Authors Note: Thank you all for the reviews! They mean a lot! A just want to give you a small spoiler about my story: I know I threw Chris in there for a little confusion, and of course nobody liked it...but I've already written up to Chapter 12 and there is some later drama, that...you probably won't be high-fiving me about, but...there's gotta be some drama, right? So just keep this in mind: I am one of the biggest Javajunkie fans out there! Hope you still read it!
Just A Reminder: All play, not real.
Chapter Nine: What Happens with the Inevitable Does
It was Thursday morning when Lorelai got out of her bed at 8:00.
'Crap, I'm late to work'
She got ready as quickly as possible, and ran to the Inn.
"You are late" Michel said hasty.
"Really? Because I couldn't tell." She said rushing into the kitchen leaving Michel behind.
"Coffee!" She screamed while walking towards the coffee pots. "Sookie?"
"I'm here! I'm here!" She said running out one of the storage rooms.
"What's goin on babe?" Lorelai asked.
"Nothing. Hectic breakfast crowd. That family that's here is so loud and needy."
"What family?"
"The family of 20. They came down at 6 in the morning singing songs and they all ordered the most random things off the menu. Then they played musical chairs."
"They played musical chairs?"
"No, but I thought it'd be funny if they did."
"And people think I'm weird." Lorelai said, shaking her head.
"Oh no honey, that's because you are."
"Thanks for the love." She said, walking out of the kitchen.
The rest of the morning went by quickly. At around 1:00, Lorelai went into the kitchen to tell Sookie she was going to go to the diner quickly to get some lunch and that she'd be back soon.
When Lorelai got to the diner, she took a seat next to Miss Patty and Babette at the counter.
"How ya doin sugar?" Babette asked
"I'm great, thanks. How are you guys?"
"Well, we're good. We've been watching Luke this morning, he looks so much happier than usual." Patty said.
Lorelai grinned to herself until she heard the jingle above the door.
"Lorelai." A man stated.
"She's not here!" She said in a high pitched voice, not turning around.
Somebody placed a hand on Lorelais shoulder.
"Come talk to me."
"Jason?" She said quickly turning around.
"Lorelai. I've been thinking about you for the past week, non stop. I've been looking at the picture of us from that party your mother and father made us go to, together. I haven't been able to stop thinking about you, and I'm not going to lose something that special to me."
"Well you've already lost me." Lorelai didn't care how harsh her words were. She was being flat out honest.
"I'm sure there's something that I could do. Just tell me Lorelai, anything. Anything you want."
"I want you..." she paused, teasing the poor guy a little, "...to leave."
Patty and Babette sat there laughing in the background.
"You tell him sweetie!" Babette said quietly.
Sounding aggravated, he asked, "why?"
Luke walked out of the kitchen and saw what was going on. He gave Jason a look of hate, and continued watching the conversation. Lorelai turned and saw Luke coming out, relieved.
"This sure wasn't my way of becoming un-discreet." She said quietly so that only she could hear her.
"Because Jason, I'm dating...Luke. Yeah, I'm dating Luke." She said as if she was pretending that they were together, when they really weren't. Lorelai flashed Luke a weird smile and looked back at Jason.
Patty and Babette smiled at eachother, going along with what they thought was a joke. As much as they wanted Luke and Lorelai to really be together, they knew that they were both to scared to admit anything.
" I don't believe you Lorelai."
"Well, believe it cause it's true."
Lorelai looked at Luke who was holding the coffee pot behind the counter. She walked up to him, removed it from his hands and kissed him deeply.
"OH MY!" Patty screeched.
"God Kirk. You are such an idiot. The one day you didn't bring your camera!" Kirk said from the table he was sitting at in the corner.
They continued there kiss for what seemed like forever. Lorelai wanted to show Jason that there was no chance he was getting her back.
When they finally pulled away, Lorelai stood facing Luke, smiling. He smiled back, and then glared at Jason. It worked. He shot Lorelai a look of sadness, and left the diner.
"You weren't acting, were ya?" Babette asked. Luke blushed and walked back into the kitchen.
"Actually...no." Lorelai answered, smiling. "I guess you guys were right."
"Oh were we! Sweetie, you two were bound to get together eventually! This is going to be the talk of the town! We're all so happy for you! Now, I think I've got to go...I have to go...shopping." Patty said.
"Or tell the whole town that we finally gave in, huh?" Lorelai asked.
"Honey, how could we resist?" Patty said excitedly.
The girls rushed out of the diner, both running in different directions. Lorelai laughed to herself. How could her and Luke be so oblivious for so long? 'Maybe it was just me' she thought to herself.
"Lorelai, I just wanted to wish you my deepest congratulations. I always knew that you and Luke had something going on."
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, run along now."
"Not until you forgive me for not coming up earlier, while that Jason guy was here."
"Thank you Kirk. I forgive you. Now go beg Luke for some equals or something."
Luke walked out of the kitchen, rolling his eyes at Lorelai.
"What! It's not like you were being the big, strong, protective boyfriend. I had to do something." She said to him, flashing him her sexy-pout.
He always fell for that. "Yeah, sorry. You okay?"
"Yeah I'll be fine." She smiled, "I'll be great if you gave me some coffee."
"No"
"Come on Luke!"
"Your energy level is too high. Plus you have to go to the Inn, there waiting for you."
Luke turned over and poured her a cup of coffee to go.
"You give in easily." She said smiling at him. She glanced around the room, smirked, and leaned forward to give Luke a kiss goodbye. "See ya later..." She smiled, "baby." She said in a flirty little voice that she used only to annoy Luke.
"Don't ever call me baby again." He said, while she walked out of the diner.
The second that Lorelai walked out of the diner, people ran over to her and began asking her questions about her and Luke.
"Go away paparazzi. I know you love me, but shew! I have somewhere to be!" She said while walking towards her car.
'I knew that was a bad way to tell show everybody we were dating' She thought to herself.
When she got back to the Inn, Sookie ran up to her and smiled.
"Why are you smiling?" Lorelai asked suspiciously.
"Patty called."
"Like you didn't already know?"
"Well of course I did, but I didn't want to get in trouble with Patty. So I'm here to give you my best wishes and congratulations."
"She told you to say that?"
Sookie laughed. She went back into the kitchen with Lorelai and exchanged details of the encounter with Jason.
"For some reason, I was just feeling so, bi-polar."
"Honey, you are not bi-polar." Sookie clarified.
"Ok, I mean, I felt so...not myself."
"You need to expand your vocabulary."
"You need to work on your souffles."
"What? What's the matter with them? I thought you liked them. Lorelai!"
"Sookie, I was kidding." She said while walking out of the kitchen.
By about 3, Lorelai left and went straight home. She found Rory packing some things into a huge suitcase.
"You excited?"
"Yeah. I ran into Patty today. She told me to have fun, and that if I didn't get you and Luke a 'correct' wedding present that she'd make me go back and get the right one."
"This is getting out of control." Lorelai said, sighing.
"What did you expect? Them to say finally, and that would be the end of it?"
"Well...no."
"It was inevitable from the beginning."
"So this is what happens when the inevitable finally does."
The girls continued chatting and packing for a little while. Lorelai went upstairs afterwards, took a quick shower and threw on fresh clothes and a new apply of makeup.
Lorelai walked into the kitchen frowning. She opened the fridge and immediately closed it.
"What's the frown for?" Rory asked.
"I'm hungry."
"When aren't you hungry?"
"Hey, quit the cute and let's go to Luke's. I want a burger."
"Yeah, what else is new."
The girls got in the car and drove over to Lukes. They weren't in a walking mood. When the walked in, Luke was being bombarded with questions from people all over the town. When they all saw Lorelai walked in, they quickly ran over to her, and did the same.
"That's it. Everyone out! We're closed." Luke shouted.
"Oh you better not be closed." Lorelai said, walking up to the counter.
"You and Rory can stay. Everybody else out."
"Luke, this is very poor service. I don't think that you can close right now. You'd have to inform us before hand when you plan on leaving." Taylor stated.
"And I'm telling you now. Everybody get out within the next minute. I'm closing."
The crowd quickly ran out of the diner and began spying on the girls and Luke from outside the window. Lorelai walked over, stuck her tounge out at everybody, smiled, and then closed the blinds. There were a few taps and pounds on the window, but they quickly went away.
"God, you'd think that Bloomingdales was having a sale." Lorelai said, walking back towards her seat.
"No mom, that's only for you. Like the time that you got up at 5 AM, and drove to the mall in your mo--"
"Rory!" Lorelai cut her off. "Don't even think of continuing that sentence or else some serious blackmailing is going to happen."
"What do you have against me?"
"I'm not even going to bring up your past time Backstreet Boys obsession."
"MOM!" Rory squealed.
Luke laughed at Rory. "So after all this time, you've always liked them, haven't you?" He asked her.
"Mom, stop right there."
"Why Rory? 'You want it thatt-A way?" She said in a singsong voice, imitating the Backstreet Boys.
"Mom, stop!"
"Come on Rory. Your obsession was 'larger than life.'"
"Ok, there's a time to stop, and a time to really stop. You've crossed both lines."
"Oh it's just Luke. I'm sure he's not even enjoying this." Lorelai said, glancing over at Luke who couldn't help but laugh.
"You're evil."
"AS LONG AS YOU LOVE ME!" Lorelai screamed at the top of her lounges, singing the old songs by them.
"How do you know so many songs?" Luke asked.
"Hey, when she listened to the CD 24/7, I learned the words. I have a good memory, ok?" Lorelai said defending herself.
"Okay, I'll stop now. Because, 'I'll never break your heart, I'll never make you cry.'" Lorelai started.
"That's it, I'm leaving. And mom, don't think you are off the hook that easily.
Lorelai started laughing as Rory walked out the door.
"I think Luke would enjoy the late night litter box story. But I'm sure he's had one too many laughs tonight, so I'll be leaving now. Goodbye." Rory said, leaving the diner to just Luke and Lorelai.
"The late night litter box story?" He asked curiously.
Lorelai blushed a little. "Long story. But I better go run after her, she probably hate's me. See ya tomorrow?" She asked hopefully.
"No, I'm not going to be around." He joked.
"What?!"
"I was kidding." He walked around the counter to meet Lorelai. He placed his hands on her face, and kissed her gently. He was always so gentle when it came to her.
"Goodnight." She said, walking out of the diner, going to chase after Rory.
When Lorelai finally caught up with Rory, she started to walk quicker.
"You can't give me the mommy dearest treatment forever, angel." She said, catching up to her, fluttering her eyelashes.
"You're so mean!"
"Oh Rory, it's just Luke! He doesn't care. At least I didn't tell Kirk. He would have tired to get you to join his fan club. You guys could exchange the secret handshake, oh!" She sad laughing to herself, "And–and, you could wear matching shirts that countdown the days till they come to Connecticut."
"You're not funny. I'm just warning you, you shouldn't have done that."
"So, still love me?"
"We'll see."
"Good."
They walked back to their house, and Lorelai groaned the second the phone rang.
"What?" She said, picking up the phone.
"Lorelai? Is that how you answer your phone?" It was her mother.
"Oh, hi Em!" She said cheerfully.
"What did you just call me?"
"I said Em...short for..."
"I know what Em is short for. But I have another label, I believe they call it mom."
"Label? I didn't know you we're on the market."
"Lorelai, now is not a time for your jokes. I wanted to clarify our dinner plans for tomorrow."
Lorelai was surprised that her mother was bringing them up. After there confrontation at the Dragonfly she thought they were off the hook. But she knew Emily too well, she was never off the hook.
"Ah, good thing you called. Because after 4 years of going to these things, I forgot." Lorelai joked.
"I'll see you at 7."
"Really? 7? Because I thought it was 8?"
"Goodnight Lorelai."
"Goodnight mother."
She walked over to Rorys room who was continuing her packing.
"Dinner. Tomorrow. 7. Peace out Humphrey."
"Night mom."
Up Next: Recovering Quickly
A/N: Sorry, this chapter sorta...sucked? But, that's okay because I have next chapter to make up for it. It'll be up withen a few days, but I'm just gunna close with this little tidbit: Something good happens. Please review! Thanks!
