Glitter Years

The Road Trip to Harvard

"Ah. No music. I can't believe we forgot to bring tunes." Lorelai groans.

"Do you realize that none of us has the vaguest idea where we are?" Rory looked down at the map.

"What is a road trip without tunes?" She grumbles ignoring her daughter's concerns.

"The sun is directly behind us." Rory looks out the window.

"Why did we bring lawn chairs?" Anna grumbles when she has to move around to remove the leg of one from her back.

"Never been in this car for any extended period of time without playing AC/DC." Lorelai went on.

"I have no idea which way it's going." She looks around for the sun.

"Does anyone want water?" Anna reaches back to open the cooler and grab a water bottle.

"I need my Highway to Hell." Lorelai needed some music to keep her up when the teens went to sleep.

"It's right out the windshield there." Rory points at the sun.

"I'll take that as a no." She closed the cooler so the ice wouldn't melt.

"There's nothing on the radio but Top 40 and Christian Rock. Christian Rock, there's an oxymoron for you. I need my tunes." She slammed her hand down on the steering wheel.

"Stop complaining about the tunes!" Rory yells.

"Stop complaining about our whereabouts!" She shouts.

"Well, my complaint is legitimate, yours is infantile." She compared their problems.

"Okay, you're right." She turns on the radio.

"Ew no," Anna reached forward to turn off the country music.

"We have to figure out where we're going." Rory insisted.

"No, we don't." Their mother shook her head.

"Mom," Rory said sternly.

"The point of this is to be spontaneous. To drive and land someplace we've never been and never expected to be." Lorelai explains the purpose of this trip.

"Sounds risky," Rory said.

"Sounds like the start of a horror movie or a bad comedy," Anna commented.

"Sounds exciting." Lorelai corrected them.

"Serendipity has never been kind to us." Rory pointed out how things normally backfired on them.

"Ah, yes, but I talked to serendipity on the phone last night. She feels bad about how she's treated us in the past. We had a nice chat. It's all gonna be different now." She smiles.

"What did that sign say? It says, don't or death on it." Rory looked back at the sign they passed.

"Relax." Lorelai sighs.

"We're doomed!" Anna and Rory cried.

"Wrong. We're being guided by fate." Lorelai spoke in a matter of fact kind of way.

"Everything is fate. So, for all, we know she's guiding us to our deaths." Anna felt like her death was going to be impaled by one of these lawn chairs when her mom made an abrupt stop.

"Be quiet," Lorelai turned around to hush her daughter.

"I think we're lost." Rory looks hopeless out the window.

"We can't be lost. We don't know where we're going." Lorelai laughs.

"You're going to stop before we drive into the Atlantic Ocean," Rory demands.