Fool for Love

by

javakamp
Chapter 28: Hindsight my ass.

Lorelai looked up to see Luke standing over her holding the coffee pot. "Hi."

"Uh, yeah, uh, I just wanted to, uh, see if you need, uh, a refill," Luke stammered.

Lorelai looked up at him confused, "You just gave us a refill."

"Oh, right. Sorry." Luke stared at her for a second, and then he turned and walked away. He got two steps away then stopped turned around and walked back to the table, "Okay, look I just wanted to say I'm sorry."

Lorelai looked confused. She glanced at Rory then back at Luke, and then said, "Sorry about what?"

"For everything that happened, with Colin. I… I guess I feel kinda responsible." Luke confessed.

Lorelai looked embarrassed as things came back to her. "Why should you feel responsible?"

Luke began to look like he was beginning to wish that he hadn't started this conversation, said, "I, I know this is going to sound crazy, but I just had this bad feeling about him."

"You had a bad feeling about Colin?"

"That, and the private conversation I had with him one morning out back," Luke confessed.

"When did you have a private conversation with Colin?"
Luke recounted the events by the dumpster, concluding with, "I tried to explain to him that we were just friends, but he wouldn't listen. I wanted to say something to you, but I knew you would consider it none of my business. I know you're a grown woman who can take care of herself, and would want me to mind my own business. So I stayed out of it."

Still looking a little confused Lorelai replied, "Well, thank you, I think."

Luke looked Lorelai in the eyes, and continued, "But I will not let that happen again. Next time I will not mind my own business, I swear I will tell you when you start dating some kind of creep."

Lorelai shook her head as if trying to clear it, and then said, "Luke, I don't know if that is really necessary. I mean that I know that things didn't work out this time, but that doesn't mean that I need anyone's help in choosing who to date."

Luke shook his head and replied, "Nope, I swear, I would rather have you mad at me for something I did that for something I didn't do."

"Luke, I'm not mad at you because you didn't tell me that you had weird feeling about Colin."

"Well, you should be," Luke said. "I just wish I had it all to do over again, because if I did I'd toss that creep out of here on his lying ass."

"Ahh, excuse me," Rory said, interrupting for the first time. When Luke and Lorelai had turned their attention to her, she pointed in the other direction, and said, "Looks like you might get your chance."

Lorelai stood as she and Luke turned to look where Rory pointed. They stood silently for a moment, Lorelai being the first to speak, "Colin."