The Lorelais' First Day at Kindergarten

By: Alyson Tierney

Disclaimer: I do not own Lorelai or Rory Gilmore, or any other character associated with Gilmore Girls the way it is seen on television. Those characters and other related things and ideas belong to Amy Sherman-Palladino and the WB Network. I am simply borrowing them for entertainment purposes, and will return them when I am finished.

Author's Note: As per readers' requests, I have been trying to think of storylines that could have happened when Rory was younger. I had a phase a few years ago when I really liked to write children; mostly in preschool and early elementary years, so I went and read one of those stories for inspiration and came up with this. I hope you guys like it, and review as you think is right! Thanks!

CHAPTER THREE

Lorelai looked left and right, down the hallway towards the older kids' rooms, and then towards the main entrance. She finally plopped down in a chair across the hallway and took a book from her purse. She sat there for two hours, reading The Best Christmas Pageant Ever from cover to cover twice. Lorelai had chosen that book for Rory's first chapter book, and the two of them had read it twice over the summer. Lorelai smiled, remembering how Rory had really wanted to be able to read chapter books before she went to Kindergarten. The book wasn't very long, and extraordinarily funny, and had Lorelai and Rory in stitches as they read.

Parents began coming down the hall, and Lorelai stood, following them into the room. She smiled as she saw the Kindergarteners sitting quietly in the goodbye circle waiting for parents. She grinned as she heard a joyful shout, "Mommy!" as Rory flew into her arms.

"Hi, baby! How was your day?" Lorelai asked, as she swung her daughter around, and kissed her a few times.

"It was suc-ces-ful! I read and played and I colored this for you!" Rory exclaimed, handing her mom a picture she'd drawn.

"It's beautiful, sweetheart! That's you and me holding hands?" Lorelai asked as she held the picture out.

"Yes!" Rory smiled, as Lorelai put her down and took her hand.

"I love it! You ready to get back to the Inn?" she asked, as she led Rory out the door.

"Yeah! I missed it, and I missed you." Rory said, looking up at her mom with a sweet smile.

"I missed you too, baby, I missed you too." Lorelai said, as they exited the school and headed back to the Inn. Lorelai was glad her daughter had such a great day, and tomorrow she'd actually try to leave the building and wait on the front steps. She'd really, really try.