AN: I'm endless sorry for not updating earlier. You can find the reason for the delay at the end of this chapter.

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"Rory, get up. Your long desired day has come", Lorelai shouted the next morning and knocked on Rory's door.

"Haha, very funny!", Rory grumbled and stretched herself. "Why don't I just remain lying here and refuse to get up? ", she wondered and pulled the blanket over her head. Finally, she stretched herself once more and then got up. "Coffee", she groaned when has finished dressing herself and stumbled into the kitchen. "Mom, I want to go to Luke! Let's go to Luke!"

"Oh darling, it is not even half past four. I hardly think that Luke will open us the door to the diner… "

"But Mom! "

"Darling, let me finish speaking! Luckily your great, fantastic, incredibly clever mother has remembered of giving you seven thermos jugs full of coffee on the way!"

"Oh Mom. You are the best!", Rory shouted excitedly and fell Lorelai around the neck.

"I know, I know, come on, let's go. Otherwise you will miss the bus! ", Lorelai said and pulled Rory outside to the jeep.

"Hey Rory, are you sure that I should not lend you a few handcuffs and a whip if you decide to seduce a few guys after all?", Lorelai joked.

In truth this was an allusion on Rory's love life.

Since the disaster with Dean Rory hadn't let anybody get close to her.

Lorelai would never forget the evening when Rory had come home, tears running down her face and had told her that Dean had broken up with her, for an other girl. For Lorelai it was so hard to see how Rory crept away for days in her room and cried over the loss of her first big love.

"Mom, stop immediately, or I will tell grandmother that you have cracked jokes about the new picture in her dining room!", Rory warned.

"Oh come on, this was only a joke…, however, you must admit that this figure in the picture really looked like a mixture of pig and peacock! ", Lorelai defended herself.

"Mom, it was a deer!! If you had paid attention to the antler you would have known it", Rory returned.

"I would discuss this further with you, but we are here!" Rory looked out of the window and really, her mother was right. She saw how the pupils with their luggage pushed their way through to the bus.

"Welcome to hell!", Rory murmured, breathed deeply and got out of the car to get her luggage on the backseat. Lorelai helped Rory to carry the luggage and together they went over to the bus.

Just as she had stowed away her suitcase the loud voice of her headmaster could be heard. "Mrs. Summers, Mrs. Jimney, there's no way that you will take all this stuff with you!" Surprised Rory turned round and saw Charlize and Rachel who tried to pack eight suitcases into the bus.

"But headmaster Charleston, I really have only taken the most necessary things with me!", Charlize answered snappish, while Rachel adjusted her hair.

Lorelai giggled when she saw, that only her whole make-up stuff required a whole suitcase. "No contradiction, a rule for the excursion was that every pupil may take only at least two suitcases with him!", headmaster Charleston told her off.

"But Mr. Charleston…"

At this moment Tristan interfered with the discussion.

"I could stow away her luggage in my car and ride behind with it. Then we could immediately drive off and would not be detained any longer!"

"Mr. DuGrey, do you really think you have a say in this?"

"No, but if you want that we arrive in the hostel before the beginning of the tour, then I would suggest that we hurry up with the decision"

Headmaster Charleston hesitated for one moment.

"Okay Mr. DuGrey, but you will always remain behind the bus.. Have you understood?"

"Yes sir", Tristan said and started to pack the suitcases of Charlize and Rachel into his Lamborghini.

"Oh thank you Tristan!", shrieked Rachel and hugged him..

"No problem!", he replied gasping for breath, "but if you could let go of me now please, I get no more air"

"Oh sorry!", Rachel apologised and smiled at Tristan enticing.

"How can I make it up to you?", she whispered into Tristan's ear.

"I have no idea, but we'll find a way, for sure" Tristan answered with a grin and packed the last suitcase into his car which was fully loaded now.

"Oh, what a charmer!", Lorelai meant sarcastically and turned away from Tristan.

"He's only doing this so he gets down well!", Rory answered.

"Funny, that's just what I thought", Lorelai replied.

"Okay, please take your seat in the bus now!" headmaster Charleston called out.

For Lorelai and Rory it was time to say goodbye to each other.

"Well Lucy, the time has come.. From now on we'll go our separate ways. I will miss and never forget you" Lorelai turned to her daughter with a tragic look on her face.

"Mom", Rory giggled, "I'm only going to be away for five days!"

"Are you sure? I mean, even a survival artist would have problems surviving if he had to spend five days with Paris

Rory laughed and hugged her Mom as firm as she could. "I will miss you so much! You must call me, okay? Every day. And give Sookie and the others my regards and tell them to send me condolence cards", said Rory and tried to suppress her tears.

"Sure honey. When you come back again, we'll throw a gigantic party with all the trimmings. Okay?" Lorelai tried to cheer Rory and herself up.

"Please, everyone get on the bus now!" headmaster Charleston yelled now already for the second time. One could recognise by the twitching vein on his forehead that he was impatient. "Okay, I have to go, otherwise Charleston will condemn me to sit next to him during the ride", Rory whispered quietly, so that she could not be heard by Charleston.

"Okay, bye sweetheart!", Lorelai said goodbye and hugged her daughter one last time.

Rory got on the bus and searched a seat in the first row for her. The bus pulled out and Rory looked out of the window to see her mother slowly disappearing from her field of vision. She closed her eyes and sighed.

"Always remember…five days, only five days until I return!", she said to herself. She took out a book and started to read. After approx. 1 hour she looked up and noticed how the bus took a sharp turn to the left. Now he drove up a precipitous street with endless sharp curves. Rory shuddered.

Since childhood she was terrified of heights and the sharp curves weren't making it any better. "How much I wish mom could be here now!" Rory thought. However, her nerves calmed down again when the curves slowly came to an end. She took a glance into the gigantic rear-view mirror of the bus and saw how Tristan drove next to the bus.

"Hasn't Charleston ordered him to always stay behind?", Rory asked herself. She saw Tristan's expression only briefly as he overtook the bus and quaffed off the clip with his car.

AN: IMPORTANT!!

I need a new beta reader! I don't know if my old one just didn't have time to check over this chapter for me or if he didn't get my mail. If anyone is interested please write me an e-mail to andi2dhob at yahoo dot de.

To the chapter: Well, it may not be the best but this is still some kind of prologue. With the next chapter the drama will begin and also the real story plot.

Thank you for reading and please be so kind and leave a review.

Love, Andi