Lorelei had been sitting on her couch for two hours watching the
clock; it seemed as if she has been watching the clock all day. Clocks,
calendars, and planners, they were all her hideaway lately. It had been 6
months and 13 days since she had gotten into the fight with Luke. It was
driving her insane thinking that she had lost her best friend that she had
that was over the age of 18. Rory was a great, she was supportive she would
walk 2 miles just to get coffee because she supported Lorelei in everything
that she did, she always tried to give the best advice she had and most of
the time it was right on the nose.
Crying wasn't something Lorelei did often, but today it all had caught up with her, today was her and Luke's anniversary of when Lorelei and Rory had first entered the diner right after it had been opened for business. Lorelei could still recall the day.
The bell above the door jingled and two shadows were painted on the floor one much larger than the other, they were joined at the hands. Lorelei watched the man at the counter as if she were intrigued by something. The man never looked up from his yellow legal pad that rested on the spotless diner counter; after a few minutes he dropped his pen and walked over to the two new figures that had entered his home. He never looked up but seemed to know where they were like a magnetic force that brought him to them. When the man finally looked up Lorelei saw young sincere eyes that told a story almost, he looked old but his eyes betrayed the thought. Those eyes were like young blue orbs that seemed like home that sheltered innocence. She had seen this man before but that was only when Mia ,the owner of the inn, and she had to get some tools to fix a broken sink at the hardware store that this roof had once sheltered. It seemed like those eyes hadn't changed in the years past.
"What do you want?" The man asked in a gruff demanding voice.
"Is that how you address paying customers?" Lorelei asked batting her eyelashes.
"Because if you do then you aren't going to get very many returning customers."
"Are you ordering or what?"
"Well do you have coffee in this place?"
"Uh huh"
"Well what else do you have? How about a menu?"
"Nope, what do you usually eat?"
"Coffee and pancakes"
"What does she want?" The gruff unknown named man asked
"The same thing."
"And what does she want to drink?"
"Coffee."
"I am not serving coffee to a child."
"Excuse me mister but I am six years old and I can read big girl books. I am not a child." The little girl sitting beside the elder women glared at him threw innocent blue orbs.
"Okay fine you both can have coffee but I am only giving you" he said nodding at the little girl "one cup and you" He said turning to Lorelei. "You can have two"
"But I always have three and mommy has six cups of coffee in the morning."
"What? How can one person consume that much coffee in one morning.one day even and to give that much coffee to a child.you are killing too people and you don't even know it."
"I am not killing anybody, coffee is our life source, that's just the way it is.but if you don't want to give it to us we will ask Sookie for it instead."
"Whatever" the man walked away towards the counter and slightly turned and said "it will kill you some day you know"
"That will be then, this is now. Coffee please ?"
Lorelei sobbed as she recalled that day. She couldn't believe that Luke would even participate in an activity such as an anniversary of the first day of walking in to the diner. She remembered being thrilled the day that he agreed to celebrate it. Every year after that Luke had made a cake and set out an extra couple of bagels for hockey at the end of the night. Each year he would play bagel hockey on their anniversary and each year Lorelei was still shocked that he remembered and that he was participating in their special day.
Lorelei hadn't meant those words to come out of her mouth. How could she have meant them especially to Luke, her Luke, her best friend Luke? The same Luke that she had been missing and apologizing to for that last couple months. Luke was her best friend; he kept her together when she was going to go off on a tangent because some boy kissed her daughters lips. He was the same Luke that put that same boy in a headlock because he had hurt Rory; he was the same Luke that made her a Santa burger, and a chuppa. She realized then that she couldn't lose him not because of a stupid fight over an accident. She wasn't going to let him leave her behind not after all they had been through together.
Lorelei went to her room and changed out of her sweats that she had adorned for days; she stepped into the bathtub and took a quick shower. Minutes later she was dressed and ready to walk out the door. As she was searching for her keys the phone rang. 'Who would be calling her at 11pm' she picked up the receiver.
"Hello?"
"Lorelei?"
"Luke?"
"We need to talk." He said a little sternly.
"I know."
"Where?"
Lorelei decided that is would be best to come to her house since Jess was probably home for the night and Rory was at Lanes. "You can come here is you want." She tried to act as nonchalant as possible. She was going to talk to Luke about everything tonight. And he seemed to have something on his mind as well.and he wanted to talk.which was unusual for him.
"So then I will come over there."
"Okay I'll see you in a few."
"Alright." Lorelei hung up the phone and went to the kitchen to put a couple of bottles of water in the refrigerator. She then put the coffee beans next to the chopper and the Coffee maker. A few minutes later the bell rang at the front door. "Coming!" She yelled as she raced through the house. When she made it to the front door she hesitated in opening it. She smoothed out her shirt and ran her figures through her hair.
This was the night that she was going to tell him how she felt whether or not he felt the same way.she had to tell him otherwise she would distance herself with doubts and 'what ifs'.
When Lorelei opened the door she saw a newly showered Luke standing in front of her. She breathed deep taking in the scent of his after shave. A small smile began to tug at her lips as she etched the fragrance in her mind.
"Can I come in?"
"Oh yeah sure come on in" She moved away from the door and walked him into the kitchen. 'So far, so good. Nothing is totally weird yet. But what is it that he needs to talk about?' "So what did you want to talk about?"
"Well.as you know.today is our.well you know."
"Anniversary" she finished for him.
"Right. When you didn't come to the diner today...the cake that I make you every year.went to waste."
"That's what you came here to talk about was a cake that was wasted?"
"No, I just I don't know.you weren't there and well when you have an anniversary it is usually shared between a couple of people or a group and it wasn't the same with out you there." He stumbled with his words and stuffed his hands in his pockets.
"So you missed me?" she asked flirtingly.
"Yeah I guess I did." He said as his face got crimson. There was silence.he was expecting some kind of witty comment or something that would make him blush. But she was silent. "Are you okay.I mean I know that I don't say stuff like that all of the time.we ever, but I did."
"Luke I have missed you for the last 6 months. I was going to go to the diner today because I remembered today.but I didn't want our day to be spoiled by us fighting or not talking." She finished and there was more silence. She decided to continue her thought. "Every time that I have said I was sorry I meant it. It wasn't just someway to get coffee or anything. I truly did mean that I was sorry. When I said those hurtful words I wasn't thinking rationally. My baby.the reason I get up every morning was in the hospital." She glared at him. "I understand why you are mad at me.but for so long?" she paused. "Luke?"
"What?" it came out a little harsher than he had planned. He realized that and started over. "What Lorelei. What do you want to me to say? You not excepting jess is like you not excepting me. He is mine. He is my nephew."
"I know that now Luke and the last thing in the world that I want to do is hurt your feelings. You are my best friend. You understand me. You help me."
"But you should have know it months ago Lorelei" he was getting upset now. He drew in air and counted to ten silently.
"Luke I can't change what happened 6 months ago. The only thing I can do is try to change what is going to happen.from this point on. What is going to happen from this point on?"
"I don't know."
"Luke we need answers I can't go on living with out you talking to me. It is driving me crazy. Luke, I love you.you are my best friend. We had know each other for years and now we can't let this happen. We can't let everything we have worked for fall apart. I can't let that happen. I need you."
"Did you just say that you love me?"
"What"
"Yeah I think you did."
"Okay?" Lorelei didn't know what to say. Sure she loved him, as her best friend. Or did she love in a different way? In a non-platonic way? "Luke I need to know something."
"What?" he said still kind of dumbfounded that Lorelei just said that she loved him.
"Is it true? What they all say.is it true?"
"What who say?"
"The town"
"What are they saying?"
"That you love me. That you have wanted me for years.that I am too stupid to see it, well they don't exactly say stupid, but naïve, and that all I have to do is look in your eyes and I will see. I have looked in your eyes so many times.looking for it.to know if it were true."
"After you looked into my eyes, what would you have done if it were true? If you say it, what would you do?"
"Well I never got that far." She pondered for a minute. "Is it true?"
Luke just stared at her. With the same look as before. He was never really mad at her he was just upset that she thought so lowly of him to say that he had allowed Rory to get hurt. He nodded slightly.still looking at her.
Lorelei's eyes brightened when he nodded. She had wanted it to be there. When she said that she loved him it had slipped and she had to cover it with the best friend thing. She walked a few steps and looked up at him. She stood on her tippy toes, and kissed him. She.Lorelei Gilmore had just kissed the 'Ice Man'. Her Luke. God he tasted so good.
Luke was shocked and he immediately tensed up. She pulled away before he was able to respond.
"What was that for?" his tone had changed noticeably.
"I love you.not just in the best friend way. I love you in the dating kind of way. I don't know for sure if you feel the same. You may feel it but you might not think it. I don't know, but I love you.you are one of the best people that have come in to my life.and I don't know if you feel the same or not but I had to take a chance. Okay so you don't feel the same. And I know that I am babbling but that is only because I am nervous and I don't know if you fell that same. See I already said that. So I am babbling."
Luke silenced her with a kiss. She had said the three words that he had been waiting to here for so long. He never thought that he would hear them.
This was going to take some time getting used to.but it was worth it.
Crying wasn't something Lorelei did often, but today it all had caught up with her, today was her and Luke's anniversary of when Lorelei and Rory had first entered the diner right after it had been opened for business. Lorelei could still recall the day.
The bell above the door jingled and two shadows were painted on the floor one much larger than the other, they were joined at the hands. Lorelei watched the man at the counter as if she were intrigued by something. The man never looked up from his yellow legal pad that rested on the spotless diner counter; after a few minutes he dropped his pen and walked over to the two new figures that had entered his home. He never looked up but seemed to know where they were like a magnetic force that brought him to them. When the man finally looked up Lorelei saw young sincere eyes that told a story almost, he looked old but his eyes betrayed the thought. Those eyes were like young blue orbs that seemed like home that sheltered innocence. She had seen this man before but that was only when Mia ,the owner of the inn, and she had to get some tools to fix a broken sink at the hardware store that this roof had once sheltered. It seemed like those eyes hadn't changed in the years past.
"What do you want?" The man asked in a gruff demanding voice.
"Is that how you address paying customers?" Lorelei asked batting her eyelashes.
"Because if you do then you aren't going to get very many returning customers."
"Are you ordering or what?"
"Well do you have coffee in this place?"
"Uh huh"
"Well what else do you have? How about a menu?"
"Nope, what do you usually eat?"
"Coffee and pancakes"
"What does she want?" The gruff unknown named man asked
"The same thing."
"And what does she want to drink?"
"Coffee."
"I am not serving coffee to a child."
"Excuse me mister but I am six years old and I can read big girl books. I am not a child." The little girl sitting beside the elder women glared at him threw innocent blue orbs.
"Okay fine you both can have coffee but I am only giving you" he said nodding at the little girl "one cup and you" He said turning to Lorelei. "You can have two"
"But I always have three and mommy has six cups of coffee in the morning."
"What? How can one person consume that much coffee in one morning.one day even and to give that much coffee to a child.you are killing too people and you don't even know it."
"I am not killing anybody, coffee is our life source, that's just the way it is.but if you don't want to give it to us we will ask Sookie for it instead."
"Whatever" the man walked away towards the counter and slightly turned and said "it will kill you some day you know"
"That will be then, this is now. Coffee please ?"
Lorelei sobbed as she recalled that day. She couldn't believe that Luke would even participate in an activity such as an anniversary of the first day of walking in to the diner. She remembered being thrilled the day that he agreed to celebrate it. Every year after that Luke had made a cake and set out an extra couple of bagels for hockey at the end of the night. Each year he would play bagel hockey on their anniversary and each year Lorelei was still shocked that he remembered and that he was participating in their special day.
Lorelei hadn't meant those words to come out of her mouth. How could she have meant them especially to Luke, her Luke, her best friend Luke? The same Luke that she had been missing and apologizing to for that last couple months. Luke was her best friend; he kept her together when she was going to go off on a tangent because some boy kissed her daughters lips. He was the same Luke that put that same boy in a headlock because he had hurt Rory; he was the same Luke that made her a Santa burger, and a chuppa. She realized then that she couldn't lose him not because of a stupid fight over an accident. She wasn't going to let him leave her behind not after all they had been through together.
Lorelei went to her room and changed out of her sweats that she had adorned for days; she stepped into the bathtub and took a quick shower. Minutes later she was dressed and ready to walk out the door. As she was searching for her keys the phone rang. 'Who would be calling her at 11pm' she picked up the receiver.
"Hello?"
"Lorelei?"
"Luke?"
"We need to talk." He said a little sternly.
"I know."
"Where?"
Lorelei decided that is would be best to come to her house since Jess was probably home for the night and Rory was at Lanes. "You can come here is you want." She tried to act as nonchalant as possible. She was going to talk to Luke about everything tonight. And he seemed to have something on his mind as well.and he wanted to talk.which was unusual for him.
"So then I will come over there."
"Okay I'll see you in a few."
"Alright." Lorelei hung up the phone and went to the kitchen to put a couple of bottles of water in the refrigerator. She then put the coffee beans next to the chopper and the Coffee maker. A few minutes later the bell rang at the front door. "Coming!" She yelled as she raced through the house. When she made it to the front door she hesitated in opening it. She smoothed out her shirt and ran her figures through her hair.
This was the night that she was going to tell him how she felt whether or not he felt the same way.she had to tell him otherwise she would distance herself with doubts and 'what ifs'.
When Lorelei opened the door she saw a newly showered Luke standing in front of her. She breathed deep taking in the scent of his after shave. A small smile began to tug at her lips as she etched the fragrance in her mind.
"Can I come in?"
"Oh yeah sure come on in" She moved away from the door and walked him into the kitchen. 'So far, so good. Nothing is totally weird yet. But what is it that he needs to talk about?' "So what did you want to talk about?"
"Well.as you know.today is our.well you know."
"Anniversary" she finished for him.
"Right. When you didn't come to the diner today...the cake that I make you every year.went to waste."
"That's what you came here to talk about was a cake that was wasted?"
"No, I just I don't know.you weren't there and well when you have an anniversary it is usually shared between a couple of people or a group and it wasn't the same with out you there." He stumbled with his words and stuffed his hands in his pockets.
"So you missed me?" she asked flirtingly.
"Yeah I guess I did." He said as his face got crimson. There was silence.he was expecting some kind of witty comment or something that would make him blush. But she was silent. "Are you okay.I mean I know that I don't say stuff like that all of the time.we ever, but I did."
"Luke I have missed you for the last 6 months. I was going to go to the diner today because I remembered today.but I didn't want our day to be spoiled by us fighting or not talking." She finished and there was more silence. She decided to continue her thought. "Every time that I have said I was sorry I meant it. It wasn't just someway to get coffee or anything. I truly did mean that I was sorry. When I said those hurtful words I wasn't thinking rationally. My baby.the reason I get up every morning was in the hospital." She glared at him. "I understand why you are mad at me.but for so long?" she paused. "Luke?"
"What?" it came out a little harsher than he had planned. He realized that and started over. "What Lorelei. What do you want to me to say? You not excepting jess is like you not excepting me. He is mine. He is my nephew."
"I know that now Luke and the last thing in the world that I want to do is hurt your feelings. You are my best friend. You understand me. You help me."
"But you should have know it months ago Lorelei" he was getting upset now. He drew in air and counted to ten silently.
"Luke I can't change what happened 6 months ago. The only thing I can do is try to change what is going to happen.from this point on. What is going to happen from this point on?"
"I don't know."
"Luke we need answers I can't go on living with out you talking to me. It is driving me crazy. Luke, I love you.you are my best friend. We had know each other for years and now we can't let this happen. We can't let everything we have worked for fall apart. I can't let that happen. I need you."
"Did you just say that you love me?"
"What"
"Yeah I think you did."
"Okay?" Lorelei didn't know what to say. Sure she loved him, as her best friend. Or did she love in a different way? In a non-platonic way? "Luke I need to know something."
"What?" he said still kind of dumbfounded that Lorelei just said that she loved him.
"Is it true? What they all say.is it true?"
"What who say?"
"The town"
"What are they saying?"
"That you love me. That you have wanted me for years.that I am too stupid to see it, well they don't exactly say stupid, but naïve, and that all I have to do is look in your eyes and I will see. I have looked in your eyes so many times.looking for it.to know if it were true."
"After you looked into my eyes, what would you have done if it were true? If you say it, what would you do?"
"Well I never got that far." She pondered for a minute. "Is it true?"
Luke just stared at her. With the same look as before. He was never really mad at her he was just upset that she thought so lowly of him to say that he had allowed Rory to get hurt. He nodded slightly.still looking at her.
Lorelei's eyes brightened when he nodded. She had wanted it to be there. When she said that she loved him it had slipped and she had to cover it with the best friend thing. She walked a few steps and looked up at him. She stood on her tippy toes, and kissed him. She.Lorelei Gilmore had just kissed the 'Ice Man'. Her Luke. God he tasted so good.
Luke was shocked and he immediately tensed up. She pulled away before he was able to respond.
"What was that for?" his tone had changed noticeably.
"I love you.not just in the best friend way. I love you in the dating kind of way. I don't know for sure if you feel the same. You may feel it but you might not think it. I don't know, but I love you.you are one of the best people that have come in to my life.and I don't know if you feel the same or not but I had to take a chance. Okay so you don't feel the same. And I know that I am babbling but that is only because I am nervous and I don't know if you fell that same. See I already said that. So I am babbling."
Luke silenced her with a kiss. She had said the three words that he had been waiting to here for so long. He never thought that he would hear them.
This was going to take some time getting used to.but it was worth it.