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Chapter 26: Happily Ever After
"Memaw!" There was a shout as the front door opened and the twins came running in the kitchen where Lorelai and Luke were making Christmas dinner.
"Hi, Lori! Hi, Alexandria!" Lorelai exclaimed, picking up the three-year-olds.
"Memaw! Memaw! Look what I got from Daddy for Christmas!" Alexandria exclaimed, holding up her new teddy bear with a red bow around its furry neck.
"I love it, Zan. What's his name?" She asked, sitting down with the twins on her lap.
"His name is Honor, after Auntie Honor!" She exclaimed.
"I love the name." Lorelai said, smiling at her granddaughter.
"Where's your teddy bear, Lori?" Lorelai asked her other granddaughter. Lori was the laid back one; she was quieter than her take-charge sister. Both the girls had curly dark brown hair that formed into ringlets and amazing Gilmore blue eyes.
Lori held tight to her light brown teddy bear with a blue bow around its neck. "His name is David." She whispered.
"Why David?" Lorelai asked.
"David is my best friend." Lori said quietly.
Lorelai smiled. Alexandria climbed off Lorelai's lap and ran off to find her uncle. Danny and Alexandria were inseparable while Lori and Lily were inseparable. Danny and Alexandria really stood out. They both had a lot of energy and took charge of everything. They went everywhere together.
Lily and Lori, on the other hand, were shyer, quiet, and approached a situation cautiously. They both loved each other dearly, never separating from the hip the moment they met. Lily loved Lori with all her heart and looked out for her little niece, while Lori looked up to her aunt and loved her more than anything.
Lori snuggled back into Lorelai's chest, clutching her bear. Rory entered the kitchen carrying a baby seat with Logan behind her, carrying all of the presents.
"I wish you let me carry some of those." She exclaimed.
"Rory, you just take care of Emily and I'll take care of the presents." He said, frustrated.
"Hi, there, kids." Lorelai said, smiling at how they were already arguing like an old married couple even though they just had another baby.
Emily Rose Gilmore was born on September 13, 2009 and was a little over three months old. Lori and Alexandria had been excited to be older sisters.
"Hi, mom." Rory said, taking Emily out of the carrier, bundled up in a puffy light blue snowsuit. "I see Lori already found you." She laughed.
Lorelai loved Lori as much as she loved her own children. She couldn't say she loved Lori more than Alexandria because that wasn't true, but there was something about Lori that made her soften.
"Yeah, and I'm sure Alexandria already found Danny, too." Luke said from his place at the stove where he was mashing the mashed potatoes.
"Where's Lily?" Logan asked as Rory undid Emily from looking like a marshmallow. Underneath all the layers, the three-month-old baby was dressed in little black sweatpants and a red long sleeved shirt that had Santa on it.
"She's asleep. She woke up early this morning to open presents and after we opened them she fell back to sleep on her new 'big girl bed'." Luke laughed at the term.
"Nana?" Lori asked Lorelai, sitting up on her lap.
"Yes, my frog?" Lorelai asked right back at her granddaughter. (My grandma used to call me this!)
"What's for dinner?" She asked.
"Well, we're having your grandpa's famous meatloaf, mashed potatoes, squash, broccoli, and scalloped corn." Lorelai said, looking down at the most beautiful pair of blue eyes.
"Is there gonna be pie?" She asked.
"Yes, my frog, there will be." She answered. "There will be cherry, peach, and lemon meringue."
"I like peach." Lori said.
"So do I." Lorelai said. "And you know what, so does Lily."
Lori smiled and leaned back into Lorelai's chest and hugged her bear tight to her again.
Rory was holding Emily who had blonde tuffs of hair on her head and Logan's green eyes. She was gonna be a daddy's girl alright. So was Lori, she already was.
Alexandria, on the other hand, was a momma's girl. She looked, sounded, and acted like Rory when she was three. Except, Rory didn't talk as much as Zan does when she was three.
A half-an-hour later the whole family was gathered around the table, including Lily who had woken up ten minutes ago still looked tired. Luke and Lorelai sat together on one side with Lori next to Lorelai.
Rory sat on the other side on the end with Emily in the corner in the baby seat. Alexandria sat next to her and Danny on the other side of her. Logan sat between Luke and the baby. And Lily sat next to Lori at the opposite end of the table rubbing her eyes as Luke filled her plate.
"Now, could someone please say grace over the meal please?" Lorelai asked.
"I will." Lily said. "God grace this meal and the people who are here and the moments that follow."
"Amen." Everyone mumbled.
"That was very good, Lily. Where did you learn that?" Rory asked her little sister.
"My teacher, Miss. Goodman taught it to us before school ended on Thursday." Lily said, starting in on her mashed potatoes.
"I like that teacher." Luke said.
After dinner, everyone gathered in the living room to open presents from each other.
"Thank you, nana!" Lori exclaimed from her lap where she had just opened a stuffed frog from Lorelai.
"Your welcome, my frog." She replied.
"Woah, thanks, Logan and Rory." Luke exclaimed as he opened up a signed baseball where all the Red Sox had signed it. (I hate the Red Sox!)
"You're welcome, Luke. Trust me that was not easy to come by. But, I know people on the team and now I owe them a favor." Logan laughed.
Lorelai then opened her gift from Rory and Logan. It was in a long velvet case. When she untied the red ribbon on top and had opened the cover, she gasped. Inside was a beautiful necklace with an emerald stone set into the heart that hung off the chain. Lorelai's birthstone, May.
"You guys, this is beautiful." She gasped.
"Yeah, I saw it one day and had to get it." Rory said. "It just screamed 'Lorelai'."
Lorelai laughed as she fingered the delicate necklace.
"That's pretty, nana." Lori whispered, looking at the same birthstone they shared.
"Yeah, it is, isn't it?" Lorelai whispered back.
An hour later after all the presents were put away and wrapping paper cleaned up, all the kids were curled up in the living room, asleep.
Alexandria was curled up on one side of the couch, clutching her new bear and her new cat stuffed animal from Luke and Lorelai. Lily was curled on the other side with her new wolf stuffed animal from Rory and Logan. Danny was asleep on floor, Paul Anka as his pillow. Emily was curled up in her bassinette with her new dog stuffed animal clutched in her tiny hands. Lori was curled up in a small ball in the recliner, clutching her frog.
Lorelai looked at the five kids. "It's all too good to be true, isn't it?" She asked her husband.
"Seems that way." He responded, kissing the top of her head.
"It's a happily ever after."
I know, I know, really really really bad ending, but at least it's finally over with! Just kidding! I'll miss you guys!