Authors Note: Sorry for the long update! I didn't write this till just recently. Part of me wants to delete this chapter, but the other part just says keep it, so I'm keeping it for you. This is the end, I'm pretty sure. I want to start posting another story I have. (LL of course)

Thanks to all the great feedback I've gotten from you guys! Really, you're awesome! Keep doin it, I love you for it!!

For the people who realized that I'm bad with math...well, yeah, kudos. Haha, I didn't mean to write that he gave her 15 cents, but...what can I say! So I tried to cover it up in this chapter!

Read the rest of my authors note at the end of the chapter. Thanks guys! Enjoy!

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Right when she reached the door of her car, she realized he had no idea where she lived. She began walking quickly up the stairs of the diner at the same time that Luke was going to try and catch her outside. They hit heads a little when Luke walked out of the diner and stepped onto the steps.

"Sorry." He apologized.

"It's okay. I was just coming to look for you."

"Yeah, me too. I mean, I was coming to look for you too."

"Gotcha." She smiled at him. "So, what do you need?"

"I just realized I forgot to give Rory her dime."

"Uh! You theft!"

"No really..."

"Bad math?"

"Exactly."

"Happens to the best of us."

"Yeah, well...what did you need?"

"You don't know where I live."

"No."

"And I'm not too good with directions even though its right down the street...but this is all very new to me."

"Just tell me where it is, I'm sure you have decent directions."

"Okay, go 4 trees past the first stop sign on the le--"

"Oh gosh, address?"

"Uhm..." She said thinking long and hard about it.

"You don't even know your own address?!" He asked, surprised. Little did he know, this girl didn't know too much.

"I'm sorry! It's either 426 or 246."

"Do you even know what street you live on?" He asked, almost hopeless.

"Hey, I'm not that dumb." She said, clearly offended.

"Well then...what is it?"

"Have I ever told you I have a photogenic memory?"

"Oh my..."

"My neighbor has gnomes in her front yard."

"Babette." He knew it off the bat.

"Short?"

"Yes."

"Peeks through my windows occasionally?"

"There's her alright."

"Tall husband?"

"Morey."

"Well, I'm the house to left of hers."

"After all that, I'm almost having second thoughts on coming."

"Hey, it'll be fun!" She pleaded.

"I'm kidding. I'll see you later then, okay?"

"Yeah, I'll see you later." She began heading back to her car before Luke called after her, again.

"Oh and Lorelai?"

She turned around and faced him again, "yeah?"

"It's 426."

She smiled at him and nodded her head. "I thought so."

He smiled back. "Sure you did."

"Hey!"

Not wanting to continue this 'babble', he headed back to the diner. 'This ought to be interesting.' He thought.

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"Alright, have fun. And don't call too many boys. Oh and sweetie, keep the prankings to a minimum. I don't want Subway to call me back and say they have a party platter waiting for me."

"Fine."

"And tell Lane's mom I said thanks. I uh, don't think she likes me very much."

"She's just..."

"Scary?"

"Something like that."

"Well, okay...but are you sure it's okay if I sleep out? I don't want you to be alone all night."

And even though Luke was coming over in a few hours, she didn't want to tell Rory. Not because a 'boy' is coming to the house, but just cause she's never really wanted Rory to be in her love life. Christopher was enough havoc, there didn't need to be any more.

"I'll be fine. Have fun."

"Bye, mom."

"I'll see you tomorrow morning babe."

"See ya."

Lorelai left 'Kim's Antiques' and headed back to her house. She was beginning to become familiar with the little town. There was something very unique about it. Maybe it was the fact that it constantly smelt like fresh cut grass, or maybe even because everybody seemed so close. Whatever it was, it was unique, and Lorelai loved it. She passed the diner on her way home and glanced in the window and caught Luke scrubbing the counter. She smiled when she saw him because not only with the town, but with him too, there was something unique. She had to admit it, she was completely attracted to him. But the possibilities of her seeming appealing to him were slim to none. She could tell off the bat he thought she was weird, or annoying, or something besides normal. She was though, she couldn't help it. That's just who Lorelai is.

When she got up, she straightened up the house a little bit. She thought it'd be good to through all the girlie magazines, and nail polish bottles in Rory's room where they most likely wouldn't end up going. She went upstairs and organized her room just for the hell of it. She certainly didn't expect to go up there unless she was showing him the house, which she probably would. She put on a pair of jeans and a tight low cut tee-shirt. 'What the hell.' She thought. She through her straightened hair back in a pony tail and put on some makeup. The doorbell rang as soon as she put her lip gloss down.

"Perfect timing." She said out loud as she walked down the stairs.

She opened the door, smiling largely. "Hey!" She said excitedly. She was happy to be with somebody other than Rory. Rory was great, no doubts, but it's fun to be with somebody else for a change. Plus, she liked Luke. She didn't know anybody in this town, but he seemed to be a nice one.

"Hey," he smiled at her as soon as she opened the door.

"What's in the bag?" She asked as soon as she noticed the brown bag in his hands.

"Please tell me you like burgers."

"I worship burgers."

"I figured you would. You like coffee, you like burgers, let me try one more, you like pie?"

"Love it."

"Good."

"Are you saying you brought me food, Luke?" She said batting her eye lashes.

"Yup."

"Good! I'm starving! Let's go put the movie in!"

The situated on the coach, sitting right next to each other. They opened the food, and Lorelai put the movie in, and on pause.

"What are we watching?" He asked, messing around with his salad.

"It Happened One Night."

"What happened one night?"

"No, Luke that's the name of the movie."

"Oh okay, good. Let's watch it."

"Have you never seen this?"

"Nope."

"Oh my, you're kidding. You haven't seen one of the best movies by...directed by... Frank?"

"Who's Frank?"

"Uh, only the greatest, Capra."

"Oh, guess not."

"You're telling me you've never seen the movie who's tagline is 'together for the first time!'"

"That's what I'm telling you."

"Oh man, you're serious work. Okay. Ready?"

"Ready."

"No, I mean are you really ready? This is so exciting."

"I'm really ready." He said a little aggravated.

She put on the movie and they began watching it while eating their food. When they were both done, the leaned back on the couch. Lorelai was pressed against Luke, arm to arm, but he didn't mind. Every time something exciting would happen, she'd turn to Luke and smile excitingly at him, anticipating seeing his reaction to the scene. Whenever she did this, he always knew something she loved was going to happen. He just sort of rolled his eyes at her, and continued watching, not making a comment. When the movie ended, she got up and turned off the movie and TV.

"Oh! That's such a great movie. I can't even tell you. Did you like it?"

"Yeah, it was fine."

"Fine? No, fine is used for something like...well I can't think of anything 'fine' now because I only watch the best movies. Classics. Period."

She began fanning herself with the pillow next to her. It suddenly felt like the temperature inside rose.

"It's hot in here. Are you hot?"

"Yeah, it's a little hot."

"Let's go outside for a little bit!" She said, grabbing his hand and walking him outside. She didn't that she was holding his hand. She didn't mean it in that kind of way; she just wanted to lead him outside. Sure they'd only known each other a little over a week, but still they were already friends. Where's the harm in that?

They opened the door and noticed it was raining hard. No lightning, no thunder, just clear rain.

"It's raining." He said.

"You have good observational skills."

"Let's go back in, I don't want to get wet."

"I have a swing over there, come on."

She took him over the swing and they sat down next to each other and began talking about her new house, and how she needed some repair work done. At some point, she swung her legs over his lap and smiled at him.

"Much better."

He just nodded his head back. "I'm glad."

"I wish I had that."

"Had what?"

"A stable, great, relationship. Ya know? That movie depresses me a little bit."

"Sure."

"I mean, it's not too much to ask for is it? It's just that after Rory's dad and I had our big falling out, which by the way, is still falling, I just gave up. It's like, I know I'll meet 'the right guy' sometime, but I just want it to be sooner, ya know?"

"Yeah." He wasn't big on talking about love. Not to mention was he a little flustered talking about love with Lorelai. Her feet propped up on his lap, smiling at him largely. That's one of the first things he noticed about her, how nice her smile is. Basically, just how beautiful she is.

"Are you good with love?" She asked.

"Not really."

"Yeah, me either. It sucks doesn't it?"

"We're still young."

"Thank God."

She sat up and leaned against Luke again, like on the couch before. For some odd reason she put her hand on his leg and looked up and smiled at him. 'What the hell am I doing?' She thought to herself. She suddenly felt so stupid, but so happy at the same time. She wanted nothing more than to kiss him, or else she'd look like an idiot, sitting there, staring at him, inches away from his face.

So she did it, and she was bold. She leaned in and kissed him hard on the lips, and the second her lips touched his, a big crash of thunder crashed. She jumped a little at the sound, but he secured his arms around her hips. And before either of them knew it, they were sitting there making out like teenagers. The strange thing was, she had no idea how he felt. He didn't seem interested, but now, him kissing her that way, he seemed real interested. If not, boy was he a good pretender.

A second crash of thunder shook the sky and they pulled away, smiling very faintly at each other. He saw the rain coming down even harder, and this time it was getting very loud.

"I should go." He practically screamed over the rain.

She shook her head in agreement. "Thank you for coming!" She screamed back. 'Now what?' She thought.

"Thanks for having me. So I'll see you later?" He asked hopefully, scared that he had come off to quickly.

"Yeah, I'll see you later. Be careful driving home."

"I will." He smiled at her and she smiled back. The same sort of smile she had when her first boyfriend, Todd, asked her out. She felt so young again.

He turned around and headed back to his car, not caring to run to avoid the rain. He watched her walk back inside, and right when he was about to get in the car, he noticed Babette standing on her front porch, smiling at him.

She screamed over the rain. "Ya sure she aint your girlfriend, darlin?"

He smiled at her and hopped in the car. When does he ever smile at Babette? Only when something big happens.

End-


"Maybe it's intuition. Some things you just don't question. Like in your eyes, I see my future in an instant, and there it goes, I think I found my best friend. I know that it might sound more than a little crazy but I believe, I knew I loved you before I met you."-Savage Garden.


Authors Note: Okay, so that's it. The reason I wanted to delete it was because I sort of rushed the chapter, but it wasn't meant to be that long. SECONDLY, I felt a little weird having them kissing so quickily. Originally, I was going to make this nothing special, not even a kiss between them, but I figured that'd be cruel. So, I just through that in. I know it sort of seems like they're already the friends they are to this day, banter, fighting, bickering, the whole 9 yards, but I guess I just pictured it that way with them. (Let's push aside the fact that Luke said he didn't like her the first year or so she moved there.)

Oh and also, I know that most of this is about Lorelai having feelings for him, instead of how we all think of it, him having feelings for her, off the bat, so that's also a little weird. Ah, I dunno, a little self conscious about this chapter!

What do you think?! Please review!

Ciao down, babes.