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CHAPTER 10: A Scarf & a Sleepover
The next morning Lorelai woke up smiling when she remembered the night before, 'I had make-out session with Luke' she said a loud to herself, god that sounded weird she thought. She got out of bed slowly, put on her dressing gown and made her way downstairs to get some coffee before she left for the Inn, she looked in at Rory's room on her way to the kitchen. It was still hard to get used to being home alone, she was so used to having Rory around during the summer, this time last year they had went back packing around Europe. She sat at the kitchen table and wondered what Rory was doing at that moment. She couldn't wait until she got home in a week and a half.
She finished her mug quickly and went back upstairs to get ready, she wanted to get some breakfast in Luke's before work. She wore her baby blue shirt, a black knee-length skirt and her black boots, making sure to grab her black jacket and car keys before she left the house.
Lorelai entered the diner just after eight that morning, Luke had been up since six, he was usually up earlier but he had slept in a bit, he hadn't got to bed until pretty late because of Lorelai's surprise visit – not that he was complaining. He watched her enter and grinned slightly, he liked the idea that no one in town knew they were a couple, well except Sookie.
Lorelai walked up to the counter and sat down at one of the stools nearest Luke, he had already started to pour her a cup of coffee and set it down in front of her.
"Why thank you kind sir" she said before whispering over the counter,"...or should I call you Daffy Duck?"
"You could call me that but don't expect an answer" he said gruffly. "So you on your way to the Inn?" he said, attempting to change the subject.
"Yup, I have so much to do, since the opening we have been booked out which is great, but it means I have a never ending list of things to do"
"Luke what temperature is your coffee, approximately?" a voice said from a table nearby, Luke and Lorelai both turned to see Kirk looking at them both.
"What?" Luke said incredulously.
"Well would you say you serve you're tea as hot as your coffee?" Kirk asked in a serious tone like this was any normal question.
"Hold on till I measure the temperature with my portable thermometer" he said sarcastically pretending to reach into his back pocket.
"Well at least you have one handy, I bet you're glad you asked now Kirk?" Lorelai said with sarcasm as she smiled wickedly at Luke, she loved to annoy him.
"Yes I am, it's handy that you have one Luke" Kirk said, not knowing that both Luke and Lorelai had been sarcastic before. Luke looked between Lorelai and Kirk, trying to think which one had the ability to annoy him the most.
"Get out Kirk, I don't have time for this" Luke said sternly.
"Why?" It was a simple request" Kirk said indignantly.
"Yea why Luke? Don't be a meanie, I was really interested to know which one was hotter too, I was just about to ask you but Kirk swooped in first" Lorelai said.
"Aw jeez!... Kirk go next door and ask Taylor which of his ice-creams is served the coldest, whenever he lets you test every single one then I will take the temperature of my coffee" Luke said sternly, he knew that Taylor would never allow that anyway. After the easter egg hunt incident Taylor wouldn't let Kirk get anywhere near his ice-cream.
"Okay well Luke I'll be back later to find out" Kirk said as he left. Lorelai and Luke both watched him walk next door into Taylor's.
"Aw dammit, I have to get to the Inn so I'm going to miss this" Lorelai said.
"I'm sure you'll live" he said rolling his eyes.
"Yes well if you don't fill up my coffee in the next five seconds I mightn't" she said as she lifted her mug and held it out as she pouted, knowing he couldn't resist it.
"Oh you left you're scarfy thing here the other day" he said as he poured her coffee.
"Really? Which one?"
"Um... the dark one, it's up in my apartment, I'll run up and get it" he said as he walked towards the door. She raised her eyebrow as she watched him walk up the stairs, she couldn't remember any scarf but surely Luke wasn't just trying to get her alone was he? She took a sip of coffee, walked across the diner and headed upstairs after Luke.
"Lukey?" she shouted as she entered, as she walked in she saw him standing in the middle of the room.
"Hey what's with the 'scarf' story?" she asked smiling as she walked over and stood opposite him.
"Well in the diner I can't do this" he said as he gently placed one hand on the side of her face and the other behind her neck as he slowly pulled her towards him leading her lips to his. She wrapped her arms around his neck as she kissed him back. They pulled back a few minutes later, they both felt like they were in high school again and found it hard to keep their hands off each other.
"Aw and I was looking forward to getting a scarf" she said smiling at him as he rolled his eyes, her arms still wrapped loosely around his neck and his around her waist.
"Well maybe I'll buy you one someday"
"Oooh really? You could be my sugar daddy"
"I'm sure only Bill Gates would be able to be your sugar daddy and I'm still not sure if he would have enough"
"Me? Never!" she said putting on a pretend look of shock on her face as Luke raised an eyebrow at her.
"So you wanna do something tonight?" he asked.
"Like what? We could knock over a liquor store, or we could drive to Vegas and gamble, which we could finance by becoming strippers" she said, as if this was the best idea in the world. She looked at him as he looked at her sternly as he always did when she was talking crazy. "...or we could have a movie night?" she added.
"Well that's a tough choice!" he said sarcastically.
"Yea, I couldn't decided either, robbery or stripping... they are both so appealing"
"You're crazy" he said muttered.
"All the smartest people in the world have always been mistaken for crazy" she said smartly.
"Well I think it's insanity in your case" he said.
"Well either way you knew that before we started this so you can't back out now for that reason" she said poking him in the chest.
"I didn't say I was backing out" he muttered before he kissed her softly on the lips.
"I better get back down to the diner" he said suddenly realising how long they had been up there, he didn't want people getting suspicious.
"Yeah I gotta get to the Inn anyway. I could have knitted my own scarf in this time ..." she said looking at her watch. "... a nice pink and yellow one for you. You'd look so purty" she said mockingly.
"Could this be anymore embarrassing?"
"Yes it could. Aw does Lukey want his widdle scarf" she said in a baby voice before he stopped her with a soft kiss on the lips and pulled back.
"If I knew that's all it took to shut you up I wouldn't have waited so long" he said as they separated.
"Well aren't you the sweetest thang" she said in a southern accent.
They both walked towards the apartment door, they both had places to get to, although neither wanted to leave the apartment. When they had reached the door Lorelai turned and gave Luke a long lingering kiss on the, he moaned slightly when she pulled back. She noticed a bit of lips stick on his bottom lip and quickly wiped it off gently before they turned to go downstairs to the diner.
"Where were you two?" Kirk said eyeing them both suspiciously.
"None of your damn business, didn't you have to see Taylor anyway?" Luke said gruffly.
"He told me to come back here" Kirk said. Luke walked across the diner and went behind the counter as Lorelai grabbed her bag from the stool on her way past, "Okay gotta get back to the Inn, see ya later" she said as she turned and left the diner. Luke stood at the counter and stared out at her for seconds, still not fully believing that they were together.
"Luke, I am quite concerned about you" Kirk said as he looked at Luke as he watched Lorelai leave the diner.
"Why is that Kirk?" he said as he sighed heavily and looked sternly at Kirk.
"Well I was reading in a book recently.." he said before Luke interrupted him with "You can read?"
"Yes I can" Kirk said proudly. "Anyway I was reading this book about love and what it's about, how it happens, what to do and not to do you know? I have a girlfriend now so it's logical that I should be reading these types of books"
"Of course it is" Luke said growing more impatient.
"Anyway I have noticed that since you and Nicole broke up you have been looking at Lorelai ... well in a more than friendly way, well not that you didn't anyway but more now that your single and I think it's unhealthy"
"What?" Luke said, angry that people were already starting to notice his relationship with Lorelai.
"It's nothing to be ashamed of Luke, I used to like Lorelai too remember? She turned me down though so don't get your hopes up. But it was good because now I have Lulu, anyway I think the term for what you are going through is called transference, or just on the rebound. Lulu and I were talking last night about you last night..."
"You were what?" Luke said his voice louder this time, he hated to be the centre of attention and he hated the thought of Kirk talking about him.
"But I have good news, Lulu's brothers ex-girlfriends friend, Helda, she's a hypnotist, she's just off parole and she is coming to Stars Hollow in a few weeks... to help with my sleeping problem" Kirk said his voice getting quieter as he got to the last part. "Anyway she likes baseball and she's quite masculine, and you're a manly man so we thought you two might hit it off" Kirk said in a serious tone as he looked at Luke who seemed to be getting redder in the face.
"Kirk what makes you think I wanna date anyone? Certainly not some whack-job who got out of prison for god knows what, I can get my own dates, I don't need you of all people to set me up. So stop talking to Lulu about me, oh and FYI Lorelai and I are just friends, why does this crazy town think that we are anymore than that?" Luke said as he got into one of his Luke-like rants.
"Well she is a nice woman" Kirk said
"Get out Kirk" Luke muttered as he walked back into the kitchen and waited a few minutes until Kirk left.
"Hey hon" Lorelai said as she walked into the kitchen of the Inn.
"Hey, you're in late" Sookie said casually.
"Yea I called by Luke's for breakfast" Lorelai said grinning.
"I'm sure that's not all you called by for" Sookie said giggling.
"God I feel like a teenager, I just get these butterflies when I see him or when he kisses me and then I sometimes don't know what to say, like c'mon me, and I don't know what to say?" Lorelai said as she took the cup of coffee that Sookie had just poured her.
"It must be love" Sookie said as she started singing, she was happy that her friend had got her act together with Luke finally.
"Woah – slow down there, we've only had one official date yet!" Lorelai said, though she had to admit to herself she had wondered whether it was love herself. She didn't even know what he was thinking about them, Luke was her boyfriend... the whole prospect was gradually getting less weird though.
"Yea and some heavy make-out sessions I bet" Sookie said.
"Hehe" Lorelai giggled when her friend said that, she couldn't help but smile when she thought about it.
"So have you two ya know?" Sookie asked curiously as she stirred.
"Have we what?" Lorelai said.
"C'mon you know what I'm talking about" Sookie said raising an eyebrow and smiling at Lorelai.
"Sookie we've only just started dating, I'm not about to jump into bed with him. I'm still getting used to just kissing him.... I have thought about it though" she said grinning mischievously.
"Last night when I was at the diner it got pretty heated, I'm not talkin' Pamela and Tommy-Lee with the car thing but just some heavy makin' out" Lorelai said.
"This is so exciting, It's so hard not to tell Jackson thought! You better tell me when you two... ya know" Sookie said raising her eyebrow.
"Well I'm sure you will read all about it on the posters I plan to put up" Lorelai said sarcastically.
"Good, so when are you two going out again?"
"Well he's coming over tonight, we are gonna have a movie night" she said just getting excited at the thought of it, then she started to get nervous after what Sookie had said to her about her and Luke and...sex. They hadn't been alone in her house yet, well unless you count when he picked her up before they went out on a date.
"Really?" Sookie asked in a suggestive manner.
"Yea – and don't even start about what I know you're thinking about. AnywayI better get back out there before Michel has a hernia or something"
"Okay see ya later".
The day went pretty slowly for Lorelai, Michel was being a pain as usual, but she didn't let that get in the way of her good mood. She actually just used it to annoy him even more, it was just so much fun to piss him off!
Later that night Luke walked up Lorelai's driveway, he had picked up a few movies for them at the store and brought some food from the diner. He was near the porch but turned when he heard Babette's voice from next door.
"Hey doll" Babette's voice said from next door.
"O Hi Babette" Luke said, a little too nervously.
"What you kids up to tonight?" Babette asked as she eyed the bag in his hands and the video boxes under his arms.
"Um... just havin' a movie night" he said.
"Really?" she said raising an eyebrow.
"Just friends" he said gruffly. He smiled into himself, he did like this secrecy thing as well.
"Okay well have fun, me and Morey are having a night in as well" she said.
"Morey I'll be right there" Babette hollered into the house.
"Ok bye then" Luke said as he walked up to Lorelai's front porch.
Lorelai had been up in her room getting ready for Luke coming over, she was nervous after her conversation with Sookie earlier, would tonight be 'the night'? She was wearing her tight jeans and a tight red t-shirt, she put her straight hair in a pony tail and looked in the mirror.
"Yea I look cute" she said as she smiled in the mirror and then looked at the clock. He was late, wow he was never late! She walked down the stairs and checked that all the snacks were ready, though she knew she would probably be the only one eating them. Well apart from the very few healthy one's she had bought for Luke when she was in Doose's earlier. She looked out the window just to check for Luke, she groaned as she saw him outside talking to Babette, it was the Dean thing all over again. They had a brief conversation and then she watched him walk up to the front door, he didn't knock immediately, he checked himself up and down and then used his free hand to fix his hair. She giggled as she watched him standing there, he looked nervous when he knocked and moved from one foot to the next. She ran over to the door and opened it smiling at him.
"You ready beauty queen?" she asked giggling
"What?" he asked a confused look on her face.
"Never mind, come in" she said moving from the doorway so that he could come in.
"You look nice" he said as he looked her up and down, he liked when she wore those tight jeans, that was a new top though because he hadn't seen it on her before.
"You too" she said as she looked at him. He was wearing his jeans and a black t-shirt which showed off his muscles and tattoo. She waited until she had closed the door and gave him a soft peck on the lips and took his hand as they walked into the living room.
"Didn't know the whole of Stars Hollow were coming to watch the movies with us" he said as he stared at the vast amount of junk food that was sitting on the coffee table.
"Hey you know my rules, no movies without a lot of junk food, it helps you appreciate the movies" she said in a serious tone.
"So that wasn't just for Charlie and the Chocolate factory then?"
"Uh no duh! You just need more than normal for that that movie!" she said as though that was the stupidest question she had ever heard in her life.
"Obviously" he said rolling his eyes.
"So what movies did you bring?" she asked as she tugged his t-shirt.
"Well I wasn't sure so I brought Forrest Gump, Saving Private Ryan and You've got Mail"
"You gotta bit of a thing for Tom Hanks?" she said grinning, "Oh Tom you're my hero" she said mockingly.
He looked at her with an impression that said shut up. "Choose" he said sternly.
"Umm Forrest Gump – I love it"
"Okay cool well I'll go and put this on a plate for you and you can set up the video" he said as he walked into the kitchen and got out a plate to put her fries and burger on and put his salad in a small bowel. He walked back into the living room and sat down just as Lorelai leaned down to put the video into the VCR. He did what most guys would do and stared at her ass in those tight jeans, he turned his head so that it was tilted so he could get a better look as he admired her from behind, he rarely got the chance to do it. She turned around quickly and he jumped on the couch as he turned his head away from her, she looked at him with a frown.
'Was he just doing what I think he was doing?' she thought to herself as she walked back to the couch, he was blushing slightly.
"Ready?" he asked and then coughed.
"Um yea" she said as she raised an eyebrow at him, she got up and turned off the lights. She went back to the sofa and sat beside him, he had his arm around the back of the sofa and she lay her head on his knee as they started to watch the movie. He moved his hand and gently stroked her stomach.
"I love this. 'My name's Forrest Gump...people call me Forrest Gump" she said in her best Forrest Gump accent.
"Don't give up your day job" he said laughing as she hit him on the arm.
"You didn't say anything about the healthy snacks I provided for you" she said as she pointed at the fruit salad container and oat bar.
"Thanks" he said as he leaned down and kissed her softly on the lips.
"You're welcome" she said smiling. "You want one?" she asked holding a candy up to him.
"Yuck no"
"But it's shaped like a banana!" she said indignantly.
"Yes but it isn't a banana, it is pure sugar, the candy companies just make candy shaped like fruit so that it doesn't seem as bad that they are actually rotting children's teeth away and securing the pensions of thousands of dentists across the world. They're saying 'hey why don't we make sweets look like fruit so that it at least looks like we want them to eat healthily' he said not taking a breath as usual when he was on his rants.
"Okay never mind the candy I think you are badly in need of a chill pill" she said as she squeezed his hand. She thought it was funny sometimes when he ranted about things, well only if it wasn't directed at her.
"Sorry" he said as he squeezed her hand back, sometimes he couldn't help but go off on a tangent about something that was so trivial it didn't really matter. They turned their heads back to the movie and sat and watched it the whole way through, not moving except when Lorelai had got them some beers from the fridge or when they were reaching for snacks.
"I love that movie" she said
"So you said"
"It's so sad at the end though, I can't believe you didn't cry!" she said as he looked at her with a look that said, 'Are you crazy?' He looked at his watch, it was 11.15pm.
"So you wanna watch another movie" she said as she sat up.
"Nah that's okay"
"Aw Tom will be heartbroken" she said as he rolled his eyes. They sat there for a few minutes as they watched the end of the credits of the movie.
"So when's Rory getting back?" he asked
"Um in 10 days, I can't wait, I'm thinking about throwing her a welcome home party what you think?"
"Well maybe you two should just do stuff, I mean I know things weren't... great before she left" he said in a concerned voice.
"Mmm yeah but I think that'll all be okay. I wanna tell you something though, and you promise not to tell anyone?"
"I promise"
"Rory slept with Dean" she said.
"What?" Luke said as he jumped off the sofa.
"I'm gonna kill that kid, I always told you he was trouble didn't I? I'm gonna put his head through a wall I swear to god" Luke ranted as he walked around the coffee table. He always walked funny when he was mad, a bit like an ape she thought.
"Luke calm down, it takes two to tango ya know, Rory did it too" she said, hating to admit it to herself.
"How can you be this calm? The kid's married, I mean I knew that he still loved Rory but he's married Lorelai? Don't vows mean anything to anyone these days" he said getting really mad as he remembered how Nicole cheated on him too.
"Luke please sit down, you'll give yourself a hernia if you keep this up" she said and he looked around at her like she was crazy.
"Do you even know what causes a hernia?" he said, knowing that it wasn't simply pacing up and down.
"I dunno I saw it on ER once, Hey, do I look like a doctor?" she said getting up and walking over to him. She grabbed his shirt and tugged it trying to move him back to the couch.
"I can get to the couch myself" he said rolling his eyes.
"Really? Here's me thinking you were lost when you kept walking around the coffee table" she said sarcastically. They both sat down on the couch, she loved that Luke was so protective over Rory, he had always been a kind of father figure for Rory.
"Sorry, I just can't believe this. I mean Rory is such a good kid, and Dean, I should have stopped it"
"What are you some kinda physic now?"
"Lorelai, there's something I never told you"
"Oh my god you are a physic aren't you?" she said, he looked sternly at her.
"Lorelai" he said in a serious voice.
"Okay I'm listening" she said.
"The night before Dean's wedding, he was out on his stag night and his friends and him were all pretty drunk, they all came into the diner and Dean could barely stand so I brought him up to my apartment, and he kept saying all this stuff about Rory"
"What did he say?"
"All sorts, he asked me why she didn't love him and he said she was the one for him, that she was so smart and then something about having pretty hair? I don't remember exactly" Luke said, he didn't know how Lorelai would take this, or if she would be mad that he didn't tell her.
"Wow" she said as she put her hands over her face, "Why didn't you tell me this before? Is that why you didn't want us going to the wedding?" she asked in disbelief.
"I looked for you but I couldn't find you and after the wedding happened I really didn't see much point, I thought maybe it was just stuff he said when he was drunk." he said, even though he knew it wasn't true, it was obvious that Dean was still crazy about Rory.
"Mm I guess, why would you marry someone you didn't love? I could never do that ... but what Dean did was wrong even if he still does love Rory" she said as she shook her head. Her eyes started welling up as she thought about it all and how stuff had been with Rory after she had found out, 'I hate you' ran through her head when she thought about it. She knew Rory hadn't meant it but it still hurt. Luke could see she was getting upset about it all, he put his arm around her for comfort as she sunk into his shoulder.
"It'll be fine don't worry about it" he said softly as he rubbed her arm.
"Sorry, I know how uncomfortable you get with this damsel in distress stuff" she said laughing slightly.
"It's different with you. I'll always be here for you Lorelai, I want you to know that" he said softly as he turned to look at her.
"I know" she said and smiled at him. He kissed her softly on the lips before pulling back from her and used his finger and gently wiped the tears from her eyes. It always shocked Lorelai at how gentle Luke could be with her but she really liked it.
"Luke?"
"Yeah?" he whispered in her ear which sent shivers up her spine.
"Would you stay tonight? I just don't wanna be alone" she asked.
"Umm sure" he said smiling at her comfortingly.