Chapter 2: Ribbons are back in style.

The next morning Lorelai woke up to find no Luke beside her. As she got out of bed and walked out of her bedroom towards the stairs, she smelt what other than coffee.

"Luke?" She yelled as she came down the stairs.

"Down here." He yelled back.

"Dirty!" She said grinning as she walked into the kitchen, to find Luke making her breakfast.

"Ah jeez! Must you always say that?" He said looking away from the stove to look at her.

"Hmm…yes." She responded, as she sat down at the kitchen table.

Luke rolled his eyes at her. "Coffee?"

"Do you have to ask?"

"Well maybe for once you don't want to start with coffee." He answered as he poured her coffee and sat down beside her.

"I'm going to pretend you didn't just say that!" She said faking she was hurt by his comment.

"So..how are you doing?"

"Better. Especially since you're here." She answered smiling at him. "I just wish she would call, already." He took her hand in his.

"She'll call. She's probably tired from her flight and settling in."

Before Lorelai could say anything back the phone rang.

'Hey, I think you're psychic!" She yelled back at him as she ran to pick up the phone in the living room.

"Rory!" Lorelai said as she picked up the phone and sat down on the couch.

"How'd you know it was me?"

"Luke's psychic."

"Luke's there?"

"Yes." She replied smiling looking towards the kitchen.

"You sound happy."

"I am, but we can talk about that later. I want to talk about you now. How are you doing?"

"Well I got back pretty late last night. So I'm pretty tired."

"No plane stories? Did you sit next to someone that smelled bad?"

"No."

"An Elvis impersonator?"

"No."

"A hobo with a big toe?"

"How long is this game going to go on? If you don't stop I'm hanging up."

"Well I was planning on until you said yes to one…"

"Oh no!"

"What?"

"I have to go. I have a meeting in 10 minutes." Rory said sounding panicked.

"Wait! Do you still have the business card Christiane Amanpour gave you?"

"Yes.."

"Make sure you bring it with you."

"Why?"

"So you can rub it in everyones face that you met Christiane Amanpour and she gave you her business card!"

"Oh yeah and I'll also tell them my insane mother introduced me."

"That's the spirit."

"I'll bring the card okay?"

"Hah."

"Bye mom. I love you."

"Bye kid. I love you too." She said sadly as she hung up.

"I told you she would call." Luke said as he walked into the living room and sat down on the couch next to Lorelai. "How's she doing?"

"Tired from the flight, but good. She actually has to go to a meeting right now."

"I'm sure she'll call back later."

"Yeah. I hope."

"Why don't we go somewhere today?"

"What about the diner?"

"Caesar can take care of it."

"Well, I can call Sookie and tell her I won't be coming in."

"Good."

"So where do you want to go?"

"Wherever you want to go."

"Even shopping?"

"Sure."

"Luke Danes did not just say yes to shopping!"

"You're right. I said sure."

"Well, we're going shopping. I'm going to go get ready."

Lorelai got up from the couch and went upstairs to get ready. Forty five minutes or so later she came down ready to go. She found Luke on the couch watching some sports recaps from the day before. He got up from the couch and started for the door when he saw her coming down. As he was about to open the door, Lorelai stopped him by his shirt and flung him around.

"Wha-" He was cut off by her lips on his.

"Okay now we can go." Lorelai said smiling. Luke followed her as she walked out the door to Luke's truck.

"Hey, I just have to check on the diner before we go." Luke told her as they pulled out of Lorelai's driveway.

"Okay."

As they were coming up to Luke's they noticed a crowd forming in front of the diner.

"What the hell is going on?" Luke said angrily as he got out of the truck. "This better not be Taylor's doing."

"Dirty!" Lorelai whispered as they walked over to see what everyone was crowding around. They squeezed their way through to the front to see what it was.

"Oh my god! They stole my chuppah!" Lorelai exclaimed as they finally got to the front. "And they put a purple ribbon on it?!" She finished.

"Oh Lorelai. Luke!" Miss Patty exclaimed coming up to them.

"Patty what is this?" Luke yelled.

Before she could answer, sure enough Babette came running over.

"Congratulations Suga's!"

"For what?" Lorelai asked confused.

"Oh don't be modest. We saw that kiss last night." Miss Patty cut in.

"One hell of a kiss that was. It's about time." Babette exclaimed.

Luke and Lorelai looked at each other guilty.

"But what's with the chuppah and the ribbon?" Lorelai asked.

"Well.." Kirk cut in. "This is where you two made up and the purple is blue and pink put together."

"You didn't.." Luke started. "Taylor! Where are you?"

"No need to yell, Lucas" Taylor said joining them. "I'm right here."

"Did you pass out more ribbons!"

"What are you talking about?" Taylor asked nervously.

"You know damn well what I'm talking about, Taylor." Luke started looking around at everyone with purple ribbons, as Taylor starting running. "Taylor!" Luke yelled running after him.

"I'm not letting you get away this time!"

"Things are definitely getting back to normal." Lorelai said to herself smiling, as she saw Luke through the Soda Shoppe window throwing candy in the air.

I wanted to get this up before 8, but it's just a little after. I guess now I can watch Idol. My vote is for Jordin. Anyway thank you to everyone who reviewed. So I hope you like it, if not then oh well. I'm trying to come up with a name for my story instead of just Season 8. Any ideas so far I have Hold On, Belief and The End Has Only Begun as ideas, so let me know what you think.

Don't forget to review!

Katie.