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Chapter 5: Reviving and Revisiting the Truth

"Luke, where are the bathrooms?" April asked.

"What?" he asked.

"The bathrooms. Please don't make me tell you what is done in a bathroom." April asked.

"Well…uh…there are no bathrooms." he said.

"What?" she exclaimed rather loudly.

"It's camping. We are ten minutes from town, so we just…we just use the woods." he explained rather embarrassed.

"And your parents never thought to put in a toilet or a port-a-potty?" she asked.

"no." he said, again, embarrassed.

"Ok, well then, woods, here I come." she said as she marched into the woods.

Just then Luke's phone rang. He didn't think he would get signal, so he was startled by the vibrating feeling--Lorelai's fault of course.

"Hello?" he answered.

"Hey Luke."

"Hey Jess."

"So I was planning on getting there on Friday morning and leaving Sunday night. Is that possible? Do you know if Liz is in town then?" Jess asked.

"I'm not sure…I'm sure I could make sure she is, I guess." Luke said.

"You sound distracted, where are you?" Jess asked.

"I'm out camping."

"With Lorelai? Doesn't she hate camping and anything that doesn't require electricity?" jess asked.

"Actually, I'm with April--my daughter." Luke said.

"Oh…how's it going so far?" Jess asked.

"We just got here five minutes ago, and I guess I forgot to mention that there's no bathroom." Luke said. He heard laughing coming from Jess. "It's not funny!" Luke exclaimed.

"Yes it is! Already you've screwed up! Typical you, and that's what makes it so funny." jess said.

"Of course you would find it amusing." Luke said.

"That I do. So how is everything going with Lorelai?" Jess asked. There was silence and jess was afraid he had lost connection. "Luke? You there?" he asked.

"Yeah, I'm here. It's just, Lorelai and I…we kind of…we--"

"God Luke! What the hell did you do now?" Jess yelled disappointedly through the phone.

"Hey! I didn't do anything! She randomly asked if I wanted to start trying for a baby, which is just absurd because we're not married, and then yesterday she just comes into the diner, offering the ultimatum of either getting married now, or never. What was I supposed to say!" he said in desperation.

"Well first of all, by now you would have been married if you had just stuck to the plan--"

"What?" Luke didn't know that jess knew about that.

"yes, Rory told me all about the whole June 3rd thing, so you would have been married YESTERDAY, and then the whole kid thing wouldn't have mattered, and so, you should have said yes, let's get married, that's what you should have done Luke." he said.

"Jess, you have no idea what you are talking about!" Luke said angrily.

"More than you do!" jess retorted.

"I'll see you Friday. Bye." Luke said as he hung up before Jess had a chance to respond.

"Luke?" April said from behind him.

"April, hey. So you hungry?" he asked, changing his mood from angry to happy just for his daughter.

"Is that the whole story?" she asked.

"What?" he asked.

"Was that the whole story? Did she ask if you wanted to have kids and you said no, and then you turned down her wishes to get married right away?" she asked.

"Yeah…it is." he asked, knowing it was stupid trying to deny it.

"That's stupid." she said.

"What?"

"You aren't getting married because you found out about me. That's stupid. I know you are trying to be all fatherly and stuff, but to put off your wedding for that sole purpose is just stupid." she just said. Luke tried to say something, but April wasn't finished. "and I know you're about to say that it's not my business, but I just thought I'd tell you what I thought seeing as in the future, I'll be in therapy saying that it's my fault you lost the love of your life." she joked. Luke didn't know what to say except for:

"Why don't we set up the tents?" he asked.

"ok." she answered.

"How much do you want?" the old woman asked. Lorelai was standing in front of the ice cream window where Old Lady McMillan served the ice cream. She was serving a little girl about the age of four or five who could just barely see over the counter, while standing on her toes.

"Vanilla, please." the little girl said politely.

"One scoop or two?" Lady McMillan asked.

"one." the little girl answered shyly.

"Ok, here you go. A dollar please." the old woman said. The little girl held up the dollar bill, but couldn't reach up to get her ice cream. Lorelai stepped forward, took the ice cream and handed it to the little girl.

"Here you go." Lorelai said with a smile on her face.

"Thank you." the little girl said with a smile as she turned and skipped down the street towards a woman, presumably her mother, who was looking at flowers.

"Got the ice cream?" the woman said.

"Yep, that nice lady helped me." the little girl said, pointing towards Lorelai. Her mother looked up and smiled to Lorelai, signaling a thank you with her pearly whites. Lorelai smiled back and waited until the mother and daughter had turned and walked in the other direction before ordering her own ice cream.

"And what can I get you Miss Gilmore?" the old woman said.

"Oh, the usual, only a bit more chocolate please." she said.

"Bad day?"

"More like a bad week." Lorelai responded.

"I've had a few of those in my lifetime." Lady McMillan answered.

"Well you always seem to bring a smile to everyone's faces in spite of it." Lorelai said with a smile.

"Well that comes from years of experience." Lady McMillan joked.

"I'm sure it does." Lorelai said. After a long pause Lady McMillan spoke up.

"So how are you and Luke? Expecting any little ones soon?" she said, referring to the little girl that was just there a few minutes ago.

"No, well, maybe. Me and Luke, we're having a bit of a rough patch now, he's trying to deal with the April and Anna situation." Lorelai said.

"Ah, April. Such a sweet girl. Runs over here and gets ice cream whenever she's visiting Luke." Lady McMillan talked of April with such love, even the town had grown to love April like Luke had, and deep down, Lorelai knew that once she got to know April a bit more, she would love her too.

"She is a sweet girl." Lorelai responded.

"I don't know how Anna, who's a sweet girl too, could do such a thing as to keep the little girl a secret from Luke. It's such a shame that he had to miss all of her younger years, those are the ones that I'm most fond of. My Sara's all grown up and lives in Cleveland now. I miss the days when she was crawling around on the floor and I was spoon feeding her. And then of course…my Harry just passed away two years ago…" she said, and Lorelai could hear the tears in her voice.

"I'm sorry." Lorelai said.

"It's ok," Lady McMillan said, drying her tears. "Just remember, cherish the time you have with Luke, and maybe in the future you can have another child as sweet as Rory." she concluded.

"I'll remember that." Lorelai said. She took her ice cream and gave the three dollars for it. She walked down the street towards Doose's where she had to remember to pick up some junk food now that Luke would be gone.

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