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"Don't you ever go to work?" Luke enquired, pouring her, her coffee like he had done everyday for the past nine years.
"Hey I own the place, I go to work when I wanna go to work, 'sides, I love watching you work" Lorelai winked at him.
"Jeez" He rolled his eyes and pushed the mug in front of her. Before she could take a sip, her cell phone rang. "Take it outside" Luke replied immediately. Lorelai pulled her pink phone from her pink handbag.
"Don't make me say it Luke" Lorelai warned over the incessant ringing.
"Say what?"
"Well you obviously love me"
"Yes" Luke replied slowly, wanting to know where she was going with this.
"Yet I distinctly remember sitting here not that long ago, and you were sitting next to me all GQ'd up and a certain blonde was standing over there and she just chatted away on her phone, you of course, totally waved the cell phone rule for her" Luke sighed knowing that she had a point, even thought he hated that she brought her up.
"Fine but make it quick" Lorelai squealed happily and flipped open the phone.
"Lorelai Gilmore, I'm at Luke's on my cell phone," She answered, causing Luke to roll his eyes. "Mom hi" Lorelai's changed from happy to stressed as she tried to not shout down obscenities down the phone to her mother. "I'm sure I told you…no I'm not saying you have something wrong with your memory……no I didn't withhold the address from you on purpose….it's Rory's flat so it wasn't up to me to tell you…..no I'm not trying to blame Rory….well now's not a good-…..I know you're a busy woman Mom…..Why don't you both meet us at Luke's?...I'll see you in half an hour then" Lorelai snapped the phone shut and threw it onto the counter. She dropped her head against the cool surface and began hitting her head repetitively. Luke stopped her quickly, hoping to save her head from any permanent damage.
"Why?" Lorelai asked. "Why oh why do I do that!" She groaned loudly and placed her head back on the counter. Luke placed a burger and fries in front of her.
"Here, take this up to Rory and take your mind off your mother till she gets here" Lorelai's head snapped up.
"I came to see her about something anyway" She sighed loudly.
"Just be back down before your mother appears, I don't want to be left alone with her"
"You won't be left alone, She and Nicole are coming to sort out Rory's court appearance" Luke's eyes widened.
"What?"
"Uh.."
"Don't worry Luke" Luke mimicked Lorelai "It's not like you'll ever have to see her Luke!"
"If you don't wanna see her Luke just go home!"
"I can't go home Lorelai, I have a business to run!"
"Well I guess you're just gonna have to be a grown up and deal with your ex wife!" Lorelai grabbed the burger and stormed up the stairs.
She had calmed down by the time Rory answered the door so she welcome her daughter with a bright smile.
"I come bearing lunch" Lorelai stuck the plate under Rory's nose. Rory took the food graciously and brought it into the apartment, letting Lorelai follow her in. Rory sat down at the table and tucked into the fries. "Good?" Rory nodded. "You in a happy mood?" Rory stopped eating suddenly.
"When is she getting here?"
"Half an hour"
"I better eat this quickly then"
"Well I've got something for you to look at while you eat" Lorelai opened her bag and pulled out a booklet.
"What's that?" Rory asked with a mouth full of burger.
"It's my old community college prospectus!"
"Hey Mom? Nice thought but I'm giving all education a break"
"No silly, I thought it would give you lots of ideas. You see I'm making sure you try everything before you decide to go back to Yale and this has a huge list of courses they offer. I thought you could look through it and see if anything jumps out at you" Lorelai opened the prospectus. "See here, gardening for beginners, you could dig up the front garden, Babbette could give you some slimy bulbs to plant and if you don't like that you could try cooking! Luke'll help you learn a thing or too and as soon as he tries teaching you how to cook healthy stuff you can try something else...how about psychology? You can read up about it and then you can psychoanalyse me as some sexually frustrated woman who has dreams about ladders and towers and other phallic objects! Won't it be fun?" Rory laughed.
"I guess it won't be too painful to peruse the prospectus" Lorelai looked at the list of courses.
"Hmmm, sorry no courses in alliteration" Rory rolled her eyes.
"Hey! I get enough of that from Luke, speaking of Luke, I have to go downstairs and make up"
"You had a fight?" Rory asked with a worried look on her face.
"Don't worry honey, it was just a little lovers tiff, nothing that can't be fixed with expensive lingerie"
"Eww" Lorelai laughed.
"I'll send her and Nicole up when they get here" Lorelai said goodbye and skipped down the stairs. She stopped in the doorway and watched Luke work. Luke felt eyes watching him as he moved round the diner. He scanned the room and saw Lorelai standing behind the counter. He put down the half empty coffee jug and walked up to her.
"Hey" She spoke softly, not wanting the whole diner to hear their conversation.
"Hey" He replied.
"I'm sorry"
"No I'm sorry"
"I should have gotten them to meet us someplace else"
"I shouldn't have been so childish about the Nicole thing" Luke wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her close.
"Let's just forget it ever happened okay?" Luke pulled her into a kiss, telling her that he agreed. Seconds after they had broken apart the bell over the door rung and Lorelai spun round in time to see Emily and Nicole walk through the door.
"Mom" Lorelai greeted politely "Nicole"
"Lorelai" Nicole smiled nervously "Luke" Luke didn't say anything. There was an uncomfortable silence as Luke tried to avoid Nicole's gaze.
"Hey Mom, Rory's upstairs, I'm sure she'd want to know you're here"
"She's living above a diner!" Emily cried.
"Later Mom, can you please just go up and see her?" Emily pursed her lips and stayed silent but the glare she was sending Lorelai spoke volumes. There was no way she could get out of the argument they would be having at a later date. She passed the counter and headed up the stairs, sending judgmental looks at everything she set her eyes on.
"Was there something you wanted to discuss about Rory's case?" Nicole asked Lorelai.
"There's something we need to discuss but it's not about Rory" Lorelai began when she realised Luke was staying out of it. "The reason things have been so awkward is that Luke and I…well we're together, engaged in fact"
"Wow" Nicole managed to say after a second.
"Yeah, I… I mean, we thought you should know. We're not telling my mom as of yet so if you could just keep it to yourself?"
"Sure…uh…congratulations" Nicole spoke. She walked past the counter and followed Emily up the familiar stairs.