...She saw him smile at Rory, a smile that was full of love, he use to smile at her like that...

Lorelai saw Christopher across the room. She walked over to where he was and sat down. Christopher noticed her sitting down and started to smile. “Hey, how ya doin’? Did you get caught last night? Is it all right to be sitting next to me right now? Do they know?” He asked with a little worry.

“Uh, fine. Yes. I think so. And no.” Lorelai said in one breath.

“They don’t know? Good. What all happened last night.” His face had a pondering look on it.

“Well my dad caught me sneaking in, and since he thinks your ‘such a fine boy’, when he found out I was with you, he brushed off the part that I lied about being with a guy and only grounded me for being late.” She paused, “My dad probably loves you more than he loves me.” Lorelai’s hurt eyes started to stare at the ground as she thought that what she last said could really be true.

“Good, well at least he doesn’t know everything about us.” Christopher said, ignoring the last thing Lorelai said. “So, do you want to go out with me tonight?”

“Did you hear anything I said?? I am grounded for TWO weeks. I am suppose to not go out with anyone. Including you.” Lorelai practically yelled, upset he wasn’t paying attention to what she was saying.

“Well if you sneak out and then sneak back in, your parents wouldn’t know you were out in the first place. Just say you have homework, and go upstairs. They’ll think your upstairs while you sneak out your window to meet with me.” Christopher said, his eyes sparkling with ideas.

“Why would I want to do that? If I do get caught, I am in more trouble than ever before.” Lorelai said, still angered about earlier.

Christopher’s head knelt down, and then popped back up with a look of puppy dog eyes, and a pathetic pout. “Well, I just figured since I love you, and you love me, that we should spend more time together.”

“Uh, well it does sound romantic, and you know I can’t stand those eyes of yours. Okay, fine. But if I get caught, you are in deep trouble.” Lorelai rolled her eyes. She couldn’t believe she was giving in. Christopher gave her a gigantic smile. Lorelai’s heart pounded, seemingly a mile a minute when she saw the smile.

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Nightfall seemed to take forever at the Gilmore house. “Lorelai. Eat the kiwi fruit. It’s very good.”

Lorelai rolled her eyes at what Emily said. “No it’s not, mom. It tastes like hairy scalp with foul juice. Something like that shouldn’t be for human consumption.”

“Oh, Lorelai. The things you come up with sometimes. Fine don’t eat it.” Emily went back to looking at the food on her plate.Richard was also staring at the kiwi fruit.

“Well, I think I’ll skip eating that tonight.” He put down his fork, and picked up his New York Times.

Emily looked up from her plate. “Lorelai, we need to go shopping for your ‘coming out’ dress.”

“Umm, mom, I got homework.”

“Well, yes, I know, besides stores are closed at this time. We’ll do it early tomorrow morning.” Emily nodded, acknowledging her own thought.

“Mom, it’s the weekend. The only time I get to sleep in. Can’t we do it some other time?”

“No, no Lorelai. We can not. There’s not much time left until we have the party. We’ll do it tomorrow, and make sure you wear something appropriate.”

Angered by her mom, Lorelai said, “Fine, I’m going upstairs to do homework. Goodbye.” Lorelai ran up the stairs and shut the door. “Aaaaaauuuuuuggggghhhh. I can’t stand that woman!” she yelled, “I want a life. I want to be normal! Get me out of this house.” Lorelai fell on to her bed and screamed again.

“Hey, you could make a person deaf with that instrument.” Christopher, walking out from behind the window curtains, said, referring to her mouth.

“Christopher, god. How did you get in here?” Lorelai asked her words coming out mumbled, surprised he was there.

“Ya, know..Just using my boy scout training of climbing trees to save a damsel- in- distress.”

“You were a boy scout?! You wore those dorky khaki pants and those socks with the little thingys on them?” She laughed as she said this.

“Yes I was. And those thingys, as...you..call...them, are tassels. And I thought I was a pretty cute little boy scout.” Christopher remarked with a mock horror look on his face.

“Okay, fine, their called tassels, and you were a cute boy scout. Now, answer me this question. How did you get in here? Did they train you on opening up 16 year old girls bedroom windows?”

“No, the window was unlocked.”

“Oh.”, she paused, “I should start locking it.” She shrugged and continued flirtingly, “So why’d you come, up here, to see me?”

“Well, because I thought it would be more interesting than waiting down the block for you.”

“It certainly was more interesting.” Lorelai said leaning in closer to Christopher. “No one has ever done that before.” She leaned in even more.

“Yeah, it was...” Lorelai broke the tension by giving Christopher a smothering, long kiss. “...interesting.” Christopher kissed her back.

After their kiss, Christopher spoke up. “C’ mon. Our evening awaits.