Hayden Gilmore was like the many women in her family who came before her; pretty, smart and addicted to coffee. And growing up in the small, close-knit town of Stars Hallow with her hair-brained mother and bookworm sister, they couldn't have been cl...
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I CAN'T GET STARTED
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WEDDING'S were an exciting affair, a celebration full of love and joy and fun, and yet as Hayden sat in the dining hall of the Independence Inn surrounded by floral centrepieces, yards upon yards of pastel ribbon and flowing music, her eyes fluttered closed, sleep threatening to pull her deep into unconsciousness. She wasn't the only one struggling to stay awake, for Rory, her mother and Michel were all in the same state as the smooth, lulling tone of Ella Fitzgerald singing 'I Can't Get Started' played through the CD player, the song Sookie St James had excitedly declared would be the one she walked down the aisle to.
I've flown around the world in a plane, I've settled revolutions in Spain. The North Pole I have charted, but I can't get started with you. Around the golf course--
Hayden's head lifted from where it rested on her palm as the music suddenly stopped and she blinked through the fatigue to see her mother staring at a grinning Sookie in disbelief "Sookie, you've gotta be kidding."
"What?"
"You cannot walk down the aisle to that."
Cookie frowned in concern"Why?"
"It's depressing."
"It's Ella." Sookie defended.
Lorelai scoffed "It's morbid."
Sookie's hands waved erratically "It's a classic song."
"A classic song with lyrics about a woman who can't make her relationship work, whose life is filled with emptiness and regret and pain." As her mother ranted, Hayden's eyebrows furrowed in thought. She wasn't far off it being her life. Her love life wasn't exactly a stellar record of success and what else did she have to live for, stuck in a wheelchair unable to dance?
"Oh, who listens to the lyrics?" Sookie waved her off.
Lorelai blinked "Anybody not hanging out with Annie Sullivan by the water pump."
Hayden glanced towards a box filled with a selection of burned CD's "What are those?"
"Oh, those are some alternative songs, but I really like this one the best."
When Hayden went to wheel herself over to them, Rory was quick to hop up "Oh, I got 'em."
Lorelai perked up as she too hopped to her feet, making her way over to Rory as Hayden slumped slightly in her chair "Alternative songs, good. Let's see." The pair perused through them as Hayden was resigned to sit and watch. She couldn't even get up to help Sookie with her wedding "--Hey Jude?"
Sookie smiled "Paul wrote it for Julian to cheer him up."
