Teensy Little A/N- I kinda forgot about a character for a few chapters
there. Can you guess who? Sorry about it, I kinda got caught up in the rest
of the action. So I'm basically sticking with the idea that he was hanging
around with Rory, or the rest of the team, or some of the townies when
stuff was happening, basically in the background. But I had to pop him back
in. Sorry if it seems weird. And thanks for all the reviews guys. They've
been great. Enjoy!
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Nicole climbed back out of the car. The phone call had gone on longer than she expected and she wanted to get back to Luke as soon as possible. It was definitely not safe to leave him alone with Lorelai today. Nicole was starting to get more and more frustrated with Luke as well. It was feeling more and more like she was the one intruding on a relationship whenever she was with Luke, not the other way around. She felt herself getting angry at him, and at her. What right did she have to Luke. Nicole was the one who Luke was married to. Lorelai was the one who had had the last ten years to do something if she had liked Luke, but didn't. And she wasn't going to now. It was Lorelai's fault that she had waited so long. Luke had been willing. Nicole knew he was still willing too. But that ship had sailed and the sun had set on it and every other possible bad cliche. Nicole had Luke now. She felt herself getting even angrier as she crossed the lot and saw the whole town gathered in the living room. Stupid balloon room. At least Nicole knew where Lorelai got her penchant for extravagantly idiotic ideas. They were all staring at something. Probably Lorelai. Nicole walked furiously quickly towards them. They were still blocking the way and she couldn't see what they were looking at. She came up behind the couch and no one had even noticed her yet. She looked over Patty's shoulder at the list of wagers and her jaw snapped shut.
"What is this!" Everyone turned around and stared. "Well? What is it." Nicole yelled, looking around at all the guilty faces. "What is wrong with you people? How can you be betting on a marriage falling apart over another woman? How-" Something suddenly dawned on her and she scanned the crowd. "Where's Luke?" No one said anything. She turned and glared at Rory. "Where is she?" Nicole was fuming, but Rory didn't say anything, just stared back at her levelly. "Where are they?" She saw Sookie's eyes flit towards the tree and pushed through the crowd. She stopped dead when she saw them. Lorelai's head was against his neck, her body leaning against his chest as she sat between his legs. His arms were around her waist and hers were over top, running her hand over his fingers as they whispered to each other. If Luke hadn't been her husband, she would of thought that the two of them looked cute together like that. But he was. And it wasn't. She started off towards the tree as fast as she could without running. She was just a few steps away when she spoke out, or rather yelled out.
"LUKE!" She saw both of their heads snap around to look at her. Lorelai was speechless for once, scrambling to get up.
"Nicole." That was all Luke could manage to get out.
"LUKE!" Nicole smacked him in the arm hard. But Luke didn't flinch, or move, or do anything. He just stood there looking confused. But Lorelai glared at Nicole and took a step forward from beside the tree.
"Excuse me?! No physical violence against Luke!" Nicole turned at her.
"YOU stay out of this." She spat, turning back to Luke. " What the HELL is going on Luke?"
"I-"
"You what? You thought I wasn't going to find out? How long has this been going on?"
"It hasn't-"
"I swear Luke, if you say that you two are just friends one more time, I'm actually going to kill you." Right now it looked like she was thoroughly willing to follow through on her threat.
"Nothing happened, nothing has, nothing is...nothing." Luke was rambling. He had taken his hat off to run his hand through his hair and now he was twisting it in his hands, his eyes on the ground. " I...we....nothing happened Nicole."
"Then what was this! This wasn't nothing Luke. I went to college. I went to law school. I'm obviously not stupid. What, have you been having some kind of.....affair or something? Because you really have to work on the secrecy part. Go knows neither of you have been able to keep your hands off each other in the past week. So what do you guys do? Do you just wait until I leave and then she sends you some signal, like turns on her red light or something and you two sneak upstairs? "
"WE'RE NOT SLEEPING TOGETHER!" Lorelai yelled at her, looking like Nicole had just slapped her. " I don't go around sleeping with married men. Luke TOLD you nothing happened, and that means NOTHING HAPPENED!"
"Oh yeah, I'm sure. That doesn't mean you haven't tried." Nicole looked at her with loathing, but Luke was just staring at her.
"You can't talk about me like this. You know absolutely nothing about what there is between me and Luke. I'm not some slut okay?" Lorelai was shouting in outrage, her voice laced with hurt.
"You got pregnant at sixteen and I don't exactly see the father around, so I just assumed." Nicole looked at Lorelai as if challenging her to try something. For a minute it looked like Lorelai was going to fly at Nicole, but instead she just swallowed, glanced at Luke, and started walking. Luke could see her wiping her eyes.
"LORELAI!" He started to go after her but Nicole grabbed his arm. Lorelai didn't look back, just got into the jeep and drove away. The whole town was staring at the scene and no one seemed able to do or say anything. Sure, Luke was never part of one of the town scandals that didn't involve Taylor's general insanity. But this was bigger than that. This was Luke and Lorelai, and no one could tear themselves away. It was like watching a car accident.
"I'm not done yet." There was no emotion in Nicole's voice, but her eyes were a completely different story. She hated Luke for not loving her the way she loved him. And she hated even more that there was someone else that he did love that way.
"What's wrong with you?" Luke tried to pull away, looking after Lorelai's car.
"Why am I the villain in all of this. You're the one off with some other woman."
"Nothing happened Nicole, alright. I would never do anything while I was still married."
"So what were you planning to do?"
"I want to finalize the divorce." Nicole looked at him for a minute, then shook her head and gave a short bitter laugh.
"No."
"I just-Wait. What do you mean no? I want to finish this divorce. You can't say no." Luke stopped trying to pull away and looked at her.
"Well, I'm standing right here and I'm saying it...so actually I think I can."
"But legally, I mean.... can you actually do that?" Luke was looking confused and worried.
"Luke.....Let me put it this way. I don't care." Nicole glared at him triumphantly, but Luke shook his head.
"Why do you still want to be married to me?"
"Because I loved you Luke! Because you made a fool of me going around with her. Because you care more about her than you could ever care about me. And I hate you for that. " Luke just stared at her for a minute, and Nicole glared back, then around at the crowd. She shook her head at him and sniffed, then spun around. She climbed into her car and Luke just watched her drive off. He turned his head and saw the entire town staring at him.
"PRIVACY! HAVE ANY OF YOU EVER HEARD OF IT!" Luke shouted before he stormed off, slamming the door of his truck shut and pulling away in a cloud of dust. Rory looked at Emily and was almost in tears.
"I have to...I have go and..... go and find Mom." She started rifling through her pockets for her keys, but Emily grabbed her hand gently.
"Give them a few minutes." She looked down the road that the three cars had sped away on and frowned.
"I hope he chooses the right one." Babette murmured, looking from Miss Patty to Morey.
"Should we start the game?" Taylor announced, but everyone just turned and glared at him. " Or we could postpone...."
"Rory, why don't you drive Marty home. You can bring his car back with you to Yale Sunday and then we can pick you up next week for dinner and your mother will be able to drive you home so you can take your car back with you the week after.." Rory looked up the street, then nodded reluctantly, wanting to go find Lorelai, but knowing that she needed time. Marty tried to smile encouragingly and Rory passed him the keys, before joining him in his car. Everyone was slowly filtering towards the parking lot, while Sookie and Jackson were helping to deflate and fold up the living room. Richard looked at Emily, whose mouth was pursed tightly while she serenely beat a chair into a submissive folded plastic pile.
"You know, I can't say I think much of this Nicole woman." Emily looked at him with a stony glare, but just shook her head. Richard placed an arm around her shoulder. " We should go home and let them sort this out. It really is up to them." Emily nodded slowly, and they packed up the rest of the furniture in silence. As they drove off, Sookie and Jackson packed Davey up in the carrier.
"She really does have the worst timing in the world. All these years and NOW she finally realizes, when he's married. I'm so thankful we didn't have a Nicole."
"The way she hits? Me too." Sookie rolled her eyes.
"Come on Jackson. Let's get Davey home. It has been a looong day."
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Lorelai slammed the door of the jeep shut and stepped hard on the gas pedal. She knew that everyone was staring and she didn't care. She wasn't going to stand there while that.......Luke had called after her, but she hadn't turned around. She was too angry, too embarrassed. Nicole, she had no idea what there was between her and Luke. Then again, Lorelai wasn't too sure either. She kept running things through her head as the car lead itself towards her house. She didn't go after married men, or guys in relationships. She wasn't a homewrecker, and she definitely wouldn't sleep with them. But what if Nicole hadn't interrupted them when she had been practicing with Luke, or right now by the tree. Lorelai had a sneaking suspicion that she would have wanted to kiss him. And if that wasn't going for a married man... But it wasn't married man. It was Luke. She sped right through the red light in the middle of town.
"Like to see Taylor stop me now." She hissed to herself. What was there between her and Luke....her and Luke....Luke.......she sighed. Luke. Since when did Luke warrant a sigh like this. She pulled the car into the driveway and tumbled out. Not sure what to do or where to go. She started towards the house, but her eyes fell on the chuppa that was standing forlornly in the yard, a few leaves blowing across it. Lorelai felt just how the chuppa looked. Man, how cliche is that. Sad. Pathetic. Stop being so melodramatic Lorelai.
"This sucks." She stumbled over and sat down in the middle of the chuppa floor and buried her head in her hands. " This really really sucks. REALLY."
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Nicole was fuming when she slammed the car door. She was going to Luke's and she was grabbing everything she had ever left there and she was going back to New York and she wasn't going to answer his phone calls when he tried to call about the divorce. They could just stay married forever for all she cared. She knew this was impractical. Foolish actually. But she wanted to be foolish and petty and mean right now. It was pissing her off even more that Luke hadn't really even cheated on her. He hadn't even kissed , let alone sleep with...her. She knew he was too good of a guy to do anything. And anyway, she would have know if he had finally kissed Lorelai. Hell, just lying on the grass with her made him glow, if that was possible for Luke. If he kissed he'd probably explode in a freaking ray of light. Hell, the most she'd ever got from him in comparison was a weak spark. And he didn't even cheat on her. If it had been a fling, or something meaningless, maybe...but he hadn't done anything. She was too important to him to do any under shady circumstances. It hurt even more that he hadn't done anything. That meant that he was willing to wait, that he wanted this enough to want it to be right.
"I hate this!" Nicole yelled at the red light as she speed through it. She knew she wouldn't hit anything. There wasn't anything around in this stupid little town to hit. There wasn't anything . There wasn't anything left for her in this stupid little town. Nicole sighed. She pulled her car to a screeching halt outside the diner and took out the keys she still had. She wanted to want to smash something, ruin something of his, but she didn't. Damn it. Why did he have to be so damn respectful about loving someone else? Why couldn't he be some scummy lecherous creep? Why couldn't she just hate him instead of wanting him to be happy? She stormed up the stairs and started to grab all of her stuff from around the apartment. Just a sweater and some shoes, a few bags, a picture of her she didn't really think he was going to need anymore. She stopped for a minute, standing in the middle of the room, and looked around. This was better. At least it was now, at least it was over before it got worse. If Lorelai hurt him now, she would.....Nicole collapsed on the couch, dropping her head in her hands. She took a few minutes, just breathing, trying to wrap her mind around everything, then grabbed a pencil and Luke's order pad of the table next to her.
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Luke drove angrily towards the town square. He didn't know what to do, or where to go. He wanted to find Lorelai, but he had to talk to Nicole. They had to sort all of this out. Since when did this get-Well, it had always been this confusing for him. But now it was public and confusing. Lorelai, Nicole, Lorelai, Nicole, turn left, turn right, left, right, left, right. Luke's hands gripped tightly on the wheel of his truck as he pulled around the corner. He could see Nicole's car parked in front of the diner. He knew Lorelai's Jeep would be parked in her driveway. Great, all these years without a choice, at least not one he had the guts to make, and now he had the chance to make it. But did he make it and clean everything up afterwards, or was he supposed to clean every thing up and then go after it...her. If he did, would that mean everything with Nicole would go from terribly, terrible, horrible bad, to somehow, if it was possible, worse? And if he didn't go find Lorelai now would it be too late? Or should he go at all. What if he was wro- no, he wasn't going down that road. There were signs, and there were signals, and there were vibes, and there were gestures, and there were almost words. Not wussing out on this now. Not now. Not this time. He wasn't going down that old crappy road. But what road now? Luke pulled up to the traffic light, which had turned green, and stopped the truck. Left or right, deal with Lorelai first or Nicole. Luke looked down both of the streets, took a deep breath and nodded. He brought his hands to the wheel, reached over, and turned off the truck, in the middle if the street. Taylor would have had a coronary. He opened up the door, trying hard not to slam it shut as hard as he physically could, and climbed out. He walked to slowly towards the back of the truck, stopping in front of the wheel well. He turned outwards and crouched down. Luke sighed deeply, and leaning backwards, let his head smack into the side of the truck. His fists were clenched. He was going to go certifiable in a minute. Luke took a few slow breaths and closed his eyes, leaning against the truck and trying not to think about the throbbing pain at the back of his head.
"UGH."
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Nicole climbed back out of the car. The phone call had gone on longer than she expected and she wanted to get back to Luke as soon as possible. It was definitely not safe to leave him alone with Lorelai today. Nicole was starting to get more and more frustrated with Luke as well. It was feeling more and more like she was the one intruding on a relationship whenever she was with Luke, not the other way around. She felt herself getting angry at him, and at her. What right did she have to Luke. Nicole was the one who Luke was married to. Lorelai was the one who had had the last ten years to do something if she had liked Luke, but didn't. And she wasn't going to now. It was Lorelai's fault that she had waited so long. Luke had been willing. Nicole knew he was still willing too. But that ship had sailed and the sun had set on it and every other possible bad cliche. Nicole had Luke now. She felt herself getting even angrier as she crossed the lot and saw the whole town gathered in the living room. Stupid balloon room. At least Nicole knew where Lorelai got her penchant for extravagantly idiotic ideas. They were all staring at something. Probably Lorelai. Nicole walked furiously quickly towards them. They were still blocking the way and she couldn't see what they were looking at. She came up behind the couch and no one had even noticed her yet. She looked over Patty's shoulder at the list of wagers and her jaw snapped shut.
"What is this!" Everyone turned around and stared. "Well? What is it." Nicole yelled, looking around at all the guilty faces. "What is wrong with you people? How can you be betting on a marriage falling apart over another woman? How-" Something suddenly dawned on her and she scanned the crowd. "Where's Luke?" No one said anything. She turned and glared at Rory. "Where is she?" Nicole was fuming, but Rory didn't say anything, just stared back at her levelly. "Where are they?" She saw Sookie's eyes flit towards the tree and pushed through the crowd. She stopped dead when she saw them. Lorelai's head was against his neck, her body leaning against his chest as she sat between his legs. His arms were around her waist and hers were over top, running her hand over his fingers as they whispered to each other. If Luke hadn't been her husband, she would of thought that the two of them looked cute together like that. But he was. And it wasn't. She started off towards the tree as fast as she could without running. She was just a few steps away when she spoke out, or rather yelled out.
"LUKE!" She saw both of their heads snap around to look at her. Lorelai was speechless for once, scrambling to get up.
"Nicole." That was all Luke could manage to get out.
"LUKE!" Nicole smacked him in the arm hard. But Luke didn't flinch, or move, or do anything. He just stood there looking confused. But Lorelai glared at Nicole and took a step forward from beside the tree.
"Excuse me?! No physical violence against Luke!" Nicole turned at her.
"YOU stay out of this." She spat, turning back to Luke. " What the HELL is going on Luke?"
"I-"
"You what? You thought I wasn't going to find out? How long has this been going on?"
"It hasn't-"
"I swear Luke, if you say that you two are just friends one more time, I'm actually going to kill you." Right now it looked like she was thoroughly willing to follow through on her threat.
"Nothing happened, nothing has, nothing is...nothing." Luke was rambling. He had taken his hat off to run his hand through his hair and now he was twisting it in his hands, his eyes on the ground. " I...we....nothing happened Nicole."
"Then what was this! This wasn't nothing Luke. I went to college. I went to law school. I'm obviously not stupid. What, have you been having some kind of.....affair or something? Because you really have to work on the secrecy part. Go knows neither of you have been able to keep your hands off each other in the past week. So what do you guys do? Do you just wait until I leave and then she sends you some signal, like turns on her red light or something and you two sneak upstairs? "
"WE'RE NOT SLEEPING TOGETHER!" Lorelai yelled at her, looking like Nicole had just slapped her. " I don't go around sleeping with married men. Luke TOLD you nothing happened, and that means NOTHING HAPPENED!"
"Oh yeah, I'm sure. That doesn't mean you haven't tried." Nicole looked at her with loathing, but Luke was just staring at her.
"You can't talk about me like this. You know absolutely nothing about what there is between me and Luke. I'm not some slut okay?" Lorelai was shouting in outrage, her voice laced with hurt.
"You got pregnant at sixteen and I don't exactly see the father around, so I just assumed." Nicole looked at Lorelai as if challenging her to try something. For a minute it looked like Lorelai was going to fly at Nicole, but instead she just swallowed, glanced at Luke, and started walking. Luke could see her wiping her eyes.
"LORELAI!" He started to go after her but Nicole grabbed his arm. Lorelai didn't look back, just got into the jeep and drove away. The whole town was staring at the scene and no one seemed able to do or say anything. Sure, Luke was never part of one of the town scandals that didn't involve Taylor's general insanity. But this was bigger than that. This was Luke and Lorelai, and no one could tear themselves away. It was like watching a car accident.
"I'm not done yet." There was no emotion in Nicole's voice, but her eyes were a completely different story. She hated Luke for not loving her the way she loved him. And she hated even more that there was someone else that he did love that way.
"What's wrong with you?" Luke tried to pull away, looking after Lorelai's car.
"Why am I the villain in all of this. You're the one off with some other woman."
"Nothing happened Nicole, alright. I would never do anything while I was still married."
"So what were you planning to do?"
"I want to finalize the divorce." Nicole looked at him for a minute, then shook her head and gave a short bitter laugh.
"No."
"I just-Wait. What do you mean no? I want to finish this divorce. You can't say no." Luke stopped trying to pull away and looked at her.
"Well, I'm standing right here and I'm saying it...so actually I think I can."
"But legally, I mean.... can you actually do that?" Luke was looking confused and worried.
"Luke.....Let me put it this way. I don't care." Nicole glared at him triumphantly, but Luke shook his head.
"Why do you still want to be married to me?"
"Because I loved you Luke! Because you made a fool of me going around with her. Because you care more about her than you could ever care about me. And I hate you for that. " Luke just stared at her for a minute, and Nicole glared back, then around at the crowd. She shook her head at him and sniffed, then spun around. She climbed into her car and Luke just watched her drive off. He turned his head and saw the entire town staring at him.
"PRIVACY! HAVE ANY OF YOU EVER HEARD OF IT!" Luke shouted before he stormed off, slamming the door of his truck shut and pulling away in a cloud of dust. Rory looked at Emily and was almost in tears.
"I have to...I have go and..... go and find Mom." She started rifling through her pockets for her keys, but Emily grabbed her hand gently.
"Give them a few minutes." She looked down the road that the three cars had sped away on and frowned.
"I hope he chooses the right one." Babette murmured, looking from Miss Patty to Morey.
"Should we start the game?" Taylor announced, but everyone just turned and glared at him. " Or we could postpone...."
"Rory, why don't you drive Marty home. You can bring his car back with you to Yale Sunday and then we can pick you up next week for dinner and your mother will be able to drive you home so you can take your car back with you the week after.." Rory looked up the street, then nodded reluctantly, wanting to go find Lorelai, but knowing that she needed time. Marty tried to smile encouragingly and Rory passed him the keys, before joining him in his car. Everyone was slowly filtering towards the parking lot, while Sookie and Jackson were helping to deflate and fold up the living room. Richard looked at Emily, whose mouth was pursed tightly while she serenely beat a chair into a submissive folded plastic pile.
"You know, I can't say I think much of this Nicole woman." Emily looked at him with a stony glare, but just shook her head. Richard placed an arm around her shoulder. " We should go home and let them sort this out. It really is up to them." Emily nodded slowly, and they packed up the rest of the furniture in silence. As they drove off, Sookie and Jackson packed Davey up in the carrier.
"She really does have the worst timing in the world. All these years and NOW she finally realizes, when he's married. I'm so thankful we didn't have a Nicole."
"The way she hits? Me too." Sookie rolled her eyes.
"Come on Jackson. Let's get Davey home. It has been a looong day."
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Lorelai slammed the door of the jeep shut and stepped hard on the gas pedal. She knew that everyone was staring and she didn't care. She wasn't going to stand there while that.......Luke had called after her, but she hadn't turned around. She was too angry, too embarrassed. Nicole, she had no idea what there was between her and Luke. Then again, Lorelai wasn't too sure either. She kept running things through her head as the car lead itself towards her house. She didn't go after married men, or guys in relationships. She wasn't a homewrecker, and she definitely wouldn't sleep with them. But what if Nicole hadn't interrupted them when she had been practicing with Luke, or right now by the tree. Lorelai had a sneaking suspicion that she would have wanted to kiss him. And if that wasn't going for a married man... But it wasn't married man. It was Luke. She sped right through the red light in the middle of town.
"Like to see Taylor stop me now." She hissed to herself. What was there between her and Luke....her and Luke....Luke.......she sighed. Luke. Since when did Luke warrant a sigh like this. She pulled the car into the driveway and tumbled out. Not sure what to do or where to go. She started towards the house, but her eyes fell on the chuppa that was standing forlornly in the yard, a few leaves blowing across it. Lorelai felt just how the chuppa looked. Man, how cliche is that. Sad. Pathetic. Stop being so melodramatic Lorelai.
"This sucks." She stumbled over and sat down in the middle of the chuppa floor and buried her head in her hands. " This really really sucks. REALLY."
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Nicole was fuming when she slammed the car door. She was going to Luke's and she was grabbing everything she had ever left there and she was going back to New York and she wasn't going to answer his phone calls when he tried to call about the divorce. They could just stay married forever for all she cared. She knew this was impractical. Foolish actually. But she wanted to be foolish and petty and mean right now. It was pissing her off even more that Luke hadn't really even cheated on her. He hadn't even kissed , let alone sleep with...her. She knew he was too good of a guy to do anything. And anyway, she would have know if he had finally kissed Lorelai. Hell, just lying on the grass with her made him glow, if that was possible for Luke. If he kissed he'd probably explode in a freaking ray of light. Hell, the most she'd ever got from him in comparison was a weak spark. And he didn't even cheat on her. If it had been a fling, or something meaningless, maybe...but he hadn't done anything. She was too important to him to do any under shady circumstances. It hurt even more that he hadn't done anything. That meant that he was willing to wait, that he wanted this enough to want it to be right.
"I hate this!" Nicole yelled at the red light as she speed through it. She knew she wouldn't hit anything. There wasn't anything around in this stupid little town to hit. There wasn't anything . There wasn't anything left for her in this stupid little town. Nicole sighed. She pulled her car to a screeching halt outside the diner and took out the keys she still had. She wanted to want to smash something, ruin something of his, but she didn't. Damn it. Why did he have to be so damn respectful about loving someone else? Why couldn't he be some scummy lecherous creep? Why couldn't she just hate him instead of wanting him to be happy? She stormed up the stairs and started to grab all of her stuff from around the apartment. Just a sweater and some shoes, a few bags, a picture of her she didn't really think he was going to need anymore. She stopped for a minute, standing in the middle of the room, and looked around. This was better. At least it was now, at least it was over before it got worse. If Lorelai hurt him now, she would.....Nicole collapsed on the couch, dropping her head in her hands. She took a few minutes, just breathing, trying to wrap her mind around everything, then grabbed a pencil and Luke's order pad of the table next to her.
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Luke drove angrily towards the town square. He didn't know what to do, or where to go. He wanted to find Lorelai, but he had to talk to Nicole. They had to sort all of this out. Since when did this get-Well, it had always been this confusing for him. But now it was public and confusing. Lorelai, Nicole, Lorelai, Nicole, turn left, turn right, left, right, left, right. Luke's hands gripped tightly on the wheel of his truck as he pulled around the corner. He could see Nicole's car parked in front of the diner. He knew Lorelai's Jeep would be parked in her driveway. Great, all these years without a choice, at least not one he had the guts to make, and now he had the chance to make it. But did he make it and clean everything up afterwards, or was he supposed to clean every thing up and then go after it...her. If he did, would that mean everything with Nicole would go from terribly, terrible, horrible bad, to somehow, if it was possible, worse? And if he didn't go find Lorelai now would it be too late? Or should he go at all. What if he was wro- no, he wasn't going down that road. There were signs, and there were signals, and there were vibes, and there were gestures, and there were almost words. Not wussing out on this now. Not now. Not this time. He wasn't going down that old crappy road. But what road now? Luke pulled up to the traffic light, which had turned green, and stopped the truck. Left or right, deal with Lorelai first or Nicole. Luke looked down both of the streets, took a deep breath and nodded. He brought his hands to the wheel, reached over, and turned off the truck, in the middle if the street. Taylor would have had a coronary. He opened up the door, trying hard not to slam it shut as hard as he physically could, and climbed out. He walked to slowly towards the back of the truck, stopping in front of the wheel well. He turned outwards and crouched down. Luke sighed deeply, and leaning backwards, let his head smack into the side of the truck. His fists were clenched. He was going to go certifiable in a minute. Luke took a few slow breaths and closed his eyes, leaning against the truck and trying not to think about the throbbing pain at the back of his head.
"UGH."