(A/N) - I'm not going to be home this weekend .. so I tried to get as many chapters I could into the story. I'll continue when I come back home.

Labyrith - Thanks for all the comments. Your rock!

Both girls woke up at 12:37 of the sound of a phone ringing. Lorelai slammed her hand on the recieverand put it to her ear.

Groggily she said, "Hello?"

"Hi .. umm .. Lorelai?"

"Yes. Hi Luke. Nice of you to call so EARLY. It's pretty fun waking up to your voice so EARLY. Thanks for disturbing Sookie and I so EARLY." Sookie was cracking up watching Lorelai say 'early' really loudly.

"I'm sorry. I thought you'd be up by now. I just wanted to say sorry for not calling you last night. Okay, I'll just let you go .."

"No Luke, it's okay. It's just really dangerous to wake a Gilmore girl up. So whats up? What's the plan for tonight?"

"Okay .. I talked to all the guys and they said that they were just planning on watching the town baseball game the get pizza and finally go to the movies. Buttt .. the baseball game starts at 4 so that means you and Sookie might have to start getting ready."

"Sure, we'll be at your house before that. Bye Luke."

"Goodbye Lorelai."

Lorelai hung up the phone and just pulled herself up and started jumping on the bed. Sookie asked her what she was doing, Lorelai just smiled and said, "We're going to go out .. Luke's going to be there .. and Jackson."

Sookie just squealed, ran into the bathroom and started getting ready. Sookie asked Lorelai to go through her bag and help her with her outfit for the day. She pulled out jeans, with a cute red, a black hoodie and white top with Sookie's trade-mark bandanna. Lorelai went through her closet and it took her 20 minutes to figure out what her wardrobe for the day would be. She took her favorite pair of jean knickers, her new yellow polo shirt and a jean jacket.

They got showers, did each others hair and makeup, got changed and were finally done by 3. They went downstairs to eat lunch/dinner and left at 3:30. Before they went to Luke's house, Lorelai made a stop at a sports store and bought something that she hoped Luke would like.

Once at his house, they walked up to the door where two girls about a year younger than them were sitting on the porch.

The blonde girl waved at them and said "Hey Sookie!"

"Hey Liz, is your brother in the house?" Sookie said.

"Yeah .. and let me tell you .. he's looking pretty good today. He smells really nice too .." said the other girl with the reddish brown hair.

"You must be the girl he's trying to impress. Hi I'm Liz, Luke's little sis."

"Hi. I'm Lorelai. I heard alot about you."

"Don't believe anything he says."

"Oh, don't worry .. I only told her the truth." they saw Luke standing in the doorway. He was wearing jeans, a tight gray shirt that showed off every muscle in his chest and his baseball cap.

The girl sitting next to Liz quickly got up and stood next to Luke.

"Hi Luke. You look really nice today, I hope it's for me." the girl said.

"Uh .. hi Carrie." he ignored her other comment and told Liz to tell their dad that he'd be back later.

He turned his attention to Lorelai and Sookie and he gave both girls a hug, but making Lorelai's tighter. They left to go get Jackson. When they finally picked up Jackson, they split up in twos. Jackson and Sookie were leading the way, holding hands and flirting the whole way there. Luke and Lorelai weren't talking but caught glances at each other every now and then. Lorelai finally remembered the bag in her hand but before she could say anything, Luke interrupted her.

"Lorelai, you look really great tonight."

"Thanks Luke. You look pretty good yourself cowboy."

He turned 3 shades of red.

"Oh here," she handed him the bag in her hand, "I got this for you as a thanks for everything."

He took the bag and stopped and looked at her, "You didn't have to do that. I was happy to do it."

"It's okay .. I just really thought you deserved it."

He pulled open the bag and pulled it out. It was a blue baseball cap.

"I just thought that .. your old one was looking kinda .. well .. old. And I thought you'd .. like a .. newer one. But if you don't want it .. I can take .. it back .. it won't be a problem." she suddenly had a fascination in her shoes.

He pulled her chin up so she was looking into his eyes. "I love it. Thank you." and placed a kiss on her cheek. Neither of them thought that they were at the point where they could kiss on the lips, but they both hoped that it would happen soon.

He slipped his arms around her waist. She placed her head on his chest and they both breathed out easier.

"Hey you two love-birds! Are you commin or not?" Sookie yelled over giggling.

They pulled back a little, still not letting go of each other. He pulled his hands from her waist held his hand in hers and tangled their fingers together. They walked over to the baseball field where they saw Sookie, Jackson, Kirk, Kevin, some girl that was sitting on his lap, a bunch of other kids from their school, two blonde girls .. and there she was .. Rachel.

Lorelai squezed Luke's hand. He knew why she was nervous so he whispered in her ear, "Don't worry. She won't do anything in front of everyone especially if I have something to say about it." He pulled his head from her ear and smiled sweetly and she smiled back. They made their way to the field. Luke sat on the blechers, a few feet away from Rachel, pulled Lorelai on the seat under him so she was sitting in-between his legs.

The rest of the group made their way around Luke and Lorelai and watched the game in peace. The next 2 hours for Lorelai were filled with laughter, dirty looks from Rachel and whispers from Luke - explaining the game and flirting with her. After the game, the group made their way to the pizza palor and ate happily with no Rachel watching them intenively.

They walked to 'Black, White and Read' book store. Lorelai looked confussed but Luke explained to her that they have movies there every night. Luke paid for Lorelai's ticket but she paid for the popcorn and soda. When the movie started, Luke was looking nervous and she noticed it.

"Luke, what's wrong? Do you not want to sit here or something? Because I'll move if you want."

"No. Stay here please. I just wondering .. umm .. I dunno .. but .. is this .. a date .. between you and me?"

"Well, what do you want it to be?"

"I .. I asked you first."

"Well I .. I .. kinda would like it to be a date. If you don't want it to be, then we'll just say we're at a friendly gathering .."

Before she could continue, she was interrupted by Luke placing his lips softly on hers. He let it linger there until Lorelai started kissing back. They pulled back after they were out of breath. I could so get used to this - they both thought

Luke whispered into her ear. "Good .. because if this wasn't a date, I would have never of done that."

He pulled her into his arms as the sat on couch in the back.

Next chapter : the announcement of a dance .. maybe another encountare of an ex?