the living room.
"I just let myself in, I hope it's…" Chris said poking his head into the living room where Rory was talking to Luke.
"…please, Dad…" she begged. "…we really want mocha cake for desert…" she whined. "…I'm not pouting…" Rory scoffed. "…ok fine, I am but only a little bit… Dad c'mon, I promise I won't let Mom have any… ok then I promise she won't have much…" Rory screeched. "…Thanks Dad! They're eating… ok, I'll tell her… bye" she hung up and turned around. "Oh uh" she whispered.
"So… Luke is bringing back some mocha cake?" Chris said trying to ignore the fact that his daughter was calling another man 'Dad'.
"Yeah, he can't say no to us"
"Who can?" Chris joked.
"I'll be right back, He asked me to tell Mom something" Rory stopped at the living room's door. "You can sit down you know, Mom will be right down, she's just feeding the boys"
"Thanks" Chris said and took a seat looking at his surroundings. The place was still high in Christmas decorations; they hadn't taken down anything because Lorelai insisted they waited until after New Year's. Chris just stared at the stockings that still hung from the fireplace, his stomach crunched at how it all looked.
UpStAiRs
"Luke, is bringing back some mocha cake" Rory announced walking into Lorelai's room.
"Good, where's Chris?"
"In the living room, he heard me call Luke 'Dad'" Rory winced and so did Lorelai.
"How did he take that?"
"I didn't give him a chance to respond, I kind of flew upstairs before he had time" Rory admitted.
"Good plan, but you can't leave him down there alone and I can't go entertain him because I'm busy here" Lorelai nodded to the two eating boys.
"Fine…" Rory sighed. "… but hurry up" Rory said sternly before leaving Lorelai's room.
DoWnStAiRs
"Want something to drink?" Rory asked walking into the living room.
"No thanks" Chris said getting up. "Look, I should go, I just came by to drop these off …" he pointed to the presents. "… and to congratulate your Mom"
"About…?"
"The twins" Christopher said in a duh voice.
"Oh, right! Well, too bad she had to feed them; she's always doing that lately"
"Yeah, babies tend to eat a lot" Chris said with a smirk how would you know? Rory thought but she only nodded. "Ok then… I better go" he motioned to the door. "Tell your Mom and… Luke that I said congratulations, ok?"
"Sure"
"Hope you enjoy my present" Chris smiled before seeing himself to the door. Rory picked up the presents and walked to Lorelai's room.
UpStAiRs
"He's gone" Rory said entering the room and going straight to the bed.
"That was fast"
"He said he only wanted to drop this off and congratulate you"
"Did you see the paper?" Lorelai asked.
"Not yet, you're not gonna go ballistic on grandma are you?" Rory debated weather or not she should show Lorelai the scrap of paper.
"No… depends on what they wrote" Lorelai said with a smirk.
"What about Luke?"
"What about him?"
"Are you gonna tell him?"
"About the paper or Chris?"
"Both" Rory said and Lorelai sighed.
"Yes. We promise we wouldn't keep anything from each other and this is too big to keep to myself" Lorelai resolved.
"What are you going to do with the bear?" Rory asked frowning at the big teddy bear sitting on Lorelai's bed.
"Do you need it at Yale?" Lorelai asked hopefully.
"What would I need a giant teddy bear for?" Rory frowned.
"How should I know what you do with your spare time" Lorelai giggled.
"Ok then, contraire to what you might think, I don't need a giant teddy bear"
"Then what do I do with it? It so… big, and I bet it's a dust magnet" Lorelai eyed the bear wearily.
"Donate it?" Rory shrugged.
"What organization is taking in giant bears?"
"I don't know? Maybe the same people who think these bears have some reason to exist"
"What did you get?" Lorelai asked ignoring the bear for now.
"Don't know, haven't opened it yet but he did say 'enjoy' before he left" Rory said picking up the present.
"Did he say it sarcastically? Like he would of my bear?"
"No sarcasm" Rory began unwrapping. "Oh…"
"What?"
"He got me a portable CD player" Rory said picking up the unwrapped gift, Lorelai winced a little.
"That's a good present" Lorelai said.
"It is… if I hadn't gotten an ipod for Christmas from you guys" Rory sounded a little down.
"If you want, I can keep the ipod so you can keep the CD player" Lorelai offered with a smile.
"Thanks but I don't think so… nice try though" Rory smiled. "Need help with the burping?" Rory offered and Lorelai nodded.
"Who's the other gift for?" Lorelai asked looking at the other wrapped box.
"He didn't say" Rory was burping Sean because he was the easiest to burp.
"Should we open it?"
"Well yeah, I doubt it's for Luke" Rory handed Lorelai the gift, she opened it and inside were to pacifiers but instead of having the normal end where you can grab it, they had funny looking teeth. "What is it?"
"It's for the boys" Lorelai said looking at the binkies.
"Aw those things are so cool" Rory said looking at them better; one looked like beaver teeth and the other like hillbilly teeth.
"Lorelai!" Luke called.
"Oh uh" Rory said tearing her eyes from the pacifiers. "I think I'm gonna go" Rory said getting up. "I'll leave him down with Luke" Rory left the bedroom in a hurry.
"Chicken-butt!" Lorelai yelled.
DoWnStAiRs
"Luke?" Rory walked over to the kitchen. "Here…" she handed Sean to him. "Mom is upstairs with Ricky ,bye" and with that Rory left the house in a hurry. Luke stood in the kitchen with Sean fussing a little in his arms before he walked upstairs.
UpStAiRs
"Lorelai…?"
"Burp him" Lorelai instantly said before Luke had a chance to say anything else.
"Ok" and Luke shifted Sean around so he could burp him. "What's that?" he motioned to the bear with his head, Lorelai took a deep breath.
"Here, babe, why don't you take a seat?" Lorelai scooted a little to make room for him, Luke frown but took a seat.
"That bear was a present, and so were these" she showed him the pacifiers to which Luke snorted.
"Who bought these?"
"Umm… Chris" Lorelai whispered. Luke's head shot up from being staring at the pacifiers.
"Who?"
"Christopher" Lorelai said a little louder. "He also got Rory a CD player… which I don't think she'll use much" Lorelai added.
"Christopher? When did he…?"
"Like half an hour ago"
"Like half an hour ago what?" Luke asked with an even voice and Lorelai was starting to break.
"He came here and…"
"What!" Sean was startled a little at Luke's tone, Luke winced a little.
"He just showed up at the door with that stupid bear and the gifts. When I asked him why he was here he said it was because of the twins and the paper and Emily and then Sean cried because he was hungry so Chris left to get the paper and I took Sean and Ricky upstairs and Rory called you and then Chris heard her and they talked then he left and we opened the presents and that's when you got here" Lorelai rambled.
"What?" Luke frowned. "Wait, the whole mocha thing was to keep me from coming home?"
"Yes…" Lorelai winced. "I don't know why I made Rory do it, I panicked" Lorelai added and Luke stayed quiet.
"What did he want?" Luke asked quietly.
"Rory said he only came here to deliver the gifts and to congratulate us" Lorelai quickly said.
"Rory said?"
"I didn't talk to him after he went to the car to get the paper"
"What paper?" Luke frowned. "Could you explain the whole thing without babbling please?"
"Ok but… are you mad?" Lorelai pouted a little; Luke took a deep breath and let it out slowly.
"No, I'm not mad" Luke resolved and Lorelai smiled; she leaned in and place a soft kiss on his lips before stating her 'Chris story'.
LaTeR ThAt AfTeRnOoN
Samantha was teaching Jess how to change a diaper; she was taking advantage of the fact that the boys needed a diaper change. Lorelai and Luke had no problem with having Sam and Jess change the boys diapers, even though they were only nine days old both Lorelai and Luke were already tired of the whole diaper thing.
"Shouldn't you be cooking?" Lorelai asked Luke who was relaxing on their bed.
"No" Luke grumbled.
"Shouldn't you be at the Diner?"
"No"
"Shouldn't you…"
"Shouldn't you be letting me rest?" Luke asked annoyed.
"No" Lorelai imitated his grumbled, the doorbell rang but they ignored it until they heard Rory's shriek.
DoWnStAiRs
"What?" Luke rushed downstairs, almost tripping twice, to see what was wrong.
"Mia!" Lorelai said happily and ran past Luke to go hug Mia.
"So it is true" Mia said hugging Lorelai. "You two shacked up" she sounded amused and relieved. "Lucas, where are your manners?" Mia frowned at him once Lorelai pulled back from the hug.
"Yes, Lucas, where?" Lorelai teased.
"Hi, Mia" Luke smirked and also hugged her.
"Hey, Mom, Mia's here" Rory said walking towards them from the living room carrying Ricky, Jess trailed behind her carrying Sean with Sam by his side.
"I noticed" Lorelai answered.
"Oh my…" Mia said looking at the boys. "Somebody's been busy" Lorelai smiled and Luke blushed.
"Want something to drink?'' Luke asked trying to get away from there.
"Some tea would be good right about now" Mia said. "Thank you, Lucas" Mia added once Luke started walking away. "Care to fill me in?" Mia turned her attention to Lorelai.
"Why don't we go to the living room before the questioning begins?" Lorelai offered and they all went back to the living room.
Mia had questioned Lorelai and Luke about their relationship and about the twins. Then she moved on to Jess and getting to know Sam, Mia had taken their news way better than Liz had. Lorelai and Luke were tending to the twins when Mia started the questioning with Rory. The doorbell rang and Rory seemed to smile but at the same time worry. Jess smirked and went to open the door knowing who it was.
"Julian! How's it going man!" Jess asked loudly enough so everybody in the living room could hear.
"Umm… fine, thanks. Is Rory here?" Julian seemed a little scared at Jess right now.
"She's in the living room" Jess smirked.
"Ok, thanks" Julian walked over to the living room. "Hey Rory" Julian smiled at her.
"My, my, my Rory, who's this lovely young man?" Mia asked and both Rory and Julian blushed.
"Mia, this is Julian. Julian, this is Mia" Rory introduced them. "We're dating" Rory told Mia.
UpStAiRs
"I'm guessing it's not due to air swallowing" Lorelai said referring to Ricky's colic; it was the first time since he had woken them up the night before.
"How do you know?" Luke asked looking down at Ricky; the boys were in the middle of Luke and Lorelai's bed, Sean was just lying there blinking next to Ricky who was crying and pumping his legs just like he had the night before.
"Because he's still getting them"
"Maybe it was because of your diet, just because you ate differently today doesn't mean all the other crap is out of your system now. You're ok?"
"It breaks my heart hearing him cry like that" Lorelai pouted. She had tried giving him a pacifier just like Luke had before but Ricky didn't want one now.
"Why don't you go downstairs with Mia and I'll take care of Ricky?"
"Seriously?"
"Yeah, I heard the door earlier and I'm sure that was Julian…" Luke said smirking. "Just take Sean with you so I can focus on Ricky"
"You're the best" Lorelai smiled and kissed him.
"Remember that the next time you feel like waking me up in the middle of the night" Luke told her while she grabbed Sean.
"Sorry" she winced a little and then kissed him again. "Thanks" with that she left.
"Ok, kid, let's relax"
DoWnStAiRs
"Ease off the boy, Mia" Lorelai said walking into the living room.
"I'm just getting to know him" Mia defended.
"Right. I can't believe you started grilling him without me"
"Mom" Rory whined.
"I'm just kidding; you know Luke and I already grilled him"
"Oh, that's much better" Rory rolled her eyes, Jess snorted. "As fun as this is, we need to get going" Rory said getting up.
"Sure kid" Lorelai said.
"I'll see you later, I hope?" Mia asked.
"Yes" Rory smiled and kissed Mia's cheek. "Bye"
"It was nice meeting you" Julian said politely.
"That's a lie and I appreciate it" Mia said with a smile. "He's a good one" she whispered to Rory.
"I know" Rory said back and Julian blushed.
"But he's way too colorful" Mia added, with that Rory and Julian left.
"Lorelai, is Luke dealing with Ricky?" Jess asked.
"Yeah"
"I have to go then" Jess said and got up.
"Are you closing?" Lorelai asked.
"Yeah, though I should help out a bit. See you later" he told Sam and kissed her goodbye and Sam pouted when he pulled back. "Unless you want to come with me?" she bit her lower lip and smiled. "Let's go then"
"Don't do dirty stuff in the storage room" Lorelai warned. "Cause that's been done before" she added and even though they were by the door she could hear Jess' 'aw geez'.
"The storage room?" Mia asked with raised eyebrows and Lorelai looked at the floor with a sheepish grin. "Now that we're alone, care to tell me about your relationship?" Lorelai smiled and started telling Mia everything.
LaTeR
"Lorelai, you look great" Mia said. "I can't believe you just had these boys barely nine days ago"
"Nice try, Mia" Lorelai said shyly. Mia kept playing with baby Sean who was asleep in her arms, Luke hadn't been back down yet, and Lorelai had gone upstairs to tell him Jess was dealing with the Diner.
"I mean it, you were always so pretty"
"Are you coming on to me?" Lorelai teased.
"And always had a weird sense of humor, how does Luke deal with that?"
"I don't know" Lorelai shrugged, she loved the sight before her; Mia cuddling Sean just like she had cuddled Rory when she was a little baby.
"And we were successful" Luke said walking downstairs carrying a sleeping Ricky.
"You're a miracle worker" Lorelai said in awe and took the baby from him.
"That I am. Mia, am I to assume you'll stay for dinner?" Luke raised an eyebrow towards her.
"Yes, Mia, please?" Lorelai pouted.
"I guess I can stay a while longer" Mia said looking at the clock.
"Yay" Lorelai whispered as she didn't want to wake either of the boys up. "So, where are you staying?"
"Oh at this charming Inn" Mia said and Lorelai felt a little bad that she didn't say at the Dragonfly.
"Oh" Lorelai said, Mia could tell something was up.
"It is very beautiful, although the receptionist is a putz" Mia smirked and suddenly Luke knew what she was doing.
"I'll go start dinner" and he left them alone.
"Really?" Lorelai was starting to catch up.
"Yes, but the food makes up for the receptionist, and the place is just beautiful"
"Do I know this place?" Lorelai played along, or at least she thought she was.
"I really doubt you've been there in a while" Mia said with a serious face.
"Oh, umm… what's it called?"
"Oh! The name is just too cute… 'The Dragonfly''' Mia said and lifted her hands as if painting a picture while saying the name.
"Mia!" Lorelai smiled brightly. "You're staying there? How come I didn't know?"
"Michel doesn't talk to you that much and I did my best to evade Sookie" Mia smiled proudly. "The place is beautiful, Lorelai, you should be proud"
"Thank you, it means so much that you like it, and I am proud" Lorelai said shyly.
"I love what you did to it"
"How long have you been staying there?" Lorelai was intrigued that she hadn't known that Mia was staying at the Dragonfly.
"I got here yesterday afternoon"
"I can't believe nobody saw you, or if they did, I can't believe nobody told me" Lorelai sounded amazed. "Are you staying for New Years? Because we're having dinner here, Buddy and Maisy are gonna come and we're going to celebrate" Lorelai said, she hadn't told her about the engagement yet and if Mia stayed for New Years she could tell her them along with Buddy and Maisy.
"I leave tomorrow, a little after noon" Mia said. "I would've like to have stayed, it's been forever since I last saw Buddy and Maisy but I can't"
"Oh" Lorelai said a little sad.
"I was actually just passing by and thought I could drop by to see how my girls were, I didn't think I'd be the one surprised. Lorelai and Luke living together in his old house with Rory, Jess, his pregnant girlfriend, and with new born twins" Mia said a little surprised.
"I know what you mean; I still sometimes think I'm dreaming. If somebody had told me lest year what it would be like right now, I would've called them crazy" Lorelai admitted. There was a little silence that Lorelai broke tentatively. "Especially… the part of… Luke… and Christmas"
"He celebrated Christmas?" Mia teased.
"Umm… yeah. Not only celebrated but participate also" Lorelai said shyly.
"Oh my, did he dress like a Santa for the twins?" Mia asked shocked.
"No…" Lorelai giggled. "… but he will next year" Lorelai made a mental note.
"Poor Lucas" Mia mumbled.
"I was actually talking about something else" Lorelai returned to her original train of thought. Since Mia was leaving and not spending New Years there Lorelai thought it'd be better to tell her now.
"Oh, so what happened at Christmas?"
"Luke proposed" Lorelai simply said, she even surprised herself at how easily it had come out.
"He…?" Mia was interrupted.
"Lorelai! What did you do to my spatula!" Luke shrieked from the kitchen and startled Sean. Lorelai winced a little and Mia gave her a weird look.
"Nothing?" Lorelai called back unconvincingly, she stood up, passed Ricky to Mia and made a run to the office.
"Where is she?" Luke asked walking into the living room, melted spatula in hand.
"Through there" Mia pointed at the office. When Lorelai heard Luke approaching she ran to the office's bathroom that also leads to the hall way beside the staircase. Luke walked into the empty office then to the bathroom that Lorelai had just left and ran towards the stairs.
"Lorelai!" Luke saw her foot disappear on the stairs and followed her. Mia smiled on the other room and whispered to the twins 'your parents are crazy'.
"I didn't leave your spatula on the grill!" Lorelai shrieked closing the door to their room, but Luke got in through the nursery.
"I never said you left it there" he narrowed his eyes at her.
"Ok fine! I was making a grilled cheese sandwich but then one of the boy's cried so I went to check it out and by the time I came back the spatula was a goner and my sandwich was done" Lorelai babbled, Luke narrowed his eyes and her then smirked.
"You made a sandwich?"
"Yes" Lorelai said shyly with a cutesy smiled.
"And you killed my spatula in the process?" he frowned at her, and she nodded seductively. "I guess it's better than burning down the house" Luke walked closer to her.
"Yes it is" she whispered as he wrapped his arms loosely around her waist. "Mia's downstairs" Lorelai said when she saw Luke leaning in closer.
"MmmHmm" Luke mumbled before kissing her.
"Mmmm" he kissed her slowly and sweetly, which made her melt.
"We need to go back before Mia thinks I killed you with my melted spatula" Luke whispered once he pulled back an inch or so.
"Wait, wait, wait" Lorelai said when Luke pulled back more.
"What?" his eyebrows rose. Lorelai kissed him again.
"There, lets go" and she left, leaving him standing there gasping for air.
A LiTtLe LaTeR
"Are you ok with Jess' situation?" Mia asked after Lorelai had showed her the Christmas video. Lorelai frowned at the question. "The last time I was here you were less than thrilled with him living here" Mia reminded Lorelai and she looked down.
"That was before… that was a different Jess" Lorelai said. "He's changed and I'm proud of what he's doing and where he's going"
"Will you look at you, that's a big change" Mia teased and Lorelai blushed a little. "What about this Samantha girl?"
"She is a great girl, she comes from my old world so I can relate to how she was feeling when she told her parents. I want to be there for them like you were there for me. Jess and Sam have a very clear idea of what they want their lives to be, and that's half the battle conquered"
"You sound proud" Mia pointed out and, again, Lorelai blushed.
"Dinner!" Luke called from the kitchen.
ThAt NiGhT
"You'll call before you leave, right?" Lorelai asked, they were saying goodbye to Mia.
"Yes" Mia said kissing one boy goodbye and then the other one.
"And you'll come back to visit, right?" Rory asked they were waiting for her to get home and as soon as she did Mia said she was off.
"Yes, I'll visit more, after all I have to keep a close eye on these kids" Mia motioned to Luke and Lorelai and not at the twins.
"Funny" Lorelai said. "Don't take so long to visit. We expect you here at least for the wedding"
"I wouldn't miss that for the world" Mia reassured.
"It was so good to see you again" Rory said hugging Mia tightly.
"Honey, let Mia breathe" Lorelai pulled Rory off.
"Sorry" Rory said shyly. "Hey, Dad, was there any leftovers?" Rory turned to Luke and Lorelai saw Mia's shocked expression.
"Yeah, they're in the fridge and try not to burn anything"
"I haven't, Mom is the one who burnt your spatula" Rory said then turned to Mia. "Bye" she gave her one last hug before going to the kitchen.
"Rory!" Lorelai shrieked at the spatula comment and Luke smirked.
"I better go there before she hurts herself" Luke pointed to the kitchen. "Mia, it was great seeing you here" Luke gave her a quick hug.
"It was nice seeing you so happy Lucas" Mia said and Luke blushed before leaving to go help Rory.
"I love it when you make him feel uncomfortable" Lorelai said with a big smile.
"You look pretty happy yourself" Mia pointed out and Lorelai looked at her shoes. "You have a wonderful family here" Mia said and then heard Rory whine out 'Dad'. "Take care of them and yourself"
"I will" Lorelai smiled.
"And congratulations on that beautiful Inn of yours"
"You have no idea what hearing you say that means to me"
"I have an idea" Mia winked at her before she actually left.
NeW YeArs EvE ArOuNd TwO Pm
"Dude, she just got hotter" Jake told Luke, they were watching a game on TV in the living room and Lorelai had just walked out carrying the twins, Jake had followed her with his eyes all the way until she got out of sight.
"Stop it" Luke grumbled annoyed. Jake had been staring at Lorelai ever since he and his date arrived there for lunch, and frankly Luke was tired of it.
"You are very lucky to have a girlfriend who looks like that ten days after having your twins"
"Drop it"
"Does she have a sister?"
"No"
"Hot cousin or aunt? Oh man, is her Mom hot? How old is Rory?"
"Stop right there" Luke said with gritted teeth and Jake just smirked and took a swing from his beer.
ThE diNiNg RoOm
"Sorry, I had to change the twins' diapers" Lorelai said taking a seat across form Brittany, Jake's date.
"You have twins?" the girls seemed abnormally perky.
"No, only one is mine but we don't know which one yet because they're identical"
"Oh my God, and what are you going to do about that?" Brittany seemed really worried.
"We're gonna keep them both, for now" Lorelai teased is she for real? Lorelai thought.
"You are so generous" Brittany seemed touched.
"So… how long have you and Jake been dating?" Lorelai changed the subject.
"Today is our first date" the girl said happily while she popped her gum.
"What?"
"Yeah, we just met in a night club last night but it must be going very well if he's bringing me to meet his family"
"His family?"
"Well yeah, isn't Leo his brother?" Brittany asked pointing to the living room.
"You mean Luke? No, Luke is not Jake's brother, they're just friends"
"Oh, sorry, I must've misunderstood. You see, we were kind of busy when he told me our plans for tonight" she admitted.
"Busy? I thought you two just met last night"
"Well yeah, we've been together ever since. I was wearing this last night" Brittany said and then giggled.
"Umm, how old are you?"
"I'm twenty one… next week, but shh don't tell anyone"
"Does Jake know how old you are?"
"Of course he does, he's the one who said to keep it quiet"
"Aha" Lorelai nodded. "And how old is Jake?" Lorelai asked, she already knew, Jake was actually a year older than Luke.
"Oh! He's a little older" Brittany said. "But not that much, he's twenty five but looks wiser doesn't he?" Brittany kind of dozed off.
"Oh he looks way beyond his twenty five years" Lorelai said. "Could you excuse me a minute?"
"Are you gonna go see if you can tell the difference between the twins?"
"Umm… yeah, that's what I'm gonna go do" Lorelai said and left the dinning room walking over to the living room. "Luke?"
"Hello there beautiful" Jake winked at her.
"Yeah whatever…" Lorelai waved him off. "Hey, Luke, can I talk to you for a sec?"
"Sure" Luke frowned a little and got up.
"Dairy Queen's got nothing on your shake!" Jake called after Lorelai, he was a little tipsy and Luke was really starting to convince himself that tipsy or not Jake was gonna get his ass kicked today.
"You're pushing it" Luke glared at Jake who just snorted then smirked. Lorelai dragged Luke up to their room so nobody could hear them, downstairs Jake went to the kitchen to grab another beer and do a little kissin' with Brittany.
UpStAiRs
"Do you know how old Jake said he was?" Lorelai asked once their door closed.
"No" Luke sighed; Jake was getting on his nerves that's why I hate dealing with a drunk Jake Luke thought, but they had no other option he had popped up in their door a little short of an hour ago.
"Twenty five, he told that girl that he was twenty five!"
"So?"
"She's twenty! She' younger than Rory and stupider than Davie!"
"That's a little harsh" Luke focused on the Davie part and tried to ignore the Rory part since Jake had asked Rory's age a little earlier.
"I told her we were keeping both twins because we didn't know which of the two were mine, and she bought it! They just met last night! And she's still wearing the same clothes, she told me!"
"Relax, that's how Jake gets when he's drunk… and horny" Luke added. "The older he gets, the younger his dates get"
"That's sick" Lorelai said. "Geez, this thing is killing me!" Lorelai said squirming, she'd been wearing a brace for a while now, it helped her so her stitches won't break while she carried both boys, plus it held back the jiggling tummy she still had and felt a little ashamed of.
"Take it off"
"No, I hate the way I look without it" Lorelai said quickly.
"What are you talking about?" Luke frowned.
"My stomach looks gross, my shirts look wrong on me and then I have this hideous scar. There is no way I'm taking this thing off even if it itches like crazy"
"Unbelievable" Luke said and walked closer to her leaving a few inches between them. "Your stomach is not gross, you look hot in whatever you wear and that scar is there because of our son, there is nothing hotter than thinking of that" Luke whispered and he slowly undid her brace.
"You have to say that" Lorelai pouted.
"No I don't" Luke said and threw the brace on the bed; he slowly ran his hand over her stomach.
"Don't" Lorelai pulled back a little.
"Did I hurt you? I don't think I touched your cut but if I did I'm sorry" Luke said worriedly.
"You didn't hurt me…" Lorelai reassured. "I just don't want you to get grossed out or something" Luke shook his head.
"There is no way you could gross me out" he stated and again placed his hand softy on her belly avoiding the cut. "Don't feel ashamed or doubt yourself. You're still the same person you were before getting pregnant"
"I don't feel the same" Lorelai whispered.
"Ok then, you're not, you're even better now" Luke said and kissed her. "Now we have to go downstairs before they do something NC17 like" Lorelai made a face at that but they both went downstairs and found that Jake had laid Brittany across the top of the table and they were making out. "Could you not do that here!" Luke said angrily.
"Chill, man, relax" Jake said and sounded tipsier than before, he was nearing drunk now. "Have a beer…" he motioned with his bottle. "Oops I'm on empty, be a good brother and fill me up"
"See they are brothers" Brittany said.
"I think you've had more than enough beers" Luke said.
"Dude! Its New Years Eve, tomorrow we start over with a clean slate! That means that tonight we celebrate! Right babe?" Jake turned to Brittany.
"Clean slate" she nodded.
"See, now fill me up" Jake said; Luke turned to Lorelai and she shrugged and went to the kitchen to get something to drink for herself. "On second thought, I'll get it myself" Jake went over to the kitchen.
"Jake" Luke said warningly.
"You look different" Jake told Lorelai frowning and looking at her from head to toe.
"You're drunk" was all Lorelai said.
"Weren't you like 2 sizes smaller a minute ago?" Jake narrowed his eyes at her. Lorelai ignored him and reached up to the cup board to grab a glass. "Whoa! What the hell is that thing? You look like Frankenstein gone bad" Lorelai instantly pulled her arms back and crossed them over her stomach. "Too damn bad I didn't meet you before the twins happened; now I'll never know what you looked like in a bikini without that thing across your gut" Jake said with a disgusted look, at the moment Jake said gut Lorelai pictured an old man's beer gut and winced.
"Get out!" Luke said.
"Wha…?" Jake seemed confused.
"Get out of my house! You'll not come here and insult my fiancé and think you'll get away with it just because you're an asshole!" Luke took threatening steps towards Jake; Lorelai kept hugging herself and looking at the ground.
"Dude…"
"God help me Jake but if you don't leave you'll start of the New Year in the hospital" Luke said clenching his fists.
"Gee relax, I'm going. Brianna let's go" Jake said.
"Umm… my name is…"
"Now!" Jake said and stormed out of the house.
"Good luck figuring out which boy is yours and which isn't" Brittany said before closing the door behind her.
"Hey?" Luke asked and pulled Lorelai towards him, she took in a shaky breath. "Jake is an idiot" he whispered.
"He's right" Lorelai mumbled holding back tears.
"No he's not"
"I'm Frankenstein gone bad" Lorelai was full on crying now.
"No you're not"
"Who are you kidding?" Lorelai snapped. "I'm fat and deformed and gross and you should go looking for a Brittany of your own!"
"You're stupid, you know that?" Luke said smirking and Lorelai pulled back appalled.
"You better explain yourself"
"How many times am I gonna have to tell you how beautiful you are?"
"Tsk" Lorelai snorted.
"Do you have any idea how sexy it is knowing how you got that scar? Its there because of my son, a son you carried for months, who you loved and cared for. And it wasn't only him, there were two! You gave me two beautiful healthy boys"
"And it only cost us my body"
"Baby, you're still unbelievably gorgeous and it's only been ten days"
"You called me baby" Lorelai said with a smile.
"Yes I did" Luke smirked.
"Are you still gonna feel the same way about the scar in a few days… weeks… months… years?" Lorelai asked a little afraid of the answer.
"Always" Luke whispered and kissed her.
"Geez! I thought we agreed on no PDA's in the common rooms" Jess' voice suddenly said.
"Sorry" Lorelai said pulling back and whipping her tears away, Jess saw that and frowned. "I'll go check on the twins" Lorelai left the kitchen quickly and Luke smiled.
"What happened?" Jess asked.
"Umm, nothing, never mind. You're home early"
"Yeah, everything's closed today" Jess shrugged it off and left Luke alone.
A LiTtLe LaTeR
Rory, Jess and Sam were home and getting ready for dinner. Lorelai had placed the brace back on and got dressed herself before going over to the twins. Luke was downstairs getting everything ready before Maisy and Buddy got there.
"Rory…?" Lorelai called from the nursery.
"Yeah?" Rory's head popped from the doorway.
"When Buddy and Maisy get here could you please…''
"Not tell them about the engagement? I won't, I already told you" Rory reassured her, Lorelai had bugged everybody not to tell Buddy and Maisy about it because she wanted to show them the Christmas video and have them see Luke propose before they knew anything about it.
"Promise?"
"Yes, can I go now?"
"Yeah, yeah… oh! Can you send Sam in here please?" Lorelai asked and Rory nodded.
"You wanted to see me?" Samantha asked a little later walking into the nursery.
"Yes. When Buddy and Maisy…" Lorelai started.
"We won't say anything" Sam cut her off.
"I already bugged you before, huh?"
"Yes, several times"
"Sorry" Lorelai winced. "Could you remind Jess?" Lorelai asked and Sam giggled.
"I'll tell him" she nodded. "Do you need help here?" Sam pointed at the twins.
"No thanks, I got it covered. You can go, and tell Jess…"
"Not to mention the engagement, I will" Sam said before leaving.
"What about you…?" Lorelai asked the boys, Sean lazily opened his eyes. "… you won't say anything right?" Sean closed his eyes. "I'll hold you to that mister" Lorelai threatened, picked up both boys and walked downstairs.
DoWnStAiRs
"Stop annoying them" Luke said from the kitchen when he heard Lorelai mumbled things to the boys as she took them to the living room.
"I don't annoy the twins. Talking to them helps develop their brains" Lorelai pointed back. Luke walked over to the living room.
"I meant the other three kids" Luke smirked.
"I'm not annoying them…" Lorelai scoffed. "I just want to surprise Buddy and Maisy" she pouted.
"I know you do, and they will be, just stop annoying them" Luke said sternly.
"Fine" Lorelai sighed, Luke gave her a peck before the door bell rang and Lorelai shrieked while jumping a little. "Not a word" Lorelai warned him before she went over to open the door.
"Lorelai, it's nice…" Buddy started but was interrupted.
"We're engaged! Luke proposed on Christmas!" Lorelai said very fast and jumping up and down. Luke smiled and shook his head over at where he was, in the living room keeping an eye on the boys.
"Oh my…" Maisy was speechless and reached over to look at Lorelai's ring. "Look Buddy, our boy finally did it"
"Never thought the day would come" Buddy said.
"I heard that" Luke said from the living room.
"Are you hiding, Lucas?" Maisy asked still with a big smiled.
"No, I'm kinda busy with the twins" Luke said.
"The boys!" Maisy dropped Lorelai's hand and went over to the living room.
"And there goes the engagement celebration" Lorelai said with a smirk.
"She's flaky" Buddy waved it off. "Congratulations" he said sincerely.
"Thanks…" Lorelai said and smiled. "Go see them already" Lorelai said with a giggle, she knew Buddy was dieing to see the twins again. He and Maisy only saw them for a few minutes right after they were born before they left on their trip.
"Really? You don't want to celebrate the engagement"
"Go" Lorelai pointed at the living room and that's all it took for Buddy to disappear from the foyer. She followed him into the living room and saw that they both now cuddling a boy each.
"You told" Luke teased her.
"They grilled it out of me" Lorelai said innocently.
"Right"
AfTeR DiNnEr
Lorelai was upstairs with the twins. In the living room Rory, Jess, Buddy, and Samantha were watching a movie while Luke and Maisy were cleaning up in the kitchen.
"What's wrong?" Maisy suddenly asked.
"What?" Luke frowned at her.
"There's something wrong isn't there?" Luke sighed.
"Do you remember Jake?"
"Your friend?" Luke nodded. "Of course I remember him. You once asked your Mom if you could trade Liz for him, she didn't take it too well"
"I don't remember that" Luke said with a smirk.
"You got grounded and weren't allowed to play with Jake for a week that was when you ran away from home and got grounded more for that" Maisy said laughing a little.
"Oh yeah" Luke said in a remembering tone.
"How is Jake doing?" Maisy returned to the main topic. She saw how Luke's mood instantly changed.
"He's an ass" Luke said without thinking. "Sorry"
"Wow, that's a big change of opinion from when you were little, what happened?"
"He hits on Lorelai, and on Rory, he insulted Lorelai, and he's dating these girls… they're younger than Rory! He changed… wait, scratch that, he didn't change he acts like he's still a teenager" Luke ranted.
"Wow, well, you changed also"
"I grew up"
"You changed; your priorities are different now"
"I'm a father…" Luke said with a hint of awe in his voice. "…my priorities had to change, besides, I never acted like that"
"Like how? Drunk"
"No. I meant… he came here drunk and with a girl he had just met, then he goes off hitting on Lorelai and asking for Rory's age, and then he insults Lorelai and makes her cry" he was getting angry again. Maisy didn't know what to say. "I don't think I've ever wanted to punch somebody so much before in my life"
"You punched him?"
"No I didn't punch him, I wanted to, but instead I just yelled at him and kicked him out. Think I should have punched him?"
"No, I think you handled it well"
"You don't even know the real story" Luke pointed out.
"No, but I know he insulted Lorelai enough to make her cry, you were right to kick him out"
"I guess" Luke shrugged. "It's still bothering me though"
"Don't let it; odds are he doesn't even remember what happened"
"I don't see how that's better"
"Me neither, but I though it could help" Maisy said and Luke smirked.
ArOuNd MiDnIgHt
They were all in the living room watching that Dick Clarks Rocking Eve thing and they were about to go live to the ball drop.
On the couch were Buddy and Maisy with Rory next to them, she was watching the boys who were chilling in their vibrating seats in front of her. Luke was on one of the lazy boys, Lorelai had been sitting on his lap a little earlier but now she was slightly jumping up and down in tone with the count down. Samantha was sitting on the other lazy boy and Jess had gone to get her something to drink.
"…5…4…3…2…1…Happy New Year!" Lorelai said excitedly and Luke chuckle, Lorelai smacked him before leaning down to kiss him, Jess handed Sam her drink before kissing her, Buddy pecked Maisy, and since Julian was not there Rory had kissed both boys on the forehead.
"Not even two weeks old and you've already had two major holidays" Rory told the twins.
"That's because they're so cool" Lorelai told Rory before hugging her briefly, and then she placed a kiss on the twins.
HaLf An HoUr LaTeR
Right after Buddy and Maisy had stopped saying their goodbyes they noticed how much snow had actually fallen during the time they were there.
"You're snowed in" Lorelai said.
"It's not that bad" Buddy said.
"You're not driving in that, the roads are icy and dangerous" Luke said.
"Luke…" Buddy started but Lorelai interrupted him.
"Why don't you stay in the guest room, you can be our first guests!" Lorelai got excited.
"We couldn't" Maisy said.
"You're not driving home in that" Luke said sternly. "The guest room is new but it's livable, although the boys might wake you up a couple times at night if you're a light sleeper"
"We don't want to put you out, especially with the boys and everything" Maisy said.
"You're not. Now come on, I'll show you the room" Lorelai said happily. Buddy and Maisy looked at each other and shrugged, then followed Lorelai upstairs.
ArOuNd ThReE Am
Luke was walking in circles around the living room with Ricky; Luke didn't want to wake anybody else up.
"Having problems?" a voice asked and startled Luke.
"Did we wake you up?" Luke asked wincing.
"Nah…" Maisy waved it off. "I came down here for a glass of water…" Luke nodded. "He has some lungs"
"Yeah, that's Lorelai's fault"
"I wouldn't say that. I remember a boy who used to cry day in and day out" she smirked.
"What?"
"You drove your parents crazy the first couple of months. They looked horrible, you wouldn't let them sleep, you just cried and cried and cried"
"No I didn't" Luke scoffed.
"Of course you did, you won't remember, but you did" Maisy took Ricky from Luke.
"Really? So this is pay back?"
"Most likely. I bet your parents would've mock you mercilessly for this"
"Good to know" Luke smirked.
"But they'd be proud" Maisy said.
"Thanks. I'll take him upstairs…" Luke took Ricky back. "…last time he calmed down when he fell asleep with us"
Please review! And send me some ideas cause I'm starting to drive on empty here.
If you like NC17 stuff go to my LJ I have a new story there. L&L of course.
If you like Crazy stuff go to mine and Kylie's LJ Crazy N' Special (you can find the link on mine or Kylie's LJ)
And once again, say what you thought!