No, it's not a mirage, I updated. And yes, that's a pig flying out your window. And yes, that chill you feel is because hell froze over.
Hi Kylie, what can I say? Wanna donut? No, why? Yes? Well me too, so suck it up.
.o0 Saturday April 20th, Lorelai's bedroom 0o.
Luke had taken the day off when Lorelai bugged him; reinforcing the fact that it was the boy's fourth month anniversary. Luke was in the nursery getting their diaper bag organized, Lorelai was getting ready in the bathroom, and the boys were lying on their backs on Luke and Lorelai's bed. Lorelai had music playing softly in the background.
Luke frowned when he heard one of the boys laughing, something they had learn to do a few weeks back. In the bathroom, Lorelai also thought it was odd.
On the bed Ricky had rolled from his back to his stomach towards Sean and only stopped once he bumped against his brother making Sean laugh. When Sean's laughter stopped Ricky tried lifting himself by doing a mini pushup, that didn't work so well and he fell on his tummy again making Sean laugh more. They repeated that a few times until both Luke and Lorelai walked into the room to see what was so funny.
"Hey baby, are you entertaining your brother?" Lorelai asked Ricky while she flipped him over so he was lying on his back again. "Or are you just mocking him?" she turned to ask Sean who brought his hands together twice like if he had clapped. "Well aren't you just adorable?" Lorelai cooed, Luke chuckled shaking his head before heading back into the nursery to finish packing the diaper bag.
"Go finish getting ready or I'm going back to the Diner" Luke said from the nursery.
"Spoil sport!" Lorelai yelled and got up from the bed leaving both laughing boys behind so she could get ready
"Damn it, Jess! I said: Don't touch that!" Sam's voice was heard all the way from the attic; she was now a little over seven months pregnant and was already tired of it, and her mood swings were in full throttle 24/7.
"Are you crazy? It's freezing!" Jess' voice was heard. Bad choice of words there, buddy Lorelai thought, both she and Luke were looking up at their ceiling as if they could actually see Jess and Sam fight.
"Well I'm hot! So deal with it!" Sam sounded angrier.
"How can you be hot?" oh boy, why doesn't he just suck it up and shut up? Luke wondered.
"Because I'm pregnant... with your kid!"
"So what? It' not like it's a pot roast!"
"Gah!" Sam shrieked, normally that meant Jess had over stepped some boundary. After that they didn't hear a sound coming from the attic.
"I never bugged you about temperature, right?" Luke asked, his eyes still focused on the ceiling.
"Not that I can remember"
"Good" Luke nodded. "Ready to go?"
"Huh? Oh! Yeah... umm... one more thing" Lorelai said and Luke knew she'd take at least ten more minutes.
.o0 The Attic 0o.
After Sam's 'Gah!' Jess had retrieved to the bathroom and Sam had plopped down on the couch with her arms crossed and pouting, after a couple minutes though she uncrossed her arms and extended them as much as she could so she wouldn't get any hotter.
"Sam?" Jess asked tentatively a few minutes later.
"What?" she snapped.
"I filled the tub for you, the water was a little warm but it should be on the cool side now" Jess said sheepishly.
"Jess..." Sam started but suddenly stopped, Jess waited patiently for the continuation hoping that he hadn't made her angrier. "...I can't... I..." and she started crying. Are those happy tears? God, I hope they're happy tears Jess thought. Sam suddenly sprung up, as best as she could, and went towards Jess and hugged him tightly around the waist, again as best as she could. "You are so sweet" she said still crying.
"Does that mean you're not mad?" Jess asked tentatively.
"I won't be once you make me a caramel sundae"
"You go take a bath and I'll go make it"
"Thank you" Sam told him with a big smile through teary eyes, she gave him a salty kiss before going to the bathroom.
"Two more months, just two more months" Jess mumbled before going to make the sundae.
.o0 Downstairs, Main Door 0o.
They were finally ready to leave but when Luke opened the door he found their porch filled with wrapped presents.
"This town is crazy" he mumbled taking all the gifts inside while Lorelai hovered around him very happily.
"They care" Lorelai corrected.
"A little too much" Luke added when he saw the ballon that had 'years' scratched off and had 'months' written in sharpie under the big 4.
"Hey that's cute" Lorelai argued taking the ballon from Luke before he popped it. "The handwriting is a little sloppy but... it's still cute"
"That's Kirk's handwriting" Luke said absentmindedly.
"Oh my God, you know what his handwriting looks like?" Lorelai asked giggling.
"Aw geez" Luke grumbled realizing what he just said.
.o0 Minutes Later, The Car 0o.
"Are you ok?" Luke asked side glancing at Lorelai. She was resting her head back and had her eyes closed.
"What? Oh, yeah…" she nodded a little. "I just have a mild headache that's all" Lorelai waved it off.
"Do you want to go back to the house?"
"No, no, I'm ok really, we need to celebrate this" Lorelai perked up a little trying to push the headache out of her mind.
"Are you sure?"
"Positive, right boys?" Lorelai asked and turned to look to the back seat, both boys were snoozing peacefully.
"Oh yeah, those party animals are ready" Luke mocked.
"Dork" Lorelai tried not to but she couldn't stop the giggles.
Luke was driving them to a beautiful park over at Hartford so they could have a picnic and enjoy the day; Richard had told them he'd would stop by during the course of their stay at the park since he had a meeting with a new business partner near said park and wanted to give the boys a present for their new milestone.
.o0 Yale, Rory's Dorm 0o.
Lane and the rest of 'Hep Alien' had a weekend gig near New Haven so Lane was crashing in Rory's dorm instead of paying for a hotel room. Paris had been completely against having the rest of the band there so they were going to be at a motel.
"I was so hyped!" Lane shrieked both girls were lying on the bed, they had just woken up. The night before had been the bands first night of their weekend gig and now Lane was basking on the afterglow of it all. "I swear I couldn't feel my hands for the first half of the night!"
"That's… well, that's hyped all right" Rory said giggling at Lane's giddiness.
"And for the second half, once I felt my hands again, my face went numb! It's the best feeling ever!" Rory just laughed.
"Think tonight you'll be able to feel all your extremities?"
"I hope not!"
.o0 The Car, Hartford Parking lot 0o.
By the time they got to the park, and Luke found a decent place to park, Lorelai was asleep just like the twins. It wasn't entirely odd, ever since the birth Lorelai was always tired and that was understandable. Especially after Valentine's Day, when they were somewhat back to their regular bedroom activities; now more so since Lorelai had gotten her pill prescription a little over a month ago. Luke had to smirk at the memory:
"Luke! Guess what! Guess what! Guess what!" Lorelai was hyper that night when he walked into the room after a long day at the Diner. And before Luke could answer Lorelai beat him to it. "Today I took my first pill, I am officially back on them!" she shrieked quietly as to not wake the twins and jumped on Luke wrapping her arms around his neck, and her legs around his waist making him stumble a little. "I took the first one this morning, want to test them out?" and she didn't wait for his response before she started kissing him.
"Lorelai…?" Luke whispered placing a hand on her thigh. "Lorelai, come on, get up" he spoke in a normal voice and rubbed her thigh. "Lorelai…" he sing-sang, Lorelai stirred but refused to wake up. "Open your eyes or I'll drive back to Stars Hollow"
"Mmm, give me a minute" Lorelai mumbled. "Wake me when you find a parking spot"
"I already did" Lorelai groaned.
"I am so tired"
"Why?"
"I don't know, I wasn't this morning. Give me a minute and I'll be back to my perkiness" one of the boys started fussing in the back seat. "He's hungry"
"I know, I'll get their stuff from the back, you just sit there and bring back your perkiness" Luke teased before getting out of the car.
"Hi, baby, is your tummy grumbling?" Lorelai turned half her body so she could see the twins better. When Ricky heard her, he started crying full blast now. "No, no, no, relax honey, Daddy is getting the diaper bag" Ricky's cries woke up Sean, who also started crying.
"Geez, what did you do?" Luke frowned when he opened the back seat door closer to Ricky and heard the boys crying.
"Nothing, I just cooed" Lorelai lifted her hands in defense.
"Right…" Luke narrowed his eyes at her. "Come here buddy…" Luke picked up Ricky, cuddled him against his chest and closed the door. "I know, I know, Mommy was teasing you, don't worry I'll tease her the same way when she gets hungry" Luke opened Lorelai's door and handed him over, bottle included.
"Hey! I wasn't teasing" Lorelai said before Luke closed the door. "I wasn't baby." she told Ricky who was too busy with his bottle to pay any attention to her. "Is it good? I bet it is, Daddy's a good chef. All though, there's not much science to making a good bottle but he puts special cereals in it that makes it taste really good"
"Do you want me to make one for you?" Luke asked with a weird face from the back seat, he had opened the door on Sean's side to get him out and feed him.
"Not right now, but thanks for offering" Lorelai said with a cutesy smile, and Luke shook his head trying hard not to laugh, or even chuckle.
"Come on kid, let's feed you before people think this is some type of torture" Luke picked up a crying Sean, closed the door, and got into the drivers side. For the next minute or so all that could be heard was the fast sucking of the boys, the weird bubble-y sound air bubbles made going from the nipple of the bottle, trough the milk and to the end of the bottle, plus the occasional gulp of air each boy took before reattaching themselves to the bottle. Luke's thumb rubbed the side of Sean's little jean clad thigh while his other hand held the bottle steady; Lorelai used her pinky on the hand holding the bottle to caress Ricky's cheek/chin.
"It's empty" Lorelai told Ricky giggling when he kept on sucking and all that was left was little bubbles; she pulled out the bottle and took a moment to gently rubbed his tummy before moving him to her shoulder to burp. She had long since learn that if she decided to burp immediately after feeding then her shoulder will end with a big helping of spit-up-milk. Sean, being the slow eater that he was, still had a little over a quarter of bottle to go; he liked to take notice of his surroundings while he ate, making him take forever to finish but it also helped with preventing him from getting colic's unlike Ricky.
"That headache of yours, is it gone?" Luke suddenly asked.
"Umm, no, but since it got worse with the crying and now it's back to its original pain then it's safe to say that it's staring to leave the Lorelai building" she tried being her normal self but Luke glared at her. "I'm fine Luke, really. Let's just enjoy our day at the park… as soon as the boys are done" she added once she saw Sean's bottle.
"If it's not gone in half an hour we're going home so you can rest" Luke said sternly.
"You know, there are a lot of home remedies for headaches… pressure is not one of them" Lorelai told him a little annoyed. "I can deal with the headache. I can't, however, deal you with you being on my case all day long, so please back off"
"Fine, gee, kill a guy for caring" Luke mumble but Lorelai heard him and she sighed.
"Luke…"
"Its fine, I'll drop it… whatever"
"One hour, if it's still there… we'll go home" Lorelai compromised. "Deal?"
"One hour?" Luke narrowed his eyes.
"One hour without you annoying me about it and we go home"
"Deal" Luke smirked. "Shake?" Luke questioned seeing as how his hands were busy with feeding Sean.
"What do you say we shake the bed later tonight to seal the deal?" Lorelai offered playfully.
"That sounds… even better"
.o0 Half An Hour Later 0o.
Lorelai told Luke they should go to the swings before they got all their stuff out of the car. So now Lorelai was sitting on a swing gently moving with Ricky still in her arms, next to her sitting on another swing were Luke and Sean after much whining from Lorelai.
"When you guys grow more hair on those bald heads you'll know what a true swing experience is like"
"Leave them alone… they have more hair now" Luke added looking down at Sean's beanie.
"Ooh touchy subject" Lorelai noted teasingly.
"No, not touchy, I'm fine with my hair as it is" Luke scoffed; Lorelai knew Luke really didn't care but he was still a little self conscious about it.
"Yes you are, because you're a manly man and not a metro sexual"
"I'm not even gonna ask"
"All though, when you get all GQ-ed up you get pretty close to being one" Lorelai said making a thinking face.
"Then I'll never get all GQ-ed up ever again" Luke scoffed and Lorelai laughed, he always got all cranky at the mention of him and the word 'sexual' it didn't matter if it was a good thing. "Uh… I think we should go get the stuff now, he's getting that 'thinking' face" Luke said looking down at Sean.
"Ew gross" Lorelai fake shuddered. "Let's go then" she got up following Luke's lead.
She held both boys while Luke piled stuff on his hands and arms to save up trips to the car. He unceremoniously dumped everything he was carrying on the grass once Lorelai had found a patch a grass she declared 'worthy' enough for them to lie on.
After dropping the basket and diaper bag, Luke set the big fluffy quilt so Lorelai could sit while he went to get the twins' vibrating seat so they wouldn't have to carry them the entire time, and so the boys would have more fun than just sitting on the car seats all day.
"Come on guys, say 'hurry, Daddy!' I know you can, say it" Lorelai said bouncing them a little in her arms once Luke was close enough to hear.
"You do know that if they do that then they'll say 'Daddy' first and you'll own me 20 bucks, wait… 40 bucks, twenty each"
"Damn! I had forgotten about that. Mommy, Mommy, Mommy, Mommy…" Lorelai repeated over and over for a little while. "There, that should make up for the mention of a 'Daddy'" Lorelai said with a smirk.
"Nice" Luke said chuckling setting the vibrating seats down.
"You're just jealous because you didn't think of it first" Lorelai said passing Ricky to Luke and setting Sean on his little seat; Luke did the same with Ricky.
"You got me" Luke sarcastically.
"I knew it!" Lorelai declared proudly.
.o0 In The Mean Time, The Attic 0o.
"Sam, let's go, we're gonna be late!" Jess called in an annoyed tone, for the third time.
"Don't pressure me, Mariano!" Sam called from the bathroom. They were going to a doctor's appointment and Sam already had been locked in the bathroom for over half an hour 'primping' and Jess was tired of waiting, plus there was nothing good on TV.
"You're also a Mariano" Jess mumbled while he kept searching the channels.
"Hey, Jess?!" Sam suddenly called and startled Jess. "Could you make me a sandwich please? Don't worry I'll eat it in the car" she added knowing Jess would have a fit.
"Sure…" he turned the TV off and walked closer to the bathroom's door so he didn't have to yell too much. "What do you want?"
"Ham please" Jess waited a few seconds; usually she'd add something gross.
"And…?"
"And… bread" Sam deadpanned.
"That's it? Just ham?" Jess frowned.
"And bread"
"Well, yeah. But, you don't want anything else?"
"Nope, I'm feeling normal today" Jess could hear the smile in her voice, and he couldn't help but smirk. "Stop that, or I'll come out there and wipe that smirk off myself"
"How did you…? Never mind, one ham sandwich with bread coming up" and with that Jess walked away from the bathroom's door.
.o0 Yale 0o.
"So what time are you meeting Julian?" Lane asked before taking a sip of the coffee cup Rory had just handed her.
"I'm not" Rory said with a slight shrug.
"Why? Are you two in a fight or something?" Lane changed from chatty friend to a concerned one in 0.2 seconds.
"He thought you and I could use some girl time, his words not mine"
"He really said that?" Lane made a weird face and Rory nodded. "Well I guess its sweet depending on the angle"
"Well, yeah" Rory said unconvincingly.
"You already miss him" Lane noted. "You saw him last night at the club and you already miss him?" she asked incredulous.
"It's not that I already miss him, it's that the knowledge of him not showing up later tonight has me a little weirded out that's all"
"You have it bad" Lane teased.
"No I don't" Rory said sheepishly to the ground hiding her small smile.
"Did he tell you what he was doing today?"
"Besides not coming here? Yeah"
"Yep, he's got it bad also. So… what's he gonna do today? We can 'accidentally' bump into him and that way it won't be a total Julian-less day"
"You're just mocking, aren't you? I swear you and Jess are the same" Rory mumbled the last part but Lane still heard her.
"Hey! That was mean. And no, I'm not mocking you because, maybe, after you see him you'll stop thinking about it and focus on our 'girl time' or whatever he called it"
"Will you tease me about this for the rest of our lives?"
"Not the rest of them, maybe just a year or two"
"I'll think about it" Rory said with a serious face before smiling like a little girl.
.o0 The Park 0o.
Luke was lying on the quilt arms folded behind his head, lightly chuckling every now and then; Ricky had fallen asleep a little while ago, his seat resting right next to Luke's head, so Lorelai focused her attention on Sean. She took him out of his vibrating seat, holding him under his arms, and made him 'stand' on Luke's stomach; meaning she'd barely let his feet touch Luke's stomach, she lightly started bouncing him making Sean giggle and Luke chuckle.
"And… my arms are tired" Lorelai announced gently lying Sean down, face down, on Luke's stomach. She wiggled her arms at the side to get the blood pumping again before lifting Sean up again, only this time she held him like if he was superman, holding his chest and legs. "Play airplane with Daddy" she told Sean and made jet sounds while she made Sean 'fly' a couple inches over Luke's body. Sean couldn't stop laughing and when he was 'flying' over Luke's face a little bit of drool fell on Luke' cheek near his nose.
"I think your plane has a leak" Luke said chuckling making Sean laugh more; Lorelai left him lingering over Luke's face, making more baby drool ease its way down.
"Is the leak still there?" Lorelai tried to hold back her laughter.
"Umm…" Luke opened his eyes, brought his right thumb up to Sean's face, and wiped the drool away. "No, it seems to be gone… for now" Luke added when he saw another droplet forming. Lorelai laughed and brought Sean back down to Luke's chest.
"Damn, the little boogers are young, but they're still heavy" Lorelai said rubbing each arm with the opposite one. Luke chuckled but not because of Lorelai but because of Sean, he tried doing the little pushups that Ricky had tried earlier and just like Ricky his little arms had given out making him fall on top of Luke again.
"They're not heavy"
"Tsk, try saying that after having played airplane with Sean" Lorelai kept rubbing her arms.
"Later, we're busy right now" Luke mumbled, he had placed the hand that wiped Sean's drool on his diaper clad tushy so he wouldn't roll off of Luke but would still be able to do the mini pushups.
"Are you snoozing?" Lorelai asked quietly, the even rise and fall of Luke's chest was lulling Sean.
"Mmm no" Luke answered in his sleep filled voice, his thumb gently sliding over the hem of Sean's little jeans.
"Liar" Lorelai quietly giggled; she noticed Sean's battle to keep his eyes opened. "You guys are just too cute"
"MmmHmm"
"Wow, you really must be sleepy if you just agreed you two are cute"
"He's a baby, he has 8 more months of allowed manly cuteness; I, on the other hand, have resigned and am just gonna let you call me cute. It takes too long to convince you otherwise"
"Wow, Luke Danes resigning, never thought I'd see the day" Lorelai teased.
"Shut up" Luke said chuckling. "I just resigned for now, I'll argue about it later"
"Ah, the true Luke Danes is back"
"Why are you saying my last name?" Luke opened one eye to peek at her, she had the most loving look he had ever seen, and it was directed at him and that made him smile and return the look. He hadn't noticed when her hand had joined his rubbing Sean's back.
"I don't know, it seemed fun at the time. Luke is such a short name, it needed something more" she shrugged.
"Weirdo" Luke said with a smirk. "Do me a favor?" Luke suddenly asked.
"First you called me weirdo and now you want a favor?" Lorelai said it in a fake outraged voice.
"Umm… yes?" Luke tested the waters.
"Hmm… ok, what?"
"He's still drooling on me" Luke motioned with his head towards Sean.
"So?"
"Could you please move him over to his seat? Or place him on the quilt? Better yet, place him on the quilt and then I'll place Ricky there so they can sleep better"
"Well aren't you bossy today" Lorelai scoffed playfully but nonetheless she carefully picked up Sean and moved him over to the quilt. Luke ignored her and moved Ricky over next to Sean, Lorelai then unfolded their blanket and draped it over them.
.o0 Jess And Sam, The Doctor's Office 0o.
The visit was almost over when Sam suddenly blurted out that she wanted to know the sex of the baby, if for nothing just to know if Jess was right about it being a girl or not.
"We may not be able to see the sex this time, babies aren't very cooperate when it comes to this, they tend to hide" Dr. Matthews, Lorelai's old doctor, told them as she searched the screen. "And once we do, it won't be 100 percent accurate; the only way for it to be 100 percent accurate is if we do an amniocentesis"
"What's that?" Jess frowned.
"Well, we take a needle and pinch her stomach, we take some fluid and…"
"No" Jess said sternly.
"I assure you it's a safe procedure" the doctor said.
"I don't care how safe it is, we're not doing it" Jess set his foot down, over the last months he had become a lot more over protective of Sam and the baby.
"It's the only fool proof way of knowing…"
"No" Jess said again only this time rising his voice a bit. "There will be no needles poking anyone"
"Ok then…" the doctor dropped the subject. "Here we go…" she said as she found the baby's crotch area. "Well…" the doctor moved her head from side to side trying to get a better look. "Either that's a winky or a finger"
"How can you confuse them?" Jess frowned.
"See right there…" she pointed at the screen. "… that's the little arm…" she pointed and followed the little arm to where it disappeared behind other body parts. "… and that's a finger of said arm, or his winky" Sam giggled.
"Winky" Sam echoed still giggling. "And you said it was a girl" she poked Jess' chest with her finger.
"Hey, it might still be a girl" Jess defended taking her poking finger in his hand.
"A girl with a winky?" Sam gave Jess a weird look.
"It might be her finger remember"
"You want a girl?" the doctor asked Jess with a weird look; Jess only shrugged. "Most guys wish for sons"
"Jess is not like most guys, he's weird like that" Sam said and Jess rolled his eyes; the doctor pretended to cough her giggle away.
.o0 The Park 0o.
"I am not making out with you" Luke said sternly. They boys were still asleep; Luke and Lorelai had been just talking and looking at the people around them.
"Come on" she whined. "Everybody else is doing it" she tugged at his sleeve.
"No one is doing it…" he scoffed.
"So if they were you'd do it?" Lorelai asked excitedly.
"No, I'm not a follower" Luke said with a smirk.
"Then be a leader and start a new trend" Lorelai said and leaned closer to him.
"Nice try" Ricky whimpered in his sleep, his hand instantly flew to his mouth and he sucked on it; Luke groaned once he saw him.
"Luke, let them be. If they didn't do that then they'd be crying more often" Luke just rolled his eyes. Lorelai started looking all around her.
"Did you loose something?"
"Umm, no, do you think there's a bathroom here?"
"You really want to go to a public bathroom in a park?" Luke asked with a grossed out expression.
"Well, unlike you, I can't just pee anywhere" Lorelai snapped.
"Gee, short fuse today?" Luke noted. "I don't see any bathrooms near here but there's a Jack in the Box right over there" he pointed across the street.
"Good, I'll be right back" Lorelai shot up and sprinted towards the Jack. Luke frowned as he watched her go.
.o0 Jess and Sam, The Car 0o.
"So… it looks like we're back to square one" Jess said breaking the silence that had fallen between them since a couple of minute back.
"What do you mean?"
"You still think it's a boy"
"So? You still think it's a girl" Sam shot back.
"So nothing, I was just making conversation… and pointing out that I'm still right"
"Oh my God, the ego you have" Sam said laughing a little.
"Yes, it is quite impressive" Jess said modestly with a smirk, Sam laughed.
"Hey, can we start buying neutral colored clothes?"
"Why?"
"Because all we have is pink and if it does turn out to be a boy, it don't want him wearing pink"
"If it's a boy then we can borrow some baby clothes from the twins while we buy him stuff"
"Oh no, no, no, our baby's first clothes won't be hand-me-downs" Sam stated firmly.
"They won't. Do you really think I don't know about you and Lorelai's shopping spree?"
"You know about that?" Sam felt trapped.
"Of course I do, and I'm ok with it. It'll feel way better knowing you spent that money on blue stuff the baby won't wear"
"Geez! You are so sure it's a girl?" Jess nodded. "Ok then, if it's a boy I'll name him, and you have no veto power"
"What?"
"Afraid?" she asked with a smirk.
"Um… uh… no" Jess stuttered a little.
"Ok good. If it's a boy I get to name him" Sam stated proudly. "Take that Mr. cocky" she stuck her tongue out before laughing.
"Um… you don't know something I don't, do you" Jess asked a little nervous.
"What ever do you mean, darling?" Sam asked innocently. Oh yeah, she'd be having fun with torturing him with this.
.o0 Luke and Lorelai, The Park 0o.
"Ok, I'm back. Missed me?" Lorelai announced while skipping over to quilt where Luke still lay next to the sleeping twins.
"What was that all about?"
"Had to pee" Lorelai shrugged it off and took a seat on the other side of the sleeping boys; she turned to look at them and saw that Ricky had his eyes opened and was just looking around. "Hi, honey, did you sleep well?" Ricky started wiggling around once he heard his mother's voice talking to him. Luke had a foolish smile while looking down at his son.
"Pick him up before he gets an anxiety attack" Luke chuckled.
"Come here, baby" Lorelai picked him up and cuddled him tightly against her for a few seconds before holding him loosely again. Luke smiled, he reached his hand down to rub Sean's tummy while he slept. "Do you like the park? It's pretty huh?"
"You do know he can't answer you, right?" Luke teased. At first he wasn't too found of the idea but now, being there, he couldn't ask for anything better to celebrate the twins' 4 months than spending a family day at the park.
"That's what you think, my friend but we have this telepathic thing going on. It develops after spending nearly nine months inside me…"
"Gross" Luke piped in.
"But then it goes away once they start talking, it's a shame really" Lorelai faked sadness.
"You're crazy, you know that?" Luke tried saying it seriously but his chuckle gave him away.
"Honey, I'm not crazy, I'm special" Lorelai said, her eyes focused on Ricky though. Luke just started laughing, he couldn't help it.
"My, my, it's like looking into a picture of a perfect picnic" Richards' voice was heard. Luke had been laughing while rubbing Sean's tummy, Lorelai had started laughing also but her attention was with Ricky.
"Hi Dad" Lorelai gave him a quick side glance. "Take a seat" she padded a corner of the quilt for Richard to sit. Richard stool there eyeing the patch of quilt Lorelai had patted.
"Come on, Dad, it's a picnic"
"Alright but don't tell your mother"
"Atta boy. Here ya go" she passed Ricky over.
"Hello there, son. Are you enjoying yourself today?" Richard asked with a business voice and a serious expression; Lorelai and Luke tried very hard to suppress their laughter. Ricky stared at Richard's face.
.o0 Yale 0o.
"Where are we going?" Lane asked frowning, she didn't recognize where they were.
"I thought we were going to 'accidentally' bump into Julian"
"We are, it's just that I don't see anyone else here and I really don't feel like getting kidnapped today"
"Gee, Ms. Kim, we wont get kidnapped" Rory said with an eye roll.
"Hey! I resent that!"
"Julian likes coming here to study because it quiet" they had long ago past the library and were now walking behind the building.
"But if it's this isolated then how can we 'accidentally' bump into him?"
"Umm…" Rory thought about it, Lane did have a point. "…He would've never fallen for that" Rory resolved and they continued walking.
.o0 Later, The Park 0o.
"Lorelai, his nose is starting to get cold" Richard said. "I think it's getting too airy for them to be out in the park" he was never any good at buying things, especially for babies, so he just gave Lorelai two gift cards with one hundred dollars each for the baby gap.
"You said airy" Lorelai giggled, Luke rolled his eyes while Richard had no idea what had amused Lorelai.
"I think he's right Lorelai, we should start packing up"
"Aww"
"Besides, we need to get going anyway unless you are planning on skipping a meal"
"Tsk, let's start packing up then" Lorelai's pout left and she started folding and putting away everything that went inside the baby bag.
"I should get going also" Richard said. "I was here longer than I had planned"
"We're glad you came Dad"
"It was my pleasure, Lorelai" Richard was folding a tiny little baby blanket.
"You really don't need to do that, Richard" Luke was also picking up.
"It's not a problem" Richard said and kept helping them, Luke and Lorelai shared a look but continued what they were doing.
.o0 Yale 0o.
"Rory, is that Julian?" Lane asked in a loud fake voice making sure Julian had heard her.
"Well I'll be damned, he is Julian" Rory also said in a loud fake voice.
"Rory?" Julian frowned and stood up; he had been studying until he heard the commotion the girls had made. "What are you doing here?"
"We were just walking around" Lane quickly said.
"Yes, and then Lane asked if it was you sitting there, and it was" Rory had exaggerated nods.
"Right" Julian narrowed his eyes at them. "Hey, Lane, having fun?"
"Loads"
"So what are you two doing after you're done 'bumping' into me?"
"I don't know what you're talking about" Rory smirked and Julian swung his arm over her shoulders.
"Aha…" he narrowed his eyes. "Lane, any plans?"
"Nope, we just planned on bumping into you and then we'd decide what to do next after that"
"Traitor" Rory mumbled.
"I'll take you guys to lunch" he resolved and removed his arm from Rory's shoulder so he could pack up his stuff.
"Thanks. That had a better result than expected" Rory told Lane who only nodded.
.o0 Around Seven or Eight, The House 0o.
"We come baring food!" Lorelai announced as she walked into the house; Sean's car seat in one hand and a Chinese take out bag in the other.
"Food!" Sam's shriek was heard before she appeared from the living room and took the bag away from Lorelai. "Whatcha bring?"
"Chinese" Lorelai said making her way over to the living room to put down the car seat.
"Yum!" Sam dug into the bag. "I think you forgot one" she told Luke when he walked into the house with Ricky's car seat and the diaper bag.
"Lorelai brought him in, he was in the other hand; you know, the one that didn't have any food in it" Luke told her as he was making his way towards the living room to join them.
"She did?" Sam followed Luke. "Huh, she did. Hi guys" she greeted before taking a seat next to Jess on the couch and slapping his hand away when he tried to reach for the take out bag.
"How could you not see Sean?" Luke wondered while he took Ricky out if his car seat.
"She's pregnant and she smelt food" Lorelai reasoned.
"Guess what!" Sam said excitedly after taking a big bite out off an egg roll. "We had our check up today" she sing sang.
"Oh that's right!" Lorelai took Sean out of his car seat and she sat on one of the lazy boyz. "And…? What is it?" Sam just smiled and Jess shook his head slightly. "It's a boy, isn't it!"
"What?" Luke asked Jess.
"It's not a boy" Jess said.
"So it's a girl" Lorelai confirmed.
"It's not a girl" Sam said.
"It's hermaphrodite?" Lorelai wondered.
"Lorelai! Geez!" Luke said while making a face as he sat on the other lazy boy.
"What? When will I ever be able to use that joke again, huh?" Lorelai defended. "Plus, asking if it's gay is way over done" Luke just shook his head. "So, if it's not a boy and it's not a girl, then what is it?"
"It's a boy" Sam confirmed.
"No, its not"
"Jess…"
"What? The doctor said she wasn't sure" Jess defended himself.
"Ok then… it's a girl with a winky" Sam told Lorelai who giggled.
"It's not a winky, it's her finger" Jess said, his tone annoyed because Sam had been bugging him about their boy ever since the left the doctors' office.
"She offered to make sure and give us a fail proof answer" Sam sing sang.
"And I said we're not doing that"
"Doing what?" Lorelai asked.
"Lorelai… it's none of your business" Luke grumbled.
"She said that if we did an amniocentesis test then we'd know for sure" Sam told Lorelai.
"Oh…" was all Lorelai said. She had one when she was pregnant with the twins but only because they wanted to make sure everything was going how it should, due to her age.
"What's that?" Luke seemed confused; Lorelai never told him about her having that test done.
"Its this test where they stick a needle right through the belly and take out some fluid and examine it" Jess told him with very graphic hand gestures.
"Geez" Luke made a weird face. "Right through the stomach?" all three nodded. "Is that safe?"
"She said it's virtually risk free" Jess said with an eye roll.
"Man I'm glad you didn't need one" Luke told Lorelai and she winced a little.
"Actually…" she started. "Remember that doctors' appointment where I had Sookie drive me because you didn't know I had to go in and I only told you after the fact?"
"Yeah…"
"Do you really not see where I'm going with this?"
"You're kidding right?" Luke asked and Lorelai just held the same 'sorry' look; Sam and Jess slowly made their escape out of the room. "You're telling me you had a giant needle poke you're pregnant belly and take out fluid?"
"Luke…"
"Geez, Lorelai! Were you ever planning on telling me?"
"To be honest, no" how can he be mad? It happened a long time ago and everything went fine.
"What?"
"I didn't do it to know the sex of the twins, I had to do it because the doctor ordered it and I knew that if I told you you'd freak out"
"The doctor ordered a procedure while you were pregnant, a procedure that could've affected not only you but the twins also and you didn't even plan on telling me?"
"Yes because I knew how you'd react"
"Oh yeah, and how would've I have reacted?"
"Just like you are now"
"Tsk"
"Luke, they just wanted to make sure everything was going well because of my age and the fact that I was having twins. Everything went ok and I really didn't see a need to tell you" Lorelai explained and Luke remained quiet just looking down at Ricky in his arms. "I didn't want to worry you over nothing. I swear I would've of told you if they had found something"
"A needle?" Luke wondered and Lorelai nodded. "You hate needles"
"It was what was best for the boys good" was all Lorelai said and Luke turned to look at her.
"You still should've told me"
"You wouldn't have been able to handle seeing that"
"Yes I would have" Luke scoffed.
"Honey…" Lorelai said it in a 'be realistic' tone of voice.
"Ok, maybe I would've closed my eyes when they actually poked you but I still would've been there"
"I didn't think it was necessary to worry you over nothing" there was a little silence.
"You don't have to shield me"
"I don't, I just didn't want to stress you" Luke took a deep breath and looked around the living room.
"We scared Jess and Sam away" he noted.
"Yes, we have a tendency of doing that to people when we fight" Lorelai said, her smiled was back.
"Let's get them ready for bed" he stood up.
"Fight over?"
"It wasn't a fight, we were just clearing up some stuff" he assured her and helped her up.
"Aw" Lorelai seemed sad.
"What? You wanted it to be a fight?"
"If it had been a fight then we would've had great makeup sex"
"Right" they were walking up the stairs. "Though we still need to make up for that deal we had at the park remember?"
"Oh, how could I forget" Lorelai smiled seductively; at least she thought she did.
.o0 A Week Later, Saturday April 27th 0o.
Rory walked into the house, she was giddy but quickly noticed the silence that ruled throughout the house; she had learned the hard way that a silent house didn't mean she could yell for someone, it most likely meant the boys were napping. She dropped her bags by the front door and went upstairs to the nursery where she found the boys sleeping in their cribs. Not thinking they would leave the boys alone Rory went looking for a grown up, any grown up, to share the news with. Lorelai was also asleep, Rory was debating waking her to tell her the news or let her sleep a little more since she knew how tired Lorelai had been lately.
"Mom…" Rory's giddiness won and she decided to wake up Lorelai. "Mom?" Lorelai was dead to the world and the only thing that will wake her up is one of the boys crying; Luke had teased her about it and Rory never believed him but apparently it was true. Defeated but also thinking it was for the best that Lorelai slept a little longer, Rory went downstairs to retrieve her bags, got a post it out and placed it on Lorelai's forehead.
After dropping her bags in her room Rory was making her way downstairs when she heard whimpering coming from the nursery, still firm to her 'let mom sleep' resolve she went to go see who was up. "Hey buddy, what's wrong, Ricky?" she picked the fussing boy up and he stopped for a little bit while he watched her face. "We need to let Mommy sleep, she's mean when she's cranky" Rory bounced Ricky a little while walking out of the nursery and down to the living room for some bonding moments; those moments were fewer and far between now that she was in school.
.o0 Minutes Later 0o.
"One… Two… Three… Four… Five" Rory counted off Ricky's fingers on his left hand; she had sat him against the corner of the couch, where the back meats the arm rest and she was stretched on the couch belly down. "See five fingers on this hand; now let's count the ones on your other hand: one… two…" Ricky was squealing in delight. "Three… Four…" Rory heard rustling from the baby monitor she had taken from Lorelai's room. "I think your brother is up; let's go get him before he wakes up Mommy huh?" she pushed herself up and picked up Ricky and then the both of them went up to get Sean.
"Ok, you guys sit here while I go make your bottles" Rory told them while she placed them on their vibrating seats in the living room. "Any special requests?" she teased before leaving. "If you need me just cry or something, but do it quietly so you don't wake up Mom" Rory kept talking to them all the way from the kitchen.
"Who ordered the T-bone?" Rory said walking into the living room with both bottles giggling at her own joke. She pushed the center table a little to the side and sat on the floor with the boys vibrating seat's in front of her. "Now don't get picky with me, ok? Because Daddy didn't make these, I did and I'm not the best chef out there"
Ricky was like always and devoured the bottle quickly while Sean took his merry time watching Rory, to him this was a new experience.
"What are you looking at huh?" Rory said with a bright voice and Sean smiled making a little bit of milk dribble out of his mouth and down his chin but he didn't seem to mind. "Oh" she used her finger to whip the milk away which tickled Sean and he giggled a little making more milk dribble out.
.o0 Upstairs 0o.
Lorelai shifted a little in her sleep and began stretching out; her mind telling her there was a reason for her to get up but not telling her what the reason was. With closed eyes and a stretching body it finally clicked in Lorelai's head: it was too quiet. Once realizing it her eyes popped open and she saw nothing but yellow, the post it: Hi, Mom, come find me when you wake up. PS: it's me, Rory, not the twins. Lorelai giggled because of the joke that popped in her head as soon as she read 'hi mom'. Lorelai stretched a little more until she felt her back crack before getting up and going to the bathroom.
.o0 Downstairs 0o.
The living room scene had changed a little. Rory was still on the floor; her back against the couch, though now she had her right knee bent her foot firmly on the floor it was serving a purpose since she had picked up Ricky and placed him against her chest to burp him. Her left hand was still feeding Sean but he was taking his time because he was way too focused on the story Rory was telling. Her right hand padding Ricky's back continuously.
"And what did she tell him? Well… she just said 'you had me at hello' that's it, isn't that a little too easy?" she asked Sean and he smiled again. "Ow, ow, ow, not the hair" her head moved towards where Ricky was pulling. "Life lesson guys… that line never works" she said sternly Sean giggled a little at her voice and more milk came out; by now his shirt was very wet now, there was apparently more milk on his shirt than what he had drank.
"Hey kidnaper, what are you teaching my boys?" Lorelai wondered into the living room.
"Mom, you can take the post it off now" Rory giggled, Lorelai had taken it off and moved it a little higher on her forehead.
"Aw, but I feel like a good kindergartener" Lorelai pouted and took a seat on the couch.
"They don't put post its on kindergartener's foreheads; they put a little golden start"
"Eh, same difference" Lorelai shrugged. "Come here my boy" she reached down to get Ricky and burp him correctly. "Did your big sister feed you?"
"Yes she did" Rory said with a firm nod.
"Did you have fun with her? She's nice huh?" Lorelai was talking to Ricky but Sean kept smiling.
"Mom, stop that or he will never finish eating"
"Baby, tell Rory that milk goes in your mouth not your shirt"
"I'm trying but he wont stop smiling" Rory sounded defeated.
"Wanna trade?"
"Yes please" Rory said with a small voice.
"Hey, did I tell you Jess and Sam are having a girl with a winky?" Lorelai suddenly blurted.
"What?!" Rory couldn't help but laugh.
"Yep, the doctor said she might have seen a winky on their last sonogram but Jess still insists it's a girl so… as of last week they're having a girl with a winky" Lorelai finished with a serious face before they both ended up laughing.
"Gah!" a frustrated groan came from the door. "Stupid, stupid, stupid…" Sam repeated all the way up the stairs.
"Sam?" Lorelai called and there was no answer but the loud thud of a door slamming; the door leading to the attic. "Someone's hormonal" Lorelai mumbled.
"Tsk" Rory whispered but Lorelai heard her.
"Hey"
"What? You had twins, you were way worst"
"Yeah but… low blow" the door slammed again and they heard foot stumping on the stairs. "Sam?"
"Gah!" Sam jumped a little. "Don't scare people like that, especially pregnant people" she had her hand over her chest. "Rory! Hi! I didn't now you were here!" Sam hurried to where Rory was and leaned down to give her a hug.
"Spur of the moment trip" Rory said with a big smile returning the hug. "So… I heard you're having a girl with a winky" Lorelai laughed and Sam groaned while taking a seat on the couch.
"We actually have a bet going on" Sam told them. "if we actually have a boy then I get to name him and Jess cant object"
"And what if it's a girl?" Rory asked.
"Then I have to live with the fact the he was right and I was wrong for the better part of a year" Sam said rolling her eyes.
"Whoa, then you better hope it's a boy" Lorelai said.
"I'm not worried about that" Sam waved it off. "So Rory, you busy right now?"
"Are you planning on kidnapping my kid?"
"I was just wondering if she'd like to go shopping"
"I thought you already went?" Lorelai frowned; Sam had left a little before Lorelai had gotten the boys to sleep.
"Sort of, I got there, picked everything and then noticed I had forgotten my money so I had to leave everything and drive back to get it"
"Sorry, I'm waiting for Luke; I got a surprise for him" Rory said with a look that can only be described as 'I-know-something-you-don't-know' look.
"Ooh what is it?" Lorelai asked intrigued.
"I'm not telling anyone before I tell him"
"Mean"
"Well, as fun as this is, I have to drive all the way back and re-pick everything I already had" Sam said with a sigh getting up.
"Sorry honey" Lorelai said sympathetically, she remembered how tiring it is to do anything while in the last trimester, especially doing it twice. "Why don't you do it tomorrow?"
"Nah might as well get it over with now" and with that Sam left.
"Poor kid" Lorelai said.
.o0 Later That Afternoon 0o.
"Come on, tell me" Lorelai insisted.
"Mom, please stop" Rory said a little muffled, she had been reading in her room while Lorelai changed the boys but as soon as Lorelai bounced into Rory's room her pillow took residence on her face.
"It's your own fault I'm being annoyed, you shouldn't have told me you got him something"
"I'll never do that again, trust me"
"Hey did we know you were coming?" Luke's voice suddenly asked, they didn't hear him walk in.
"Dad!" Rory jumped off of the bed and bolted over towards Luke and hugged him tight.
"Whoa…" Luke was thrown off a little. "Lorelai, what did you do?"
"Nothing… ok maybe I bugged her a little" Lorelai indicated with her thumb and index. "But it was her own fault''
"Hey, not true"
"Ya-ha you said you got Luke something and I wanted to know what it was but you didn't want to tell me so that made my bug you until you did which you haven't so you can easily see how if you hadn't told me I wouldn't have bugged you so… your fault"
"You got me something?" Luke asked after Lorelai finished her rant.
"Mom…" Rory groaned.
"Sorry, oh! Is that why you didn't tell me what you got him? So I wouldn't give out the surprise?"
"Exactly" Rory went over to dig into her bag. "Here…" she handed and envelope to Luke. "… hope you like it" suddenly she was nervous.
"You bought this?" Luke seemed pleased but a little amazed at what Rory had got him.
"Yep, I heard Julian talking about it and I thought you'd like it. I also got him one, I hope you don't mind" Rory winced a little, she hadn't thought about how Luke would react to the Julian thing.
"That's fine by me" Luke had a smile on his face.
"Am I allowed to know what you got him yet?" Lorelai sounded annoyed but she was just faking it.
"A ticket" Luke said like if she was supposed to know what it was for.
"A ticket?" Lorelai frowned.
"It's for a game, a Yankees game" Rory elaborated.
"Ooh" Lorelai cooed knowing how big of a fan Luke was.
"Yankees vs. the Red Sox" Luke said, again, like if they should know what he was talking about.
"Hey, isn't Julian a Sox's fan?" Lorelai remembered that from the BBQ they had a while back.
"Yes he is, he's the one that told me about the game and I thought Luke might want to go"
"Thanks Rory" Luke said and the smile was still there.
"When's the game?"
"It's Saturday around noon-ish" Rory said, truth was she didn't remember. "I thought you guys could drive up there and then drive back; I'll be here helping out with the Diner or the twins, we have it all planed out Dad you just relax and enjoy the game"
"Seriously?" Luke asked, he hadn't been able to just enjoy time like that because there was always something in his mind, especially now with the twins. That day would be a necessary time off for him. Luke did a head movement and Rory went over to him, he hugged her tight. "Thanks a lot kid" he whispered near her ear, Lorelai didn't hear.
"Any time, Dad" Rory whispered back.
"Ok guy, seriously, you're gonna make me gag with the cuteness" Lorelai said while leaving the room.
"You're just jealous" Rory called back.
"Nah… I'm actually getting a little tired of him, hug all you want" Lorelai waved them off before disappearing downstairs.
"See, now that's true love" Rory mocked.
You've been LoVeLuKe-ized
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