1x6 ▬▬ "Rory's Birthday Parties"

In which, Lorelai is going out to get more ice for Rory's party but then Luke walks in with two bags of ice. (🧊) Emily notices the way they look at each other and points it out to her daughter later on in the night.

[key : lorelai's words on the right and everyone else on the left or middle. ]

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❝ 𝗠𝗼𝗺, 𝗜 𝘀𝘄𝗲𝗮𝗿! ❞

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[ LORELAI's POV ]

*celebrating Rory's birthday*

"I would like to propose a toast to the one thing in my life that is always good, that's always sweet, and without whom I would have no reason to get up in the morning — "

*crowd aww's*

"My pal, Rory. Cheers. Cheers."

*people cheering and clapping*

"Happy birthday!" says Babette.

"and in honor of this very special girl, I now invite you all to help me eat her face." i say with a smile on my face.

Sookie comes in and hands Rory a knife says, "and you may have the first cut."

"There's something very strange about hacking into my own head." Rory says while grabbing the knife from Sookie and cutting the cake.

* door bell rings *

While rory says that, i say, " Jeez, who the hell's ringing the bell? It's a party! Get your ass in here!"

* Richard & Emily come in *

"Or ... asses, i guess"

( Time jump )

Everyone is enjoying the party, Richard's looking at Lorelai's fireplace and then Sookie comes walking fast/running towards Lorelai.

"okay, don't panic" she tells me.

"oh, good opening line. what's wrong?"

"we're out of ice."

"how can we be out of ice? we have tons of ice. it was like a penguin habitat in there"

"i don't know how it happened. i just know it happened, and somehow we have to deal with it."

"oh, i will go and get some, then."

*Sookie goes back into the kitchen & Lorelai goes to get her keys and her jacket*

Door opens and it's Luke, she realizes it's him with ice !

"(gasps) oh, my god! you're a vision!

*turns her upper body and yells*

sookie, we have ice"

Sookie pokes her head around the corner and says, "Hallelujah."

"How did you know?" i say to Luke.

"a good rule of thumb is you can never have too much ice," luke replies.

"oh you're the best! ha ha ha!"

* While they're starting to turn around, Emily comes into the entryway. *
She spooks Lorelai a bit.

"that's — oh, hi, mom. this is my friend Luke."

"how do you do?" luke says to my mother.

emily responds with, "fine, thank you."

Luke turns towards me again and says, "well i'd better get these in the freezer before they melt."

"well, not very likely in here," i retort.

*Luke walks into the kitchen and then we never see him again, and we see Lorelai putting up her jacket/coat back up on the coat rake and Emily is still leaning against the wall, looking at her daughter and then Lorelai gives her mother a look and walks into the kitchen and then Emily walks into the living room*

( time jump )

*the guests are talking about rory's childhood, we see emily drinking something then she puts it down on the side table and goes upstairs, lorelai notices and follows her upstairs*

* in lorelai's room *

she's sees her mother looking at some clothes she has on her bed and slowly enters her room when she says,
"i made that."

"really?"

"from rory's old baby clothes,"

"how nice. i hope you washed them first."

"oh, rats. i knew i forgot something."

"that's quite an assortment of characters down there."

"they're great people."

"this Patricia —"

"Miss Patty."

"she teaches dance?"

"among other things."

Emily nods her head and puts her hands in her jacket pockets.

"this man with the ice — "

"Luke."

"how long have you been seeing him?"

"Luke? I'm not seeing Luke. He's just a friend."

"Mm-mmm" smirking / smiling ; )

"mom, i swear. Luke keeps me in coffee — nothing else."

"he seems to like you."

"and you're judging this by what?"

"by the way he looked at you."

"which was how?"

"like you were about to give him a lap dance."

i let out a giggle. "mom. he did not look at me like that."

"you're pleased."

"what?!"

"you smiled. you're pleased the ice man looked at you like a porterhouse steak."

"i'm smiling because you're crazy and that's what you do to crazy people to keep them calm."

*Emily smirks and turns around to Lorelai's desk/drawers & picks up a picture of Lorelai*

"what's this?"

"well, that's me, mom."

"I know it's you. you're wearing a cast."

*them talking about L's broken leg from doing yoga & her messy room & rory*

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After my mother, Emily, leaves my room to look for Richard. I sit back down on my bed and I actually think about what my mother was saying about Luke. 'The way he looked at me?!' I mean he is good-looking, cute and can do a lot around the house. Wait, did i say good-looking?

well i do think he does have good qualities to have in a man. he definitely is there for rory and i, unlike rory's dad, christopher.

i think i do have feelings for the man, and i guess my mom could see them before i even knew i had them. i'm just glad she told me while it was just us two and not while luke was in the room with us.

i'll have to tell sookie, she'll be happy! i can already see it.

sookie comes upstairs after i called her from my staircase and wonders in my room. "hey, what's up?" she says.

"you would not believe what my mom said to me?"

"what did she say?"

"she thought that i was seeing luke cause of the way we were looking at each other," i say while rolling my eyes & laughing.

"oh my god, that's hilarious! but i can see why she'd say that. you two do look at each other with flirty eyes sometimes!" she says while laughing and clapping her hands.

"sookie!! what do i do? cause i think i do have feelings for him." i say while sitting back on my bed and glaring at my best friend.

"you do?! oh my god! lemme handle it!!"

the conversation ends with them going downstairs to join the party once again.

i go outside to my parents and rory's out there talking to dad.

"hey, so are you guys leaving? the mud wrestling starts in ten minutes," i say jokingly to them.

"goodnight, lorelai. we had a lovely time," my mother says with a straight face.

"and with a straight face you said that," i say right before mom leaves to get in their car.

"i'd have that chimney inspected if i were you," my father, richard says to me while heading towards me and then to face rory.

"i'll get right on that, dad"

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i really don't know if i like how
i wrote it but it's what it is ig ☹️🤷🏻‍♀️
i wish i had written more but i literally don't have any more ideas that i
could put down & i can't write
like amy can so 😕🤧

( happy late halloween 👻 )

[ thank you to i-rob-maybanks for giving me positive words for me to publish this, ilysm 🫶🏻 ]

word count :: 1,147
completed :: 11/02/2022
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