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Chapter 4
Slowly they pulled apart. Lorelai opened her eyes to look at him, seeing a smile on his face.
"Totally deja-vu!" she finally spoke, a little out of breathe.
"Yeah!" Luke's eyes were still focused on her.
"And you did it again." She tilted her head, smiling.
"I'm so sorry." Luke's lips curved.
"You don't have to. It was nice."
"Nice again, huh?"
"Yeah, okay. Maybe it was more than nice."
"More than nice?" Luke echoed, grinning.
"No, let's say it was amazing." She smiled and bit her lower lip.
"Sounds good." He covered her hand with his, turned it over and ran his fingers down the center of her palm while he watched her face.
"I… I thought that…" she looked down at their hands and felt her pulse rising again. "Do you think uh… I mean, do you think this is right?"
"What do you mean?"
"This. You and I."
"We'll never know if we won't try it." Luke's mouth formed a smile.
"Maybe."
"Do you want to give it a try? I mean, give us a try?" Luke asked, carefully.
God, I'll melt if he's going to look at me like this any loner , she thought and took in a breath.
"Luke...it's just... you're my coffee man, you feed me. What will happen if it doesn't work out?" Lorelai looked at him.
"Lorelai... don't..."
"Listen, I'm afraid. Our friendship means so much to me... and Rory. I don't want to lose that. I don't want to lose you!"
"I don't want to lose you either but it doesn't change the fact that I..." Luke stopped and looked down.
"What?"
"That I have feelings for you." He acknowledged, hesitantly.
She smiled and looked down, "Oh really?"
"Yeah..." he nodded, slightly.
She looked up again and fixed her eyes on his. There was something on him that made her heart twist. The way he looked at her. With his bright blue eyes, his scruffy face and that smile, he was giving her. And only her.
"When do you want to do the paint session?" she asked, trying to change the subject.
"Uhm, I don't know. When do you have time?"
"Always." She said, smiling. "Except Friday night." She added.
"Yeah, I know."
"Did you chose a color so far?" she walked to the counter to get more coffee.
"I think I'll take those two colors you suggested yesterday." Luke's eyes stayed on her while she filled her mug with coffee again.
"Really?" she turned round and leaned against the counter. "But it's your Diner. You should use the colors you like."
"But I like them."
"Well then." She smiled, nervously. There was an awkward silence between them. "I think I should go now."
"I could fix us something to eat. A Burger or a sandwich. You want something?" he rose from his seat and walked towards her.
"No, I better go." She took her jacket and slipped into it.
"Okay. I'm glad you came."
"Yeah, I bet!" Lorelai grinned and walked to the door.
"Do I see you tomorrow?"
"Sure. You know I need my coffee!" she gave him a small smile.
"I heard about that."
"Good." With her hand on the door knob, she looked at him.
Hesitantly, Luke bent down and gave her a small kiss. "'Night."
"Bye!" she said and left the Diner to get into her car.
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It was after ten when Lorelai arrived home. Rory sat in the living room, studying for school.
"Hey hun." Lorelai started and fell onto the couch beside her.
"Hi Mum."
"Can I have this?" she pointed at the piece of pizza on the table.
"Sure." Rory settled back onto the couch and watched Lorelai. "You didn't eat at Luke's?"
"Nope!" Lorelai answered shortly and bit into the pizza.
"Uh-huh. Well, you look happy. What happened?" Rory crossed her arms over her chest, her eyes still settled at her Mum.
"Mummy is hungry. So be a nice kid and let Mummy eat."
"Mummy could have eaten at Luke's. And now I'm wondering, why didn't she?"
Lorelai shrugged and made another bite.
"C'mon. Tell me." Rory pleaded.
"Well, we kissed again." She thought of Luke's soft and warm lips against hers and smiled.
"Really?"
Lorelai nodded, smiling.
"And what does that mean?"
"What?"
"The kiss. What does that mean? Do you want to be with him?" Rory asked, curiously.
"I... I don't know. Yeah, maybe." Lorelai smiled.
"What did Luke say?"
"He said we should give it a try."
"Wow. Mum, I don't know what to say."
"Neither do I. I just can say that our kiss was amazing and the way he looked at me..." Lorelai said, looking at her daughter.
"You're blushing." Rory giggled.
"No, I'm not... I'm just saying that..." Suddenly the phone rang and Lorelai stopped. "Can you pick up the phone? Mummy is eating."
Rory rolled her eyes but got up, when the answering machine went on.
"Lorelai, this is your mother. Pick up the phone if you're at home." Emily started.
"No no, don't!" Lorelai shook her head 'no'.
"But..."
"Don't. This will ruin my mood. I know it will." Lorelai looked at her daughter, pleading.
"Okay..."
"It's late, so why you're not at home? You have a job, you can't stay up that late, Lorelai." Emily continued.
"God. How old am I? Twelve?" Lorelai gave Rory an annoyed look.
"Anyway, call me back. But not today. Your father and I are going to bed now. Call me tomorrow morning." Emily finished and ended the call.
"What if it was something important?" Rory asked.
"Oh, please." Lorelai got up and headed towards the stairs.
"But you'll call her back tomorrow, will you?" Rory said, walking after her.
"Yeah...." Lorelai said, sighing.
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Next morning...
"You sure, you want to go to Luke's?" Lorelai asked Rory the next morning on their way to the Diner.
"Yes."
"Because we could do something different today. It's been a long time we were at 'Al's Pancake World'. she reminded her.
"If you don't want to go to Luke, just say something."
"No, why shouldn't I?"
"I don't know."
"See. I have no problem with that." Lorelai said, shrugging.
"Good, then let's go." Rory walked up the stairs to the Diner. Lorelai followed her. "Counter?" Rory asked.
"Yeah, why not." They sat down and waited until Luke came back from behind.
"Cesar, two chocolate pancakes and an Omelette with ham and cheese." Luke shouted over his shoulder before he turned round and saw Lorelai and Rory at the counter. "Oh, hey!" he smiled.
"Hey." Lorelai greeted him with a smile.
"Hi Luke!" Rory started, "I'll take a coffee and a Danish. And you, mum?"
Lorelai was still looking into Luke's eyes, "Uhm, what? Oh, coffee and... and... pancakes."
"Like always?" he asked and Lorelai nodded.
"Okay..." Luke filled two mugs with coffee and gave Rory a Danish. "Cesar, pancake with chocolate and cream."
Suddenly Lorelai's cell phone rang and she rolled her eyes when she saw that it was her mother, "Oh no!" She said frowning.
"You have to talk to her today, Mum. But don't forget..." Rory pointed at the 'no cell phone' sign behind Luke.
"No, it's okay." Luke told her, smiling.
"Really?"
"Yeah, sure."
"Thanks." A smile covered her face which slowly faded when she took the call, "Hey Mum."
"Lorelai, why didn't you call me back?" Emily started.
"It's past eight. I would have called you."
"I told you to call me in the morning. I'm awake for 2 hours, waiting for your call."
Lorelai pressed her fingers to her eyes, "The morning hast just begun. I still have plenty of time, you know?"
"But I haven't because we're leaving in twenty minutes."
"Leaving? Where? " Lorelai asked, catching Rory's glare.
"London. You're father insisted on visiting your grandmother." Emily told her.
"Oh, that's... that's great."
"Don't be sarcastic, Lorelai. I know it's going to be horrible because this woman is making me crazy."
"How long will you stay?"
"Sunday afternoon."
"Oh, so there's going to be no friday night dinner." Lorelai asked, happily.
"Of course not. And it makes you happy, doesn't it? Because it's so horrible eating dinner with your parents." Emily said, offended.
"No mum, I didn't say that..."
"But I know what you're thinking. Just want to let you know that there're going to be two dinners next week. You're father is calling me. I have to go now!" Emily said and ended the call.
"Uaaah..." Lorelai shoved the cell back into her purse.
"What?" Rory asked, frowning.
Lorelai took a big sip of her coffee before she started, "Your grandparents are going to London, visiting Trix. And now your grandma is upset because she doesn't want to. She accused me of being happy because there's no dinner on friday. Can you believe this?"
"How can she?" Rory tried to give her mother a shocked expression.
"And now there're two dinners next week."
"No!"
"Yes!" Lorelai said, nodding.
"Unbelievable. So, we're free on friday?" Rory.
"Yep. What shall we do? Any suggestions?" Lorelai asked Rory, when Luke gave her the plate with pancakes.
"Would you be mad if I sleep at Lane's?"
"Uhm... no... ." she looked at her plate and started to eat.
Rory turned to Luke, "Luke, are you free on friday night?"
"What?" Luke asked, while he wrote something down.
"Yes Luke, we can start painting the Diner. What do you say?" Lorelai started.
Hesitantly, Luke put his notebook away and looked at her. "Yeah, we can do that..."
"Okay. Good." Lorelai answered, smiling before she continued eating.
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To be continued...
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