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Chapter 27: Hot and Tasty

"Hi Lorelai it´s me"Luke said a week later when he called his wife at the Dragonfly. He was still in the diner, breakfast was just over.

"Wow, you already miss me! That´s fast, I´m flattered!" she laughed.

"Seems like you succeeded in turning me into a love-crazed fool!" Luke grinned and looked around to make sure that nobody was listening.

"Finally, took me long enough! But is that the only reason why you are calling?"

"Actually: No! Jo just called me and asked me if I´m free tonight to hang out with him and some old friends. Am I free?" Luke asked with a smile.

"You mean free of your responsibility of bringing our three kids to bed, making dinner for your starved wife before you carry her to bed? Sure, if you want to."

"Are you angry?" he asked. He was confused. She didn´t sound angry but the way she had told him he was free was strange.

"No, I´m not angry. Disappointed maybe, ´cause I´ll miss you. But you really should go and hang out with your friends. It´s been months since you last did something together. And I still owe you for all the girl-nights with Sookie and Rory when you watched the kids. But you will still pick up Will from kindergarten, right?"

"I will leave the diner around noon to help Kirsten with the new furniture for Honor ´s room and the rest of the boxes. It´s incredible how much stuff two people can have!" he said and rolled his eyes.

"And that answered my question how?" she asked.

"Ah, sorry. I thought you got the hint that I will pick him up when I go over to her house. I will check on the twins and your parents and leave him with them and then I´ll help Kirsten." he finished his explanation.

"Will Honor be also there?" Lorelai asked.

"No, she has school. She has to catch up a lot of stuff. "

"Yeah, I know. Kirsten asked Rory to help Honor, but my busy kid doesn´t have the time to do it. But Logan offered. He said it would be a good opportunity to get away from home more often. Maybe you could give Kirsten his cellphone number when you see her, I forgot about it!"

"Yeah sure. When will you be home?"

"Around six. I have a lot to do."

"So I won´t see you later, I guess. Don´t stay up and wait for me though, it could get late!" Luke said.

"Ok, I won´t. By hon´!" she said and hung up.

When Lorelai came home that evening Emily and Richard were reading with the twins and William.

"Hello sweeties! Did you have a nice day?" she greeted her children and kissed each one of them.

"No!" William said grumpily.

"Why what happened?" Lorelai asked him, smiled at her parents, then picked him up and took him upstairs with her. She sat him down on the bed and started to change, out of her work-clothes into something more comfortable.

"So what happened, William?" she asked.

"Daddy didn´t letted me help him! I must stay here." he pouted.

"Oh my poor boy. But daddy wants to finish the furniture in Kirsten´s house very fast, so that he will have more time to play with you afterwards." Lorelai told him. Luke never had said this, but she didn´t want William to be angry with his father.

"When Kirsten´s house is finished will daddy move in with her?" William asked after a second of thinking.

"Why do you think that he will move in with Kirsten?" Lorelai asked shocked.

"Tony said that his father met an old friend and then he moved in with her and now she is pregnant and he will get a new brother. But his mommy is very sad and cries a lot. Tony said that his daddy at first spend a lot of time with his new friend and then moved in. Daddy also spends a lot of time with Kirsten, so maybe he will move in and I will get a new brother." Lorelai was so shocked that she couldn´t think of an answer at first. She sat down next to William, then put him in her lap and faced him.

"Will. Your daddy has known Kirsten for a very very long time. And when her son and her husband died she decided to move back here. Your daddy helps her now because she can´t do everything alone. The second everything is finished your daddy will have as much time for all of us as before." Lorelai said. Or at least I hope he will!she thought.

"Okay. Mommy can I go to Honor and see her guinea-pig babies?" he asked then.

"Will it´s late I´m sure Honor and Kirsten want to eat and then watch some TV. Maybe tomorrow." she answered.

"But Kirsten is not at home. She went with daddy to meet Jo."

"What? Where do you know that from?" Lorelai asked louder then intended.

"She came over when daddy changed and told me that the guinea-pig babies are old enough that I can see them" William shrugged.

"Can I mommy? Please!" he begged.

"Not today, William. Maybe tomorrow." she said absentmindedly. Luke hadn´t said anything that Kirsten would go with him. She never went with him because she always thought she would disturb the men, at whatever it was they were doing. And Luke had never asked her to come with him. But it seemed like he had asked Kirsten. She was allowed to go with him. The more she thought about it the more sad and angrier she got. She didn´t even realize that William had left the room until she heard his bedroom door slam shut.

"Kirsten baby, I can´t believe that you´re back!" Jo said and hugged her when she arrived with Luke at the bar. Jo and Andy had already started playing billiard when they arrived.

"Well you better believe it before I kick your butt at billiard!" she smiled.

"Seems like you haven´t changed! Hi Luke!" Jo said.

"Hey! How´s it going? How is Marie?" he asked.

"You mean Maria? I have no idea. Haven´t heard from her in weeks. But I met a girl named Eve last week. Very hot!" Jo grinned.

"Yeah, and very young! She could be your daughter!" Andy said and greeted Luke with a hand-shake and a hit on the shoulder.

"How old is she?" Kirsten asked.

"22"

"That´s sick Jo!" Luke said and shook his head.

"Why? She is allowed to vote and to drink alcohol! Why shouldn´t I date her!" Jo shrugged.

"My daughter is older than your newest girl!" Luke said.

"You mean your step-daughter!" Kirsten corrected him.

"Well, for me there is no difference! " Luke told her.

"For me there would be a huge difference if my wife had gotten knocked up by some other guy at 16!" Jo exclaimed.

"Shut up Jo!" Luke said and grabbed the queue from him.

An hour later Lorelai sat on the couch in the living room. The kids were already in bed and her anger had reached new dimensions. She thought about how to punish Luke when he would come home, when the phone rang.

"Danes!" she said, anger apparent in her voice.

"Wow, sorry to disturb you. Seems like it´s a bad time to call." Sookie said when she heard the tone.

"Huh, no it´s fine. What´s up Sookie?" she asked.

"I was just wondering if you already ordered the new pans I told you about?"

"No, I thought about doing it tomorrow. Why?" Lorelai answered.

"Don´t order them. I found better and cheaper one in another catalogue I got today."

"Okay, no problem." Lorelai muttered.

"Hey, what´s wrong?" Sookie asked

"Why do you think something is wrong?" Lorelai asked back.

"Because of your tude. Come on, tell me!"

"Luke went out with his old friends" Lorelai started.

"And what´s wrong with that?"

"He took Kirsten along! I mean... I can´t believe it. He never took me to one of those meetings. It´s not like I asked him to do it, because I always thought I would disturb them. But now he takes along Kirsten. And without even telling me. He said he would go out with some old friends and now she´s with him!" Lorelai ranted.

"Kirsten is an old friend of Luke." Sookie reminded her.

"I know! But she´s a woman and women don´t go to these kind of evenings. I mean what would you say if I would bring...let´s say Chris to one of our nice girl-evenings?"

"Why are you comparing Kirsten to Chris?" Sookie asked curiously.

"I just picked up some random guy from the past... I didn´t compare Kirsten to Chris."

"Lorelai! Chris is not some random guy from the past and you know that. You´ re jealous because Kirsten went with him and not you."

"I am not jealous! Why does everybody think that I´m jealous of Kirsten? Luke is my husband and he loves me. Why should I be jealous?"

"Beats me. You have to tell me!" Sookie grinned.

"Maybe because she is everywhere all the time: In the diner, the Inn, our house. If she is not here with him, he is with her in her house doing god knows what. Not even William is allowed to go with him. When I want to know where my husband is I just have to ask Kirsten, she knows for sure. Maybe William is right and he will move in with her when the house is finished. Soon Honor will call him daddy!"

"Stop! Lorelai, stop! That is so crazy. A second ago you´re telling me that he loves you and that you aren´t jealous and now you are talking about that he could move in with her? This is crazy!Have you talked with Luke about how much it is bugging you that he spends so much time with Kirsten?"

"No! Then he would think that I´m a jealous, freaked-out wife!"

"You are a jealous, freaked-out wife! And he needs to know that!" Sookie laughed.

"God, I hate her!" Lorelai sighed.

"Who? Kirsten? She is really nice, Lorelai. Give her a chance!"

"Not you, too! I can´t hear it anymore! Maybe you should tell her about the pans!" Lorelai scoffed.

"Okay, I´m hanging up now before it gets ugly! Night!" Sookie laughed.

"Night traitor!" Lorelai muttered and threw the phone on the couch.

"Wow, look at that chick!" Jo said and pointed to a young dark-haired woman who had just entered the bar.

"What happened to Eve?" Luke said with raised eyebrows.

"Oh shut up Danes! Since you are married you are even more of a hypocrite than you were before!" Jo laughed.

"You mean because I´m not drooling because of every woman under thirty?" Luke shot back.

"No, because you´re not even looking since Lorelai entered your diner for the first time!"

"I was with Rachel when I already knew Lorelai and I got married!"

"Rachel left because you were pining for Lorelai and your marriage got sour because you rather spend your time in the diner waiting for Lorelai than going home to your hot-lawyer-wife and getting some! So she took the sock-man" Andy laughed and took a sip of his beer.

"That´s not true!" Luke said.

"What that she was a hot-lawyer or that you were pining for Lorelai?"

"You were pining for Lorelai! You were so hot for her! Every time we met he would only tell us about her. What she did, what she said, why the guy she dated wasn´t good for her. It was annoying!" Jo told Kirsten.

"I have to tell you that I never thought you, Butch Danes, would get married until the day I read your letter about her. Sorry Luke, but these two are right!" Kirsten said and also took one more sip from her beer.

"Ah geez! How did we get here? I think we were talking out Eve!" he rolled his eyes.

"No, we re talking about what a softy you got!"

"Well, if softy means for you that you are crazy about your wife and that you adore your kids, then you´re right."

"Haha, he admits it!" Jo laughed and clicked bottles with Kirsten.

"And I will never understand what you did to get her! That one´s a beauty! I mean you´re not that hot!" Andy grinned.

"Oh, don´t underestimate the charm of Butch Danes. He can be incredibly hot if he wants!" Kirsten said with a smile.

"Still falling for him after twenty years, Kris?" Jo mocked.

"No, I´m just saying that I understand Lorelai. I mean if I would have a guy who would do everything for me, love me for years and having these blue eyes and this incredible body, I would be a goner, that´s for sure!"

"Nooo, Kris, you are not falling for him! For me it seems more like you got a stalker Luke!" Andy laughed.

"Can we just play and stop discussing why my wife loves me! Maybe you should call her and just ask her! Or better do it the next time you see her, ´cause otherwise she will kill ya when you´re waking up the twins" Luke said with cocky grin and pushed the next ball into the hole.

Lorelai walked from the living-room into the kitchen, from the kitchen into the dining-room, over to the library, then back to the living-room. She had been doing that for the last two hours. She was bored, angry, sad and jealous at the same time and she didn´t know what to do. She turned on the TV, then turned it of, tried to read then closed the book, turned on the radio, then the CD player, flipped through some magazines and tried to do some paperwork, but all the time the thoughts of Luke and Kirsten came back to her.

One second she convinced herself that it was harmless, just two old friends going out with other old friends, then she had the picture of a romantic date in her mind. She thought about calling Rory, but it was too late.

Luke hadn´t said when he would be back, just that it could get late. She thought of what to say to Luke. How to explain to him why she didn´t want him to spend so much time with Kirsten anymore. Then her words and arguments sounded stupid to herself and she decided against talking to him.

She decided to play the situation cool and act like nothing was disturbing her. Soon Kirsten would be moved in completely and then she would have Luke to herself again.

But then she realized that Kirsten wouldn´t disappear the moment the last box would be unpacked. She was living next to them now. She would see her every day. Luke would see her ever day. That´s when her rage won and she stomped up the stairs to their bedroom. She took Luke´s pillow and his blanket and walked back downstairs with it. She threw it on the couch and then stood in front of it, looking down on his pillow, then turned away quickly, before she would start to cry out of pure frustration.

The TV was still on, but mute. She glanced at the talk-show when the video which lay on the recorder caught her attention. She wondered what it was doing on the recorder, because she hadn´t watched it for years and she always thought it would still be in her drawer in her bedroom. She picked it up and put it in the recorder.

She saw herself in her wedding-dress, nervous before the wedding. And then how she had walked down the isle towards Luke who had waited for her with a nervous smile on his face.

Lorelai walked to the couch and sat down. She shoved the pillow away from her, like she would get burned if it would touch her. But she could smell it. She could smell Luke on it. The scent of his after-shave and shampoo came from the pillow. She fought for nearly an hour, while she watched her wedding video, still without sound, before she gave in and lay her head on the pillow. She took a deep breath and was surrounded by Luke´s scent.

"Jo you´re drunk. Let´s go, buddy!" Andy said and tried to get Jo off the chair for maybe the tenth time.

"Am not! And it´s still early. Only losers go home at that time!" Jo slurred.

"Come on Jo! I also wanna go. Call me a loser, but I´m tired!" Luke said and helped Andy to get Jo out of the chair.

"No, Danes, you my friend are not a loser! With a wife like yours, you´re the king,man! The king! Have you met his wife Kris? Have you met her?" Jo went on and turned to Kirsten, who was nearly asleep on the table, but looked up.

"Yeah, Jo, I met her." she mumbled.

"She´s hot! She´s fuckin´hot! God, these eyes! You have to pay attention to her eyes Kris! And then these endless legs. I thought, no, I think that you are a very lucky man Danes! The luckiest! And when she wore that red top, the last time I visited..."

"Ok, Jo, that´s enough, let´s get you out of here!" Luke said and together with Andy he carried Jo to Andy´s car. They put him on the passengers seat and closed the door. Kirsten had stumbled out behind them and now lay her head down on Luke´s shoulder.

"You can handle him?" Luke asked Andy.

"Sure. Business as usual. He will be asleep before we´ll leave the parking lot. I´ll give you a call when I have the cards for the baseball-game. Maybe you can bring Will this time. He sure is old enough now!"

"Yes, he is. I´m sure he´ll freak when I tell him. See ya Andy!" Luke said and they hugged briefly.

Luke waited until Andy sat in his car, then he turned to Kirsten.

"Let´s get you home Kris!" he said and grabbed her arm to support her.

"I´m sooo tired!" she mumbled.

"I know. You are just as drunk as Jo!" Luke grinned and opened the door for her.

When they arrived back home Luke shook Kirsten awake, who had been sleeping the whole ride back to Stars Hollow.

"Come on Kirsten wake up!" he said, while he stood next to her.

"No! Tired! Carry me!" she mumbled still more asleep then awake.

"Oh, no really Kris! You can walk, I won´t carry you! My back hurts because of all your boxes I carried around the whole day!" he said and shook her again.

"Okay, I´m up! I´m walking!" she said and got out of the car, still with closed eyes.

"Thank you, Butch for bringing me home! My hero!" she laughed drunkenly.

"Yeah, yeah. Good Night! Be quiet when you go in, Honor will be asleep!" he said and watched her until she had disappeared in her house.

He quietly unlocked his own door and took off his shoes, so that he wouldn´t make any noise.

When he walked into the living-room he had to smile. The TV was still on, mute, showing the last minutes of their wedding-video. He had just watched it yesterday, when he had shown it to Kirsten.

Lorelai was sprawled across the couch on a blanket, her head on a pillow from the bedroom. She lay on her stomach, her face buried in the pillow and the word "Tasty" clearly visible on her sweat-pants.

He turned off the TV and stopped the video, then walked to the couch. He sat down next to Lorelai and stroked her hair from her face and ran his hand through her hair several times, before he leaned down and kissed her softly on the cheek. She stirred slightly and turned towards him, snuggling closer to him. He slowly stood up, then picked her up carefully, not to wake her.

When he entered their bedroom he realized that it had been his pillow and his blanket downstairs. He placed her on the bed, then covered her with her blanket. He kissed her again, this time on the forehead. He had to smile again when he thought of Jo´s words and the fact that she wore her "tasty" pants.

He walked outside, checked on William, then on the twins before he walked downstairs and grabbed his pillow and his blanket to bring it back to his bed, so that he could finally sleep.

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