Hi everyone. Sorry it took me a while to update. I didn't get much time this last week for anything. This is not my best-written story so I would really like constructive criticism if you have any. I hope you enjoy this chapter.
Disclaimer: not my characters, just my idea
Luke and Lorelai made it a daily routine to phone and check up on each other's lives. Lorelai would speak about baby Lorelai and how the nickname Rory suited her better and she would tell Luke about all the cute things she was learning to do. Luke would tell her about school, the track team and about his family and how big Jess was getting.
They spoke everyday for almost a month before they were able to see each other. Between Lorelai's parents and Luke's obligations to school and the hardware store, it made it very difficult for them to meet up.
When that day did eventually come about because of Lorelai's ability to sneak away from the maid who was set to help her while Emily was busy and Luke skipping school, they both thought that seeing each other might have been awkward but it wasn't. They spoke about everything and anything while Luke played with Rory. He could not believe how much both of them had changed. Lorelai looked older, tired, drained out. She had cut her long hair down at the shoulders. She still looked beautiful.
Rory had grown up too. She was chubbier and had kept her blue eyes, that were now always wide open and fixed on his face. She unlike her mother had longer hair that looked darker than he remembered but what was like her mother was that she was still very beautiful.
They picnicked at a lake outside of Stars Hollow so that Luke wouldn't be caught bunking class. They lost track of time, it was only when Lorelai realised Rory was crying from hunger that they had been there for several hours. They quickly packed up, said their good byes, and rushed off to where they were both bound to be moaned at. Luke was supposed to be at a track meet and Emily would be home and know that Lorelai wasn't.
After an argument with his father Luke was given his punishment and that was to go to school, work at the hardware store, go home, do homework, then go to bed. He had to do just this for a month.
As a result of Emily finding out, Lorelai had another maid fired and Emily cancelled her plans to watch over Lorelai until they could find a maid that would be strict and strong willed, one that wouldn't succumb to Lorelai's charms.
Luke and Lorelai didn't speak for several weeks, each time either tried, they would get either Luke's father William or Richard or Emily. They never got hold of Liz or a maid, as they would have been kind enough to let them speak to each other.
However, when they did eventually talk things were strange. Luke wanted to see Lorelai but she knew that she couldn't sneak away. Emily was always watching. They settled on speaking once a week.
After speaking for a couple of months it started to become one phone call every 2 weeks if that. Luke was busy with friends and graduation, plus he had a girlfriend. Lorelai was at home with Rory and her mother and Christopher, Rory's father, had come to visit. He wanted to meet his daughter.
So soon enough the conversation became so infrequent that they hardly had things to say when they did talk. Eventually the phone calls ceased.
Lorelai couldn't believe it had been a whole year since Rory was born. Her birthday was a happy one, though it did bring back memories of Luke and that made her a little sad. Lorelai had missed him so much, so she tried to phone him, but both the house number and the number for Williams's hardware no longer existed. Lorelai became angry with herself for letting go of probably the first person to be okay with who she was. He cared for her and her daughter more in the short time they were friends than her parents, Christopher or her school friends had ever done.
A couple of weeks later, Lorelai had still not come out of the funk that Rory's first birthday had put her in. she waited till her parents had left for a lunch date and packed her and Rory's essentials. She called a cab and loaded it up. She took enough money to cover the cab and made her way to Stars Hollow to find Luke.
It had been a busy year for Luke. After graduation and the whole fiasco with Lorelai, Luke had lost his sports scholarship for college cause of an injury to his knee. Luke began to help his father out at the hardware more often until an option was obtained. He needed to find a way to pay for college the next year. A few months later Luke's father William passed away from a heart attack leaving Luke with the added responsibilities of the funeral, the hardware store, his sister, and baby jess. Any idea of attending college was lost. Luke had tried to run the hardware, but closed it down after a few moths and made plans to open something he knew he would be able to run.
Luke hadn't spoken to Lorelai since a few days before his father passed away, after that he was to busy to call and decided after a while that he was not going to call her because in the last four weeks since they last spoke she had made no effort.
It was then that he went on with his life, trying hard to keep food on the table for 3 mouths and managing to pay the rent. He never let himself think about her or Rory because he missed them, but he remembered Rory's birthday and on that day he allowed himself to think about how Rory would be, how she was compared to Jess.
When Lorelai was nearing Stars Hollow, she instructed the cab driver to stop at a hotel or inn first so that she could unload her stuff. Upon arriving at the independence, inn Lorelai went to the front desk and asked for a room. The concierge wouldn't give her a room because she couldn't prove she was over 18 or give proof of identification, which was always required. The concierge brought out the owner Mia to try to speak to Lorelai when she refused to leave.
Mia: hello dear
Lorelai: hi
Mia: the concierge told me you would like to stay here, but unfortunately, we don't allow under 18's to stay here on their own, we've learnt from out mistakes
Lorelai: please I will do anything; I will clean up my own room when I'm finished. I need a place for me and my daughter to stay while I track down a friend who lives in Stars Hollow.
Mia: daughter?
Lorelai: yeah my daughter Rory and I need to stay here. Please!
Lorelai lifted Rory's car seat off the floor where it was hidden so that Mia could see the sleeping angel.
Mia: you're so young
Lorelai: I know believe me, it's all I hear. I promise she is a good baby, she hardly ever cries. She sleeps almost all through the night. She is just one so she is busy but I can control her I promise.
Mia: how old are you dear
Lorelai: 17
Mia: 17, wow!
Lorelai: yeah…will I be able to stay?
Mia: ok, but you have to promise you wont disturb the other guests
Lorelai: I promise, if she gets out of hand we'll leave.
Mia: where's your family?
Lorelai: back in Hartford, but I rather not talk about that.
Mia: not good huh
Lorelai: no, not in the least
Mia: so who are you looking for, I know most the families in town
Lorelai: the Danes family, Luke more specifically
Mia: oh i've known them for years, was good friends with both of Luke's parents. Sad what happened though
Lorelai: what happened?
Mia: William, Luke's father, passed away about 6 months ago. It's been hell for Luke, after losing his scholarship, then his father, now having to take on all the responsibility of his sister's baby and he tried but eventually closed the hardware.
Lorelai: I hadn't heard, I haven't spoken to Luke in a long time
Mia: how did you to meet anyway?
Lorelai: he drove me to the hospital when I was in labour
Mia: oh
Lorelai: yeah, he was actually in the delivery room with me and cut the cord
Mia: and you only just met?
Lorelai: yeah, only knew him for an hour or so
Mia: wow
Lorelai: I just feel so comfortable with him that having him there while I squeezed this darling human being from me was no problem at all.
Mia: he is a great guy, just like his parents. He's not going to be the same without them
Lorelai: I would like to have met them; he talked about them with such love and respect
Mia: ok, you are going to make me cry. Lets get you settled
Lorelai: thanks
Mia helped Lorelai with her bags instead of calling upon a bellboy. They spoke for a little while longer. Mia was able to tell Lorelai where she could find Luke and left her to feed Rory. Once she was done, she freshened up, put on some of her favourite clothes and changed Rory's nappy and clothes to something she thought he might find irresistibly cute. When all that was set, she grabbed her and Rory's bags, put her in her pram, and headed to the centre of town.
Lorelai found Williams hardware very quickly. She hesitated at the door.
Miss Patty: oh, honey the hardware isn't open anymore.
Lorelai: oh I know, I was just looking for Luke
Miss Patty: I think he went down to the lake to fish, more like distress if you ask me.
Lorelai: how long does he normally stay there for
Miss Patty: the whole day sweetie. Is there something I could help you with?
Lorelai: oh no, thanks
Miss Patty: that isn't his baby is it, because he has enough to deal with, with his sister's baby
Lorelai: no, he helped deliver her. He cut the cord and held the mommy's hand
Miss Patty: oh god, I'm sorry
Lorelai: what for?
Miss Patty: for thinking, she was your baby
Lorelai: she is mine…
Miss Patty: but...
Lorelai: oh man sorry, I sometimes talk about myself in 3rd person
Miss Patty: honey you shouldn't do that, you will confuse people
Lorelai: ill try not to
Miss Patty: good. The lake is just behind those houses if you still want to see him
Lorelai: thanks I will do that
Miss Patty: oh honey?
Lorelai: yeah?
Miss Patty: are you sticking around town or just passing through
Lorelai: not sure, it seems really nice here
Miss Patty: well it would be nice to have you
Lorelai: thanks, what is your name?
Miss Patty: Miss Patty, just call me Miss Patty. And yours dear?
Lorelai: Lorelai Gilmore. It was nice to meet you Miss Patty. Bye
Miss Patty: bye sweetie
Lorelai crossed the street amazed at the town, the people. She headed towards where Miss Patty had pointed. When she arrived at the dock, she saw a young man on the docks. She thought it was Luke, but he looked to skinny. She was about to continue walking when he turned around and caught her gaze
Luke: Lorelai?
Thanks again for reading. I haven't got a clue where I'm taking this story so if any of you have suggestions or think that it's not worth continuing I would really like to know. I should have a new chapter up for 'a question worth asking' soon. I wrote one on Friday but ended up scrapping it. Please review cause it makes me deliriously happy.
Thanks again