A/N Sorry for shortness in advance! I"ll be making them longer, hopefully. )

December 1985 Star Hollows Luke's Diner

Chapter 1 : Meeting

Twenty-year old Luke Danes was handling three plates full of food. It was an extremely busy lunch day. The place was packed. It had been like this since he had started the diner, two years ago. It had been his dad's hardware store, and when he had died when Luke was seventeen, he left the store to him. He finished high school and changed it to a diner when he was eighteen.

"Luke!"

"Over here!"

Luke handed out the plates and looked around. So many orders to take! He really had to get some help. He took the note pad out from the front pocket in his flannel shirt.

"Hold on, hold on," he muttered. Luke walked right by the door and started taking a order, when a girl he didn't recognize barged through.

"Whoa!" cried Luke, jumping back from the door. "You almost killed me with the door!" Luke went back to taking a customers order, when she interrupted him.

"Hey, you own this place?" She asked tapping him on the shoulder.

"Yeah," he said glancing over at her.

"So you must be Luke, cause it's called Luke's. Can I have some coffee? I need it desperately!" The girl looked right into his eyes and for some reason Luke felt himself blush.

"Wait your turn. I'll get to you." Luke told her, before walking but over to the counter. His mind raced, thinking about the annoying pretty girl. She looked about his age, didn't she? Luke turned to look around the diner, but didn't see her, and it wasn't until he turned right around to find her in his face.

"- And so I was wandering around this little town, looking for somewhere to get a job, but where? So you know any places? And can I have coffee now? I only had two cups yesterday, and none today, so I really gotta have some and soon!" Luke looked her like she was insane. He had never heard anyone talk so much and so fast.

"Umm, were you talking all this time?" Luke asked her. The girl nodded. "Okay, well I didn't hear a thing."

"Why are you men so self-centered? It's always about you! Oh well," she said, shrugging, "I was just going on about my parents, and I doubt you want to hear about them, and coming here with Rory, who you'll probably meet, that is if you have good coffee, or give eventually give me coffee!"

'Rory,' thought Luke, 'probably a boyfriend of hers.' Luke grabbed the coffee pot and some plates with food and looked at her again. Without saying anything he went pass her. She followed.

"So do you even serve customers? Or is it cause I'm new. You got this whole thing going on, freeze out the noobies, you know?" She pointed at the coffee pot in Luke's hand. "And it's right there! You really couldn't just pour me a cup?"

Luke turned around and looked at her. "Your annoying you know that?" She giggled in response. "Okay go sit down, and shut up, and I'll get to you after I serve the customers that were here first, got it?" The girl wandered over to the counter and sat down, facing him. She watched him for a moment, then spoke:

"What's your birthday?" She asked simply, as if it was her business.

"Why?" Luke asked her directly.

"Come on, burger boy, tell me."

"No."

"I'll keep talking," she said, trying to make a bargain.

"As if you'll actually shut up," he snorted.

"Come on! I need coffee, and Rory's waiting. I had to leave her with Miss. Patty, or I think that's her name. Well, I told her I'd be quick, but obviously I can't cause your holding the coffee hostage from me! So tell me your birthday or give me the good stuff."

Luke went behind the counter and looked at her. "Fine," he told her, "November 9th, happy?" She smiled and went got a newspaper. Luke watched her open up it up to the horoscope. The girl looked up at him.

"Can I borrow your pen for a second?" Luke didn't questioned her why, just handed her the pen he took orders with. He continued to watch her scribble something down, then tear a small section out and handed it to him, with his pen. On the paper was the Scorpio horoscope, and at the bottom she had added something. It read:

You will meet an annoying woman today. Give her coffee and she'll go away." Luke looked up at her, and she was grinning. Luke gave a small smile and turned around. He grabbed the coffee pot and turned to her. Luke poured her coffee and pushed it across the counter to her. She took it happily and took a long sip.

"Oh, my god," she said, slowly. "That is the best coffee ever! Thank you, thank you, thank you!" Luke chuckled lightly and held up the horoscope.

"Thanks for the horoscope," he said. She grabbed her purse and got up, drinking her coffee. The girl paused to point at the horoscope, saying:

"Hold on to that horoscope, put it in your wallet, carry it around with you." She smiled at him, before continuing. "One day it will bring you luck!" She waved and turned around to head for the door. Before leaving she turned and added, "Great coffee, I'll definitely be back."

"Good to meet you," Luke called from behind the counter.

"You didn't," the girl said, "I'm Lorelai. Lorelai Gilmore." With one last smile, and a sip of her coffee, Luke watched Lorelai slip out the door. He watched her walk towards Miss. Patty.

He replayed parts of their conversation in her head. She was new in town. And what was that about leaving Rory at Miss. Patty's? And was Rory a boy or girl? Why didn't he listen to her babble more? Luke looked down out the horoscope. He reread it over and over again. There was something out this girl, that made he thinking about her more then he probably should. He barely knew her.

Luke ignored the thoughts, and pulled out his wallet. He slipped the horoscope in, and then got back to business.


A/N Okay there it is! Recognize it? It's how they met, you know how Luke told her in Written in the Stars? Well I used that, expect expanded it. Sorry for the shortness, I just wanted this chapter to be just them meeting. Next, Lorelai's getting a job ) Reviews, please? I'll read + review your stories! Come on, you know you want to review! And please give your ideas on what should happen in the future, I'm still planning it out. )