Your Mind Works in Mysterious Ways
As Luke walked downstairs into the Diner, Lorelai's mouth dropped. Never had she seen him dressed in black from head to toe. (Well except for the time she dressed him up a few years back.) Not one piece of stubble was left on his face. 'He must have a meeting with the bank or something' Lorelai thought. 'No, he wouldn't dress that nicely to go to a meeting' Lorelai figured she'd just ask him why he was so….clean.
"Hey there, Luke!" Lorelai called to him as he was fixing his collar of the black buttoned down shirt he was wearing.
"Hey," Luke replied walked over behind the counter.
"You look all nice and dress up," she commented.
"Ah, yeah, well thanks," he replied in his gruff macho voice.
"Where you go-" Lorelai was interrupted of her sentence when the bell above the diner door jingled. Luke looked up and cleared his throat nervously then walked over to the short haired blonde woman.
"Oh, it's a girl," Lorelai mumbled to herself. Luke shot back a look to Lorelai. Apparently Lorelai didn't say it quiet enough. Lorelai watched Luke greet the woman. 'She does not look like his type at all' Lorelai thought. She didn't know why she was acting so strangely at the fact that Luke had a date and she didn't. Was it because she was always the one going out with different men and Luke always the one sitting on the sidelines watching? No, that wasn't it.
The woman's cell phone started ringing and Luke took a seat next to Lorelai watching his date talk on the phone (even though he forbids cell phones in his diner.)
"Soooo…" Lorelai hinted to Luke to tell her about the girl.
Luke caught on to her hint quickly, "Her name's Nicole Leahy. She's a lawyer. Well technically, Taylor's lawyer."
'Oh my, God! Did I just hear that correctly? Luke Danes- the man that hates lawyers- is actually dating one?! Luke- my coffee supplier- was dating a lawyer' Lorelai thought to herself, 'wow I have to let that sink in. My Luke- wait…"My Luke"? What was that all about? I can't have feelings for him, can I?
"I-uh- have to go" Lorelai told Luke quickly.
"Oh, um, okay," he replied confused. 'I wonder what that was all about.' Luke thought, 'Surly she isn't jealous,' his face became emotionless, 'could she?'
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Lorelai was walking past the gazebo. She needed someone to talk to, but who? 'Sookie?' No, she is probably too busy with Davy. I wonder if Rory has a class right now,' Lorelai thought as she flipped open her cell phone dialing the familiar number while walking in the wintry weather.
"Hello?" Rory answered out of breath.
"Hey, sweets! What's wrong? You sound like you've just ran a marathon,"
"Ha-Ha," Rory said, "No, actually, I was just running from my car into my dorm because it's freezing outside, and you know how I hate the cold," Rory told her mother while trying to catch her breath.
"Ah, well, I love the cold weather so I wouldn't know what you're feeling,"
"It's feels like an icicle someone put down your shirt," Rory said simply.
"Hey! I apologized for that! In fact, I felt so guilty that I let you borrow my really sexy purple sweater that you never returned by the way!" Lorelai tried to defend herself.
"Yes, well if I remember correctly, you still haven't returned that black mini I let you borrow two years ago!"
"Oh, no! Is that the same one Babette's cat gave birth on?" Lorelai asked.
"MOM!" Rory screeched loudly into the phone just thinking about that image.
"Kidding, kidding," Lorelai tried to calm down her daughter.
"You're not funny," Rory pouted.
"Okay, can we just forget about what you and I borrowed from each other for about 5 minutes? Mommy's having a crisis."
"Let out all your troubles."
"Okay, Dr. Phil. I'm not sure if I have feelings for…" Lorelai trailed off.
"For…Dad?" Rory asked.
"No."
"Um…Max?"
"Uh, no!" Lorelai answered surprised.
"Kirk?"
"Okay, do you want me to put you up for adoption?"
"It's too late for that," replied Rory.
Lorelai gasped!
"I'm just saying that I'm an adult now. You can't put me up for adoption," Rory said sweetly.
"Whatever! That's not what I'm trying to talk to you about! I'm not referring to your dad, Max, or….Kirk," Lorelai winced when she said Kirk's name, "I'm talking about…"
"Ok, was this call even necessary? Because when you call someone, you're supposed to tell the person what's on your mind, and you're not-"
"Luke! I'm referring to Luke!" Lorelai yelled to Rory.
"Whoa…" Rory trailed off. She didn't know what to say.