A/N Ok so I know it's been a long while since I have updated this so sorry. I just decided to start writing again. hopefully you will enjoy and I will try to update more often. Oh and by the way I don't own any of these characters. Just thought I'd let you know.
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The next day.
Lorelai walks into the diner, looking for Luke. She spots him right away. 'ok just act like everything is normal. Even though, clearly, nothing will be normal again.'
"Hey there, Luke. Uh. Can I have some coffee, please?"
"Hey, uh yea sure. Here ya go." wow she looked so beautiful. Like a ray of sun light on the perfect dawn. "So, where's Rory?"
"She had to go to school early so she caught the early bus. Something to do with going to the library for research. She told me it was either go to school early or come home late so she chose the first."
"Makes sense."
Just then Racheal came out of the back and noticed Luke and Lorelai engaging in a conversation with their eyes locked into each others. She knew that the night must have hit off very well.
"Hey guys what's up. Lor hey I wanted to apologize about last night. I know you really weren't expecting what happened."
"oh, it's no problem. Seems everything worked out on its own."
"Yes, it does seem like that doesn't it."
"Listen I have to go to work, but later I would like to have lunch with you."
"Really? Uh sure, I'm pretty swamped today so we could just eat at the Inn."
"Yea that's no problem. So what time will you be free?"
Lor glances at Luke giving him a 'what's going on here look' and he just shrugs and smiles inwardly.
"Um well is 1:00 ok?"
"Perfect. See ya then. Luke, you don't mind having to do without help around then right?"
"uh sure no prob."
"Ok so it's set. See ya then lor."
"uh yea see ya then. Well Luke, thank you for the coffee. I should really get to work now." "yea...uh no problem"
"see ya later" She winks at him and turns around to leave making sure that her walk will cause attention to her butt where she wore a very lovely skirt that she knew he would like. And like he did. Finally after staring at her leaving and staring off to space afterwards he came back to reality.
"So rach, why are you meeting lor?"
"Just to catch up. Is that a problem? Because if you aren't comfortable with it I can always back out."
"No, I don't think it's a problem, just depends on why."
"Just gonna have girl talk."
"About me?"
"ya know not everything revolves around you."
"yea but you gotta admit, my ex and my....uh her talking it's gonna make a guy nervous."
"Don't worry. We aren't going to bash you or anything. Heck you may not even be mentioned. Like I said before we are just going to catch up."
"sure, whatever. Just don't freak her out with a bunch of questions."
"Like I said before, Don't worry."
Loralei walks into the Inn and walks right past Michael.
"where are you going? You have stuff to do here. Loralei! Fine be that way."
She walks straight to the back to Sookie.
Sookie: "hey girlie. Ready for a long day?"
Lor "Ugh no not really. I don't know anyone who gets excited over long days."
"Hm I bet a work-a-holic would."
"Perhaps, hey I have something to tell you before I get too swamped to tell you."
"sure, what is it. Is it bad?"
"No nothing bad. Racheal is back in town."
"yea I heard. Is that what you want to talk about? Why would you want to talk about Racheal? Oh I know what it is."
"what?"
"You are jealous."
Lor started laughing "Trust me that's not it at all. Do you know why she is back in town?"
"Because of Luke."
"Yes but why because of Luke?"
"I don't know lor, where is this going?"
"She wanted to set him up with somebody that he loves and she knew that he hadn't done anything about it so she has stepped in to push him."
"Really? What a cool ex."
"I know that's what I said."
"So who is this person. There is only one person I knew he liked and well, it was you. Don't be mad." She winces and waits for an explosion but when she did hear one happen she slowly and carefully opens her eyes. "No. No way. She set you guys up?"
"yup. When I found out about it I was in shock. I mean I have never thought that I would have ever gone with this. But, well I don't know when I found out what was going on I didn't run away. I just went with it."
"So what does this mean? Are you two going out? It sounds like you are backing out though."
"I don't know. I just....it's Luke. What if things don't work out. I'll lose a great friend. I don't think I could handle that."
"hm ok but what if it does work out. Can you imagine how happy you two would be. And besides if and this is a big if here, if you two don't work out after a while of moping and screaming things would go back to being friends."
"WHAT!? Where are you coming up with this. IF it doesn't work out it's going to be messy and no coffee and no burgers and no Luke. I'd lose one of my closest friends and I couldn't handle that."
"Oh it wouldn't come to that. Eventually all would be forgiven and you would go back to being friends. Maybe not right away but eventually you two would forgive each other."
"Hm I'll be right back." She goes to the counter where Michael was standing.
"It's about time you came back. Here you have to talk to room 32 about the bed. They said it squeaks and there isn't another room to put them in."
"Yea sure I'll take care of it." She goes to pick up the phone noticing that Michael is still looking at her. "uh, Sookie was talking about discontinuing that fat free turkey you love so much."
"What, she better not. I swear I can't believe that girl would...." He fades back to the kitchen and lor starts dialing and waits for the ringing to stop.
"Luke's"
"Hey it's me."
"hey there. What's up?"
"um I have a question."
"ok shoot."
"what if it doesn't work out?"
"What do you mean?"
"well I've bought all of their CD's and I'm just worried if the back street boys break up what will I do?"
"what? Have you been popping coffee beans again?"
"No. I'm just a little freaked. Last nights events are starting to settle in."
"oh. Do you regret it?"
"No, I just don't want to later. Ya know what I mean?"
"no not exactly."
"I don't want you to hate me later on."
"why would I hate you?"
"I don't know but I usually screw everything up in the long run. I couldn't handle losing you as a friend."
"Hey don't think about that. Listen I don't know what is going to happen. But whatever happens our friendship will not suffer cuz of it."
"How do you know that for sure?"
"Because I cannot have you not in my life. Whether it's friendship or more, you will be there."
Lorelai starts to cry a little bit. "where did all this sweet talk come from?"
"uh.. you know I've been reading cosmo a lot lately."
That breaks the tension quite a bit and Lorelai lets out a laugh. "Wow I never thought of you as a cosmo type of guy."
"Well there is a lot to find out about me."
"yea I guess there is. Thanks for making feel better. I better go. I have to take care of a room with a squeaky bed."
"yea squeaky beds can be annoying."
She get flustered by that last comment. "yea I bet it could be annoying."
"well I'll let you go now to uh take care of that bed."
"ok have fun at work."
"loads, you too."
She then makes a call to rune.
"Hey you need to go to room 32 with some WD40 and take care of the squeaky bed."
"Ok I'll be up there in just a minute."
"thanks."
"no problem"
She keeps herself busy until 1 o'clock rolls around without her noticing.
"Hey"
Lorelai jumps and drops the papers she was holding.
"I'm sorry I didn't mean to scare you like that."
"no it's ok. I'm just preoccupied at the moment."
"well if this is a bad time I could come back."
"No I need a break so actually you being here is a breath of fresh air."
"Really hectic around here. I see business is booming."
"yea there is a convention of some sorts outside of town so we pretty much are booked solid for the week. Let me tell Micheal and Sookie that I'm going on break and then I'll meet ya in the dining area."
"Ok."
"Sookie, where is Micheal?"
"He told me he would be right back. Something about him getting a scuff on his shoe. I don't know he was mumbling in french again. Why do you ask?"
"Well racheal is here and we were going to have lunch together and I need him to cover for me."
"Lunch with racheal? Is Luke trying to get you two best buddies so he could convince you to have a 3 way?"
"EW Sookie! That is not what is happening. God that is just gross. How could you say such a thing?"
"sorry, just thought it would be funny."
"well it wasn't. Just for that you have to watch the front desk until you are replaced."
"No I hate covering the desk I have no idea what I'm doing up there. Please just let me stay back here and make your meal. I'll do anything you ask."
"Fine I think I hear him up there anyway. I should only be about 30 minutes if anything happens just come and get me."
"Thanks. I will."
Back in the dining room Racheal glances through the menu.
"Sorry that took so long. Had to find somebody to cover for me."
"No biggie. I love the selection here. No wonder business is booming. I would stay here just to eat."
"Thanks but you really should tell that to Sookie."
"Yea that Sookie is a riot."
"yea she is. So have you decided what you wanted."
"uh I think I'll go with the monterey chicken."
"mmm yea that is delicious. I think I'll go with the antipasta." She calls the waiter over and told him what they wanted and they continued on with their conversation.
"So how was last night?"
"It was fine. A little short but it was still overwhelming."
"yea sorry about the sneaking and lying but I had to do it."
"I understand, I'm just still in a bit of shock and my head is filled with a bunch of questions."
"Anything I can help you with?"
"I don't know. Everything is just a little complicated right now."
"Well I know Luke very well and I have a good feeling about this."
"why did you do it?"
"huh"
"why did you set me up with Luke? I mean you are his ex and exes usually don't go setting their old boyfriends up with other women. It's just not something I expected."
"Well, Luke and I are good friends and we always have been. So don't think of it as an ex setting her old boyfriend up but more like a good friend wanting another good friend happy and you are the way to make that happen."
"How did you manage to stay friends after the whole breakup thing happened?"
"Well in the beginning it wasn't easy, well me leaving made it easy but other than that there were some hard days. Luke though made sure we would stay friends as much as it hurt him. See we were really good friends in school and well I knew at one point that he had a thing for me so I had to make the first move."
"So you two were friends first? Huh very interesting."
"Yea Luke isn't the type to just fall for the next girl that walked in. He's more sentimental."
Lor giggles "yea mental"
"Seriously, friendship is more important to him than anything else."
"Did he talk to you before you came over here?"
"What do you mean?"
"I mean did he tell you to say this stuff cuz I called earlier saying exactly what you are reassuring me. I'm just thinking that this is a strange coincidence."
"You know as well as I do that Luke is not a big talker. I had to beg him to tell me how last night went and he just ignored me and said fine."
"Fine? That was it? Just fine?"
"Don't worry that was just his way of shrugging me off in his monosyllabic way. In order to find out how he really thinks you have to watch. It's all about body language with him."
"So you were watching his body all morning?"
"No it wasn't like that. But he was very happy. He even was whistling all morning long."
"Whistling?? Wow I would have never thought."
The food arrives they start to eat in silence for a while.
"So what was Luke like when he was younger?"
"Oh not much different I guess. He talked more."
"really? He actually talked more?"
"yea I guess he ran out of things to say as he got older." They both start laughing. "No really he was a good kid. He did do things that guys do but over all he respected people and took care of his family."
"Sounds like Luke. So can I ask you a personal question?"
"sure." The waiter comes by to pick up their empty plates. "thanks"
"Yea thanks Robert. So..uh..why didn't it work out with you two?"
"We were too different."
"Oh. That isn't good."
"Why is that?"
"Well, I don't know if you have noticed but Luke and I don't have too much in common."
"That isn't true."
"uh hello you know Luke right?"
"yea"
"And you know me right?"
"yea"
"so how can you sit there and say that we don't have anything in common."
"Sure. You are both good with kids, you both love your jobs and love the town you live in despite what Luke says about it, you both are very settled."
"thanks."
"No I didn't mean it like that. See it's like this. The secret to making something work is if you both see yourselves in the same place in ten or twenty years. That is what was lacking with me and Luke. The future."
"And you think Luke and I have it."
"Totally, remember I have an eye for these things. It's my profession."
"ah yes. Well, I better get back to work. I told Sookie that I would only be 30 minutes and it's now 45 minutes. This was nice, slightly awkward but still nice."
"Yea same here. I don't know how much longer I'm going to be in town but I'll definitely say goodbye when I leave."
"Oh, please do."
"See ya around."
"See ya."
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The next day.
Lorelai walks into the diner, looking for Luke. She spots him right away. 'ok just act like everything is normal. Even though, clearly, nothing will be normal again.'
"Hey there, Luke. Uh. Can I have some coffee, please?"
"Hey, uh yea sure. Here ya go." wow she looked so beautiful. Like a ray of sun light on the perfect dawn. "So, where's Rory?"
"She had to go to school early so she caught the early bus. Something to do with going to the library for research. She told me it was either go to school early or come home late so she chose the first."
"Makes sense."
Just then Racheal came out of the back and noticed Luke and Lorelai engaging in a conversation with their eyes locked into each others. She knew that the night must have hit off very well.
"Hey guys what's up. Lor hey I wanted to apologize about last night. I know you really weren't expecting what happened."
"oh, it's no problem. Seems everything worked out on its own."
"Yes, it does seem like that doesn't it."
"Listen I have to go to work, but later I would like to have lunch with you."
"Really? Uh sure, I'm pretty swamped today so we could just eat at the Inn."
"Yea that's no problem. So what time will you be free?"
Lor glances at Luke giving him a 'what's going on here look' and he just shrugs and smiles inwardly.
"Um well is 1:00 ok?"
"Perfect. See ya then. Luke, you don't mind having to do without help around then right?"
"uh sure no prob."
"Ok so it's set. See ya then lor."
"uh yea see ya then. Well Luke, thank you for the coffee. I should really get to work now." "yea...uh no problem"
"see ya later" She winks at him and turns around to leave making sure that her walk will cause attention to her butt where she wore a very lovely skirt that she knew he would like. And like he did. Finally after staring at her leaving and staring off to space afterwards he came back to reality.
"So rach, why are you meeting lor?"
"Just to catch up. Is that a problem? Because if you aren't comfortable with it I can always back out."
"No, I don't think it's a problem, just depends on why."
"Just gonna have girl talk."
"About me?"
"ya know not everything revolves around you."
"yea but you gotta admit, my ex and my....uh her talking it's gonna make a guy nervous."
"Don't worry. We aren't going to bash you or anything. Heck you may not even be mentioned. Like I said before we are just going to catch up."
"sure, whatever. Just don't freak her out with a bunch of questions."
"Like I said before, Don't worry."
Loralei walks into the Inn and walks right past Michael.
"where are you going? You have stuff to do here. Loralei! Fine be that way."
She walks straight to the back to Sookie.
Sookie: "hey girlie. Ready for a long day?"
Lor "Ugh no not really. I don't know anyone who gets excited over long days."
"Hm I bet a work-a-holic would."
"Perhaps, hey I have something to tell you before I get too swamped to tell you."
"sure, what is it. Is it bad?"
"No nothing bad. Racheal is back in town."
"yea I heard. Is that what you want to talk about? Why would you want to talk about Racheal? Oh I know what it is."
"what?"
"You are jealous."
Lor started laughing "Trust me that's not it at all. Do you know why she is back in town?"
"Because of Luke."
"Yes but why because of Luke?"
"I don't know lor, where is this going?"
"She wanted to set him up with somebody that he loves and she knew that he hadn't done anything about it so she has stepped in to push him."
"Really? What a cool ex."
"I know that's what I said."
"So who is this person. There is only one person I knew he liked and well, it was you. Don't be mad." She winces and waits for an explosion but when she did hear one happen she slowly and carefully opens her eyes. "No. No way. She set you guys up?"
"yup. When I found out about it I was in shock. I mean I have never thought that I would have ever gone with this. But, well I don't know when I found out what was going on I didn't run away. I just went with it."
"So what does this mean? Are you two going out? It sounds like you are backing out though."
"I don't know. I just....it's Luke. What if things don't work out. I'll lose a great friend. I don't think I could handle that."
"hm ok but what if it does work out. Can you imagine how happy you two would be. And besides if and this is a big if here, if you two don't work out after a while of moping and screaming things would go back to being friends."
"WHAT!? Where are you coming up with this. IF it doesn't work out it's going to be messy and no coffee and no burgers and no Luke. I'd lose one of my closest friends and I couldn't handle that."
"Oh it wouldn't come to that. Eventually all would be forgiven and you would go back to being friends. Maybe not right away but eventually you two would forgive each other."
"Hm I'll be right back." She goes to the counter where Michael was standing.
"It's about time you came back. Here you have to talk to room 32 about the bed. They said it squeaks and there isn't another room to put them in."
"Yea sure I'll take care of it." She goes to pick up the phone noticing that Michael is still looking at her. "uh, Sookie was talking about discontinuing that fat free turkey you love so much."
"What, she better not. I swear I can't believe that girl would...." He fades back to the kitchen and lor starts dialing and waits for the ringing to stop.
"Luke's"
"Hey it's me."
"hey there. What's up?"
"um I have a question."
"ok shoot."
"what if it doesn't work out?"
"What do you mean?"
"well I've bought all of their CD's and I'm just worried if the back street boys break up what will I do?"
"what? Have you been popping coffee beans again?"
"No. I'm just a little freaked. Last nights events are starting to settle in."
"oh. Do you regret it?"
"No, I just don't want to later. Ya know what I mean?"
"no not exactly."
"I don't want you to hate me later on."
"why would I hate you?"
"I don't know but I usually screw everything up in the long run. I couldn't handle losing you as a friend."
"Hey don't think about that. Listen I don't know what is going to happen. But whatever happens our friendship will not suffer cuz of it."
"How do you know that for sure?"
"Because I cannot have you not in my life. Whether it's friendship or more, you will be there."
Lorelai starts to cry a little bit. "where did all this sweet talk come from?"
"uh.. you know I've been reading cosmo a lot lately."
That breaks the tension quite a bit and Lorelai lets out a laugh. "Wow I never thought of you as a cosmo type of guy."
"Well there is a lot to find out about me."
"yea I guess there is. Thanks for making feel better. I better go. I have to take care of a room with a squeaky bed."
"yea squeaky beds can be annoying."
She get flustered by that last comment. "yea I bet it could be annoying."
"well I'll let you go now to uh take care of that bed."
"ok have fun at work."
"loads, you too."
She then makes a call to rune.
"Hey you need to go to room 32 with some WD40 and take care of the squeaky bed."
"Ok I'll be up there in just a minute."
"thanks."
"no problem"
She keeps herself busy until 1 o'clock rolls around without her noticing.
"Hey"
Lorelai jumps and drops the papers she was holding.
"I'm sorry I didn't mean to scare you like that."
"no it's ok. I'm just preoccupied at the moment."
"well if this is a bad time I could come back."
"No I need a break so actually you being here is a breath of fresh air."
"Really hectic around here. I see business is booming."
"yea there is a convention of some sorts outside of town so we pretty much are booked solid for the week. Let me tell Micheal and Sookie that I'm going on break and then I'll meet ya in the dining area."
"Ok."
"Sookie, where is Micheal?"
"He told me he would be right back. Something about him getting a scuff on his shoe. I don't know he was mumbling in french again. Why do you ask?"
"Well racheal is here and we were going to have lunch together and I need him to cover for me."
"Lunch with racheal? Is Luke trying to get you two best buddies so he could convince you to have a 3 way?"
"EW Sookie! That is not what is happening. God that is just gross. How could you say such a thing?"
"sorry, just thought it would be funny."
"well it wasn't. Just for that you have to watch the front desk until you are replaced."
"No I hate covering the desk I have no idea what I'm doing up there. Please just let me stay back here and make your meal. I'll do anything you ask."
"Fine I think I hear him up there anyway. I should only be about 30 minutes if anything happens just come and get me."
"Thanks. I will."
Back in the dining room Racheal glances through the menu.
"Sorry that took so long. Had to find somebody to cover for me."
"No biggie. I love the selection here. No wonder business is booming. I would stay here just to eat."
"Thanks but you really should tell that to Sookie."
"Yea that Sookie is a riot."
"yea she is. So have you decided what you wanted."
"uh I think I'll go with the monterey chicken."
"mmm yea that is delicious. I think I'll go with the antipasta." She calls the waiter over and told him what they wanted and they continued on with their conversation.
"So how was last night?"
"It was fine. A little short but it was still overwhelming."
"yea sorry about the sneaking and lying but I had to do it."
"I understand, I'm just still in a bit of shock and my head is filled with a bunch of questions."
"Anything I can help you with?"
"I don't know. Everything is just a little complicated right now."
"Well I know Luke very well and I have a good feeling about this."
"why did you do it?"
"huh"
"why did you set me up with Luke? I mean you are his ex and exes usually don't go setting their old boyfriends up with other women. It's just not something I expected."
"Well, Luke and I are good friends and we always have been. So don't think of it as an ex setting her old boyfriend up but more like a good friend wanting another good friend happy and you are the way to make that happen."
"How did you manage to stay friends after the whole breakup thing happened?"
"Well in the beginning it wasn't easy, well me leaving made it easy but other than that there were some hard days. Luke though made sure we would stay friends as much as it hurt him. See we were really good friends in school and well I knew at one point that he had a thing for me so I had to make the first move."
"So you two were friends first? Huh very interesting."
"Yea Luke isn't the type to just fall for the next girl that walked in. He's more sentimental."
Lor giggles "yea mental"
"Seriously, friendship is more important to him than anything else."
"Did he talk to you before you came over here?"
"What do you mean?"
"I mean did he tell you to say this stuff cuz I called earlier saying exactly what you are reassuring me. I'm just thinking that this is a strange coincidence."
"You know as well as I do that Luke is not a big talker. I had to beg him to tell me how last night went and he just ignored me and said fine."
"Fine? That was it? Just fine?"
"Don't worry that was just his way of shrugging me off in his monosyllabic way. In order to find out how he really thinks you have to watch. It's all about body language with him."
"So you were watching his body all morning?"
"No it wasn't like that. But he was very happy. He even was whistling all morning long."
"Whistling?? Wow I would have never thought."
The food arrives they start to eat in silence for a while.
"So what was Luke like when he was younger?"
"Oh not much different I guess. He talked more."
"really? He actually talked more?"
"yea I guess he ran out of things to say as he got older." They both start laughing. "No really he was a good kid. He did do things that guys do but over all he respected people and took care of his family."
"Sounds like Luke. So can I ask you a personal question?"
"sure." The waiter comes by to pick up their empty plates. "thanks"
"Yea thanks Robert. So..uh..why didn't it work out with you two?"
"We were too different."
"Oh. That isn't good."
"Why is that?"
"Well, I don't know if you have noticed but Luke and I don't have too much in common."
"That isn't true."
"uh hello you know Luke right?"
"yea"
"And you know me right?"
"yea"
"so how can you sit there and say that we don't have anything in common."
"Sure. You are both good with kids, you both love your jobs and love the town you live in despite what Luke says about it, you both are very settled."
"thanks."
"No I didn't mean it like that. See it's like this. The secret to making something work is if you both see yourselves in the same place in ten or twenty years. That is what was lacking with me and Luke. The future."
"And you think Luke and I have it."
"Totally, remember I have an eye for these things. It's my profession."
"ah yes. Well, I better get back to work. I told Sookie that I would only be 30 minutes and it's now 45 minutes. This was nice, slightly awkward but still nice."
"Yea same here. I don't know how much longer I'm going to be in town but I'll definitely say goodbye when I leave."
"Oh, please do."
"See ya around."
"See ya."