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Chapter 10
After kneeling down, Luke looked up to Lorelai to see what she might be thinking. She was breathing. He would have laughed at the sight of her if this wasn't such a serious moment, and he wasn't as nervous as he was. He reached for her hand, and was relieved when she gave it to him freely. Maybe this really will go well. Inwardly he told Lorelai to breathe; she was quite a funny sight. Her eyes that were normally large anyways, were gigantic, she was bright red, and crying before he had even said anything! But there was another thing about her that gave him the confidence to go through with his plan. Her eyes that were gigantic and red were sparkling, even more then normal. This was right, and she knew it too.
"Lorelai" he said, having no idea what he had planed to say, he just knew that this was the moment to do it. "I have loved for 8 years. 8 years of fighting with you over coffee and helping you fix things around your house. Lorelai, every time you walked into my diner, I couldn't breathe, that bell would ring, and I would hope that it was you, for 8 years! 8 years of getting to know you better then anyone else in the world does. 8 years of both of us going out with other people, but me desperately wanting to be with you. I had never had the words to tell you how I felt. You're the one for me, and the fact that things still worked out, even after 8 years means that this is going to work. I'm in forever Lorelai. I love you, and I know that this is really early in the relationship, but I think that 8 years is long enough to wait. Will you marry Lorelai?"
Lorelai, who had been crying before he even got started, was blubbering now. This was the moment she had been waiting for, not with Max that had been too easy. This was worth the wait, this was worth fighting for, and this was it. Luke was the one for her, and she hadn't messed it up. This couldn't be messed up.
As soon as Luke was done he stood up and held her. She was crying pretty hard, and he hoped that it was happy-crying. "Lorelai? What are you thinking?" he finally said into her hair.
Realizing she had let him stand here and wait for her answer, she pulled away and said through her crying, "Oh! Luke! I'm sorry, of course I will marry you, and I haven't wanted anything more in my life."
"Okay," he said, and kissed her. They talked excitedly about the wedding, and when it would be…..and about getting a ring the next evening.
"So, this was a big chance in plans, what do you want to do tonight?" she asked.
"Let's, have a giant bonfire in your backyard, and burn all of this crap."
And she thought this was a grand idea, and so they gathered everything up and took it into her backyard. Luke couldn't believe how light and free he felt tonight. He was going to marry Lorelai Gilmore. Everything in the world was perfect. When they had walked outside with all the stuff, both notice the chuppah at the same time, and looked at each other. They dropped everything that they had in their hands, and walked over to it together. Under the chuppah they shared a kiss, both wrapped up in the fact that they would soon be under it, becoming man and wife. They both laughed at the memory of it, and that it was almost funny that he had made it for her to marry another man, and they just stared at each other for awhile, thinking of all the times they had missed the opportunity to share their love for the other.
Lorelai was almost giddy, she couldn't sit still- even more then normal. They started a fire, and burned up everything that was left over from Chris, Max and Jason. They talked about old times, and their future, and when the fire went out, they went inside to find some champagne, and toast their future. Only Lorelai didn't have any. Feeling like the evening was ruined; she started freaking out to Luke.
"Lorelai, its okay, there is no way you could have ruined this evening unless you had said no." he said, laughing at her freak out. Secretly he loved them, but this was one was serious. He couldn't let her think that she had ruined the best night of their lives. "What better to toast my engagement with you, then with coffee?" he said, not believing that he had just said that.
"Luke, um….uh are you serious? You are going to drink coffee with me?" she was completely surprised by what he had just said. Was he serious? "Um, I thought that coffee was going to kill me?" she couldn't not get over how big of a gesture of love this was for him. Would he forever be sweeping me off of my feet? First the horoscope, then proposing after only 2 weeks, and now he was going to drink coffee with her. She looked at him to see if he was really serious. She couldn't believe how sweet this grumpy diner owner was. He knew exactly how to make her feel safe and deeply cared about. When she realized that he was serious, she started a pot of coffee.
When it was done, she took out two mugs, making sure that they were very girly ones, and poured the coffee. "Have you ever drank coffee before?" she said, still not positive about the situation.
"Yes, Lorelai, I have." He replied, noticing the mugs. "I have not always been the healthy eater that I am now."
She stopped what she was doing, interested in what he had said. "What? When did that crazy part of Luke's life start then?"
"When my father died. See he died of heart problems, which was caused by his unhealthy eating habits. That scared me into shape, and got me eating like I do now."
That sounded just like Luke, family meant everything to him, and something happening to his dad, would cause him to change his whole life like that. That was just like Luke, Lorelai thought. And loving the thought of being with Luke forever, and having their own family, made Lorelai smile as she handed him the coffee.
"Aww geez. Could you have picked out a smuttier mug for me Lorelai?" he said, and then he got very serious, and said "To us."
She smiled and clinked mugs with him saying "To us" they both took big gulps of coffee, and Lorelai watched for Luke's reaction. She was happy that she had been watching him when he spit his coffee across the room."
"This stuff is GROSS! How can you drink this stuff!" he said, and she laughed so hard that her coffee came out of her nose.
