Chasing the rainbow
Disclaimer: I don't own any of these characters they belong to the WB, I just borrowed them for a while.
(A/N: Thoughts are in italic.
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Chapter 3: On My Mind
Luke's Diner
Luke made his way quickly into the Diner, locking the door behind him. He had closed early because no one would've come in anyway because of the meeting. Now he was alone in the dark diner, pacing around.
'Ah jeez, that was embarrassing, I mean could you've been more obvious, you idiot? Staring at her like a lovesick teenager. But you have to admit she's beautiful and those eyes… stop it, man!' Luke sopped pacing and made his way upstairs, tying to not think about her, not quite successful, though.
A week had passed by and Lorelai and Rory were now fully moved in, in their new house. With all the moving stuff, Lorelai had managed to stop thinking about a certain diner owner, temporarily. But every time he entered her thoughts, it put a goofy smile on her face.
"Mom, you're doing it again!" Rory looked up from her homework that she was doing on the kitchen table and looked at her mother, who was standing at the counter, holding a cup of coffee.
"I am not." 'Is it that obvious?'
"Yes you are! I can't believe you haven't been to the diner. This is going on now since the meeting and it has to stop because you're distracting me and I have this test coming up…" Rory tried to talk her mother into going to the diner, without any success so far.
"But I can't just go in there…" 'That would certainly be awkward '
"Why not?" Rory asked confused. "It's a diner, you could go in and…ehm… eat something!" Rory replied in a duh-voice.
'Gah, she's making sense' Lorelai shifted a bit. "May be." Rory just shook her head and turned her attention back to her homework.
The next day Rory was hanging out with Lane after school, like they usually did. For Ms Kim they were doing extra schoolwork, but currently they were sitting on the bridge talking about god knows what.
"Lane, you know Luke, right?" Rory asked out of the blue.
"Yeah…" her friend answered a bit confused about the sudden change of subject.
Rory had listened to what Sookie had said and it really looked like that Luke was a nice guy, but she wanted another perspective on him.
"What kinda guy is he?"
"What do you mean?" Lane answered not knowing where she was going with this.
"Well, I know he's not some evil drug Lord, but…" She was cut short by Lane.
"Rory has this something to with Luke staring at your mother at the meeting?" Lane looked at her.
"How did you know, you weren't even there?" She was surprised.
"It's all over town. It doesn't happen very often that the town grump…" Lane began.
"The town grump?"
"Yeah, he's not very into town activities and he stays away from them as far as possible. But except that he's a very nice guy, he helps where he's needed and I think this whole being grumpy thing is just a façade." Lane went on telling everything she knew about him.
"How did you know all that?" Rory was clearly surprised about the amount that her friend had told her.
"I had to sit next to Ms Patty and Babette once, after two hours I could tell what underwear the postman was wearing." Lane shivered by the memory.
"That's disturbing."
"Why do you want to know all this?" She asked her friend.
"Just because." Rory shrugged of, but Lane knew better.
"Don't you think it would be weird if you mother starts dating again?" she asked cautiously.
"May be in the beginning, but she will start eventually and when she starts I want to know who she's dating."
"What about your father, has he called since the 'thing'?" Lane knew that Chris was a sore subject at the moment.
"Once, he had made up some lame excuse why he couldn't make it. I didn't really listen, I'm done with him." Rory was starting to get mad, thinking about him. "I mean how can he forget to pick up his daughter?"
Rory remembered said night. Her mother had an important business meeting, but she didn't want to leave Rory alone, so normally she would've called Ms Kim or somebody else to watch her, but Chris called and he happened to be in the area and so he suggested that he would take Rory out for dinner. So far so good, but the thing was he never showed up and didn't call for days.
"In the last 8 ½ years he hasn't really been a father, but his last stunt was too much, I'm done with him!" She tried to calm herself down, telling herself he wasn't worth it to get upset.
Lane listened, she knew how mad and devastated Rory was at that time. When she looked at her watch she jumped up and started to gather her stuff.
"Shoot! I'm sorry I have to go, or I'm gonna be late for bible study and Ms Kim is gonna freak."
"No problem, it's ok. Hurry up! I see you tomorrow."
The girls said their goodbyes and Rory made her way home. When she passed Luke's an idea popped into her mind. If her mother wasn't going in, she was, at least for a cup of coffee.
Luke's
Luke was whipping down the counter during the mid-afternoon lull. He had spent the whole week looking for her. Every time the bell above the door jingled he looked up, hoping it was her, but it never was. No woman had ever had this affect on him. He was hoping about bumping into her at Doosey's, but again it never happened. He wondered how he had never noticed her before, Taylor obviously knew her, what meant that she was involving in town events. He wished he could ask someone who she is and where she lives, but the only one who would knew this would be Ms Patty or Babette and if he asked them the whole town would knew within seconds that he'd asked about her, including her. 'Would it be that bad? Of course it would! But the way she looked back at you…no way, the only reason she looked back at you was because you stared at her, idiot!'
He was pulled out of his thoughts when he saw a young girl walking to the diner.
'I know her, she was with her at the meeting.' During all his thinking he hadn't came to a conclusion about her, she looked exactly like her, but Lorelai looked way to young to have a daughter at her age and if she was her daughter that would mean she was taken. Before he could think this any further through the bell above the door jingled.
Rory was a bit nervous when she entered the diner, but she tried her best to hide it. She went to the counter and set on a stool. The diner was almost empty except a couple in the corner.
Luke approached her but he couldn't stop feeling a bit nervous.
"Hi, what can I get you?" he tried to sound nonchalant.
"Coffee and a donut, please." She answered casually.
"I'm not giving you any coffee, you're way too young to drink coffee, in fact you shouldn't drink coffee at any age." Luke ranted.
"Ok, then just a donut." 'He cares about his customers…'
Luke placed a donut on a plate in front of her. 'C'mon Danes, just make conversation! But I'm not a conversation guy. Just do it!'
"So…I've never seen you before, you new here?" 'Way to go, carry on!'
"No, we've been living here for a while, but we just moved into our new house." Rory watched his reaction carefully at the 'we' part.
"We?" Luke heard himself asking. 'Idiot! Why did you just ask that?'
Rory was surprised that he wasn't even trying to hide that he's trying to get information about them.
"Me and my mother" she replied biting into her donut.
'She and her mother, she didn't' mention her father, that's a good sign, right?'
What was most surprising to Luke himself was, that he didn't freak on the thought she was Lorelai's daughter. 'Woa!' Every other man would totally freak now on that thought but he was perfectly fine with it. That didn't went unnoticed by Rory, who's nervousness began to fade.
"Your mother's name is Lorelai, right?" 'Just making sure.'
"Yes, I'm Rory by the way." She answered politely an extended her hand.
"Nice to meet you Rory, I'm Luke." Luke answered while shaking her hand.
"I figured." She answered smiling and pointing to one of the menus.
"Oh yeah" Luke chuckled a little. "You know you shouldn't drink coffee, it's bad for your growth progress and you will stay this tall for the rest of your life." Luke told her, leaning a bit in on the counter.
"But it tastes so delicious." Rory answered happily.
"It is liquid death." Luke explained.
"On a regularly basis coffee can diminish the risk of getting asthmatic." Rory was now priding with her knowledge.
Luke was clearly surprised about what the little girls just had told him. 'Wow she's smart.'
"But that doesn't erase the fact that it rots your veins." Luke was now really enjoying this conversation, but there was still one question that was nagging him. 'Is your mother single?'
Rory was completely confirmed in her previously opinion on Luke, he was and is a really nice guy. When she looked at her watch, she noticed that she better get going, her mother will be home soon.
"It's getting late, I should go home." Rory said smiling and was about to pay when Luke stopped her.
"First time customers are on the house." Luke told her with a small smile.
"Why thank you. It was nice to meet you, Luke."
"Back at ya and stop by again." 'That went ok and she didn't mind me asking about her mother, so that's a good sign, right?'
"Will do, bye." With that Rory left the diner, feeling happy and content.
"Bye." The rest of the day Luke was smiling inwardly looking forward to what was yet to come.
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