Leather, Sand, and Blood

The Traumatic Past

It wasn't long after that night that Mary had told her husband that she wanted a divorce and that she would be taking Lorelai with her. Lorelai and Sam hung out a few times after they met, but when she had to break the news to her new friend, it was as if they had known each other their whole lives. And although they promised to stay in contact and see each other when Lorelai would come to visit, that was the last time that they saw each other.

Four years have gone by, and Lorelai Green was now a teenager, a very angry teenager. After her mother had told her father that she wanted to leave him, Lorelai was torn. She didn't want to leave Santa Carla, didn't want to leave her childhood home, didn't want to leave her father. But Lorelai was only 12, and she had no choice in the matter. Her mother had gotten full custody of her with little fight from her father; he was always at the university working and wouldn't have time taking care of an adolescent girl.

Mary Green had always wanted to leave Santa Carla, she didn't want to raise her daughter in that town, and now she finally got her wish. Lorelai wouldn't have minded the move if it was just to a different town close to the boardwalk, or even if it was just within California. But no, Mary wanted to get as far away as she could from Santa Carla, so she found a house in Seaside heights, New Jersey, all the way across the country. Lorelai thanked her for picking a state that at least wasn't landlocked, but the east coast and west coast were very different from one another. Seasides boardwalks, though there were many of them, just couldn't compete with Santa Carla's, especially considering that they were all separated along the coastline.It got to the point where Lorelai didn't even want to go to the beach anymore, though every so often to get away, she would go to Sandy Hook and enjoy the private beaches there and the light house.

Mary Green had moved on and found a new man, Stanley Martin. At first, Lorelai didn't mind him all that much; he was a fun man who seemed to care about her and her mother very much. But after the wedding, everything changed. His personality did a complete 180 on them, and while Mary couldn't seem to see the change, Lorelai was all too aware.

Lorelai and her mother used be be very close to one another. They would stay up late watching old movies and shows, gossip and go out on little adventures with one another, but after the marriage was finalized, they all but stopped speaking to one another. Stanley would become angry if he saw the two of them acting how they used to, so he would come up with something, anything, to cause the mother and daughter to fight. It got to the point where Lorelai couldn't eave her phone on the nightstand or have a diary anymore because her mother or stepfather would go looking through them. At one point, after a rather nasty fight between Mary and Stanley, Lorelai heard him call her mother and her "sluts" and "cunts", to which Lorelai wrote down in her diary, sobbing. The next day, she noticed that the page had been ripped out and her mother all but chewed her head off, denying that her new husband had ever said those things about them.

Lorelai knew that her mother was brainwashed by the monster, but she also knew that he wasn't afraid to hurt either of them. She had caught him a few times hitting her mother, mostly when he was drunk or in front of his nasty friends, though those two things went hand in hand. And though Lorelai and her grandparents told Mary to leave the bastard, she would just start yelling at them, saying that she wouldn't be able to survive on her own or that she would never find another man like him.

So Lorelai went from worried, to scared, to just plain pissed in those four years; she would wear dark clothes and listen to angry music, anything to release the anger that she was feeling. She didn't want to live in that hell hole any longer. She had called and begged her father to let her move in with him, but each time he would try and convince Mary, she would take him to court and testify that he was unfit, spilling lies that her stepfather would tell her the night before; he didn't care if Lorelai was there or not, all he cared about was the child support that Chris payed for Lorelai, which would go right into Stanleys pocket. But finally, Lorelai had reached her breaking point.