A/n So here it is, the chapter you've all been waiting for. I hope you like it!!

Chapter 13 The perfect date

Lorelai came home from work early that day. She had the entire evening and Christmas off. In exchange of that she had to work on New Year's eve. Luke had told her to meet her at the house and told her she couldn't come to the diner. She complained but he promised her that he would be there when she came home. She entered the house and called his name. No reply. Again she called but still no reply. She walked into the living room. He wasn't there. She tried the kitchen but he wasn't there either. "Luke?" She descend the stairs. She checked their bedroom first, but he wasn't there. After that she checked the bathroom and the nursery. He was nowhere to be found. Back downstairs she noticed that the light of the answering machine was flickering. She pressed the button and heard Luke's voice.

"Lorelai, as you probably already noticed I'm not home yet. I want you to go back upstairs. There's a box under our bed. I want you to put on what's in it. I'll be there to pick you up at 5.30. Oh, and don't call me because I won't tell you what I'm up to."

She decided to try anyway. He picked up after the second ring. "Luke's"

"Luke."

"Lorelai, I told you not to call."

"But Luke I..."

"No, just do what as you where told. I'll pick you up in 50 minutes."

"But…"

"Bye Lorelai." He hang up.

She stared at the phone. He hang up on her. She couldn't believe he hang up on her. Than she remembered that there was a surprise under their bed. She went straight to their bedroom. She looked under the bed and found a big, flat box. She pulled it out and laid it onto the bed. When she opened it she was more than surprised. Their was a dress. A beautiful dress. It was the kind of dress she was searching for weeks now, not being able to find it. She wondered how Luke found it.
She took a quick shower. After that she tried on the dress. She was amazed how perfect her pregnant belly fit into the dress. It was like the dress was made especially for her. She dried her hair and found the perfect shoes matching the dress. She was just finished when the doorbell rang. She was confused when she saw it was Luke.

"Why do you ring the bell?" Than she noticed he was wearing a suit. "Wow, you look very pretty."

He watched her. His mouth fell open with amazement. "You look beautiful."

She kissed him "Thanks for the dress."

"You're welcome."

"I've been searching for a dress like this for weeks, how did you managed this?"

"That's my secret." He smiled at her.

"Luke!"

"Are you ready?"

"Yeah, just have to put my coat on and get my purse."

"Okay."

When she sat next to him in the truck she asked "Where are we going?"

"You'll see."

"Luke come on tell me."

"You know I won't."

"But..."

He turned his face to her and kissed her to shut her up. "You'll see, just be patient."

She decided to give up. She knew him well enough that he wouldn't give in anyway. She took the opportunity to tell him about her day at the inn. He listened to her talking while he drove to their destination. It took them about 45 minutes before they arrived. She looked around to see if anything looked familiar, but it didn't. He stepped out of his truck and walked to the other side to open the door for her. He took her hand and helped her out. He closed the door behind her, but held her hand in his as he did so.

When they entered the restaurant Lorelai was impressed by all the romance it showed. Luke let go of her hand and walk towards a waiter. He whispered something to him. Lorelai was still admiring the place so she didn't even noticed. Luke had to ask 2 times if she came till she realised he was talking to her. The waiter brought them towards a table. It was marked with a reservation sigh. It made her think about their first date. She thought that it seemed like an eternity ago, even though it wasn't even a year and a half. Everything had changed since than, but in a good way.

"This place is really special Luke."

"Even more special than you think." He smiled at her.

"Why?"

"This is the place where my father took my mother on their first date. It changed a lot since than, it wasn't this fancy, but the name and the location stayed the same."

"Wow." She was even more impressed now.

"Yeah."

"You know you can be very romantic sometimes?" She had a big smile on her face.

"I'm trying to once and a while." He leaned over the table to kiss her.

"I love you." She whispered when he pulled back.

"I love you too." He whispered back.

About than the waiter came. "Where you able to make a choice?"

Luke gave him a sign that he had to come closer. The waiter did and Luke whispered something in his ear. The waiter nodded and walked away.

"What did you tell him?"

"Do you even have to ask?"

"Well, yeah of course."

He shook his head in response.

"So, what have you been up to all day?" Lorelai decided to change the subject herself.

"You know, just the regular. The diner wasn't so busy today, everybody is making the final arrangements for Christmas and all. But it gave me some time to do other things."

"Like what?"

"Paperwork, that kind of stuff." It wasn't a total lie. He spend about half an hour doing paperwork in the morning.

"That's a nice day to spend your day."

"Yeah well, it has to be done."

"That's true."

"But let's not talk about work huh."

"Yeah your right, let's not."

The waiter came with a bottle that seemed to be champagne.

"Luke, you know I can't have that right?"

"This isn't the real stuff, just the apple juice with bubbles kind." The waiter left.

They talked about things different then work till the waiter came back with their food. They both had an empty plate. There where bowls filled with different sorts of meat, vegetables and potatoes. They ate and talked and ate till they both had enough.

"You want dessert?"

"Of course. Do you want dessert?" Lorelai smiled.

"Yeah."

"You ordered our drinks and our dinner which where both excellent choices whatsoever, but can I order dessert?"

"I think I can deal."

"Good." She made a sign to the waiter. "We would like to order desert."

"Okay, let me get the menu."

She stood up and whispered something to him. "I think we can do that."

"Good."

The waiter left.

"What did you ordered?"

"Ha, like I'm going to tell you mister."

He smiled at the face she made when she said it. "It was worth trying right?"

She stuck out her tongue in response.

"Lorelai please"

She leaned over the table and kissed him. "Sorry."

"Yeah right."

"Hey Luke?"

"Yeah."

"What did I do to deserve this dinner?"

"What do you mean?"

"Well al this." She made a sign with her hands. "What did I do to deserve this?"

"I just want to spend Christmas with my girlfriend in a way I know she loves."

"But what did I do to deserve this?"

He thought about it for a while and answered "You fell in love with me."

"Good answerer." She leaned in to kiss him again.

"Thank you." Her head rested against his forehead.

"For what?"

"For loving me back." She kissed him again.

The waiter brought their desert about 10 minutes later. There was one big bowl of ice cream with firework in it, coming with two spoons. They gave each other bites of the ice cream. They laughed doing that.
When they finished Luke went to pay the bill. He came back and helped her up and into her coat. He took her hand in his and leaded her outside. He opened the door of his truck to her, helping her in and closing the door again. He walked around and got in himself. When they drove home she rested her head against his shoulder, dozing off.

He woke her up by kissing her forehead when they where home. She opened her eyes and whispered. "I'm sorry."

"Don't be. Come on, let's go inside."

She nodded.

They took of her coats. "Luke, do you want to go to bed?"

"No."

"Oh."

He took her hand and lead her towards the Christmas tree. They sat down together. He picked up one of the presents underneath it. "This is for you."

"Can I open my present already?"

"Just this one." He smiled.

She looked at the box. It was a big box wrapped in a Christmas paper. She lifted it towards her ear and moved it. She heard something move inside it.

"Just open it Lorelai."

And she did. She opened it and was surprised to find the box almost empty. Almost, there was a little box on the bottom. "What is this?"

He took the box from her and opened it. She whispered "Luke." She looked into his eyes.

"Lorelai, the first time I saw you I knew you where special. It wasn't hard to fall in love with you. I know it took me forever to find the courage to tell you but I did. And everything changed since that day. My life became almost perfect when we got together. And now there's only one thing to make it completely perfect and that is if you where my wife. Lorelai will you marry me?"

Her eyes where welled up with tears when she answered. "Yes, of course I want to marry you."

He slid the ring on her finger and kissed her deeply. He pulled back just enough so he could look in her eyes. "I love you so much."

"I love you too." She kissed him again.

"Hey Luke, do you mind if I call Rory to tell her?" She asked after a while.

"No of course not." He stood up and picked up the phone, dialling the number and handed her the phone.

She waited and than she picked up. "Hello."

"Rory?"

"Mom hey. How your doing."

"Pretty much perfect actually."

"Good."

"So, there's something I want to tell you."

"Yeah?"

"I'm getting married."

"Really?" Rory acted as if she didn't knew.

"Yeah. He gave me this big present but there was a small box in it. And in the box was a ring and well, he asked me if I wanted to be his wife. I'm going to marry Luke." She sounded so happy.

"Mom, that's great news!"

"I know." She waited for a while. "I wish you where here so you could see the ring."

"Yeah I know. I wish I was here to."

Luke whispered to her "It was my mothers."

"He gave me his mothers ring, and it's so pretty."

"Just send me a picture okay?"

"Yeah I will do that. Oh, what time is it there, it's probably a very weird time you have to go back asleep."

"Okay I will do that, You get some sleep yourself."

"I don't know about that." Lorelai smiled.

"Mom!"

"What?"

"Nothing, never mind. Let me talk to Luke for a while okay?"

"Okay. Bye hon."

"Bye mom."

Lorelai handed the phone to Luke. "Hey Rory."

"Congratulations Luke. I'm glad your plan worked out okay."

"Thanks, me too."

"So the date went just the way you planned it?"

"Yeah, it was really perfect."

"So, do you think we can do, you know what?"

"Wait, just let me check." He stood up and walked into the kitchen so they could talk in private for a while.

Lorelai looked confused. She had no idea what he was up to now. He came back after a minute or so. "Where did you go?"

"Rory asked me to check on something."

"In the kitchen?"

"Yeah, nothing important."

"But Luke…"

"Lorelai, do you trust me?"

"Yeah."

"So if there was something wrong, trust me that I'll tell you okay?"

"Yeah."

"Good." He sat down behind her, so she could lean into his chest, his hands on her belly. He kissed her forehead.

She looked up at him and whispered: "We're getting married"

"I know" All he could do at the moment was smile.