Shave and a Haircut

A/N: Here you go! Three chapters in a week! Damn ya'll are lucky! This one's a bit fluffier than I'd usually do…but I'm nervous (substitute "poofier" for "fluffier" and you get a cookie if you get the reference!). Anyway, fluff galore. I'm still mapping out the rest of the story, but hopefully you're all still liking it! Much thanks to all of my reviewers! I'm so glad most of you were agreed in my decision to not have them have sex in that last chapter. Smut will be soon, I promise.

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Lorelai opened her eyes slowly, adjusting to the bright light streaming in through the windows. She pulled a hand out from under the covers and rubbed her eyes she rolled over and found herself face to face with Luke. She jumped a little at the close proximity of his face and he stirred.

"Morning. What'd you twitch for?" he asked sleepily opening his eyes.

She smiled, "It's been a while since I rolled over and saw you, that's all."

"Ah." Luke said, sliding his arm around her and pulling her close to him. She sighed and buried her face in his shoulder.

God, I missed this. Just being near him and not doing anything at all. He smells like soap and something else I can't put my finger on.

This is the way it's supposed to be. Just me and her together, doing nothing at all. She fits perfectly right in my arms. It's meant to be. She smells like coconut and coffee. So random, but just how I like it.

She smiled up at him and snuggled closer, he wrapped both arms around her and squeezed.

"Don't you have to go to work?" She asked him, taking one of his hands in her and playing with his fingers.

"I guess. Caesar said he could cover all day if I want him too." He said, running his free hand up and down her back.

"Mmm. Don't go. Stay right here." She said, mumbling her words into his chest.

"We have to get up, we can't loaf around all day." Luke said, pulling away from her a little to look at her.

"Ugh, I guess. Wait…did you just say loaf?" she asked, her eyes shining. He rolled his and sat up and stretched.

"I'm gonna go make some coffee and breakfast. You take a shower." He said, getting up and pulling on a t-shirt.

"Mkay." Lorelai said, stretching out so that her toes were hanging off the end of the bed and her fingertips were grazing the headboard. She made a cat like sound and then got up. She shuffled across the hall into the bathroom and turned on the shower. She examined herself in the mirror and sighed. She needed a haircut desperately and hitting a tanning bed wouldn't be such a bad idea either. She disrobed and stepped into the shower, marveling at how much better she felt even after just spending the night in the same bed with him. She felt lighter after getting everything out in the open and having him not hate her for how she acted. It was nice, really nice.

She wrapped herself up in a robe and walked downstairs to get coffee.

"You look better." Luke said, casting his eyes towards her and away from the pancake griddle he was currently trying NOT to burn pancakes on.

"Are you implying I looked like crap before?"

"No, you just look…in a better mood I guess."

"Sure."

Luke grunted and went back to the pancakes. He finished the last two and put a plate in front of Lorelai and a plate down for him. She'd already made herself a cup of coffee and he grabbed a water bottle out of the fridge for himself. They ate in a comfortable silence. Lorelai was finishing her pancakes and wiped her mouth with the napkin and looked up at Luke.

"So, I was thinking…I need a haircut. Badly. As you might have noticed. How about I go get my hair done and do all my girly errands and then we can go out tonight?" she asked, hesitating to even spend some time apart.

"Sounds good. Wait…isn't Rory coming tonight?" he asked.

"Yeah but not 'til really late. She's got some social function to go to with Logan and then she'll be here around 11-11:30, so that's plenty of time for us to go out and come back." Lorelai said standing up and putting her plate in the sink.

"Sounds good. I'll go help Caesar for a little bit while you're off being…girly." Luke said putting his own dishes in the sink and running water over all of them. "We can deal with these later."

"Okay. I need to get dressed. Are you still going to be here when I get done?"

"With as long as you take to get dressed, probably not. But I'll come keep you company for a little while?" He said, following her upstairs.

An hour and a half later Lorelai was dressed in jeans and a black long sleeved t-shirt with her hair pulled into a messy knot at the nape of her neck. She'd tried her hair curly and straight and it looked like crap either way, so she'd put it up until she got it done at 1 that afternoon. She shoved her feet in her shoes by the door and grabbed her purse and went outside to go to Hartford.

Lorelai wandered around the mall for an hour before her hair appointment. She'd eaten at the Chinese food place at the food court, and now she felt a little gross but that was about right with funky mall Chinese food.

She wanted something new to wear out with Luke, something he hadn't seen her in before, but so far she wasn't having any luck. She wandered in and out of stores until her hair appointment and then set off in the direction of the salon.

Two hours later, Christine was finally finished tackling the atrocity that had been her hair. She shook it out in the mirror and smiled.

"You my dear woman are a miracle worker." She told Christine as she paid at the register. Her hair was now 3 inches shorter than it had been and was laced with warm chestnut brown highlights. Christine had curled it for her and it felt so much lighter and just…better now that she'd had it done. She wandered around for another hour in the mall before she found something to wear, then hit the tanning bed and went home.

She drove home and called Luke on the way, they agreed he'd pick her up at 5:30 to leave to go out. That gave her an hour and a half to get ready, which normally would have had her in a panic but since her hair was already done all she had to do was get dressed and put her makeup on. She parked the Jeep in the driveway and grimaced as it made a weird sound. The car was falling apart. She really needed a new one.

She pulled her bags out of the back and went inside, mulling over the thought of a new car as she let herself inside and got dressed.

About an hour later Luke rang the doorbell, Lorelai yelled for him to come in from upstairs and he let himself in and situated himself on the couch. He heard her shuffle quickly to the stairs and smiled, only when she was wearing heels or socks did she shuffle across the floor, and judging from the distinct couple of clicks he heard, she was wearing heels.

She carefully descended the stairs and he smiled when he saw her. She had her hair loose and curly around her shoulders, he took note of the shortness of it and the new highlights and planned to compliment her on it later. She was wearing dark gray pants and a black lacey camisole that hugged her curves, some of them still more copious than others even though it had been two weeks, and black strappy heels. She smiled when she got to the bottom of the stairs.

"Do I pass approval?" she asked, spinning in a slow circle.

"You'd pass if you were wearing a trash bag." He said, standing up and crossing over to her.

"Flattery my friend." He kissed her cheek and stepped back. "What about me?" he asked, and spun in a similar circle.

She took in his black pants, new she noted, and his blue shirt, also new. He'd shaved and was cap-less like he always was on their dates.

"You pass too." She said, smiling up at him.

She grabbed her coat and purse and they went outside, closing and locking the door, he took her hand and walked her across the yard and let her in the truck.

"So chivalrous." She said stepping into the truck. He closed the door.

"Don't get used to it."

(Approximately 2 and a half hours later)

"I can't move. Too full." Lorelai said, collapsing onto the couch.

"Well, a three course meal and then two slices of cheesecake will do that to you." Luke said patting her leg so he could sit down. She moved it and he sat down and she promptly threw her legs in his lap.

"It's ten, didn't Rory say she'd be here at 10:30?" Luke asked. Rory had called Lorelai during dinner and informed her that she'd be a bit earlier than she'd said because the party she and Logan had gone to had wound up being full of a bunch of blue haired biddies so they'd left early and she was going to go pack and drive home.

"Yep. I should go change. Come with me and make sure I don't fall over or anything." Lorelai said standing up and grabbing his hand to pull him up the stairs after her.

She pulled him into the bedroom and he sat on the bed and stretched out to relax while she got ready. She disappeared into the closet and emerged in just a bra and underwear and started rifling through her pajama drawer.

Luke noticed, as she turned to pull on a pair of black track pants, that she still had the faintest trace of a bump and his heart dropped a little. He dismissed it, knowing that he only saw it because he was looking for it.

She pulled out a long sleeved green shirt out of the drawer and pulled it over her head, and instinctively ran her hands over her stomach to smooth it out. She sighed a little.

"It's still there. I guess I haven't been working out enough." She said, her lower lip trembling just a little bit.

"It's okay. I wouldn't have noticed if you hadn't said something." Luke assured her, standing up and wrapping her in a big hug. She sighed into him and pulled back.

"You're too good to me." Lorelai said. She pulled her hair up in a clip and was checking her makeup when she heard a car horn outside.

"Rory!" She squealed as she took off down the stairs. Luke followed behind at a slower pace figuring he should give her a mother/daughter moment before entering the picture.

Lorelai threw the door open and ran down the steps.

"EMMA!" she squealed

"AURORA!" Rory called back as they met in the middle of the front yard for a hug. They squealed and hugged a little before Rory noticed Luke on the porch.

"Luke! Hey!" she said as she ran over to him to hug him. He met her half way, as he was already walking towards Lorelai when she started after him.

"Hey" he said shyly as she wrapped him in a hug. "Emma?"

"Terms of Endearment. We should watch it." Lorelai said, elbowing him.

"Hey Rory, where do you want this?" a male voice said from the car.

Lorelai didn't know what to be more surprised about, the fact that Logan had come with her, or that he was holding a large box wrapped in pastel wrapping paper with building blocks all over it.

Luke and Lorelai locked eyes.

She doesn't know.