LLfreak8285, pOnDeReSqUe, kind of LLmeantb, and probably someone else I forgot mentioned that they thought Lorelai's confession of her Luke feelings was a little OOC. orangesherbert7 liked that she finally admitted it. The way I see it- Lorelai knows Rory well enough to know she's not just gonna take some lame excuse like, "Oh, that was a different Luke whose name you heard me scream last night." She knew she'd have to fess up eventually and as I had her think so eloquently in the last chapter-
Okay, I guess I have to admit my failure out loud eventually, ...and around people that can't speak English and don't know me isn't a bad place to start the confessions.
Also in my mind Lorelai is about to explode with all these feelings of Luke and for Luke, so she just has to tell someone. Maybe, I should have stretched it out more than I did, I don't know. Anyway, here's a warning. It's a little delayed, but I hope you'll still accept it-
Lorelai may be a little out of character with her confessions and conclusions.
LLfreak8285: Glad you liked that I had Lorelai have a crush and admit it, even if it was a bit OOC, and I can't wait to get to the java junkie stuff either. I love writing LL action, and I hope it shows when I get there!
Mordacity: Hey, M! Thanx for reading and complimenting my banter! You gave me applause? I feel so honored!
POnDeReSqUe: A summer social life? Yeah, never really got that one down myself either. Between the reading for school, the reading other's fanfics, and the writing for you all it's tough. And yes the Luke-Dirty talk is awesome whether I do it, Muffin does it, or ASP does it! It's also great when it's Dirty-Luke talk. Either way I'm fine!
Llmeantb: Where I'm going with this? There are so many directions to go. I have like five ideas. I'm probably gonna end up combining like three of them. It'll be good, I promise, and the Dirty Luke dreams? Funness, right?
orangesherbert7: Don't be surprised if I do go slightly AU and use your cruise idea. Glad you liked my banter too. I'm also glad my Italian looked okay to you, cause I really wasn't too sure. BTW, you were the one person that thought Lorelai just 'came to her senses' and finally admitted it. I applaud you for that. Now, au revoir! And enjoy!
BTW, today I'm posting two chapters- one Lorelai and Rory, one Luke and Nicole.
"...As I was saying earlier before you interrupted me, while I was sleeping with Luke--"
She covers her ears again. "La, la, la! I'm not listening!"
I whack her in the arm to shut her up, and explain. "I'm not talking about my dreams now, okay! When I was an aimless wanderer of a homeless person, and Luke took me in, was I not sleeping in the same room as he was?"
"You were, I suppose."
"Well, then I deserve the rite to be able to say I slept with Luke, okay?"
"Don't you think that's stretching the truth a little?"
"No, I do not."
"Well, when we get home I'm gonna tell Miss Patty you and Luke slept together, kay?"
"You better not!"
"With rites come responsibilities."
"Have I told you're mean yet today?"
"Several times, but again, thank you."
"You're welcome."
"You were saying 'when you and Luke slept together...'" she reminds me.
"Oh, right! Luke said he didn't tell Nicole about me sleeping with him, cause I am kind of a sore subject with her."
"Really? I would have never suspected such a thing!"
"Let me finish my thought before you get all sarcastic with me, kay? As I was saying, I'm a sore point with Nicole. Luke said on their first date - (I almost puked here, but it's okay, cause it gets good... for me.) On their first date he told a story about me and French fries, when she ordered extra with dinner, and he mentioned my teeny coffee addiction when she had more than a couple cups."
"Wow... Um, did you tell him about your dream before of after he told you his?"
"After."
"So you thought since he admitted he's always thinking about you, you'd do the same?"
She's good. "Rory, ...Honey, I'm hardly always thinking about Luke."
"Well, he sure is shoved into your subconscious an awful lot."
Dirty! "I'd love to be my subconscious then!"
She makes that oh-so-common face again. "Ugh! That's just wrong!"
"I know I am."
Rory's thinking pretty seriously about something. I can tell cause she looks kinda scared and confused, not unlike a puppy dog, or Michel when Sookie tells him she won't make an egg white omelet. "Whatcha thinkin' 'bout?"
"I just can't believe Luke told you that. I mean he's smart, he'd know you'd read into what he said. Don't you think he would have known you'd read between the lines and realize he was thinking about you when he was with this other woman?"
I never thought of that. I thought of practically everything else, but this I miss? "Why are asking me this?"
"Mom, come on. Think about it. Luke is on a date and Nicole orders extra fries- a perfectly normal action in my book- and Luke thinks of you? He knows he was thinking of you. If he didn't want you to know he would think of you on his date, he wouldn't have told you. If Luke's good at anything, it's being mysterious, avoiding informing."
"And making a kick-ass cup of coffee."
"Yeah, that too."
"Do you think he wanted me to get he has a thing for me and I'm on his mind a lot?"
"That's what I've been saying."
"Why would he do that when he has a girlfriend?"
"I have no clue. I never thought of Luke as one to cheat, as I very vividly expressed earlier, but..."
"No way. Don't read into it so much."
"Right, sorry. I didn't mean to freak you out."
"Well, you did!" I say in the squeakiest, highest voice I've ever heard since whoever did the voice-over for that ugly chick, Ollie, in the Popeye cartoons.
"Okay, sorry. I promise I'll never freak you out again. You'll end up breaking glass with that squeak of yours if I do."
My jaw is probably on the floor as I debate whether or not Luke wanted to sleep with me. I just wish I could remember that night better. Did I force him to admit that he had been thinking of me on that date? God, I just wish I wasn't so focused on not jumping and disrobing him that night that I could have thought about if he was also turned on- wanting to jump and disrobe me... Now I'm confusing myself. Luke disrobing me- Ooh! That's more fun to think about. I wonder if he was that sexy on purpose. "No, it's insane. Forget it."
"It was already dropped, but okay."
"Change the subject."
"Um, okay... Earlier I was wondering how you spell Bel-Air."
"B-e-l hyphen A-i-r."
"Oh, okay, thanks, but wouldn't the title 'Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' be funny if the 'air' part was spelled with an 'h'."
"Yeah, that's a stupid subject. Change it again."
"Is Trident just gum or is it a toothpaste too?"
"Oh my god, you're bad at this! I was freaked out, now you're just boring me." I pick up the plate the cheesecake was on and lick of the rest of the chocolate.
"Attractive."
"Yeah, it is. That's why I'm licking it off... Yummy!" I set the plate back down and take out my purse to pay the bill. I set the money on the table with tip.
"Where to now?" she asks as she gets up.
I follow suit and get up as well. "Just walk around?"
"Sure."
As we leave, I don't know why, but that time he almost kissed me in the diner comes back so vividly.
"What's up with you, Miss Smiley?"
"Nothing, I'm just thinking."
"Another awesome Luke recollection?"
"Yeah... I just wish I could call him or something- ask him some stuff."
"Even if I did know how you could reach him, I wouldn't tell you, because- (1) I'm mean, as you've pointed out before, and (2) if you've forgotten, he's on a cruise with his girlfriend."
"Oh, that."
"She's a human being, not call her 'that'."
"Have you actually checked, cause I'm not so sure about that whole 'human' thing."
"Mom!"
"I'm not calling her Satan or anything, just a bitchy Hellhound."
"That's nice."
"You tell me to not call her 'that'. Then not only do you call her 'that', you say she's nice? That's just... weird!"
"Oh, be quiet."
"Did you get it though? I said 'that''s just weird... I called her weird. She's not weird in a good way though, ...like me."
Rory scoffs. "Crazy me for thinking telling you to be quiet would have any effect."
"Crazy you."
"You know what I think?...I think Nicole is a perfectly nice person."
"You're baiting me aren't you?" I say sinisterly.
"What do you really have against her though? Other than her being Luke's."
Why did she have to say 'her being Luke's'? So mean! "She's just... you know... jealous of me?"
"Oh. Well, I can see that."
"Exactly."
"That's the only reason you don't like her?"
"Maybe."
"Well then, maybe, you shouldn't be calling her a bitchy Hellhound, hmm?"
"She's just so nasty and annoying! Like once, Luke and Nicole stayed at the inn after the fire when we had a few rooms left, and she was so... Urgh! Just sooo... 'I'm gonna sleep with him tonight, and you're not! Ha-ha, ha-ha, ha!'"
"She didn't actually say that, did she?"
"No, ...but she was thinking it. They were both lying on the bed--"
"You didn't walk in on them... did you?"
"Eww! No. Let me finish my sentences, Babe. He was reading the paper, and she was... in a robe... That's not really important, but it's nice for the visual. Anyway, they were both lying in bed. He was reading the paper, and she put her hand on his thigh. I swear to god, she was just showing off! Then Luke had this little grin on his face... I have no clue why it was there. I do know it wasn't cause her hand was there. It's wasn't that kind of grin, and I should know that kind of grin, right?"
"Sure, you're very familiar with the dirty grin."
"Thank you. The only thing I can think of that he could have been grinning about would be that he was entertained by the fact that Nicole was jealous of me, which he and Stevie Wonder could tell, cause it was so friggin' obvious."
"Stevie Wonder was there?"
"Yeah, apparently the uptight lawyer's into the freaky stuff."
"Hmm."
"But why would Luke like his girlfriend to be jealous of some other chick- me? He's not supposed to think it's funny. He's supposed to be scared that it'll break 'em up. Why wasn't he?"
"I'm getting kind of tired of jumping in with all the answers... Hmm, well, he probably thought it was funny that Nicole was jealous of a woman he adores while she actually has no proof that there's anything to be afraid of there."
"You're smart."
"Learned from the best... Chilton."
"...Ooh! While, I was doing turn down for their bed (We were short help that night so had to jump in.)"
"Like a super-toad."
"Don't compare me to toads. The toad already has to compete with the frog, which in my book is even more popular."
"You were turning down their bed..."
"Right, and I was wearing this totally low-cut, white blouse, and when I bent down to smooth out the sheets, I caught Luke looking down my shirt!"
"Looks like Nicole has proof that there's something to be afraid of there, after all."
Hope this chapter wasn't too retarded. Don't forget I'm posting the fourth chapter now too.