𝓛𝓾𝓬𝓲𝓵𝓵𝓮 𝓲𝓷 𝓢𝓽𝓪𝓻𝓼 𝓗𝓸𝓵𝓵𝓸𝔀

49. Homecoming

 I think that if I listen to any more of this, I am going stick flowers in my ears

I laughed as I read the note from Rory. Right now, we were sitting around a table—Michel, Lorelai, Sookie, Rory, and I—listening to what Sookie was going to walk down the aisle to. God, if weddings were as much planning has this one had been, I was never getting married.

Same, girl. I dozed off for a second there

Lorelai noticed us passing notes and grabbed the one that I had given to Rory. She took a pen from her bag and scribbled down:

I told her to play some heavy metal jam, but she wouldn't take my suggestion!

I read what she had written, then scribbled back:

How dare she?

"Sookie," Lorelai sighed, turning off the CD player, "you cannot be serious."

"What?" Sookie exclaimed, offended. "It's Ella! It's a classic."

"What it is," I chimed in, "is morbid, Sookie."

"Yeah," Rory added, "it's literally about a woman who can't make her relationship work—."

"—and who's life is filled with emptiness and pain," Lorelai finished.

Rory and Lorelai looked through alternative song ideas, before Michel stood up. "Here's a suggestion: how about I leave?"

I popped up too. "Yeah, I like that idea."

Lorelai joined us. "Lucy—sit down. Michel, I am in the wedding, which means you have to run the wedding. All by yourself, which is not something you've done before."

"Oh, please," Michel but in before Rory suggested, "Hey, why don't Lucy and I look through some other CD and come up with a couple more upbeat songs and we'll get back to you on it?"

Sookie smiled. "Okay, fine. I trust you two."

"Great," my mother sighed, then continued to pester Michel about duties he had to do before the wedding.

"You know what I've been thinking about?" Lorelai asked. No one ever knew what she was thinking about.

"Oh, lord," Emily commented from the drink cart.

"'Oy' is a funny, funny word," Lorelai continued. "Like, I can't here 'oy' without laughing. You know what else is a funny word?"

"'Poodles'?" I offered, taking a sip of my soda.

"Yes! Look at us, it's like we're related or something." Lorelai joked. "So if you put 'oy' and 'poodles' together in the same sentence, you would have one of the funniest catchphrases known to man!" She took a sip of her drink. "Like, 'Oy with the poodles already!'. Isn't that funny."

"Hilarious," Emily sighed.

I tuned the rest of the conversation out until Emily called my name. "Lucy?"

I popped my head up. "Yeah?"

"I wanted to talk to you and your mother about something."

I nodded. "Shoot."

Emily furrowed her eyebrows. "Shoot what?"

I shook my head, chuckling. "Just say what you were going to say, Grandma."

"So, I've been thinking recently about you and that little school of yours. There must not be a lot of opportunities or respectable facilities, am I right?"