Rory moved her computer to her bed and curled up on her desk with a cup of coffee so she could look out the window. She smiled, glad to be indoors where it was not freezing like a freezing thing.

( It had been a long week )

"Don't you want to run along with your friends?" Luke asked his stepdaughter as the diner cleared out during the midafternoon lull. He'd noticed she was dressed exceptionally strangely today. But then again, she was a Gilmore. Between the kerchief over her hair, the skin-tight knee-length skirt, and the pink jacket, he wasn't certain that this wasn ( Read more... )

[ooc: technically this happened 12/24-12/25, but due to RL stuff, it's being posted now. Live with it.]

Having retrieved her car earlier that week, Rory made the drive to Luke and Lorelai's new house on the mainland midafternoon on Christmas Eve.

She bounced up to the front door, staring at the house itself, and rang the bell with presents in