Glitter Years

Pilot

Rory and Susanna Gilmore were jogging through their small town to get to the local diner that had heat and coffee. "It's so cold." Rory whines.

"I know and I have on a shirt, sweater, and a jacket." Anna shivers.

They slid into the diner as someone was coming out. They each took a chair at the table their mom was occupying. "Hey, it's freezing." Rory pulls her coat closer to her body.

"What do you need, hot tea, coffee?" She looks at her two shivering daughters.

"Lip gloss," Rory told her.

"Yeah, I can feel my lips cracking as we speak." Anna rubs her poor lips.

Lorelai grabs her huge purse off the ground and pulls a large makeup bag out of it. "I have vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, and toasted marshmallow." She waves it around.

"Oh, toasted marshmallow." Anna grabs the bag to dig through it and find the lip gloss.

"Is there anything in there that doesn't resemble a breakfast cereal?" Rory asks.

"Yes, it has no smell, but it changes colors with your mood." Their mom pulls out another bag of makeup.

"RuPaul doesn't need this much makeup." Rory looks down in irritation at the two bags of make up her mother carried around with her.

"Well, some of us don't have his natural beauty. I mean have you seen those cheekbones." Susanna put the pocket mirror that her mom had on top of the napkin holder to apply her make-up since Rory rushed her out of the house this morning. In Rory defense, if she waited for her sister to get ready, they wouldn't have had time for a coffee before school.

"You're crabby." She pouted at her grumpy daughter.

"I'm sorry. I lost my Macy Gray CD, and I need caffeine." Rory explains her bad morning.

"I have your CD." She pulls out the CD that Rory flips her room upside down looking for.

"Thief," She snatches her CD from her mother.

"Yeah thief, this is my eyeliner." Anna waves around the makeup she was looking for this morning. It was the reason, she ran out of time to put any on.

"Sorry, and I will get you guys some coffee." She put her purse back under the table and stood up. She walks over to the counter to order two coffees.

A man in his early twenty came over to their table. "You know, you don't need to be putting on that makeup. I saw you when you first came in, you're a natural beauty." He leans his hands on the table while smiling down at the girl.

Rory leans back with excitement knowing her sister was about to rip him a new one. "It's a good thing then that I don't put on makeup, because I want to look good for you or any other male. I put it on because I like it. It's my armor. I'm about ready to go to war, so if I were you I would sashay away." Anna closes her eyeliner to glare at the man. Rory backed up her sister by pointing back to the table that he came from.

"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to offend you. I was just looking to start a conversation because I've never been through here before." He tried to backtrack.

"You have, too." Lorelai came up from behind him to surprise him.

"Oh, hi," He turns around to greet her.

"You like my table, don't you?" She smiles at the man as she put a mug of coffee in front of each of her daughters. Rory and Anna share a small smile of amusement. It seems that their mom had already turned this man down.

"I was just..." He couldn't think of something to say.

"Getting to know my daughters," She put a hand on the back of the chairs her daughters were sitting in.