Disclaimer: Chapter 1

Chapter 7

By the end of August, Luke and Lorelai were ready for both school and for the baby to come. They had recently finished the nursery. Luke declined any offers to help decorate the nursery, so Lorelai decided to recruit Katelyn and Sookie. Together, the girls picked out a light shade of purple for the walls. The furniture Lorelai was forced to pick out was an off-white color and the closet as well as the drawers were full of clothes and blankets.

Before the school year had ended, Lorelai talked to her guidance conselor about her schooling for senior year. Since shew as due to have the baby in October, the conselor suggested coming in for the first two weeks of school to gather all the materials and sylabouses fore each class and that while she was at home after having the baby she could have Luke bring her work and a teacher to come to the house to give each test until Lorelai came back in January. And although she was only going for the first two weeks and having her work brought home, Lorelai knew she was still going to have to tutor Luke considering she's a pro at what's being taught.

On the first day back, Luke and Lorelai recieved their schedules and compared.

"Of course, we have almost every class together and I won't be in until January."

"At least you won't have to keep up with having to help me with a class that is in a different place than you."

Lorelai looked at him amused. "Honey, I'm going to be the one who had just had a baby. On top of caring for our daughter throughout the day, I have to work my own school work into a schedule. What makes you think I'm going to help you?"

"..."

"I was kidding. It was a joke. I kind of figured I'd get stuck having to teach you better than all your teachers combined."

"Maybe you should become a teacher."

Lorelai shook her head. "No. I'll stick to the working/school attending mommy. That sounds a lot better."

"I guess. So, you'll help?"

Lorelai shrugged. "I probably know all of this stuff backwards and forwards. The only new thing I'm learning this year is how to care for a child. Besides, you'll have the same work load as me, except by the time you get home my work will have already been done and hidden so you can't copy it."

"You really think I would try to copy off of you?" Luke asked.

"I've seen you trying to cheat from my tests. And that one time last year you were going through my bag? I know all about your cheating habits."

From there the school day had flown by and the duo were on their way home.

Later that night, Lorelai was finishing up reading a pregnancy book and looked mortified. She went to the kitchen and found Katelyn cleaning up from dinner. Lorelai decided to help since the guys left her high and dry.

"Sorry, I would have helped sooner but I thought the guys were in here helping."

"They bailed the second you went upstairs."

"Oh, so it's just a show that they put on. Maybe for now on I'll just stick around and watch them clean up."

Katelyn laughed and looked at Lorelai. She noticed that she had a unusual look on her face. "What are you thinking about over there?"

Lorelai sighed knowing everything she feared could be confirmed. "Just the pregnancy book I finished reading. Is labor really as terrible as they make it seem?"

"That and more. I'm being honest with you, it's going to hurt. But the second you have that baby in your arms, you'll know it was worth it."

"Jeez and you did it twice! Are you crazy?!"

Katelyn laughed at Lorelai. "Like I said, in the end it's all worth it. But I know that's not all you're thinking."

"I'm just wondering if I'm really cut out to do this whole 'mom' thing. I never held a baby before; I never had to be responsible for another life before."

"Don't you worry about it. You have me, William and Luke. You get the hang of it in no time. You'll see in just a few short weeks."

"I'm terrified of the whole birthing process. But I honestly cannot wait to meet her and hold her."

"See, you're falling for her already."

The first two weeks of school had flown by making it the last week of September. Lorelai's last day of school was Friday, just as the weekend started. It was now Monday and Lorelai decided to get a head start on some work that she had been given to be advanced before she had the baby giving her time to solely concentrate on her daughter. And even though she finished all the work she had, she knew that she would be helping Luke with each answer, but she didn't mind.

Days when Luke had to help out in the Hardware store with his parents, Sookie would come over to the house to keep Lorelai company until someone came home.

"Where is Liz?" Sookie asked.

"Who knows. Since I've moved in here I have hardly seen her myself. Will and Kate try to force her to do stuff but she just sneaks out."

"You think Rory will be that way?"

"God I hope not. Luke would go ballistic. I want to have a very...forward relationship with her. You know like a best friend/ mother-daughter relationship. I never had that with my mother and I think it would be something nice to have. And she's already a daddy's girl. We'll be laying in bed and I can't sleep because she's playing soccer so Luke places his hand on my stomach and asks her to stop. And she does. But when I'm here by myself and trying to nap she doesn't listen."

"Luke's in a world of trouble," Sookie said.

Lorelai smiled as she laughed. "Tell me about it. We all will be. I never knew it was possible to love someone this much."

"Luke?"

"Rory. Well...Luke too. I guess it's the bond a mother has with her child when she's pregnant. I forget the saying. Something about a woman and guy or something. A woman becomes a mother when she's pregnant but a guy becomes a father he holds the baby for the first time? Something like that."

"Well you two are going to make great parents."

"And you are going to be the best Aunt and Godmother around."