After a sleep full of Luke dreams, Lorelai woke up the next morning. She got herself ready while struggling over whether to go to Luke's for breakfast, or to rely on her vast selection of pop-tarts. She knew from the past that avoiding things never faired well for her. So she broke down and began to walk to Luke's.
The schizophrenia took over her as she made her way to the door. Every time she almost made it to the door, she'd chicken out and turn around once again. Luke soon became privy to this and began happily watching her spazzyness. Once Lorelai caught on to the fact that he was watching her, she shrugged with a nonchalant attitude and finally walked through the diner door. Luke looked at her like she was crazy and laughed, though didn't ask any questions because he was accustomed to her weirdness.
"Hey, name your poison…" Luke questioned. "Oh…" Lorelai replied like she had knocked out of a trance, "Um…can you make banana pancakes? I want something sweet and chewy but I'm out of marshmallows," with a little more confidence.
"You do realize that banana is a fruit don't you?" Luke inquired still partially laughing. "I don't care Luke, I want the biggest banana you've got….sooooooo dirty." Luke laughed and gave her coffee.
As he turned to make her pancakes, Lorelai tried to use the metal napkin dispenser beside her as a mirror to check her face. Every time Luke would turn around she would jump back and take a huge gulp of her coffee.
"Here and the banana was so huge that I used the rest to put banana chunks on your plate." Luke smiled. He's flirting with me Lorelai came to realize. "Ewe, actual fruit…with nothing else to disguise its healthy flavor? You're trying to kill me Luke Danes," Lorelai flirted back, "Looks like I will be forced to use this magical syrup to coat it with sugary goodness." Lorelai poured the maple syrup out from the bottle slowly and swirled it around the plate. She looked at Luke rather than the plate, getting lost in his eyes.
Kirk, sitting right beside her nudged and warned her, "Uh, Lorelai…" She looked down at her plate and found her pancakes somehow lost in a pool of syrup. She laughed and tried to shrug it off as nothing. Though she was clearly embarrassed by it.
Lorelai scarfed down her extremely-syrupy pancakes and headed to the inn. She tried to distract herself with work all morning, but thoughts of Luke continuously resurfaced.
Lunch
Lorelai restlessly waited for Rory outside the diner. She had promised to meet her there at 12:30. She soon caught Rory's Prius in view and watched Rory jump out. "You could have gone in you know." Rory commented.
"But…Luke's in there." She answered shyly
"Come on…" Rory protested and dragged Lorelai in by the arm.
"Hey! Rory you're home. Things dying down at Yale?" Luke inquired
"Um, ya everyone seems to be wrapping things up, but I've just been studying constantly for finals." Rory made small talk as they sat at a table. Lorelai looked slightly uncomfortable, and Luke started talking to her.
"Hey have I told you that Liz is getting married? Again…and to TJ. But she's seems happy and maybe this guy is different."
"I heard about a wedding happening right here in the square, but I didn't know who's, wow that's great!" And suddenly they were normal again.
"It's a renaissance wedding so it'll be hilarious, but unfortunately I've gotten stuck with all the arrangements." Luke added grumpily. He was interrupted by the phone and answered it. "Oh great, have you found wheat because I need bushels of it…" Luke spoke in the background.
"Maybe Luke will ask you to the wedding." Rory said optimistically. "Hopefully…I love dressing up fruity."
"Sorry about that, burgers? Coffee?"
"Do you even have to ask?" Rory answered.
Luke made the food and came back about 5 minutes later. "So I've been conned into attending TJ's bachelor party. Should be a hoot." Luke said sarcastically and he went back to diner duties.
"He loves you" Rory mouthed slowly at her mother.
The next day- Morning
Lorelai had just woken up from a nice relaxing sleep in the zucchini patch. She was walking back to her car when she saw Luke drive up behind her.
"Hey Luke, how are you liking you're new wedding planner job. Hope you don't fall in love with the groom like J Lo did. Because that happens be TJ and…"
"Lorelai?" Luke interrupted her ramblings.
"Yah…" Lorelai interjected.
Luke rambled on uncomfortably and tried to avoid eye-contact "I was wondering if maybe you wanted to come with me to the wedding because you know Liz and if I don't bring anyone Crazy Carrie will be all over me and she scares me and I think I might look kind of silly mocking it alone, but if you came it might be more fun…"
Lorelai cut Luke's extremely run-on sentence with a short but passionate kiss. She looked up to see a bewildered expression on Luke. She smiled and said, "Absolutely." And swiftly walked back to her car, not looking back. Though she knew she had left him standing in the driveway with a stunned face. She grinned like an idiot all day long.
Okay not my best chapter but that's okay. They don't seem quite in character in the second part. Whatever so the next chapter will have the wedding. Sorry about the short chapters but I like them that way. If anyone has any ideas I'm glad to hear your input. PLEASE REVIEW!