Chapter 10

"I'm telling you, if I didn't know better I would swear they are pulling some parent trap on us." Rory said as Luke poured her a coffee.

"Who?" Luke asked looking back and forth between Rory and Lorelai.

"Logan and Chloe! Every time I turn around Logan has volunteered me for something and Tristan just happens to miraculously have been volunteered for the same damn thing. I don't know what has gotten into my daughter?" Rory looked down at the plate Luke put in front of her. "Luke this has double meat and extra cheese?"

"You're too thin. Lorelai no cheating and helping her eat. You want more coffee you eat the food." He said gruffly as he walked away.

Rory threw Luke a dirty look asking. "What is with everyone lately!"

"Well if you would stop doing your impression of the incredible shrinking woman people might leave you alone." Lorelai said forgoing any pretence of tact.

Rory dropped her hamburger pushing back from the table angrily. "You know what! I don't need this shit from you people. All I wanted was a damn cup of coffee and to talk to my mother about my kid." She turned and pointed at Luke. "I'm a grown ass woman with a teenage daughter don't you think I know whether or not I'm fucking hungry?"

Luke looked at her shocked "That's it everyone out. Were closed take your food and go!" He said pushing Kurt out the door. He turned to Lorelai "You too." Lorelai wanted to stay but knew he was right she nodded her head and left quietly.

Luke turned to Rory pointing to a chair. "Sit Down." He said sternly "Of course you want to talk about your daughter, that's all you do. You don't talk about work, you don't want to talk about your husband, or His father's accusations towards you. We can't talk about his murder or Lola's rape. Even her insistence on her name change is off limits. So now we can't tell you we are concerned for you, too? That is now off limits as well?" Luke said angrily throwing his order pad and pencil on the counter.

"I get it. Not completely but I too have lost people I love. So I get the need to keep your pain to yourself I did that when my father died, but it doesn't work." He grabbed her and pulled her to look at her reflection in the two way glass. "Look at yourself. You don't sleep because it's too hard to sleep alone. But you can't possibley consider not sleeping alone. It would be a betrayal to Logan! But it wouldn't! Look at this!" he said lifting her hand. "Your hands are so thin you can see your veins!" He grabbed the back of her shirt and pulled it tight. "You look anorexic Rory!" She looked down not wanting to look in the mirror making Luke grab her chin forcing her look. "You have no waist anymore. You are straight up and down. Much more of this and you are going to have to be hospitalized. Enough is enough! You have to start living again. Logan was counting on you taking care of yourself and Lola and you can't even do that for him. He gave his life for that little girl and you let her ignore herself the same way you do. How do you expect her to move on if you can't! Logan is never coming back."

Rory pushed away from Luke "Trust me I know that better than anyone." She said unlocking the door and walking out into the cold.

Rory stood looking in her mirror Luke's words playing thru her head. She barely recognized herself. She needed to think. Was he right? Did she focus too much on Logan to avoid dealing with her own feelings. Of course, she tried her hardest not to let her feelings affect her she just stuffs everything down and goes through the motions.

"Ugh!" she groaned before pushing away from the traitorous mirror and grabbed her phone and hit the speed dial.

"Finn's bordello. Redheads, blondes, brunettes you want it we got it." The Australian said in a goofy voice.

"Finn's bordello, that's a new one. Hey you have any plans for tonight? I'm feeling like taking a memory lane walk to Poor Man's Shoe. Followed by lots of alcohol to drowned the unwanted words in my head."

"Sure thing Love. Is this just the two of us or are we calling captain sweater vest?" Finn asked packing his briefcase getting ready to leave.

"Just us I can't handle Collin on top of everything else tonight." Rory said

"I'll be there in about an hour will that work?" Finn asked.

'It's great. Hey Finn lets have a driver tonight just to be safe." She said pulling off her shirt to get into the shower.

"You got it darling." Finn answered after a pause. He was a little worried it had been a long time since Rory had wanted to go out for drinks. Not since Logan had died.