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Chapter One: Starry Night and Earrings

"Okay…I got chips, dip, chocolate bars, and some pop.. anything else we need?" Lorelai asks as she scans the cart. Luke glances down, with a disgust look on his face, noticing all the unnecessary junk food they need for movie night.

"Umm.. Did you say we have Red Vines?" Rory asks as she places a bag of marshmallows into the cart. "Mom, you do realize that I'm only staying until Monday?"

"So… you're saying I should add another bag of chips?" She smiles.

"Ahh Geez, seriously! I'm never going shopping with you two EVER again!" Luke growls as he watches the two girls try to fit everything into the cart.

"Hey babe, you came to push, not speculate on our eating habits" Lorelai says as she pokes at his cheek teasingly. Luke tries to bite at her finger playfully. "Hey! Stop it!" She squeaks as he pulls her in closer placing a quick peck on her cheek.

"Ohh gross you two! That is SO unsanitary" Rory says, trying to act appalled, as she peaks up from a magazine.

"Hey you go back to your reading…." Lorelai glances at the magazine cover "….Cosmo Girl" she sets the magazine back into Rory's hands. "Luke and I can smooch… all… we… want" she says as she places small quick kisses on Luke's lips. "Why don't you go check out, we will go get the movies…anything you want to see?" she asked as Luke pushes the cart to Rory.

"No.. as long as it's not 'God Father'.. we saw it so many times last summer." she says as she walked to the front of the market. She watched Luke and Lorelai head out of the store, hand in hand as they moved across the square.

Rory reaches the cashier station and begins to place the items in the cart on to the conveyer belt. "Man, I used to hate it when my sister would bring her boyfriend to movie night" the bag boy said as he looked at Rory with a smile on his face.

"Ohh…she's not my sister, she's my mom," she smiles at the fact that everyone thinks that her and Lorelai are sisters. They might as well be, considering Lorelai act like a teenager.

Wow…I'm sorry..I just thought…." the bag boy stumbled over his words, with an embarrassing look on his face.

"Ohh..it's okay." Rory glances at his name tag. "Joey..I get that a lot." she smiles

"Your total comes to $23.68," the cashier says.

Rory hand her the money, and grabs the bags. "Thank you!" she smiles.

"Come again, have a great night" Joey says as he glances into her beautiful blue eyes.

"I will..for sure," she returns the smile and heads put the door. Walking through the square for about 10 minutes, she see her mother and Luke through the diner window. "Okay… now, I thought you guys were getting the movies" she says as she drops the bags to her side and moves to sit next to Lorelai, who was a the counter sipping a cup of coffee. "Also has this town gone completely bonkers? I was walking through the square and I almost got ran over by a rollerblading Kirk, and not just once but twice! Who gave him the bright idea to try rollerblading? But I do have to admit, it is fun watching him, but he's going to hurt himself or someone else... me, for instance" she glares at the steam rising from the fresh cup of coffee that Luke had handed her.

Not looking up from the coffee cup, Lorelai silently smirks and raises her hand.

"Nice mom," Rory smiles as she steals her mom coffee for another sip.

"Well, I was going to tell you, but it's so hard to get a hold of you, and you always have your cell turned off, because you have to go to that fancy college of yours!" she says as she glances up at Luke who has a weird look on his face. "What?"

Luke just smiles "Nothing I just think you guys seriously don't need any more coffee."

"Sure…Whatever" they say in unison both with laughter in their eyes.

All three exit the diner, and head back to the house. Luke this time was the one carrying the bags.

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All three were sitting in front of the television. Lorelai was lying with Luke on the couch as Rory was on the floor in front of them. Giggles came from Lorelai and Rory as they watched the movie, to see that the Oompa Loompas came out to dance and sing. "Anyone wanna piece?" Rory looks ups as she holding a piece of pizza.

"Yes please!" Lorelai take the slice of pizza. "You want a bite babe?" she asked Luke.

"No.. I'm stuffed!" Luke said as he shifts in his spot.

Lorelai looks at him, with a puzzled look on her face, "How can you be stuffed? All you ate was the crust of my pizza and a power bar…" she says as she smiles and playfully pokes his stomach. "Be tough Danes! You have to be if you want to keep up with us Gilmore Girls!" she smiles as she eats the piece of pizza.

"Honey I don't need to 'warm up' I need to take some sort of steroids to keep up with your eating habits" he says still watching the movie. "And then after eating..I would need to get my stomach pumped of this crap!" pointing at the mountains of junk food on the coffee table in front of them.

"You know that steroids might make your appetite bigger but it also makes….." point towards his midsection, "something else smaller" she smiles.

"Ahh gross Mom!" Rory says having heard her mother comment to Luke.

"What? Do you expect me to go through an entire day without one dirty comment?" she ask as she smiles as her daughter just turns to ignore her to watch the movie.

An hour and half a box of ho-hos later, the credits are rolling down the screen. Rory, who is still awake, looks to see her mom and Luke fast asleep. Luke's hand protectively over Lorelai, as her head is nestled into his neck. As Rory takes the blanket to cover the two up, soft snores come from Lorelai, as Luke's overpower hers. Slight movement occurs as they sleep. Rory just smiles. She tip toes out of the living room and into her room. She glance at her wall, at the picture of her in her mom's arms when she was one years old. Her mom's eyes were lit by the moon and her smile was wide as could be. Her smile was the same smile she has on her face when she's around Luke. Suddenly Rory's mind flashes to her relationship with Logan and how lately she hasn't felt the same way about him. She wishes desperately that she felt the same way about Logan as Lorelai does about Luke, but she doesn't. Yet she has hope that the time away from each other will help rather than crush their relationship. She clings to that tiny thread of hope as she drifts off to sleep.

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The next morning, Rory awakes to smell of blueberries and freshly made coffee. Luke looks up at Rory and smiles. "Sleep well?" he asked as he concentrates back on his cooking.

"Yes. Thanks" she smiles as Luke sets a plate in front of her. "Where's Mom?" she asks as she takes a bite.

"Oh she is still asleep" he answers and hands her a plate for Lorelai. "Here take this to her, that'll get her up"

Rory heads out of the kitchen and into the living room. "Hey mom, you're up!"

"Hey sweets," Lorelai greets Rory.

"Luke asked me to bring this to you," Rory says and hands her mom the plate of pancakes.

"Aw thanks," Lorelai replies stuffing a rather large bite into her mouth. "I need coffee!" Lorelai stands up, still holding her plate, and walks into the kitchen with her daughter.

Placing the plate on the table, Lorelai walks over to Luke standing by the stove and wraps her arms around his waist as she kisses his neck, "Hey stud! Thanks for breakfast, I love you!"

"Love you too." he smiles as he still tries to finish breakfast. Lorelai grabs her coffee and walks out of kitchen passing Rory.

Walking over slowly to Luke "So? You ask her yet?" Rory questions

"No. Shh. I will, I was thinking tonight at Friday night dinner" Luke smiles.

"Oh but Grandma and Gran…." she begins to say.

"Don't worry they know, they have a dinner planned and everything!"

"Wow. Luke I never thought you could pull it off," Rory says as she pats him on the back and walks away.

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"Okay so remind me again why I have to go? Lorelai questions as she finishes her makeup and, walking out switches off the bathroom light. "I mean Chris is paying for Yale, so technically I'm off the hook. And I can spend my time doing better things!" She flashes Luke a smirk and, on that note, he moves closer to her and presses soft kisses on her neck. The stubble on his chin makes Lorelai giggle.

As his hands roams, he stops, knowing they can't continue. "Lorelai, we need to get dinner," he sighs. He looks at his watch. "We have five minutes to get out the door and on the road."

"Rory lets go, were leaving!" Lorelai yells as she stumbles trying to balance on Luke to slip her shoe on. "What's taking her so long?"

"Hey Mom, sorry I couldn't find my….." looking at Lorelai's ears "Hey those are mine!" she yells pointing at the earring Lorelai was wearing.

Lorelai tries to cover her ear with her hair, knowing it is too late, and she looks up at Rory, who was pretending to pout. "Fine.. take them you cry baby!"

"No, you can wear them, they match your dress better" she smiles as they walk out the door. The three of them climb into Lorelai's jeep and Luke drives them to Hartford.

It always seems that the temperature drops, when they enter the house. They hand the maid, who must have been new-Emily can't keep a maid if her life depended on it-their coats and headed in to the living room. The room had an over powering smell of Chanel No. 5 and Scotch. The mood was different this Friday, seemed to be calmer, not a lot of jaw clenching remarks were made. Only laughter and smiles were received.

Rory heads over to her grandma who is refreshing her drink. "Hey grandma, where's grandpa?" Rory asked as she greets her with a hug.

"Oh who knows, go check in his study. If he's in there, tell him to come out, dinner is almost ready!" she says as she sit and start to discuss her week with Lorelai and Luke.

Rory walks down the hall to get Richard. "Hey Grandpa!" she peaks in at him, to see he was reading a book. He sets it down and smiles, "Grandma says to come on out". she motions to him.

"So Rory, How is school?"

"Schools great, I got an A+ on my English paper" she smiles, proud of herself.

"Well that's good. Glad to hear" he says. He takes his seat on the sofa. Rory sits beside him.

"Hello Lorelai, Luke" he says.

"Hey dad" Lorelai greets him.

"Mr. Gilmore" Luke stands and shake Richard hand.

"Emily will you poor me a drink?" noticing everyone else was served.

"Oh I got it Grandpa" she smiles as she goes to the drink cart.

"Thank you" he says. "So Rory was telling me she got an A+ in English"

"Wow, good job Rory" Emily smiles before taking a sip of her drink.

"Yes, Congrats Kido!" Lorelai announced.

"Thanks" Rory nods, a little embarrassed at all the attention that was placed on her.

"Mom! I'm starving! Can we eat?" Lorelai complain as she places her hand on her stomach, to stop it from grumbling.

"Lorelai, dinner is always served at 7." she say annoyed "It's only 6:55! You can wait." she says in a stern voice and pointing a finger, causing Lorelai to sink in the couch.

Moments of silence passed, waiting to be directed into the dining room. What its seems to be the longest five minutes ever, the maid approaches. "Dinner is ready Mrs. Gilmore"

Emily nods as she sets her drink down to get up.

"Shall we eat" he pointed towards the dining room.

"Yes Finally" Lorelai yells. Aware of the eyes that were directed towards her. "Sorry, just SO hungry!" She explains.

Everyone were seated, napkins on their laps. " So what are we have today? Something fancy I assume!" Lorelai said, only stating the obvious. But to her surprise the plates that were passed were of pot roast, potatoes and or course salad. "Wow. Pot Roast seriously?"

"I wanted to change it up a bit" Emily smile pleased that her daughter didn't give her a disgusted look. Watching her daughter take a bite, "Is it good?"

Lorelai nods as she chews the piece that was in her mouth before popping another in. The plates were cleared and everyone was stuffed.

"Very Good!" Rory complimented.

"Yes very very good" Lorelai added.

"Excellent. I should serve this at the Diner" Luke said pleased at how well pot roast tasted. Richard nodded agreeing with everyone.

"Thank you all! What do you say, why don't we go out and have drink out on the patio?" Emily said before pushing her chair in.

Everyone followed, pushing in their chairs and headed out. Lorelai and Luke drifted away from the group. As they stood in each others' embrace looking up at the bright stars, the crisp Connecticut air brushed across their faces, and Lorelai leaned closer into Luke to feel his warmth. Her eyes sparkled as the moon shined in. "Hey Luke, I want a star!" Lorelai says as she bends her head, still in Luke's embrace. "Will you get me one?" she asked.

He smiles. "Anything for you."

"Anything? Like what?" Lorelai turns to face him, as she wraps her arms around his neck and gazes into his eyes.

"Anything your heart desires!" He turn around to kiss her.

Her lips part lightly as she feels his tongue glide over hers. She groans as he deepens the kiss. He caresses her body and he lets his hand drift down to the bottom of her dress as he pulls it up and slips his hand underneath partly to feel the satin skin that is her thigh. As Luke and Lorelai are lost in their passionate kiss, they are soon brought back to reality—remembering where they are—when they hear Rory cough, as she stands watching their intense moment of passion, and they both jump as if they are teenagers having just been caught by their parents.

"Hey you two.. Oh sorry!" she stumbles as she disturbs them and they break apart quickly.

Her eyes are full of embarrassment at having been caught by her daughter as she is at her parents' house, thinking this is hardly the time nor place to be getting hot and heavy with Luke. "Hey Hon."

"Grandma said that they have this new hammock thing. She insist we see it" she rolls her eyes "She's crazy"

"And you're figuring this out now?" Lorelai follows her hand entwined with Luke's as they found Richard and Emily. "Hey mom, Rory said..." she pauses as she sees the back patio filled with candles and hears soft music playing in the background.

Luke squeezes her hand gently "So where's the hammock?" she smiles. She turns to find Luke on one knee with a ring in his hand.

"Lorelai, this is your star! Will you please guide me, and follow me into life together! Will you marry me?" he asks her with tears in eyes, but sees her blue eyes filled with tears too.

"Yes I will..I will marry you" she says enthusiastically, tears spilling from her eyes and rolling down her cheeks. Luke gently slips the ring on her finger and standing up, he wipes her tears away and kisses her lightly on the mouth

Emily and Richard are standing by where they have a good view of both Luke and Lorelai, and in their hands they are holding champagne, and they are both smiling.

"Congratulations!" Emily exclaims as tears are brimming in her eyes, but she tries to hold them back, not having much success. "I hope happiness finds you…"

"But that it doesn't take eight years," Rory adds interrupting her grandmother.

Everyone laughs, still tears in most of their eyes, and Richard takes a step forward and clears his throat.

"Congratulations! I am entirely happy for you both and so blessed to have Luke as a son-in-law. Welcome to the family, Luke!"

Luke takes a glass of champagne and hands it to Lorelai, and then takes one for himself despite how much he hates it.

They raise their glasses. "Thank you mom and dad, I am truly blessed to have an amazing man in my life, the best daughter, and loving parents!"

The five glasses clink together, smiles exchanged before they sip.

"Hey wait! You knew?" she asked as her parents, who are nodding as they sip their drinks. Lorelai turns to Rory, "Did you know too?"

"Yea, sorry Mom, I couldn't tell you" she smiles walking over to her mom and Luke hugging them both. "Why did you think I was actually going to let you wear my new diamonds earrings?"

"Hey, No fair!" Lorelai exclaims as she pretends to pout.

"Hey my little star..we should get going, we have a wedding to plan!" Luke looked at Lorelai as the smiled at each other.

"Well it's not like we have to plan it all tonight," Lorelai says, "but it is getting late. Mom and Dad are probably sick of us by now!"

"Nonsense, Lorelai," Emily says.

"But I have to go," Rory says as she makes her way to the door. "I have so much studying to do."

"Then I guess we'll go too," Lorelai sighs and then smiles, "Thanks Mom and Dad!"

Emily and Richard walk the three of them out. As Emily shut the door. "She did it" she was happy for her daughter finally getting married and found happiness.

"He did it" Richard corrects, beaming. he was happy that Luke didn't chicken out, but also happy for his daughter too.

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As Luke drives home in Lorelai's jeep, Rory is in the back and though she tries to stay awake she is exhausted and falls asleep. And in the front, Luke holds Lorelai's left hand with his. The car ride is silent for the drive home. The silence, however, is comfortable and not awkward, so they revel in it and neither of them can stop smiling.

When they pull into the driveway, Lorelai's eyes widen and sparkle with the magic.

"Luke, did you see that?" as she watched a shooting star pass by.

Luke smiles and looks to her, "Now there's your star, my love!"

Lorelai frees her hand and stares at her engagement ring, "No, you are my star!"

"But I want you to have everything you want," he tells her with a worried look in his eyes.

"Who says I don't? Everything I really want is right here in this car!"

Lorelai turns back and softly wakes Rory, who is embarrassed she fell asleep, but smiles at her mom. As the three of them emerge from the car, Rory walks inside ahead of them so she can start her studying, but Luke and Lorelai stand outside awhile longer, taking in a breathe of fresh air.

"You and Rory, the most beautiful girls in the world, and are everything I want and need!" Luke exclaims pulling Lorelai to him and hugging her close, his arms wrapped around her from the back while his head rests against hers.

"And don't forget the baby," Lorelai tells him, smiling.

"The baby?" He questions.

"Yes, the baby. I'm pregnant!"

Luke gently spins Lorelai and kisses her lovingly and with a great passion. When they finally pull away, they clasp hands again and walk inside to their new life, together.