"Luke, which do you think I should wear tonight" Lorelai asked as she walked into the kitchen holding up two tops "The one with "Naughty Boy. Go To My Room." Which personally is my favorite or "I'm So Great - I'm Jealous of Myself"?"
Luke turned his attention away from what he was doing to where Lorelai was standing. He looked at what she was holding up "Lorelai you can't wear those!"
"You're right I'll wear "I want to be just like Barbie That BITCH Has Everything!" shirt. It's much better. The foul langue will really tick Emily off."
"Lorelai you're not wearing one of those, your mother will flip"
"Exactly. Look I wear crazy shirts all the time, and sometimes you even laugh at them and tonight is about them coming here and accepting us for the way we are… rude shirt and all"
"Lorelai please I'm trying to cook. I just want this meal to be perfect okay and I can't do that with all your talk about t-shirts when I know you'll end up doing the right thing and wear a dress and you're just doing it to make me mad" Luke yelled a little louder than he had intended
"Wow someone's underwear is wedged far too high today," Lorelai pouted before leaving the kitchen
Luke sighed, finished chopping the carrot then walked out of the kitchen and up to their room. When he walked in, Lorelai had her back to the door sorting through a draw.
"Lorelai" Luke said quietly but Lorelai didn't turn around. Luke walked over to her and placed his hands on her shoulders. "Lorelai, I'm sorry" He turned her around to face him "You know I love your crazy shirts"
Lorelai looked at him and smiled "Okay which one should I wear tonight?"
Luke rolled his eyes "After your parents leave, you can wear any one you like" Luke hugged her "I didn't mean to snap at you"
"It's okay. I know this is important to you but you don't need to get yourself so stressed about it"
"I just want this to go well… I don't want them to find anything wrong with the meal"
"Luke your food is amazing, it always is and I'm sure they'll like it."
"I just don't… I don't want them to have another reason to hate me"
Lorelai pulled him into a hug "Oh Hun, I'm so sorry. I'm sorry they've made you feel like this. Maybe we should forget it. We can still call them now and stop the madness. Personally I don't care if they come or not"
"We're not going to cancel. It's going to be fine. I just need to get in the kitchen and concentrate on the food okay"
Lorelai kissed him "Okay but can I at least watch you cook?"
"Why would you want to sit and watch me cook?"
"Cause you're so cute when you get all determined and concentrate-y"
Luke sighed, "Haven't you got anything else to do? What about setting the places at the table I set up for you in the living room. You made me move all the furniture around so we could put the table in there."
"I guess I could… so should I give my dad Farrah or Jaclyn?"
"What?"
"Plates Luke. Which Angel do you think my father would like to eat off?"
"Lorelai."
"Fine but they're the only set of plates we have where we have five that match. It's never mattered with just Rory and I before"
"Okay well how about you go to Sookie's now and pick up the table coverings she's going to lend you and see if she has some plates that all match and don't have women staring back at you on them"
"Fine.. But I know you're just doing it to get me out of the house"
"Come on" Luke took her hand and walked down the stairs. "Look if Sookie doesn't have any you can get some from the diner"
"Oh good idea. I think I like the diner ones better."
"How do you know, you haven't seen Sookie's?"
"Because if I go to the diner I can get coffee and some pie"
"But you're going to Sookie's anyway and she'll feed you"
"Yes but this was I get two lots" Lorelai smiled proudly before kissing Luke "Bye"
Luke walked back into the kitchen while Lorelai grabbed her jacket and walked outside. "Hey Mom" Rory smiled as she walked up the porch "Hey babe"
"Where are you going?"
"Luke kicked me out of the house so I'm going to Sookie's to pick up a few things. Want to join me?"
"Yeah okay" The girls began walking across the yard "Why did Luke kick you out? Were you being annoying?"
Lorelai gasped "What?… me?... annoying?… maybe a little" Lorelai laughed "He just looked so stressed about everything and he'd been in the kitchen for hours making sure everything's prefect so I tried to make him laugh and it kind of backfired"
"You didn't pretend you were cutting a tomato and you sliced your finger open again did you"
"No… Luke really freaked last time. Geez he should known by now that I would never eat tomatoes, they're healthy gross food"
"So what did you do?"
"I brought out one of my fashion favs to wear tonight."
"Not the penis shirt?"
"No I'm saving that for Christmas. I wanted to wear my Barbie shirt"
Rory nodded "Pink, sparkly and rude.. I can't see why not"
"That's my girl. Anyway Luke wasn't impressed, I told him to stop stressing, he's still freaked and I'm off to Aunty Sookie's to get out of his hair for a while"
"Good thing I came with you then"
"You know Luke could never get angry at you, you're an angel in his eyes"
"No it's because I don't go out of my way to deliberately make him mad"
"Yeah well..." Lorelai stopped "oh I have the best idea" she giggled excitedly
"What?"
"Not now.. I'll tell you when we get home.. I am a genius"
An hour later Lorelai and Rory returned home carrying boxes of crockery, cutlery, and coverings for the table.
"Honey we're home" Lorelai called out as the walked in the front door and placed everything on the floor then walked into the kitchen. "We got everything from Sookie including a batch of choc chip cookies"
"Which there are only 3 left." Rory added
"Hey there were two of us eating them on the way home" Lorelai walked over to Luke and kissed him "How's it going?"
"Fine... the roast is in the oven, the other vegetables are ready to be put in. The salads are made and are in the fridge, dessert goes into the over while we're eating" Luke said moving around the kitchen quickly picking up dirty plates and placing them in the sink "I just need to clean up this mess."
"It smells great Luke" Rory smiled "I'm just going to have a shower and get ready"
"Hey Hun, I'm going to set the table. You start washing the dishes, I'll set the table then I'll come help you dry"
As Lorelai turned to leave the kitchen Luke grabbed hold of her hand and pulled her to him. "Hey I'm really sorry about before, you know snapping at you."
"Hun it's forgotten don't worry about it... actually no it's not forgotten make it up to me" Lorelai smiled misgeviously at him.
Luke grinned and kissed her softly at first but soon their kisses grew more passionate. "Lorelai we have to stop" Luke panted
"Why?"
"We have a dinner to get ready, a table to set, we have to get changed"
"Oh let's go upstairs and "get changed" now" Lorelai smiled "start by taking off that shirt"
"Lorelai come on you're parents will be here in a little over an hour. Let's just get this over with first"
"Spoil sport"
Luke kissed her again before pulling away and guiding Lorelai out of the kitchen "Now go in there before I do something I regret"
Lorelai was still setting the table when Luke walked into the living room "Dishes are done"
"What?" Lorelai turned around when she realized how long it had taken her
"I did them, no big deal. Why isn't the table finished?"
"I don't know, every time I set it just doesn't look right so I start again" Lorelai shrugged "Oh well it'll have to do. I'm going to get ready, you coming"
"Not yet. I want to finish in the kitchen first before I change. I won't be long"
Lorelai ran upstairs then ran back down again and into Rory's room "Hey babe you almost done?"
"Yeah just changing my earrings"
"Can you come upstairs and help me choose an outfit please"
"Sure" As both girls climbed the stairs Lorelai began giggling
"What's up with you? You didn't put superglue on grandma's chair did you?"
"No but good idea. No I'm about to tell you about the idea I had before…a little fun before the parent's arrive. You're always up for helping mommy break the "How many shades of red can Luke turn record" aren't you?"
"Depends, what did you have in mind?"