"Ah, finally home!" Rory said.
"It's definitely been a while."
"Hey do you wanna stop by Luke's? We haven't eaten anything since 5 hours ago, I'm dying for a burger."
"Um, you can go, I'm really tired... and not that hungry. I'll just see you at home."
"Really? Um, ok. Bye."
"Bye hon."
Lorelai entered her house and dropped the bags on the floor. She couldn't avoid Luke forever. Surely he's heard that, yes, she ended all plans for the wedding, and now that Rory was there he knew that they were home. What were they supposed to do now? Do they just forget about the whole thing? Can she ever go into the diner again? Will he ever even talk to her again? He was pretty upset. Why does it have to be so hard?
Lorelai unpacked to her standards and climbed into bed. She couldn't sleep at all, she heard Rory come in at 10:30. God, this was going to be a long night, she thought to herself.
It was 2:17, and she still hadn't caught a wink of sleep. There wasn't any coffee in the house to drink so she went for a walk. Aimlessly at first, but then stopped and sat on the dock bye the lake. It was beautiful outside. The nice, sweet, summer air still lingered. It was a clear night and she could see every single star in the sky. She lied back and listened to the noises the forest makes in the night. She was glad she lived in such a nice town--you could do this type of thing and not get worried about rapists or murderers or lions. Then all of a sudden she heard footsteps. She shot awake, not knowing who or what was beside her.
"Luke?! What the hell are you doing trying to scare me like that?"
"What the hell are you doing out here in the middle of the night?"
"I'm asking you the same question."
"I couldn't sleep."
"Same."
"And you came out here?"
"Yeah? So?"
"You're not a nature person."
"Yeah, well, you don't know everything about me."
"I know enough to know you hate dirt and trees and bugs."
"I didn't purposely come here, I was just walking and I ended up here and I decided to sit down. Okay? Satisfied officer?"
"Yes, thank-you." Luke turned to walk away.
"Where are you going?"
"Home..."
"We should talk. Unless you forgot everything already."
"I didn't forget. I just wasn't sure how much you would be up for discussing this since you just ended what seemed to be a pretty serious relationship."
"I'm fine. I've bounced back faster than John Mayer post whoever's new this week now come on sit and talk."
"About what?"
"Come onnnn Luke! We, us, you, me can't just forget that conversation we had. It's not right. You and me don't do those kinds of things everyday."
Luke was sitting beside her. He was staring deep into the lake clearly avoiding her, fidgeting with his thumbs.
Lorelai turned toward him, took his head in her hands and moved in closer towards hers. He was staring directly at her. Deep into her eyes, it was bullets going through her and usually in this position she turned her head and tried to focus on something else. Eye contact was a very intimate, scary thing to her and usually it wasn't this intense but she couldn't turn away. Luke put his hand on the far side of her thigh and scooted a little closer.
"So, usually, people, two people to be exact, who find their selves to be in this kind of closeness with one another usually ..."
And so they did. It was soft at first, but deeper and deeper as it progressed. He wasn't like any other guy she'd ever kissed. He was careful, considerate. He kept her grip, and never let her slip away. This was the first kiss in her history of kisses where her mind didn't wander. It thought about him, where his hands were, where her hands were. If she should do this or that, but never focused on anything else. As soon as one pulled away, the other did too. They never stopped for long. And before both of them knew it, the sun was peeking up through the trees.
Lorelai eventually pulled away, Luke tried to go back, but she leaned further over.
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing, it's just ... 5:30 in the morning?!"
"Oh shit!"
"See what I mean?"
"We never actually talked."
"You're complaining?" Lorelai said, probably a little too seriously.
"No." He said it with a smile. It was the first time she'd actually seen a genuine smile coming from Luke. It was nice.
"What now?"
"Well you need to go home, and I need to go make some deliveries."
"Right, right. Okay but I meant about us."
"Well ... I'm not sure. We shouldn't tell people right away."
"Tell people what? All we've done was kiss, we haven't established anything official."
"Well if another guy asked you out do you feel like you're allowed to go?"
"If another guy asked me out would you want me to go?"
"No, not if you're serious about this."
"Luke, I would never of said anything if I wasn't one-hundred billion percent sure about it. I can't fool around with you, you're too much of a person in my life to do that."
"Good, alright, well I'll see you for breakfast?"
"Yes you will."
"Bye."