DISCLAIMER: Silly me, I forgot to do this last time. All the characters and other stuff belong to the wonderful lady Amy Sherman Palladino and the WB. If only I owned Tristan and jess…. (We can all dream right?)

AUTHOR'S NOTE: This is my first fanfic so reviews would be greatly appreciated. I'll continue if I get positive feedback.

CHAPTER 2:THE COFFEE MAN

Lorelai and Rory walked slowly to Luke's Diner.

"So he's back, just like that huh?" Lorelai asked.

"Is he still evil?"

"You know what, there's something weird about him. He seems…nice"

"Nice as in 'nice before he turns green and eats you' nice or nice as in 'nice, just nice' nice?"

"You need therapy"

Lorelai swung the door open to the diner and found it empty, with Luke and Jess with their backs turned to them. They were so content in what they were doing, they didn't even notice the girls walk in.

"One, two, three, flip!" Luke lifted his hand and pancakes went flying, landing on Lorelai.

"Eeeewww, eeewwww, eeewww!!!!" Lorelai ran around screaming.

"Oh man, I'm so sorry Lorelai, are you okay?!"

Rory and Jess were struggling not to laugh

She turned around slowly.

"Oh help you God if you are laughing, my evil offspring"

Rory covered her mouth and brushed off a piece of pancake that was on her mother.

"No mom, I'm not laughing at you, I'm laughing WITH you"

Jess grinned. "I kicked your butt man!"

Luke got all self-defensive. "Nuh-uh, if she wasn't standing there mine would've gone way further than yours!"

"Do you mind if I ask what you're doing?" Lorelai said through clenched teeth.

"Were seeing who can flip their pancake the furthest" Luke said, looking embarrassed.

"I hope your not serving them"

"Nah, we just had left over batter…"

"Hey Ror, can you help me with my maths homework?"

"Sure" Rory followed Jess up the stairs.

Lorelai took a seat on a stool.

"Well Mr. coffee man, I have pancake on my new shirt, so you owe me at least a pot of the glorious liquid"

"Mr coffee man? Are you serious?"

"Well, you serve the best coffee to the good people of Stars Hollow, including me, thus making you Mr. Coffee man in this small insane town of ours"

"Insane is right" Luke muttered.

"What was that Lukey?"

"Nothing, absolutely nothing"

Luke poured Lorelai a cup of coffee.

"No"

"What?"

"This cup isn't full"

"So?"

"The reason I dragged my butt out of bed this morning was for a full cup of coffee, so top it up Mr.!"

"Only one cup? There's a change"

"It was a figure of speech. I'll have at least 3 cups"

"You do know too much coffee isn't good for you…"

"OH NO! NO LUKE NOT THE COFFEE SPEECH!!" Lorelai cried

"Relax, I can't be bothered, so no coffee speech today"

Lorelai sat down gingerly. "Ok, but if you change your mind and start the coffee speech, I will be forced to hurt you"

Lorelai sipped her coffee.

"Yummy"

*God she's beautiful*

Lorelai looked up at Luke, who immediately looked away.

"Are you ok?"

"Yeah…..I'm…..uh…fine" he managed to stammer.

Without realising what he was doing, Luke brushed his fingers through Lorelai's hair. She looked up at him, shocked. He had never been so gentle with her.

"Sorry…you had…uh…pancake in your hair"

"Thanks"

Jess and Luke's apartment

"Hey, do you remember that guy I was telling you about, that got sent to Military school?"

"Bible Boy?"

"Yeah. He came back today"

Jess looked up at Rory. She had a faraway look in her eyes.

"Do you still like him?"

"What?! I DO NOT like Tristan ok? He annoys me so much. He's aggravating and egotistical and the biggest jerk when he wants to be. If he was the last guy on earth and the only way for the human race to survive was if we had babies, I wouldn't do it. That's how much I can't stand him"

"So you still like him"

Rory looked at Jess. "I just said I didn't"

"If someone denies something that much, that means that actually mean the opposite to what they're saying"

"Whatever" Rory blushed and looked around. "So, where's that Maths?"