A.N. -- Previously, while talking to Lorelai in Weston's, April said that she thought she was the reason Lorelai and Luke were no longer together...
Chapter Eleven
"April, why would you say such a thing?"
"I know what people are saying when they think I'm not listening. They whisper behind my back, but I still hear them."
"April, don't you know that small town people like to gossip? Even since you came to town, you have been the major topic of conversation. But now it's about Luke and me. You have nothing to do with it."
"I heard the wedding was supposed to be June third. But it's come and gone and you and Luke aren't married. You aren't even speaking. And I'm the only thing I can think of that could have come between you two."
"No, honey, you're wrong! Luke and I have had our differences before, but we've always worked them out."
"But I like being around you. You're funny. And you're smart, too. I can tell. You'd be a great stepmom."
"Oh, April, thank you. You'd be a great stepdaughter. And it will happen, in time."
"April!"
Lorelai and April looked over to see Luke standing in the doorway, and he wasn't happy.
"Where have you been? I've been looking everywhere for you!"
"You said I could walk around for a while. I came in here because I saw Lorelai."
"You know your mother would have a fit if she found out you weren't at the diner."
"You mean if she knew she was with me?" Lorelai interjected.
"You stay out of this!" Luke replied angrily. "She knows the rules."
"Oh, so it's okay for her to ride her bike all the way from Woodbury, but she can't walk around Stars Hollow for a couple of hours?"
"Come on, April," Luke said, ignoring Lorelai's question.
April got up from the table, obviously upset.
" 'Bye," she said quietly to Lorelai, who smiled at her, then glared at Luke.
Lorelai watched them leave, then dropping ten dollars on the table, she hurried out the door after them.
"Luke!" she shouted after them. But he kept on walking, his hand at April's back, propelling her toward the diner.
"Luke!" Lorelai yelled again as she finally caught up to them.
With an angry look and deep breath, Luke stopped and turned to face her.
"What do you want?"
"I need to talk to you for a minute, in private."
Luke hesitated a few seconds, then told April to go on to the diner, that he'd only be a minute or two.
"Please don't be mad at April," Lorelai begged. "She saw me sitting by myself and wanted to say hello. You know how she is. She didn't do anything wrong."
"She left the diner and she knows she's not supposed to."
"I don't understand that. There's not a safer place in the country than Stars Hollow! Were you actually so afraid she might see me?"
"Anna . . . ."
"Anna! Anna! Anna! I am sick to DEATH of hearing about ANNA! You're April's father, can't you make any decisions about who April can and cannot see?"
"Of course I can. And I DON'T want her seeing YOU! I don't want to see you!"
He then continued on his way to the diner.
Lorelai, feeling very humiliated, as if all of Stars Hollow had heard his cutting remarks, suddenly snapped, and she screamed, "LUKE!"
He stopped for a second, shook his head, then started walking again.
Then the humiliation turned to realanger. How dare he walk away from heras ifshe meant nothing to him?
And just before he turned into the diner, she yelled out at him again, "Luke! I just thought you might want to know, I'm pregnant!"
And as Luke turned around, stunned, Lorelai also turned around, and ignoring everything and everyone, walked away from HIM!
T B C
