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CHAPTER 22 -... Rears It's Ugly Head

Luke stood there for a few seconds as he felt both anger and jealousy build up inside him, she wasn't kissing him or anything but just the sight of another man touching her made him want to put his fist through a wall.

"Unauthorised dancefloor on the person" a drunken Taylor slurred through his speaker phone as Luke marched across the dancefloor towards Lorelai and Jenson. Lorelai had her head on Jenson's shoulder with her eyes closed and her back towards Luke so she hadn't seen him, Jenson had seen him and was looking at him strangely wondering what on earth he was doing.

"Can I help you?" Jenson asked as Luke stopped when he reached them, he looked angry about something but he wasn't sure what. Lorelai lifted her head off his shoulder sleepily as she wondered what he was talking about.

"Luke?" she said surprised.

The whole gym had turned around to stare at the three of them as they stood in the middle of the dance floor, even Taylor had stopped shouting.

"Can I cut in?" he said as he took his eyes off Lorelai and turned to Jenson.

"Um not really, or else we would lose the contest" Jenson answered for her.

"You told me you didn't wanna dance Luke" Lorelai said frowning at him.

"Yeah well I changed my mind didn't I"

"It's a bit late now" Jenson interrupted. 'Who did this guy think he was?' they both thought simultaneously as they glared at each other.

"Hey, mind your own business!" Luke said loudly not even looking at Jenson.

"We only have like five more hours Luke!" she said getting annoyed because Luke was mad at her.

"So another five hours of watching my girlfriend drape all over some guy as he touches her up?" Luke said getting madder. There were gasps heard throughout the gym as everyone started whispering.

"Girlfriend?" Jenson said in realization as he looked between Lorelai and Luke.

Lorelai stared back at him frowning, she hadn't wanted the town to find out this way and she was mad at Luke for saying all that stuff, I have not been draping myself! She thought angrily.

"I'm leaving" she said as she brushed past Luke and walked out of the hall as he just watched her.

"Lorelai" he shouted after her but she ignored him and kept walking.

Jenson watched her leave and watched as Luke stood there, making no attempt to go after her so he ran out of the gym after her and caught up within seconds.

"I'm sorry about that" she said as they walked swiftly out of the town hall and through the town square.

"You have nothing to be sorry about, c'mon sit down" he said as they walked up the gazebo steps and sat down.

"Are you okay?" Jenson said, not really knowing what else to say but wanting to end the silence.

"Not really, didn't you just see what happened in there" she said as she put in her head in her hands. Now the whole town knew about her and Luke, and that they were fighting and now she wouldn't hear the end of it she thought. It was mostly what Luke had said to her that had upset her though, how could he think that?

"It'll be fine, everything will be forgotten by next week"

"Oh you are so innocent to this towns ways my friend, they're like a herd of elephants"

"What?" he said confused.

"They never forget"

"Oh okay" he said smiling at her.

"I had no idea that the diner guy Luke was your boyfriend"

"Nobody did, we were kinda keeping it a secret from the town for a bit"

"It worked"

"Yeah guess so" she said not really feeling like talking.

"He shouldn't have spoken to you like that"

"Yeah maybe... but I guess I would have been mad if it was him with another women" she said quietly.

"Maybe, but you wouldn't have been a jerk about it" Jenson said a bit more harshly than he had meant to.

"Lorelai" Luke called out as he walked up the gazebo steps towards them.

"What?" she turned and looked at him with a sad frown on her face.

"We need to talk"

"Just leave it for tonight man" Jenson said as he stood up from the seat and stood between Luke and Lorelai. Luke clenched his fists, 'Who the hell died and made this guy king?' Luke thought getting madder every second he stood there blocking his way.

"This is none of your damn business so why don't you just go home"

"I'm fine here" he shot back.

"Jenson" Lorelai said calmly as she watched the two of them.

"I dunno how you managed to get Lorelai as your girlfriend but if you wanna keep her you should really treat her better" Jenson said ignoring Lorelai.

"Okay you so need to get out of my face" Luke said through gritted teeth as he and Jenson squared up to each other, Jenson was a bit taller than Luke but by no significant amount.

"Hey I'm right here" Lorelai shouted.

"Lorelai, c'mon lets go somewhere and talk" Luke said looking past Jenson.

Jenson moved in front of Luke again, blocking his view of Lorelai. Luke couldn't take it anymore, he turned to go but instead he swung around fast and punched Jenson square in the jaw. Jenson stumbled back and hung his head, touching his lip and looking at the blood on his fingers, he ran at Luke and they went charging down the Gazebo steps backwards on to the pavement below.

By this time the town had emerged from the dance hall to see what was going outside.

"GO LUKE SWEETIE!!" Babette shouted with a raised fist as she ran to get closer so she could see more, Miss Patty was close behind her.

Luke and Jenson continued to wrestle on the grass in the middle of the town square until Andrew and Lorelai pulled them apart, ignoring the shouts and cheers from the background, mostly in favour of Luke.

They both separated and got up off the ground, they attempted to fix themselves up, clearly embarrassed that the whole town was standing watching them. Luke had a bloody nose and tried to wipe it on his flannel but it wasn't stopping the blood.

"Here" Lorelai said as she got some tissues from her bag and handed them to him.

"Thanks" he said as he tried to catch her gaze but she ignored his stare and looked away. There were a crowd of people around them, whispering and staring at the three of them. Lorelai turned and walked through the crowd, wanting to get home as soon as possible, hating the feeling she had inside as she turned her back on Luke and walked away.

Luke watched her leave, his face in despair at everything that had happened that night, how had he let himself get so out of control? 'I trust her... don't I?' he asked himself. He did the same as Lorelai and swiftly exited the scene, ignoring the shouts of town's people and disapproving looks.

Luke reached his apartment a few minutes later when the phone started to ring, he grabbed it quickly hoping that it was Lorelai calling although inside he knew that it wouldn't be, she wouldn't even be home yet.

"Hello"

"Hi"

"Liz?"

"Yeah it's me Luke, I need your help"

"What've you done now?" Luke said impatiently.

"TJ and I were in a car accident"

"God Liz, are you okay? What happened?"

"We'll be fine, but we broke an arm and a leg each and TJ's hurt his neck"

"Dammit Liz"

"I know it's bad, and we both can't really do anything for a few weeks until we're back on track but we really need some help with the renaissance fair or we won't be able to pay rent and..."

"I'll be there"

"Thanks Luke, you're the best big brother a girl could ask for"

"I'll be in Maine by early tomorrow"

"Okay, bye Luke and thanks"

"Bye" Luke said hanging up the phone.

'Great!' Luke thought sarcastically as he hung up the phone, he didn't really want to go to Maine but he knew that this was important to his sister, and family is family after all he thought.

7am – The Next Day

Luke stood outside Lorelai's house, he had his truck packed and ready to go to Maine but he couldn't leave without saying something to Lorelai.

He walked up to the door and slipped the note he had written through the letter box and walked back to his truck, taking a last look back at the house before he drove off.

Lorelai had just awoken to the sound of a car outside and got up to see who was there, wondering if Rory had come back to visit, although it was highly unlikely since she had just left. She looked out the window and saw Luke walking back to his truck, why didn't he knock? She wondered. She walked down the stairs to the front door, she opened it in time to see Luke's truck turning the corner at the bottom of the street.

She noticed the envelope on the floor, she looked at it curiously before picking it up to read it.

I'm not sure how everything went so wrong last night, I didn't mean to get angry at you the way I did. I'm on my way to Maine to see Liz, I'm not sure when I'll be back, I'll call you.

Luke

Lorelai stared at the letter for a few minutes after reading it, he had left... Luke had left and she didn't know when she was going to see him again.

She picked up the phone and dialled the first number of the person who would understand.

"Rory"

"Mom?"

"Luke's left"

"What?" Rory said surprised.

"We had a fight, well he got mad at the dance marathon because of Jenson and then I walked out and then Jenson followed and then Luke came and they got in a fight and Luke's gone" Lorelai rambled.

"When? Where?"

"Maine, he left me a note this morning"

"When's he back?"

"He says he doesn't know, god Rory why did this have to get messed up"

"Mom, calm down, he'll be back and you two will work things out"

"I dunno Rory, last time we fought and he left town we didn't talk for months"

"You want me to come home?"

"No hon, I'll be okay, I gotta get ready for work anyway"

"You sure?"

"I'm sure, stay at Yale, do that crazy learning thing you love so much"

"Okay love you mom"

"Love you too hon, bye"

"Bye"

10am - The Dragonfly Inn

"Where have you been?" Lorelai enquired as Sookie walked into the kitchen.

"What?" Sookie asked surprised and confused by Lorelai's question.

"You're always in for breakfast but you weren't today"

"Yeah, I told you I wouldn't be, I had to look after Davie until Jackson finished at the greenhouse"

"Oh yeah so you did" Lorelai said suddenly remembered and feeling a little stupid.

"So you okay? That was pretty crazy last night"

"No, Luke's left"

"WHAT?" Sookie screamed.

"Okay down an octave there Charlotte Church"

"Sorry, what happened?"

"Well he left me a note this morning saying he was going to Maine and didn't know when he would be back" Lorelai said frowning.

"But Luke never leaves town"

"I know!"

"Things must be bad"

"They are, I dunno what to do Sook, I should never have gone with Jenson to the dance"

"Mmm" Sookie said.

"What?"

"Nothing?"

"Okay Rory did the same thing when I told her I was going, what was the 'mmm' for?"

"It did look like you and Jenson were a couple last night the way you were dancing so close and smiling and laughing a lot, I wouldn't have blamed Luke for being jealous and getting upset"

"Was I that bad?" Lorelai said sitting down with a frown.

"You're his daisy Lorelai, he has been waiting to be with you for years and he's scared, and you acting like that right in front of him probably scared him"

"God Sookie, I'm so stupid" Lorelai said hitting herself on the head.

"It'll be fine honey, you'll sort it out when he gets back"

"I hope so"

"You will, you two are like Linda and Paul Mc Cartney"

"She died"

"Yes but before she died her and Paul were perfect together"

"Yeah... I gotta start work" Lorelai said nonchalantly as she walked out of the kitchen in a trance as she thought about Luke and what he was doing at that moment. He had been gone only a few hours but already she missed him, she couldn't talk to him, she couldn't see him and she didn't know when she would hear from him again. She took out his note again and read over again trying to find some hidden meaning. 'Is this the end of us' she wondered.