Glitter Years

Paris is Burning

Lorelai and Rory were walking down the street in Star Hollow playing the alphabet game with diseases to see who would have to clean out the fridge. Anna was walking a little ahead of them, seeing that she was the one to do it last time. "Puppies," She screamed and ran across the street, nearly getting hit by a car. Lorelai screams in excitement also and ran after her. The animal shelter was having their once a month adoption day at the park.

"Hi! Oh hi! Hi! Ooh! Look at the baby!" Lorelai ran up to a small dog in a crate.

"Mom," Rory warns her.

"Aw, Buttercup was found cold and wet hovering under a hydrangea bush along highway 26. That's a sad highway." Anna read the paper on her crate.

"Compared to all the other happy highways she could've been abandoned by." Rory sighs, knowing she would have to talk them out of getting this dog.

"Her lineage includes cocker spaniel, golden retriever, Bouvier des Flandres..." Lorelai read.

"Gesundheith," Rory corrects her.

"Thank you and Rottweiler." She finished reading.

"Buttercup is a special dog. She's extremely skittish and tends to react badly towards blonde-haired females, brunette males, children, other animals, red clothing, cabbage, or anyone in a uniform." Rory read the rest of her bio.

"I can change out of my uniform before coming into the house." Anna reasoned.

Luke walks up to them. "Hey, we just found the doggy version of you." Lorelai points to the dog.

"Can I help you?" A volunteer walks up to them.

"Do not let these three anywhere near a dog. They can barely feed themselves." Luke told the man.

"That is a lie. We'd be excellent pet owners." Anna defends them.

"You cannot be serious." Rory sighs. The volunteer walks away, not wanting to be part of this debate.

"We would be. We could get him a pretty bowl..." Lorelai adds on.

"It's her," Anna reminds her mom.

"...and a new name..." She said.

"Mom," Rory sighs again.

"...cause this Buttercup thing has got to go." She shook her head.

"Do I need to remind you of Skippy?" Rory said.

"Skippy?" Luke asks.

"Skippy." Anna put her head down in remembrance.

"I can't believe you would bring up Skippy." Lorelai gasps.

"Skippy was our hamster," Rory told him.

"He doesn't care." Lorelai shook her head.

"What happened to Skippy?" He asked.

"Nothing happened to Skippy." Lorelai lied.

"Every time mom would put her hand in his cage, he'd bit her," Rory told him.

"And laugh," Lorelai adds on.

"Hamsters can't laugh," Luke told her.

"Oh, this one laughed, trust me." She looks annoyed by the hamster they had years ago.

"So finally she got fed up." Rory continued the story.

"Of being laughed at by a hamster?" Luke wanted to make sure he heard that right.

"Well yeah," Lorelai said like she was in the right.

"So she stopped cleaning its cage. Instead, every day she would stuff some Kleenex in there." Rory explains.