"Need… Coffee… late… brain no work no… coffee" Lorelai yelled as she rushed into the diner
"Why are you late? I woke you up hours ago?" Luke replied as he poured her a takeaway cup of coffee
"No you told me to get up hours ago then left for work, you didn't get me up. I took that as a suggestion and chose to ignore it"
"You were sitting on the edge of the bed drinking the coffee that I brought you"
"Yeah well, I fell back to sleep and you weren't there to get me up and Rory had left for school so I overslept and I was meant to be at the Inn like 10 minutes ago" Lorelai replied as she grabbed a donut from the pile and replaced the cover
"Don't do that" Luke replied as he took the donut and placed it in a bag for her "and it's not my fault you're late, I woke you up I brought you coffee. I'm not expected to walk you to the shower, wait until your done, dress you and walk you out the door"
"Yeah... well... we need to rewrite the rules I think" Lorelai took a long sip of the coffee "That's better okay I've gotta go" She leaned over and kissed him "I'll see you tonight"
"Not until late I'm closing up and you have Friday night dinner at your parent's remember"
"Wow, you'rereally mean this morning" Lorelai pouted
Luke smiled and kissed her again "I'll see you later tonight"
"Bye" Lorelai ran out the door to her car.
Lorelai ran into the Inn a few minutes later and sat down in the dining room where Sookie was waiting for her "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry"
"It's okay sweetie, I just got here myself"
"Ah stupid morning, I'm late because Luke …"
"Okay stop" Sookie interrupted her "No more stories about you and Luke and morning lateness, you're just making me jealous"
Lorelai laughed "No... I'm late because Luke didn't make sure I was really awake this morning and left me to fall back to sleep"
"Oh okay"
"So I didn't have any breakfast so I made a quick stop at the diner where I was delayed and Luke…"
Sookie put her hand up "Okay again the same rule applies"
Lorelai giggled again "No he gave me coffee and a donut and very cruelly reminded me it was Friday so I have dinner at the old folks home tonight and …that's why I'm late" Lorelai took a deep breath. "Okay so lets start this meeting"
"Alright so I was thinking we could do the Hen's party in two parts. Dinner first, very quiet, very respectable we can invite your mother."
Lorelai groaned
"You know you have to invite her because she'll find out and you have been getting along better lately"
"Yeah alright"
"Those who want to head home can butwe'llgo out and Par-teeee" Sookie screeched.
"Sounds good but I want the par-teee-ing to be wild but not too wild I want Rory there all the way"
"Of course honey, where we go, Rory goes and someone has to be sober enoughto keep you from swallowing your tongue"
"Alright then I'll let you plan the night, it's all in your hands"
"Ooh so much power" Sookie giggled. "Okay well who do you want to invite?"
Lorelai thought for a moment "You, Rory, Sookie, My mother to the dinner only, Gypsy, Babette, Patty... um... anyone who wants to attend"
"That's extremely dangerous. You know if you say that Kirk will show up"
"Good point"
"Okay anyone who can pull off wearing a skirt... wait same rule applies doesn't it"
"Oh yeah I remember that Halloween" Sookie screwed her eyes up trying to forget "We'll work it out"
Lorelai nodded "Wow very productive meeting"
"I agree"
Michel stormed into the dining room "Lorelai when you've finished talking about things that don't involve the Inn there is a phone call for you that also doesn't involve the Inn"
"Wow he's in a good mood today" Sookie commented
"Yeah only one death stare"
Lorelai left the dining room and picked up the phone from the front desk "Lorelai speaking"
"Lorelai it's your mother I'm calling about dinner tonight"
"Oh, okay... what about dinner tonight?" Lorelai hoped it was that they were cancelling it and she's got to spend the night with Rory and Luke.
"We were just wanted to make sure Luke was coming tonight"
"No mom he's not, remember we told you last week he needs to close the diner tonight"
"Oh… isn't there anyone who can cover for him for a few hours it's very important he comes tonight"
"Why?"
"Why what?"
"Why is it important that he comes tonight mom? He doesn't always come"
"I know that but he's your fiancé, he's going to be part of this family we'd like him to come tonight"
"Mom what is this about?"
"I just told you"
"Mom"
"Okay your father and I have got some very exciting news that will benefit the three of you and we'd like to tell you all together"
"Well you can tell Rory and I and we'll tell Luke. We'll do a big production word for word"
"Well it involves Luke and we'd like to tell him ourselves"
"Mom he can't make it tonight and what do you mean it involves Luke?"
"Lorelai we'll see you tonight"
"No not until you tell me what's going on?"
"We'd really rather tell you and Luke in person"
"Mom I've told you Luke is on his own in the diner tonight, there is no one to help him, no one to cover for him. He's working really hard and he can't just shut the place down at a moments notice because you decide that he's needed at dinner"
"Fine… well we'll see you and Rory tonight"
"Mom"
"Bye Lorelai"
"ARRRGH" Lorelai shouted as she hung up the phone. She picked it up again and dialled
"Luke's"
"Hey it's me"
Luke smiled into the phone "Hey what's going on?"
"I don't know but my parents are up to something"
"What?"
"My mother just called to inform me that she would like you to be at dinner tonight… more like ordered than asked but anyway when I told here you couldn't come she said she needed to talk to both of us in person, they have some big news for us about us or something like that"
"You can tell me later"
"That's what I said but she's insisted you come and she wouldn't tell me over the phone and she said it involves you Luke"
"Me, what have I done?"
"I don't know, I don't know what's going on with them but I know I'm not going to like it"
"Lorelai relax, it's probably just a wedding surprise or something. Maybe your mom's been shopping and bought us a wedding gift, or wants to book us into some fancy hotel for the honeymoon or something"
"Maybe"
"Look we can deal with that"
"Yeah you're right... she was just so cryptic"
"Don't worry about it" Luke paused "Look if you really think I should be there I can close the diner for a few hours, I mean it would give Taylor something to complain about so the night wouldn't be a huge loss"
"No it's fine. Rory and I'll go, I don't want her to think that whenever she demands something we drop everything and go running."
"Okay well call me if you need me"
"Thanks…. I love you"
"You too…bye"