Summer in Stars Hollow- Forget about the muffins for now…
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"Sorry I took so long." Lorelai apologized as she came out of the kitchen and sat on the couch with her legs over Luke's lap.
"It's okay. It's Rory and you, I understand."
Lorelai smiled, "She's happy about us."
Luke kissed her forehead, "That's good, I'm glad."
"Me too."
They sat in each other's warmth for a while and shortly began to drift off to sleep. Luke caught himself falling asleep and gazed at Lorelai, who was already asleep in his arms. Carefully, he got up and placed Lorelai gently back on the couch and put a blanket over her. He wrote a note telling her he left, and went back to his apartment.
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Luke trudged down the stairs to the diner and groggily answered the phone, "hold on." he put the phone on the counter and unlocked the door, then he dragged himself back to the phone, "Hello?"
"Hey Luke?"
"Who's this?"
"Glad to know I'm loved." he scoffed teasingly.
"Sorry Jess, I, uh, got home late last night."
"You never leave the diner. Did you hook up with Lorelai finally?"
"Uh, actually yeah. So what did you call for? I mean, you don't usually call."
"It's about time. But, uh, I was wondering if I could come back."
"Things bad with Lizzie?"
"You could say that. She's got a new boyfriend and he's a jerk and he wants to send me to some camp and military school."
"What does she think of that?"
"Like she cares? He wants to pay for me to leave, she claims it's a good idea and I have to do it because Jeff is brilliant." he said mockingly.
"You're welcome here anytime, but it wasn't my idea and let Lizzie know before you randomly leave."
"Thanks Luke, I'll see you next weekend?"
"Okay." Luke agreed and hung up the phone as Rachel walked into the diner.
"Hey Luke!" she said cheerfully.
"You're too happy."
"Aw, when did you get back here?" she said in mock sympathy.
"Ugh," Luke groaned, "Late. If it weren't for Jess I would still be upstairs sleeping."
"Jess?"
"Lizzie's kid."
"Oh! How's Lizzie?"
Luke sighed, "Apparently she's gone some new boyfriend who wants to send Jess to military school. A while back I would've said that's a great idea but Jess doesn't deserve that anymore."
"Hm, how old is he?"
"Rory's age." he said as he headed back to the kitchen.
"Whatcha doin'?" Rachel asked curiously from the counter.
"Making muffins, don't ask."
"Okay. So how did things go last night?"
"Fine." he smiled as he came out of the kitchen.
She knew that was all that she would get out of him, "Alright, I'm glad. I'm gonna go walk around town." she said as she went out the door as Lorelai walked in and sat at the counter tiredly.
"Why did I wake up to a phone call from someone who has never called me before and surprised me by even knowing the number?" she asked groggily.
"Jess called you?" Luke asked surprised.
"Yeah. Coffee. He was looking for you, something about you never leaving the diner and always being up at six or something."
Luke poured her coffee with no argument, "He's coming back for a while."
"Why? Muffin?"
"Still in the oven. Lizzie has some jerk boyfriend who wants to send him to military school and he doesn't want to go."
"Hm, and on a completely unrelated subject, since no one's noticed you're open yet ya wanna forget the muffin for now and go upstairs and sleep?"
Luke nodded, "By sleep, I hope you mean sleep cuz I'm too damn tired for anything else. Let me go turn off the oven."
"Do I look awake?"
"You never look awake until after three cups."
Lorelai smiled, "You know me too well. Now scoot, turn off that oven, we're loosing valuable sleep time."
"Yes mam." Luke said as he went to the kitchen and turned off the oven and locked the door of the diner and turned the sign to closed. Then he led Lorelai upstairs to the bed where they collapsed in each other's arms and fell asleep immediately.
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More coming soon…*laughs evilly*