AN: Thanks for the reviews! They make me happy. And sorry for not updating sooner, I didn´t have time. This chapter maybe will be a little boring but there will be some explanations and future chapters will be better. And now onto story.
DISLAIMER: I don´t own GG! Just a few characters from this story that I have made up!
3. Problems, anger and disappoinment
She woke up happy but she couldn´t remember what was a cause of that happines. She tried to turn and felt a hand around her waist. She realized that someone is sleeping beside her and the memories from night before came back. She lifted herself on her elbow so she could looked at him better. The sight made her smile. He looked like an angel but just few hours ago he wasn´t doing anything angelic. She looked for the clock and it read 3:15 a.m. She wanted to stay in his arms but she knew that for him it was just another night that he didn´t spent alone. Probably she was just one more girl he slept with. Just one of the many. And that worked perfectly for her. She was looking for one last nigth of fun before her life went to hell, and she got it. Slowly, ahe pulled out from his hug and out of bed. She got dressed, wrote him a note and left. In the note she thanked him for the great night and told him that she got very good proof of his skills.
She didn´t have courage to look at him one more time because she knew that if she did it she would go back to bed and would be just bad. Very, very bad. When she was out of room she laughed to herself and went to reception to call a cab. When she was seated she sighed ´cause all her problems were back on the surface again.
Flashback
She entered her grandparents house as she did every Sunday. She expected usual conversation about school and taking over family business but she got a surprise. When she arived her garndma was sitting in the living room. The strange part was that her grandfather was nowhere to be seen.
˝Good evening˝, she greeted her grandmother with a short kiss on the cheek.
She had a feeling that everything is somehow odd.
˝What happened?˝
˝Lorelai, your grandfather and me have to tell you something.˝
˝What is it? Where is he?˝
˝He is waiting for us in his study. But if you wish we can have dinner first.˝
˝Have dinner? We don´t ever have dinners together.˝
˝This may be the perfect day to start that tradition˝
˝You know that I have to go home for dinner. Let´s go talk to grandpa.˝
She stood up and started walking toward study, her grandma right behind her. She couldn´t even imagine what that was about. She entered and greeted her grandfather and thenshe sat and decided to wait for them to start talking. She couldn´t help the bad feeling she had all the time.
˝Lorelai, you know that we have always wished for to marry to a man who would be perfect for you and who would know how to take care for you and your money.˝
She started to think that it is gonna be one of those speeches that she was already used to hear. It is time to get married, to have kids and to give her family the heirs, bla, bla, bla... She hated that speech. She sighed and looked at her grandfather waiting for him to continue.
˝For years now we are trying to make you to do something about it but it is not happening. By choosing not to do anything you made us to do it for you.˝
She wanted to say something but he didn´t give her time for that.
˝So we did just that. You will marry the son of one of our good friends. He is heir just like you are and we believe that you will get along just fine.˝
˝Wait a second! You aranged my marriage! Who said I will agree with marring the guy I don´t even know?˝
˝You have a choice. You can marry him or you will lose your inheritance. And that would mean that those brats will have nothing.˝
˝They are children of your son! When will you start behaving like they are your granchildren? How can you blackmail me?˝
˝We had to do something. And you have to choose now.˝
She looked at him with eyes fuul of despair, anger and even hate.
˝You know very well what is my answer. You left me no choice. May I go now?˝
She stood up and started walking towards door without waiting for an answer. She started opening the door when she heard her grandma´s voice.
˝Tomorrow at 7 p.m. is dinner with him and his parents. Don´t be late. You don´t want to know his name?˝
˝No˝, she said it half way out of room.
She took her thing and tried to think but all she could think up was that she doesn´t wants to go home. So she called a cab and went to the bar.
End flashback
In about half of hour she was at home. She wasn´t tired so she decided to take a bath and just relax. It´s gonna be a hard day.
When she rang the bell it was already 7:15 p.m. She knew that she was late and that her grandmother will be mad for days. But she didn´t really care about it. She decided that she spend as little time with her grandparents as possible.
The doors opened just few second later. The maid let her in and whispered to her while she was taking her coat.
˝Madam is not happy ´cause you´re late. The guests are already here.˝
Rory just laughed and answered in the same tone.
˝Lucky me! But being late is elegant in our world of crazy people. I need a favour.˝ she waited untill Anna turned to her and then continued.
˝Make sure that you have my thing ready together with theirs so I can run away as soon as possible.˝
Anna nodded and gave her a small smile and then she pushed her to living room where everyone was sitting. She took a deep breath and told to herself to stay calm and not let them to annoy her. She looked back at the maid like she is looking for encouragement and she found it in women´s smile. She smiled herself, it was a fake smile but it was the best she could do. On one side of the cauch was sitting her grandmother and on the opposite of her were a women and a young man, obviously the fiance, but she couldn´t see their faces. In the arm-chairs were sitting her grandfather and a man in his forties.
She approached a little closer and then stoped not knowing what to do. Then she remembered that grandma always thought her that politeness is the biggest virtue
˝Good evening. I´m sorry for being late.˝
By now everyone except her fiance was looking at her. Her grandma stood up and walked to her with the unknown man and women right behind her.
˝It is not important, dear. It is just important that you are here now.˝
She thought how stupid that sounded but she didn´t say anything. She saw that tha young man didn´t come to greet her and made conclusion that he probably didn´t look forward to meeting her nothing more then she did to meeting him.
That it was someone else and not her she would have laughed but this way it was not that funny. She smiled one more time and let her grandma to talk.
˝Let me introduce you to parents of your fiance. Shira, my close friend that I have told you a lot about.˝, she wanted to roll her eyes because somehow, she couldn´t remember anything about that women and her memory was pretty good, but she resisted the urge and smiled once more. It was really tiring her, that smiling. She never thought that just smiling could be sooooo hard.
˝And Mithcum Huntzberger. I am sure you have heard about them.˝
She kissed Shira very shortly and shook hand with her husband.
˝Of course I have. I had many incounters with your journalists and somehow they always made me mad.˝ she said like a joke and Mitchum smiled friendly.
˝Yes, it is the way it usually happens. My journalists make me mad most of the time too.˝
˝But you can fire them and I can´t do even that.˝
Even before she finished that sentence she heard Shira talking to her son. She completly forgot that she hasn´t met the most important person yet.
˝Logane, come and meet your fiance.˝
Rory thought that that sounded pretty much desperate. Meet your fiance. All the normal couples meet before they get engaged. But then again, her family was definitivly not normal.
She looked at Logan just in time to catch his eyes. Shortly they just stared at each other before they started uncontrollably laughing.
AN: I know it is weird place to stop but I like it like that. PLEASE REVIEW! Next chapter will be more about dinner and meetings.