Lorelai paced nervously around her bedroom trying to clear her clouded mind. She had been ready for a good half an hour but was now analysing her outfit. She had felt quite confident when she put it on it looked fantastic and she felt comfortable wearing it. Then after a tenth look in the mirror she began to wonder if it was too dressy. What if Luke thought it looked like a date outfit, what if he thought, that she thought it was a date. She didn't think that this was a date, just dinner, dinner with her best friend Luke who had been so kind and taken them camping. What if Luke got the wrong idea though, if she wore something too dressy he might think that and think that she wanted to date him, which she did. That couldn't happen Luke didn't like her that way he would just feel sorry for her that she couldn't get a boyfriend and it would make things awkward. Maybe she should go change she thought but was interrupted by a knock on the door. Lorelai walked to the door slowly hoping that all would go well she just needed to loosen up and enjoy a night out with Luke if she cooled down this could be lots of fun.

"Hey" she said smiling as she opened the door.

"Hey" he replied trying to hide his tenseness. Luke had been waiting for a moment like this since the day he had meet Lorelai. He had always wanted to get to pick her up and go out for dinner on a date, granted this wasn't a date but it was dinner with her. This was better than a date with anyone else in the world. He'd had a hard time getting ready he didn't want to get too dressed up so that she would think he thought it was a date. That could complicate there friendship. He wanted to wear something nice though so she would know he hadn't just pulled out a shirt at random. He thought he had succeeded and her next comment confirmed she liked what he had chosen.

"You scrub up good Luke, who would of thought bush boy owned a razor"

"Thanks your looking pretty sharp your self" he replied hoping she didn't think his outfit was too dressy and noticing that hers was very stunning.

"So where are we going for dinner" he questioned.

"Well you see me and Rory came up with this great idea of a 'Restaurant rally' and I thought we would try it out since Rory and I haven't yet due to having such a great place to eat already."

"Right so a crazy Gilmore dinner. Do I dare ask what a 'Restaurant rally' involves?"

"Well you see we take a timer in the car with us set at a certain amount of minutes which we decide. We then star driving in which ever direction we like and once the timer goes off we stop at the next food place we see."

"Did I ever tell you your crazy?" Luke questioned "you know we could end up in a salad bar or some place equally as healthy"

"Yes but it will be fun and besides that's why I have a cheese burger stuffed in my purse"

"Ok it is so crazy it might just be a little fun I guess especially if it is a healthy restaurant and I get to watch you eat something that won't kill you some day" Luke said smiling a little amused by Lorelai's very original antics.

"It will be fun and it would be even funnier if we had to stop at a meat house and I got to watch you eat one fork full of meat at a time as if it was your last supper."

"Ok whatever because it proberly would be red meat does kill you. I would be committing suicide one forkful at a time. Anyway how many minutes shall we set the timer for?"

"I was thinking 34 that gives us time to get a little way from Stars Hallow I guess to places we don't know"

"Sure lets do it then because I know a Gilmore is always hungry and I want to get some food into you before too long."

With that they headed out to Lorelai's jeep and both jumped in. Lorelai placed a small, white, twisting egg timer on the dashboard and set it to 34 before starting up and backing out the driveway.

"10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1" Lorelai counted down as the timer reached it's final second. "Right Luke I guess that's our place" she said as they approached the car park of a restaurant looking place.

"Yeah" Luke replied his tenseness now shooting through the roof as he realised where they were and what the people inside would assume.

"Sniffy's Tavern" Lorelai said reading the sign on the building as they got closer "Have you ever been here before?"

"Yeah actually I have" replied Luke "I come here quite often" he continued hoping she might want to go some place completely new that neither had ever gone before but also knowing she was pretty set on her 'Restaurant rally'.

"Wow really" asked Lorelai excited "is the food good?"

"Yeah the food is great"

"Cool well come on our dinner awaits us I hope they have a table already I am starved"

With that Luke followed Lorelai into the restaurant wondering what events and greetings might await them.

Hope you like this chapter I had fun writing it. Thanks for the reviews keep then coming it really encourages me to update faster and gives me inspiration. Just to clarify for one of you who thought I was on winter break New Zealand is in the southern hemisphere meaning right now it is summer. We don't have a white Christmas we have a summer Christmas. Oh and I have no idea how long it would take to get form Lorelai's to Sniffy's so I just chose a random number sorry.