Life Choices, Challenges and Changes

Chapter 2: Rory's Choice Journalism

Chapter 2 Rory's Choice: Journalism

Sitting on the bus, Rory closes her eyes and remembers the Graduation Bon Voyage surprise party that Luke had organized for her in Stars Hollow. Luke, he was like a father to her, in fact he was more of a father to her than her own father. She wished that her mother would finally wake up and marry him. She missed her family, her friends from college Paris, Doyle, Steph, Juliet, Lucy, and Olivia. She missed Stars Hollow, Kirk, Lulu, Miss Patty, Babette and even Taylor, but most of all she missed her best friend since Kindergarten, Lane.

When she returned home after her college graduation, she went over to talk to her best friend Lane. Lane and Rory shared everything. She told her about Logan and she didn't judge her. Then she told her about the job offer from Hugo. She was going to be part of the press corps that was following Obama on his campaign trail. Lane had encouraged her to go and not to worry about failure. Lane told her that she was going to be an amazing journalist. Now, here she was, Rory Gilmore traveling the country writing about the Presidential nomination and his campaign. Will it be everything she ever dreamed of?

Well it wasn't as glamorous as Rory thought it would be. Early morning meetings, weak coffee, junk food, terrible diners, long hours on the bus or in hotels and poor WIFI reception. Plus, there were many nights that they had to sleep on the bus. The hotels were never a four or five-star hotel like the ones that Finn's family owned.

Rory was the new kid on the bus and all the other journalist were competitive and all had experience hustling to get their stories. What stories or facts they didn't get, they made up.

Rory was slowly becoming discouraged and disheartened. Worst of all she missed home, her mother, her friends and Logan. She tried calling Lane a few times, but she was always busy with the twins and Zach. Their band was doing well, and they were leaving for tour. A few times she called Paris, all Paris did was complain to her about the courses she had started to take in June and what idiots her professors were. She would remind Rory to be careful and to use the mace she sent her. She also reminded her to wash her hands and to carry Purell so that she wouldn't catch any diseases.

It was during the long lonely rides on the bus that Rory often thought about her friends at Yale. Tucked away in her wallet she had two pictures that she would pull out and look at often. One was the picture of Steph and her in their ball gowns taken after the jump at her first LDB event. The second was a picture of the five of them. This was taken at one of Finn's parties. She was standing beside Finn and Logan. She would look at this picture and smile, a few times when she was alone in her hotel room she would hold it until she fell asleep. Steph had recently sent her a text telling her that she and Colin had begun dating but had not made a commitment to each other yet.

Looking at the two pictures she thought of the funny pranks that Colin and Finn like to play. Smiling she remembered the time they came to bail her out of jail and got down on their knees and bowed down to her. They also threw her a get out of jail party. She loved those boys. They taught her how to not take herself so seriously and to take a chance, a leap to try a new adventure. They were always there for each other, a brotherhood. They were there when they needed someone to bail them out or someone to talk too. They were always there for her, from the moment she first met them.

Suddenly her phone rang. Digging through her Birkin Bag that Logan had given her she finally found it on the fourth ring and answered it.

"Hello,"

"Hey girl, how is the campaign trail going?" Steph inquired her sounding so happy.

"I was just thinking of you," she answered.