AN: Okay, so I got another Idea for a story. SO WHAT! I will continue my other stories, I just am feeling this story. Okay. Well, read review and such. Oh and I use ~ as a break in time or place if you wondered.
June 3rd 2006
It had been a little less than a month since the breakup. Lorelai walked through the Dragonfly just trying to hold on. Her heart hurt her head and body felt numb.
Luke packed the last box, he had been so secretive, only telling Ceaser, Ben, Lane and Zach that Anna had decided to take April to New Mexico so they could be closer to Anna's mom and Luke was going with them so he could be with April. Anna had agreed on joint custody, Luke found a house about 20min from Anna's new one. He was leaving Stars Hollow. Ceaser, Ben, Lane and Zach would run the diner but he was gone. He had to tell Lorelai but was scared.
Lorelai grabbed her things ready to leave. She waved bye to Sookie, stepped onto the front porch and saw him. Truck full on things.
"Hi" she said
"Hey, I just came to tell you something" Luke's voice was cold
"Oh, okay"
"Uh, Anna and April are moving to New Mexico to be closer to Anna's mom and I am moving too. Anna agreed on joint custody and I am leaving tonight. I just wanted to tell you"
"What?" she asked her eyes full of tears. Around the corner Sookie and Michael listened.
"I can't stay here Lorelai. I can't live in this town. You and him together.."
"We aren't together Luke!" She interrupted
"Yeah, well I just came to say goodbye" He turned
"Luke! No please! Don't go! We can work this out!" she walked towards him
"Lorelai, no. I am leaving. I want you to be happy. Please, let me go" He got into his truck and drove off.
"NO! LUKE COME BACK!" Lorelai screamed, as the truck passed she collapsed onto the ground and cried. Her heart pounding. "Luke, come back" she cried.
Sookie ran to her fallen friend telling Michael to call Rory. "Lorelai, sweetie" she wrapped her arms around her friend.
"He's gone, he is really gone" she cried.
"Lorelai, it is going to be okay" Sookie felt herself crying for her friend.
Rory ran from the house to the Dragonfly to find her mom sitting on the dust covered ground in tears. Sookie's arms wrapped around her
"Mom?" she got closer, bending down to looking her mom's eyes
"He's gone, he hates me and he is gone" she sobbed over and over
Sookie explained what happened and Rory held her mother's hands.
"We have to get her home" Rory said
"Okay" Sookie took Lorelai's left hand and Rory took her right, the two lifted her up, she was like a rag doll, not speaking, just mumbling over and over "he's gone"
Days and weeks seemed to past. Lorelai stayed on the couch, she refused to go upstairs, she cried and cried all day. Now it was June 23rd and she had to go back to work. Taking 2 ½ weeks off was already too much. She walked upstairs and showered quickly, she put on a dress she had worn 1000 times before, she put little make up on and left her hair down. The town knew, they all knew and she hated that everyone was gossiping about her.
Luke tried to adjust. He missed Lorelai. The weather was too hot, he felt out of place but it was for the best he told himself.
The town buzzed about the shakeup. The inn owner's break down was a buzz. The diner owners departure was spoken of in hushed tones. Months passed, the diner lived on but without the two of them it seemed empty. Town meetings were quieter. Lorelai Gilmore was rarely seen and when she was, she would walk fast and stay silent, everyone saw how skinny she had gotten and people heard that she worked from 9am to 9pm every day.
June 3rd 2007
A year? A year had passed Lorelai thought looking at the calendar on her desk. She felt sad all over again. Rory was off in Iowa, she and Chris had tried to date but it was obvious Lorelai was not in it. Chris had decided to take Gigi and move to Paris. Lorelai was alone, most of the time is was okay, she had a routine but today she felt the pain, it hurt and she wanted to cry but she didn't. She thought about Luke, how was he? But she was taken out of her thoughts by the ringing phone.
Rory sat on the bus and thought about her mom. Lorelai Gilmore was so different. For one she hadn't had a sip of coffee in a year and no matter how much anyone tried she blamed herself for everything that went wrong. Rory thought of calling her mom to see how she was but felt like she couldn't.
Lane cleared a table and made the rounds. Zach was home taking care of the twins. Lane couldn't believe a year had passed. She was the only one who spoke to Luke, and although she felt guilty knowing her second mother was so depressed she knew she had a job to do.
The town all talked on the anniversary
"I hear she doesn't drink coffee anymore" one said
"It's true, she ordered tea at Weston's yesterday" another confirmed
"I hear he is working as a contractor in New Mexico" a lady whispered
"I heard Lorelai tried to call him" A man said
"Poor girl"
"Well she did cheat" a lady said
"Poor Luke"
The town when silent when they saw her walking across the square to the store for her weekly grocery time.
June 3rd 2008
Lorelai cried in her room. She was all alone.
Luke looked at his phone, he wanted to call. He missed her. Then April came in.
Rory smiled at her boyfriend, she hated the day.
Lane tried to ignore the feeling of guilt
The town gossiped.
June 3rd 2009
Lorelai smiled as she walked into the Dragonfly.
"Hey Sookie!" she said cheerily, Sookie realized Lorelai must not know what day it is.
"Oh Hi, I didn't think you would come in today" she said
"Sookie, it has been 3 years. I am fine. I am over it. I even have a date tomorrow night" Lorelai smiled
"Ohhhh who is it?"
"His name is Tyler, he works at a bank in Hartford. I met him when I went with my mom to help her with some stuff." Lorelai smiled
"I am so glad" Sookie patted her arm.
"Me too" Lorelai turned and walked out of the room, her smile faded, she hated lying but she couldn't take the feeling of everyone giving her sympathy.
Luke walked home feeling sad. The day's heat had cooled down. He missed Lorelai so much. Some days he could ignore it and put his energy into being a dad but today he couldn't. he had no one and he missed her. He felt a tear on his cheek and brushed it off.
Rory looked at her boyfriend, Alex. He had just gotten home from work teaching the 6th grade and she was working on a article for the New York Times.
"Hey, you okay" he asked her
"No. I am thinking of my mom. Today is June 3rd. she is probably feeling horrid."
"Well, call her and tell her about your new article. Don't mention the date, just talk to her" Alex smiled at his girlfriend. He loved how close she was to her mom.
"Thanks" she gave him a kiss and grabbed her phone.
June 3rd 2010
Lorelai watched as her daughter and daughter's husband made dinner. Lorelai held a little dog named Capri and smiled.
"Rory, go sit with your mom, I can finish" Alex said
Rory sat by her mom
"You look happy kid" Lorelai smiled
"I am mom, really, really happy"
"I am so glad. I am so proud of you too" Lorelai put her hand on Rory's arm.
"Are you happy mom" Rory asked
"Yeah, I am" Lorelai lied, 4 years and it still hurt.
Luke sat in his apartment nursing a beer. He hated this day. April was going into her senior year and thinking about colleges, all of them East coast, making Luke decided in a year he would move back to Stars Hollow.
Lane tried to wrangle her 3 year old twins. She thought of Lorelai, she was visiting Rory in New York. Lane felt odd, living in Lorelai's old house but two years ago Lorelai had told Lane she couldn't live there anymore. Lorelai moved into a house by Sookie, the set up was about the same as Sookie's. She had her room, a guest room for Rory and Alex and her sewing room.
May 10th 2011
Lorelai Gilmore made her way to the store with a smiled on her face. As she walked she looked over at the diner, at first she thought her eyes were playing tricks, but they weren't. There in front on the diner was the rusty green truck of Luke Danes. Lorelai stood in one place feeling ill. She turned and ran for home.
AN: Okay hope you enjoyed this! I love it. Thanks for reading! Byeee!