Hey hey! Well guess what, I have decided to do one more part to this story. I mean all good things come in sevens right, the seven days of the week, the seven dwarfs, Seven-eleven (for all ye American folk), seven deadly sins…so yeah. This is for sure though, lol 5 more parts than originally planned, oh yes that's well thought out.

Anyway hope you enjoy the chapter. Thankyou so much to everyone who has reviewed, you guys rock! No kidding, love to y'all! After this I'm going to start writing more of my Back to Reality fic don't worry I will update soon!

PART SIX

The next morning Lorelai walked through the towns square on her way to get her daily coffee fix. She looked around the towns square at all the activity and people, she figured there must have been an event coming up. 'Man I need to get the update on town events' she thought as she wondered what exactly it was.

"Lorelai wait up!" a voice screamed from the gazebo.

"Liz! Hey what are you doing here?" Lorelai said when Luke's sister had run across to meet her with a big hug.

"I'm getting married in the town's square!"

"Wow congratulations Liz!" Lorelai smiled giving Liz another hug, she didn't know why she felt so comfortable with a woman she had only met on a handful of occasions.

"Thanks! So you're coming right?"

"Uh yeah sure, I mean I didn't know about it until two seconds ago" Lorelai said surprised at the quick invitation.

"Really? Luke told me he was going to ask you"

"Ask me?"

"Yeah to come with him, as his date I think" Liz shrugged.

"Oh okay, well I'm sure he's getting around to it" Lorelai said, unable to help a small smile from gracing her features. Also there was the similar feeling of fear, wondering if this was finally the time she'd have to decide once and for all whether they would choose friendship or something more. It was there, it had always been there, growing beneath the surface and she wanted it, she always knew she did. It was just admitting how much she wanted it… and how much she wanted him that was the problem.

"I hope so! It's a renaissance wedding so feel free to wear something from that period" Liz said excitedly.

"I will. Thanks Liz"

"No problem. Anyway I should go, I need to make sure the turkey leg guy is coming"

"Uh okay then, well have fun" Lorelai said shooting her a smile and continuing her walk to Luke's. Wondering if and when he was planning on asking her to the wedding, there was such a thing as short notice after all.

"Good morning Vietnam" Lorelai said loudly when she entered the diner. Luke simply looked up at her and rolled his eyes before grabbing the coffee pot and had poured a cup of coffee for her by the time she reached the counter.

"Soo…anything new?" she hinted when she had inhaled almost the entire cup of coffee.

"Umm no"

"Nothing at all?" she asked, staring at him with a knowing gaze.

"Well Taylor is bugging me and I can't get away from him because of that damn window. It's like an entire day of annoyance by just seeing him"

"Good good, so anything else?"

"No"

"Anything else?"

"Apart from no, no"

"Your sisters getting married, that's new"

"Well yeah but you knew that"

"Uh no I didn't, your sister just told me two minutes ago. I feel so out of the Luke-loop" Lorelai said giving him a pout.

"How could you not know? It's in the town's square, everyone knows. Babette is your neighbour!" Luke grumbled, genuinely surprised she hadn't known. Although he had been surprised she hadn't asked him more annoying questions about the wedding before this.

"Well the inn has been crazy and I haven't got caught up on my Stars Hollow gazette yet" Lorelai sighed and Luke watched her out of the corner of her eye, she looked tired. The inn seemed to be taking a lot out of her, after the 5am coffee run the other day and the big cut down on her daily coffee trips to the diner…she needed a break. With the talk of his sister's wedding and her just saying that she had been busy, it was the perfect time to ask her.

"Lorelai, my sister's wedding, would you…" Luke started.

"Luke this toast, it tastes like eggs!" Kirk shouted from across the diner.

"It does not taste like eggs Kirk"

"So you were saying?" Lorelai prompted. She knew she had felt a little fear before when she had thought Luke was asking her out, but truth was she wanted him to ask her. She wondered what a typical date with Luke would be like; although technically it wasn't a typical date since it was his sister's wedding but still…she wondered.

"Uhh yeah well I was thinking…"

"Seriously Luke this toast, I demand reimbursement for this. I did not order egg toast" Kirk said loudly walking over to the counter next to Lorelai and placing the toast down in front of Luke.

"You haven't paid yet Kirk" Luke grumbled impatiently.

"Eggs! Luke I could sue, what if I was allergic"

"Get out of my diner Kirk" Luke replied, the irritation clear in his tone.

"You can't tell me what to do, you're not my mother" Kirk complained, Luke sighed sensing one of his tantrums coming on.

"I'm gonna go, I'm already late" Lorelai said, knowing that Luke's mood had now been ruined and she could see the argument with Kirk going on for a while.

"Alright, well…bye" Luke said glancing at her, their eyes locked for a second in some sort of strange silent understanding that they would see each other later.

Lorelai rushed around the rest of the day like a chicken with its head cut off, the test run was coming up and as the days passed her list of things she needed to do didn't seem to be getting any smaller. Standing at the front desk she finalised the RSVP's while cursing Michel for calling to say he was late because of his sick dogs.

'Dragonfly inn, Lorelai speaking' she rhymed out every time the telephone rang. The seventh time in the past ten minutes she answered with the same line but was pleasantly surprised when she heard the familiar voice on the other end.

"Hi, it's Luke"

"Oh hey Luke"

"Hi…so uh how's the inn?" he asked, deciding small-talk would be a good start.

"Good. How's the diner?"

"Ah well Kirk left so it's better" he said and she smiled.

"I just hope he doesn't turn up here looking for a job again" Lorelai said and was surprised when she heard a small chuckle come from the other line.

"I threatened to call his mother"

"Wow you brought out the big guns with that one" Lorelai laughed, suddenly aware that she was twirling the phone cord around on her finger and felt like she was fifteen again. So she quickly stopped herself and changed activity to doodling on the notepad on the desk.

"He hopefully won't be back today"

"Uh great. So is there anything I can do for you?...I mean is there a reason for your call" Lorelai said, an instant 'Dirty' coming into her mind when the first part of the sentence came out.

"Yeah well…I just wanted to tell you Jess is back for a few days. He's part of the wedding, I just didn't want you to be surprised if you saw him, y'know around town or whatever" Luke said, feeling better about his story when it came out, he didn't want to ask her to his sister's wedding over the phone. It was in two days and he knew if he didn't ask her soon she would maybe have other plans made. Plus he'd found out that crazy Carrie was going to be at the wedding, and the last thing he'd want is to be around her on his own.

"Oh okay thanks for telling me"

"No problem"

"Okay so I'll see you later then" Lorelai smiled down the phone, sensing some nervousness in his voice, she was just glad she wasn't the only one.

"So you'll be coming in the diner then?"

"Uh later I should be, hopefully I'll get there before closing" Lorelai said, smirking slightly, knowing that even if she didn't make it before closing she would go in anyway.

"Okay good, well see you later then"

"Bye Luke" Lorelai smiled as she hung up.

Later that night…

Lorelai stepped into the diner just after closing, although she had made no real rush to get there before that. She didn't want Kirk or anyone else interrupting them again so this way she could make sure of it…she just hoped he would still ask her. Even just as friends, she didn't mind, it might even be better. If they got on as well as they did when they went to the bar as friends then she was all for it.

"Evenin' good sir" she smiled when she came in.

"A minute later and the coffee would have been thrown out" Luke grumbled in his typical Luke way. He had almost given up on her coming, but he knew just as he was about to throw the spare coffee out and head upstairs that she would turn up at his door…and so she did.

"Well wouldn't that be a sin"

"Also known as a blessing to your health" he said as he poured her a cup.

"Mmm can I have some pie, and a doughnut?"

"No more doughnuts"

"Okay fine I'll have two pieces of pie…mm cherry please" Lorelai smiled and Luke disappeared for a minute before returning with two pieces of pie, extra big of course.

"Thanks"

"So busy day then?"

"Yeah, Michel called in late because of his dogs. Although funnily enough that to-do list I thought would never get smaller is actually decreasing. The tiniest bit at a time but hey it's something!"

"Good, I told you that you could do it"

"Did you?"

"Twice" he grumbled.

"I don't remember" she teased and he looked at her with a furrowed brow, which he found hard to keep when she was giving him that smile over her coffee cup.

"Don't lie"

"So, Kirk this morning, you find out the mystery of the egg toast?" she said with a small smile.

"He's insane, this whole damn town is insane" he grumbled just as Jess came into the diner.

"Hey" he mumbled to the two of them before retreating upstairs.

"Well he's as talkative as ever" Lorelai quipped.

"He's doing better"

"I'm sure" Lorelai said, trying not to let the sarcasm drip from her tone.

"He is, he'll be good, I know it" Luke said in a soft voice but one of sincerity that she recognised as faith in those he cared about. No matter how much Jess or his sister screwed up he would always be there to help them, she imagined how safe she would feel if Luke were her family.

"Well it's good that he's here for Liz's wedding" Lorelai conceded.

"Yeah it is."

"It looks like an interesting wedding, renaissance, should be fun" Lorelai said as she took another big bite of pie.

"Bunch of crazy people with nothing better to do than wear crazy clothes and eat turkey legs"

"Mmm what a girl wouldn't do for a turkey leg…mm dirty" Lorelai said and smiled wider when she caught Luke grin as he wiped down the counter.

"So you'd like to go?" Luke asked.

"To the wedding?"

"No to the turkey leg factory. Yes to the wedding" Luke replied pretending to be irritated, but both of them knew better.

"Ah well if I got the right offer I could be convinced" Lorelai said, making eye contact with him as she sipped her coffee.

"It's on Thursday, I was thinking maybe we could go together. Give you a break from the inn for a while, it could be fun"

"Did Luke Danes just say the F word?" Lorelai said acting like she'd just heard the most shocking news of the year.

"Shutup" he grumped wishing she could just give him a straight answer.

"Well that's a lovely way to treat someone you're asking out"

"I'm asking you to a wedding, I'm not asking you out." 'Liar' he thought to himself.

"Oh" Lorelai said, feeling slightly disappointed which Luke didn't fail to recognise.

"I mean I'd like you to go with me" he said trying to redeem himself.

"Sure we're friends, and I like your sister so sure. Who can say no to turkey legs" Lorelai said after quickly covering up her disappointment with a smile. 'I said it would be fine if we just went out as friends so why am I disappointed that it's not technically a date?'

"Okay well I'll come by your house and we can walk over together" Luke said with a smile he couldn't hold back. 'I just asked Lorelai Gilmore out on a date and she said yes'

"Good okay then"

"You don't have to wear anything fruity"

"Oh I'm gonna wear something a little fruity" she said shooting him a smile he knew by heart.

"Good okay" he grinned as he watched her stand up and pick up her handbag.

"So I should go, fruity clothes to plan" she quipped.

"You need me to walk you home?" he asked, suddenly wanting to go for broke.

"I have the jeep" she explained but smiled at his thoughtfulness.

"Good okay well goodnight"

"Night thy Luke, owner of ye olde diner" she smiled and he grinned back and rolled his eyes before locking the door behind her and watched her drive away. 'Just a day and a half' he thought to himself with a smile.

And happy Saturday ). Hope you liked, review and I'll update by Tuesday!

P.S. Thanks for the cookie bribes before guys, mmm scrumdiddliumtious (go on, what book is that from?)