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Chapter 3After work Lorelai went to Doosie's to buy some coffee. Once inside she saw Dean pile up some oranges into a pyramid. She walked over to him, "Hey Dean."
"Hi Lorelai." he greeted her with a smile.
"How's everything?"
"Good. Fine!" he glanced at the oranges.
"Taylor gave you some nice work to do, huh?"
"Yeah!" Dean shrugged, helplessly.
"Okay, I have to grab some coffee before I head back home."
"Okay! You know where you can find it, right?" Dean grinned.
"Sure. With closed eyes!" Lorelai assured him.
"Well, then!" he laughed.
She walked towards the shelves with coffee where she grabbed her favorite sort. With a smile on her face she turned around and ran into Luke.
"Luke!" she started, looking at him.
"Lorelai." Luke said and both stared at each other for a few seconds.
"What are you doing here?" she asked, nervously.
"I... I'm out of milk. You?"
"Coffee!" she told him.
"Ah." He smiled, "Lorelai, I think we..."
"I have to go now!" she interrupted him and walked back where she collided with the table of oranges. And a second later, all of them rolled through the supermarket.
"Lorelai, look what you've done!" Taylor came out from nowhere, standing now in front of Lorelai.
She just stood there, looking on the floor and back to Taylor , "That wasn't on purpose, Taylor ."
"The kids say that all the time but they think this is funny."
"It was an accident."
"I'll fix this in a minute." Dean bent down to pick them up.
"I'll help you."
"No, you don't have to."
"Really? It wouldn't be a problem, Dean." Lorelai said, avoiding Luke's gaze.
"Really!" Dean assured her with a smile.
"Okay, I'll go then."
"Yeah, bye!"
"Bye Dean!" she said and hurried out of the supermarket but Luke followed her.
"Lorelai!"
She didn't turn around when she heard him calling after her. She just headed towards her car.
"Could you wait, please?" Luke shouted, a little upset.
"Why?" she twirled around, looking at him.
"What is this all about?"
"What do you mean?"
"Your running. Yesterday, this morning and now. You're avoiding me!"
"That's not true, Luke."
"And you've shoplifted." He said, looking at the coffee in her hand.
"What? Oh, you're right!" Lorelai shifted from one foot to the other. "Funny that Taylor isn't running after me." She remarked.
"Because I've paid for you."
"Oh, okay. How much was it? Three, four bucks?" she rummaged through her purse.
He stopped her when he grabbed her hand, "Lorelai, we need to talk."
"About what?"
"You know about what."
She shook her head, "Luke, I..."
"Please. Could you come to the diner this evening? I'm closing at eight."
Hesitantly, she looked at her hands and back into his eyes.
"You'll get a cup of coffee, too." He offered her a smile.
This made her laugh, "I hope so."
"Okay, see you then."
"Yeah, bye!"
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Lorelai came home and leant against the door, closing her eyes. What a day, she thought, and not over yet. She sighed and rubbed her temples, to make the headache go away but it was in vain. She slipped out of her shoes while she walked into the kitchen.
"Hi Stella…" she bent down to the cage, "…everything's fine? Fine, great! Yeah thanks, I'm fine too."
She turned around to make some coffee, "No actually I'm not. My day was horrible. Yours not I guess, huh? Well, good good. Just checking. You know what I did yesterday? No, well, I'll tell ya. I kissed Luke. Luke! You don't know him yet, I know. You'll meet him soon, I promise. But watch out, he can be a little grumpy sometimes." she smiled to herself.
"Oh, you ask me why I kissed him? No, he kissed me, little bird. Don't try to spin that." She spoke while she looked at the coffee machine, "Yeah, he kissed me and I'm not sure how I should think about that. Did I like it or not? I'm not sure. We're friends for so long now. And… god, he wants me to come to his diner today, talking about this."
She opened the fridge and closed it again as she realized that it was empty. Then she turned to the cage again, looking at Stella. "And now look at me. I'm talking to a bird. How pathetic am I? No offence, Stella!" The little bird started to chirp loudly.
"No no, don't start. My headache is bad enough." She sighed again when the bird didn't want to be quiet again. "Yeah, it was really nice talking to you, Stella. But now I'm taking a bath."
She filled a mug full of coffee and walked upstairs into the bathroom.
Rory sat in her room with a stunned expression on her face. The door to her room was open slighty, so that she overheard Lorelai's conversation with Stella. Now everything seemed to be so clear. Lorelai strange behaviour in the morning and how she avoided to go to Luke's for coffee. They really need to talk about this, she murmured to herself and waited for her mother to come down.
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Forty five minutes later, Lorelai came down and saw Rory sitting on the couch, reading a book. Like always.
"Hey sweetie!"
"Hey Mum." She closed her book to look at her.
"I didn't know you're home already."
"Yeah, I've been home for a while." Rory told her.
"Oh okay. I took a rather long bath so that's why I couldn't hear you probably.
"Yeah. So, where're going?"
"Me? To Luke's. Why?" Lorelai asked, clearing her throat.
"Just wondering because you're all dressed up. I thought you're going on a date or something."
"Dressed up?" she looked down on her, "I'm not dressed up!"
"Then look at you. That's not your everyday outfit."
"Not?"
Rory shook her head, "So, is there something I should know about?" Rory asked, raising an eyebrow.
"I don't know what you mean." She looked down on her feet.
"Oh, don't you? Well, then I'm going to help you a little. Hmmm, okay… you and Luke."
"What is with us?"
"Tell me."
"I don't know what…" Lorelai started.
"Muuuum, I know you kissed him yesterday." Rory pointed out.
"What? How? And hey, he kissed me. That's a big difference." Lorelai clarified with her hands on her hips.
"Is that so? Well, but you let him kiss you."
"I… I had no choice."
"Yeah, of course. He forced you." Rory grinned.
"Kind of." She commented, "But who told you about the kiss?"
"Well, you know… Stella and I don't have any secrets." She said, still grinning.
Lorelai's mouth dropped open, "You've eavesdropped!"
"Yeah, I confess!" Rory smiled, wickedly.
"You're definitely my daughter."
"I know. So, you go to Luke because?"
"He wants to talk."
"Uh-huh."
"And I'm not sure about what. I'm not even sure how i should think about this. I mean, he's my friend and everything but I didn't see this one coming. We looked at each other and then bang!"
"Bang!" Rory nodded.
"Yeah, bang." She sighed and grabbed her daughter's hands, "God Rory, what I'm supposed to do?"
"I can't tell ya what to do but take your time and think about everything. Luke will understand. I'm sure he does."
"Yeah, maybe you're right. Okay, I go now.And I won't be home late." She told her daughter and grabbed her purse.
"Okay, have fun." She called after her.
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Luke wiped the tables when Lorelai came into the diner. He looked up when he heard the bell, "Hey!"
"Hi." she said, closing the door behind her.
"I made fresh coffee in case you want a cup." He pointed to the coffee machine.
"Uh, yeah sure. Haven't reached my daily dose yet." She told him, smiling.
"Actually, this would be a good thing."
"Not for me!" she answered and walked behind the counter where she reached for a big mug and started to fill it with coffee.
"I can fix you a burger if you want." He said, already standing behind her.
She jumped when she felt him so close to her that half of the coffee was spilled all over the counter. "Ah, damn it!"
"Jesus!" he sighed, "Lorelai, what's wrong with you today?"
"Uhm, nothing. Just gimme some tissues or something." She looked around.
He filled her another cup of coffee. "Take this and sit down over there."
"But…" she protested.
"I'll clean this up. Just sit down." He shoved her away.
After Luke cleaned the counter, he joined Lorelai on the table and watched her sipping her coffee.
"What?" she said when she noticed he was watching her.
"Hm?"
"Why are you looking at me?"
"I don't look at you."
"Yes you do."
Luke looked down on this hands, "Uhm…Lorelai?"
"Yeah?"
After a minute of silence, he started, "You didn't like the kiss yesterday, did you?"
"Luke, uhm…" she put the coffee back on the table, "…it was nice."
"Nice." He echoed.
"Yeah and weird." She looked at him, seeing the disappointment in his eyes. "Luke…"
"No, it's okay. That's how you feel."
"You don't know how I feel."
"Then tell me."
"I can't because I don't know myself. I don't know how I should feel about this. I mean, it's us. You and I. Isn't it kind of weird for you, too?" Lorelai asked, carefully.
He put his hands on his baseball cap, breathing in heavily. "You wanna know how I feel about this?"
Looking at him, she nodded reluctantly.
"Okay, well… I enjoyed our kiss. I really enjoyed this because I dreamt about this for so long. And then when I was so close to you yesterday and looked into your beautiful eyes, I… all I wanted to do was kiss you. That was all I could think about in this moment and then it really happened. It was like... like I was not myself and I couldn't control my body anymore. But I do not regret it." he said, looking at her.
"Luke…"
"Oh God, I can't believe I told you this. You probably think I'm crazy."
"No, I do not." She studied him for a while, "Fact is, I've enjoyed our kiss, too. And that's the problem."
"You've enjoyed it, too?" he asked, smiling.
"Yeah…" she looked into his eyes and noticed how beautiful they are. Stay focused, she thought. "…and I don't understand…" Luke leant forward to her, "…why you're making me nervous because..." they moved closer, their lips nearly touching, "…because that's not supposed to happen… and..." her voice just above a whisper and her gaze still focused on him. And then it happened. Luke found her mouth and kissed her again. He felt the shudder running through her and lifted his hand to touch her cheek, softly. Both of their hearts were beating wildly and neither of them wanted to pull apart. They got lost into each other and the worries of the day slid away…
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