Ch. 6 

Coming Back to Surprises

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"Mom, mom wake up!" Rory Gilmore yelled one Friday evening.  "Come on!  We are going to be late for dinner with the grandparents!"

"Huh?  Where am I?" A very tired Lorelai asked.

"Uh…In your room." Rory said as if her mother had lost her mind.

"Rory? Rory, is that you?" Lorelai asked frantically.

"Yeah mom.  Who else would it be?  You fantasizing Luke waking you up?" Rory joked.

"Ha ha, very funny my little child.  I will forgive you this time.  Now come give mommy a hug," Lorelai said jumping up to hug a very confused Rory.

"Mom?  Not that I mind giving you hugs or anything, but are you ok?  You're acting really strange.  Did mommy have a bad dream?" Rory questioned as if talking to a two year old.

"The worst!  I've missed you so much honey!" Lorelai said, tears coming to her eyes.

"Ok…I am never letting you sleep again," Rory stated, obviously lost.

"Thanks honey.  I promise I'll explain everything later, but for now, I need to get dressed; otherwise your grandmother will have a cow about us being 3 minutes late."

"Okay," Rory said while walking out the door, still confused.

'So…It was all just a dream?  That is so strange.  It seemed so real.  And why did I wake back up before I had a chance to talk to Christopher again?  Does this mean that if I really did have a chance to do things over again, I wouldn't have Rory?  Nah, no way.  I love Rory way too much.  Maybe I just woke up then because dreams, or nightmares in this case, sometimes end at unexpected places.  Or maybe it's just because that's when Rory woke me up.  Well, either way, I still need to get ready for the grandparents,' Lorelai thought to herself, 'Although I really have seen enough of that house for the rest of my life.'

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That night at Luke's after dinner

"Man, that sounds like one crazy dream!" Rory said as the two Gilmore's walked into Luke's for their meaning of existence, coffee.

"I know!  Only it wasn't a dream…it was a nightmare!" The elder Gilmore commented.  The two walked up to the counter where Jess was cleaning.  There was no one else in the diner, not even Luke.

"Hey, two coffees to go?" Jess asked after placing a simple kiss on Rory's cheek.

"Yep, that'll be good," they both replied.  While Jess went to get their coffee, Luke came down the stairs looking gruff and tired.  His expression quickly turned to shock and embarrassment when he saw Lorelai.

"It's about time you woke up, Luke," Jess commented, "You've been asleep since four, and you missed the dinner crowd!"

"Sorry, I was just really tired.  You can have tomorrow off.  Thanks for covering for me."

"No problem," Jess replied, then turned his attention to Rory.  "Hey, I got that book upstairs." Jess said shyly.

"Ok, be back in a minute mom," Rory said.  Then the two teens disappeared up the stairs.

"So… you must have been really tired, I mean I never knew you to take the evening off." Lorelai said nervously.

"Yeah, I was," Luke said just as nervous, " I don't know what came over me.  I was fine up until four, but then I became very drowsy."

"Strange…same thing happened to me."

"Weird."

They sat in an uncomfortable silence for a while until Luke finally asked,

"Lorelai, do you think you might, uh, you know, go out sometime?" His face was bright red and he was sweating just a little bit.

"Um, yeah, sure." A bewildered Lorelai responded.  They both stared at each other for a while before Luke leaned in and placed a simple, yet surprisingly wonderful kiss on Lorelai's lips.

"I uh, I better go see what Rory and Jess are doing." Luke blushed as he ran up the stairs.  Soon after he left, Rory came bouncing down the stairs with no book, looking slightly flushed.

"Ready to go?" Rory asked Lorelai while grabbing their coffees.

"Uh, yeah.  Yeah, let's go," Lorelai said, coming out of her daze.

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Gilmore Home

Lorelai was up in her room, replaying all the events from that day.  She was still in shock about what happened at the diner.  It was just all too weird.  Right after waking up from her "dream", the "dream" that she and Luke kissed in, the "dream" that she told Luke to ask her out in, Luke kisses her and asks her out!  Maybe this really did have something to do with her "dream", maybe not.  Maybe one day she would tell Luke about it, maybe not.

All of a sudden, Lorelai jumped off her bed and grabbed her calendar.  She had to know something once and for all.  She knew it was silly, but she had to know.  Rory's birthday was on August, 14.  In every calendar she got, Lorelai always put hers and Rory's birthday in it. 

Lorelai quickly flipped through the calendar until she got to August.  She quickly looked at August, 14, to find it wasn't there.  'Hmm, that's strange,' she thought to herself.  She was just about to close the calendar when something from August, 16, caught her eye.  It read, "Happy Birthday Rory!"

The End

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A/N- So… how did ya'll like it?!  Weird ending, I know…. But I think its kinda cool in a spooky way, don't you guys?  I just gotta say a few quick things.  First of all…I really don't know when Rory's b-day is.  I just made that up.  Second, I want to say thanks to everyone who reviewed.  It meant,and still means, a lot to me.  Third of all, I wanna say please review this chapter because I really wanna know what you guys thought of it!  And last of all, look for a new story I'm writing.  It should be out before the end of summer.  Once again, THANK YOU!!!!!

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