The bell jingles as Lorelai and Rory enter Luke's.
Lorelai calls "Good Morning Luke! Two of your biggest coffees please."
Luke turns around with the two cups, places them on the counter and fills them up.
"Muffins, or Danishes today?" he asks.
"Yes, please!" Lorelai says grinning.
Rory smiles at her mom than adds "Me too!"
Luke looks at them confused "You want both?"
They just look at Luke and smile. He shakes his head while grabbing the food. It never failed to amaze him how much these two could eat. At least it wasn't bacon, sausages, pancakes, and hashbrowns like usual.
"So what are you two up to today?" he asks Rory
"Mom, and I are going to help Lane decorate her room in her new apartment. She's living with two guys who only idea of decorating is putting Futurama figurines on the entertainment stand and taping swimsuit model pictures to the walls." She replies.
"Just like your apartment." Lorelai teases.
"Whatever, I don't even own any Futurama figurines." Luke turns back to Rory, "If you're going over there could you ask Lane if she would come in at 3:00 today instead of 5:00." He looks at Lorelai because he knew she had on her 'why?' expression and explains, "Liz called last night, her and TJ, or Gary, or whatever, found a place here in town. They can't move in until the beginning of next month, but they already gave up their old apartment, so they are gonna stay with me until then." He finishes with an exhausted sigh.
Lorelai shrugs, "It won't be that bad I guess, I mean you'll be in the diner all day, and then you can go back to you and Nicole's place at night." Lorelai always felt that when she talked about Nicole it was almost as if she was reminding Luke that he had moved. He never mentioned Litchfield, or Nicole, or their new apartment. Mind you, the whole relationship in general was almost too much to wrap one's head around.
Luke straightened up and looked at the cloth in his hand as he tossed it back and forth for a second. 'Tell her' the little voice in his head said.
"Nicole and I decided to finish filing for the divorce. No lawyers, no courts, just…finish it." He slowly put down the cloth and looks at Lorelai who is saying nothing.
Rory is the first to speak up, "I'm so sorry Luke, I really wanted you to be happy." The cell phone in her pocket goes off and she looks at Luke then her still silent mother and says, "I'll be outside." then she steps outside.
Luke looks at Lorelai "What, no 'I told you so'?"
Lorelai looks concerned, "Luke…I saw you guys fighting the other day, I didn't know it was that bad. There I was laying all my problems on you, when you had enough on your mind. Why didn't you tell me? Oh God, it wasn't because of the loan was it? Because you lent me so much money?" She reaches over and puts her hand on his arm, ready to beg forgiveness if that's what did it.
"No, I never even told her about the loan." He then shakes his head and let's out a little chuckle, "I guess because of stuff like that, is why we called it quits." He looks back at Lorelai, who is now giving him that concerned look that makes his stomach do a little flip-flop.
Rory comes back in the diner. "Lane's waiting for us, she says we only have two hours before the guys get back from work and she promised them she'd be done by then."
Lorelai smiles at Rory, "OK kiddo." She picks up the muffins and Danishes, pays, then says to Luke, "Call me later if you need a hand moving Liz's stuff or anything, I'm off work all day."
Luke nods at her and watches as she and Rory leave.