And Coffee Makes Three

Lorelei paced outside the diner, unsure what would happen. But one look at Kirk sipping her coffee, and she was sitting at the counter.

"Oh, hey." Obviously, Luke didn't think she would come in here. He was more surprised when Lorelei leaned over and kissed him.

"Come here." Luke grabbed Lorelei's hand, coffee mug and all. "What about my coffee?" She whined in protest. He dragged her behind a tree.

"What?" She asked.

"Where are we?" Luke asked straight on.

"We are by the Main Square, behind a tree that is getting leaves in my ha-"

Luke groaned and glared at her. "In our relationship Lorelei"

She smiled. Her mission in life was clear when she had first met Luke; Make Him Angry. The relationship hadn't changed the mission, only stopped him from refusing to serve her.

He tried again. "Where do you want to be? Are we going to get married?"

"I think we should wait a little bit, before we get married I mean. With this whole thing Yale with Rory, maybe right now wouldn't be right."

"I agree."

"I would love to marry you. Think of all the good food!"

Luke looked up to the sky. "Please give me patience with her."

Lorelei didn't care. "What about kids? Or a dog, can we get a dog? We can name him Waldo!"

"The only other person, or animal, in our relationship is coffee."

"As long as you make it." And she kissed him.

"So we're good? Us two?" Luke questioned.

Lorelei held the coffee mug in between them.

"And Coffee makes three."

They had drove in Rory's car to the park, and talked.

"Why do you care so much?" She had asked him.

"Because you didn't want me to leave school; you pushed me to stay, now I'm pushing you."

He had kissed her, and she had been happy. She had been happier then when she was with Logan, or with anybody.

"You'll always be my Rory." He had whispered in her ear.

Her heart had swelled when he said that.

"You'll always be my Dean." She whispered back.

Her heart had pulled a Grinch. She could swear it had gotten a thousand times bigger over the last twenty-four hours. It would be nice if everything was alright. She drove to the pool house, foot heavy on the accelerator.

Richard was surprised when Rory burst into his office.

"Grandpa, did you take me off Yale's student list yet?"

"Not yet. I can do it right now, if you like." He picked up his phone.

"No, don't do it. I'm not finished with them yet." She smiled and left the house.

"Emily! Emily!" Richard bellowed.

"Richard, please do not yell-"

"She's back! Rory's back!" He hugged Emily.