A/N: Hey all! Ok, I just wanna warn you that where will be swearing in this
chapter, probably just in the beginning, though. Even though I don't
approve of swearing and I don't like writing, I thought it would express
the right feelings, so, on with the chapter! Enjoy!
A/N 2: In case you wanted to know, it's been a month and Lorelai's still dating Luke Daniels, and Rory's really involved in college, but she still comes home almost every weekend. Luke's getting more serious with Nicole, and he might be on the verge of proposing. . . who knows.
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Rory opened the front door to the Gilmore House and walked inside while covering her ears. Lorelai followed in then slammed the door shut and threw her purse on the floor.
"That son of a bitch!" Lorelai screamed. "Who the hell does he think he is?" She started mocking his voice. " 'Oh Lorelai, I love you so much, I would never do anything to hurt you.' Yeah, well he can just shove it!"
"Mom, stop, you need help," Rory said with her ears still covered.
Lorelai growled. "I'm gonna kick his sorry ass!"
"Mom!" Lorelai's angry expression changed to shocked. "I think you need Luke's coffee."
"Argh! Rory don't say that name! I hate all Luke's and I hope they all go to he-"
"Lorelai Gilmore!"
"Why are you talking to yourself?"
"Sorry, Lorelai Victoria Gilmore!"
"Ok, better."
"I thought you liked Luke."
"Uh, Rory, did you not just hear? I hate him with a burning passion."
Rory rolled her eyes. "Diner Luke. Not cheating a-hole Luke."
"Ok." She sighed. "We'll get coffee. And you still need to tell me about your little 'study date' with Demitrius."
"Fine then, let's go."
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They walked into the fairly empty diner. They didn't see Luke anywhere so Lorelai peeked her head in the kitchen and saw Caesar.
"Hey Caesar, do you know where Luke is?"
"He went out with Nicole. I think it's gonna be a big night tonight."
Lorelai was taken aback. "What do you mean?"
"Well, he seemed more nervous than usual so, I think he popped the question."
"Oh! Well, do you know what time he left?"
"Um around-" Caesar was cut off by the slam of the front door.
Lorelai pulled her head back in time to see Luke stomping over to the stairs. She waited a few seconds and followed him up. She quietly knocked on the door and the door flew open.
"What?" Luke asked in a rage.
"Jeez, no need to be so mean. I just wanted to say hi."
"Well, you said it."
"What's bothering you?"
He sighed. "Bad night in the relationship department."
"Wow, what a coincidence."
"What do you mean?"
"Um, I caught Luke having dinner with another woman."
"It could have been his sister."
"Oh yeah, cause all brothers have their tongues down their sisters' throats!"
Luke was taken aback. "You actually caught him doing that?"
"Yeah."
"Wow. That must've hurt."
She looked down and blinked back tears. "Yeah."
"Oh, Lorelai, I'm sorry, I'm not in a good mood myself."
She looked up with shiny eyes. "Wanna talk about it?"
"Not really."
"Come on, I just revealed how much of a scumbag my boyfriend is."
He sighed and moved so she could walk in. She walked over to the couch and sat down.
"Well, what's there to say except that Nicole and I are over?"
"Oh Luke, I'm so sorry," Lorelai said sympathetically.
"She broke up with me with the same reason Rachel did."
Lorelai looked shocked. "She had to go for a job?"
"Huh? Oh, well, that's not exactly right."
"Really. Well, wanna tell me?"
He sighed. "They both left because they thought I was in love with someone else."
Her eyes widened slightly. "Who?"
He looked down. "You," he said quietly.
"Oh my god! I should have guessed. Why doesn't the whole freaking town shut up about that? Don't they understand that two people of the opposite sex can be friends?"
He closed his eyes and slightly shook his head. "I know."
"Luke." He looked up at her. "You need to find someone who'll trust you and not believe that you love someone else."
"Yeah."
"I know they're not that many of the kind of women, but you need to try, you're a great guy and any girl would be lucky to have you."
Luke sighed. "Will you stop it with the mushy stuff?"
She slightly smiled. "No, cause I think you're a great guy, and that they're someone out there for you."
He smiled at her. "Thanks, and you'll find that special someone, too."
"Thank you. I just hope it's before I can't have kids anymore."
"Yeah."
She kissed him on the cheek. "I feel better, what about you?"
"Yeah. Coffee?"
"No need to ask, you already know the answer." She walked downstairs ignoring the twinge she felt on her lips after she touched him.
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The next night, Lorelai got ready to break up with Luke. They were supposed to be going out, but she just wanted to get it over with. She thought of pretending she wasn't home, but he would have kept on bugging her. A few hours before seven, Rory called and told her to pretend not to know him and have the whole town join in as well. So she asked Taylor to call an early town meeting and asked them all to join in this trick. They of course all jumped at the chance to hurt the man who broke her heart (also so they could plan another way to get Luke and Lorelai together).
At 7:10, the doorbell rang and she answered it in an old tee shirt and ripped jeans.
"Can I help you?" she asked.
"Hey honey, are you ready?" he asked. "Is that what you're going to wear?"
"What are you talking about? Who are you?"
"Oh my god, sweetie, are you ok?"
"Whoa, whoa, whoa! First of all, don't call me sweetie, I don't even know you; and second of all, I'm not going anywhere with you, cause, again, I don't even know you."
"Huh? Lorelai, what's going on?"
Her eyes widened with fear. "Oh my god, who are you, and how do you know my name?"
"What? Lorelai, did you have a stroke? It's me, Luke."
She laughed. "No. I know Luke, and he's definitely not you. He's tall, wears flannel a lot, always wears a backwards baseball cap, and has blue eyes."
"No, babe, that's you're friend Luke, I'm your boyfriend Luke."
"Sorry, I don't have a boyfriend named Luke, let alone a boyfriend. See, the last guy I dated cheated on me. He was with a skinny girl with long blonde hair. Anyone you know?"
His eyes widened. "Oh my god, I can explain. See, she was my old girlfriend, and she just kissed me before I could tell her I was seeing someone else."
"Hey, whoa. No need to explain."
"Really? Do you forgive me?"
"You didn't even say your sorry, so how can I forgive you? And, I don't want you coming near me again or I'll have Luke on your ass, you crazy psycho stalker freak!"
Before he could get another word out, she slammed the door in his face. She then hurried over to the phone and called Rory with the news.
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When Lorelai called Rory, she was out with Demitrius.
"Hello?" She said into her cell phone.
"Rory! Oh my god! It went great! He didn't know what hit 'em!"
She smiled. "Oh my god, that's great, Mom!"
"I know! Ooh, and if he goes over to the diner, Luke's gonna hurt him for stalking me!"
"Ok, that's a little too far."
"What? Sweetie, he totally deserves it after what he did to me!"
"You know what? I'm sorry I ever suggested it. I should've just told you to hit him with a magazine like Rachel did to Ross."
"Ugh! The point is it's score one for Lorelai, and score nothing for Luke."
"That's great Mom. Hey, can we talk about this later? I'm kind of on a date."
Lorelai gasped. "Oh that's right, I'm so sorry. Hey, I'll tell you about the situation if you tell me about your date."
"Ok, bye."
"Bye, and enjoy!"
Rory rolled her eyes and ended the call. "Sorry 'bout that, my Mom was all ecstatic about pretending she didn't know her cheating boyfriend."
"Wow, she likes to over dramatize, huh?" Demitrius asked.
"Yeah, but that's my mom, the Drama Queen."
He smiled. "Ok, so you have to tell me what you think of Hemingway."
"He doesn't know how to write a thing."
"I couldn't agree with you more."
She smiled, but the thought of Hemingway made her think of her ex- boyfriend, Jess.
"Hey, is something bothering you?"
"Huh? Oh, no."
"Come on, you can tell me, I promise I won't judge."
She smiled at him again. "Well, my ex-boyfriend like Hemingway, and he would always try to get me to read at least some of his work, but I kept on telling him that I've tried before, but it's no use, Hemingway has no creativity for words."
He nodded knowingly. "Dean or Jess?" Before they went out, Rory told him about her past relationships, her best friend, her mother, and her town.
"Jess."
"I actually don't find it nice to try to force you into something you don't want to do."
"You're great. You know how to complement a girl without saying she's isn't as superior as men."
He smirked. "Well, they're aren't less than superior, nor more, well, some are, but most women are equally as strong as men."
She nodded. "Yeah. So, where do you think I fit in?" Rory asked leaning over to him.
He leaned over towards her. "In between the equal and more."
"That's what I thought." She gently pressed her lips against his and waited for him to take control. He slightly deepened the kiss, but not enough to make her feel uncomfortable. They pulled apart and looked into each other's eyes. "Hi."
Demitrius smiled. "Hi."
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The next day Lorelai walked into the empty inn. She was wearing old clothes because she was going to be painting the rooms. She opened the door to the kitchen and screamed when she saw someone there.
"Sookie! What are you doing here?"
"Hi Lorelai! I was just checking on everything; testing the stoves, testing the water; everything seems to work."
She rolled her eyes. "Sookie, nothing's gonna happen with Luke."
"You're gonna be all alone in an empty inn."
"Yeah, a very empty inn with no comfortable places, so before you think that Luke and I are gonna sleep together, you need to think that there is no furniture, so nothing's gonna happen; besides, we're only friends, and we don't like each other in that way."
Sookie sighed. "All right, I'm gonna go, see you tomorrow."
"Bye."
Lorelai walked back into the lobby a few minutes after Sookie left and saw Luke walk in.
"Hey, this place is looking better," he said looking around.
"Yeah, money takes you pretty far in this world. So, are you ready to paint, or are you ready to paint?"
"Um, I'll take ready to paint."
She smiled. "Great. Let's go, I set up everything yesterday."
"You didn't open the cans, did you, because if you did, the paint would have dried out."
She rolled her eyes. "I do know the first steps in painting, thank you very much. Now, let's go."
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Lorelai and Luke had been working for and hour, and they were just starting their second room.
"You know, I thought you would have ruined this, but it turns out you didn't," Luke said.
Her eyes narrowed and she ran the roller down his back.
"Hey!"
"I wasn't doing anything!"
He put his roller up to her face and left a smudge of paint on her right cheek.
"Hey! Now that was on purpose!"
"Oh yeah, like you forgot I wasn't part of the wall."
"Really, well, this was totally on purpose." She bent down, picked up her tray of paint and dumped in on his head.
He gave her the evil eye and grabbed his tray, he started chasing her around the room, he finally caught her and poured the paint onto her hair. She screamed and tried to run away but he grabbed her around the waist and pulled her close. They looked at each other for about a second before he pushed his face to hers and started kissing her passionately. She started leaning back and he supported her while they made their way down to the plastic covered floor.
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A/N: Sorry this took so long! I really don't know where the time went and why I wasn't writing, I didn't even have writer's block! Well, here's a good, juicy chapter with LOTS of JavaJunkie goodness! And, if I do say so myself, a really good cliffhanger. Well, I really hope you like this and remember, good thoughts are always welcome. Au revoir for now!
A/N 2: In case you wanted to know, it's been a month and Lorelai's still dating Luke Daniels, and Rory's really involved in college, but she still comes home almost every weekend. Luke's getting more serious with Nicole, and he might be on the verge of proposing. . . who knows.
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Rory opened the front door to the Gilmore House and walked inside while covering her ears. Lorelai followed in then slammed the door shut and threw her purse on the floor.
"That son of a bitch!" Lorelai screamed. "Who the hell does he think he is?" She started mocking his voice. " 'Oh Lorelai, I love you so much, I would never do anything to hurt you.' Yeah, well he can just shove it!"
"Mom, stop, you need help," Rory said with her ears still covered.
Lorelai growled. "I'm gonna kick his sorry ass!"
"Mom!" Lorelai's angry expression changed to shocked. "I think you need Luke's coffee."
"Argh! Rory don't say that name! I hate all Luke's and I hope they all go to he-"
"Lorelai Gilmore!"
"Why are you talking to yourself?"
"Sorry, Lorelai Victoria Gilmore!"
"Ok, better."
"I thought you liked Luke."
"Uh, Rory, did you not just hear? I hate him with a burning passion."
Rory rolled her eyes. "Diner Luke. Not cheating a-hole Luke."
"Ok." She sighed. "We'll get coffee. And you still need to tell me about your little 'study date' with Demitrius."
"Fine then, let's go."
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They walked into the fairly empty diner. They didn't see Luke anywhere so Lorelai peeked her head in the kitchen and saw Caesar.
"Hey Caesar, do you know where Luke is?"
"He went out with Nicole. I think it's gonna be a big night tonight."
Lorelai was taken aback. "What do you mean?"
"Well, he seemed more nervous than usual so, I think he popped the question."
"Oh! Well, do you know what time he left?"
"Um around-" Caesar was cut off by the slam of the front door.
Lorelai pulled her head back in time to see Luke stomping over to the stairs. She waited a few seconds and followed him up. She quietly knocked on the door and the door flew open.
"What?" Luke asked in a rage.
"Jeez, no need to be so mean. I just wanted to say hi."
"Well, you said it."
"What's bothering you?"
He sighed. "Bad night in the relationship department."
"Wow, what a coincidence."
"What do you mean?"
"Um, I caught Luke having dinner with another woman."
"It could have been his sister."
"Oh yeah, cause all brothers have their tongues down their sisters' throats!"
Luke was taken aback. "You actually caught him doing that?"
"Yeah."
"Wow. That must've hurt."
She looked down and blinked back tears. "Yeah."
"Oh, Lorelai, I'm sorry, I'm not in a good mood myself."
She looked up with shiny eyes. "Wanna talk about it?"
"Not really."
"Come on, I just revealed how much of a scumbag my boyfriend is."
He sighed and moved so she could walk in. She walked over to the couch and sat down.
"Well, what's there to say except that Nicole and I are over?"
"Oh Luke, I'm so sorry," Lorelai said sympathetically.
"She broke up with me with the same reason Rachel did."
Lorelai looked shocked. "She had to go for a job?"
"Huh? Oh, well, that's not exactly right."
"Really. Well, wanna tell me?"
He sighed. "They both left because they thought I was in love with someone else."
Her eyes widened slightly. "Who?"
He looked down. "You," he said quietly.
"Oh my god! I should have guessed. Why doesn't the whole freaking town shut up about that? Don't they understand that two people of the opposite sex can be friends?"
He closed his eyes and slightly shook his head. "I know."
"Luke." He looked up at her. "You need to find someone who'll trust you and not believe that you love someone else."
"Yeah."
"I know they're not that many of the kind of women, but you need to try, you're a great guy and any girl would be lucky to have you."
Luke sighed. "Will you stop it with the mushy stuff?"
She slightly smiled. "No, cause I think you're a great guy, and that they're someone out there for you."
He smiled at her. "Thanks, and you'll find that special someone, too."
"Thank you. I just hope it's before I can't have kids anymore."
"Yeah."
She kissed him on the cheek. "I feel better, what about you?"
"Yeah. Coffee?"
"No need to ask, you already know the answer." She walked downstairs ignoring the twinge she felt on her lips after she touched him.
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The next night, Lorelai got ready to break up with Luke. They were supposed to be going out, but she just wanted to get it over with. She thought of pretending she wasn't home, but he would have kept on bugging her. A few hours before seven, Rory called and told her to pretend not to know him and have the whole town join in as well. So she asked Taylor to call an early town meeting and asked them all to join in this trick. They of course all jumped at the chance to hurt the man who broke her heart (also so they could plan another way to get Luke and Lorelai together).
At 7:10, the doorbell rang and she answered it in an old tee shirt and ripped jeans.
"Can I help you?" she asked.
"Hey honey, are you ready?" he asked. "Is that what you're going to wear?"
"What are you talking about? Who are you?"
"Oh my god, sweetie, are you ok?"
"Whoa, whoa, whoa! First of all, don't call me sweetie, I don't even know you; and second of all, I'm not going anywhere with you, cause, again, I don't even know you."
"Huh? Lorelai, what's going on?"
Her eyes widened with fear. "Oh my god, who are you, and how do you know my name?"
"What? Lorelai, did you have a stroke? It's me, Luke."
She laughed. "No. I know Luke, and he's definitely not you. He's tall, wears flannel a lot, always wears a backwards baseball cap, and has blue eyes."
"No, babe, that's you're friend Luke, I'm your boyfriend Luke."
"Sorry, I don't have a boyfriend named Luke, let alone a boyfriend. See, the last guy I dated cheated on me. He was with a skinny girl with long blonde hair. Anyone you know?"
His eyes widened. "Oh my god, I can explain. See, she was my old girlfriend, and she just kissed me before I could tell her I was seeing someone else."
"Hey, whoa. No need to explain."
"Really? Do you forgive me?"
"You didn't even say your sorry, so how can I forgive you? And, I don't want you coming near me again or I'll have Luke on your ass, you crazy psycho stalker freak!"
Before he could get another word out, she slammed the door in his face. She then hurried over to the phone and called Rory with the news.
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When Lorelai called Rory, she was out with Demitrius.
"Hello?" She said into her cell phone.
"Rory! Oh my god! It went great! He didn't know what hit 'em!"
She smiled. "Oh my god, that's great, Mom!"
"I know! Ooh, and if he goes over to the diner, Luke's gonna hurt him for stalking me!"
"Ok, that's a little too far."
"What? Sweetie, he totally deserves it after what he did to me!"
"You know what? I'm sorry I ever suggested it. I should've just told you to hit him with a magazine like Rachel did to Ross."
"Ugh! The point is it's score one for Lorelai, and score nothing for Luke."
"That's great Mom. Hey, can we talk about this later? I'm kind of on a date."
Lorelai gasped. "Oh that's right, I'm so sorry. Hey, I'll tell you about the situation if you tell me about your date."
"Ok, bye."
"Bye, and enjoy!"
Rory rolled her eyes and ended the call. "Sorry 'bout that, my Mom was all ecstatic about pretending she didn't know her cheating boyfriend."
"Wow, she likes to over dramatize, huh?" Demitrius asked.
"Yeah, but that's my mom, the Drama Queen."
He smiled. "Ok, so you have to tell me what you think of Hemingway."
"He doesn't know how to write a thing."
"I couldn't agree with you more."
She smiled, but the thought of Hemingway made her think of her ex- boyfriend, Jess.
"Hey, is something bothering you?"
"Huh? Oh, no."
"Come on, you can tell me, I promise I won't judge."
She smiled at him again. "Well, my ex-boyfriend like Hemingway, and he would always try to get me to read at least some of his work, but I kept on telling him that I've tried before, but it's no use, Hemingway has no creativity for words."
He nodded knowingly. "Dean or Jess?" Before they went out, Rory told him about her past relationships, her best friend, her mother, and her town.
"Jess."
"I actually don't find it nice to try to force you into something you don't want to do."
"You're great. You know how to complement a girl without saying she's isn't as superior as men."
He smirked. "Well, they're aren't less than superior, nor more, well, some are, but most women are equally as strong as men."
She nodded. "Yeah. So, where do you think I fit in?" Rory asked leaning over to him.
He leaned over towards her. "In between the equal and more."
"That's what I thought." She gently pressed her lips against his and waited for him to take control. He slightly deepened the kiss, but not enough to make her feel uncomfortable. They pulled apart and looked into each other's eyes. "Hi."
Demitrius smiled. "Hi."
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The next day Lorelai walked into the empty inn. She was wearing old clothes because she was going to be painting the rooms. She opened the door to the kitchen and screamed when she saw someone there.
"Sookie! What are you doing here?"
"Hi Lorelai! I was just checking on everything; testing the stoves, testing the water; everything seems to work."
She rolled her eyes. "Sookie, nothing's gonna happen with Luke."
"You're gonna be all alone in an empty inn."
"Yeah, a very empty inn with no comfortable places, so before you think that Luke and I are gonna sleep together, you need to think that there is no furniture, so nothing's gonna happen; besides, we're only friends, and we don't like each other in that way."
Sookie sighed. "All right, I'm gonna go, see you tomorrow."
"Bye."
Lorelai walked back into the lobby a few minutes after Sookie left and saw Luke walk in.
"Hey, this place is looking better," he said looking around.
"Yeah, money takes you pretty far in this world. So, are you ready to paint, or are you ready to paint?"
"Um, I'll take ready to paint."
She smiled. "Great. Let's go, I set up everything yesterday."
"You didn't open the cans, did you, because if you did, the paint would have dried out."
She rolled her eyes. "I do know the first steps in painting, thank you very much. Now, let's go."
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Lorelai and Luke had been working for and hour, and they were just starting their second room.
"You know, I thought you would have ruined this, but it turns out you didn't," Luke said.
Her eyes narrowed and she ran the roller down his back.
"Hey!"
"I wasn't doing anything!"
He put his roller up to her face and left a smudge of paint on her right cheek.
"Hey! Now that was on purpose!"
"Oh yeah, like you forgot I wasn't part of the wall."
"Really, well, this was totally on purpose." She bent down, picked up her tray of paint and dumped in on his head.
He gave her the evil eye and grabbed his tray, he started chasing her around the room, he finally caught her and poured the paint onto her hair. She screamed and tried to run away but he grabbed her around the waist and pulled her close. They looked at each other for about a second before he pushed his face to hers and started kissing her passionately. She started leaning back and he supported her while they made their way down to the plastic covered floor.
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A/N: Sorry this took so long! I really don't know where the time went and why I wasn't writing, I didn't even have writer's block! Well, here's a good, juicy chapter with LOTS of JavaJunkie goodness! And, if I do say so myself, a really good cliffhanger. Well, I really hope you like this and remember, good thoughts are always welcome. Au revoir for now!