Chapter eighteen

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"Okay, as maid of honour, I declare the bachelorette party begun!" Rory cried, as she, Lane, Miss Patty, Babette, Sookie and Lorelai stepped out of a cab, "Here's the plan, we lovely bachelorettes are going to three different bars, in between which we shall be going to three different movies in three different movie theatres. Now, ladies, our aim is to get kicked out of each one of these, so, Miss Patty, you need to go overboard with harassment of staff."

"Please, honey, that's a given." Miss Patty chimed in.

"Good, Babette, you need to keep talking, loud as possible, especially during movies."

"Sure thing, sugar!"

"Good. Lane and Sookie…just follow mom's example."

"Thanks for that, kid."

"Okay, ladies, let's go." Rory said, as everyone else followed her into the bar.

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All of the girls were slouched on big red, for their third movie of the night, they were all fairly drunk, Babette was yacking away, Patty was murmuring something seductive to Kirk, Lorelai was looking pretty worn out from her two alternative dances to 'Material Girl' earlier on in the evening and Lane and Sookie were passed out.

Lorelai nudged Rory and pointed at the screen, "Don't those guys look like Luke?"

Rory squinted at the screen and tilted her head, "I think they're a woman."

"Oh yeah. Don't those spinning women look like Luke?"

"No, they're all Billie Piper."

"Fine. Doesn't Billie Piper look like Luke?"

"No."

Kirk let out a squeak as Miss Patty pinched his butt, "That's it, you girls, out!"

"Yes!" Rory squealed, "Ladies, you've been great, now you can all go home and think about the headache to come, tomorrow!"

"Lorelai, the girl didn't drink enough." Miss Patty said.

"Never mind." Lorelai slurred, shaking Sookie and Lane awake, "Come on ladies, home, because I'm getting married tomorrow!"

"Come on mom, let's go get some coffee at Luke's." Rory said, dragging her mom away.

"But Luke's is closed."

"You're his fiancé, you should be able to wake him up at two in the morning."

"Oh yeah!" she said, picking up a few rocks and throwing them up at the window.

Eventually, Luke stuck his head out and yelled, "What are you doing?"

"We want coffee! What are you doing?"

"I was trying to sleep off the eight glasses of beer that TJ forced down my throat."

"You're pathetic!"

"And you're drunk!"

"Exactly, so I need coffee!"

"Give it to her Luke, she'll never shut up, otherwise!" Rory yelled up.

"Fine, Jess, get up, open the door."

Rory shrank back as she heard the familiar grumbling of Jess, once woken up. Even when drunk, Lorelai sensed Rory's discomfort, "Come on, we need coffee, forget about him." Were her words of wisdom, as she dragged Rory to the now open door.

"We want coffee." Rory said, in a small voice.

"We need coffee!" Lorelai corrected.

"Bachelorette party?" Jess asked.

"Yep." Rory replied, dragging Lorelai to a seat.

"Rory was stupid, she only had two drinks."

"I'm the co-ordinator and designated driver, I needed to stay reasonably sober."

"Stupid."

"Keep saying that tomorrow morning when I tell Luke that you compared him to Billie Piper."

"Fine. Jess, how come you're sober?"

"Designated driver."

"You're both stupid, that's probably why you still love each other." She paused, "Oh God!" she cried, running to the bathroom, her hand over her mouth leaving Rory and Jess in awkward silence.

Jess opened his mouth to say something, but Rory got there first, "I better go see how she is." She blurted out, before darting away.

Jess rolled his eyes and pulled out a book.

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"Hi." Rory said, in the morning, coming out of her room.

"Ow." Lorelai replied, drained of emotion.

"What's wrong with 'hi'?"

"It wasn't the word you said, it was the way you said it, all high pitched and annoying like."

"Sorry, hi." She said, in the deepest voice she could muster, "Better?"

"Monumentally."

"Good."

"So, what d'you want to do?"

"Go to Luke's."

"You can't."

"Why?"

"'Cos he's probably getting ready, 'cos he didn't drink twenty vodka shots."

"Oh."

"Do you want to go over to the inn and start decorating?"

"I want more aspirin."

"Well, that can be arranged." Rory said, getting up to get some.

"Rory?"

"Yeah?"

"Did I do anything extremely embarrassing yesterday?"

"You sung material girl."

"Oh."

"Twice."

"Double oh."

"And you said that me and Jess were in love with each other."

"Sorry about that."

"Don't be, you were drunk." She said, firmly, setting down an aspirin and some water in front of her.

"Okay."

"Mom?"

"Yeah, kid?"

"You're getting married."

Lorelai smiled, "I'm getting married."