Chapter 34: Lorelai, Boston and the Red Sox

When the big day of the game finally arrived, Luke was nervous. It was the first time that she would meet one of his best friends and the first time he would ever take a woman to a baseball-game. And Lorelai had no idea about sports.

"Daddy can I come with you, too?" William asked and climbed in his lap while Luke sat on the couch waiting for Lorelai, who had promised to be ready on time for once.

"Will I just have two cards and I promised your mother to take her along. The next time, okay?" Luke tried to lighten William´s mood.

"Promise?" he asked.

"Promise!" Luke said and smiled when William slung his arms around his neck and hugged him.

"Now ladies and gentleman, we, as in the three beautiful Danes-Girls, present the most beautiful and cutest outfit a loving wife could wear to a baseball-game with her husband" Lorelai´s voice came from upstairs, before she came down the stairs with Sara and Laila sitting on her hips.

She wore red- white sneakers, an extremely short white skirt and a tight shirt in red with a large V-neck cut. The twins wore the matching caps and shirts, hence the v-neck, and jeans-skirts.

At first Luke´s eyes were drawn immediately to her legs, then upwards. Then he noticed the twin´s outfits and had to smile. She twirled around one time before she placed the twins on the ground and grinned at him when she saw that his eyes were fixed on her chest now.

"Can we go, Lukey?" she asked in a girlish-voice and William started to laugh.

"You are crazy mommy!" he giggled.

"You wanna go like this?" Luke asked with raised eyebrows and gestured towards her outfit.

"Yes, honey!" she said in the same voice again.

"You are going to freeze! It´s around 2°C outside!" he said and stood up, sitting William on the couch.

"And?I won´t be out long" she grinned and was confused when Luke started to laugh.

"Will, come here, my son!" he laughed and kneeled down, then whispered something into Williams ear. The boy started to giggle again.

"Mommy, you´re stupid! A game is 4-hours long and it´s all outside not in a gym!" he laughed.

"Outside?"she shrieked what caused Luke and William to laugh even harder.

"Outside!" Luke confirmed.

"But it´s freezing! Can´t they build a roof over these baseball-arena-thingies?"

"No, they can´t. And we still have to drive to Boston and it´s getting late. So go upstairs and change!" Luke said while he stood up.

"But Luuuke! You didn´t tell me! 4 hours? Outside? In the cold? Are you seriously considering dragging me, your beloved wife to that so I will get a cold, which will be awful and then I will die?" she asked over- dramatically.

"You don´t have to go!" he told her quietly.

"Can I go?" William asked excitedly.

"No, honey mommy will go with daddy!" Lorelai told him and smiled when he started to pout.

"You, wait here, I´ll be right back, just a second!" she told Luke then and ran back upstairs.

"And you two need to change,too. It´s too cold like that" Luke told the twins, still grinning about the fact that Lorelai would come with him.

"No! Daddy ousfis cute!" Laila told him and twirled a strand of her blonde hair around her finger and lay her head a bit to the right side.

"Okay, but you need at least wear tights under your skirts. No discussion! Go upstairs and grab your white tights, I will dress you!" he told the girls and sighing they made their way upstairs.

Ten minutes later Lorelai came back downstairs, wearing jeans, sneakers and a Red Sox pullover, a Red Sox scarf, Red Sox gloves, a Red Sox cap and a Red Sox jacket. Luke just shook his head when he saw her, but said nothing.

"I even have Rod Sox socks! Groovy, huh?" she grinned proudly.

"Yeah, but don´t expect me to sing "Nothing at all" now!" she held out her hands for him and tried to pull him off the couch, but he pulled her in his lap instead and kissed her.

The kiss got more and more heated and Luke´s hand found it´s way under her pullover. Lorelai moaned and pulled him closer, putting her glove covered hands on his neck.

"God, get a room you two!" Rory´s voice could be heard suddenly and they broke the kiss.

"You know, this is our room, everyone of these.Our problem is just that to our three little nosy kids comes a big nosy one and her boyfriend" Lorelai quipped and gave Luke one last peck before they stood up and greeted Rory and Logan. Their arrival did not go unnoticed by the small kids and they were running screaming to their older sister and her boyfriend.

"Can we go now?" Luke asked after another five minutes of small-talk.

"Ay, ay Captain!" Lorelai saluted and they said goodbye to their three daughters, one boyfriend and a pouting son.

Although the drive to Boston wasn´t that long, Lorelai needed six stops for coffee, two to go to the bathroom and one to get a magazine. By the time they arrived Luke´s patience had run out and it was a good thing they were there.

The others were already waiting on the parking lot. Lorelai recognized Andy and Jo, but the third guy was new. He was a tall, dark-haired guy and was hugging a blonde woman when they reached the group.

"Hey guys!" Lorelai greeted them and was surprised when the woman turned around and it was Kirsten.

"Lorelai! Great that you are here!" Kirsten smiled and hugged her.

"Yeah, well...can´t let my poor husband go out with his buddies all alone, huh?" she tried to joke. Luke felt her uneasiness and squeezed her hand. The he let go and greeted his friends. When Jo saw Lorelai, he stepped forward and hugged her, while his hand slid downwards more and more on her back.

"Jo, keep your hands off my wife!" Luke barked.

"Sorry, but she just smells so good!" he grinned and let go of Lorelai, who shot him an angry look.

"I know!" Luke said and pulled her towards him, placing his right hand on her waist. Lorelai smiled thankfully at him, then pulled his head down and kissed him. Luke smiled back when they pulled apart and Jo rolled his eyes. Then James looked expectantly at Luke.

"James this is Lorelai, Lorelai James" he introduced her to the stranger. They shook hands and Lorelai was relieved when he smiled warmly at her.

"So, you´re the woman he is talking about all the time" James smiled.

"It wouldn´t be appropriate for him to talk about another woman when he is married to me. Except her name would be Rory, Laila or Sara" Lorelai smiled back and took Luke´s hand again.

"Your daughters, I know. And William, right?" James replied.

"Exactly! So where is this game you were babbling about?" she turned to Luke again.

"I wasn´t babbling, you were the one babbling about the quality of coffee you were getting oh so often, about cute outfits,why the Red Sox should wear blue and so on. And the game hasn´t started yet!" Luke told her with raised eyebrows. The others started to laugh and Lorelai to pout.

"Then let´s go!" Andy said.

They walked talking to the stadium, Andy and James talked with Luke and Lorelai, Jo and Kirsten strolled behind them.

When they entered the stadium, there were food booths all over the place and without looking at Lorelai Luke could feel her excitement.

"Luuke?" she started two seconds later. Luke grinned, knowing what would come.

"Yes?" he asked.

"I´m starving! And the hot dogs over there smell heavenly!" she cooed and made puppy-eyes.

"uhuh!" Luke just made and waited.

"Luuuke! Come on!"

"What? What do you want?" he played dump

"Well if you don´t know what I want after nearly 5 years of marriage and my subtle hints, then maybe something is wrong with our marriage!" she whined.

"Wow, she´s starting with the hard stuff!" James laughed.

"Yes, I think we might get a divorce when she won´t get her hot-dog!" Luke laughed and Lorelai slapped his chest.

"Stop mocking me and give me something to eat!" Luke took some money out of his pocket and handed it to her.

"No, that´s so unromantic!" she refused to take it.

"What? What do you want Lorelai?" he asked.

"You go over there and buy me a hot-dog! That´s the romantic way! Let your actions speak, baby!" she grinned.

"Dirty!" Andy laughed.

"Ah geez! Okay, let´s get you your food. Come with me!" Luke said annoyed and pulled her by the hand over to the food-stand.

When they came back Lorelai was happily eating her hot-dog, which had so many things on she could hardly bite in it. Luke held another one, the same size, in his hand, his other hand was placed on the small of her back.

"She convinced you to eat one yourself?" Jo asked.

"mmmhmhm" Lorelai made when she tried to speak with a full mouth and the others looked at her questioningly.

"Chew!" Luke told her.

"Swallow!" he said after some seconds and she followed his instructions.

"Talk!" he said then.

"No,that´s mine, too! Have I mentioned that I´m hungry?" she smiled and then happily took another bite of her food. Luke just shook his head and smiled before he kissed her forehead.

"God, Danes you´ve got it bad!" Jo scuffed and lay his hands around Kirsten´s shoulders before they walked off together.

"Let´s go and find our seats" Andy said and exchanged a look with James and Luke before they went to find their seats.

After the game had started the guys kept discussing about it the whole time. Kirsten seemed to be into baseball as well, so she could discuss with them. Only Lorelai had no idea what they were talking about. She was sitting beside Luke, who jumped up from time to time, and watched the people around them more than the game. She wished Rory would be there, so she would have someone to mock them with. Of course Luke was a great mocker also, but she didn´t want to disturb him in his discussions, he seemed so into.

Luke caught her glancing around the visitors and not watching the game. Half an hour after the game started he realized how bored she looked. This wasn´t the way he wanted the things which were fun for him to be for her. He took her hand and squeezed it to get her attention.

"Look, that guy over there is going to throw the ball. And he, the one from the other team tries to hit it with his bat..." he explained and waited a second to give her a chance.

"Dirty!"she took it and smiled. He smiled back and went on explaining baseball to her as simple as he could.

"So when the fat guy hits the ball, the guy with the nice ass loses, right?" she summed up his explanations.

"Something like that, yes" he agreed.

"Yay, now I´m a pro in baseball! Do you think he knows all that?" she grinned at Luke and pointed at a man a few rows in front of them.

"I think he knows" Luke nodded.

"And he, the one who munches peanuts the whole time? Maybe he is just here for the peanuts and not for the actual game. I could explain him how it works, so that he can follow!" she suggested.

"Lorelai I´m pretty sure everyone here knows the rules, otherwise he wouldn´t be here." Luke sighed.

"I´m here and I didn´t know the rules."

"You know them now"

"But not before and only because you explained them to me! But if they all know the rules and I didn´t does that mean I´m special?"

"You know you are" Luke whispered in her ear before he kissed her.

"Ah, Danes, not again! This snogging is annoying! Why are you even here when you are more interested in your wife than the game? Go home and do it there!" Jo nearly yelled annoyed. Luke gave Lorelai one last peck before he shot up and grabbed Jo´s arm.

"I think we have to talk! Now!" he said and Jo didn´t have the courage to argue with him when he saw the look in Luke´s eyes.

Lorelai stayed in her seat with a confused look, which got even more confused when Kirsten shot her a disapproving glance.

Andy noticed her confusion and sat down next to her.

"Don´t worry. It´s not only about you. This was a long time coming. I´m sure Luke will have some serious talk with Jo. They always were like that, even at school. Jo has always been jealous of Luke and at some point he let it out until Luke had a nice talk with him. The peace would last for a while, then it started again."

"I don´t wanna be the reason this friendship ends" Lorelai said upset.

"You won´t be. They will work it out. They always did. Actually I´m surprised Luke didn´t do this a lot earlier."

"Why?"

"You know, Jo wanted Anna, Luke got her. The same with Rachel. And I think you already noticed that Jo is, let´s say, attracted to you. And you never gave into his attempts."

"Andy I´m married and I love Luke. I thought Jo was just joking. He is Luke´s friend" she was surprised.

"Jo is a good friend of Kirsten, always was. James is a good friend of Luke and me, Jo is a buddy we hand out with, but friend? I wouldn´t go that far. He can be very funny if he wants to." Andy explained.

"Hm" Lorelai just made and then gave him a grateful smile.

"You enjoy the game so far?" James, who had witnessed the talk asked her.

"Luke just explained me the rules, before I was wondering what the hell is going on down there!" she admitted and laughed.

"So, you´re not a sports fan. What are you a fan of?" James smiled back

"Coffee!" she answered without thinking about it and the two men started to laugh.

"No more coffee for you, I told you!" Luke´s voice could be heard suddenly when he came back.

"Why don´t you just shut up Butch when you have no idea what these two nice men and I were talking about!" she said sarcastically and stood up. She pushed him down on her seat, Andy still on Luke´s, and then sat down in his lap.

"Much better! These chairs aren´t comfortable" she grinned and snuggled as close into him as possible.

"You use me as your personal pillow now?" he asked her.

"You´re used to it!" she shrugged and looked at the field. Luke kissed her cheek and whispered some explanations into her ear from time to time. James and Andy talked with them about the game and made some jokes when Lorelai claimed to know every rule and made some up, like the one that they need to spit before they were allowed to throw the ball, and then she yelled "foul" every time one of the players didn´t.

Jo had come back some time after Luke and had walked straight over to where Kirsten sat. He was talking with her and ignored the others.

After another twenty minutes Lorelai turned to Luke and took his chin with one hand and forced him to look at her.

"I need to pee! And I need you to come with me, cause otherwise I´ll never find the way back here" she told him, stood up and pulled him after her by his hand. Luke rolled his eyes at Andy, who just laughed, and followed her.

They were in front of the toilets when she stopped and looked at him for a second before she asked

"What did you say to Jo? And what was this all about?".

"I thought you had to pee!" he sighed.

"I do, but first I want an answer. Andy told me some stuff already, but I want to know what you said to Jo!" she pushed him.

"You want the whole talk or just the basics?" Luke asked and sighed defeated.

"I really have to pee so the basics will be enough for now!" she said with a nod.

"I asked him what his problem is and why he is acting like a complete ass towards us. I also told him that if he will ever touch you again or yell at you I´m gonna kill him very slowly and painfully. And at last I told him that I don´t care what this thing is between him and Kirsten but that I expect him to help the next time we have to work at her house. Just showing up when it is pleasant for him isn´t working anymore. He robbed me about three weekends by not helping, but when it comes to party and drinking he is always on board. But this is over now!" Luke finished. Lorelai remained silent for some time and Luke thought that it might have been wrong to tell her what he said about Kirsten, but then she wrapped her arms around him and hugged him. He hugged her back and for some seconds they stood there, he leaning against the building with the toilets having her in a tight hug.

"I sometimes can´t believe I got you! I really, really, really love you Mr. Danes!" she said quietly, still hugging him.

"Right back at ya!" he smiled and let a bit lose so that he could kiss her. But Lorelai pulled back completely, just gave him a quick peck.

"I really have to pee now!" she said and hurried off to the toilets.

"Aren´t we romantic today?" Luke yelled after her with a smile and then shook his head, leaned back and against the wall and waited for her return.

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