"Are you ready yet?" Luke called from downstairs

"Almost" two voices called back down

"You said that 10 minutes ago" Luke replied slightly agitated

Lorelai appeared at the top of the stairs "Calm down Hun, we won't be long"

"I just don't think we should be late"

"Oh your nervous, you're so cute" Lorelai replied in a high pitch voice before running back into the bedroom

Luke was nervous, he'd been nervous and on edge all day. He wanted to be on time, he'd never been to a parent night before and he didn't want let Rory down.

Rory came down the stairs two minutes later. "Mom said she'll be a minute"

"Alright. Are you ready? Do you need anything? Want me to do anything?"

Rory shook her head. "No thanks." She grabbed her bag as Lorelai ran down the stairs. "Ok primping done. Lets roll"

The three were about to get in the car when Rory turned to Lorelai "Ah mom. I need to go inside... I've um forgot... can you just come and..." Rory grabbed Lorelai's hand pulled her back towards the house.

"Rory what's going on?"

Rory opened the front door and whispered through clenched teeth "Max"

"What?"

"I forgot about Mr. Medina. How could I be so stupid? I mean I know you and he and... but I forgot about Luke." Rory was pacing. "I mean he's my teacher and well I see him everyday. We don't talk about what happened and it's been fine. I forgot about Luke though. I wanted him to come and... Is it like rubbing Mr. Medina's face in it if I bring Luke? Will Luke be uncomfortable?"

"Rory calm down" Lorelai said grabbing her arm like Luke had down to calm her down, they really were so much alike

"Did you ever think about this?"

"No, honestly Max didn't even enter my mind." Lorelai thought for a minute" Look it'll be okay."

"But what if.."

"Rory look it'll be fine. Max and Luke are both grown men, they'll be able to deal. And if worst comes to worse, I'll fake my own death and take the heat of you"

"Mom"

"It'll be fine" Lorelai led Rory back towards the car.

"Everything okay?" Luke asked as they got back into the car.

"Fine, just ah... making sure we had everything" Lorelai said giving Luke a look that told him she'd tell him later

"Okay let's go"

Luke stopped the car outside Chilton and the three got.

"Okay so where do we go? What now?" Luke asked as they followed Rory through the school

Lorelai grabbed his hand "Luke, relax"

"You're doing great Luke" Rory assured him. They walked a littler further into the school before Rory stopped "Well this is my locker for storing books…"

"... make-up, drugs, the inside is covered with pictures of hunky, hunky boys" Lorelai finished

Luke rolled his eyes and followed the girls through the school halls.

"This is the room where we have our Franklin meetings" Rory pointed

"Otherwise known as Paris's meltdown room" Lorelai giggled

"Are you going to do that after every room" Rory asked her mother

"Oh yeah, I've been practicing them all day"

"Okay well just so I know"

The three walked along the halls, Rory pointing out the classrooms, libraries, the cafeteria. Lorelai made new labels for everything Rory pointed out. Luke walked behind them taking everything in. They spoke to a few of Rory's teachers who all raved about her.

Rory stopped before they got to Mr. Medina's room. "Um I'm just going to go and ah… check that…. The room isn't too full" Rory said before walking into the classroom.

"Is she okay?" Luke asked "She seems a little nervous"

"Yeah well you know Rory, hates being in a room that's too crowded"

"Lorelai"

"Okay look, Rory's worried that you'll get upset or feel uncomfortable"

"What about?"

"That…" Lorelai said pointing to the room Rory went into "Is her English Lit class... taught by... Max Medina"

Luke looked at Lorelai for a second before it hit him. Luke crossed his arms "Oh"

"Yeah" Lorelai nodded and placed her hand on his arm "Rory didn't think about it until tonight and she just doesn't want you or him to feel uncomfortable about the situation"

Luke was silent for a moment "I'm fine with it really, I understand you had a life before me and I can understand why he would fall for you, he's only human" Lorelai smiled at him "But I'm with you now and I can handle that but I think maybe now would be a good time for me to visit the men's room"

"It does make you uncomfortable I'm sorry"

"No, I'm fine but I don't think I should go in there. I don't want you or Rory to feel uncomfortable"

"We don't, we're on your side 100, you've won the game, and we're your personal cheer squad"

"Lorelai I don't want you or Rory worrying about how I feel or how Max feels or what's going to happen. You need to go in there,you need to talk about Rory and you don't need to be worrying about how we're feeling or if we're about to wrestle each other."

"Luke"

"I'm fine if you go in there, you need to go. Please Lorelai, for Rory"

Lorelai thought for a moment "Are you sure?"

"I drank far too much water before I came" Luke said as he kissed Lorelai on the cheek and made his way to the bathroom

Rory walked out of the classroom as Lorelai was walking in

"Where's Luke?"

"Men's room"

"Oh okay well I talked to Mr. Medina and he's busy with other parents at the moments so we can go in look around and leave"

"Hon it's okay. I told Luke that it was Max's classroom. He's going to wait for us outside"

"Is Luke okay? Is he hurt?"

"He's fine, he understands and he didn't want us to feel under pressure. Come on let's go in"

Lorelai walked out of the classroom 20 minutes later and found Luke in the hall looking at the trophies in the display cabinet

"That one's not as shiny as yours Butch?" Lorelai giggled

Luke rolled his eyes at her "You know I hate that name"

"Sorry" Lorelai said trying to hide her laughter.

"Where's Rory?"

"She's in there with Paris who has decided that they need to talk about an article for the Franklin now" Lorelai stood there looking at Luke who didn't say anything "He was in there" Lorelai said knowing Luke wanted to ask. "But I didn't talk to him. He was busy with other parents. I nodded, smiled, gave him a little wave."

"It's okay, you can talk to him."

"I know I can, I didn't really need to talk to him. We both know Rory's perfect" Lorelai replied as she wrapped her arms around Luke's waist "Thanks so being so sweet, a lot of other guys would of gone in just to look for a fight"

"Yeah...well... I'm not like other guys"

"I know and I love you for it"

Rory giggled and whispered to herself "Not even for 5 minutes" as she saw Luke & Lorelai with their arms wrapped around each other. "Okay I've escaped from Paris should we go?"

Lorelai let go of Luke "Let's go and get some ice-cream before we go home?" Lorelai began walking back through the corridor.

Rory put her hand on Luke's arm to stop him. Luke looked at her as Rory moved closer and threw her arms around him "Thanks Luke"

"You're welcome" Luke replied looking away and blushing "Come on we'd better get to the car before Lorelai decides she's sick of waiting and goes to get ice-cream without us"

"She's done it before" Rory nodded as they walked back to the car.