Authors Note: Sorry about the time contradiction! The promise is to be fulfilled on Thursday! Not Friday. Sorry about the mix up!
Thanks For all your reviews. I know in my profile it says I wouldn't do any long multi chapter stories, but this idea was too good pass up. I actually got inspiration from a FF that I read a long time ago. Someone wrote a one shot story where Lorelai spends the night at Luke's for some reason and they agree to get married by when Lorelai turns 40. I think it was set during "A Tale of Poes and Fire" but I'm not positive. Thanks to who ever you are who wrote this story; it gave me the inspiration to write this one!
Anyway onto chapter 4: Moving Day
It was Thursday. The day Luke was moving into the house and they were going to start their crazy life together. Lorelai had already figured out they could have a nice wedding in the gazebo in a couple weeks. All they needed was Sookie to cook, someone to marry them and some nice clothes to get married in. The town could just come for the wedding and the reception/party would be all around the square. She just needed to figure how to tell the town, Rory, and most dreaded, her parents.
Lorelai had called off work due to "personal affairs" and Luke just said he needed a day's rest from the diner.
Lorelai lay awake at 4:30 AM in her bed waiting for Luke to come. They had decided to bring everything over in the dark so that Babette wouldn't ask any questions. Then she heard the sound of pressure on gravel. Luke's truck was pulling up half full of boxes. She got up and went downstairs to help.
"Hey." She greeted.
"Hi. Did Babette see me at all?"
"I don't think so." She looked and squinted at Babette's window that looked straight into her living room. "Nope, the binoculars are still on the window sill."
"Good. Okay, why don't we get all the boxes in the house so no one knows anything before we want them too."
"Perfecto!" She cheered.
Within 30 minutes all the boxes were in the house and the sun was beginning to rise.
"So, what we should put away first?" Lorelai asked.
"I don't know. Clothes would probably be the easiest. That's mostly what I brought. I also brought kitchen utensils since you don't even own a roasting pan."
"Didn't you bring manly home decorations, too?"
"There's no such thing."
"Yes there is!" She gasped. "What about a big stuffed deer head or one of those singing fish. Or curtains with animal foot prints on them."
"No."
"Really?"
"I don't own any of that stuff. Plus, even if I did would you really want that stuff in your house."
"Well it's your house too, so I'd want you to feel at home. Some of your own stuff in here will man this place up a bit. It's been a sorority type place for years."
"I like it the way it is."
"Okay. But I'm only listening to you because Sookie had this conversation with Jackson and it didn't turn out too well."
"Why? What happened?" Luke questioned.
"Sookie wanted Jackson to feel like her house was manly enough when they got married and decorated the place up like a hunting lodge with deer heads everywhere and a stuffed grizzly bear in the front room." She explained
"Wow."
"Yup."
There was an awkward silence for a minute and they just continued moving boxes to no where in particular until Lorelai said, "You want to put away the clothes first?"
"Sure."
"Okay." They made their way up the stairs and went in the bedroom. Luke then noticed 2 trash bags on the floor and the room was spotlessly clean.
"Wow!" Luke said a little too loudly.
"What?" Lorelai asked.
"It's really clean."
"Well I do know how to tidy up now and then."
"I know but I've never seen it this clean before." He walked to the middle of the room and looked at the large trash bags sitting on the floor. "What's in these?"
"Oh, just some old clothes and stuff I'm throwing away to make room."
"You didn't have to do that."
"Trust me there would have been no room in here if I didn't." She explained as she opened boxes and placed some of the clothing on hangers in the closet and other in drawers. When Lorelai finished one box, she grabbed another, until Luke took one of the boxes she was about to open.
"You don't have to open that one." Said Luke, as he tried to take the box from her.
"No that's okay." Lorelai replied nonchalantly. Then she opened the box and began to giggle and Luke knew why. "You didn't want me to see your underwear. I'm not afraid to touch your boxers. If you wore briefs I might."
"Just give me the box."
"Okey Dokey."
After they unpacked most of the clothes, kitchen items, and knickknacks it was about ten o'clock. Lorelai sat at the kitchen observing while Luke made eggs, toast, and plenty of coffee.
"Thanks for making me breakfast." Lorelai said thankfully.
"It's no big deal, I do it everyday anyway."
"It's still sweet. You're sweet."
"I'm not sweet. Men aren't sweet."
"You are too. You're like teddy bear." She cooed.
"I am not." Luke huffed defensively.
"Then why do you blush when I do this?" And she pecked him quickly on the lips.
"I don't."
"Yes you do. And you never told me you could kiss like that."
"Like what?"
"Like you kissed me the other day." She smiled.
"Well you never asked." He smirked.
As the day continued on they gave everything Luke brought a home in their new home. Luke made chicken parmesan for dinner and they settled in to watch "Sweet Home Alabama" on the couch.
"Can you believe they're so in love, and don't even know it?" Lorelai questioned.
"Seems like it's right in front of their faces just staring at them." Luke replied.
When the movie ended both Luke and Lorelai were very tired from being up since 4 AM and unpacking all day.
"Want to go to bed?" Luke asked.
"Well Luke, that is very forward of you, however since I have known you for years I don't see why not."
"Aw jeez. Let me rephrase that, would you like to go to sleep?"
"Darn I thought I was gonna get lucky tonight."
"Just go." He ordered and pointed up the stairs.
"Carry me?" Lorelai begged and pouted.
"No, not the pout."
"Please!" she begged. "It can be like practice for carrying me over the threshold."
"Fine." He relented and threw her over his shoulder.
"Hey, you can't carry me like this! I said like over the threshold!"
"No you said I can practice for carrying you over the threshold she didn't specify how."
He explained as he carried her up the stairs, down the hall, and into the bedroom. He then tossed her lightly onto the bed.
"Weeeeeee!" Lorelai cheered as she landed.
"Are you 2?"
"No, but that was fun." Lorelai said as she laughed.
They changed into their pajamas. Luke wore the typical green tee and grey sweatpants while Lorelai wore a spaghetti strap tank top and short shorts that said "Tasty" on the rear. Lorelai slept on the left and Luke on the right.
When Lorelai got in the bed Luke just stared at her ensemble.
"What?" Lorelai question feeling on the spot with Luke staring at her.
"You're barely wearing anything."
"Huh." Lorelai doesn't understand what's wrong with her outfit.
"Is this you saying you want it?" Luke asked.
"What no!" She shrieked. "My 'I want something' outfits are in the back of the closet. I'm wearing this because it's warm out."
"Okay."
That's when Lorelai's wheels started to turn and she put Luke on the spot.
"Why were looking for something?"
"Excuse me?"
"Just wondering."
Lorelai then climbed into her side of the bed, turned out the light and snuggled up to Luke's side. In the dark Lorelai began to get comfortable.
"Mmmmmmm, you make a nice pillow." She whispered.
She now had her cheek pressed against where Luke's tattoo is, lying on her left side with her finger laced through his. He could also feel her foot against his leg, which was not helping him breathe normally. After a when he thought she was asleep he kissed her on the head before he finally closed his eyes himself. When he was starting to dose off he heard her sweet voice say:
"You should really work on our aim. Didn't you play baseball in high school?"
"What?"
"You missed my mouth AGAIN. How about I help you? You kiss a girl like this." She kissed him square on the mouth and put her hands on his neck. He started responding to the kiss when she broke it and said "You're improving." He kissed her again, this time using his tongue, which to Lorelai, was a signal that he was looking to get something tonight and climbed on top of him. "You win the most improved student award."
"Thank you." He whispered. "Can I keep practicing though?"
"Oh yes." And she kissed him hard.
And they did what married people do….each other (very dirty, but I couldn't resist.)
A/N- I am only 16 and I wanted to keep this clean. Sorry if it lacked but I felt squirmy just writing that. It was necessary but I don't like writing details.
