This is just a story I've been building on in my head for about six months now. I'm a new fanfic writer, so cut me some slack here! I might be a little slow on updates…

Random Thought: I am just now watching season seven for the first time and as I watch the thirteenth episode, I can't help but wonder how Lorelai refrained from kissing Luke at the hospital. Yet, it must have been so sad for her that her ex-fiance would come to the hospital to make sure that she was okay, but her own husband wouldn't come…

Okay so the story starts with my own slight twist starting with episode 2.3. What if Lorelai realized that the one she was in love with was Luke right then and there? You know, instead of waiting until the fourth season. Will she run from Luke? If you hate the story, tell me. I am new at this whole thing and am definitely not the best writer out there. There are plenty of other great writers that I can't beat (and so on and so forth)

Oh right, need a disclaimer. Here we go:

Disclaimer: I don't own Gilmore Girls. I don't even think that they're for sale. If they were, how would I know in the first place? Besides, I am perfectly content to write about them without letting everyone in the world critique my ability to write TV shows. Did anyone ease up on DR just because he was new at writing the scripts on his own? Or maybe he wasn't new, I don't really know. That is beside the point though.

Chapter 1 – French Food; Don't Make Me Do This

Lorelai sat on her porch next to Luke listening to him talk about marriage. Suddenly something he said struck her and she began to reconsider everything about her impending marriage.

"I guess if you can find that one person, you know, who's willing to put up with all your crap, and doesn't want to change you or dress you or you know, make you eat French food, then marriage can be all right. But that's only if you find that person."

"Ye-yeah," Lorelai stammered. "If you find that person." She looked around; Luke was standing next to her under the chuppa like Max was supposed to in just a few days. Lorelai gulped and started to look around nervously, thinking about Luke. "He made me a chuppa!" She thought."He does so much and he doesn't have to. He was there when Rory was sick, when she broke up with Dean, to help me find Stella. He's always been there and I just can't imagine him not being there." Suddenly Lorelai had one of those epiphanies you hear about and it hit her harder than she had anticipated. She was in love with Luke. That was it. Plain and simple.

"Oh my god." She muttered under her breath.

"Lorelai?" Luke asked, immediately concerned.

Lorelai sighed and began talking. "Luke, thank you so much for the chuppa. I can't begin to tell you how much it means to me. It was above and beyond what you needed to do. You didn't actually need to do anything." Lorelai rambled. Luke was giving her a strange look now, obviously confused about where she was going with this. "Anyway," She began again. "The point is that you didn't have to do any of this and you did it anyway…so thank you so much. I um- I have to go. Uh, bye." Lorelai finished and ran for cover. Luke was left standing under the chuppa, hopelessly bewildered about Lorelai's strange behavior.

Under the shelter of the gazebo Lorelai thought and thought. She just couldn't believe that she was in love with Luke. She couldn't go through with her marriage now! How could she do that to Max, to herself, to Rory even? Lorelai knew she was a coward though, she knew it but she tried to hide it as best as she could. She couldn't face Luke and tell him what she had discovered. She couldn't face Max now; she had to at least tell him that she was canceling the wedding, but she was too scared to do it in person. All the little voices in her head were taunting her. "Coward, coward, coward!" Quickly she picked up the phone and within five minutes the horrible deed was done. Max had not been happy to say the least, but he accepted it and told her that he was sorry if he did anything to drive her away. She of course had assured him that he hadn't done anything wrong, that it was all her and that she was so so sorry to end it like this. Now Lorelai sat staring straight ahead not really thinking anything until she saw the diner across the street. Suddenly she realized that she couldn't stay there, people would start to worry if she didn't leave soon. So she did leave. She got up and ran, not noticing that Luke had been approaching her. Needless to say, Luke was taken aback by this. He simply stared after her, mistakenly thinking that she was running from him.

Lorelai burst into Rory's room to see her daughter sitting on the bed reading a book.

"Pack!" Lorelai exclaimed.

"What?" Rory asked obviously confused.

"Pack! We're hitting the road! Getting out of here! Just you and me on a road trip!"

"Mom! We can't go on a road trip now! You're getting married in six days!" Lorelai stopped moving around Rory's room and stared at the ground. "Mom? You are getting married aren't you?" Lorelai shook her head without making eye contact with her daughter. "What happened? Why aren't you getting married?" Rory asked frantically. Lorelai answered sounding as though she was on the verge of tears.

"Because I didn't want to try on my wedding dress." Rory walked over to her mom and tried to sit her down on the bed.

"Talk to me." Rory said quietly. "Talk me through what happened." Lorelai didn't answer. "Mom! Come on! You have to tell me what happened!" Lorelai jumped back out of Rory's reach.

"No! I can't talk about this! I can't talk about it! Please don't make me!" She yelled. "I'm sorry," Lorelai said after a minute of silence on both ends. "I didn't mean to yell."

"Its okay." Rory said. "Alright!" She exclaimed suddenly. "Where are we going to go?"

"I don't know; I didn't really have a plan."

"Packing for all climates. Got it. Go and pack mom! We're hitting the road!" Lorelai smiled sadly at Rory and then walked out of the room to her own in order to pack. For the first time in her life, Lorelai was able to pack everything she would need within ten minutes. Lorelai sank onto her bed and stared at the ceiling willing sleep to claim her. It didn't though. Finally, after another hour of staring at the ceiling, Lorelai fell into a restless sleep.

The next morning she and Rory packed their bags into the car and headed out of town. The pair sat in silence for a little while before Lorelai finally spoke. "So this is good right?"

"Yeah…" Rory answered. "It'll be good for us to get out of here for a few days.

"Yeah!" Lorelai exclaimed starting to get into the spirit. "We'll have some good old fashioned girl fun and just blow this joint!"

"Yeah! Who needs Stars Hollow when we have the open road!"

"Okay, I'm gonna speed out of here, so be prepared." Lorelai said.

"Okay!" Lorelai pressed down on the gas and picked up speed only to be confronted with the infamous red light. She slammed on the breaks and the car squealed to a stop. Both Lorelai and Rory sighed and settled back to wait out the incredibly long red light. "Well," Rory said after a moment. "We almost got out."

"Yeah, but Stars Hollow is desperate to keep us in." Lorelai said. She turned to Rory and smiled. Rory smiled back, but she noticed that her mom's smile didn't really reach her eyes.

TBC…