Lorelai ran around like a chicken without its head. Luke kept yelling "run this food to that table!!"
"But you don't understand I can't I have to do something and I have to do it now."
"just run this over to that guy, I don't have time to waste here."
She did as she was told thinking that all she had to do was that one table. She runs back and he forces her to run food to another table. Finally she stops and looks at him and yells "You don't understand I can't run the food to the tables. I have to wake up." "So, wake up, what's stopping you?"
Loralei sits up in bed and was confused as to where she was but realized that she was safe at home.
"Rory, I had another dream."
"ugh usually people dream when they are asleep. It isn't uncommon so why do you have to announce it to the world every time like it's the first to ever happen."
"Luke was in it."
"oh? dirty dream?"
"No not at all. It was busy and I had to run food to tables but I was frustrated cuz I had something else to do instead but I kept running the damn food and finally I screamed out that I couldn't run food anymore cuz I had to wake up. And then he said 'so wake up' and I did. What does that mean?"
"It meant that subconsciously you knew you needed to wake up."
"Oh yea. You know you are really good at this analyzing thing."
"No you just are obtuse when it comes to knowing yourself."
Lor gasps "I know myself plenty my dear. I know myself better than anyone else."
"No you don't. You think you know yourself but you have no idea."
"This conversation is stupid. How can you say that I don't know me. I am with me all the time, I know what I like, I know my favorite color, and I even know my favorite food. I'm all knowing in the knowledge of me."
"Well lets just drop this cuz I foresee this going into the direction of an argument and it's too early for that. Besides we have to get to Luke's before he stops serving breakfast. Now go get dressed and lets go.
"Just admit that I know me and then I'll get ready."
"Fine you know you, now scoot."
30 minutes later they open the door to the diner and glances around to see chaos and lots of it.
Loralei "whoa why is it so busy? I mean it's a mad house in here."
Rory "I don't think I've ever seen it this packed. There isn't a single chair open. And Jess is even running around helping. You know it's crazy when Jess is helping out."
"I think we stepped into the twilight zone, oh little one. Let's go out and then come back in maybe it will go back to normal."
The step out and then step back in
"Huh no change. What should we do ror?"
Luke comes rushing up "maybe you could help, here take this to that table in the corner."
He then pushes two plates toward her and glances at Rory.
"You could help by refilling coffee, I'm going to go to the back and help Caesar cook."
Lorelai "man he's bossy"
Rory "yea but we better get hustling or we'll get fired"
"OK but I don't think we technically got hired so how will we get fired. I think this is a volunteer program."
They both started helping out right away. Lor ran the food and took care of the register and rory took care of the minor things such as refilling drinks, getting napkins, condiments, and prebussing the tables. Finally, things slowed down enough for them to breathe and clean up.
Lor "What the hell was that! I have never seen it get this busy. Did you have a sale on bacon or something?"
Luke "No it usually gets busy right before Christmas cuz people get too lazy to cook since they have to cook a big meal. I guess this year more people got lazy. I better go back and help Caesar clean up that ungodly mess we left in the kitchen."
Jess "yea I have to go run some errands. Take 'er easy, and if she's real easy take her twice"
Loralei rolls her eyes while rory gives him a quick kiss.
Lor "huh interesting. Oh my god." she looks over at rory.
"what, why are you looking at me like that?"
"My dream. This was exactly my dream. I'm clairvoyant."
"uh I don't think so mom."
"What do you mean?!? This is totally the exact same thing as what I dreamed. I'm freakin Mrs. Cleo. Let me show you the way."
"Except that you said you had to wake up and Luke said so wake up. Clearly not the same thing."
"Well maybe I had to wake up so I could help Luke."
"hm interesting. Did you ever wonder why you would be so in tuned to Luke's needs?"
"Because he's my friend and we have a connection...a friendly connection."
Rory snickers "sure whatever ya say."
"What's that suppose to mean? And don't tell me the same crap sookie and Emily tells me cuz it's getting really old and is really starting to piss me off."
"why?"
"why what?"
"why does it upset you. I mean if everyone is clearly wrong and you know it then you shouldn't get so mad but instead just shrug it off. Instead you get defensive and pissed."
"cuz that is just the person I am."
"hm OK then tell me this. Is sookie ever in your dreams and if so how often."
"I don't know, I can't remember all the dreams that sookie was in. Hell I can't remember most of my dreams in the first place."
"but you seem to remember the ones with Luke in it?"
"Hey ya know maybe you should concentrate on making this place more suitable for the next customers."
Rory knew that she was shutting down so she decided to just stay quiet and let those thoughts float around in her head. Eventually, her mom was going to actually listen to somebody but who knew when and who know who that person would be.
"Well I'm now completely famished so lets get something to eat now. I'll just finish wiping down that table over there and we'll be done."
"Ok hun, I'll just ask Luke if he can whip us something to eat. Are you still in the mood for breakfast or have your tastes changed to lunch?"
"Hmm good question. I guess I'll take a cheeseburger, chili cheese fries, and hey would ya like to share an omelet?"
"What kind?" Lorelai stared at her suspiciously.
"Kind with lots of cheese and bacon on top."
"ooh that does sound good. Ok I'll go tell him." She goes back to the kitchen and rattles off an order to Luke.
"Who is this for?" Luke glanced at her, knowing full well that the order could only be for the gilmores.
"Uh well, for customers. Yea they uh have been here for a while and they are really hungry so I would snap to it or they will get furious. We don't need unsatisfied customers now do we?"
"It's for you and rory isn't it?"
"What? Why would you think that? I'm appalled."
"Only you two would order breakfast and lunch at the same time."
"Well we came in here looking for breakfast and got roped into running a diner and now we are really really hungry seeing that we had to do manual labor and such so a cheeseburger and fries just won't do so we decided to split a lovely cheese omelet to cover all the basics of your daily meals." She had a big grin on her face knowing what he'll say next. "Now I know this stuff will kill me and blah blah blah but we saved your ass and you know it so no complaints or lectures about grease or caffeine or anything else you health freaks love to complain about."
Luke just started laughing. "Are you done? Because your omelet is and you two can go ahead and start on this while I finish up the rest of your meal."
"oh uh yea thanks."
"Lor, thanks for helping out. You really didn't have to ya know even though I sorta forced you into it."
"No problem, that's what friends are for."
"uh yea" Luke looked a tad disappointed but only for a split second but Loralei noticed it.
"Is everything ok? Cuz you had a flash of disapprovement in your eyes just then."
"huh? oh...uh..I'm just tired that's all."
"oh...Ok" She enters the dining area with her omelet. "Waaaa laaa we have breakfast. Grab some coffee and come over to the bar and join me will ya."
"mmmmm nothin like a cheesy egg concoction with a pig laying right on top to make the day brighter."
"You said it sister."
Luke came from the back and dropped off the rest of their meal. He stalked up things that have deplinished cuz of the mad rush and the girls sat there and enjoyed their meals mostly in silence. When they had finished, Luke picked up there plates.
Lor "mmmm that was heavenly, Luke."
Rory "yea I don't think I have ever enjoyed a burger as much as that one."
"Oh really? what about that one summer in 91? You know the day we tried to fast and lasted only 30 minutes."
"hm I think it was better than that cuz this time we really were hungry where as last time as soon as we mentioned the word fast we were craving food. Why is that?"
"It's survival. We got scared and had to eat something quickly."
Luke "You two are nuts. You couldn't last 30 minutes in a fast? You know if you were stranded in the middle of nowhere you would never survive."
"Why would we be in the middle of nowhere?"
Rory "well I am going over to lane's for a bit. You two behave."
"all right sweets have fun. So Luke, how are you?"
"uh ok?"
"well ya know Christmas is coming up, do you have any plans? Is Jess going to his mom's?"
"No, I tried to convince him but he absolutely refused so I decided to just drop it." there was a brief pause "What do you get a kid like jess for Christmas? I should get him something but I've racked my brain and I can't think of anything."
"Ya know, I still have to get rory some stuff so perhaps we could go shopping together."
"Uh I don't know about that. Shopping isn't my forte but spending an entire day with you may cause me to lose my sanity."
"Oh you know it won't be that bad. I'm a shopping expert and besides I have the advantage on getting Jess what he likes."
"How is that? You don't even like the boy."
"True but my daughter likes him. I can get secret information whereas you cannot."
"Ok, so you want to meet me here tomorrow, say around 2?"
"Sounds like a plan to me."
Lorelai picked up her purse and headed out with a big grin. "see ya tomorrow."
"But you don't understand I can't I have to do something and I have to do it now."
"just run this over to that guy, I don't have time to waste here."
She did as she was told thinking that all she had to do was that one table. She runs back and he forces her to run food to another table. Finally she stops and looks at him and yells "You don't understand I can't run the food to the tables. I have to wake up." "So, wake up, what's stopping you?"
Loralei sits up in bed and was confused as to where she was but realized that she was safe at home.
"Rory, I had another dream."
"ugh usually people dream when they are asleep. It isn't uncommon so why do you have to announce it to the world every time like it's the first to ever happen."
"Luke was in it."
"oh? dirty dream?"
"No not at all. It was busy and I had to run food to tables but I was frustrated cuz I had something else to do instead but I kept running the damn food and finally I screamed out that I couldn't run food anymore cuz I had to wake up. And then he said 'so wake up' and I did. What does that mean?"
"It meant that subconsciously you knew you needed to wake up."
"Oh yea. You know you are really good at this analyzing thing."
"No you just are obtuse when it comes to knowing yourself."
Lor gasps "I know myself plenty my dear. I know myself better than anyone else."
"No you don't. You think you know yourself but you have no idea."
"This conversation is stupid. How can you say that I don't know me. I am with me all the time, I know what I like, I know my favorite color, and I even know my favorite food. I'm all knowing in the knowledge of me."
"Well lets just drop this cuz I foresee this going into the direction of an argument and it's too early for that. Besides we have to get to Luke's before he stops serving breakfast. Now go get dressed and lets go.
"Just admit that I know me and then I'll get ready."
"Fine you know you, now scoot."
30 minutes later they open the door to the diner and glances around to see chaos and lots of it.
Loralei "whoa why is it so busy? I mean it's a mad house in here."
Rory "I don't think I've ever seen it this packed. There isn't a single chair open. And Jess is even running around helping. You know it's crazy when Jess is helping out."
"I think we stepped into the twilight zone, oh little one. Let's go out and then come back in maybe it will go back to normal."
The step out and then step back in
"Huh no change. What should we do ror?"
Luke comes rushing up "maybe you could help, here take this to that table in the corner."
He then pushes two plates toward her and glances at Rory.
"You could help by refilling coffee, I'm going to go to the back and help Caesar cook."
Lorelai "man he's bossy"
Rory "yea but we better get hustling or we'll get fired"
"OK but I don't think we technically got hired so how will we get fired. I think this is a volunteer program."
They both started helping out right away. Lor ran the food and took care of the register and rory took care of the minor things such as refilling drinks, getting napkins, condiments, and prebussing the tables. Finally, things slowed down enough for them to breathe and clean up.
Lor "What the hell was that! I have never seen it get this busy. Did you have a sale on bacon or something?"
Luke "No it usually gets busy right before Christmas cuz people get too lazy to cook since they have to cook a big meal. I guess this year more people got lazy. I better go back and help Caesar clean up that ungodly mess we left in the kitchen."
Jess "yea I have to go run some errands. Take 'er easy, and if she's real easy take her twice"
Loralei rolls her eyes while rory gives him a quick kiss.
Lor "huh interesting. Oh my god." she looks over at rory.
"what, why are you looking at me like that?"
"My dream. This was exactly my dream. I'm clairvoyant."
"uh I don't think so mom."
"What do you mean?!? This is totally the exact same thing as what I dreamed. I'm freakin Mrs. Cleo. Let me show you the way."
"Except that you said you had to wake up and Luke said so wake up. Clearly not the same thing."
"Well maybe I had to wake up so I could help Luke."
"hm interesting. Did you ever wonder why you would be so in tuned to Luke's needs?"
"Because he's my friend and we have a connection...a friendly connection."
Rory snickers "sure whatever ya say."
"What's that suppose to mean? And don't tell me the same crap sookie and Emily tells me cuz it's getting really old and is really starting to piss me off."
"why?"
"why what?"
"why does it upset you. I mean if everyone is clearly wrong and you know it then you shouldn't get so mad but instead just shrug it off. Instead you get defensive and pissed."
"cuz that is just the person I am."
"hm OK then tell me this. Is sookie ever in your dreams and if so how often."
"I don't know, I can't remember all the dreams that sookie was in. Hell I can't remember most of my dreams in the first place."
"but you seem to remember the ones with Luke in it?"
"Hey ya know maybe you should concentrate on making this place more suitable for the next customers."
Rory knew that she was shutting down so she decided to just stay quiet and let those thoughts float around in her head. Eventually, her mom was going to actually listen to somebody but who knew when and who know who that person would be.
"Well I'm now completely famished so lets get something to eat now. I'll just finish wiping down that table over there and we'll be done."
"Ok hun, I'll just ask Luke if he can whip us something to eat. Are you still in the mood for breakfast or have your tastes changed to lunch?"
"Hmm good question. I guess I'll take a cheeseburger, chili cheese fries, and hey would ya like to share an omelet?"
"What kind?" Lorelai stared at her suspiciously.
"Kind with lots of cheese and bacon on top."
"ooh that does sound good. Ok I'll go tell him." She goes back to the kitchen and rattles off an order to Luke.
"Who is this for?" Luke glanced at her, knowing full well that the order could only be for the gilmores.
"Uh well, for customers. Yea they uh have been here for a while and they are really hungry so I would snap to it or they will get furious. We don't need unsatisfied customers now do we?"
"It's for you and rory isn't it?"
"What? Why would you think that? I'm appalled."
"Only you two would order breakfast and lunch at the same time."
"Well we came in here looking for breakfast and got roped into running a diner and now we are really really hungry seeing that we had to do manual labor and such so a cheeseburger and fries just won't do so we decided to split a lovely cheese omelet to cover all the basics of your daily meals." She had a big grin on her face knowing what he'll say next. "Now I know this stuff will kill me and blah blah blah but we saved your ass and you know it so no complaints or lectures about grease or caffeine or anything else you health freaks love to complain about."
Luke just started laughing. "Are you done? Because your omelet is and you two can go ahead and start on this while I finish up the rest of your meal."
"oh uh yea thanks."
"Lor, thanks for helping out. You really didn't have to ya know even though I sorta forced you into it."
"No problem, that's what friends are for."
"uh yea" Luke looked a tad disappointed but only for a split second but Loralei noticed it.
"Is everything ok? Cuz you had a flash of disapprovement in your eyes just then."
"huh? oh...uh..I'm just tired that's all."
"oh...Ok" She enters the dining area with her omelet. "Waaaa laaa we have breakfast. Grab some coffee and come over to the bar and join me will ya."
"mmmmm nothin like a cheesy egg concoction with a pig laying right on top to make the day brighter."
"You said it sister."
Luke came from the back and dropped off the rest of their meal. He stalked up things that have deplinished cuz of the mad rush and the girls sat there and enjoyed their meals mostly in silence. When they had finished, Luke picked up there plates.
Lor "mmmm that was heavenly, Luke."
Rory "yea I don't think I have ever enjoyed a burger as much as that one."
"Oh really? what about that one summer in 91? You know the day we tried to fast and lasted only 30 minutes."
"hm I think it was better than that cuz this time we really were hungry where as last time as soon as we mentioned the word fast we were craving food. Why is that?"
"It's survival. We got scared and had to eat something quickly."
Luke "You two are nuts. You couldn't last 30 minutes in a fast? You know if you were stranded in the middle of nowhere you would never survive."
"Why would we be in the middle of nowhere?"
Rory "well I am going over to lane's for a bit. You two behave."
"all right sweets have fun. So Luke, how are you?"
"uh ok?"
"well ya know Christmas is coming up, do you have any plans? Is Jess going to his mom's?"
"No, I tried to convince him but he absolutely refused so I decided to just drop it." there was a brief pause "What do you get a kid like jess for Christmas? I should get him something but I've racked my brain and I can't think of anything."
"Ya know, I still have to get rory some stuff so perhaps we could go shopping together."
"Uh I don't know about that. Shopping isn't my forte but spending an entire day with you may cause me to lose my sanity."
"Oh you know it won't be that bad. I'm a shopping expert and besides I have the advantage on getting Jess what he likes."
"How is that? You don't even like the boy."
"True but my daughter likes him. I can get secret information whereas you cannot."
"Ok, so you want to meet me here tomorrow, say around 2?"
"Sounds like a plan to me."
Lorelai picked up her purse and headed out with a big grin. "see ya tomorrow."