ballerina girl~ J Mariano[1]

chapter twenty two

"How do I look?" Camille asked as she twirled around in her winter outfit.

She was wearing a black tights under a black skirt, white high neck jumper, high top Converse's and a fur coat. She had paired a matching white hat, scarf and gloves with her outfit.

"You're going to freeze." Luke told her.

"No I'm not." Camille disagreed. "i've got tights, a jumper and a coat on."

"I think you look..." Jess tried to find the right word. "nice."

"thank you." the girl smiled. "i'm going to help Mum and Rory with the snowman. Please can you have hot chocolate out when we get back."

"Sure." Luke replied.

Camille rushed out of the diner and towards her family.

"He's power buffering." Camille pointed out.

A man was using a power buffer to sculpt his snowman.

"That's just wrong." Lorelai sulked.

"We're competing against the Michelangelo of snow." Rory announced.

"And we're Ernest builds a snowman." Lorelai's bottom lip was trembling.

"we shouldn't look anymore." Camille suggested.

"heads down stay focused." Lorelai agreed.

"it's really cold, i'm going back inside." Camille complained.

"You've been out here for two minutes." Rory protested.

"I know, i'm sorry." She apologised and walked back towards the diner.

"Why're you back in so soon?" Luke asked her.

"It's freezing out there." She answered.

"I told you that you would freeze." Luke replied smugly.

"Here's the hot chocolate you wanted." Jess set a steaming cup of hot chocolate in front of her.

Camille took off her gloves and took a sip.

"that is really good." She marvelled. "thank you."

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"I've got thirty pounds of aged beef, trays and trays of trout, mountains of pruned tarts. I diced pumpkins until my hands turned orange. I've got pumpkin hands." Sookie complained

"Take a sip." Lorelai pushed a cup of coffee towards the chef. 

"How can you stay so calm about this?" Sookie questioned.

"There's nothing we can do about it." Lorelai shrugged.

"I can't believe they got snowed in." Camille sighed.

"All that work, all that extra help we hired. Oh well. At least they paid for it already. We didn't lose any money." Of course Lorelai thought the good part of the whole catastrophe was the gain in money.

"Yeah I guess. You know, I could still make up the dinner for the four of us." Sookie suggested.

"Yeah, but then it would be like the three of us, all alone in the dining room." Rory didn't like the idea of that.

"It would be like The Shining." Lorelai compared.

"except instead of Jack Nicholson, we have Rune." Camille added.

"You girls want anything besides coffee?" Luke asked them.

"Hey, what about Luke?" Sookie inquired.

"What about him?" Luke referred to himself in third person.

"He eats, and Jess eats." Sookie pointed out. "Doesn't Jess eat?"

"What's she doing?" Luke questioned.

" I think she's inviting you for dinner." Camille assumed.

"Yeah, come on, join us. It'll be fun. You like Peacock Pie?" Sookie begged.

"I'm a hundred percent sure I don't." Luke replied. 

"There'll be normal food too." Lorelai stated.

"And decorations." The younger Gilmore added

"And music." Camille finished the list.

"Come on, it'll be fun." Lorelai tried to persuade him.

"Well..." Luke started.

"Hey, you know what? Let's invite everyone."
Lorelai interrupted him.

"Everyone who?" Sookie asked.

"Everyone everyone." Lorelai

"Everyone everyone who?"

"Everyone we know, everyone we like."

"And they could even stay in the inn. All those empty rooms, all those uneaten pillow mints." Rory suggested.

"An out of control, over the top slumber party." Camille marvelled.

"I love it." Sookie squealed.

"Me too." Rory agreed.

"Done, spread the word." She pointed at Luke

"I haven't said I'd come yet so I'm certainly not gonna suddenly become your messenger boy." Luke protested.

Lorelai glared at him.

"Eight o'clock?" He asked.

"Seven." Lorelai corrected him.

"Right." Luke mumbled and went back to work.