"Hey Mom." Rory said into the telephone.
"Hey! Wait-" Lorelai said.
"Mom? Mom? Are you there?" Rory said worriedly.
"Hold on, I think I heard something." Lorelai said.
Then Rory heard a crash coming from the other end of the phone, "Mom… Mom? Are you okay?"
There was a long silence and the Rory heard her mother, screaming at her dog, "Paul Anka! How could you!" She paused. "Well I guess I can't blame you." Lorelai returned to the phone. "Oh yeah, everything's fine. Paul Anka's just been hanging out with me a little too long."
"He broke into the coffee cabinet?" Rory assumed.
"And he ripped it open and was licking it." Lorelai said, very interested.
"Okay… moving on." Rory continued. "Can I spend the night Friday?"
"You know you don't have to ask!" Lorelai said.
"Yes, but maybe we could hang out for a little while, before I hang out with Dean."
"Oooooo!" Lorelai said, like when she was 5 year old seeing her parents kissing. "Sure, and then we can get ready together, I've got a date with Luke."
"Sounds like a plan. I got to go mom, see you tomorrow."
"Bye Rory"
"Bye!"
"Rooooooory!" Paris screamed.
"What paris?"
"I need help picking an outfit, for this party tonight!"
" I'm having enough trouble with my own outfit! What do I wear to a double date with two 16 year olds!" Rory said. She was mostly talking to herself, because asking Paris for fashion advice was never a great plan. "Sorry, Paris. I'm just a little uptight. Just wear those jeans, and you can borrow that turquoise shirt in my closet, and remember, DEEP BREATHS!"
"Thanks! You're a life saver." Paris said.
"No problem, I'm going. See you later, you'll be alright." Rory said and she drove off to Stars Hollow. She opened the door, "Hey mom, so what do you want to do? The afternoon is yours, we're good until 7."
After, a few hours of shoe shopping, as requested by Lorelai, the girls returned home to get ready for their dates. At 7 o'clock, the doorbell rang. "That's Luke, Dean knows better than to come on time." Rory said, braggingly to Lorelai.
"Hey! I never said Luke was flawless!" Lorelai joked. She ran down the stairs, with only one shoe on, opened the door, and angrily said, "You're early!"
"I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'll just wait here!" Luke said guiltily, knowing the seriousness of his mistake.
At 7:10, the doorbell rang again. Of course they still were not ready, "Ha! Your man isn't perfect either!"
Dean and Luke stood in the hall awkwardly waiting. After the double date incident, and many others Luke and Dean had never gotten along. But when, Lorelai popped her head downstairs to check on the two of them, they seemed fairly civil, but boy was she wrong! It started out okay, Dean simply said, "Hey Luke,"
"Hi"
"Hopefully, we'll both be around here a lot, I know we've never gotten along, but we're both trying to get our Gilmore girl, let's try and get along."
Luke was willing to give this a try, he had no desire to fight with some 20 year old. "Fine." He said simply. "So where are you two going tonight?" He asked as his attempt to be friendly.
"Oh, just to the movies, I promised I'd take my sister Clara and her boyfriend."
Luke let out a little chuckle, and Dean read it as him saying "How pathetic." As charming a guy Dean is, he has a pretty bad temper.
"Rory insisted! And where are you taking Lorelai, the Plaza!" Dean began to scream.
Rory and Lorelai walked down the stairs. "I didn't start this!" Luke said defensively.
"What!" Dean screamed.
"Whoa…" Lorelai said. Lorelai and Rory looked at eachother, and shared the thought, "Oh no…. I think we're in for an interesting night.