Ok, here it is! the next chapter! Sorry you had to wait longer than usual, but fighting with my computer, and celebrating the passed exams didnt help lol.
I want to thank once again Colleen- I know you must hate me now. I really understaind lol. You did and amazing job with checking it, as always!
Of cours BIG thank you for all the reviews! Belive me youre making me write more!
ok now maybe to answer for some things:
ProFfeSseR: Thank you for pointing it lol. I have a tendencyto eatletters, and making other bad things writting lol. so thank you, cause beeing a dislectic doesnt help.
Sanna: Of cours I knew about the "You bet"! I love that line , and thats why I used it lol
LLfreak8285: I needed to make it that way. The tension was just to big. and i really think if no one had interrupted them in R&R they might have ended in his room. I think thats why it happend after their FIRST date. And its Lorelai, cause even if Luke wants exactly the same, he would never be the dominate one in situation like that. Thats Lorelai part at that ponit.:D I hope you understaind me now?
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Go with the story. ( oh and sorry if it may be a little bit confiusing, but I really had a bad hangover writting it, and to be honest I still have one. So forgive me.)
Lorelai and Rory left their house after their little talk and now were walking down the street, straight to Luke's. Lorelai's thoughts were preoccupied with Luke and what had happened between them at her house:
There was a moment.
He kissed her.
They made out.
They almost ended up in bed.
'Yeah, definitely something' She thought.
She still could feel his lips, his gentle touch on her body, and she could still taste him. Still could see the look in his eyes, the moment before they kissed for the first time. It was overwhelming. So what if it happened in her kitchen, one of the less romantic places; it was still a magical moment. She smiled to herself at the memory.
It might seem weird or that they were rushing into this. Because just after one kiss, they almost ended in her bed if Rory hadn't interrupted them.But with Luke it just felt
'Right' she thought.
Rory turned around and saw her mother's dreamy expression. She shook her head and smirked at her.
As they approched Luke's, Lorelai looked throught the window. At the same moment Luke walked down the stairs that led to his apartment, and took his usual place behind the counter. And at the sign of him she froze and studied his expression, all of him. This mysterious smile was still present on his face. He looked both tense and relaxed at the same time. Somehow she started to feel nervous about the situation.
They will come inside as usual. He will approach them, asking what they want as he always does, and what next? Or maybe it won't be that normal? What if he ignores her? Or something slightly different: what if she can't control herself and jumps at him right after closing the door behind her? She was standing there looking straight ahead now, not caring for the world around her.
Just then she felt Rory pushing her inside to the diner.
"Don't be such a baby" Rory wispered to Lorelai, as if knowing what was running inside her mother's head.
At the same moment Luke looked up, noticing them walking in. He smiled at Lorelai.
'She came. She's not running away...' He thought.
Rory and Lorelai soon found an empty table and sat down. Lorelai was still deep in her thought when Luke walked over to them.
"Hey," he said to both of them, though his eyes were focused on Lorelai, who still hadn't looked up at him.
"Hi...again, Luke," Rory smiled at him as he blushed embarassed, knowing what Rory was thinking at that moment.
He cleared his throat.
"Uh... What can I get you?" Luke asked, taking his notepad from the back pocket of his jeans.
"I'll take a burger and chili fries, and coffee of course," Rory said, smiling at him.
"Of course," Luke replied, then looked back at Lorelai, who still hadn't said a word to him or even looked at him since they came in. "What do you want, Lorelai?" he asked casually, trying to ignore the fact that she seemed to be ignoring his presence. 'Maybe it was too good to be true? Maybe she doesn't want it after all?"
"What?" Lorelai managed to say after few seconds, and some prodding from Rory, who kicked her under the table, causing her to jump a little.
Just as Luke was about to open his mouth and ask the question once again, she came back on earth and cut him off:
"Oh yeah, right, I'll take the same the same," she replied, still looking at Rory, who was now staring wide-eyed at her mother's strange behavior.
"Ok, I'll bring coffee in a sec." Luke replied, and walked away not even trying to understand why Lorelai was acting like this, ignoring him and beeing so cold to him. He sighed and walked behind the counter to make them fresh pot of coffee.
Just as Luke left their table Lorelai kicked her daughter back.
"Ow! What was that for?" Rory asked
"You started it, you kicked me first!" Lorelai defended herself.
"Yeah I did, cause you were lost in space, not paying attention to anything."
"I was not!" Lorelai replied.
"Oh yes you were! Why are you acting like that?" Rory asked.
"What do you mean?" Lorelai hadn't realized she was ignoring all world around her.
"You're acting weird mom, What is it? You've been ignoring Luke since we walked in." Rory clarified.
"Oh no! I didn't"
"Oh yes you did. You didn't even look at him when he walked over to us. I thought you said you wanted it Mom?" Rory asked, sounding worried that her mother may have changed her mind and nothing would be the same again.
"Oh Rory of course I want this, I told you I wanted this," Lorelai replied, not understanding why Rory might think that way. She was just so overwelmed by all this.
"It just seems as if you changed your mind Mom. And I think Luke might think the same"
"Oh he doesn't. He knows I want this," Lorelai said, getting a little bit nervous about the conversation.
'What if Rory is right?' She wondered.
"Does he Mom? Does he really know? Because by the way he acted, I wouldn't be so sure."
"Of course he knows! He should know that! Oh God, what if he doesn't know?" Lorelai asked, but she didn't let Rory replied and went futher:
"I want this Rory, this is such a great feeling. It's...I can't explain this...It's just soo..." Lorelai couldn't find the right word.
"Right? " Rory offered.
"Yeah kid! It feels right," Lorelai replied, and the dreamy expression returning to her face, wiping away the look of confusion she had just few minutes before.
"I think you should talk to him Mom. He has right to know for sure how you feel about this." Rory smiled at her mother.
"Yeah, you're right honey. They will be soooooo lucky to have you at Harvard," Lorelai said proudly. Both girls laughed.
Just then, as Luke walked over to them with fresh pot of coffee and two huge mugs, Lorelai become silent again. Rory just rolled her eyes at her mother and thanked Luke for their fix.
When he walked away again she slapped her forehead().
"Ok Mom. Seriously, you have to stop this. Go and talk to him."
"But..." Lorelai pouted.
"No "buts" go, go get!"
"But what if he doesn't feel the same," Lorelai tried again.
"I'll pretend I haven't heard that, cause that would mean that my mother is more crazy than I thought, and needs medical help immediately. It's Luke, Mom! Of course he wants it. Now go! Before the nice men in white coats come to take you away," Rory said, standing up and pulling Lorelai from the chair, pushing her in the direction of the counter where Luke was talking with Ceasar.
Lorelai took a deep breath and approached them just as Ceasar walked to the storage room, leaving Luke standing with his back to Lorelai, not knowing she was looking intensely at him.
"Luke?" She called him just above the whisper, her voice shaking a little.
He turned around slowly to face her. It was clear he was nervous as well, thinking about what she might want to tell him. Scared of what she wanted them to be from now on.
Just then they eyes locked for a second, but Luke broke the contact not wanting to look for hope in her eyes.
"Can we talk?" she asked him
"Talk? About what?" Luke asked casually, as if nothing ever happend between them.
'Less than 2 hours ago we were all over each other, and now we can't even talk with each other.' She thought looking now at her hands.
"Just..can we talk? In private?" She asked hopefully.
"Well, ok," Luke sighed trying to prepare himself for everything that might come. At her house she acted as she was ok with it all, more than ok, but her action when he had walked to her and Rory's table made him think otherwise. "Ceasar is in the storage room, and Jess is still in the apartment and I think it's better he stay there than go out and do God knows what, so..."
Lorelai looked again at him, thought for a second, walked around the counter, and grabbed the sleeve of his flannel, pulling him in the direction of the stairs.
"I told you that Jess..." Luke started when they got behind the curtain and walked up the first few stairs. Suddenly Lorelai stopped and turned around to face him once again.
"I think that's the closed thing to privacy we will get," she stated. Her breathing became a little faster when she thought about the last time they were 'in private'.
"So…you wanted to talk?" Luke asked, his low voice stopping all her thoughts.
"Yeah…I just thought..." she started.
"I get it Lorelai, it's really ok" He cut her off.
"What?"
"I understand and I'm ok with it. It will be the way you want it to be"
"Luke? What are you talking about?" Lorelai questioned, confused.
"You want to forget about it. I'm ok with it, as long as you want it that way, I have to accept it," he said, sadness and disappointment clear in his voice.
Suddenly Lorelai realized he was just as overwhelmed as she was.
"Oh Luke no! No, I don't want to…"
"Yeah I know it's ok," he was on a roll, not even looking at her, not seeing the determination in her face.
"No you don't understand me!" She said firmly, stopping him.
Lorelai was standing two steps higher than Luke was, so now she her head was also higher than his.
"Luke. Look at me?" She asked and bent down a little, turning her head slightly to the right, trying to catch his gaze. Finally he looked up straight into her eyes.
"I don't want to act like nothing happened," She clarified. "I want this!" she added.
Luke was just standing there looking at her trying to process everything she said.
"I know I was acting weird out there" she continued, gesturing her head in the direction of the diner. But I do want this. It felt good, and right," she added.
Luke was in a trance, Lorelai's words running circles inside of his head.
'She want this' He tells himself a few times.
"Luke?" she asks for the third time trying to break him out of his stupor. Now she was becoming worried that she might have misunderstood him.
"Yeah?" He asked finally
"What do you wa... what do you think Luke?" She asked holding her breath.
" I think that once again I need to listen to you Lorelai Gilmore" he smiled at her.
"Oh yeah?" She let out her a deep breath.
"Definitely" Luke replied. "Somehow you're always right today"
"Really? So if I'll ask for the whole pot of coffee saying it's the healthy thing for me, I'll be right too?" She laughed, raising her eyebrow at Luke.
"Of course," he rolled his eyes, but sighed with relief that their talk was moving in a positive direction, and not the one he had expected.
"So...?" Lorelai started after few seconds, as they looked at one another, smiling
"So..?" Luke repeated after her. "Uhm... would you like to go out with me then?" He asked after a second, with hopeful look in his eyes.
"Oh! You're going to let me experience your patented Luke Danes night of romance?" She asked excited, refering to their talk from earlier that day.
"Oh Jeez"
"Oh! Juice bar followed by the batting cages?" She clapped her hands.
"Of course," Luke replied sarcastically, though he smiled to himself upon seeing her excitement. He couldn't stop this funny feeling inside of him as well.
"So when?" Lorelai asked.
"As much as I would like it as soon as possible, tomorrow maybe, I can't tonight," Luke repled. Lorelai looked at him dissapointed. "I just need to deal with a huge hole in my apartment first," he clarified.
"A hole, as in a hole?" Lorelai asked.
"Yeah I made a whole with my sledgehammer."
"Dirty!"
"Oh jeez stop. I just hit the wall, I'm expanding my apartment," Luke rolled his eyes.
"Really?"
"Yeah, I told you that I was listening to you today," they smiled again.
"OK, I think we should go back there. Your food is probably done...so..?" Luke said, his eyes never leaving hers.
"Yeah you're right," But neither of them moved. There was an awkward silence.
It was funny, not longer than 2 hours before they were all over each other. Making out like teenagers, they couldn't take their hands off of each other and now they were looking at each other not knowing how to act.
Lorelai took a step down, so they were now on the same level. After a second she came up with an idea and leaned forward to kiss his cheeck, thinking that it was the best thing she could do in this situation.
Luke thought about exact the same thing and leaned forward as well, but as fate would have itthey both chose the wrong cheek. That's how their soft lips met once again.
It was a sweet kiss, similar their first one. Lorelai's arms magnetically went around Luke's waist, as he wrapped one of his arms around her shoulder bringing her closer to him. The other one rested on her lower back.
This kiss wasn't as hungry and desperate as the kisses they shared at Lorelai's, but still there was the same passion.
Lorelai moaned at the feel of Luke's tongue on her bottom lip. She immediately opened her mouth and welcomed him with her own tongue. Their hands roamed their bodies bringing them closer to one another. After few moments they had to broke apart to cach their breath, their foreheads touching.
"Ok, I as much as I don't want to, I need to go back there, cause soon the dinner rush starts," Luke whispered.
"Yeah, you're right," finally they pulled away from their embrance, and went back to the diner.
Lorelai turned around for a second on her way back to the table, to steal a glance at Luke and ran into a small kid who had just come into the diner and was running straight to the counter.
"Oh, I'm sorry" she told him, and laughed at the 'Luke effect', she had been under since that morning.
TBC...
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