Hey everyone...just to let you know before writing this, i did research about hurricanes in Connecticut. theyve had a couple, like category 1-2. so 90mph is like category 2...ive been in a hurricane before, and believe me, i know what i'm writing about. also i will try to make it less rushed. but just believe me that i know what im writing about. i know EXACTLY what im doing. Also this takes place in like season 2/3ish...Jess is gone, but he was there.
So everyone that reviewed, thank you so much. Chapter 2 every one!!! (applause)
Chapter 2: In the Apartment
previously:
"What?" Luke asked, turning toward her again.
"Nothing I just." Lorelai looked up at Luke's face into his eyes. 'Those gorgeous blue eyes.' Lorelai thought. "Luke I..."
"Luke I-" Just then they heard a shattering noise coming from the kitchen.
"What was that?" Luke jumped up from the bed and rushed to the apartment door.
"Luke no! You can't go downstairs! The windows probably got blown off and you'll get hurt! Please don't go down there!" Lorelai was amazed that Luke really thought he would go downstairs in a category 2 hurricane with no protection. Especially with the fact that there was no glass on the windows.
"Lorelai! My diner-"
"Can be fixed. Your life however, if you died...I mean if your death lived..." Lorelai stumbled across her words. "If your death lived then it couldn't be fixed." She said finally.
"That made no sense." Luke said, moving away from the door.
"I know. If it made sense it wouldn't be me would it?"
"No it wouldn't." Luke said, sitting back down on the bed. "What were you going to say?" He asked after a minute.
"Nothing. It was..Nothing." Lorelai looked down at the bed. 'It's better he doesn't know. Although...No Lorelai! Stop it! You can't be having these thoughts about Luke!' Lorelai got up to hide the awkward silence. She went over to the fridge.
"Lorelai? Nothing's going to be cold because of the electricity." Luke half-laughed.
"I know Luke. Do you think I'm that stupid? I just wanted a water bottle." Lorelai looked back at Luke's face reddening face.
"Hey grab me one while you're at it." Luke said, covering his embarrassment.
"Yeah sure." Outside the winds were still roaring, and there was already about 5 inches of rain on the ground. "Look's like I'm here for the night."
"Of course! Did you really think you could go home?"
"Not really, but I just hadn't imagined not going home. I mean...Oh my God. Rory! She was doing something at Chilton! How's she going to get home? I need to call her...I need a phone." She had completely forgotten that her daughter wasn't home. Actually, Lorelai had forgotten completely about Rory. She needed to know if she was all right. Lorelai walked over to the other side of the room and picked up Luke's apartment phone.
"Lorelai there's no power. What about your cell?"
"Dead battery." Lorelai was close to tears now.
"Lorelai I'm sure she's alright. They probably are keeping all of the kids safe. It wasn't just her that was there so I'm sure she's going to be okay."
"Yeah.." Lorelai said, still worried about Rory.
They sat in awkward silence AGAIN, and Luke decided he was tired of it. "Lorelai? Why is this so uncomfortable?"
"Because we've never been alone for a long time." Lorelai lied.
"Yes we have."
"I don't know Luke. I'm sorry I'm just distracted thinking about Rory."
"Yeah, okay." Luke said accepting that answer. He didn't want to make Lorelai more upset by talking about what he felt. 'Why can't she just open her eyes and see though?' Luke thought to himself. "Hey do you want anything to eat? Obviously I can't cook, but I'm sure I have something that doesn't have to be cooked."
"Yeah I'm hungry. What do you have?"
"Well, I have cereal, bread, crackers," Luke said, looking in the cabnits and the fridge.
"I'll have cereal." Lorelai said.
"Okay. We have cheerios, some wheat stuff, and frosted flakes."
"Frosted flakes? Where did those come from?"
"I guess when Jess was here."
"I'll have them."
"Seriously? Aren't they a kid's cereal?"
"So?"
"Right." Luke got the box and brought it over to the table. After a few seconds, when Lorelai still wasn't coming over to the table, he asked, "Are you going to come over?"
"What?"
"Lorelai, what's wrong."
"Rory." Lorelai lied. She knew what was wrong. She was uncomfortable with Luke.
"No, you're not thinking about Rory. If you were you would be talking about it. Whenever you have a problem you talk about it. Why are you not talking?"
"I can't tell you about this."
"You can tell me anything."
"Not this." Lorelai half-laughed.
"Lorelai. Believe me. You can tell me anything." He said, putting emphasis on "anything."
"No Luke! This is something I can't talk to you about, at least not yet." Lorelai yelled at Luke. "I'm sorry." She said after a few seconds. "You're sitting here being nice to me and trying to help me out and I'm yelling at you."
"It's fine. Now about Rory. Chilton is a very high class school. With the amount of money they have at that school, I'm sure she is well protected. She will be fine." Luke said, pulling Lorelai to her feet to come to the table.
"Yeah." Lorelai looked down at his hands in hers. 'God I love him.'
'God I love her.' Luke said as he felt sparks when their hands touched. He kept holding her hands while they were walking, and Lorelai smiled shyly. Luke grinned and let her go when she sat down.
Lorelai wanted to kiss him. She wanted to get up, go over to where he was standing, turn him around, and kiss him full on the lips. 'But I can't.' The voice in the sensible part of her head said. 'But I want to!' Said the romantic part. Lorelai shook her head to make the voices stop. "Luke?" She said.
"Hold on one second."
"Okay." She lost her nerve. She was going to tell him, but she couldn't.
"What?" Luke set down the cereal in front of her.
"Nothing." Lorelai said, not looking into his eyes.
'And I thought she was going to tell me something...what did I think? That she was going to tell me she loves me. That she's loved me for 8 years? This is crazy. I have to get over it. But I can't' Luke thought, disappointed that Lorelai didn't have anything to say. 'Maybe she's waiting for me to say something.' Luke thought. 'But if I tell her and she doesn't tell me back, our friendship will be ruined.' Luke's head hurt immensly.
Lorelai saw Luke deep in thought and asked him, "Watcha thinking about?" She went from close to crying to happy and joking.
"Nothing really. Just thinking how in the world we could be having a hurricane in Stars Hollow. We're in Connecticut! We don't get hurricanes here!" Luke ranted.
"I love it when you rant Luke. And I have no idea. Maybe the weather people are mad at me for making fun of them."
"You made fun of the weathermen?" Luke said, deciding not to say anything about what Lorelai said about loving his rants.
"Yes. And the weatherwomen too. They're so funny, because there's nothing behind them, they're pointing at a blue wall. They have to act like there's really a picture behind them."
"You get pleased so easily."
"Dirty!"
"Aw jeez."
"And Yes I do."
The windows of the apartment started to shake and they shattered. Lorelai screamed at the shards of glass coming into the room, jumped up and held Luke's arm tightly. She felt his muscular arms and kept her hand around them much longer than necessary.
"Lorelai you can let go of my arm now." Luke said, smiling slightly in the dark.
"Oh right sorry." Lorelai said, and took her hand away quickly, blushing. She was happy it was so dark so Luke couldn't see her very red face.
"It's fine. Now eat your cereal, and I'm going to go find extra blankets and some plastic bags or something to cover up those windows." Luke said, carefully walking by the glass.
"Hey Luke?" Lorelai said.
"Yeah?" Luke said turning around.
"I'm cold. Can you get some blankets."
"Yeah. Are your clothes wet?"
"A little. It was raining a little when I came."
"Do you want some of my clothes?" Luke swallowed hard when he said that.
"You mean you would let me wear one of your trademark flannel shirts?"
"Yes."
"Then yes." Lorelai said happily. Luke went to his dresser and took out some clothes.
"Here." He gave her a flannel shirt and a pair of sweatpants.
"Thank you." Lorelai said. They both turned as they heard the glass window in the bathroom break. "Great. There goes my changing room." Lorelai said. "Turn around."
"What?"
"So I can change. And no peeking."
"Lorelai!"
"I mean it." Luke turned around, and as much as he wanted to peek, restrained himself from doing so.
"Okay I'm done" Lorelai said. Luke turned around and thought she looked really cute in his clothes. The sweatpants were too big and were almost falling down. The shirt looked great on her, because it was blue to match her eyes.
"Wow." Luke said.
"What?" Lorelai turned around to pick up her clothes. She successfully hid her bra and panties in between her jeans and shirt. She folded them up and arranged them on the bed.
"Nothing. I'll go get that stuff." Luke said.
"Okay. She turned around and smiled at him.
'This is going to be a long night.' Luke thought as he went to get blankets and bags.
Well that's it. Not much I know, but I will make chapters longer. And I'm extending this story to an unknown length. Thanks for all the reviews for last chapter, and do the same for me this time. 16 reviews before I update again. Thats my standard. Live up to it!
-Moe
