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Chapter 4

"Rory! Help!" Lorelai shouted from upstairs.

Rory ran upstairs and laughed when she went into her mom's room. There were clothes strew everywhere. "Wow, what's happened in there?"

"I've got no clothes!" Lorelai panicked. "Luke won't want to go out with me!"

"Mom, Luke wouldn't care if you wore a bin bag. He'd still want to go out with you. Just calm down." Rory reassured her, walking up to the bed and started going through the clothes. She picked up a nice navy blue dress and a black flowy cardigan. "There, wear that." She said handing them to her. "You look great in that dress."

"How did you do that?" Lorelai asked. "I've been staring at my clothes for an hour!"

"Just change." Rory laughed.

The doorbell then rang.

"Oh my god, it's 7 already! I didn't realise it was that late!" She panicked.

"Mom, calm down. Go change and I'll let Luke in." Rory said.

Rory then went downstairs and opened the door. She smiled when she saw how Luke was wearing some smart trousers and a nice shirt and holding a bunch of flowers. "Hey Luke, come on in." She said.

"Hey Rory." He said. "Is your mom ready?"

"Do you really need to ask that?" Rory joked.

"My mistake." Luke smirked.

They sat down in the living room and went into an awkward silence.

"So where are you taking mom?" Rory asked.

"Just this nice restaurant. I know the people who own it." He said.

"Cool." Rory said.

"So um what are you up to this evening?" He asked awkwardly.

"Not much. Studying probably." She said.

"Good. That's good." He said.

At that point, Lorelai came down the stairs nervously. "Hey." She smiled, taking in his appearance. "You look...nice. Really nice." She said.

Luke stood up and smiled. "You look...beautiful." He said sincerely.

Lorelai smiled. "Flattery will get you everywhere." She joked.

"Here, these are for you." He said giving her the flowers.

"Aw these are lovely. Thank you." She smiled giving them a smell.

"So um...you ready?" He asked.

"Yeh just let me get my hat from the oven." She said rushing off to the kitchen.

"I shouldn't ask, should I?" He said to Rory.

"I wouldn't." She joked.

"Ready!" Lorelai said coming back. She gave Rory a hug. "See you later hon."

"Have fun." Rory smiled.

They went to leave.

"Hey Luke?" Rory said.

"Yeh?" He said turning round.

"Have her back by 10." She grinned.

Luke smirked. "Yes m'am."

"Alright mom! Can we go now?" Lorelai played along.

"Yes have fun kids!" Rory grinned.

Luke and Lorelai laughed and then left. Rory went to the window and watched as Luke opened the passenger door open and helped Lorelai in. She smiled as she saw them drive off, knowing that this was a long time coming.

"Aw this is nice." Lorelai said as Luke held open the door to the restaurant for her and they walked in.

"Yeh it's a great place." He said leading her to a table.

"Don't we normally have to wait to be seated?" She asked.

"It's fine." He said.

Just then an older woman came up to their table. "You just sit yourself now, do you Lucas?" She joked.

"I tried to tell him!" Lorelai said.

Luke smirked and stood up. "Hey Maisy!" He smiled giving her a hug.

"It's good to see you." She smiled. "And you must be his lady friend, hello I'm Maisy." She smiled shaking Lorelai's hand.

"It's nice to meet you." Lorelai smiled.

"Buddy!" Maisy called.

An older man came up and shook Luke's hand.

"And this is Lorelai." Maisy introduced her.

"Hang on, I didn't tell you my name." Lorelai said confused.

"Oh honey, Lucas has been talking about you for years." Maisy smiled, not noticing Luke's cheeks reddening.

"It's nice to meet you." Buddy smiled.

"You too." Lorelai smiled.

"We'll leave you to it." Maisy smiled. "He's a special one, this one." She smiled fondly at Luke.

"That's the word on the street." Lorelai smiled. She watched them leave and then looked back at Luke. "You've talked about me to them?" She teased.

"Yeh well they ask about my life so I tell them." He said embarrassed. "Maisy and Buddy were good friends with my parents so they ask me things."

"It's nice you have them. They seem lovely." Lorelai smiled.

"Yeh they're great people. Buddy helped me get the diner up and running and taught me about the business. So I come here a few times and let them know how I'm doing." He said.

"Aw that's nice." Lorelai smiled. She then grinned. "So you talked about me huh?"

Luke rolled his eyes. "Well seeing as you're my only friend, there's noone else to talk about."

"Kirk will be devastated!" Lorelai grinned.

Luke chuckled. "Yeh well, he'll get over it."

The food soon arrived and they tucked into their food. Lorelai looked up after a moment. "Can I ask you a personal question?"

"Go ahead." He said.

"How many girlfriends have you had?" She asked cautiously. "I mean I obviously know about Rachel but I've never seen you with anyone else."

"I've only had two." He said. "Rachel was the main one but I started dating this girl, Anna, after Rachel left. It wasn't that long before you and I met. I guess I was just lonely because of Rachel leaving. Anna and I only dated for a few months. We sort of fizzled out. She was nice, just not really my type."

Lorelai nodded. "Why did Rachel leave the last time? You never said. I thought it was going well."

Luke looked a bit embarrassed. "She um sort of knew I had feelings for you." He admitted.

"Oh Luke's I'm so sorry!" Lorelai exclaimed, her eyes widening.

"It's fine. I don't think my heart was really in it. I mean, Rachel's a great friend but I don't think we were suited to dating." He said. "While we're being honest, what happened between you and Max? I mean it seemed so serious and suddenly you had called of the wedding." Luke said.

Lorelai sighed. "Max was a great guy and he really did love me. I guess I just didn't feel the same." She said. "At my bachelorette party, my mother was talking about how she couldn't eat the week before her wedding and how she tried on her wedding dress every night. I didn't feel that and then you made me that beautiful chuppah for me and something subconsciously told me it wasn't meant to be. I guess I should thank you really." She gave him a small smile.

Luke smiled. "I guess we both sort of knew even back then."

"I guess we did." Lorelai smiled.

Luke drove Lorelai home after the meal and helped her out of the passenger seat when hey arrived at the Crap Shack. He walked her up the porch steps to the door.

"I had a really great time." Lorelai smiled.

"Good." Luke smiled. "So did I."

They slowly leant forward and shared a loving kiss.

"I could get used to this." Lorelai grinned.

Luke chuckled. "See you tomorrow for breakfast?" He asked.

"Try and stop me." She smiled.

He smiled and gave her another kiss before walking back to his truck and driving back to the diner. Lorelai watched him leave and couldn't stop the giddy smile appearing on her face. It was a perfect date and it felt so right. She stood there for a minute and then slowly disappeared into the house.

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