Hey guys!
I fixed the 1st chapter if anyone's interested, I added quotation marks on the dialogues as a lot of ppl requested!
I wanna thank all the lovely reviews, they let me know that the way I had written wasn't very clear….
So…Please review if u can, it would be nice to know what are your thoughts on it…
Disclaimer: not mine, and even if I said it was, which I didn´t... how would the law find me! Nobody knows where I live... So yep, it´s all mine! MUAHH- MUAHHHHH!
-This story takes place in 2004/ 05-can´t quite decide...
-Luke and Lore are still oblivious to the most obvious fact since epi 1, that they belong together (in case u didn´t figure the "most obvious fact"...)
-Rory´s at Yale, she never quit... and she only appears when strictly necessary... I´m not a big Rory fan... For me it all ended when she decided to become stupid... after sex w/ Dean... really she´s the only one that can have dropped her I.Q. cause of sex... (oh and for you that actually like her, I don´t keep criticizing her in the story, just in here... I just use the good ol´ reliable Rory for the story...)
-I guess that´s it, any doubts please ask away!
Chappie 2- Invitations are supposed to be accepted!
Sookie could see Lorelai coming into the kitchen, but unlike her normal-self, she made no noise. She just sat at a stool near the coffee maker, grabbed a mug and filled it to the brim. She stared at the black liquid for a few seconds-obviously lost in thoughts- and then took a huge gulp. By now Sook would, normally, have already made her friend taste all her new genius creations, but not today. Today was one of those days that she had to just leave Lorelai be for a while, you know? So Sookie turned around and continued directing her crew, she could be bossy when she wanted (had) to.
"Marco, how many times have I told you, this lime cream is extremely sensitive to heat!" at that Marco rolled his eyes, apparently he had already heard that speech. "You gotta hold your pan up to a distance of exactly four inches to the fire!" Sookie was almost screaming now, and neither Marco nor the rest of the crew seemed surprised.
Sookie´s high-pitched voice apparently took Lorelai out of her gaze, and Sookie (being an excellent friend and all) saw it.
"Hey, hon! So tell me how did the meeting go?"
"good..." She answered in a small voice
"Good, that's...huh...good..." Sookie could feel that her friend wasn't what she would describe as good...
"Yep, good! If you classify good as spending your entire afternoon with two women that have totally no idea of what real life is...They are even worse than my mom! Then I had to hear they harsh stories...really...and their husbands and how successful they are, they made me feel..." she sighed deeply, "like...like I´ve accomplished nothing..." Sookie putted an arm on Lorelai´s shoulder.
"You know that´s not true..."
"I know, I know...It just made me think about life and...the paths I took...Were they the right ones? It made me question my life...even Rory..." She made a face to that, and so did Sookie.
"Rory?" Wow if she questioned Rory... "I had no idea that they affected you that much..."
"They didn´t! I just thought how my life could have turned out if I hadn´t kept her...Would I have turned out like them?"
"I think that that would be totally impossible!" Sookie answered chuckling. "It´s not Rory that made you have this personality; you are and always were like this! You could say that she made you stronger and you grew up together but that´s it..."
"You think?" she still had some doubts.
"I know!" Sookie knew that if she looked sure enough, Lorelai would be convinced. "Now you´re probably just tired...If these women are as half bad as you described..."
"They are worse!" Lorelai interrupted Sookie. "I just have no words to describe the agony of my afternoon...Reminds me of my mother...don´t know why..."
"Well, I would be tired too...Maybe you should just go home...Sleep."
"Maybe...Sleep IS good..." Lorelai pondered over Sookie´s ideia...Maybe a good night of sleep was all she really needed, not that it would erase her day, but just being able to disconnect from it all... Yeah, sleep...I´m going home.-that thought somehow gave Lorelai enough energy to stand up and hug her friend, maybe it was just the coffee...
"Yay!" Sookie clapped her hands. "Goodnight then!" She touched Lorelai´s back and guided her out the door and into her office. "Now grab your stuff I´ll take you to your car!" Sookie would give Lorelai no chance to stay and work, she knew her crazy friend very well, and she knew Lorelai could repeat her staying-after-hours-to-work-like-crazy´s bit she did it last week.
"A little bossy today, aren´t we?" Lorelai said in an already better mood. But she obeyed anyhow, grabbing her purse, coat and...when she reached out for her folders, the paper work, Sookie lightly hitted her friend´s arm.
"No work!" she grabbed both of Lorelai´s arms and putted back toward her body.
"But...my prrreciousss..." she answered humoursly.
"Out, now!" Sookie putted on a straight face, putting her hands on her hips.
Lorelai left her office, followed by Sookie; she went to the Mocha mobil and left, still closely observed by her chubby best friend.
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The next few weeks ran smoothly, well not really... Lorelai had been trying to plan the oh-so-waited reunion, and usually that would be her favorite part of the job, she loved organizing any social event. But, see, this wasn´t any social event, this one actually was directly linked to her, the fact that this was her reunion as well was nerve-racking. Some might think that´s a nice thing, planning your own reunion, but when your well buried past comes crashing with your perfect present...the results are never fun. She still hoped to come out of it alive, but she was sure she would get at least a few scratches and bruises...
Lorelai had the full knowledge that she had been acting like real drama-queen lately, even Sookie had begged her to chill and Rory forbid her to call complaining about the charming ladies of the FSCA. So that had left only her own ol´ self to whine to. And inner whining got very boring after a while...-and it was completely useless.
The truth about it -without dramatic embellishment- was that the FSCA´s representatives were truly picky and could never get to an agreement without endless hours of discussion. They had very different opinions, which made Lorelai´s job a tad more difficult... She felt like the only thing she achieved successfully was that she had been able to convince them that, as the busy event planner, she couldn´t participate; therefore she wouldn´t have to BE a part at the actual reunion. She felt victorious, cuz it´s very hard to reason with three women that are used to have a positive answer to any requests; she still had to show up and command the whole reunion carnival, but that involved little socializing duties. And that made her happy.
Those thoughts had been constantly running through Lorelai´s mind, religiously. And, unfortunately, the first five seconds after opening her eyes were no different.-She closed her eyes tightly, trying to erase those painful thoughts...-Blank, think blank!-so far this technique had yet to work...yet being the focus here.
She pushed her cover off of her and figured this was a good time as any to start her day; she got out of the bed by the right side of it. She wasn´t really superstitious, but it was worth a try, right?
She could hear the wind oooh-ing outside, great, windy day...-Today won´t be a good hair day...-frizzy, yeah she was feeling her hair already rising with the humidity of the air, add that to windy and...oh, god...As the smart woman she was, she wizely decided to put her hair up on a poney tail. After a few unsuccessful attempts she got it right and went on with her regular beauty routine: contacts, lotion, make up, take off pj´s, try to find an outfit, go downstairs, prepare her coffee, try to find an outfit, drink her coffee, try to find an outfit, eat something -Really, all this exercise!- find an outfit, change and leave! Phew...Run to the car...
"Lorelai."
Wait, somebody had just screwed the order of her routine!
"Yeah?" she already had the car keys in her hands and was about two steps to the car, but she quickly turned around, without losing her balance and with her new boots too! She did all that only to see Kirk, she tried not to look disappointed.
"I just want to inform you that as the mailman of the town of Stars Hollow I feel that is part of my responsibility that you receive your mail at the same day I delivered them."
"Oh, uhmmmkay Kirk." She proceeded to open the car door and dropped her purse on the passenger seat.
"Aren´t you gonna get them?"
"Ah!...You´re still there Kirk?", she turned around again.
"Yes, I wanna make sure you´ll get your mail today."
"How nice of you Kirk." She stared at him, he didn´t move. "Do you want me to get my mail now?"
"Yes, like I said I have to make sure you get your mail; it´s part of my job as the mailman of this town and I take my job very seriously..."
"I know Kirk, I know..." she opened her mailbox, only to find it empty. "Huh, Kirk, there´s nothing in my mailbox." she looked at her watch (7:35 A.M.), Kirk just made sure she had no diner time this morning...
"Oh yeah, I haven't filled your mailbox yet."
"Really? Now I wouldn't have figured as much." This had to count as charity work, right? Maybe this will count as something on her final judgment...Yeah, she had just bought a ticket to heaven!
After a couple of seconds of standing still and staring at the space, Kirk finally realized that this was his cue to give Lorelai her mail. He went through his blue bag for a few more seconds and pulled out a small pile of mail, and then he carefully handed to her.
"Thank you, Kirk. The town is lucky to have a mailman like you!" She got in the car, threw the mail inside her purse and raced to work.
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Her day had been typical: moody-charming Michel, jumpy-injured Sookie, crazy-anxious guests and to make it complete…a delightful meeting with the FSCA´s girls! Insert deadly sarcasm here, she thought.
It was getting late already and she was starting to feel the pangs of hunger and she desperately needed a coffee fix. Her working day had finally come to an end and she could say "bye-bye" paperwork!
"Bye-bye!" Saying out loud sounds more real…even if she sounded crazy yelling at her empty office.
She grabbed her purse, waved an over- excited goodbye to Michel and left to the diner.
She arrived a couple minutes later, parked next to a black PT Cruiser, funny how this car always seemed to around… (AN: have u guys noticed this car? It's like finding Wally all over again…it's in every epi)
Luke was already on cleaning duty in the kitchen; the diner was almost dark. All signs indicated that she shouldn't get in, including the one on the door that said, "CLOSED". Call her selfish, or egocentric, or whatever you like, but Lorelai really wanted, no she needed to get in…She hoped he didn't mind her. What was she thinking? Of course he wouldn't!
Luke heard, from the kitchen, the door's bell jingling and he already knew who it was.
"Hi Lorelai", he said still from the kitchen.
Lorelai had just entered the diner and couldn't see Luke was in the kitchen, so she was a little intrigued when she heard him.
"Luke?" she asked to an empty dark diner.
"Yeah!" Luke said turning on the lights and making Lorelai jump.
"Oh MY God!" she put her hand over her chest, he had scared her. "Don't do that!" Luke smirked at her reaction.
"Why?"
"It's creepy…and in the dark too… Really, you can't do that to someone that has watched every horror movie known to men, such as myself…It's not safe…" She breathed out her sentences.
"Ok." the smirk still on his face.
"Can I sit?" she wasn't sure he would serve her…DIRTY!
"Like you pay attention on closing time…" he answered a little grumpy, but he was always glad when she showed up.
"Hey!" She pretended to be offended. "What closing time?" she smiled, then moved to a stool, leaving her purse on the counter.
"So… Busy day?" Luke asked, while pouring coffee into her favorite mug; he had missed her that day…
"Not really…"she inhaled the smell of her favorite drink on her favorite mug. How did Luke know these things? "I missed you!" she said to the beautiful black liquid in her mug.
"Oh yeah, I feel loved now…Maybe I should leave you two alone…" he turned around, pushing her purse to the floor in the process, all sort of crazy things falling from it.
"I missed you too Luke, don't worry…" she answered playfully, then immediately bent down her purse and all the junk and mail that had fallen off of it.
Luke was happy she wasn't looking, because he was blushing (only a little…) even though he knew she meant it as a joke.
Meanwhile Lorelai was having a hard time gathering all her belongings from the floor; see, she was too lazy to actually get out of the stool, so she just bent down. It had seemed like a good idea, but now that all her blood ran to her head…she had changed her mind…Especially when the dizziness stated to come…
"Need some help?" Luke amused by her incredible laziness, he had recovered from his blush-moment and was now observing Lorelai trying to catch her things. She should be dizzy by now…
"Got it!" She said, quickly reappearing from under the counter, in fact she came up a bit too quickly…Really dizzy now…She observed how Luke's face suddenly became four… "Oh no…"
Luke was by her side before she lost her balance; he grabbed her shoulders and steadied her. She could still feel the world swing a little, then closed her eyes.
"Are you OK?"
She opened her eyes and nodded. Wow, was he close to her or what?
"Yeah, just some blood rushing straight to my brain, no biggie…"
"Are you sure?" he wasn't really convinced, so he didn't let go of her shoulders.
"Yeah, all the blood has returned to it's previous place now…" she smiled reassuring him.
"OK", he dropped his hands from her shoulders, and took a seat on the stool next to hers. "So I have a piece of cherry pie left, I just don't know what to do with it…"
"Ooh! Gimme, gimme!" she jumped up and down on her stool.
Sometimes she reminded him of a small child, so easy to please…
"I'm gonna get it…", he got up, and noticed a piece of mail she obviously hadn't picked up and (for lack of better word) picked it up and dropped on the counter in front of Lorelai. "Here, you missed one…"
"Thanks." she looked at the nice envelope Luke had dropped in front of her, it looked like an invitation…It was a light green squared envelope, on the outside she could read her name beautifully printed with a darker green ink. Could it be a wedding invitation? ..Hmmm But everybody she knew was either married or single for life…(like herself, sadly…) She really didn't feel like going to a wedding…Not as a single 30ish woman- she sounded like a loser…- She looked at the green envelope again, it was mocking her! Ha! She hated how regular things could easily become mockers…
"Lorelai!" Luke decided to pull Lorelai out of whatever crazy thoughts she was having, besides it was weird how she seemed so engrossed with that envelope…
"Huh?" she looked up to see Luke staring at her with a delicious piece of pie in hand. "Looks yummy!" she clicked her tongue, and then stared at him, waiting for him to leave the plate for her.
"You have to move the green stuff…" he nodded at the envelope.
"Oh yeah." she picked up, finally turning it around; that's when she saw written in an also beautifully printed letter, the most feared words…"Oh NO!", she screamed at the same time Luke putted the pie in front of her.
"Something wrong with the pie?" his eyes suddenly bigger, he always knew he would never understand women, he knew they were a mystery and blablablabla…But Lorelai was just impossible to get….
"What?" she hadn't heard Luke's question. Oh no, she was still too shocked from finding out that this was, after all, her reunion invitation, and all her convincing attempts had apparently no effects on the FSCA´s; yep she was officially invited…just like all those others classmates she couldn't wait to see…
"The pie?"
"Oh, yeah…Thank you Lukey…" she smiled and grabbed her fork happily; there was plenty of time to freak out after the pie…
"My name's Luke. Why don't you call me by my name?" he was happy that she seemed to be her normal self again.
"You mean you want me to call you Lucas? Because that's your name and I know it!" she said between forkfuls of pie entered her mouth, and still managed to laugh at the face Luke had made at her comment.
"Whatever…"
"I win, I win!" she announced to the empty diner.
"Eat your pie!" he answered gruffly, but meekly smiling…
"Yess sire!"
Lorelai resumed eating her pie, finished the pot Luke had made especially for her and left home.
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NEXT DAY
Lorelai was nervously walking from one end to another of her living room, she knew there was not a real reason for her nervousness, it's not like she had never done it…
So she grabbed the phone, seated on the couch and putted it on her lap. Ok, first part of it has been done, now she only had to pick up the phone and call him…Chris…
It had been a while since they talked, but since he was probably invited to the reunion, she figured they could go together. This way, she would have an ally, someone on the inside. Ooh, she felt like a spy.. She could just hear ALIAS´ theme song on the back round…
Last night, she had decided to open the invitation as soon as she got home from Luke's, and so she did. It was a regular high-class-well-paid-invitation, no biggie…The only thing that made it morph from a friendly invitation to a job obligation, was the small note carefully attached to it, it read:
"Dear Lorelai:
Although we've talked about it, I don't think you should lose the one time opportunity to reunite with all your old classmates; I'm sure that they will be as delighted as all of us from the FSCA with your presence.
Don't forget to bring a date!
Lilly Donaldson"
That note had not only made it impossible for her to miss the reunion, it had also made completely clear that she had to bring someone…She had recently gone through her ¼ life crisis-
feeling an old, pathetic, single, loser and she was starting to think she was gonna have another one pretty soon…
She breathed deeply, filling her lungs to full capacity then slowly let all the air out. This was it. She picked the phone up and dialed Chris's number, it rang a couple of times then his voice came up.
"Hello?" he sounded out of breath, like he had just ran to get the phone.
"Hi…uh…Chris?"
"Lor?" he recognized her voice.
"Yeah, so received any piece of interesting mail lately?"
"Besides the new Victoria Secret's catalogue?"
"Oh bummer, I haven't got mine yet…Weird, I usually get three…"
"Three? Really?"
"Yeah, long story I'll amuse you with it another time, so did you?"
"Did I…"
"Received any interesting mail lately? Oh the last couple days to be more specific."
"Are you talking bout the gay greenish envelope inviting me to my 18 year reunion?"
"Exactly, that's the one…Are you coming?"
"I dunno yet…"
"Because you know it's going to be at the Dragonfly, which you haven't seen by the way, I'm organizing it and I've been ordered to go…by the most annoying group of women in the world, not including my mother, of course. And since I have to go and you have to come and finally meet my beautiful perfect Inn, I thought you would like to come with me, I could use some moral support too…"
"I can't Lore, I'm sorry…"
"What do you mean you can't? You just said you didn't know if you were coming…" she couldn't go alone to this thing, that would be humiliation. A teen movie flashback suddenly ran thought her mind.
"Well, I dunno if I'm gonna go, but if I do, I'm bringing Mindy as my date, we're pretty serious."
"Oh." she felt really stupid/embarrassed at this moment, why didn't she think he could already have a date…Actually a serious girlfriend, yeah, the pathetic feeling had just increased, even irresponsible Chris had someone…She felt betrayed by the world, it was obviously a conspiracy against her…
"But I'll try to come; I really wanna see what your Inn looks like." He had heard the previous disappointment on her voice, so he tried to cheer her up…
"Yes, please try to come and bring Mandy with!" she was disappointed; all she wanted was to have fun with her buddy on a high class event, just like old times…
"It's Mindy…"
"Oh sorry, easily mistaken I guess…So call me to RSVP, ok?" she really had no obligations to know all three thousand girlfriends he had, how could she keep up?
"I'll do that, I just need to talk to Mindy."
"Ok, do that and bye, then! Hope to see you at the reunion!" she cut him, she had no desire to hear him babble bout his newest girlfriend…
"Bye, take care Lore!" she could feel he really meant it.
So Chris, her social event's buddy, wasn't gonna be able to escort her. She was really hoping he would, they used to have so much fun at these things, running from the boring people, stealing some booze, and dancing. She had even grew a bit eager to the idea of some fun at this event and she couldn't be the only loser/sucker with no date, no, that would be unacceptable, she had exactly two weeks to find a date, and that's exactly what she intended to do!
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THANK YOU!