Chapter 2:

Later at Luke's

It was already 8:30pm and Kirk was the only one left in the diner. He had put all this hope into Lorelai coming and possibly making headway into a new relationship. He knew it was too good to be true, just then the diner door opened and Lorelai walked in.

"Oh My God Coffee please" gasped Lorelai.

Teasingly Luke says, "It's 8:30, it's too late for coffee. You'll never be able to go to bed!"

"LUUUUKKKKEEEEE, pleeeeease!"

"Fine." He started to pour her a cup of coffee. He just couldn't say not to this beautiful woman standing in front of him. "So how was your day?"

"Not to eventful. You know trying to keep Michel off my back, bought some shoes, answered phones...same old same old. How about you?"

"You know, flipped some burgers, served some customers, yelled at Kirk. So same old same old really."

"How rude, Kirk yelled, That really puts a damper on the tip you will be getting!"

"Just hurry up. I want to close the diner up early tonight."

"What no dinner for me? I am going to starve," said Lorelai a bit to over dramatic.

"I already put a burger on the grill for you, so don't worry."

Trying to make small talk Lorelai says, "So did you see the weather outside? I swear it is blowing like a whore out there!"

"What?"

"Too dirty huh?" Lorelai's face scrunched up. Man She couldn't make any form of conversation tonight, she was nervous. Luke made her nervous-wow!

Luke gives her a gin and walks back into the kitchen to get Lorelai's burger and he walks back towards her.

"Wow look at the time, I have to get home before mother throws a fit that I am out past my bed time." And with that Kirk runs out the door. Just as Kirk opened the door, a huge gust of wind came in a lifted many napkins up off the table and into Luke's face as he walked by with the burger. He dropped the plate and ketchup and mustard fell onto his shirt and pants.

"Damn it Kirk! This will never come out!"

"Luke, you have to get that off before the stain sets in. Go let it soak."

"Yah, yah, i'll be right back." Luke charges upstairs muttering curses under his breath.

Luke heads upstairs to get dressed. After a minute or so and without food Lorelai gets bored and decides to go upstairs and make sure everything was alright. She didn't know if Luke knew what she meant by soaking. She knocked on his door and let herself into his apartment.

"Hey Luke, I am sorry about the..." Her words trailed off as she saw Luke in just a pair of sweatpants. She had never seen his body before, it was always covered in that familiar plaid. Wow she thought. Hello there Mr Pecks and Move over six pack abs!

"Uhh...no it's alright Lorelai, I need to be more careful, that's all. I am almost done here, I'll be down in just a second."

"No, it's okay. I'll just help you get the stain out...I mean you don't want it to set or anything. You'll have red and yellow spots on your shirt and that would totally set off the plaid." She gave him a weak smile and walked up close to him. Wow he smelled amazing she thought. This was closer than they had ever been before.

"No really, it's okay, you don't have to..."His voice trailed off as Lorelai grabbed the shirt.

"No I want to." whispered Lorelai. They locked eyes for awhile. Each one searching the other for some answer-not exactly sure what that question was. Breaking the tension, Lorelai went over to the kitchen with the shirt and began to try and rinse the stain. Luke just stood there unable to process what was going on. He was half dressed with Lorelai in the room tending to him. He watched her as she was at the sink. She was so beautiful he thought to himself. He knew it was his chance. He knew what he had to do. "Really Lorelai, you don't have to do that." He started to walk towards her across the room.

"No Luke. It's partially my fault, I mean it was my burger!"

Luke stood right behind her and put his arms around her and placed his hands on hers. Lorelai felt like she had never felt before. She had goosebumps running up and down her body. Her heart was beating faster. Luke was touching her and she couldn't even think anymore. Luke felt like he should have done this so long ago. He could feel Lorelai's body tense up. He could feel her heart beat fast. He knew she felt it too. Lorelai dropped the shirt in the sink and turned off the water.

"You feel it too, don't you?" Luke whispered into Lorelai's ear.

She looks down at the sink and turns around. There is barely an inch between them. Barely audible she says, "..yes.."

Luke takes one hand and places it on her hip while he lifts up her chin with the other. There eyes met for the first time. He could fall into those deep blue eyes of hers. Lorelai realizes that all she has ever wanted was standing in front of her all along. Luke pulled her in for a kiss and they stood there lost in a sweet soft kiss for what seemed like forever until Luke pulled away. Lorelai's eyes were still closed still trying to take it all in.

Lorelai finally opened her eyes and said the only thing she could think of, "Wow." This time she she threw her arms around his neck and began to kiss him passionately. There tongues were entwined trying to memorize the every inch of each others mouth. A deep moan arose from deep within Luke's throat and she nibbled on his bottom lip. She moved her hands from his neck to his back and chest. She wanted to feel every part of Luke at that moment. Luke moved his fingers ever so slowly up the side of her sides. He quickly moved them under her shirt which got a moan out of Lorelai. He started to push her towards his single bed on the other side of the room. Luke started to slowly pull Lorelai's shirt off from her. She felt his hands brush across her breast and softly moaned into his ear. She started putting kisses down his chest and made her way to the rim of his sweatpants. She pulled them down as he was unbuttoning her pants and slid them right off of her legs. By the time they had reached the bed Lorelai was only wearing her bra and panties and Luke was wearing his boxers.

Luke gently laid Lorelai on the bed and rolled on top of her. He couldn't believe this was happening. He had waited so long for this to actually happen. He only ever had dreams about this, but they were never anything as good as what was happening right now. Luke started to kiss her neck wanting to taste every inch of her body. He ran his tongue along her jawline up to her ear lobe and sucked on it. Then he started to to kiss down her collarbone towards her breasts. Lorelai started to raise her body up towards his mouth and moan his name. All of a sudden he stopped and rolled over on his side and propped his head up on this arm.

Out of breath Lorelai tried to speak. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing it's just...maybe we should take it slow. I don't want to rush this Lorelai. I have waited to long. I want this to be just right." He looked down at his feet unable to look into Lorelai's eyes afraid that she would be angry with him.

Still out of breath, "Okay." She was a little relieved when he said that. Yah that was amazing with Luke, but she wanted to make sure it was right. All her other relationships were fast. She didn't want Luke to be like the others. She wanted to take it slow. "Could I...you know...maybe...stay here tonight?"

Immediately Luke said, "Of course, I wouldn't want it any other way." Luke gave Lorelai a sweet kiss on the lips relieved she felt the same way. With that Luke pulled Lorelai into his arms until they both fell asleep.

The next morning Lorelai woke up to Luke's arm wrapped around her stomach. It took her a second to realize where she was. She was at Luke's apartment. A smile came across her face. She was with Luke! She turned around and looked and saw Luke still asleep. She laid there just watching him. Finally she couldn't take it anymore and kissed him ever so lightly on the lips. Luke started to stir.

"Good morning," she said to him once his eyes opened up.

"mmm Good morning" He kissed her on her forehead.

Lorelai looked at the clock and saw that it said 6:30am."You don't have to be down there any time soon do you?"

"I'm sorry, I have to open this morning. If I would have known about last night, I would have had Ceasar open up." He gave her a little smirk.

Flashing Luke a grin, "Yah right, Like you didn't have this planned!"

Luke gave her a smile. "So Lorelai, about what I said last night, you know, about taking things slow..."

"Luke, don't worry, I agree. I want to take things slow too. I want this, I mean 'us' to be different. We have all the time in the world."

"Okay good. I just want you to know though that I am all in. I've waited too long for this to be just fooling around."

"Wait what?" Lorelai had a confused look on her face. "you've been waiting? How long?"

Luke had the look of discomfort on his face. "Wow look at the time! I better get down there before the whole town is in an up roar! I'll bring you some coffee and breakfast in a little while, you just try and get some more sleep." With that he shot out of bed and starts throwing on all his clothes.

"But Luke..."She wanted to know what he was talking about. Luke gave her a quick kiss on her lips and headed out the door.

Lorelai was stunned. He had been waiting for her? How could she not tell? Maybe she was so caught up in all her failed relationships that she couldn't even see this perfect man in front of her. Well it didn't matter about the past now, she was with Luke now and she was happier then she had ever been. She didn't want to ruin this. When he came back she would press him for more details about the waiting, now all she wanted to do was go back to sleep and have more of those amazing dreams she had had last night. With that she dozed off into dream land.