When they get upstairsLuke crosses to the kitchen table and sits, motioning Lorelai to do the same.
"I can't sit, I just need to talk and get this out while I still can." Lorelai is pacing nervously, going over her words in her head.
"Okay, here goes. The other night was crazy, I was having a patented Lorelai Gilmore flip out and I took it out here." She crossed to Luke as he started to speak.
"Let me finish, I think that it meant something. I think this freak out may have helped me." She sits across the table from Luke.
Luke looks at her questioningly, hope dancing in the back of his eyes.
"I think it helped me open my eyes to simple facts about my life. Things are changing, Rory is leaving for school, I'm opening my own inn, and Sookie is having a baby. Change is not a bad thing. Kissing you helped me see what I've been avoiding. By focusing on keeping things the same I've avoided putting myself at risk, but I've got to now, because nothing is staying the same no matter what."
Lorelai stands up and walks around the table to Luke, she takes his face in her hands and kisses him, tentatively at first.
As it progesses Luke pulls her to him, rising from his chair. Like their first kiss nights ago in the diner before they know it the kiss has taken them over.
They move together and lean heavily against the closed door, neither of them wanting to stop to breathe. Luke breaks the silence.
"Lorelai, what's going on?" She looks up at him, his eyes clouded, hers penetrating. She takes a breath before answering.
"It means, I've been thinking a lot the past few days, about what the other night meant, about what I wanted it to mean and I came to the conclusion that there was a deeper meaning to it all."
She steps away from Luke and sits back at the table, "The real reason I was so hung up on keeping things the same was because I was afraid of losing you and this. I've been fighting for years to keep our relationship the same because I was afraid of losing it. Now I realize it has to change before I lose it anyway."
Luke sits across from Lorelai, looking slightly dumbfounded. "Lore, I don't know what to say now, or do even. This is all a bit surprising to me."
"I know Luke, I am springing this all on you. I'm not expecting anything from you right now, I just needed to put this out there and open the door, if you want it. I know you're happy with Nicole and this is the worst possible time for me to have this miraculous realization. I'm going to go, it's late. I'll be around when you're ready."
Lorelai leaves quickly, rising and crossing to the door, she's gone before Luke can say a word.
When she gets home she can hear the stereo in Rory's room and pokes her head in to see her reading on her bed.
"Hey babe, I'm going to head up to bed. Al's for breakfast?"
Rory grimaces, "I guess things didn't go well with Luke?"
Lorelai shakes her head, "It went fine, I just want to give him time, I gave him a lot of info in a short amount of time." She turns to leave.
The next morning, after a fitful night of sleep, Lorelai is making coffee in the kitchen. "Rory, we're running really late, I'm putting in some pop-tarts for breakfast."
Her preparations are stopped when she hears a knock at the door. She pushes the toaster down and speeds over to the door.
She pauses only when she sees Luke stading in the doorway, "Certainly didn't expect you this morning. Come in, Rory and I are running supremely late this morning, I overslept."
They walk into the kitchen, Luke pulling to coffee cups from behind him as Lorelai turns back towards him. Her eyes light up when she sees the cup and she motions for him to sit down.
Rory bounds out of her bedroom, her eyes widen when she sees Luke at the table, he hands her a cup of coffee. "Thanks, you're the best. Mom, I'm going to take my pop-tarts to go, I've got to catch the bus."
"So Lucas, what brings you to our fair house this morning?" Lorelai asks trying to be her usual self, but failing miserably.
"I did a lot of thinking last night and I wanted to get it all out in the open, so to speak."
Lorelai sits down across from him, coffee in hand. Luke continues.
"After you left I sat upstairs thinking about what you said and what I thought about it. Nicole called and I talked to her for awhile."
Lorelai knits her brow, her mouth tightening at the mention of Nicole.
"Then I just sat up, going over things in my head and I came to a realization."
Lorelai looks at him expectantly, her heart racing as he looks up at her.
"Nicole and I have been dating for a few months now, we're comfortable with each other." Luke watches her face fall, "but I've never felt the same with her as I do with you, so if you still mean what you said last night, I'd like to try."
Lorelai grins as she leans forward and kisses Luke in response. Her smile widens as she moves around the table and sits in Luke's lap. "I still do."
After a few minutes, Luke pulls away, "Weren't you saying something about running late for work?"
Lorelai pulls him into the living room and onto the couch, "Michel can handle it." With that, she pulls him in for another kiss.