"Caesar, I need to leave in about five, okay?" Luke had asked his employee to close the diner that night so he could take Lorelai out on their first date. Just thinking of it made a smile creep to Luke's face.

Luke couldn't believe that it was finally happening. After all these years, all those stolen moments, missed chances and almost (or not in his case) marriages, they were finally a couple. He paused from his job for a moment to reflect on the events of the summer, and how they changed his life forever. His grin widened when he thought of that first night at the Dragonfly Inn's test run.

Luke : I thought we were on track, and now you're standing there looking at me like I'm crazy.
Lorelai : I'm not looking at you like you're crazy!
Luke : You know the last time I bought flowers for someone? Never! That's when! Very easy stat to remember!
Lorelai : I loved the flowers!
Luke : And then when I walked you home after the wedding, there was a moment. I thought there was a moment.
Lorelai : There was! There was a moment.

When Lorelai said that he knew this was the moment. He also knew if he didn't seize it, it might be gone forever. He looked in her eyes and stepped forward.

Lorelai: What are you doing?

Luke just looked deep into her eyes again. He was determined to just do it.

Luke: Will you just stand still?

And with those words he gathered her in his arms and kissed her. He had never experienced anything like it before. It was gentle, but by no means timid or lacking in passion. He couldn't believe that what had happened had just happened. They broke apart. Just then, Lorelai moved in closer to him.

Luke: What are you doing?

He repeated what Lorelai had just said.

Lorelai: Will you just stand still?

She in turn repeated what he had said. They pulled each other into their arms and kissed again, this time firmer, with more passion than the last time. Luke was in heaven. He could have gone on kissing her all night if Kirk hadn't run down the stairs naked at that precise moment. Unfortunately though, he did, and they were forced to break apart.

Luke was shaken from his reminiscing by a customer who asked for another coffee. He obliged the customer and, unintentionally, went back to his daydreaming.

Everything was so crazy after their kiss was interrupted. Lorelai had the inn, and Luke had work, so they didn't have a chance to see each other after the kiss. He'd never forget the next day when he got a call from Lorelai.

Lorelai: Yeah. I just realized that, uh, you know, when I got back last night, I was, um, a little distracted. Uh, eh.

Luke was ecstatic that she had called, and especially that she wanted to talk.

Luke: Hey, no big deal.

Lorelai: Uh, no, no, it really was a big deal. I just, um --

Luke: Seriously, you don't need to --

Lorelai: We kissed.

He remembered that grin that those two words, in the same sentence, being said by Lorelai Gilmore put on his face.

Lorelai: You and me, we kissed?

Luke: I remember.

Lorelai: And it was...unexpected.

At this point he was a little worried that maybe it was all too good to be true.

Luke: Lorelai, relax. I'm fine if you want to just forget it ever happened, really.

Lorelai: No, I don't want to forget it ever happened. It was a great kiss.

Luke: Yeah?

Lorelai: If one of us had been a frog, it would have had some seriously impressive consequences.

He had never heard Lorelai Gilmore say something that made him happier. She liked it! She didn't want to forget it!

Luke: Okay.

Lorelai: So, what do you think?

Luke: I think I'm really relieved you feel that way.

Lorelai: So you concur?

Luke: Dear God, yes.

He spent the rest of the day grinning like an idiot. He had never been happier in his life.

He remembered with a slight shutter what happened later that night. He still kicked himself sometimes for answering the phone then. Sure, he loved his sister and TJ, and really liked to help them out, but his day came crashing down when he agreed to go help with their booth at the festival for a while. He fully intended to be there for a week, but that soon turned into two, then four, until he was there for seven weeks, and he decided that it was absolutely necessary for him to come home. He decided to ask Liz for a necklace to match the earrings he had given Lorelai earlier and left for Stars Hollow.

He returned home and met up with Lorelai. They attempted another kiss, but, just his luck, a parade come barreling through and they get pulled away from each other again.

God I hate this town. He thought to himself as he remembered the previous days. It was all okay now though, because him and Lorelai were finally going on their first date. He packed up to leave, and asked Caesar to open the diner. It was an ambitious thought, but he thought he would rather not have to leave early to open the diner when he really didn't want to, and if nothing happened that night, he could just sleep in the next morning. Once everything was arranged, Luke left to pick up Lorelai.