Can't See Stars During A Tornado

See chapter 1-7 for everything else.

(A/N OMFG I AM SSSSOOOOOOO DAM SORRY THAT I HAVENT UPDATED IN LIKE FOREVER! I have wanted too but school has just been so dam annoying lately and ive had absolutely NO time. Sucks cause now im freaking sick. I swear to god im like the only person I kno that gets sick in the summer and like 3 months before snow!

lol anyway... here is another chapter. Thanks for all the reviews. I try to answer most of you who have questions in emails cause I dont have time when i write my chaps most time to acknowledge everyone. But i really really appreciate it. You all keep me writing... ENJOY

Chapter 8: Wow

By: Cripticwolf

The kiss was all Luke at first but soon he felt Lorelai relax and kiss him back. His head was spinning 'Oh my god!" He was kissing her, Lorelai Gilmore, and she was kissing him back. 'This is so...Unbelievable."

Lorelai couldn't believe it. She was kissing him, Lucas Danes, Burger Boy, Diner Luke - Luke the Coffee God - Backwards Baseball Cap Flannel Wearing Luke. 'Wow!" She thought. 'This is unbelievable."

Both had their eyes closed and both of them were breathing heavy. What had started out, as a simple, soft, hesitant kiss was now a passionately hungry one. Luke and Lorelai were on an all time high at that point, and both felt like they were flying. Luke's hands found their way into her hair and he rubbed it softly, as Lorelai wrapped her hands behind his neck playing with the small curls under his hat. Neither of them wanted to pull apart; both worried that it would never happen again. They finally pried away from each other gasping for Oxygen, and both just stared. They were both emotional hurricanes, thoughts spinning in their minds like tornados... (ironic huh?)

Luke tried to say something but nothing came out. He was still in shock, both of them were. "Wow." Lorelai managed to choke out before he could say anything. He wasn't sure if it was a 'good' wow or a 'get away from me you perv' wow. Instinctively leaning to the second one Luke began to rant worriedly.

"Lorelai I- I'm sorry... I shouldn't have done that. It wasn't right..." She looked at him sincerely a little hurt by him saying it wasn't right, cause she'd have to disagree. She thought it was perfect. Like her dreams only 100 times better. Luke noticed how he had apparently hurt her feelings. The words came out wrong and he didn't mean it the way she thought he did.

"Wait... no I don't mean... I don't mean that the 'kiss' wasn't right... It was great... more then great... Look I understand if you're mad at me. You probably don't even want to look at me right now... I knew you didn't fell the same way but I just... I needed to find out for mys-" Before Luke could break into another nervous rant she stopped him.

"Shut up." She said before she grabbed the collar of his shirt and pulled him into another kiss. This one however was short and sweet, but still held all the same meaning.

"Why do I get the feeling your trying to shut me up?" Luke said smiling with a big goofy grin.

"I was not." Lorelai partly lied, with a fake pout pretending to be hurt by Lukes comment.

He just looked at her and cocked his eyebrows up at her, knowing she was lying. "Okay then, well I guess since I hurt your feelings you won't be coming in anymore for my coffee, huh?" Luke said teasingly.

"Okay! Okay fine. I guess I was but I was only trying to stop you to tell you that you were wrong."

"About the kiss? I know that and I'm sor-"

"Luke it wasn't from the damn kiss. The kiss was great, more then great it was... AMAZING. You were wrong to think that it was a bad idea." She took one of his hands in hers. "Luke, your the greatest thing that ever happened in my life, well except Rory of course. Look..." Lorelai paused searching for the words then continuing. "No matter what happened to me you were always there. I needed a shoulder to cry on you gave it, I need help, you helped, you've been the stone pillar in me and Rory's lives since we moved here and your my best friend, besides Rory of course. All these years of looking for the right person to spend my life with and all along he was right in front of me, everyday. I guess I was just to... afraid, or stupid to realize that. I love you Luke."

Luke was deeply touched by what she said to him. She loved him and he loved her and Rory more then family. He looked at her for a minute before answering, taking in the site her beautiful eyes and beautiful smile, which was now huge on her face.

"You're so ridicules." He stated coldly and Lorelais smile dropped.

"Wh... What?" She said almost about to cry. She just poured her heart out to him and that's all he thought to say. It was definitely a low blow and it hurt.

All of a sudden Luke cracked a smile of his own and gently took her face in his hands. "You could never be stupid."

Lorelai let out the nervous breath she had been holding and the tears flowed. Only these weren't the tears from before these were happy tears.

"Lorelai... I" He looked at her straight in the eyes still holding her face and whipping her tears away with his thumbs.

"I've loved you since the first time I ever saw you, walking into the diner begging for coffee. I have always loved you. When you're around you do things to me. You make me... ugh I don't know... you just... you just make me happy. Even if I'm having the most miserable day, once I see you I get happy, then you leave and I get miserable again. You're the most beautiful women I've ever had the pleasure of meeting, let alone ever seeing. You and Rory mean everything to me and," Luke didn't know what else to say. He didn't know how to put what he was feeling in words. He was never very good at the whole talking thing. She means so dam much to him she would never know, cause it would never be possible to show or say it.

He grabbed her and brought her closer to him pretty much on his lap. "God Lorelai! I love you so much." Luke pulled her to him sealing the final few inches between them both and crushed her lips to his. She instantly kissed him back as their tongues danced around each other and they held together tightly. Her hands were traveling all around his back and shoulders, as his did the same. He ran his hand against her thigh and then hugged her closed laying kisses all over her neck. They kissed as if they wouldn't be able to live with out each other if they were to stop. Lorelai slid her hands up Luke's shirt and could feel all of his back muscles and his hard abs. "Wow." She said against his lips.

Regretfully after a few minutes Luke had to pull back as it started getting more and more heated, again. He looked at her out of breath. "Lorelai... We can't do this right now. As much as I would completely love to, we just cant."

"What? Why?" She said kissing his ear and neck while unbuttoning his shirt, causing him to loose his trail of thought for a minute.

"Uh... Cause of... Rory and Lane," He said finally. Lorelai was making it extremely hard for him to think let alone talk.

"They're still upstairs." He finished and Lorelai immediately stopped jumping, off of him.

"Oh my god! You right I completely forgot." She straightened herself up and then sat back down on one of the boxes across from Luke that she was previously on earlier. "So..."

"So..." Luke said unsure what to say.

"What are we gonna do about this?"

"About what?"

"This Luke." She motioned her hands in the air between the two of them. "Us."

"Oh... well geez I don't know. All I do know is that I want this. It feels right to me, ya know?" Luke said sincerely.

"Yeah." Lorelai smiled at him and he smiled back.

"I'm all in if you are." Luke said nervously. Lorelai didn't answer as quickly as he would have wanted and it was making extremely uncomfortable and more nervous. A few minutes when by and he couldn't take it anymore.

"LORELAI!" She laughed at him. "Sorry honey," Wow that sounded good. "I couldn't resist."

"Of course I'm all in Luke." They kissed quickly, fixed their clothes and then made their way upstairs, worried that Rory and Lane would find out what happened.

For another hour or two everyone sort of just did their own thing. The storm did not pick up any but it didn't seem to be to bad now either. Many times it ended up hailing and the all listened to it hitting the roof from inside. The thunder still rumbled every now and then and the lightning still lit up the sky as well. Lorelai took every advantage of the thunder to jump into Luke's arms even though it didn't really scare her anymore. She just wanted to feel his arms around her. Rory and Lane didn't ask any questions after Luke and Lorelai returned. They just smiled to each other and continued what they were doing, both relieved to see Luke much better then before. Rory noticed his extremely goofy grin that was plastered to his face the whole time he was straightening up his apartment. It was completely out of character for the usual grumpy diner owner. Suspiciously her mother was wearing the same goof grin if not a bigger one. You would think that they were having a contest of something. Several times she had even caught them sharing a moment or two from across Lukes place. Staring at each other and only making the smiles grow larger for no reason in particular. They thought that they were doing a great job at fooling Rory and Lane but Rory knew better. She wasn't that stupid and she quickly put 2and2 together. She was so happy for the both of them 'God. Its about freaking time!'

Rory and Lane were practically half dead on Luke's bed. They hadn't meant to fall asleep on it just sort of happened. It also left no room for Lorelai to sleep. Secretly Lorelai was extremely happy that they had fallen asleep. Now she would be able to sneak in sleeping with Luke. 'Yay. God I'm happy right now. Ugh I'm gonna kill him! I am having Luke cravings. He's almost as much as an addiction now as coffee... nah maybe not as much as my beloved 'poison' but definitely a close second.'

Luke had fallen asleep on the couch about the same time that Rory and Lane had. She watched him fight to stay awake but in the end he couldn't. Lorelai knew that his day was tuff today and she was surprised he was even able to stay awake as long as he had. Silently she just sat and watched him sleep. 'God he's so cute.' She chuckled slightly knowing that he would kill her if she said that about him out loud. 'How come I never acted on this before? God... All these years... We could have been a big happy family by now. I was so stupid! But geez am I lucky. I can't believe I have Luke. I always wanted a man just like him and now I got something better... him.'

Lorelai slowly crammed herself up on the couch next to Luke. He picked his arm up and let her slide up against his chest. She didn't think that he was awake, just that it was more of a reaction. He was worm and comfy and she could feel his light breath on her. She fit there perfectly and her last thoughts before falling asleep was that no one could ever touch her or hurt her again. She had Luke and he would never hurt her. His arm fell down across her stomach and she pulled her to him tightly intent on not letter her go. In return she just snuggled further into him and fell asleep.

Thanky you all so much for reading. I kno it got mushy. Im not that good at writing romance. There will probably only be two maybe three chapters at max left to this story. Well im off for now... The rest of my stories will be updated on sunday hopefully.