Jealousy Written All Over Your Pretty Little Face

So, this is the last chapter, and I'm surprisingly really sad to see this end because it's my first chapter story and… I don't know. I'm just sad. I'm going to miss the great reviews everyone has given me. They make me feel like I don't suck at this. Anyways, just in case anyone wanted to know, I've already started writing a new story called "My Best Friend's Marrying The Devil" and yes, it's LL. (Speaking of LL, I just want everyone to know that I will never write a L/C story. It's not that I hate Chris or anything. I used to, but not anymore. I just don't like Lorelai with him, or anyone else but Luke for that matter. But I kind of liked Max. Anyways, I'm sure as heck not about to jump ships like a lot of people just because they aren't together right now. Okay, rant over.) I'll probably publish the first chapter later this week.

Thanks to everyone for the wonderful reviews you've given, and special thanks go to Lolabelle26, Ronata, Robinpoppins, and Takerus Lost Angel who, if I'm remembering right, have reviewed every or almost ever chapter of this story. Your comments did not go unappreciated.

Now, on with Chapter 14!

Chapter 14: The Things We Do For Love, Part Deux

They all stood there, still as could be. No one had the nerve to speak up. The tension was thick. Everyone looked at the ground, except Sven, who was obviously staring at Allison's breasts. Allison noticed this and buttoned up her blouse immediately, disgusted by the fact that a Gleason had been gazing down her bra. Finally, after many minutes of silence, Rory spoke up.

"Mom, we were only trying to help."

"Rory, there are some things that you have nothing to do with and this is one of them. You had no right to butt into our business coerce us into coming here!" Lorelai argued.

"How do you know Luke was coerced into coming here?" Rory lashed back.

"Trust me, there was coercing and… things of that nature," Luke interjected in, his gaze held straight at Allison.

"Look, don't blame Rory. It was my thing. I made her help me," Allison lied to cover for Rory.

"Since when does Rory listen to strangers? Nice try, but I'm pretty sure you didn't concoct this all by yourself," Lorelai responded, seeing right through the lie.

"Uh, since you no need me, may I go watch Apprentice now?" Sven shyly asked, not sure if he should be speaking or not.

"Yes, go watch Apprentice", Allison replied, mocking Sven's accent.

Sven walked toward the door, but turned back to Allison.

"So, do you think we may ever… you know… have date?" Sven whispered to Allison.

"Ewww. No!" Allison exclaimed.

"Can't blame guy for trying," Sven said and walked out of the market.

Lorelai and Luke were staring at one another, unable to take their eyes off of each other. Both had looks of hurt in their eyes, but also had looks of love in their eyes. Not even a blind man could overlook that.

But Lorelai snapped out of the trance Luke's eyes had put her in.

"Come on, Rory. Let's go home," she said sternly with no emotion lying within her voice.

"No, mom," Rory whispered coldly.

"Rory, come on," she said a little louder.

"No, mom. Allison and I went to all of this trouble just to get you guys in the same room, and I'm not about to see all our planning go to waste. I'm not leaving Mom, and neither are you," Rory stated.

Lorelai walked quickly to the door, but Allison beat her to it. Facing Lorelai, she reached behind her and locked the lock on the door.

"I hate to have to do this Mom, but I guess I'm gonna have to."

"What are you talking about, Rory?"

To tell the truth, Rory didn't even know what she was talking about. She didn't even recognize herself at that point. She was… authoritative, and she liked it.

"Allison, can you come here for a second?" Rory asked.

Allison walked over by the door where Rory was standing. Rory whispered something in her ear, which made Allison giggle.

"You ready?" Rory inquired.

"Heck yes," Allison replied.

And in a swift movement, they unlocked the lock to the door, ran out, and closed it behind them. When Lorelai realized what was going on, she ran to door and desperately tried to get out, but she was too late. Her and Luke were alone in the room… all by themselves… only her and him. This made Lorelai nervous. She didn't want to be alone with Luke. She didn't know what awful things might come out of her mouth if she was alone with him for too much longer. She couldn't stand it. She had to get out.

"Lorelai Leigh Gilmore, let me out!" she yelled while banging on the door.

"Whoa, she's pissed. She never calls me Lorelai, yet only uses my middle name," Rory whispered to Allison, "Maybe we should let them out. We can't force them to do something they don't want to."

"Yes we can. Rory, it's like getting your shots: You totally don't want to get them because you know they're gonna hurt, but if you don't, you might get really sick and even die. Luke and Lorelai need their shots, Rory. Frankly, they'll die without each other. You know it, I know it, and they know it. Even if they're not so keen on it, they need them. They need each other. So we have to keep them in there," Allison explained, looking Rory straight in the eyes and being more serious than Rory had ever seen her.

"No, Mom! I can't let you out of here!" Rory yelled so Lorelai could hear her, "You may be mad now, but one day you'll thank me. By the way, thank you for making me get my shots so I wouldn't die of malaria or polio."

"What?" Lorelai said to herself.

"Mom, we're going around the corner, and you two are not getting out of here until you solve your problems," Rory said.

"Taylor has to open at seven tomorrow," Allison interjected.

"Or until seven tomorrow morning! Whichever one comes first!" Rory exclaimed.

Rory and Allison ran off, leaving Luke and Lorelai to their fate. Luke had been silent this entire time, just observing Lorelai and Rory and Allison. While the three girls were arguing, he had pulled the black rolling chair toward him and sat down in it, thinking about Lorelai. He couldn't help it. It was a natural occurrence in his life. Lately, his daily routine went like this: Wake up, think about Lorelai, take a shower, think about Lorelai (He knew that if Lorelai could read his thoughts, she would have been saying "Dirty!" to that comment.), open the diner, think about Lorelai, serve his customers food, serve Lorelai food, think about Lorelai, close up, think about Lorelai, and sleep, and sometimes the thoughts about Lorelai would coincide with the other things. He may have seemed obsessive, but he really wasn't. It wasn't like he meant to think about her so much. He didn't even realize how much he thought about her until these past few weeks when Allison had been in town. Ever since that night when Lorelai saw him kissing Allison, he couldn't quit it. Maybe it was irrational. Maybe it was a bit ridiculous. But no one made him feel the way she did. He couldn't explain it, and for years he couldn't even fathom the idea of her being something special to him. But she was.

Suddenly, he realized what had occurred. He hadn't even really been paying attention to what was going on, but he saw that him and Lorelai were the only ones in the place. He felt his heart skipping beats, and she could feel hers beating faster and faster. Both were beginning to feel nervous, their palms sweating profusely. Luke stood up out of the chair and took a stop toward Lorelai. Both were silent. They both didn't know if they should say something let alone what. But they couldn't take the quiet any longer.

"Lorelai." "Luke." They both spit out at the same time.

After about 30 seconds, they both started again.

"Luke" "Lorelai."

They both quietly chuckled to themselves at this.

"It seems like we're both a little nervous here," Lorelai said.

"I'm not nervous," Luke lied in order to make himself look better.

"Fine then! I guess I'm just nervous," Lorelai bitterly replied and turned her back to Luke.

"No, I'm sorry," Luke sighed, "I'm kind of nervous too, though I don't know why because I didn't do anything wrong."

"How can you say that?" Lorelai asked with an angry tone in her voice.

"I wasn't the one who pretended they wanted to be with me and already had a boyfriend!" Luke yelled.

"Once again, he's NOT my boyfriend!" Lorelai screamed.

"Oh, and I suppose he was just comforting you or something," Luke said sarcastically.

"No! He came over because he wanted to get back together and I told him no! I told him I didn't want to be with him! I didn't have feelings for him anymore, and he just wouldn't accept it! And he was leaving when you showed up! Nothing happened!" Lorelai defended herself.

"Like I'm supposed to believe that," Luke gruffed.

"Yes, you are supposed to believe that because I wouldn't lie to you! By the way, if I recall, you were the one who kissed me when you had just finished having… you know… with your perky breasted girlfriend!" Lorelai argued.

"She is not 'perky breasted'!" Luke disagreed.

"Oh Luke, that girl has implants! You can tell from a mile away!" Lorelai yelled.

"I don't care about Allison's boobs!" Luke shouted.

"I don't either!"

"Then why are we talking about this?"

"Because you were mine first!" Lorelai cried.

Luke was speechless. He didn't know what to say to her last comment. He thought maybe he hadn't heard that; maybe it was just a figment of his imagination.

"Lorelai-" he started.

"It's just not fair. I was the one who always got your special smile, your special looks. And then she comes into town all bubbly and so full of herself, and you fall head over heels for her. Suddenly it's her who's getting all those things I had. I don't think I realized what I had until it was gone, Luke. And then I had to see you kiss her…"

"Lorelai, are you saying you were jealous?"

"Yeah, I guess I am. I just wish I would have moved faster. I wish I knew what I had standing right in front of me before."

"Lorelai, I didn't want to kiss her. It meant nothing to me. But when I saw you standing there looking at us, that meant something. You mean more to me than anyone in the world. I just want you to know that, no matter what happens to us after tonight, that's how it will always be. Lorelai Gilmore, you will always be my best friend," Luke poured out.

Lorelai had never heard anything more romantic in her entire life. She couldn't help herself. She grabbed his face and pulled him in for a passionate kiss. Luke was in shock as he felt her lips touch his, but that didn't stop him from kissing back. She felt like fireworks were going off it was so wonderful. As the kiss deepened, she was finally able to admit something to herself: She was in love, for the first time ever, with Luke Danes.

Rory and Allison came back just in time to see all of this unfold. Rory was thrilled for her mom and Luke. Although Allison was pleased to see Luke happy, she couldn't help but feel a bit of jealousy. She would always love him, no matter what. But she had to let her feeling subside. She realized she wasn't the right woman for him; Lorelai Gilmore was, and that was something she would just have to deal with as time went on.

Allison decided it would be best if she left the next day. That morning, she walked downstairs in the same white sundress she had come into town wearing and saw Luke serving coffee to his only customer: Lorelai.

"I can't believe you're up this early, Lorelai. You don't usually get up with the cows and pigs," Luke commented to Lorelai as Allison came downstairs.

"Well, I needed my oxygen composed of coffee and sugar, and I've been having withdrawal pains for a while now. Those pains were just so unbearable that I couldn't sleep and just had to come and get some," Lorelai explained.

"So it had nothing to do with me?"

"Okay, maybe 90 coffee, 10 you," Lorelai said.

Just then, Luke and Lorelai noticed Allison standing at the foot of the steps.

"Allison," Luke said, "Where are you going?"

"Luke, I've overstayed my welcome. It's time for me to go home. I've gotta try to work things out with Jake, if he'll still have me that is," Allison stated, "I guess I'll see you in another twenty years, Luke."

"Al, come by before then, would ya?" Luke asked.

Allison grinned widely and walked over to Luke and hugged him.

"Yeah, I think I can do that," she replied.

After the hug, Allison looked back to Lorelai.

"Allison, thank you," Lorelai timidly said, "Thank you for… well… doing what you had to do for us. I don't think I've ever met anyone quite like you."

"That's the Doose charm," she joked.

"If only Taylor had a funny bone in his body," Lorelai joked as well.

They all three laughed.

"Well, I gotta get going. It was nice meeting you Lorelai Gilmore."

"It was nice meeting you too Allison Doose," Lorelai smiled and they shook hands.

And Allison walked out of the diner, feeling a sense of empowerment. At least if she couldn't have Luke, she was happy a girl like Lorelai could. And she had a feeling they were going to be very happy together. Luke and Lorelai watched as Allison Doose walked off into the sunrise, looking like Marilyn Monroe from a distance. No matter what she had done, they couldn't help but feel grateful for her. She brought them together after all. She sacrificed her happiness for Luke's, and Lorelai's book, she was an okay girl. She was always welcome at the Gilmore house.

Well, I hope you all liked the last chapter! I'm so sad to see it go! However, if you liked this story, please check out my new one. So, as everyone knows by now, my opinion on reviews is the same as Sherry's with presents: They're not necessary, but always appreciated. So, if you liked the story, please press the little purple button below.