"Well?" he asks.
"Well...now we wait," she says, playing with her hands.
Luke notices how nervous she is and pulls her to him. He kisses her head, and rubs her
arm and tells her, "No matter what, I'm always with you. I love you too, you know."
"Really?" she asks, because she's been told that before, and it was a lie.
"Yes, and I always will."
A few more seconds pass, Lorelai looks at Luke's watch.
"You ready?" she asks him. He nods. She turns both tests over, one says 'Pregnant', the
other is a pink strip. "Well, you're going to be a great daddy."
He looks at both of the tests, sure enough, he's going to be a father in nine months. 'Will I be a good dad? I'm only nineteen, do I really know how to raise a kid? Great, thinking about me being a father, when the girl I'm madly in love with had a kid at sixteen and is doing an amazing job raising her.'
"I've rendered you speechless?" Lorelai asks, smiling at Luke.
He responds by smiling back, and kisses her with all he has. Letting her know that he is here and he isn't leaving, that he isn't Christopher.
"Lorelai," he says, when he pulls away. "I just want you to know that even though this baby wasn't planned, I'm happy about it. You're an amazing woman, mother and girlfriend. Now, you're going to be the mother of my child. Don't worry, we will get through this," he assures her.
She smiles and rubs his cheek before saying, "I know we will. Together we can do anything. I really do love you, Luke."
"I love you too," he returns, thinks for a moment, then asks, "How are we going to tell my dad?"
She sighs and her smile fades. She never thought about telling William. She didn't tell her parents about Rory until something smelled like Clorox, oh yeah, it was pate, and then she told Chris and everything fell apart from there.
"Your dad is going to hate me Luke," she states.
"What? Why would you say that?"
"I'm pregnant with your child. He was kind enough to give me a job and a home, now I go and make his only son a father at nineteen. He's going to hate me. He'll fire me, and he'll evict me. I'll have no where to go," she explains.
"Lorelai, that is crazy. If my dad is going to hate anyone, it's gonna be me," Luke insists.
"No, you are his golden child. He could never hate you," she tells him.
Let the rant begin, "He will hate me. He will tell me that I wasn't responsible enough to protect us. He'll tell me that it's my fault that the 'young woman' he thinks of as a daughter is pregnant. Then he'll say that this baby is a mistake and that we should have known better than to have sex."
"Well, we'll never know who he hates until we tell him," she reasons, "Lets head home."
The ride back to the Hollow went smoothly and quietly. Both were thinking about Williams reaction, and about the unborn child that Lorelai is carrying.
'I hope he understands…I mean, I know that he will most definitely be mad, who wouldn't be? I don't want this pregnancy to turn out to be like Rory. I don't want to run away again, I want William to want to be involved. This is his grandchild, he should look past the stupid hormones of two love sick teenagers, and love the baby. Is Rory too young to understand that she will be a big sister? She's only two…almost, but still. I don't think that she'll understand, but its worth a shot. We can tell her when I start to show, then she'll understand that there is someone inside mommy's tummy.'
'I'm a dead man. Really, my father is going to kill me with one of his hammers. He will more than likely understand that this wasn't planned, but he was the one who told me that since Lorelai and I have become a couple that I have been happier and that it was that way when he met mom, he was the one who made me realize that I am in love with Lorelai. He will definitely love the baby. I'm not sure if he'll love me anymore.'
"Luke, pull over," Lorelai says, bringing him out of his thoughts.
"Why?"
"Um, we work here, and I live here," she says.
"Right, sorry, I was lost in my thoughts." He pulls over and turns the truck off. "Ready to face the truth?"
"No, but every fear has to be faced," she says, smiling slightly.
They get out and walk into the hardware store in search of William.
"Well, there you two are, where have you been?" William says, happily, not expecting what they have to tell him.
"Um, dad, can we talk to you? In private?" Luke asks, 'don't let him smell your fear Danes, keep your cool'
"Sure, son," William says, leading them to the back. "What is it?"
Luke and Lorelai exchange the same worried glance, then look back at William.
"William, I don't want you to blame any one person for what we're about to tell you. We were both involved and we were both stupid for not thinking about anything except…well, Luke drove me to Woodbridge because ithoughtiwaspregnant," Lorelai says quickly.
"I'm sorry, what was that last part?" William asks, partly because he couldn't understand her, and because he doesn't want to believe it.
"I thought that I was pregnant," Lorelai repeats clearly.
"Are you?" William asks.
"Yes, dad, she is," Luke says, finally saying something about this subject to his father.
William sighs, then says, "What do you intend on doing about this Lucas?"
"I'm not going to leave her and my unborn child. You raised me better than that. I love Lorelai, and I will go through this with her. She's not alone this time," Luke explains. "Dad, I know that you're upset, and you have every right to be, but we're asking you to not hate this baby. You are it's grandfather, and we want you involved."
"Of course I'll be involved. I'm involved in Lizzy's pregnancy, and I hate Jimmy. But luckily I love Lorelai," William says. "But right now, I need to wrap my head around the idea that both of my kids will have a kid before they are the legal drinking age," he says, trying to lighten the mood. He walks past Luke and Lorelai and says, "Lock up son."
They hear the door close and Lorelai says, "Well, it went better than I thought it would."
sorry for all the little cliff hangers i keep leaving, but its kinda fun...and this chapter probably isn't all that good, i wrote it like, 20 minutes ago...when i got home from work..so, anyways...review...they really help me out!