"She's my best friend," Rory said simply. Yeah, she was her mom, and when you got right down to it her only parent, but Lorelai was still Rory's best friend in the entire world. "I have other friends, though, obviously," she added as an afterthought, not bothering to mention that the majority of those were her mom's.
"Yeah, it makes my grandparent's place look really tiny. This place is somehow less intimidating, though," she commented.
She wondered what sort of background John thought she came from between the titdbits he knew about her childhood and the school she went to.
"Sort of... I mean, my grandparents are pretty well off, and until the last few weeks we only saw them on holidays. They're paying my tuition - otherwise I wouldn't be able to go - and we have dinner wtih them every Friday now," she told him, "My mom and I don't live anything like this. She got pregant, cut herself off and it's just been us."