Once in a Lifetime Love
Summary: The classic Romeo and Juliet, Gilmore style (for the most part)! Stars Hollow-crossed lovers, if you like. L/L Don't forget, R/R is loved!
Disclaimer: Not mine. Wish they were, but no. I cry every night.
NOTE: This is when Luke and Lorelai are teens, specifically when she is 17, he is 18, and everyone is much younger, except Babbette. Oh, and Rory does not exist. Hehe!
ROMEO"YOU COME BACK HERE RIGHT NOW YOU LITTLE THIEFS! CHARLIE! Oh, my poor Charlie! Ah, jeeze, I can't run like I used to." Babbette yelled as she huffed on her front lawn, completely exhausted. The culprits, Jackson, Tom, and Kirk, got away with one of her new, yet loved and named, gnomes from the front lawn. She had come out the door just in time to see Kirk grab the gnome and run.
Jackson and Tom were known to cause trouble, nothing big that would cause them to get arrested, but enough to cause Taylor to go crazy with 'missing' fruit and silly string on the store windows. You know, harmless teenage pranks. The worst punishment they were given was to clean the windows of Taylor's store after a particularly bad silly string rampage. Of course, their parents hadn't let them off easy, but they still couldn't stop themselves from causing mayhem. Kirk liked to follow the older boys around like a lap dog, although most of the time he wasn't wanted. But then again, it was Friday, and since they were feeling nice, they decided to have him pull off the gnome heist.
When the boys realized that she wasn't following, they stopped running and walked along the pond, laughing and tossing Charlie back and forth, with Kirk in the middle trying to grab it away from the other two.
"Hey guys, I'm the one who got it! Let me hold him!" Kirk whined as they tossed it over his head.
"Maybe later little dude, you're too young to handle something this fragile." Jackson laughed as he juggled it from hand to hand carelessly.
"Hey, I just had a great idea!" Tom exclaimed, whipping a Sharpie out of his pocket.
"Totally wicked man! You are amazing!" Jackson reached for the marker, ready to destroy the little guy's face. As he was about to make his first mark, Kirk let out a yelp. "What now butthead?"
"You can't just write all over that poor gnome's face! He was named and everything! I thought we were just going to take it for a while and then give it back. I don't want to get in trouble with my mom. She'll kill me!"
"I wouldn't want to deal with your mom either, man." Tom laughed. "Besides, what do you think the point of taking it was for? Dress it up in your clothing until we wrap it in a bow and leave it on her front porch? …Hey wait, that's not too bad an idea!"
"Tom, we can't do it, even though it's a good idea. I don't want to have to deal with his mom again after the last time we ripped his favorite underwear." Jackson said while taking the marker and leaving a mark on Kirk's neck.
"Hey, you guys stop! Or else I'll tell!" Kirk threatened meekly.
"Well go ahead! You're the one that stole Charlie, not us!" Tom laughed, knowing he had Kirk in the palm of his hand. Kirk looked frightened as it dawned on him that they let him take it on purpose, that way he couldn't tattle.
"We gotta hide it somewhere. Come on, let's head over to Luke's place." Jackson said, pocketing the marker and walking towards town with Charlie in hand.
"Yeah, if he's actually there. He's been acting so weird lately, ever since he and that Anna girl broke up." Tom muttered, spitting into the pond water.
"Don't worry, he'll get over it." Jackson said behind his shoulder. At least he hoped he would.
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Luke Danes had been sitting inside the gazebo almost all day, thinking. His father had let him take the day off, knowing something wasn't right with his son. A day's rest can really do wonders and hoped he would return to his normal self again. So after waking up early, eating breakfast, and taking two walks, he ended up at the gazebo in the center of town, watching the people walk by. He had been thinking about how ridicules the blonde lady in the bright pink sweater looked when his vision was cut off by two hands over his eyes.
"Guess who…" someone said in a girly voice.
"Tom, get your hands off me." Luke said in an annoyed voice, although he was really happy he was there to distract him from his mind.
"Aw, you know you love me." Tom kidded, squeezing him like an old girlfriend. Luke looked uncomfortable.
"And just wait till you see the goods!" Jackson whipped out Charlie from behind his back. "Ain't he a bute!" he said, shinning his face with his sleeve.
"Aw jeeze you guys, another gnome?" Luke asked. He couldn't believe they did it again. Weren't the last five times enough?
"Yeah, but this time the dork did the deed!" Tom exclaimed pointing to Kirk, who was standing behind the other two boys looking ashamed of himself. "Maybe he isn't as much of a wart as we thought. Although, it takes a lot more than just one little thing like a gnome to really join our group. I'm thinking full out graffiti on Taylor's wall."
"Oh yeah, and toilet paper all over the tree in front of the school! That's a great idea!" Jackson added to make Kirk squirm. He hated getting in trouble.
"Um, I think I hear my mom screaming. Coming mom!" Kirk ran towards his house without looking back.
"Ha, dweeb." Tom snorted. "Well, I have the best idea for Charlie. I'm taking him to my tool shed. You coming guys?"
"We'll be right there buddy. Don't do too much damage without me!" Jackson yelled as Tom walked away towards his house, giving him the thumbs up signal. As the two of them sat there, Jackson realized Luke had been quiet the whole time. He should say something to his friend. "So, how was your morning?"
"Nothing special." Luke monotoned. He wasn't in the mood to talk about his heartbreak.
"Come on man, she was nothing special. Hell, I think she's already got another guy, she's a jerk."
"Well she was special to me!" Luke raised his voice. Jackson looked a little alarmed and Luke's face fell. He wasn't angry at Jackson, he was angry at Anna. "I'm sorry man. It's just… I always thought we had a future together, you know, me and her? I just don't understand what went wrong. She was happy, I mean I thought she was happy, and then she just… leaves. I was caught off guard. I just don't understand."
"Luke, she's not worth it. Someday you'll find someone else and you'll think, Anna who? It'll be ok." Jackson reassured him. He had never seen his friend so open with his feelings before. Usually he just huffed and walked away and eventually went back to normal. Maybe it was because he usually told his sister that stuff and she left only a month ago with one of her crazy boyfriends. He needed a confidant.
"Did you ever think that… maybe there was the one for you out there somewhere? Like the one that you were meant to spend the rest of your life with and you were so much in-tune with each other that you understood everything by looking in their eyes?" Luke asked Jackson, although he was so out there he was asking the world in general.
"I think there is. I mean, we'll find them eventually. We're only 18, we have our entire lives ahead of us. Let's just deal with the girls we got now and worry about the others later. I've got my girl Sookie for now and I'm happy. I'm not thinking of starting a family! Not for a long, long time. We've got so much stuff to get through before we think about love." Jackson answered to the best of his capability.
"Yeah, I know. I was just sorta thinking out loud. Sorry for sounding so sappy, I probably sounded really stupid." Luke said standing up. Jackson stood up as well, adjusting his pants like he woke up from a long nap.
"Nah man, we're good."
"Good. Good. Well, uh, I think there's a gnome waiting for us." Luke said as the two boys raced towards Tom's tool shed, where they could already hear drilling sounds coming out of it.