LATER AT LUKE'S DINER

It was habit that he glance up at the sound of the bell on the door, always looking to see if it was her. This glance was then rewarded with a smiling face walking towards the counter.

"Hey you!"

"Hey, I thought you weren't ready to meet the prying eyes of Stars Hallow?" he says, grabbing her a coffee cup and leaning in to whisper near her ear.

"Well, I figured that I had to face them somehow, right?" she replied, letting her eyes linger on him. Well, that, and the fact that I had to see you. Yeah, definitely had to see you. Sookie was right… for the first time, I'm going to admit that I'm head over heels for him, moreso than anyone else. He was my it it.

Pouring her coffee, and quickly attending to the needs of a few customers in the diner, he came up behind her. "So what are your plans for the evening?"

"I don't know, what are your plans for the evening?"

"I was thinking that I might rent a few movies, buy some junkfood, and sit in front of the tv all night."

"Hmmm… Junkfood… did I convert you?"

"No, that's not for me, if you get my hint."

"Oh, I see… you got a hot date coming over tonight?"

"Well, I don't know about hot, but certainly gorgeous."

At this, she turns around on her stool, not letting their eyes meet.

"What?"

"I can't believe that you don't think I'm hot! Soooo not fair! I think you're hot" Especially tonight. I can't believe I didn't see all of this before! To think that I was in the presence of a full blown hottie for quite some time, and I completely disregarded him.

"Lorelai?"

"Yes?"

"You're hot… trust me… you're very hot… I just wanted to use a more tasteful word to describe you."

"Aww, shucks Luke, thanks."

"So where did we land on tonight?"

"Well you have a hot date with some hot gorgeous chick… so I'm going to go home, put my pajamas on, and eat ice cream all night, while thinking about what could have been."

"All right… see you at 7 then?"

"I'll be waiting!" she says, hopping off the stool with a smile and heading to the door.

This might seriously work. Me and Luke. Wow…I don't even know how to spin that around in my head, but Me and Luke… together. Wow. With a small smile, she hops out of the dinner and walks the short distance back to her house.

Upon arriving, she sees the all familiar silver car sitting in the driveway, and makes her way up to the door.

"Rory, are you home?"

"Yeah, I'm in the living room!" she says, shouting from the couch.

Plopping down beside her daughter on the couch, she pulls her in for a quick embrace.

"What are you doing here?"

"Well, we never did get to say goodbye last night, and I wanted to make sure that you were okay…I would have come earlier, but I had some last minute stuff to do so that I could stay here for the weekend."

"Oh… well, that's a good thing then! Why didn't you come back last night?"

"I did…uh…when I got back, I saw Luke's truck in the driveway, and saw the two of you through the front window. I figured that he had a handle on things, so I went back with the intention of coming to spend the rest of the weekend here with you."

"Yeah, I called him on the way home from the Grandparents, and he met me here."

"Well, he gets crisis points then…" she says, mock tallying up a point for Luke with her finger in the air.

"Yeah, he gets parent points too… Grandpa showed up."

"Really? Why? When?"

"Well, I fell asleep after awhile, and when I woke up, he was there, and…we talked. He told me that he was proud of me, and that what mom says isn't necessarily what he thinks…he just… he was a dad… you know?"

"Well…no, not really, but I get the picture." she says, recalling her own father's presence in her life.

"So… are you going to kill me if I tell you that Luke is going to come over and spoil our girls night?"

"Not at all, as long as he brings food!"

"Ah, the perks of dating a diner owner!"

With that, the girls settle in on the couch together, popping a movie in. It wasn't right though. With all that happened the past few days, Lorelai wasn't into movie quoting or bashing like she always was. After a while, realizing that the movie marathon wasn't really doing the trick with her mom, Rory decided to strike up another conversation.

"So… Luke?"

"What about him?" says Lorelai, conveniently allowing her eyes to stay glued to the television.

"Well, how is that turning out?"

"Well, what do you mean?"

"Leaving out the really dirty details, what are you thinking?"

"There aren't really any dirty details, Rory."

"No dirty details? So, you didn't pull a Bull Durham on the table in the kitchen?"

"WHAT! Where did you get that!"

"Oh come on, Sookie has always said that about you two! She's never mentioned it before? It's been her fantasy since… I don't know… probably two seconds after you met Luke and she saw the spark."

"The spark?"

"Again, mom… the town has known that the two of you were meant to be for quite some time now… you were both to stupid to realize it or act on it."

That really is quite amusing when you think about it. I mean, I admitted to myself a long time ago that I wouldn't mind catching what was under the flannel exterior, but I know that I would NEVER admit that to anyone that has ever insinuated ANYthing between me and Luke. All those years though, I was harboring a tiny crush, not ever thinking that I would act on it, or that it would ever turn into real feelings. And now… well… see how that line of thinking turned out.

"Mom?"

Lorelai was still sitting beside her daughter deep in thought, oblivious to anything that was happening around her.

"Mom?"

"LORELAI VICTORIA GILMORE!"

Snapping out of her reverie, Lorelai jumped in her spot on the couch, "OH my gosh, WHAT?"

"What were you thinking about that required me to call your full name at the top of my lungs?"

"Luke."

"Wow… you've got it bad…"

"Yeah, I do kid, I do."

A ring of the doorbell breaks them from their mother daughter moment, and Lorelai glances toward the clock, realizing that it was actually past seven o'clock.

So, I've been meaning to update all of these fics, and finally got around to it! woohoo! Anyways, I'm hoping that you're enjoying these little tidbits… I don't know exactly what is going to happen next, but hopefully it'll be good! Sorry this was a short one! R/R and I'll try to work faster this time!