Authors Note: Ahh guys! Sorry about the lack of updates!! Assuming there are still some readers out there! School started again...blah...it sucks. Here's the third to last chapter of the story! But as soon as this is done, I'm staring to post my other one. So, hopefully that will go over better. It's a different plot that we probably don't see a lot, so hopefully you'll all try and read it! Thanks to the reviewers--I love you guys all so much! Gilmore girls is on tonight so watch the frog 7 (depending where you live!) I can't wait for the premiere, just 2 more weeks, guys... THANKS FOR EVERYTHING SO FAR!
Just a Reminder: Not mine...yet. JK.
Chapter Eighteen: It's Better In The Woods
It was very early the next morning when the phone started to ring. Lorelai threw her pillow at the phone, but that didn't stop the cordless from ringing. After 4 more rings, and the person still not hanging up, she decided to answer it.
"Hello." She said in a muffled voice, from being disturbed in her sleep. She glanced over at the clock. 7:30. 'Who on earth would be calling at 7:30?'
"Hi, Ms. Gilmore? This is Dan from AT&T, and we were looking through your phone package and it seems that you could be getting a much better package with us, than SBC. Would you be interested in switching over to our plan for $10.00 less a month?"
Lorelai blinked a few times, and sighed before answering. "Dan...it's 7:30 in the morning. The only plan I want to be re-thinking right now is you ever calling me in the first place. Got it?"
"So does that mean you don't want to switch?"
"Yes Dan, that mean's I don't want to switch. Goodbye."
Lorelai moaned in anger as she saw Luke rolling around in the bed, beginning to open his eyes.
"What did he want you to switch?" He asked opening his eyes and looking at her.
"Boyfriends. But I said no."
"What time is it?"
"It's 7:30. Go back to sleep. Now."
As they both turned over and began to go back to sleep, the phone rang once again. Lorelai quickly reached over to the night stand and grabbed the phone.
"This better not be Dan."
"Lorelai?"
"What!" She practically screamed.
"Where are the reservations for the July file?"
"Michel?"
"Yes this is Michel. Who else would be calling you to find out where the reservation file for July is?"
"Somebody stupid who has no memory as to where we keep our reservations every month. Michel, we've been over this before. There in My Documents, and then click on the July folder. How many times have we been through this? That's right. Too many to count. Goodbye Michel."
Lorelai threw the phone over into the corner of the room with it making a slight crash as it hit the floor.
"What is it? Wake up Lorelai at the crack of dawn day? I think it's a sign. Get up, Luke. We're going camping!" She said non-amused.
"We don't have to leave yet."
"Get up, Luke! I'm up, so you're up. Go start the shower, I'll be there in a minute."
"This isn't like you. You'd never want to get up at 7:30, but fine."
Lorelai grabbed a change of clothes and followed Luke into the bathroom where they both took a shower. When they got out, they got dressed, and made their way down to the kitchen to grab something to eat before hitting the road.
"So, are you ready?" Luke asked.
"Yes, I guess. Let's just go before I change my mind about this whole thing."
"You're crabby this morning."
"Well, I had some annoying fellers call me this morning. Go figure."
They hit the road by 9:00. Lorelai was already fumbling through the radio and her CD's by the time they pulled out of the driveway. They spent the whole car ride talking, and listening to music. Lorelai fell asleep for a little while, and before she knew it, they were pulling into their designated camp site by 10:15. They unloaded their bags and set them on the ground with everything else. The first thing they did was set up the tent which took a lot longer than planned. Lorelai wasn't the most flexible person, you could say.
"Few! We're finally done with that!" She screeched in excitement.
"Yeah...now what?"
"I don't know. You tell me. You're the one who wanted to come here in the first place."
"I mean, we have a lot of things to do. Just what do you want to do first?"
Lorelai wiped her forehead. The sun was beaming down on a hot day for the end of June. She glanced over at her bags that had some clothes poking out, one thing being her bathing suit.
"Let's go swimming."
"I don't swim."
"Well too bad, we're going swimming."
After a few minutes of begging, Lorelai got Luke to agree to go swimming with her as long as she had to go fishing with him. They changed into their bathing suits, and took a walk over to the water.
"You should wear a bathing suit more often." She said.
"Yeah, so should you."
"Oh, now let's not get dirty."
"Believe me, I'm not trying."
As they walked up to the edge of the water, Lorelai quickly ran right it. She had been extra hot, and there was nothing stopping her. She turned to see that Luke was hesitantly placing his feet at the edge, hardly feeling any water.
"What are you doing? Get in here!"
She stood up, and began walking back towards him. She grabbed his hands and with all her strength- which was a lot, for she is very weak- pulled him into the water with her. They walked far into the water, until they were both covered with water past their chests. Lorelai threw her arms over his shoulders and began to fiercely kiss him. Pushing him backwards, they walked over to the side. She smiled through the kiss and began playing with his hands until he went underneath the water and picked her up from her hips and through her over his head, in back of her. While screaming in the air, she finally fell down and all you heard was a huge splash. When she got back up, she glared at Luke.
"You really shouldn't have done that."
After spending nearly 30 minutes together in the water, pushing eachother around, and throwing eachother across the water, they decided to head back to the camp site. They made something to eat, and sat down in their tent for a little while. The day had been early, but they were both very tired from getting up so early. They lied next to eachother in the tent on each of their sleeping bags and before you they knew it, they were both sound asleep. It hadn't been until the birds were having some type of celebration until they woke up.
"Could they be any louder?" Lorelai said, beginning to sit up and look over at Luke who was still sleeping. He looked like he was sleeping good, so Lorelai sat back down and quickly fell back asleep very close next to him without even looking at a watch.
When Lorelai got back up for a second time, she was so confused as to where she was. After taking a few minute to adjust to the scenery, she remembered exactly where she was. She glanced at Luke who was still sleeping. 'How could he still be sleeping? He can never sleep this much.' She leaned down and gave him a peck on the cheek.
"Luke." She said quietly in a singsong voice.
He began to open his eyes and look around much like Lorelai did.
"What time is it?"
"Good question, I have no idea."
She looked over at her wrist but realized she wasn't wearing her watch because she took it off before they went swimming. She grabbed her purse and took out the watch that was sitting inside of it.
"Oh my God! It's 5:00! How could we have slept so long?"
"5:00? What time did we fall asleep!"
"I don't know. We finished lunch at about 12:15. I can't believe we slept for 4 hours and 45 minutes! I feel so...left out."
"Left out from what?"
"I don't know. We're only going to be here for two day's. I feel like we just wasted so much time."
"It's okay, we still have plenty of time. Let's get up and go take a walk or something."
They got up and took a nice long walk down a private path. The scenery was beautiful. The trees, and flowers along the path were an amazing site. They walked down the path hand in hand, quietly. Not talking about anything. When Lorelai got a little sick of walking, she decided to plump down on a patch of grass and played with the uncut pieces that tickled her legs when she sat. Luke sat down next to her and began playing with the grass as well.
"So, what should we do for the rest of the night?" She asked.
"Well, I was thinking that after this, when we're ready, we could make some dinner, and then it'd be really cool if we went fishing."
"But after dinner, it'll already be getting late. And then sun's going down already. It's not going to be light out."
"It's okay. That's the cool thing about it."
"Did Luke Danes really just say cool?"
He rolled his eyes, and looked over at her. "I have a vocabulary ya know. Unlike you..."
"Hey, my vocabulary is perfectly fine."
They spent a little longer talking in the grass, and headed back to the camp site. They both changed into fresh clothes for the second time today, and Luke cooked some food on the little portable grill that he had brought along. The sun was already setting, and casting many colors in the sky and along the rims of the trees. The sky had never looked so pretty to either of them before. Before eating, they took a seat together and watched the sunset. When it had completely gone down, to their view at least, they went back to their food and stared eating.
"What time is it?"
Luke glanced over to his watch. "About 6:15."
"Boy the sun sure does set early over here. It's pretty though. I can't complain there."
"No, you can't."
As they ate there dinner, and cleaned everything up, Luke was ready to go fishing.
"Not so fast, mister."
"What?"
"S'mores."
"Lorelai..."
"No, if we're going to go fishing, I need to have a dose of something sweet."
"What, I'm not sweet enough?"
"Oh please tell me you didn't just say that."
"Luckily I was kidding."
Lorelai made an overload of s'mores and ate them all by herself. When done with those, she went back into the tent and changed into her new shirt advertising the worlds greatest fishing grandfather. Not too long afterwards, they began to walk in the pitch blackness of the night. It was almost 8, but there was not one ounce of sunlight. They walked on a small trail, and headed towards a little river with a bridge over it, much like the one in Stars Hollow. They sat down at the edge of the bridge and got all their fishing materials ready. When ready, they began waiting for fish to appear on the end of their poles. When Lorelai felt something, she made sure everybody knew.
"I think I have something!" She screamed in excitement.
"God, could you be any louder? Okay, lean in, and try to wheel it in."
"Oh not this again." As she leaned in to pull the fish in, she lost her grip and fell straight into the river and screamed in horror.
"No!!!" She yelped splashing through the somewhat freezing cold water.
Luke couldn't help but laugh. It was more than funny. It was hilarious. Seeing Lorelai bend over and casually fall into the river without any advance notice but a huge splash! He watched her squirm in the water, trying to hold onto her fishing poll but it wasn't holding her up. She tried to grasp onto the edge of the bridge, but her wet hands slipped off the edge immediately. So her next instinct was to grab Luke's leg. As she reached over him, she thought it'd be more fun to pull him in with her. So with all her might, she latched onto him and pulled him into the water with him. He fell underneath immediately and when he got up, he shot Lorelai a look of anger.
"Why did you pull me in?"
"Well...I saw you laughing at me, and I thought you were thinking that I was having a wonderful time in here, and that you'd want to join me!" She said matter-of-factly.
They acted like little kids in the water. They were throwing eachother and splashing eachother like before, and yet again, we're making out in the water as if they were a couple of teenagers. Luke put their fishing polls on the bridge and they continued messing around in the water for a while.
"So...I guess I am the worlds greatest fishing Grandfather...yeah?"
"I'd say so."
"Hey, it's not like you caught anything."
"Well, you pulled me in here. I had no time."
"What can I say? I can't stand being away from you. Is that...bad?" She said innocently.
"Not at all." He leaned in and continued their previous kissing.
It seemed like they had been in the water forever but in reality it was only for about 30 minutes, which was still long. Lorelai's teeth started clicking, and she got goose bumps all over her body. She leaned in closer to Luke and struggled to hang on to him even though he wasn't standing either.
"I'm...freezing..."
"Let's get you out of here. Ready to head back to the tent?"
"Yeah...let's go change into some warm clothes and get underneath our sleeping bags and blankets and cuddle and talk cute to eachother."
"Uh...ok."
They walked back to the tent in silence, hand in hand, enjoying the beautiful night. They didn't have too much more time alone together. Rory would be coming home in about a week, and although Lorelai was thrilled to know that she's coming home soon...she still knew that things would have to slightly change for her and Luke. When they got to the tent, they took there time and slowly got dressed into there night clothes. They had two separate sleeping bags sitting next to eachother, and Lorelai looked them over curiously.
"Hmm..." She had a mysterious face on, as if she was about to do something. "I don't like these arrangements." She pleaded.
"What?"
She ignored his question and walked over to the sleeping bags. She began unzipping them both and laying them both down on the ground as if they were blankets.
"Much better." She nodded at her well done work.
"Why didn't you want to use them as sleeping bags?"
"Because then I couldn't be close to you!" She said latching onto his arm and smiling at him.
They adjusted comfortably on the ground and laid close to eachother. Lorelai rested her head slightly against his chest, and wrapped her arms around his stomach. He lightly kissed the top her head and played with her hands a little.
"I could get used to this." She stated.
"What?"
"Sharing the bed at night...waking up with somebody next to me...living with somebody permanently." She said quietly, not breaking any contact away from him.
"I could too."
"Have you ever thought about us...and...the future?" She asked hesitantly.
He thought the idea over for a moment. Of course he had...he always did, he always would. Ever since the first day he saw Lorelai, he thought about what it'd be like to be with her...forever.
"Of course. Have you?"
"Yeah...well Sookie and I were talking about it today so it was sort of on my mind...but I told her that there was no need to rush things...because I'll always be here for you, and you'll...always be here for...me. At least I hope so..."
"I will. I'll always be here for you, Lorelai. No matter what...I promise."
"Good."
They fell asleep peacefully.
"I can't believe I'm getting married today!" Lorelai screeched.
"I know it all happend so fast. Ready?"
Lorelai walked down the isle to a shining Luke. He looked so happy. This was the moment she had always dreamed of. The moment that he always dreamed of too. It was a dream come true.
"Lorelai! Lorelai! Get up, it's 11:00!" Luke said trying to push Lorelai around to wake her.
She sat up, confused. "Luke? We were just getting married, where am I now--"
She glanced at Luke who looked at her like she was an idiot. "What do you mean we were just getting married?" He asked.
"Oh, it must have been a dream. Never mind." She tried to through the image behind her but all the could picture was the beautiful dress she was wearing in her dream. White, with a little lace in the front, and a criss-cross back. The image of Luke smiling at her when she began to walk down the isle, and the image of everybody in the crowd smiling, and ooing, and awwing.
"Huh." She said quietly to herself as she began to look for some clothes through her bags.
Luke looked over at her, "what?"
"Oh, nothing. Just thinking." She flashed him a smile, but the thoughts were still in her head. It seemed to realistic. 'It was just a dream though' she thought over in her head. 'Just a dream.'
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