Lorelai closed the diner door behind her as quietly as possible. There was no sound
coming from Luke's apartment so she assumed that he had gone to sleep. She shoved her hands in
her pockets and took one last look at the upstairs windows before making her way back home.
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Luke heard the door close downstairs and got up from his chair. He had been sitting in the dark, thinking
about everything that had just happened. 'It just doesn't make any sense,' He thought, watching Lorelai walk away.
'One minute she's ready to date, the next she's not?' Luke groaned and went to go lie down on his bed. He couldn't
get her out of his head.
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Once home, Lorelai felt restless. Nothing on television interested her, and she didn't feel sleepy. She felt tired, but it
wasn't her body that felt tired, it was her mind and her heart. She was on an emotional rollercoaster and it wasn't ready
to let up yet.
Lorelai got up from the sofa and grabbed her cars keys. She needed to get out.
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"Paris?" Rory rolled over in her bed and called out to her friend.
"MMrrmmphhhhhh," Paris mumbled.
"Never mind," She said to her friend's sleeping form.
'What am I doing?' she thought to herself as she turned towards the wall. 'I can't talk to Paris
about this...' There was only one person she could talk to. Rory softly got out of her bed and
grabbed her cell phone. Pulling on a jacket, she quietly left the room.
Once outside, Rory shivered as the chilly fall air nipped at her face. Teeth chattering, Rory jumped up and
down and hoped her mom was home. "Come on, Mom," Rory said. "Pick up." It was eleven o'clock. Where could her
mother be?
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Lorelai had been driving for about an hour now. She didn't know where she was going, but it rather soothed
her to know that she was leaving her problems behind in Star's Hollow. She had work tomorrow, but, she just couldn't
face work after what had just happened. Lorelai was just driving, driving to nowhere. She turned on the radio.
"Sorry I never told you
All I wanted to say
And now it's too late to hold you
'Cause you've flown away
So far away..." Never had I imagined
Living without your smile
Feeling and knowing you hear me
It keeps me alive
Alive Lorelai started to cry as she heard Mariah Carey crooning over the radio about a love long lost. 'Is that how I'm going to feel if I lose Luke?' She thought. 'I've already lost him...' Up ahead, on the road, she was coming up to a curve. Suddenly, her car was bathed in the bright headlights of an eighteen wheel tractor-trailer. ************************ "Oh my god!" The driver yelled as he jumped out of his truck. The impact of the tractor-trailer hitting the jeep had almost crushed the entire car. He was pretty much uninjured, except for a small bruise on his forehead from hitting the steering wheel. But the jeep... Oh, God, the jeep..... The driver hesitantly approached the crushed vehicle and straining his ears, he heard a garbled sound.. "Sorry I never told you, all I wanted to say..........."
All I wanted to say
And now it's too late to hold you
'Cause you've flown away
So far away..." Never had I imagined
Living without your smile
Feeling and knowing you hear me
It keeps me alive
Alive Lorelai started to cry as she heard Mariah Carey crooning over the radio about a love long lost. 'Is that how I'm going to feel if I lose Luke?' She thought. 'I've already lost him...' Up ahead, on the road, she was coming up to a curve. Suddenly, her car was bathed in the bright headlights of an eighteen wheel tractor-trailer. ************************ "Oh my god!" The driver yelled as he jumped out of his truck. The impact of the tractor-trailer hitting the jeep had almost crushed the entire car. He was pretty much uninjured, except for a small bruise on his forehead from hitting the steering wheel. But the jeep... Oh, God, the jeep..... The driver hesitantly approached the crushed vehicle and straining his ears, he heard a garbled sound.. "Sorry I never told you, all I wanted to say..........."