Fate: Part 1

Section 1: Just Friends

Chapter 6

Chef Sookie

Disclaimer: I own no one or nothing except Brandon Right. However I do own the love of Gilmore Girls. We all do.

1984

"Mother?" Lorelai stopped dead in her tracks. "What are you doing here?"

"Me? Your asking me what I'm doing here?" Emily nearly screamed. "I should ask you the same question."

"Then ask me." Lorelai shot back.

"Don't take that tone with me young lady!"

"I can take whatever tone I'd like."

"Not when your talking to me, you wont!"

"Oh shut up mother!"

"I will not." Emily yelled.

"Fine don't! See if I care." Lorelai tried to storm past her mother, but Emily grabbed Lorelai's sweater and pulled her around to face her.

"Stop it! People are staring." Emily whispered as she glanced around.

"I don't care if people are staring." Lorelai yelled as she tried to unhook from her mother's grasp. "Let go of me!"

"You belong at our house not a dump like this." Emily said not loosening her grip. "I want you to go get your stuff and I want to see you out front in 10 minutes."

"No." Lorelai simply replied.

"No?"

"That's right, no."

"You can't say no to me!"

"I sure can. I don't live with you anymore. I'm out on my own. Making a living. I'm not under your roof or your rules so you have to let me go and let me do what I think is best for me."

Lorelai shook out of Emily's grip and stormed into the kitchen. Emily shook her head angrily and nearly ran out the door slamming it behind her.

After the little incident in the entry of the inn, Lorelai ran around to the potting shed. She went inside slamming the door behind her and falling on the bed crying. A few minutes later she heard a soft knock at the door.

"Who is it?" Lorelai asked crying.

"It's Sookie St. James. We met yesterday. I saw you run this way and you looked like you needed something to cheer you up so I brought some..." Lorelai pulled the door open to reveal the curly red headed girl. "Chicken noodle soup and french bread." Sookie said smiling.

"Thanks." Lorelai took the tray from Sookie and turned inside. "Come on in."

Sookie followed Lorelai into the potting shed. Lorelai sat down on the cot and started eating the soup. Sookie smiled watching her.

"Mmm." Lorelai took a bite. "This is the most amazing soup I've ever eaten."

"You like?" Sookie squealed.

"Very much." Lorelai took another bite. "Did you make this?"

"Yea."

"You could be a chef. Chef Sookie is what they would call you."

Sookie laughed. "It has a nice ring to it."

"Yeah." Lorelai kept eating. "Do you want to be a chef?"

"Well, I never thought about it."

"You should if your soups this good."

While Lorelai and Sookie were chatting Luke was doing homework.

"Damn it!" Luke threw his pencil down.

"What's wrong in here?" William said appearing in the doorway.

"I just can't get this damn problem."

"Watch that language Lucas." William walked towards his son. "What problem is it that you can't get?"

Luke pointed at a word problem that took up half of the page.

"I understand that they eventually would collide, but I can't figure out exactly when."

"What class is this for?" William asked bewildered at the problem.

"Philosophy."

"Good luck." William patted Luke on the back and started at the door.

"Thanks a lot." Luke shook his head and turned back to the problem.

"So that was Lorelai?"

"Dang it!" Luke rolled the chair around and faced Liz. "You scared the sh.."

"Finish your sentence Danes."

"You scared the crap out of me." Luke rubbed his hands through his hair. "What do you need?"

"She seems nice."

"Who?"

"Lorelai." Liz smiled. "The pretty curly brown headed, blue eyed girl that was with you yesterday."

"I guess so."

"You mean you know so."

"Whatever Liz. I'm pretty busy so could you finish what you wanted to say and get out."

"Why are you so snappy today Butch?"

"First of all don't call me Butch, and second of all I'm not snappy."

"It's because you haven't seen Lorelai isn't it?"

"I don't know what your talking about." Luke turned the chair back around and put on his baseball cap.

"You do too. The way you looked at her or the way you nearly yanked off Brandon's head when he offered to take her home."

"I did no such thing."

"Whatever Butch." Liz sighed. "Just wanted to let you know that you need to make a move now, before it's too late."

Liz left out to let Luke think about what she said. About a minute later Luke was running down the stairs jacket in hand.

"I'm going out." Luke yelled as he slammed the front door shut.

Luke got into his truck and drove to the inn. As he got out he saw something that hurt him deeply. Brandon Right was talking to Lorelai. And Lorelai was smiling. Smiling. He got back into his truck and drove off.

Was that Luke?

Lorelai turned from Brandon and watched Luke speed away.

Is he mad at me? I'll call him later.

She turned back to the handsome blue eyed blonde and smiled.

Maybe Brandon could be her Mike Todd.

For some reason it just didn't feel right.

A/N:

Hello loyal fans. Just wanted to say hello. This chapter is pretty short, sorry. I did want to get it up so I could get to the good parts. Tell me how you liked it. Whoever wrote "The Broken Road" did alright on their last chapter. My fav chapter was the one where the fathers caught them... Cool! Please write more soon.