Snow in Stars Hollow- Chapter 4


Disclaimer: I'm just a poor high school freshman. Sadly, I don't own anything. Not even the clothes on my back, or anywhere else for that matter.


Author's Note: I don't know how explicit I'm gonna get with this but probably not much. Depending on my mood of course *wink wink*

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Luke and Lorelai sat on the floor in the backroom, "Alright Luke, are you prepared to lose?"

Luke laughed, "I'm not going to lose."

"I have incentive to winning this game though." she smiled.

"Oh really, what would that be?" he raised a curious eyebrow.

"I get to see Luke without his backwards baseball cap, and without plaid."

"And of what benefit is that?"

"Because then no longer would you be Luke, the plaid wearing, backwards-baseball-cap-coffee-man, you would be Luke, the guy wearing jeans and a t-shirt."

"And you would still be Lorelai, the annoying coffee addict."

"But I would be amused."

"I'm glad. Let's play."

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"You're cheating!"

"No I'm not." Luke smiled.

"Well, you're enjoying winning too much." she whined.

"I'm sorry." Luke said insincerely. "You cold?" he attempted not to smirk.

"Shut up." Lorelai was sitting in a t-shirt and her long johns. (AN: Considering she was wearing several shirts…)

"Well I was going to make you a deal, but if you're going to be like that then forget it." Luke was still wearing everything he started in, hat, plaid and all.

"Nooo! I'm sorry! What's the deal?" She pleaded.

"I was going to say that if you lose another hand you could start putting clothes back on."

"But that defeats the entire purpose of strip poker."

"I can take off clothes if I keep winning." he suggested.

She pondered this for a moment, "Hmm, alright I suppose so."

"Okay." He said as he dealt again.

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"A one, two twos, a four and a nine. I lose again." Lorelai sighed. Attempting to sound disappointed.

"Now you're losing on purpose." Luke pointed out as he took off his plaid shirt, he was no longer wearing socks, shoes, or his hat.

"That's because you keep taking off silly, uninteresting things." she smiled as she gazed at Luke's biceps, which had previously gone unnoticed due to the plaid shirt.

"But apparently my plaid shirt was more interesting?"

Lorelai smirked, "Yeah." she replied as Luke dealt another hand.

"What do we do if I win?" she asked.

"I suppose I keep my clothes on and you take one off." he answered.

"Okay." she smiled, "Royal flush." she said proudly as she laid down her cards and took off her sweater.

Lorelai continued until she was back in the t-shirt and jeans.

"Straight."

Luke smiled, "Royal Flush. I finally win again." he said, taking off his t-shirt.

"Wow." Lorelai smiled.

"What?" Luke asked, and smirked as he realized Lorelai was staring at him. Lorelai opened her mouth to speak but couldn't think of the right thing to say. "This is a first. You're actually speechless."

"Shut up. You look…" she paused trying to think of the right words, "really nice."

"Really nice?" he smiled, "Your vocabulary could definitely use a little help."

"Geez, try to give a guy a compliment and he harasses you relentlessly." Lorelai scoffed playfully.

"Do you want to finish our poker game?" Luke asked.

"Not really."

"Should I make it up to you?" Luke asked mischievously.

"I think you should." Lorelai smirked and crawled over to him.

He pulled her into his lap, wrapping his arms around her and kissing her. She wrapped her arms around his neck and joined in eagerly.

~*~In the diner later in the afternoon~*~ *AN: Sorry for disappointin' you guys but I've decided that I can't write smut. Though I enjoy reading it ;) So I'm gonna leave that last bit up to your imagination.*

Luke and Lorelai were sitting in a booth talking. "So do I dare even ask what that Wizard of Oz thing was?" Luke asked.

"Oh, you mean Rory calling me scarecrow?"

"Yes."

Lorelai laughed, "Rory said that you would've been a great double for the cowardly lion and I was mad at myself and said I'd be the double for the scarecrow cuz you know the song, 'If I only had a brain…'" Lorelai rambled.

"Okay."

"When did you watch Aladdin? It came out when Rory was like 2."

"Liz sent Jess here when he was little and I didn't know what to do so I took Jess to the movie place and rented Aladdin for him."

"Uh huh, that's interesting."

"What?"

"Nothing."

"No, not nothing. What? Why is that interesting?"

"No reason, maybe Aladdin wasn't a good movie for the kid." she suggested.

Luke sighed, "Okay, I see where you're trying to go. Let's just drop this and forget about it."

"Forget what?" Lorelai smiled.

"Good."

"Lukey?" Lorelai began sweetly.

"No, you can't have any more coffee."

Lorelai pouted and stuck her tongue out at Luke.

Luke leaned over the booth table and kissed her, first her tongue and then she got more involved and kissed back and Lorelai moved to Luke's side of the booth, climbing over him, putting her legs over his lap. When they pulled apart Luke smiled at her, "You still don't get coffee." he said, putting his arm around her.

"Why?!"

"Because that stuff will kill you."

She pouted, "Could you leave me to my suicidal tendencies?"

"Not likely."

"Please?"

"No. You've had enough coffee today! You had enough yesterday to last you the rest of the week."

"Luke! Did you just say enough coffee?!"

"I did indeed.

Lorelai gasped dramatically and then smiled, "That's okay, I know you didn't mean it."

Luke smiled, "How can you be sure?"

"Because I get very irritable without coffee. You'd give in."

"So do you want a soda?"

"No! I want coffee!" she whined.

"Decaf right?"

"You are an evil, evil man."

"Me?" Luke said innocently.

"Yes you, the d-word is the work of the devil."

Luke leaned to whisper in her ear, "decaf."

Lorelai glared at him and shook her head, "Do you actually buy that crap?"

"You've been drinking it for the past two years." he smiled.

Her eyes opened wide, and her mouth was gaping, "Have not!"

Luke laughed, "No, but the look on your face was priceless."

Lorelai glared at him evilly, "That, was…really not funny."

"It all depends on your definition." he smiled kissing her forehead.

"You are a sick and morbid man."

"But I control your coffee."

Lorelai frowned, "You need to go back to kindergarten."

"Why?"

"You never learned to share!"

"I share plenty." Luke argued.

"Nuh uh. You keep all the coffee for yourself."

"Ew, have you ever seen me drink any coffee?"

"That one time after you got drunk…"

"I don't remember that."

"Exactly."

"Stop lying. You've never seen me drunk."

"No, but I bet you'd be a lot of fun drunk." she smiled.

"Doubtful. But no worries, I have no intentions of getting drunk ever again."

"Why not?"

"Eight letters- Hangover."

"The only down side."

"A VERY down side."

"When have you ever gotten drunk?" Lorelai asked curiously.

"It was a long time ago with the whole baseball team, we won some huge championship and we all got drunk, passed out and puked together."

"Ah, team bonding around a porcelain throne."

"Ha, most of us didn't make it that far."

"Ew, gross."

"No kidding."

"So back to the point," Lorelai smiled, "Coffee please?"

"No."

"Why?"

"Because I'm comfortable and I'd have to get up." He smiled.

"Lazy."

"Yep."

"Why are you so anti-coffee?"

"Because it's bad for you, it's disgusting!"

"So you're saying drinking coffee is like smoking?"

"It ranks up there." he nodded.

"So kissing a smoker is to licking an ash-tray as kissing a coffee drinker is to licking old coffee grounds?"

"I'd have to say it's much more enjoyable in that aspect." he smiled.

"Good." Lorelai smiled, "Now get me more coffee."

"You're the one who's on top of me. You get the coffee."

"Are you sure you trust me doing that?"

"No, but I'm not going to be able to stop you anyway."

"That's true." Lorelai said as she got up and climbed out of the booth and went to the counter, grabbed a mug and poured a cup of coffee for herself. The first sip was like every other first sip and Luke admired as she looked as if she were in bliss. Lorelai noticed Luke over the brim of her cup and put it down, "Why are you looking at me like that?"

"Because you're crazy."

"But it's a good crazy right."

"Of course. Now come back over here and sit back down."

"Is my coffee invited too?"

Luke rolled his eyes, "Alright, I suppose so."

"Okay." Lorelai smiled and walked back around the counter to the booth where Luke was sitting and put her coffee on the table and got in the booth, sitting the way she had been before, with her legs over Luke's lap.

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