After a few minutes, they break their embrace and Luke rubs her shoulders and asks if she is okay.

"Are you okay now?" Luke asks

"Yeah, I'll be fine." She sniffles and dry's her eyes. "Thanks for listening to me and not hating me anymore."

"I never hated you Lorelai. I'll admit when you told me about Chris I wanted to kill the both of you, that's how angry I was, but as I looked back on all that we had been through together I realized that it was my fault for pushing you away. I just never imagined pushing you to him."

"Luke, don't blame yourself. I think we are both to blame for everything that went wrong. Can we just leave it at that." She pleads, not wanting to talk about the breakup anymore.

"Sounds good."

They look up and into one another's eyes and smile. Luke makes a move and leans in to kiss her. At first she leans in too but quickly backs away.

"No, stop."

"What's wrong?"

"We can't do this."

"Do what?" Luke asks clearly confused.

"We can't just kiss and make up unless," She stops and thinks.

"Unless what?"

"Unless you agree to a few conditions."

"What are the conditions?"

"The first condition is to not interrupt me while explaining the conditions."

"Okay fine go ahead."

"I want to formally meet April and Anna but more importantly April. Next, you have to not shut me out of your life, and last we have to tell each other everything and I mean everything. Every little detail about ourselves. We have to be an open book to each other. One other thing, you have to understand that despite what Chris did and no matter how angry we are at him he was a great friend to me these last two months. I would almost call him my new best friend because my old one was gone. If and when he calls I need you to be friendly or at least civil to him. He is my friend Luke and I'm sorry but I can't change that. I hope you understand where I'm coming from. Do you?"

"I do understand Lorelai and I am willing to give us a second chance. That is if you are willing to do the same. Are you?"

She backs away from him, stands and walks to the middle of the Gazebo without saying a word.

"Lorelai?" He says while slowly approaching her.

"I still love you." She says quietly, not looking at him. "Do you still love me?"

"What?" He asks, not sure if her heard her right.

"Do you still love me?" She raises her voice so that he can hear her.

He lets out a breath that he didn't know he was holding. "Yes, I always have. Ever since you came into the diner begging for coffee and once we broke up I never stopped. I…well...I don't think I will ever not love you Lorelai."

She turns and faces him. "Good, that's good. Then you will understand what I am about to say."

"Okay."

"I don't want to get back together." She looks at Luke as his face dropped. "Wait, let me finish. What I meant was I don't want to get engaged right away, for the next couple weeks we can set a time where we talk to each other over the phone. About anything and nothing. After that we can see about going on a couple of dates, meeting April, then and only then can you propose, when you feel the time is right for the both of us. It has to work both ways or else we," She motions between them. "Won't work."

"Okay."

"Whoa, wait, just like that okay. You don't even need to think about it."

"Nope. If this is what you want then it's what I want too. All I want is for you to be happy Lorelai."

"Okay then we should probably set a phone date." She says and smiles. She finally has Luke back.

"How about every other night at 9:00."

"That sounds perfect."

"So it's a phone date?" He asks and cracks a smile.

"Yup it's a phone date." She smiles right back at him. Lorelai breaks her gaze and looks down at her watch. "Wow its 9:30 already, I hadn't realized we had been talking for an hour. I better get home. I guess I'll talk to tomorrow night, bye Luke."

She walks down the Gazebo steps but stops when she hears Luke's voice.

"Come into the diner tomorrow okay."

"Of course burger boy, I don't know how I will survive without your coffee in the morning."

"It'll kill you some day."

"Hey we all gotta go eventually." They laugh and share a smile. "Goodnight Luke."

"Night, Lorelai."

She turns and makes her way back to the house, jumping for joy inside herself, extremely excited about tomorrow. She had Luke back, they weren't officially dating, but this was close enough for now.

TO be continued...