A/N: I'm back! I was just sitting on the computer and decided to write. Well, enjoy!

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The next morning Lorelai walked into the diner. She sat down at the counter and waited about five minutes and noticed Luke wasn't around.

"Can't a girl get some coffee around here?" She said to nobody.

"I don't know where he is," Kirk said a few stools away from her. "I came in here and I saw him walking around, then the next minute he disappeared."

She gasped. "Somebody stole Luke!"

"Do you think so? I mean, this town has always been said to be safe, but ever since that punk kid came I think this place is getting dangerous."

"Punk kid? Do you mean Jess?"

"Yeah, he scared the bajeezes out of me."

She held back a laugh and said, "Bajeezes? What are we in, the 20's?"

He gave her a mean look then turned away.

"Lucas? If you don't answer me I'm gonna still coffee and some food!" She heard nothing. "All right then, but don't think I won't!" She walked behind the counter and grabbed the coffee pot along with a take-out cup. She poured coffee into it and grabbed a few doughnuts. As soon as she walked out the door, someone ran into her. "Hey! Watch where you're going, buck- o!"

"Did you pay for that?" the person asked.

Her eyes widened and she looked at Luke with a guilty face. "I'm sorry, I have to meet Sookie at the inn, and you weren't there so I just grabbed some stuff. Caesar wasn't even there!"

"I know, he had the day off. Didn't Kirk tell you I'd be right back?"

"No, he said he didn't know where you went."

He rolled his eyes. "I knew he wasn't listening to me. I just went over next door to check on the Soda Shoppe cause Taylor won't look after it, and now I want to kick his sorry old-"

"Luke, as much as I love hearing you rat on Taylor, I really have to go. We just hired some people to fix the place up and I need to make sure they're going to put the right carpet in each room."

"Right, but give me $1.80."

"Why?" She asked.

"Because you took coffee and two doughnuts."

She lightly shook her head. "Oh yeah! Here ya go!" She handed him two dollars. "Keep the change!" she said as she was walking away.

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Lorelai walked into the busy Dragonfly Inn. Some people were cleaning the floor, while some people were carrying rolls of carpet. She walked over behind the front desk and put her purse under the counter top.

"That does not go there!" Michel was yelling from a few feet away. She looked up and saw him being mean to one of the workers. "It goes upstairs and if I see it again down here I will-"

"Make sure he finds me to give you the right directions," she cut in.

"Yes ma'am," the worker said and walked away with a roll of carpet.

"Michel, how many times do I have to tell you? You can't be rude to the workers or the customers."

"I almost fell over the carpet, what did you expect me to do? Say it was my fault?"

She rolled her eyes. "You're getting more and more arrogant every day."

Michel scoffed and walked away. Lorelai sighed with a smirk on her face and went to the kitchen to check on Sookie.

"Are you sure it's going to cost that much?" Sookie asked the inspector.

"Hey Sook, what's going on?" Lorelai asked when she walked up behind the man.

"Hey said it's going to cost $12,000 to install the carpet, fix the hardwood floors, paint the rooms, and get a new stove!"

"Ok, um, sir."

"You can call me Luke."

She was shocked when she heard that name. "Um, right. So, Luke, how much would it be to just install the carpet?"

He looked on a piece of paper on his clipboard. "$1,300."

Lorelai smiled. "Great, we'll just do that, then."

"Uh, miss, what about everything else?"

"Oh, I have a trusted friend who can fix the floorboards and hook up the stove, and I can paint the rooms myself."

He nodded. "Ok then, will that be cash or check?"

"I'll pay you when the work is done."

"We get paid before we work."

"Well I don't pay until I see the work."

Luke smiled. "All right then, miss. When we're done and when you've inspected, how will you be paying us?"

"Check."

"Great."

He grinned at her and walked out of the kitchen while she was watched him leave.

She turned back to a smiling Sookie. "Lorelai, that was brilliant!"

Lorelai smiled back at her. "I know. I always get what I want in this business."

"Sweetie, I think he wants more than you're business."

"What?"

"Honey, he was checking you out. I wish he would have done that with me."

Lorelai's mouth dropped open. "Sookie! You're married! And you're pregnant!"

"I know, but I like feeling sexy."

"Well, would you like me to call him back so he can check you out?"

Sookie giggled. "No! I was only teasing!"

"Ok, well I'm gonna go make sure Michel hasn't killed anyone yet."

"Oh, did you want some coffee?"

"Why do people bother asking?"

Sookie slapped her forehead. "Oh, how stupid of me." She walked over to a counter and poured a cup of java for Lorelai. "Here you go!"

"Thanks, Sook."

"Ooh, make sure he asks you out!" Sookie called out to Lorelai who was leaving the kitchen.

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Lorelai walked into the vacant house and rushed to answer the phone.

"Hello?"

"Mom!"

"Mini Me!"

"Hey, how are you?"

"I'm great, how are you?"

"Not so good."

"Uh oh, tell me."

"Well, can you tell me your news first, cause I sense your happiness."

Lorelai smiled into the phone. "I just got asked out on a date by a guy named Luke."

Rory gasped. "Luke asked you out?"

"Yes. Well, not Luke Danes. His name is Luke Daniels."

"Freaky."

"I know, but he's really great."

"How did you meet him?"

"His team's installing carpet at the inn."

"Cool."

"Yeah. Now tell me your news."

"Oh. Well, I just had a crying session."

"Oh no, why?"

"I just found out who died in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix."

"Oh my god! Tell me who and how!"

Rory told her who had died and how they did. When she finished, they both started crying over it.

"I can't believe it!" Lorelai said through sobs.

"I know! They're all devastated now!"

"Poor Harry! He's just seeing everyone die, isn't he?"

"Yeah."

Lorelai took and deep breath. "Ok, so are Harry and Hermione gonna get together?"

"I don't know."

"Don't tell me that! Cause now you're just hurting me! Now I'm gonna think that Ron and Hermione are gonna get together. Wait a minute, what about Cho?"

"I think there's nothing to worry about in that department."

"Oh goody, cause I never really liked her. Especially what happened in the Room of Requirement!"

"Yeah!" They started discussing everything about the book and who they thought should get together in it.

"Wow, that actually happened to Snape?" Lorelai asked when Rory told her about his worst memory.

"Yep."

"That's sad."

"I know. Hey listen, Mom. I gotta go, my roommate Jenny wants to go to the coffee house."

"Ok, call me tomorrow. Oh, and when you come home, I'm reading that book."

"Ok. Love you, bye."

"Love you, bye."

Rory hung up and Lorelai pressed the "off" button on her phone. She sighed and walked upstairs to take a shower.

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"Lukey-ma-bob!" Lorelai called when she walked into the diner that night.

"Sit down and shut up," he said behind her.

She turned around. "Why?"

"Because Nicole and her parents are here."

Lorelai's eyes widened. "Ooh."

"Don't make a scene."

She looked hurt. "Do I ever?" He gave her a look. "Fine, fine."

She walked over and sat at the counter. "Lorelai," a voice said behind her.

She turned around and saw Nicole with two older people who must have been her parents. "Nicole! Hi!"

"Lorelai, these are my parents, Joan and Victor."

"Hi, it's really nice to meet you, you have a great daughter."

"Oh, thank you Lorelai," Joan said. "We're very proud of her. Luke's a good guy, too."

Lorelai nodded. "Yeah, he is."

"Are you close with him?" Victor asked.

"Well, as close as friends should be. We've known each other for. . ."

"Fourteen years, I think," Luke said.

Lorelai turned back to face Luke. "Yep, that's about right. Rory was about four, wasn't she?"

"Yeah, I just opened my diner. God you would not stop badgering me."

She scoffed. "Well, you wouldn't give my daughter coffee."

"Daughter?" Victor asked. "You look really good for your age."

"She was sixteen when she had Rory," Nicole told her parents.

"Sixteen? What were you, a hooker?" Joan exclaimed.

"Mother!"

Lorelai's eyebrows furrowed. "No, I just hated my parents, so my then boyfriend and I decided to purposefully get pregnant."

"Well, that's about the same thing, isn't it?"

"I was joking! Yes, I did have sex, but I didn't plan on having a baby. I really didn't want one, then."

"Well, why didn't you give it up?"

"Because, when I saw her, after many hours of labor, we connected and I fell in love with my perfect little baby girl."

Joan scoffed. "No baby's perfect."

"Do you want to see a picture of her when she was born, cause I have a picture." Lorelai reached into her purse and pulled out her wallet. She found a picture, pulled it out of the holder and held it out for them. "There she is, Lorelai Leigh Gilmore, only three hours old."

"You named her Lorelai?" Joan asked. "But you're name is Lorelai."

"I know. We all call her Rory, though."

The three at the table stared at the baby picture. "She is gorgeous, Lorelai," Nicole said.

"Thanks."

Joan handed the picture back. "Nicole was cuter as a baby."

"Mom!"

"No, Nicole, it's ok. That's just a mother's opinion. And, don't mean to be rude, but your mother's opinion doesn't matter."

"How is that not rude?" Joan asked.

"I didn't say it wasn't rude, I just said that I didn't mean to be rude, there's a difference, Emily," Lorelai said without realizing she said it. Then she covered her mouth with her hand and looked at Luke with shocked eyes.

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A/N: Ok, now Lorelai's gonna go out with A Luke, but not THE Luke. What will happen now? If you wanna find out, give me 10 reviews. Au revoir for now!