Friends Doing the Twist
By Gilmoregirl1979 (the reigning Quote Queen)
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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!)
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Chapter 6:
Tangled Up In You
It had now been a week since that fateful night. A week since Lorelai had even dared to step into the diner. It was just so awkward knowing that Luke had seen her naked, and not knowing if he was going to be picturing her naked for the rest of their friendship.
Lorelai knew she couldn't put it off any longer; she waited till just before Luke's closing time to enter the diner with a "Hey," and a weak smile.
Luke turned around, obviously not expecting her, "Oh… hey."
Both were shy and nervous, and automatically looked at the counter, remembering what happened back there, before uncomfortably meeting the other's gaze again, and breaking the eye contact in different directions. They didn't know what to say after the other night … having sex pretty much said it all.
Lorelai's eyes kept drifting toward the counter, she was almost seeing ghost images of what happened there, "Umm could we... umm go upstairs? … and talk?"
"Umm, sure," and Luke walked past her to lock the door, and Lorelai tried not to react when his arm brushed past hers. "So upstairs" Luke said from behind her, wondering why she was frozen to the spot.
Crime scene, number two… Lorelai thought as she slowly ascended the stairs with Luke behind her, making the hair on the back of her neck stand on end. He opened the door for her, and let her in first.
It seemed the same yet new as they cautiously walked around the apartment a safe distance away from each other, Lorelai automatically looked to her right to see the bed, and she swallowed hard again. She didn't know what she was going to say, she didn't know what she was going to do, she didn't even know what she wanted at the moment. This conversation could turn out bad, and her friendship with Luke could end and they may never speak to each other again, and she may run off and marry Jason, or some one else, any way.
"So what's new…?" Lorelai stupidly asked forcing her eyes from the bed.
"Well, I'm divorced…" Luke said dully… that's new.
That shot Lorelai's head from the ground to Luke's face, "Really?" That's new, Lorelai thought, "That…umm quick?"
"Yeah, well, it helps when you are divorcing a lawyer. … Had it all taken care of this week … I's dotted, T's crossed. Legal and official…" then he grumbled "even though… Kirk was my notary…"
Lorelai briefly smiled, remembering how Kirk seemed to have a job at every business in town, then is faded recalling that they saw Kirk the night everything changed, and then the half smile turned to sympathy for Luke "I'm sorry," she said quietly, even though he seemed very mellow and at peace with the whole fiasco.
"Aw well, it should have happened months ago…" he waved off.
"Yeah…" and Lorelai wondered if Luke had been free back then in the fall. Would he have asked her out when she got back from Europe? Would she have asked him out? One thing's for certain, she would have never dated Jason if Luke had been in the picture. You can't change it Lorelai, you can't changed what happened last year, last month or last week…
"So what's new with you? … Rory back from spring break?" Luke was trying to keep the small talk alive for as long as possible.
"Umm yeah, it was too much fun so she… came back early…" Lorelai's hands kept twitching. She just couldn't stop wringing and twisting her hands.
"The Inn doing okay?"
"Yeah… it's coming along… thanks to you…" and your money… and the wonderful day dreams you inspire…Thinking of all the decisions she based on her Luke fantasies over the last week.
"Yeah, well…"
"Oh and…umm, point of interest... maybe… umm, I broke up with Jason…" she added causally and quietly waited for his reaction to the news.
"What?"
"I gave him back his key…and told him…" Just say it! "…There was… someone else," Lorelai looked intently at Luke, hoping he understood.
"Lorelai…" wondering if he was the "someone else" the way she was looking at him.
She was flooded with memories. First meeting Luke in the diner and giving him that horoscope; the first time he met Rory; the first time she asked him to come over to fix something; the way he looked at her for last 7 years, that look of love that Sookie always said was in his eyes; the way he seemed just an breath a way from asking her out and never following through; the way he touched her a mere week ago. "I love you…" was all she said before she pounced on him from across the room, her arms around him, needing to kiss him again.
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"By the way… I love you too…" Luke whispered in her ear.
"I think I picked up on that," Lorelai smiled at his delayed response, they had better things to do, like show each other how they felt rather than bother with saying it. Here they were again, lying in bed together, only now they were completely happy about the match.
She couldn't help but play with his hands, his magical, wonderfully talented hands. Hands that made her coffee, made her burgers, and now, made her feel like the most desirable, beautiful woman in the world. "So what do we tell the town…?"Lorelai suddenly asked.
"Tell the town?"
"Yeah … about us... I mean they are bound to start asking questions if we start kissing, or making out at town meetings… or have sex in public places…"
"Have sex in public places?" Luke questioned.
Lorelai listed all the possible locations, "Yeah… you know at Miss Patty's… behind Doose's… and my favorite… at the Gazebo…."
"You really think you are gonna convince me to do any of that?"
"Oh, I can be very persuasive… and irresistible…"
"We'll tell 'em the truth…"
"The truth?" Lorelai challenged.
"Yeah...my divorce brought us closer together…"
"Oh that truth…." the real truth gnawed at Lorelai… she never really had a secret from Rory before, "I still feel like I should come clean with Rory… use this as a lesson. Don't sleep with married men…"
"I don't think you have to worry about that from her…"
"You never know … it's always the quiet ones, look at you…" Lorelai still worried about what her daughter had done on Spring Break without her mother's wise advice and counsel on a beach with hundreds of "something cutes" walking by. "Wow Rory went on spring break and I'm in bed with you. Are you sure we haven't crossed over into the bizarro universe?"
"That's hard to picture… Rory on Spring Break…"
Don't worry…she spent her break with Bill Moyer…"
"Who?"
"Forget it…"
No, who is this guy? She spent the week with him?"
With how Luke was reacting, it was clear he didn't approve of Rory dating till she was in a retirement home.
"Calm down… he hosted the Power of Myth on PBS. It's educational I promise"
Luke settled down, "Why did she even go? She could have done that here."
"Well, it was cold for one… and she decided to give the full college experience a chance…"
"Ah, I wouldn't know… didn't go to college…" Luke said plainly, amazed he even knew anyone in the Ivy League.
"Me neither," Lorelai concurred, smiling at the similarity… we have stuff in common…we both love Stars Hollow; he likes to make coffee and I like to drink it… he cooks, I eat… we're perfect for each other. "… and you know… if she was here… this" she gestured between the two of them, "might not have happened," she smiled.
"You're really okay with this? Us, I mean…"
"I'm very happy… I love you," the words never came so easily before. Not with Christopher, not with Max, and definitely not with Jason.
"I love you too, I have…for a long time."
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TBC?
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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."
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