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Chapter 53

Luke and Lorelai returned from their honeymoon a few days later, feeling very relaxed. Rory and Lorelai did their traditional greeting, squealing and running to each other to hug and then consequently knocking each other over. Jamie carried Abby down the porch and Luke smiled, taking his daughter of him and giving her a kiss.

"How have they been?" Luke asked, ignoring Rory and Lorelai who were still sat on the glass.

"Yeh they've both been fine. I think Abby's about to crawl soon, she's been trying." Jamie said.

Luke smiled. "So where's Jess?"

"Inside reading to Charlie." Jamie smirked.

Luke chuckled. He looked back at Lorelai and Rory. "Come on you two! I'll make coffee!" He said.

"Oooh coffee!" Lorelai grinned jumping up closely followed by Rory.

Rory ran over to Luke and gave him a hug as well. "I'm glad you had a good time." She smiled and ran inside with her mom.

"It's like they haven't seen each other for weeks!" Jamie smirked.

Luke chuckled and followed them in.

Jess turned round on the sofa. "Hey! Did you have a good time?"

"Yeh it was good." Luke smiled.

"Good." Jess said.


Later that day after they had unpacked, they were all sat in the living room.

"He what?" Lorelai asked shocked.

"He came here the day you two left. After his initial normalness, he actually apologised for everything." Rory said.

"Yeh it was weird." Jamie said. "He actually seemed sincere."

"Wow..." Lorelai said.

"He invited us to go and see him during our Christmas holidays to meet his new girlfriend." Rory said quietly.

Lorelai's head snapped up. "What? These holidays?"

Rory nodded. "He wanted us to meet her."

"I'm not going." Jamie said.

"What?" Rory said turning to him. They hadn't actually talked about it yet.

"I mean, you can go if you want but it's too soon for me." Jamie shrugged. "If I go, he'll just think everything's ok but he's got a long way to go first."

"You know you can go if you want..." Lorelai said quietly. Luke put his arm round her.

Jamie shook her head. "I want to spend the holidays here with you. Maybe next year." He said.

"Well I don't want to go if you're not going." Rory said.

"Rory..." Jamie said.

Rory shook her head. "No, I'm not making you feel guilty. I just would rather go with moral support. We can do it another time."

Lorelai smiled at them, glad she had them for all of December.


The next day, Luke, Jamie and Jess were all working at the diner which was packed as they had Charlie and Abby there and all the townies loved seeing them.

"Order up!" Caesar called.

"Got it!" Jamie said taking it and delivering it to one of the tables. He nearly bumped into someone as the door opened. "Sorry!" He said.

"It's ok." A voice said.

Jamie turned round. "Charlotte..." He said surprised.

"Hi." She smiled shyly.

"Hey..what...what are you doing here?" He asked.

"I..um...wanted to give you your Christmas present." She said.

"You got me a Christmas present?" Jamie asked.

She nodded. "And I..um..got something for Charlie as well.."

"Really?" Jamie asked surprised.

She nodded. "Is that ok?" She asked shyly.

Jamie smiled and nodded. "Yeh."

Charlotte smiled and gave him two wrapped presents.

"I've got you something as well." Jamie admitted. "But I've left it at home."

"That's ok. You can post it to me."

"I'll just get it after my shift here if you're still here. Would you like some food? Cheeseburger?"

Charlotte smiled. "I have missed Luke's cheeseburgers!"

Jamie smirked and went off to put the order in. Charlotte went and sat at the counter, looking round and seeing Charlie on Babette's lap. She smiled wistfully. She was brought from her daze by Luke.

"Hey Charlotte, it's good to see you." He smiled.

"Yeh you too." She smiled.

"Coffee?"

"Yes please!" She smiled.

Luke grabbed a mug and poured her some.

"Thanks." She smiled and started drinking it.

Jamie came over with her burger. "Here." He said.

"Thanks!" Charlotte smiled and started eating. "Oh god, this is sooooo good!"

Jamie smirked. "Everyone seems to say that!"


After his shift, Jamie and Charlotte walked back to the house. "Want to come in?" He asked.

"Are you sure?" She asked.

"Yeh come on. I'll grab your present." He smiled.

"Ok." She said and went in with Jamie. "Where's your mom and Rory?"

"Oh Rory's helping mom get the Dragonfly reading for opening." He said.

"Oh how's that going?" She asked genuinely interested.

"Yeh it's getting there." Jamie said running upstairs to grab the present to his room and came back down with it. "Here."

"Thanks." She smiled.

"So how's Yale?" He asked.

"Yeh it's good. Hard but good." She said. "How's school?"

"Same old, same old." He said.

Charlotte laughed. "I better get going." She then said.

"Oh. Ok." Jamie said. He hesitated for a moment but then gave her a hug. "It was nice to see you."

"You too." She smiled and then she left the house.

Jamie sighed. He went and put the presents Charlotte gave him under the tree that they had put up in the living room.

Sorry it's a short chapter and a bit of a filler but the next one will be longer! :) Let me know what you think! :)