Title: „The Right Moment"
Pairing: Lorelai/Luke
Disclaimer: I do not own any of these characters. Just borrow them for my story.
A/N/: Set in episode „The Damn Donna Reed". What if things would have gone different?
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It was late in the evening when Lorelai was with Luke at the Diner, showing him some color examples for his walls.
Luke had no idea how it came to this, but somehow she persuaded him to renovate his lovely Diner. The same Diner which wasn't painted since his Dad was alive. But now he had to get through this, he thought sighing.
Standing behind the counter, he watched Lorelai gesturing with her hands while she told him what colors would be great for the walls, the edgings around the doors and windows.
"Come on, Luke. Don't look like this. It's going to be fun." Lorelai offered him a grin.
Luke raised an eyebrow, "Why do you like painting that much?"
"Everybody likes painting."
"It's work. I'm sure not everybody likes painting." He said, wiping the counter.
"Don't argue with me, Mister. You already said yes." She told him, with her hands on her hips.
"I'm not sure why." He mumbled.
"What?"
"Nothing."
"Good because I spent hours to look for some colors. I flipped through all of my magazines and believe me, I have lots of magazines."
"I remember that." He stopped wiping and looked at her. "You're really serious about this, are you?"
"Sure. Imagine, everything's going to be new." She gestured around. "Nothing against the current colors but it's time for a change."
Luke walked around the counter to one of the walls, "You know, I haven't painted the Diner since my father was alive. I didn't change anything."
"I know. The hardware sign outside." she smiled.
"Yep, for example. Somewhere behind the counter, he wrote down an order because he ran out of paper."
"Really?" Lorelai got up and walked behind the counter, "Oh, here." She sat down on the floor and Luke joined her."
"I've seen it from time to time." He looked at the spot and back to Lorelai.
"Well…" she laughed, "…then we should not spruce this particular spot."
"Sounds good." he smiled.
"Okay." She smiled back at him when they suddenly heard noises from outside.
Luke was about to get up but Lorelai grabbed his shirt and held him down, telling him they'll go away if they see that nobody was there.
Taylor was standing outside with a couple of people, knocking on the door and window and peeking through the blinds.
"Unbelievable." Luke muttered.
"Sssh." Lorelai peeked around the counter, looking if they were still there. After a few more knocks they gave up and left.
Luke knelt beside her, "Gone?"
"Gone!" Lorelai turned to look at him and noticed how close he was.
"Thanks." He whispered.
"You're welcome." She looked into his eyes, a slow smile forming on her lips.
There he was, not more than a few inches away from the most beautiful woman on earth. He loved everything on her. Her fascinating blue eyes, her beautiful smile, her dark long curly hair, her sweet scent. Then it happened, he didn't know why but this was all he could think about in this moment. He leant in and met her lips in a gentle kiss.
Lorelai didn't know what to think. It felt good somehow but she pulled apart to look at him, "What was that?" she asked, a little out of breath.
"I'm not sure." He swallowed, still looking at her.
Slowly they moved closer for a second kiss, when the phone rang and they jumped apart, "Jesus Christ…" Luke muttered and got up to grab the phone, "Yeah?"
"Huh, I knew it."
"Who's there?" Luke asked, frowning.
"Taylor ."
Luke retorted upset, "What do you want?"
"This my friend, I tried to tell you a minute ago but you didn't let me in."
"It's closed, Taylor . You should be able to read the sign."
"But you're still there."
"And?"
"You could have opened when I knocked."
"But I didn't want to." Luke prompted angrily.
"That's not very polite, Luke."
"Who cares."
"We were there for an interview." Taylor told him, matter of factly.
"Excuse me?"
"You'll be on the front cover of the Stars Hollow Press. Renovating the Diner is the event of the year. Everybody has the right to be informed."
"I don't want to be on the front cover, Taylor." Luke said and looked at Lorelai who got up and grabbed her light blue winter jacket from one of the tables.
She slipped into her jacket and headed towards the door. All she wanted was to get out of here because she was confused. Confused about what happened minutes ago. She left the Diner without a word and didn't even hear Luke calling after her.
"Lorelai… wait."
"Are you listening to me? We're not finished here." Taylor said on the other side of the line.
"I think we are." He ended the call and hurried after her, but all he could see was her rear lights of the car, disappearing into the night….
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So, this is my first try in writing a Gilmore Girls story. So please tell me what you think... should I write more??? I promise the next chapter would be longer...lol :)