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After their panting had subsided they lay in bed, staring out her bedroom window. Her head was resting on his chest, the fingers of her left hand playing with the chest hair at his upper torso. His left arm was wrapped protectively around her and Lorelai could think of no where in the world she would rather be.
"That was…" Luke trailed, finally breaking their silence.
"Magical." She finished, sighing contentedly and resting her hand in the middle of his chest, allowing herself to both feel and hear his hammering heart.
"Yes, it was." He agreed.
"We are really good at that." She smiled, placing butterfly kisses along his chest.
"Yes we are." He agreed, beginning to trace circles along her hair line. As a wave of chills spiraled through her she raised her head, moving up and turning her body to face him, he in turn doing the same.
"You know I love you, right?"
"I think I heard something to that affect about ten minutes ago while I was…"
"LUKE!" She exclaimed, swatting playfully at his chest only to have her hand caught and brought to his lips where he didn't hesitate to run light kisses up from the inside of her palm to inside her wrist. "I'm trying to be serious here…"
"Ok." He replied, continuing his activity. "Be serious."
"I can't with you doing that." She said, regretfully pulling her hand away.
"What is it?" He asked, looking for all the world like he was the happiest man alive.
"Well, um…now it seems so stupid."
"You know you can tell me anything Lorelai." He replied, reaching out to replace a strand of hair that had fallen in her face and then propping his head on his hand.
"Well, I just…I've never told a man that I loved him before." While she had expected to see a look of surprise on his face she was confused and a little relieved to see and understanding in his eyes.
"Well…" He trailed. "I've never told a woman that I loved her before."
"Really?" She replied. "Not even Rachel?" Shaking his head he took Lorelai's free hand in his.
"Not even Rachel."
"Why not? I thought she was your first love."
"Well I guess she was, I mean I've known her since I was in second grade. I mean I loved her but I wasn't in love with her."
"I know how that feels." Lorelai said quietly, her gaze falling to their entwined hands. "I mean, what I felt for Max and even Christopher doesn't hold a candle to what I'm feeling for you right now. When we first kissed, it was…well magical. I mean it was new and exciting, but it felt so familiar, so safe." As Lorelai's gaze shifted back up she was surprised to see a new look in Luke's eyes, admiration.
"You felt all that with one kiss?" She nodded her response and he could only smile. "It's amazing how you can describe for the both of us exactly what we felt. I mean do you actually know how long I dreamed of that moment, when we first kissed?"
"No." She smiled, eager to hear his response.
"Since the day you walked into my diner. I mean I've had to imagined at least a thousand different scenarios-"
"Like what?" She interrupted.
"You want me to tell you all of them?"
"No, just the ones that stuck out the most in your mind." She replied, leaning closer to him, not wanting to miss a word.
"Ok. Well my favorite would have to be that night we were looking for the chick, uh Stella."
"Oh yeah?" She asked, replaying the events of that night over in her mind.
"Yeah. I had just got through picking up the pieces to your lemon lamp and you said something, a thank-you maybe, I dunno. But there was this moment where we were silent and only about a foot apart. I pictured me just dropping the box I was holding and kissing you. You'd wrap your arms around my neck and I would carry you over to the counter where we would…" He trailed, blushing shyly and breaking her gaze.
"On the counter in my kitchen?"
"Yeah."
"That would've been…kinky. I would've loved it."
"Really?"
"Probably, you know I love a good surprise, that one would have taken the cake. Although Rory would have probably walked in on us cause after you left she came to recruit me to help me find Apricot, she had gotten loose."
"Good thing I didn't then." He sighed, tracing his thumb back and forth on her wrist.
"I thought about us too." Lorelai revealed.
"Did you have fantasies too?"
"Well…yeah."
"Well…" He encouraged her. "Go ahead."
"Well it was the night with the paint samples."
"You thought about that too?"
"Yeah."
"I almost did kiss you."
"I know, I was there."
"Why'd you move then?" He asked, meeting her eyes again, almost daring her to keep eye contact while explaining.
"I didn't know if it would work out. I mean I wanted you to, more than you know. But I was afraid of the what if's, ya know?"
"Yeah, that's pretty much what kept me at bay. That and the fact that Christopher came back." He spat almost bitterly.
"You have no earthly clue how guilty I felt about that night."
"Yeah I do, you painted the whole diner by yourself." He smiled, the challenging look in his eyes vanishing.
"Well good, because the next morning all I could think about was you. I mean we weren't even together and I felt like I was cheating on you."
"Really?" He said curiously.
"Well, yeah. Every time I saw you or the diner I had this sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach, even with Max."
"That's weird."
"I know." She said, breaking eye-contact and staring down at the mattress. "I didn't know how to tell you…I-
"I only said that because I felt the same way when Rachel came back." He cooed, lifting her chin with his index finger and placing a light kiss on her lips. "All I could think about was you. And then you told me that she was here for good and that I should take her seriously, I was sort of…deflated."
"Odd choice of words."
"Well I was. I felt like a month old balloon, waiting to just be popped and put out of its misery."
"You were miserable?" She sounded shocked.
"Well, in a sense. I mean I wanted you…so badly. And then you told me to go after Rachel while you went back to Max…"
"I only went to Max because you went to Rachel." She retorted.
"Well I only reconciled with Rachel because you told me too."
"I only told you to because Rachel asked me to talk to you."
"How crazy are we?"
"Crazy in love, baby." Lorelai smiled, cringing inwardly at her use of a Beyonce song title in a meaningful conversation.
"Well as much as I want to continue this conversation, I am actually starving…" He had a flashback of about fifteen minutes ago and put a hand to her half-open, half-smiling lips. "Do not say what I know you are about to say, I mean food and you know it."
"You're no fun." She said, smiling like a possum. "You know what's funny, I haven't had any coffee today. You must be my coffee substitute."
"Good, maybe you won't drink so much."
"Well, it'll take a lot of effort on your part to keep my cravings down, you'll have to become a nympho."
She giggled as he rolled over on top of her and kissed her sweetly on the nose. "I think I could handle that."
"I think you could too." She growled, feeling him growing hard between them.
"I tell you what." He started. "Why don't you go take a shower and I'll go back to my place and get ready and we'll go on that date."
"Really?" She asked, her eyes becoming as wide as saucers.
"Yeah, really." She wiggled out from under him and headed towards the door. "I'll need at least an hour, how should I dress?"
"Well, I'll be wearing dress clothes…"
"Can't wait to see that." She smiled. "So a gorgeous, accents every one of my attributes, dress?"
"Sounds perfect."
"Ok then." She said, taking off into the bathroom and wasting no time in climbing in. A moment later she screeched as a pair of strong arms embraced her from behind and he began to place kisses along her shoulder.
"It turns out I am starving for something other than food, but equally if not more satisfying."
"And what could that be?" She asked, leaning back into him as the hot water cascaded over them.
"I think you know." He whispered, his breath hot on her ear. As he turned her to him she only smiled in response, an eager participant in a game that was never the same as the last.
A/N: I know they go at it a lot but c'mon, if I ran the show they never woulda got dressed, and lets face it folks, with how long they waited the first two weeks should be spent in bed. Do u think they should go to Sniffy's or not? Let me know…REVIEW!