JavaJunkiE006: Thank You. Oh, and don't worry; I will.
J.Stone: Your input is extremely honest and thoughtful. Thanks a lot. And yes the L/P relationship is drama free, but there might be another mother/daughter relationship (wink, wink) that may be entering the story (wink, wink) that could get quite dramatic (wink, wink, ow my eye)Bloomin Daisy: I thought it was a good idea.
LorLukealways: Keep reading. Plenty of L/P moments. And an appearance from Rory soon, promise.
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A/N: New Chapter (incase it wasn't clear).
Piper had slowly stopped crying with the help of Luke's comforting words, but Luke still held her in a tight embrace. They had both confessed they had overreacted slightly, apologized, and were both just enjoying the comfortable silence, but Piper soon broke it.
"I'm hungry," she stated so abruptly that Luke couldn't help but laugh.
"How about you get dressed and ready to go to the inn and I'll cook you whatever you want."
"Chocolate chip pancakes with extra chocolate chips and whipped cream. Ooh, and coffee." Piper gave Luke a wide smile and batted her eyelashes at him.
"Chocolate chip pancakes and a glass of milk, got it." They smiled at eachother and Luke went downstairs. Piper dressed in a black tank top and a black bra that's straps were visible. Her black skirt started around her lower waist and a strip of skin was exposed in between her tank and skirt. The skirt fell to the middle of her thighs and she wore black flip flops and her black chain ankelet. The long space between her skirt and flip flops made her legs seem even longer; they were already quite long.
She walked into the diner and ate the pancakes and drank the milk that were on the counter for her. After taking Charlie for a walk, getting the directions to the inn, and giving Luke a quick kiss on the cheek she left on foot. She arrived at the inn and immediately saw Lorelai at the reception desk.
"Mom! Luke only let me have two cups of coffee this morning," Piper frowned and Lorelai gave her a quick peck on the cheek. She draped her arm over Piper's shoulder's and started to steer her towards the kitchen doors.
"Luke gave you two cups of coffee?" Loelai asked obviously stunned.
"Well, no. I snuck the first cup when he was getting orders from two customers."
"That's my girl."
"And the second I got because I drank all of my milk and he made me cry," Piper told her in a very matter-of-fact way.
"Yeah, Luke called me about that. You okay?"
"Yeah. I am." Piper looked up at Lorelai and gave her a reassuring smile.
"So … let me see the tattoo." Piper turned around and took the hair that was tied up in her hand and moved it to the side. Even up in a tie it still fell to the middle of her back. Lorelai gasped. "I want one."
"Then get one. You're old enough, no one can tell you that you can't."
"I can tell me. I hate needles, are you insane? I mean, you have an awesome tattoo, I love it, but no way I would ever let a man with an electric needle near me."
"Actually, we were in China when we got these done. They're authentic. A man with a needle, ink, and a hammer thingy bangs the needle into your skin." Lorelai was shocked, horrified, and in awe, so the face she made had Piper laughing. But when they entered the kitchen Sookie spotted them and almost took out two kitchen hands, a pot of scalding hollandaise sauce, and a three layer wedding cake while practically running over to them.
"Hey! Oh, you're here. How are you?"
"Well truthfully I'm going through caffeine withdraw and would probably offer my first born to anyone who would give me some coffee," Piper told her. Sookie looked at Lorelai and they both smiled at how much she sounded like Lorelai.
"Wow. Well how about I get you a cup and we can just forget about the whole first born dilemma." Sookie turned to get a cup and fill it with some freshly made coffee.
"Thank You," Piper managed before she was sipping the liquid from her cup slowly to savor it.
"So, where are you two going today," Sookie asked while chopping up parsley.
Piper turned to Lorelai, "Yeah, where are we going?"
"Just to some shops around town to see if we can find any nice furniture for your room. We'll be back in a bit, Sook."
"Okay, bye guys. Have fun. Try to control yourselves." They left so she looked back at the food she was preparing, "They won't be back."
Five hours later Piper and Lorelai walked into the diner. Piper sat on a bar stool and Lorelai went behind the counter, retrieved two cups, and started filling them with coffee. She gave one to Piper and sipped the other while sitting down next to her. Luke came out of the back and frowned at them.
"So, how did the shopping go?"
"Great," Lorelai answered. "We got a full bedroom furniture set from Kim's Antiques at a really great price. Mrs. Kim was so excited to make such a big sale she threw in free next day delivery."
"Next day? Lorelai, we decided we should paint the room first and then move all the furniture in."
"Yes, I know. We got the paint and supplies in the jeep just waiting for a big, strong man to unload them."
"Yeah, mom and I went to Kim's Antiques first and we found a dark wood furniture set. So we had time to pick out cream-colored paint and a maroon carpet for the floor. It's all in the jeep," Piper told him.
"So wait," Luke asked, "who loaded the the paint and carpet onto the jeep? Did you actually do it youself?"
"No," Lorelai said. "Dave at the paint store and Greg at the carpet store gave us a hand. Piper had to flirt with them since my engagement ring was a big turn off."
"Not to Greg."
"Oh, stop."
"I swear, mom. He saw that ring and immediately started to hit on you."
"Wait," Luke interrupted. "A guy named Greg from the carpet store was knowingly hitting on my fiance?"
"Well, alright I admit, Greg did seem interested in me. But it got the carpet in the jeep, didn't it?"
Luke gave Lorelai a look that clearly scolded her and then turned to his daughter. "So it took you two this long to get your room supplies?"
"No," she answered. "We finished our shopping in such great time and hardly bought anything extra …"
"Hardly anything?"
"Well, we did get some paint to match the rug so that we could paint a stencil around the top border of the walls," Piper confessed. "But we felt we did a great job so we decided to reward ourselves. I suggested a movie, mom suggested lunch; so we did both. We saw the new Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. We had to buy candy to get into the spirit of the movie, of coarse. And then we went to an all you can eat China Buffet and between the two of us we definitely got our money's worth."
"I believe that."
"And then we came here."
"To tell me to unload the jeep?"
"No, for food."
"What?" Luke looked at his daughter amazed.
"Yeah, Luke, pleeeeease! We're hungry. It was a twenty minute drive." And with that Lorelai put on her famous pout and Piper followed cue. Luke sighed and took down each of their orders.
A/N: Reviews, por favor. (I know, my Spanish is impressive)