"Whoa uncle Luke calm down, you'll give yourself a heart attack! What happened?" Jess Mariano was standing in his uncle's apartments staring at what seemed to be his mentally dysfunctional uncle.
"She kissed me!" Luke said simply.
"Who?" Jess asked his tiredness showing, nine o'clock on a Sunday morning was not a prime time for getting into discussions about his uncles love life, or anybody's love life for that matter. He'd only come down here in the hope of breakfast.
"Lorelai!"
"Rory's mum?" Jess asked needing confirmation.
"Yeah"
"Wow" Jess said.
"What do you mean 'wow'? This is not a 'wow' situation. This is a 'what do I do now?' situation" Luke said sounding rather traumatised.
"What are you talking about? You like her. She likes you. She made the first move so you don't have to worry about embarrassing yourself. Jeez you're in a position most guys would kill for-a beautiful women showed you she'd interested but instead of being on cloud nine you're on cloud cuckoo land acting like a depraved moron." Jess ranted by now he was hungry and decided to find food for him self. As he walked out he muttered six more words to his uncle, but he only heard four, "Get your self together" the only part he didn't hear was "you pussy".
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Meanwhile in Lorelai's apartments…
"What about Rowena, as in Ravenclaw. I think it sounds posh"
"Too posh she's a Gilmore of our generation."
"Actually that reminds me of another name I thought of…"
"No, no, no and absolutely not"
"How did you know what I was going to say."
"That doesn't matter. But you cannot name Pet here after my mother I would flinch every time you called her. I'd be paranoid that she would be trying to manipulate me with those eyes of hers. I'd end up subconsciously planning ways to bring forth an untimely and horrifying death." Lorelai said in dramatised tones.
"You don't hate grandma that much." Rory said.
"Don't I?" Lorelai asked, raising her eyebrows suspiciously.
"Ok then. I'm completely out of ideas. But it's cruel to just keep calling her pet."
"Is it though? If anyone asks we could just say it's short for Petra." Lorelai explained.
"Petra" Rory echoed testing the name. "It sounds good. Classy, sophisticated and unusual. You don't meet many Petra's"
"Or Lorelai's or Gilmore's for that matter she'll fit right in."
"You don't think Pet is too cutesy?"
"Nah, course not" Lorelai said as though that settled the matter.
Changing the subject Rory asked, "So what are you going to do about Luke?"
"I don't know. I really like him but he's the coffee guy, and a colleague and your friends guardian. It might be too weird" Lorelai thought out loud.
"the only way to find out is to give it a try. Besides you haven't seen him since you kissed him yesterday and he's going to think your playing him hot and cold. You didn't even order breakfast this morning."
"I wasn't hungry" Lorelai defended.
"Or coffee…"
"Ok so I may have been avoiding him a little bit." Lorelai admitted.
"Whatever mum. I'm going to leave you to figure this out. It's ten to six and I'm meeting Tristan. See you."
"See you sweets"
As Rory left Lorelai began to realise that her daughter was right it was time she faced him. She'd just run off yesterday and that wasn't fair on either of them. She needed to explain how she felt to Luke and then the ball would be in his court. 'What a stupid analogy' Lorelai thought, if your playing a ball game with someone you don't have a court each. Shouldn't the analogy be 'the ball would be on his side of the net', or something?
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Tristan had got to the Charms classroom first to set up. He'd put little candle's everywhere giving the room a much more magical feeling. He'd transfigured the teacher's desk into a comfortable sofa and summoned up two plates of food and some pumpkin juice. He wasn't sure what they were going to do tonight he just knew he wanted it to be comfortable and easy to forget that they were still in Hogwarts.
"Hey" Rory greeted walking into the room. "Wow. You went a little OTT didn't you?"
"Well we don't get to spend much time together I thought it ought to be memorable" Tristan replied walking over to her and wrapping her up in his arms. "I missed you today" He mumbled into her hair.
"Yeah? Me too" She admitted. "So what are we doing tonight?" She asked.
"That's the thing… I haven't got a clue I thought maybe you'd thought of something." Tristan admitted.
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"Luke?" Lorelai walked into the kitchens calling out to him.
"Lorelai…hi…" Luke seemed to be struggling to make eye contact.
"Luke I want to talk…" she glanced around at all the house elves. "But is it possible we could go somewhere a little more private?"
"Sure follow me," Luke said leading her through to his small sitting room. She glanced around. She couldn't believe he lived here. It was so small compared to her own rooms.
"So anyway I wanted to talk to you about yesterday." Lorelai began.
"Really? Me too." Luke said. "I totally understand if you think it was a mistake," he continued. "And if you'd prefer to forget it ever happened that's fine by me" he explained taking Lorelai by surprise.
"But is that what you want? To forget it I mean." Lorelai asked.
"Not really." Luke said deciding he might as well be honest.
"Then don't." Lorelai told him.
"What?" Luke had that confused look on his face again.
"Because I don't want to either." Lorelai said closing in the space between them, and leaning in to kiss him again.
This time Luke wasn't so shocked so he was able to return the kiss a little before Lorelai pulled away.
"Oh, I see" Luke said "So where do we go from here?" he asked Lorelai.
"I'm not sure. Shall we just play it out see where it goes?"
"Sure" Luke said leaning in to kiss her again. But she backed of a little. "Hey! Will you just stand still?" He smiled as he kissed her.
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"This is actually really nice isn't it?" Tristan asked. He was sat on the sofa his arms wrapped around Rory's waist as they read a book together. Tristan wasn't really following the books plot but he didn't care he was just so comfy.
"Yeah it is", Rory admitted. Then she glanced at her watch. "Oh my god, we've been her almost three hours. Curfew is in ten minutes. We'd better go."
"Yeah I suppose" Tristan agreed getting up of the sofa and beginning to change everything back to the way it was before. "When can we next meet?" Tristan asked.
"Well I'll see you tomorrow… Potions"
"Yeah but I will also be seeing Snape and about twenty other classmates." Tristan said.
"Well I'm spending tomorrow afternoon with my mum but how about tuesay, five o'clock, same place?"
"Ok, see you then" They walked out of the classroom, Tristan locked it with his wand kissed Rory very briefly then rushed off to his common room, Rory did the same. But something put a sudden stop to that. As she turned the final corner on the now familiar route to her common room, what she saw made her mind rush through several emotions- shock, panic, embarrassment, and humour were a few.
Lane Kim was stood in front of the common room entrance kissing Ron weasly of all people.
Okay so probably not what you were all expecting but there you go. Please review they're like gold to me. Look forward to hearing your thoughts. Might be a week or two till the next one because college starts on Wednesday and I'm way behind.