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"Hey Mom! I'm home!" Rory called out as she walked into their house.
"Hey , kid! I'm up here!" Lorelai yelled back.
Rory dropped her backpack next to the kitchen table and went up to find her mom. She found her wadding up clothes and sticking them into drawers.
"Mom, you're supposed to fold them or hang them. Now your clothes are going to be all wrinkled," Rory blurted in a disappointed tone.
"I'll just iron them when I need to wear them."
"That's more work!"
"Not when you only do one at a time over the course of a month. With folding you have to do a weeks worth of clothes all at once."
"You're crazy."
Lorelai smiled. "I know."
"I don't have much homework tonight so why don't we go to Lukes? We don't go there that much during the weekdays anymore. I mean you do but I don't because of Chilton and homework. Plus dad is doing some work thing"
"Oh, um…" Lorelai turned away and looked up to the ceiling. "Yeah okay."
"What was that?" Rory asked with a confused look on her face.
"What was what?"
"You totally trailed off."
"No, I don't think so."
"Mom!"
"What?" Not wanting Rory to know what happened with Luke yesterday, Lorelai went along with her. "Go change, lets go to Luke's."
Rory scrunched her eyebrows before leaving her mothers room. Lorelai decided to change too. She put on a pair of tight jeans that really showed off her ass and a tight grey v-neck. Her hair down in her natural curls that cascaded just over her shoulders. She walked downstairs to find Rory standing there with an accusing look.
"What?" Lorelai asked.
"What's going on?" Rory crossed her arms.
"What do you mean?" Lorelai acted innocent.
"Mom, I know something is going on, just tell me."
"Nothing is going on!"
"Yes it is!"
"No!"
"Yes!"
"No!"
"Yes!"
"I kissed Luke!" Lorelai blurted out. She winced waiting for Rory's reply.
"WHAT?!" Rory's jaw dropped to the floor and her eyes shot open. "You kissed Luke?!"
"Yes." Lorelai winced as she said the word making it sound like a question.
"I don't know what to think! This is so unexpected." Rory stood there in shock.
"I know! We'll go to the diner and you can tell me if you notice anything weird. I'm not sure how he'll act. I haven't gone to the diner today so I haven't seen him since."
"Okay… this is weird."
"I know."
"How was it?" Rory asked, intrigued.
"How was what?" Lorelai was confised.
"You know…" Rory gave her a playful nudge.
"Oh! The kiss?!" Lorelai paused for a second. "It was amazing. In every way."
"Yeah okay that's weird." Rory plugged her ears and walked to the foyer. "Come on!"
Lorelai jumped out of her thoughts and followed Rory out the door. They drove over to Luke's and Lorelai was nervous to go in. They waited outside for a few minutes before Rory finally pushed her Mom into the door. Luke happened to be walking by the door and spoke as soon as they came in.
"Coffee?" He asked.
"Yes, coffee would be gre-" Suddenly Lorelai had leaned on one of Luke's tables and knocked everything off onto the floor. Luke gave a slight nod and walked away.
"Smooth. Real smooth, Mom."
Lorelai rolled her eyes at her daughter and they both picked up the mess she made.
"Hey sugars!" Babette called out from the next table over.
"Oh hey Babette, Ms. Patty!" Rory waved at the two of them.
"Something's going on," Ms. Patty whispered to Babette.
"With Luke and Lorelai rigjt?" Babette asked just as quietly.
"That's what it looks like."
"Oh they'd just be so cute together," Babette added.
"Have you seen Luke's ass?"
"Lorelai's too!"
"What?" Lorelai asked when she heard her name.
"Oh nothing honey," Ms. Patty started. "We were just talking about your skill with sewing and making things."
"Um, okay," Lorelai said awkwardly. She turned around to sit down with Rory.
"I think they know." Rory whispered to her mother.
"That's not possible. They're both crazy."
"They're never wrong," Rory pointed out.
Luke came back with two cups of coffee and then gestured to Lorelai to follow him.
"You called?" She asked when they got up to the counter.
"Hey," he said awkwardly.
"Hey." Lorelai smiled.
"We should talk."
"Yeah, we should."
"Not here." Lorelai followed Luke's glance over to Babette and Ms. Patty who were both watching them with wondering eyes.
"Later?" She asked.
"Yeah." Luke responded with a smile. Lorelai was about to walk back to Rory when Luke spoke again. "Wait." Lorelai turned around and raised her eyebrows. "Those jeans are really working for you." Luke looked down when his face started to blush.
"Really?" Lorelai asked with smirk.
"They're working for me too." Luke winked at her.
"Are you going to watch me when I walk away?" Lorelai asked happily.
"Probably."
"Ah, I'll make sure to add a little spunk to my step." Lorelai walked away awkwardly and Luke laughed.
"So?" Rory asked when Lorelai sat back down.
"We're going to talk about it." Lorelai smiled at her daughter.
"Talk about what sugar?" Babette asked.
"Oh nothing," Lorelai sat up straight. "Fishing. We're going to talk about how to fish." Lorelai added a smile at the end of her sentence to make it seem more believable.
"Oh, ew." Babette turned back to Ms. Patty.
After they finished their coffee, Rory walked home and Lorelai went to pay Luke.
"Hey," she said when she walked up to him. He was cleaning his counters just like he always does when the diner is calm.
"Hey, what's up?" He asked.
"Here's the money for the coffee." She helt out a couple dollars.
"No."
"Luke!"
"No."
"But-"
"No. I am not taking your money, Lorelai. You and Rory eat and drink free any time you want."
"Thanks," Lorelai said with a soft smile. They both stood there staring for a few seconds. Patty and Babette were gone and only Kirk and a few random customers were left.
"Do you want to talk about it now?" Luke asked.
"Only if you want to."
"I do," Luke replied quietly.
Lorelai nodded and started up the stairs to his apartment.
"Caesar, I'm taking a break!" Luke called out.
"You've been taking a lot of breaks recently boss!"
"Deal with it!"
Luke followed Lorelai up the stairs and shut the door behind them.
"Okay I'm just going to go for it here," Luke said nervously. "Lorelai Gilmore, I like you. I have liked you for so long… since day one." Lorelai opened her mouth to speak but Luke held up his hand to stop her. "Since the day you walked through that diner door I have liked you. I've tried to tell you a million times but we always got interrupted or… something just always happened and I never got a chance. Then I had to watch you date all those other guys and you were engaged and I knew you weren't interested so I gave up."
"Luke…" Lorelai started to speak again.
He looked down trying to cover his blushing cheeks. Lorelai walked up to him and lifted his head up with her finger. She placed a soft kiss on his lips, barely brushing them together. Luke smiled a bit and put his arms around her waist, pulling her closer. She wrapped her arms around his neck and their kiss grew more passionate. Lorelai was up against the wall before she realized they had been moving. Before she knew it, his hands were roaming her back under her shirt. She ripped at his flannel without breaking the kiss. Lorelai let out a soft moan when Luke playfully bit her lip. Now Luke's flannel was on the ground and Lorelai jumped up into his arms. He carried her over to the bed and placed her down. Luke moved down from her mouth to her neck and she couldn't help but moan. Right as her shirt was coming up, there was a knock at the door.
The two of them jumped off of each other.
"The hell?" Luke asked, grabbing his flannel. "Hold on!" He yelled at the door. Lorelai got off the bed and fixed herself up. She walked over to the kitchen area and sat at his table. Luke put his flannel back on and opened the door. He was in awe to see who showed up. "Jess? What are you doing here?"
"I'm moving in." Jess barged in with a big duffel bag and put it on the bed. "Hey."," he said, looking at Lorelai.
"Hi?" She replied.
Luke gave a demanding look to Lorelai and then turned to Jess. "Why are you here? Where is your mom?"
"Relax Luke, she sent me here to stay with you because she was sick of me."
"Okay well I'm going to go…" Lorelai called out from the kitchen.
Luke looked over to Lorelai and then back to Jess. He walked after Lorelai and led her outside his apartment door. He shut the door behind them so Jess couldn't hear.
"I'm sorry Lorelai. I had no idea he was coming here, I haven't seen him in so long this is totally unexpected."
"Luke, stop. It's fine, I totally get it. I have a kid too…" They both laughed. "Really, I get it. Go figure this out."
Luke nodded and kissed her lightly. "I really enjoyed this."
"Me too."
"Really enjoyed this." He emphasized.
"I'll come by tomorrow," she said, pulling away.
"Okay," he replied at a whisper as she walked down the stairs. Luke snapped out of his thoughts when he heard a bang come from his apartment and went back in to confront Jess.
"Was I interrupting?" Jess asked when he heard the door shut.
"Yes, Jess, you were. You couldn't have called?"
"I don't have a phone." Jess replied without looking up from his book.
"Your mom has a phone."
"She kicked me out. No time to call." Jess still stared at his book.
Before Luke had the chance to reply, the phone rang.
"Hello?" He answered angirly.
"Well hey big brother!"
"Liz, why is Jess here?"
"Aww I hope you're not mad… Jess just needs a little something different."
"Yeah, like what?"
"I want him to stay with you and finish school there in Stars Hollow. It's a good town, maybe it will make him good."
"Liz-" Luke started to argue back but she spoke again.
"Thank you so much! I love you big brother!"
Luke heard a clicking noise on the other side. Luke put the phone down.
"Fine, you can stay," Luke started. "But you are going to school, and you're working for me at the Diner. If you start causing any problems, you are out of here. Understood?" Luke yelled, his face turned red.
"Fine." Jess replied in a snarky voice, still not looking up from his book.
Luke went back down to the diner and it was pretty dead so he decided to close up early. Luke went back up to the apartment to set up for Jess to stay.
"I'm going out," Jess said, putting a sweatshirt on.
"What? Where are you going?" Luke asked.
"I don't know. Wherever." Luke was about to respond but Jess had already walked out the door.
Jess walked through the square, past Doose's, past the gazebo, past Weston's and eventually he passed the Inn.
Lorelai had decided she wasn't ready to go back home to Rory yet so she went to the Inn to talk to Sookie. She decided she wouldn't tell Sookie about what happened with Luke because she knew that in this situation, Sookie would be just as bad as Ms. Patty or Babette.
Sookie had always left little hints about Luke. Now, Lorelai was starting to realize things. She realized that the time she brought her skates into the diner, Luke had offered to tighten and blades and clean them. Sookie had told her, 'wow, you get good service here'. Lorelai also remembered the time that he drove her to Hartford in terrible weather so she could see her dad in the hospital. He gave her a shoulder to cry on. She remembered when he brought her ice on Rory's birthday. She remembered everything about that hug. She remembered her mom telling her that he looked at her like she was 'about to give him a lap dance'.
In this moment, Lorelai had realized that Luke and her have always had a special connection. She was hoping to meet an amazing guy one day and fall in love and they'd get married and that would be it. She was blinding herself looking for that situation and she didn't realize that Luke had been there the whole time. That maybe he was the one she was meant to be with.
Feeling extra happy, Lorelai walked into the Inn. "Hey Sook!"
"Hey sweetie! Why are you here?" Sookie dried off her freshly washed hands and her and Lorelai sat down in the dining room.
"Oh, I don't know. Seems a little too early to go home."
"Where's Rory?"
"She's probably studying."
"That girl is something, ya know?"
Lorelai smiled. "Yeah, she really is."
"So, what's new?" Sookie asked with a smile.
"Christopher is going to meet Dean tomorrow."
"Really?" Sookie's happy expression turned into a concerned look.
"Yeah. I'm not going, but I'll look forward to the stories from Rory."
Sookie laughed. "What else?" She asked with a knowing look.
"Um, nothing," Lorelai said, trying to keep a poker face.
"Really? Nothing? You seem happy."
"I am happy, Sook." Lorelai smiled again. "Okay, I think it's time to go. I'll see you tomorrow."
"Bye hun."
Lorelai waved at her friend and then left the Inn. As she was walking to the jeep, she saw a familiar face.
"Hey, you're Jess right?" She asked.
"Yep." He stopped and responded awkwardly.
"Yeah, I saw you at Luke's." Lorelai stopped to talk. "Why are you at Luke's?"
"I've got my reasons."
"Okay." Lorelai was taken aback by his short and rude responses. "Well I have a daughter, she's your age. Luke should bring you over sometime." Lorelai tried to be nice.
"Fine." Jess walked away after he answered with an annoyed tone.
"Jeez," Lorelai said to herself as she got into her Jeep.
The next day, Lorelai went to Luke's on her lunch break. She was surprised when she saw Jess working there, no sign of Luke.
"Hey, where's Luke?"
"He's upstairs." Jess responded to Lorelai with an annoyed voice.
"Luke?" She called out as she opened his apartment door.
"It's a tiny apartment, you don't have to yell," Luke said while rubbing his ear.
"Sorry, I'm used to screaming at Rory."
"Sorry I didn't call," Luke said, changing the subject.
"No, it's okay. I wasn't expecting you to." Lorelai paused for a second. "So, I met Jess yesterday. After he left here. I saw him in the street and we talked. Well… I talked and he sort of just stood there."
"Aw geez I'm sorry about him. Maybe being here will be good for him."
"Well, how long is he staying?"
Luke patted the cushion next to him, gesturing for Lorelai to sit down. "He is staying until the end of the school year, at least. I told him he has to go to school and work for me and we'll be good."
"I told him that you guys should come by to the house some time. I can have Sookie cook us something. It could be fun." Lorelai placed a hand on Luke's leg.
"Yeah, yeah that sounds good." Luke leaned in and gave Lorelai a quick kiss.
"I also wanted to talk about something else," she said, changing the subject again.
"Yeah?" He asked.
"What are we going to tell people? About us… Do we tell them? Do we let them find out? Do we keep it a secret?"
"Uh… how about whatever happens happens. If they find out, great! If they don't, great! Let's just keep doing what we're doing and see where it gets us."
Lorelai looked at Luke with desire in her eyes. With her realizations, in this moment, Luke seemed more desirable than he had ever seemed before. Lorelai knew he was exactly the same person, he never changed. She just realized how he's been there for her and Rory in the past and it meant so much to her. No one has ever cared about them as much as Luke besides maybe Mia and Sookie.
"You're too good to me, you know that?" She said with a sheepish smile.
"You're too good for me." Luke responded and put a hand up to her face. He pushed back a section of her hair.
"No you're too good for me," Lorelai smiled and put on her best child voice. The two couldn't help but laugh.
"Come here," he said. He leaned forward and gave her a passionate, electrifying kiss.
"Damn I wish we didn't have jobs," Lorelai said when he pulled away.
Luke laughed and they both got up.
"I'll see you later today," she said when she opened the door.
"I'll be waiting." Luke followed her down the stairs and went to help Jess. Lorelai went back to the Inn to finish her work day. She was ready to go home, change, and go straight back to Luke's, but she had to work. She was also looking forward to hearing all about the whole father meets daughters boyfriend thing. Right now, everything in Lorelai's life was in place. Everything was perfect, and she couldn't help but smile.
So there's chapter 3! Let me know what you think. I will explore Rory's relationships a little bit more but this story will still be mostly Luke and Lorelai. Yes, Christopher is still there, and yes he will cause more problems, but Luke and Lorelai will push through it. Please let me know what you think! I really enjoy suggestions too.
Next chapter should hopefully be out soon!
