A Year In The Life: a new beginning

Way to be an optimist

At 6am Lorelai was woken to the sound of the phone ringing, over and over. Spring was making its way through and it was her wake up call

"Hello" she groaned

"Lorelai! She's coming today!" Michel said freaking out on the other line

"Who's coming?" Lorelai questioned "oh my god is Celine Dion finally coming to give you an interview as her PA?"

"Lorelai this is not funny! I need you to get over here. Frederick has been zero help because he is also panicking!"

"I need context clues? Is it your mother??"

"No it is not my mother! It is the little girl we are fostering" Lorelai smiled surprised

"That's today? What time is she coming"

"At 10 and that's in 4 hours I don't know how to look presentable or comforting or"

"How old is she?" Lorelai asked

"Madeline is two" he replied

"And two year olds love animals and sand pits. You'll be great Michel"

"I need you to come over right now!" He demanded and Lorelai exited the bed "alright calm down im coming over"

"Good, I'm freaking out... I have facial sweat Lorelai!" She gasped

"Oh god not facial sweat!"

"It's not funny" he complained

"I'll see you in a jiffy Michel"

She exited the bed and threw on sweats and pulling on her uggs making her way downstairs and outside to her car

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Rory woke at 7:30 sitting up in bed staring at him fast asleep next to her. She was 26 weeks pregnant, her bump had blossomed. It was March 18th so spring was upon them and soon was the third trimester

She'd decided to take the leap and move in. It was a big step for Rory, they'd done it once before but it was college. But it wasn't college anymore and there was a baby in the mix

"Morning Ace" she looked to see him staring at her and she leaned back into the pillows "how are you feeling?" He questioned

"My chest is sore" she complained "but the nausea has slowly disappeared" she said with a little bit of spunk "I have to go see Paris today though she claimed she had something important to ask me"

"I think the possibility of you being a surrogate for her has passed" he joked

"I think one baby for my womb is good for now" Rory said and he looked at her more seriously

"Ace do you want more kids? Like after we have our little girl is there a possibility for more" she smiled at him and placed a hand on her stomach

"Well I'd like for her to have a sibling, being an only child has sucked at points. There was moments I would've loved to have a sibling, only child syndrome has gotten to the best of me. So if your willing eventually yeah I'd like another kid. If this one goes okay" he smiled at her

"I just, I don't know what I would've done without Honor. She's one of my bestfriends"

"I promise you our children will hate each other" Rory said with a smirk "there is no way they get along" Logan chuckled

"Way to be an optimist" he leaned over giving her a kiss

"Hey it's just the facts, the closest thing I ever had to a sibling was Lane or Paris and of course my mother but that wasn't like a real sibling. But at Friday night dinners sometime it did feel that" Rory chuckled

"God my grandparents are crazy, well were crazy" she added with a solemn note "one time to escape my mom opened a window and jumped onto the massive elm tree in the side yard"

"Dinner was that bad huh?" Rory nodded

"But I miss them, on the trail it was so weird. I kept having nightmares that I missed dinner and I was in trouble with my grandparents" the she gasped quietly

"What's wrong?" Logan questioned

Rory reached for his hand and took it placing it on the side of her bump as he felt the baby move across her skin "frea-ky" she said and Logan leaned down and kissed her bump

"Stop calling it freaky" he chuckled "I think it's cool mama" she cringed

"God how am I somebody's mother" she said "and how am I somebody's father, these are questions we may never know the true answer to"

"Hey I had sex ed 3 times!" Rory said annoyed

"And you don't think Mitchum huntzberger gave me the talk?" She giggled kissing his forehead and she ran her fingers through his hair

"And somehow we've landed here" She said and he smiled "but is this so bad?"

"No, not at all Huntzberger" she bit her bottom lip stopping her grin to leave her face

He pulled her close to him "I have to go" she groaned

"Can't paris wait" she raised her eyes brows at him questionably

"Your not that much of an idiot" Rory said and slipped out from his arms

"Ace" he whined "come back to bed" she entered her closet and quickly dug through a box

"You need to unpack your boxes" Logan said

"Can't you do it for me, I'm far too lazy" she yelled back as she grabbed a pair of jeans and a top "and tired, this isn't an easy job"

She looked in the mirror, her bump had grown a bit it was a cool experience but very overwhelming. She grabbed her bag and entered back into the room to see him sitting up in bed staring at her with a smile

"What's the date?" She questioned

"The 18th" he replied

"I thought maybe it's her birthday, because... I just don't know why she's so eager to see me. I feel like she's about to interrogate me" she she said slipping on her shoes "I mean she could put a bag over my head and you could never see me again"

"But I'd know who the cops should go after first" she went to him and gave him a kiss

"Wish me good luck" he kissed her cheek

"She wants to meet at Leslie's"

"That cafe where the barista has a thing for you?" He questioned and Rory chuckled

"I think once he sees the Belly.... the thing, that is nonexistent will hypothetically go away" he smiled

"It's not hypothetical he's written his number on your decaf 3 times" Rory smiled

"And he's never questioned why I've gotten decaf 3 times, I haven't been there in a few months also so he could've forgot all about me" she kissed him once more

"I love you Ace"

"Why does the tone in your voice make it sound like your saying goodbye to me before I die"

"I always say goodbye to you like this before you see Paris" she rolled her eyes grabbed her purse

"Goodbye I love you"

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