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Chapter Five: So Unrealistic

Lorelai woke up at around 6:15. She went into the shower and started to think about her outfit for tonight. She remembered that he said it was going to be fancy, so she had to impress him with something...well, fancy. When she got dressed for work, she walked downstairs and left a note for Rory under the coffee pot.

Hi babe, I had to go to work early. Come by and see me- we'll do lunch. I'll be home around 4:30 for my date with Luke tonight. See ya later. Love, mom.

She arrived at work and right away Michel started the bad part of her day.

"We are over booked."

"What? How are we already over booked?"

"Well, I'm not sure but I could talk to the last person who took the reservation for the Whitman's, and see if they know."

"Not the time for your jokes Michel. The Whitman's? Of all people to be over booked with..." Lorelai walked away from her desk and went straight to the kitchen. Coffee would fix all her problems.

"Sookie! Where are you!" Lorelai screamed while walking into the kitchen.

"I need more apples! And Jackson can't get any to me by tomorrow. How am I supposed to make apple pie if I don't have enough apples? What am I going to do?"

"And the day keeps getting better..." Lorelai said while walking over to the coffee pot.

"Oh you've got to be joking me. No coffee?"

"Oh, sorry, I'll start it up for you."

"I have a feeling that this is going to be a bad day. I hope it'll be better by night time." Lorelai said walking out of the kitchen.

"Oh yeah! You're date!" Sookie called out to her right before she left.

The rest of the day was frustrating for her. Rory didn't come for lunch, there were grumpy customers, Michel was being particularly annoying, and she lacked coffee. The last thing she wanted was to have a bad evening with Luke.

At around 4:30, she left the Inn and went home. She came home to an empty house with no note.

"Great, getting ready by myself. My favorite thing to do." She mumbled to herself while walking up the stairs.

As she walked into her room, she was surprised to see Rory sleeping on her bed. She didn't want to wake her up, at least not yet, so she went into the bathroom and prepped herself up. By the time she walked back into her room, Rory was just opening her eyes.

"Well hello sleeping beauty." Lorelai joked.

"Oh, hi mom. Sorry, I was just up here and I was so tired, I haven't been sleeping well lately."

"No apologies needed. Want to help me get ready?"

"Oh that's right! You're going out with Luke tonight. What are you going to wear?"

Lorelai fumbled through some clothes in her closet. She knew she wanted to wear a dress, but that didn't help much. After many debates between the girls, she finally decided on a dress. It wasn't anything special, but that's why it was right. She didn't want to look like she was showing off. She chose a knee length black tube top dress. In the middle of the dress, right by her stomach, there was a cream colored silk bow that wrapped around. She left her curly hair down, but with a little bit of hair pulled up on top of her head held by a little clip. She wore cream high heals with a strap across, and just a black dressy scarf as her coat.

"You look amazing." Rory gasped as she finished putting on the scarf.

"Yeah, well I better because I don't take 45 minutes to get ready and look like crap." Lorelai said, smiling as she checked herself one last time in the mirror.

At about 5:35, Luke was at the door. Rory opened it up as Lorelai ran upstairs to put on her necklace with a single pearl.

"Let me guess...she's not ready?" Luke asked while walking into the house.

"I tried to be a few minutes late."

"Actually, she's ready. She just ran upstairs to get a necklace. She'll be down in a second."

"And in a second I appear." Lorelai said, walking down the stairs.

It was like deja vu. Her walking down the stairs, him meeting her there, it was just like the first date. Although this time they were both dressed a little more fancy. Luke wore a black tux, and a tie.

"Must be some party, look at you all GQed up."

"You said you liked that."

"Well, you two kids better get going. Luke, have her home by 10." Rory said.

Luke held the door open for her, and as Lorelai walked out, she turned around and stopped, staring at him.

"Hey you." She said, giving him a small peck on the cheek while pulling him into a hug. She felt awkward just leaning in for a kiss, since they have only gone out on one date, but she felt what she did was appropriate enough.

"You look beautiful." Luke said, eyeing her up and down.

"You don't look bad yourself." She said, smiling at him.

He grabbed her hand, and walked down the stairs of the porch. When they got in the car, Luke didn't put the keys in right away. Instead, he turned to Lorelai and just stared at her. She was beautiful. He couldn't believe he finally got his wish of being with her. It felt so unrealistic, but he knew it wasn't.

"You really do look beautiful." He repeated. 'She always looked beautiful' he thought to himself.

"Thank you." Lorelai said quietly, giving him a half smile, half grin kind of look.

"I just wanted to thank you for coming with me on such short notice. I really appreciate it."

"Your welcome. I'm glad you asked." Luke shot her a smile, and started to drive to the country club.

They talked a little on the way there, but really just enjoyed the silence. It wasn't like an awkward silence, where you can't think of something to say. It was more of a comfortable silence, something they both felt.

When they arrived to the country club just a few minutes before 6, they walked out of the car and headed towards the main entrance. Luke put his arm around her waist, and walked into the country club looking like they had been together for months. They were very natural about their appearance.

After exchanging hello's with everybody, although Lorelai had no idea who any of the people were, they sat down at a table with one other couple. The tables only sat 4, and Luke had recognized the guy from somewhere before.

"Hi, Luke Danes." Luke said, extending his hand to give the guy a hand shake

"Hey, how ya doin? I'm Brian Welt, and this is my wife Jane."

"I'm Lorelai." She said as quick as she could. She didn't want Luke to feel uncomfortable and have to introduce her as his 'friend' or anything like that.

They all talked for a little while, until Luke got up and placed his hands on her back. She turned her head around and stared up at him, smiling.

"What do you want to drink?" He asked.

"White wine, please."

"Here, I'll join you." Brian said getting up to go with Luke.

The guys walked off, and Lorelai just watched him walk away and begin to talk to a guy that said hello. She turned around, and saw Jane staring at her.

"Newlyweds?" Jane asked.

"Oh uh, no. Just..." Lorelai didn't know what to say. And she didn't know this lady very well, but gave her the 411 anyways. "Long time friends. Just started dating actually. Pretty nerve wrecking if you think about it."

"Ah, that was my second guess. The both of you are glowing." Lorelai laughed, shaking her head a little.

"You guys make a very good couple if that helps any."

"Thanks, it does."

"Is this your first date?" Jane asked, continuing the conversation. And Lorelai didn't mind at all, she liked talking about Luke and could tell that Jane was interested.

"Second...actually. We've been friends for...gosh, about 8 years. He owns a diner, with the best coffee in Connecticut let me add, and I go there at least once a day. But I've never looked at him like that." Lorelai said, while turning her back to stare at Luke. "It's always been a 'I want coffee and a burger' 'Red meat's going to kill you, so will all the coffee' kind of relationship. Jane laughed. Intrigued by the conversation, she moved over to the seat where Luke had been sitting.

"Sometimes it's almost unrealistic. My friends, and people around the town always thought that we'd end up together at some point. I always thought that they were crazy, but well, if you really want to know the story..." Lorelai said, pausing and waiting for Jane to respond.

"Of course. Keep going..."

"I just opened a new Inn, the Dragonfly Inn in Hartford, and we had a test run over the weekend with all our friends and family, and he kissed me there. I was so surprised, to say the least, but it happend for the right reasons." She said, once again glancing over at Luke.

"You can't stop smiling."

"It's a crazy feeling my friend." Lorelai said.

As the guys walked back with their drinks, Jane walked back to her seat, across the table.

"Here you go." He said, handing Lorelai her wine.

"Thank you." She said, glancing over at Jane who was smiling at her. Lorelai returned the smile, and giggled, thinking about their conversation.

Right before dinner was served, couples started to get up and dance. Lorelai hadn't been thinking about dancing because she was in a detailed conversation with Jane about the Dragonfly but Luke was. When the time was right, he made an approach to ask her to dance.

"Would you like to dance?" He asked her.

"Lets." She said, beginning to stand up.

He took her by her hand, and lead her out to the dance floor. It wasn't like the dance at Liz's wedding though. This time, he wrapped his arms around her waist, as she wrapped hers around his shoulders. She pushed her cheek against his and slowly closed her eyes, while inhaling the scent of him. They danced slowly to a song by Frank Sinatra, not saying a word the whole time. When the song ended, they slowly walked back to their table. Lorelai glanced at Jane who was smiling at her. She couldn't help but think of how Jane pointed out that she couldn't stop smiling. It was the truth.

After dinner, Luke asked Lorelai to dance again. They went up to the floor and re-enacted the same dancing as before. Quiet, and comfortable. As the song ended, they stood there, still dancing with each other, and with their luck another slow song came on, so they continued dancing. Lorelai moved her face off of Luke's and looked at him. They stood there, smiling at each other for a few moments until Luke leaned in and moved a piece of hair that was covering Lorelais eye a little. She stood there, gazing at him, while he leaned in and kissed her. The kiss was strong, and sent shivers through Lorelais body. They continued dancing, and went back to their table as the song ended.

"So what do you say we leave a little early?" Luke asked while walking back to the table. "I want to take you somewhere."

"What do you have in mind?"

"You'll see." Lorelai sat down while Luke went to get there coats.

Brian was talking to some man at the table next to him, and Jane was just finishing up a conversation on her cell phone.

"Well aren't you two cute." Jane said, while putting her cell phone back in her purse.

"Well of course we are." Lorelai joked. "Actually, we're going to leave, but I had a really good time talking to you tonight. It was so nice to meet you." Lorelai said, standing up and walking towards her.

"It was nice to meet you also. You two stay good, ok?"

"Thanks, we will." Lorelai stood there for a second staring at her hand bag. She reached in and grabbed a business card of hers and handed it to Jane.

"Call me if you're ever in the area." Lorelai said, as Luke walked back with the Lorelais scarf and his coat.

They all exchanged goodbyes, and Lorelai and Luke were on there way. They drove in silence for what seemed to be a quick drive. When Luke pulled up to the place, Lorelai still wasn't sure where she was. He went around and opened the door for her. He held her hand as they walked in the dark.

"Where are we?" Lorelai asked, looking around.

"This is Elpine Park. Have you ever been here before?" He asked.

"No, I haven't. I've always wanted to see it though, I've head it's beautiful over here." Elpine Park is a very popular park that people often got married in. It was huge. It had it's own little river, with stones and rocks next to the waterfall that was surrounded by huge gardens of flowers. It had a little trail for them to follow, so they began walking through.

A few minutes into their walk, they saw a bench inbetween two huge trees. Luke took her over to the bench and as he sat down, Lorelai just looked across the darkness, making out some of the things around her. A few moments later, she sat down sideways on Luke's lap. Not typical for her, but the whole dating thing wasn't either. He wrapped his arm around her waist, and they just sat there for a moment until Luke leaned in and kissed her. She turned her head so that she was facing him, and returned the kiss. This kiss was...magical though. As she kissed his bottom lip, she began to part their lips with her tounge, becoming more involved in the kiss. Luke ran his hands on the small of her back, while Lorelai ran her hands across his face, feeling the stubble of his beard tickle her. She began to giggle, and smiled through the kiss. She pulled away and stood up looking at her surroundings. He stood up in front of her, and pecked her on the lips, pulling her into the firmiliar dance position, and they danced there with no music, and no light except for the wind blowing, and the moon and stars above them.

Lorelai stood there thinking about how unrealistic this all was. Here she was, spending one of the most romantic moments of her life in a park dancing to no music with Luke. And as Luke stood there, he thought that everything was so unrealistic. Here he was, spending with no question the most romantic moment of his life with the girl he's always dreamed of being with, Lorelai. They danced for a few moments, silent. Finally, they mutually pulled away, smiling at each other.

"We better get going." Lorelai whispered. She felt that talking normal would disturb something about the night.

They walked out of the park hand in hand. When they got to the car, Lorelai turned around to take one last look at the park. He opened the door for her, and the sat in the car for a few moments before going. Lorelai tucked around Luke's arm. He placed a gentle kiss on the top of her head, and started to drive away with Lorelai still right beside him.

The whole ride home was silent. Lorelai had her eyes closed the whole time, while Luke had one arm around her, and the other on the steering wheel. They pulled up to Lorelai's house by about 11. Lorelai lifted her head up and glanced at the clock.

"You're in trouble. You were supposed to have me home an hour ago." Lorelai joked.

"Sorry, I guess the park was a bad idea." Luke said sarcastically.

"Bad idea was it not mister. Bad idea is me having to go home now. It's still early." Lorelai said while getting out of the car.

"Yeah...but it was fun while it lasted."

They walked up to the porch and instead of going in right away, Lorelai sat down on the swing. Luke sat down next to her but there was no contact between the two of them. The both just sat there, minding their own personal space.

"I don't know who lied to you, but I like cuddling." Lorelai said staring up at him giving him a slight frown.

Luke put one hand behind her back as the other was wrapped around her stomach and at her side his hands met. He held his hands together, securely holding on to her, pulling her closer to him. Lorelai threw her legs on the swing to the side, as she placed her head on his shoulder. They sat there for a while just staring ahead. Lorelai closed her eyes for what seemed like a minute, but woke up and saw Luke sleeping next to her, in the same position. She was tired, and had no idea what time it was so she glanced at the watch on Luke's wrist, trying not to wake him up, it was 3:00 am.

"Luke." She whispered. He didn't hear here, so she leaned in and kissed him on the cheek, whispering Luke again in his ear.

He sat up and looked around, confused. "What time is it?"

"It's 3:00."

"I guess we found something to do to make the night last longer." He kidded. "I should go. I've got to open up in about 3 hours, I need some sleep." He said, starting to stand up.

Lorelai stood up next to him, grabbed her scarf, and put it over her shoulders as a light breeze went by.

"Tonight was great." She said quietly, looking down at her shoes.

"I'd say so." He said staring at her. He lifted his hand to her face, and lifted her face up. She smiled at him, as she rose her hands to his face and gently kissed his lips.

"Goodnight." She said pulling away.

"Good morning." He said as he pulled her into a hug.

"You know...you could stay here if you wanted. The couch is comfortable." She said apprehensively.

"Thanks for the offer. I would, but I've got to be down at the diner in about 2 ½ hours. Nothing against you of course."

"I'm sure." She said, smiling at him.

"See you later?" He asked.

"You can count on it."

He walked down the porch and got into his car. Lorelai stood there waiting for him to pull out. He looked over at her smiled, and drove off. When he was no longer in sight, she went up to bed and slept the rest of the night peacefully.

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