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Luke was nervously pacing about as Lorelai giddily approached him. He could tell right away that she was a little loopy, her dazed and confused look hinted as much.

"Hiya Luke! Watcha doin here?" Lorelai shrieked in a high-pitched tone.

"Why does everyone keep asking me that? Is it so out of character for me to partake in a town activity?" Luke sounded slightly annoyed, not so out of character.

"Well duh!" Lorelai responded sarcastically. Sarcasm was her forte both drunk and sober.

"What is that supposed to mean?" Now Luke sounded offended.

"It means…well, it just means that…Luke, why are you really here?" Lorelai abruptly changed the subject. "You and I both know how ridiculous your previous statement was, and I'm half drunk!" She laughed at herself. "So tell me honestly Luke, why are you here?" Lorelai forced herself to be serious for a moment.

Luke sensed that their conversation had taken a serious turn and grew increasingly nervous as a result, although Lorelai always made Luke nervous. "I uh…well I, I had this dream." There, I finally said it, he thought proudly to himself.

"You had this dream," Lorelai echoed. "And?"

"And…you were in it."

"And I was in it." Lorelai was surprised, yet intrigued. "And?"

Luke didn't exactly know how to reveal the events of his dream. He decided it would be easiest to get right to the point. "And…you told me not to get engaged." Luke breathed a sigh of relief as he waited in anticipation of Lorelai's response.

"When did you have this dream?" Lorelai seemed almost un-phased by Luke's revelation. Had she not heard him? Luke was amazed by her reaction.

"Right after the graduation ceremony. I barely finished closing the diner and I fell right asleep." Luke was now speaking with greater comfort and ease. It wasn't as hard as he thought it would be.

"I told you not to get engaged?" Lorelai's brain was just now receiving the message. "Engaged to whom?" now she was playing dumb; or was it the alcohol. Yes undoubtedly the alcohol.

"Who do you think?" Luke replied in an exasperated tone.

"Well I don't know that's why I asked!" returned Lorelai, equally exasperated.

"Oh for Pete's sake Lorelai! It's Nicole! You know, the woman I've been seeing for the past few months, or did that just slip your mind?"

"Simmer down big guy - it was a dream. You could have been dating The Pope for god's sake!"

"Aw geez! You really know how to twist something with that twisted mind of yours, don't you?"

"Luke, will you just get on with it already?!" Lorelai was growing impatient. "So I told you not to get engaged to Nicole," she emphasized her name. "Now why would I do a thing like that?"

Luke had to think for a moment. He knew the answer he wanted to hear, but he wouldn't dare say it. "Well, I don't know why you would do that, or what it means exactly. I was hoping that maybe you could help me out with that one."

"Lorelai was taken aback by Luke's forwardness. "Um, I guess it means that I don't want you to marry Nicole," Lorelai explained simplistically.

To be continued Aren't cliffhangers great?! Please R/R 