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HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!
Friends Doing the Twist
By Gilmoregirl1979 (the reigning Quote Queen)
Provider of QUALITY Fan FICTION!
Rating: PG-13
Hi this is your friendly disclaimer: I REJECT ASP's REALITY AND SUBSTITUE MY OWN! Once again, I don't own (DAMN IT! DAMN IT DAMN IT DAMN IT DAMN IT!), No Harm No Sue. (JUST GIVE ME A JOB and we will call it even!)
R/R: Yes, please I love reviews; I wanna marry them (as previously stated, I have strange passions.)
Luvz: I miss you
FEATURING BETA: localizy, this girl can read at like 200 WPM … I just want to put her on display and sell tickets! BABY, you're the GREATEST! (read her fics What can I say and Can't Buy Me Love, I Helped!)
A/N:Dialouge borrowed from
4.17 - Girls in Bikinis, Boys Doin' The Twist/written by Amy Sherman-Palladino/directed by Jamie Babbit / Intentions and lines altered by me!
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Chapter 5:
… Under The Circumstances
Lorelai was furious and scolding her newly spring broken daughter. "So I call this place where you were supposedly staying, and some punk at the desk tells me"
Rory pleaded "I said I was sorry."
"'I'm sorry, ma'am, she's not here anymore.' My-my-my heart flew out of my chest. And not just because he called me 'ma'am.' Which by the way, I hate."
"I didn't mean to freak you out."
"You don't take off without telling Mommy."
"I love that I didn't have to clear it with you to go on spring break, but I had to clear it with you to come home."
"I had visions of you being swallowed by a whale or taking off with some surfers to go chase the perfect wave and not inviting me."
"It just got to be way too much fun."
"Yeah? How much is 'too much?'" Lorelai winced.
"I had a drink."
Wow like mother like daughter… "And?"
"Paris and I took turns throwing up."
"That's the way you girls will find yourselves a husband."
"It was fine- aspirin, tons of water, mac and cheese..."
"Ahh, my baby's discovered her first hangover food. I wish I had a picture to put next to your clay handprint.""I think I still have the box."
"Send it to me. So how was it?"
"It was interesting, you know? We sat on the beach, went to a club, we watched 'The Power of Myth,' Paris and I kissed... "
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. You watched "The Power of Myth"? I hid that from you! You did not spend spring break with Bill Moyers!"
"Enough about me…" Rory rolled her eyes, "tell me about you…"
Suddenly Lorelai felt very uncomfortable talking to her daughter and best friend, "Oh well um, what's to talk about?" Rory's adventures in Spring Break had distracted Lorelai from thinking about her night with Luke.
"Well, I know you missed me…and were worried sick… but what's new in town…any new gossip I've missed?"
"Oh well umm no not really…"
"Mom"
"You are so keeping something from me…spill!"
"Okay well, it's not fun gossip…"
"Alright… tell me…"Rory was concerned about how serious her mother sounded.
"Well, the other night… Luke got arrested."
"What? Don't tell me he finally killed Taylor! Man and I was out of town and missed it!"
"No, this…wasn't…even in town…" Lorelai trailed off, reliving the night again, wondering how she could tell her little girl.
"What?"
"It was in Litchfield," Lorelai decided to start over, and took a deep breath, "Okay, you know how Luke is… married?"
"Yeah?"
"Well… Nicole apparently … forgot that…"
"What?"
"Luke found out that Nicole was …cheating on him…"
"No way!" Rory gasped.
"Yes. And well he didn't take is so well and he sort of beat up the Sockman's car?"
"The who's car?" Rory asked with a raised eye brow
"Nicole's boyfriend, earlier last week Luke mentioned his concerns to me. That he found this random pair of socks at … their place and he realized they weren't his, they weren't Nicole's…"
"Well that doesn't mean…"
"Luke saw them… he saw Nicole and the Sockman enter their place in Litchfield together. Luke was…so was upset and beat up the Sockman's car… then he got arrested, he called me and I drove out to Litchfield, bailed him out. We went back to pick up his truck and well…" Lorelai wanted to be honest and come clean with her daughter, but finished off weakly, "…and they were still inside… the car still out front… and Luke made a second attack which I stopped."
"Wow… I mean I was just getting used to the idea of him being married, and now..." and Rory was starting to boil, "Who could cheat on Luke! I mean he's great… and thoughtful! What a RAT! She gives lawyers a bad name! I never liked Nicole!"
"Me neither," Lorelai honestly agreed.
Rory's voice was suddenly small, "So, how is he? You know now…"
"Aw you know... he's okay. I guess…"
"Well I mean… you've been there for him right?"
Oh yeah, I was SO there for him…Thinking of the immediate comfort she offered Luke the night in question. "Of course," Lorelai said in her own small voice, regretting that she stayed away from the diner past week and tried to imagine what Luke had been going through dealing with Nicole and then Lorelai's absent friendship.
"Well, next time you see him… send him my love… okay…"
"Sure sweetie," Lorelai said distantly.
"Is everything okay? You sound funny?"
"No everything is fine…really…"
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Luke rang the bell of the townhouse he was supposed to call his home. As he waited, he looked at the outside of the building… he never really looked at the place before. He thought of what little time he had spent there…no wonder a busy body called the police on him, they didn't know he lived there. Nicole was always out of town on business and it didn't make sense to drive to another county to spend the evening by him-self when he could do that at his place in Stars Hollow.
Luke rang the bell again, and turned his back to the door, he saw the spot where he was arrested, where the sock man had parked…where he and Lorelai stood a few days ago… before…
Nicole finally answered the door; surprised her husband felt the need to ring first, it's his place too… well it's supposed to be. "Luke?"
"Hey," he turned and smiled a polite smile to his wife.
"Sorry, I was upstairs… Umm aren't you supposed to be at work?"
"Oh, sorry is this a bad time?" wondering if he was interrupting more sock man time.
"Not really …I was just packing for my trip to New York." Nicole found it weird that she was having a conversation with her husband in the door way, "Why did you ring the bell?"
"I don't know… seemed appropriate… under the circumstances."
"Okay? … Well… would you like to come in? … It's your place too, you know" she reminded him.
"Is it?" he said snidely, and then walked past her in to "their" home.
As Nicole shut the front door, she felt a fight coming on. That seemed to be all she and Luke did recently so she knew the signs well. "Alright…" she sighed, tired of always fighting with the man she vowed to love, honor, and cherish and yet rarely did, "…what is?"
"What's what?"
"I find it hard to believe that you would use your lunch break to drive all the way out here to pick a fight… so whatever it is, it must be important," Nicole crossed her arms.
"Well, since you brought it up…" Luke explained, "I know about the sock man."
"The what-man?" Nicole was confused.
"I know … about him," Luke stressed.
Nicole realized she wasn't as clever as she thought, "Oh"
"Yeah, Oh," Luke sarcastically shot back.
"How long... have you known…?"
"A few nights ago… I came here… and … well saw you two … together…" Luke looked around the condo, and realized he missed his opportunity to spend any time here. Lorelai was right; he wasn't really invested in the move. It was terribly inconvenient for Luke to run the diner in Stars Hollow and to be a good husband in Litchfield, especially if Nicole was running out of town every five minutes …with other men.
"Luke…"
"What? You didn't mean for it to go so far? You didn't mean for me to ever find out about it?"
"Luke, please…"
"No… I have a right to be upset…you cheated on me…" and his rant ran dry, he couldn't claim the moral high ground; he was a cheater too, he committed adultery too, and well, he was in love with someone else, too.
Nicole didn't know what impaired his usual power to rant, but seized the opportunity to speak, to defend herself, "Well, can you blame me? You are never here…"
"No you were never here. One week in Boston, another in New York… I never see you…"
"You never see me! I never see you… You are always at the diner…"
"It's my business … I have to be there to run my business…"
"You mean you have to stay there in case she came in…"
"Hey! …Leave her out of this. This is about you and me."
"But you knew exactly who I meant," Nicole challenged, satisfied that her suspicious had been right.
Changing the subject, Luke pushed through, "Look, you were the one who said you wanted to put the divorce on hold … to give being married a try like it was a pair of shoes or something… you were the one who said we could just be married people who dated…you're the one who wanted to move in together…"
"Well, excuse me for thinking we could live in the same house together… like normal married people…"
"Hey, I moved here… for you…"
Nicole scoffed, "No, you didn't! You brought a box over and said you'd get the rest later…but later never came."
Both arguments ran out of steam and the married couple simply glared at each other. Luke knew she was right; he didn't really need to gather his belongings in some dramatic huff because everything had filtered back to Stars Hollow.
"So what now…" Luke was clearly tired of the conversation, "just sign those divorce papers?"
"And get them notarized…" she coldly but gently reminded him.
"Fine," Luke got the information he needed and was ready to go.
She couldn't let things end on that note, "Luke?"
"What?"
"For what it's worth… I did care about you… and I am … sorry…for everything"
Luke didn't know if he should confess to his own crime, but he just left with a quiet and genuine "Me too." His guilt would keep him company on the ride home. Luke knew what he had to do to free his guilty conscience and to be with Lorelai… that is… if she'd have him… if only she would break up with that Jason guy.
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It's now or never.
Lorelai knocked on Jason's apartment door and he quickly answered.
"Hey…" Jason was surprised Lorelai was being so formal as to knock, "why didn't you use your key?"
Lorelai nervously played with the piece of metal in her hand, "Oh… I don't know… seemed appropriate… under the circumstances."
"Well, you've got it right there…circumstances?" and Jason noticed how shifty she was… "What's going on?"
"Well, I've been thinking…"
"Okay right away bad… please come in," wanting to offer her a seat and a drink to keep her from finishing her thought.
My thinking is bad? You tactless jack ass. "No, Jason, really, I'm good… I just… wanted to give this back to you," and she handed him back the talking key.
Jason just stared at it in his hand for a moment, "What?"
"Jason… I'm sorry… but… I just don't feel what you think I feel… "
"What?" he repeated.
Lorelai could tell he was confused and upset, "Jason, please this is hard enough… I mean … we are going to see each other… when you're at my parent's house… and we never have to tell them …"
"Is that the problem…Okay, okay… well we can tell them right now … we can go over together…I'll get my coat…"
"No, Jason," Why do you have to make things so difficult. "There is more…to it than that… I just don't… think this is going any where for me…"
"Lorelai, we are doing great…"
"No Jason… we're not… I… I can't be with you…"
"Why not?"
"Jason…" Lorelei closed her eyes and saw Luke again, Don't make me say it.
"What? I can't know the reason? Is this part of your Gilmore mystique? …I deserve to know why…"
"Fine… there is … someone else."
"What?"
"There is someone else…better suited to me…"
"What are you talking about? We grew up the same way… practically with the same issues… we could share therapists…"
Jason apparently didn't get that Lorelai was talking about someone else specific… and she was fine with that…. let him be so thick headed…. "Good bye Jason."
"Lorelai? Lorelai wait…"
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A/N: OKAY MEMBER WHEN THIS HAPPENED?
DEAN: So, uh, I got your message.
RORY: Oh, yeah?
DEAN: Yeah. Chuckling It sounds like you were, uh, having a pretty good time out there. And I got a lot of questions. I even wrote a couple down. Are you ready?
Okay this was her message…
RORY: Dean, hi. Laughs nervously It's Rory. I'm sorry to call you like this, but we're on spring break... Laughs ...And, um, I don't know if you remember Madeline and Louise, but they're evil, and we were just talking about you. Um, hi. How are you? I'm gonna hang up now, so bye. Sorry, good-bye.
NOW! I'm sorry, would that really spark the need to ask Questions? Or the need to write them down for that matter? What are these grand questions?
(Insert Lorelai's impression of Dean Season 2)
"Hey Rory, umm okay question one" reads from the paper he wrote it down on… "What… is … Spring Break…? Question 2 what… were… you… drinking… cause it… sounded …good...Question 3 do … you … think… I should… get a hair cut… so I could …see …you… in … you…bikini…?"
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"That was all God given talent..." why thank you Luke!
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R/R: PLEASE, I like to better myself. To quote The Princess Bride,
"...Remember this is for posterity ... so be honest."
Please be specific with R/R; name one (or as many as you can think of or want to mention..…) At least one specific thing you liked
Please! It makes me feel good...inside (Dirty!)
Hence the Rant option below.
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