Author's note: What do I think might happen next season? Keep on a'readin'
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The mug sat in front of Luke and he asked himself the same question that
had bothered him for years. "Half empty or half full?" He remembered the
days when he was the "no show guy". The one that everyone claimed they
hated so that they weren't labeled as another weirdo. But even words can be concieving. Most of them loved him. How couldn't they? Beneath his authentic flannel he was
just a teddy bear that needed to be hugged more often. Thank god she had
realized that in time.
"Lukkkkkkkke"!
He nodded his head curtly.
"I'm in a pie mood, but your pie has a sort of mysterious aura today, any
suggestions?"
She flipped her hair back.
Dead sexy.
Luke glanced over to the pie and licked his lips.
"I'm not really a pie guy myself".
"I see, so clearly there's a bandit of pie ranting hooligans hiding in your
drawers forcing you to lick your lips,"
He rewarded her creativity with a lopsided grin.
"Clearly",
"Thought so," she grinned
"Is that the caffeine talking"?
"Nope, I smoked a joint earlier,"
He rolled his eyes.
"Coffee, coffee, nice and grand, because of your coffee you're my man"!
Lorelai sang, and heads turned.
A cornucopia of heads.
Luke felt his face turn crimson.
He grabbed her hand and pulled her behind the counter and into the back.
"Excuse me?" Lorelai questioned as they entered the crowded room. "I did
not see a no-singing sign beside the no cell phone sign,"
Luke drummed his fingers, fire dancing in his eyes.
"What the hell did you do that for?" he barked.
"Do what?"
"That! Do you want the whole town to know what's going on?"
"Ummm refresh me please?"
"About us, that were an item, or whatever those gay romance authors call
it..."
Lorelai smiled a little at Luke's insecurity.
"If Miss. Patty can't afford to pay her phone bill then I'll be happy".
Luke frowned.
"This isn't funny," he quipped.
"Oh, I'm sorry," she said insincerely. "I was under the impression that
this was an adult relationship,"
"How can it be, when you're a part of it?"
"Ouch,"
An expression of sorrow washed over Lorelai's face as she busied herself
with her zipper.
Luke sighed, "I didn't mean it like that,"
Silence.
She glanced at him sympathetically.
Who was this man standing in front of her?
The little boy who pulled her pig tails in grade two...
Or Luke Danes?
"That was pathetic," Lorelai stated.
"I know,"
"Then why'd you say it?"
"Because I'm..." Just let go, "scared,"
Lorelai smiled to herself, typical, she thought.
"Scared of what Luke? Scared that I'm not the princess that you've been
waiting for to awaken with your kiss? Scared that I'm going to go crawling
back to Jason if you don't buy me flowers everyday? What the hell do you
have to be scared about?"
Luke's eyes were glued to the ground.
"It was the second one".
"Luke, Jason's a geek".
He grinned at a stain on the floor, "Maybe we do breathe the same air".
Lorelai suppressed a giggle. "So you think I prefer business suits to
flannel?"
"There are a lot of other guys out there," he replied, ignoring her last
comment.
"You sound like my mother,'
"I don't want to lose you to some idiot whose been practicing a pickup line
like"Do you eat lucky charms, cause your magically delicious." his whole
life,"
"So that's what you think I am? All I need is a pair of fishnets and I'll
be ready?"
"No, I didn't mean..." His words hung in the thin air between them.
"What did you mean Luke? Because last time I checked you were literate,"
Luke hesitated. "If news travels around that we're a "couple" no one will
leave us alone, you'll get sick of it,"
Lorelai chuckled to herself, really annoyed.
"Oh darling, you know me so well," she exclaimed.
"Dammit Lorelai, don't go"! Luke yelled.
Too late.
Luke made his way-out out into the light of the diner, and watched
helplessly as Lorelai's silhouette disappeared into the afternoon mist.
He cast his eyes upon the coffee cup sitting on the counter.
"Half empty," he mumbled to himself, "Half empty,"
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