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Lorelai wrapped her hands around her coffee cup, seeking the warmth that it provided in contrast to the chill of the early summer morning air. It was early enough in the morning that the sun was just beginning to peek over the horizon. Normally at this time of day she would still be asleep and ready to kill someone if they dared to wake her up but not this morning. Not with what today was supposed to mean for her. One look at her date book last night put her in a funk that she knew would last well through all of today.

In her date book and on the calendar that hung on the fridge, which she was reminded of this morning when she opened it to get the cream out for her coffee, today's date was marked with several little hearts and her scribbling that read Mrs. Danes. It was June 3rd. Her supposed to be wedding date to Luke. She knew that they were back on a good path and were working on their problems but that didn't stop her from wanting to sulk over what could have been from today's date.

Today she could have donned her wedding dress and walked down the aisle with a bouquet of daisies in her hands towards Luke who would look very handsome in his tux. They could have pledged their love to another in front of their family and friends and sealed the deal with a ring and a kiss. They could have partied the night away in true Stars Hollow fashion before they set off to wherever they would have planned their honeymoon.

None of that would happen today though.

Lorelai was happy with Luke and how things between them happened over the past couple of weeks since their talk. The nights when Rory wasn't at home, they spent time talking about their relationship, some nights they argued but they always went to bed together. The nights when Rory was home they all spent the time together. On her breaks from the Inn, she sometimes stopped by the diner and watched Luke work on fixing the diner wall. Sometimes Luke stopped by the Inn and they had lunch together.

Despite how good things were going for her and Luke lately, she still just wanted to sulk today. Part of her wanting to sulk came from the knowledge that if she were to leave her house that everyone she ran into would give her poor, pitiful looks and she did not want to face that today.

Lorelai's head snapped up and towards the front door when she heard it open. A few seconds later, Rory walked out onto the porch clutching a cup of coffee in one hand and a blanket in the other. She smiled faintly at her mother before she sat down next to her on the porch swing.

"What are you doing up?" Lorelai asked as she helped Rory to spread the blanket over both of their legs.

"I could ask you the same question," Rory replied. "The sun is barely up. Even he knows it is too early to be awake."

Lorelai ran her finger along the rim of her coffee cup. "Couldn't sleep," she explained. "I was just thinking about today."

Rory nodded, she knew what her mother meant. "I understand. I know what today was supposed to be but you and Luke are doing great, you two are very happy."

"I know, I know," Lorelai acknowledged. "We worked on our problems, we are happy, we will get married one day, but I still have the right to sulk today. I don't want to face people today, I just want to sulk."

"Wallow," Rory corrected. "We're Gilmores, we wallow."

Lorelai laughed lightly, "That's right. I was wrong. I should wallow today."

"I can help," Rory offered. "I can brave the town and get all the necessary items for wallowing."

Lorelai wrapped her arm around Rory's shoulders and pulled her close. "That's alright. I don't have to drag you into my wallowing today."

"You're not, I offered."

"Maybe."

"What about Luke?"

Lorelai raised her eyebrow at her daughter's question, "What about Luke?"

"What is he doing today?" Rory asked. "I know the diner is almost finished so is he going to work on it today or stay home with you and your wallowing?"

"I didn't ask," Lorelai replied quietly, she looked down into her coffee cup. "I left him upstairs asleep. I know that he knew something was up last night because we were both just really quiet and didn't mention anything about today, we just left it unspoken."

"Oh."

Inside the house, Luke was just beginning to stir. He hadn't set his alarm since Kirk crashed a car through his diner because it made no sense to wake up that early to begin construction. Instead he relied on his internal alarm clock to wake him up, which always seemed to wake him up early still. He instinctively reached out for Lorelai only to come up empty. He opened his eyes to find that sheets on her side of the bed rumpled and no signs of the woman herself.

Luke wasn't a fool, he knew what today was. He told T.J. a few days ago that he could have the day off in anticipation of today. He and Lorelai had not talked about what today would mean or if anything would come of today but he knew Lorelai well enough that he knew there were one of two ways today could go. Scenario one: she could avoid the issue and throw herself into her work at the Inn, leaving early in the morning and not coming home until late. Scenario two: she could lock herself away in the house, avoiding any contact with anyone from Stars Hollow while she chose to wallow. With both scenarios, he knew that come tomorrow she would be fine and back to herself but today would be tricky.

Luke dug the heels of his hands into his eyes, rubbing away the sleep there before he pushed up from the mattress and rolled over and out of bed. He first checked the bathroom for Lorelai but it was dark and empty. He grabbed his t-shirt from the chair in the bedroom and slipped it over his head before he headed out of the room and towards the stairs.

"Lorelai?" Luke called out, loud enough for her to hear him but still quiet enough as not to disturb Rory who he was sure would still be asleep at this hour.

After scanning the living room for signs of Lorelai, he headed into the kitchen. The kitchen, like the bathroom and living room, was empty but the red light on the coffee pot told him that Lorelai was up and had at least made coffee. He peeked his head in Rory's open bedroom door but it too was empty, except for Paul Anka who was curled up on the bed asleep.

With a forceful sigh and slight fear that Lorelai may have taken off with Rory again on a little trip, Luke walked back into the living room where he drew back the curtain to see if Lorelai's jeep was still in her rightful parking spot in the yard. He not only saw Lorelai's jeep but also the woman herself curled up on the porch swing with her daughter next to her. He watched them for a few minutes with a smile on his face as they both talked animatedly.

Luke walked away from the window and towards the front door. He thought that maybe he should just let the mother and daughter have this time together but he also wanted Lorelai to know that he was going to stay with her today. When he pushed the door open and walked out onto the porch, two sets of blue eyes turned to look at him. Rory was the first one to say something.

"I think I'll go inside, let you two have some time alone." Rory pushed the blanket over her legs aside and stood up from the swing. She grabbed both hers and her mother's empty coffee cups from the porch rail.

"You don't have to go Rory," Lorelai called out. "You can stay."

"It's fine, you two should have some time alone." Rory started to move towards the front door. She covered her mouth as she began to yawn. "Plus I think that maybe I can catch a few more hours of sleep since someone woke me up this morning when she was trying to make coffee."

Lorelai laughed, she tried to keep quiet this morning but the less noise she tried to make, the more noise she actually made. "Sorry about that babe, we'll keep quiet out here. You go sleep."

"You'll have to fight Paul Anka for your bed," Luke informed Rory as she passed him. "He's asleep in there right now."

"Every time I leave my door open, he goes in there to sleep." Rory turned her attention to her mother, "I blame you. You let him sleep in my bed when I'm not here, don't you?"

Lorelai smiled sheepishly, "What can I say? He loves you sweets and he misses you when you're not here. Plus he's scared of the doggy bed that I bought him."

"Of course he is," Rory said with a heavy sigh. She covered her mouth as she started to yawn once again. "I'll deal with it, goodnight. Or good morning, either way I'm going back to bed," she said before she disappeared into the house.

Luke settled down on the porch swing next to Lorelai. She scooted closer to him and allowed her head to fall down onto his shoulder when he wrapped his arm around her. She nuzzled her head into the soft worn cotton of his olive green t-shirt when she felt him drop a kiss down on top of her head.

"When I woke up and you weren't in bed and when I searched the house but didn't see you, I thought that you and Rory might have left and went on another trip," Luke admitted, breaking the silent bubble that surrounded them.

Lorelai pressed her lips to his neck before she titled her head up to look at him, "Oh no. I just couldn't sleep. Next trip I take will definitely be with you by my side. Although a small trip today would have been a good idea so I wouldn't have to face the town. I couldn't take their pitying looks."

"We are getting married," Luke stated firmly. "Not today as you planned earlier and I know that's my fault but we will get married." He cradled her left hand in his, his thumb ran over her engagement ring. "I want to make you my wife."

Lorelai smiled, finding comfort, safety, and reassurance in his words. She knew that one day they would be married, there was no doubt about that. She didn't need that day to be today or even in the coming weeks, she just needed to know that they were both on the same page and that it would happen for them one day. At the moment, she didn't feel the need to rush. Marriage wasn't something to rush into.

"I know we are," Lorelai replied, her words coming out soft. "And the reason for the funk today isn't because I don't know that and because I'm not happy, because I am Luke. I am happy with you. It's just because I know what could have happened today and so does the whole town and I just know that they are going to feel bad for me, for us, and I don't want that. They mean well but I can't deal with them today. I had enough of their pitiful looks after Lane's wedding."

Lorelai screwed her eyes shut tight as the words slipped out. She didn't mean to bring up Lane's wedding. Even though they were doing the whole honesty thing, a part of her didn't want him to know what really happened. It was terribly embarrassing and she wished that it had never happened, a part of her didn't want to inflict that upon Luke. She knew it would hurt him.

The town seamlessly covered for her though since Luke still had no idea what really went on at the wedding. He was oblivious and she knew she would have to explain herself especially since they were back on their open and honest policy.

"You belting out 'Endless Love.' got pitiful looks? I know you're not a singer but you can't be that bad, no worse than Kirk," Luke replied, a teasing smile on his face. The smile dropped when he noticed the way that she was now looking at him. "Lorelai?"

"I didn't belt out 'Endless Love,'" Lorelai confessed. "The town just covered for me. They knew I made an ass of myself, so they covered for me so you wouldn't know what really happened."

"What really happened?"

Lorelai focused her gaze straight ahead, unwilling to look him in the eye. "I just felt like maybe it would have been easier if you were there but I know had to go with April. Rory was showing me pictures on her phone and I saw this picture of her with April so I knew that she met her. I hadn't even been introduced to her yet but there she was on my daughter's phone. She tried to explain to me that it was just a fluke that she met her though." She ran a hand across her face and through her hair, "And I don't know, it just all came crashing down on me. You weren't there, we postponed the wedding but had no other date set, I still had not been introduced to your daughter, you were distant, so I started to drink."

Lorelai took a deep breath, swiped at a few tears that escaped her eyes, and barreled on before Luke could speak.

"I was happy for Lane and Zach and all their newly wedded bliss but at the same time I was incredibly hurt because marriage seemed like this point that was just out of reach for me, it seemed impossible. After many tequila shots, I took the stage and gave a speech about how marriage is hard and that I couldn't manage it and that everyone didn't have to save the date for June 3rd because I was getting married on June 3rd or ever." Her voice cracked. "I was hurt and I just babbled like I always do."

Luke didn't know how to respond. He never doubted the story he heard from Miss Patty, the town's festivities always seemed to get wild for such a small town. The most shocking thing to him was that Mrs. Kim allowed Lane to have that kind of wedding reception. Though he supposed stranger things had happened in this town.

Lorelai blinked her eyes as a few more tears rolled down her face, her gaze still focused straight ahead and not on Luke. She wasn't sure what she expected his reaction to be but she wished that he would react in some way. His silence wasn't helping her in the slightest way.

She finally turned to face him. "I'm sorry I didn't tell you earlier. The town already covered for me so I left it at that. I didn't want you to know."

"Why didn't you want me to know?"

Lorelai scoffed. "Because it was embarrassing Luke. I made an ass of myself in front of the whole town. I know I have done embarrassing things before but this was bigger and just different. I didn't want you to be hurt by it."

"Oh Lorelai," Luke sighed. He reached out and used the pads of his thumbs to wipe away her tears. "I had no idea."

"Yeah well, the town was nice enough to cover up for my drunken speech. They can really come through for people."

"I didn't mean just about that, I mean it is included, but I never knew how much I hurt you. You told me when we talked about how much I hurt you and I know that I really screwed up, I just didn't know it was this bad. I know now but not at the time," Luke said. "I wish that I would have known sooner, that I could have noticed that you were hurting sooner because I hate that you felt like that or that you felt like you had to hide it from me."

"I know babe, we've talked about this many, many times. We can't change what happened, all we can do now is focus on us and getting better at our communication skills," Lorelai replied softly.

A war raged in her head on whether or not she should tell him about Christopher's presence at the wedding. After a silent debate with herself, she decided to tell him. She didn't want it to come up one day and have him think that she was trying to hide it from him.

"You should also know that Christopher was my date to the wedding but nothing happened, I swear Luke." Lorelai looked into his eyes trying to convey to him that she was telling the truth. "Nothing happened between us, he was just there because I needed to bring a man as my date to the wedding, nothing else."

Luke's jaw tensed as it always did at the mention of Christopher's name. "Why didn't you mention it sooner?"

"Honestly, I didn't even want to think about that night anymore. I just wanted to forget about that speech and when the town made up that story about me belting out 'Endless Love,' it did just seem like I could forget it," Lorelai replied. "I know that's not really an excuse but I wasn't really trying to hide it. Besides the speech, there is nothing to hide."

"You not telling me especially after all we've talked about these past couple of weeks, how much we've talked about these past couple of weeks does make it seem like you were hiding it from me," Luke pointed out. He kept his voice even making it hard for Lorelai to detect how he felt.

"I know that it seems like that especially now but I wasn't hiding it," Lorelai stressed. "Mrs. Kim just said that I needed a man to bring as a date to the wedding. I obviously couldn't bring you so I originally asked Michel but he dumped me for Celine Dion."

"So you called Christopher?"

"I didn't call him. Rory saw that I was upset that I wasn't going to be able to go to the wedding since Mrs. Kim made it very clear not to show up without a guy so she asked him to come. She was already talking to him so it just happened."

Luke shifted in his seat. "So he just dropped everything to come all the way here to be your date to a wedding at the last minute? How convenient."

Lorelai groaned. "It's not even like that Luke. I didn't even consider him until Rory mentioned the idea. I was desperate for a date and he happened to be free. He was my last resort. That's it. He was just a friend helping out a friend."

"Yeah, a friend," Luke scoffed.

"Okay, you don't like him. I get that, I understand that, but you do love me. And you loving me means that you trust me and that means you know that he wasn't invited because I wanted him here, I just had to have a date so I wouldn't be seen as a tramp or whatever," Lorelai replied. "Him being there just made me miss you and wish you were there because then we could have had fun together. Who knows, we could have belted out 'Endless Love' together and embarrassed ourselves."

"A tramp?" Luke inquired.

"Woman of a certain age, not married, dressed the way that I dress can cause people to think bad things like that I'm a tramp or possibly up for sale," Lorelai explained as she pointed to herself. "Kims' family rules."

"Up for sale?"

Lorelai shrugged it off. "I'm still thinking about the price." She softened her voice. "Please don't be mad about this. It doesn't matter. You didn't say anything about him being at dinner with my parents, these are just two times I've seen him recently both completely unexpected. I don't want to fight about this. It's unneccesary. I'm sorry that I didn't tell you sooner."

"I'm never going to be happy that he's in your life because of your history with him but we don't have to fight about this. I don't want to fight," Luke replied. "Anything else you didn't tell me about the wedding that I should know about?"

"I made an audition tape for 'America's Next Top Model'," Lorelai admitted. "It was all caught on camera."

Luke chuckled, "Well I'm definitely sorry that I missed that."

Lorelai leaned in close and pressed her lips softly against Luke's. "Maybe I'll give you a little preview later on."

"Looking forward to it."

She leaned back against him and let out a content sigh, happy that he didn't start a fight about Christopher being there and relieved that he now knew about the speech because it felt like a weight was lifted off her shoulders. The peaceful laziness of the summer morning served as a backdrop for the couple as they enjoyed the company of one another.

Lorelai tilted her head back to look at Luke. "When you are going to head to the diner?"

"Tomorrow," Luke answered. "If you're going to stay home today and hide away from the town then I'll stay with you."

"You don't have to do that, I'll be fine here with Rory. I know that you want to reopen as soon as possible and that you're almost finished so you can go do that today, you don't have to stay home with me," Lorelai replied.

"I know that I could go to the diner but I'm not going to," Luke said firmly. "Besides all that is left before I reopen is a few touch-ups with the paint and that will only take a couple hours at most."

"Painting?" Lorelai asked, an amused smirk crossed her face. "I happen to be excellent with a paint brush."

Luke shook his head. "No, I can do this myself. It's only a few touch-ups, nothing big. I'll do it tomorrow when I go back to the diner."

"Or you can do it today and re-open tomorrow to get that money rolling in again. I can be your beautiful helper who is a lot better company than T.J. any day and it would give me something to do today besides sit at home and watch movies," Lorelai replied, "Not that watching movies all day is ever a bad idea. Please?"

Lorelai grinned at him and he gave in. It was hard not to give into her. "Fine, you can help me paint today," he conceded. "Just remember the paint goes on the walls and not on people."

"I'll try to remember."

Luke stood up from the swing and pulled Lorelai up with him. "Come on, I'll make breakfast first."

"Chocolate chip pancakes?"

"Do we have chocolate chips?"

"We always have chocolate chips babe," Lorelai replied as they quietly entered the house in case Rory did fall back asleep. "They're like coffee, a staple in the household."

Luke nodded his head once. "Right, forgot that for a second. In that case, I'll make chocolate chip pancakes for you and Rory."

"Can't believe you forgot about the chocolate chips. How could you forget that?"

"Don't push it or there will be no chocolate chip pancakes."

"I'll be quiet now and just watch you cook," Lorelai said. She pretended to zip her lips for dramatic effect before seating herself at the kitchen table and watching Luke as he moved around the kitchen gathering ingredients for their breakfast.


Lorelai dropped her paint brush down into the tray and moved back away from the wall to admire her and Luke's handiwork. After breakfast and Lorelai taking her sweet time choosing the perfect painting outfit, they headed over to the diner to start their work. They managed to steer clear of any Stars Hollow residents who all meant well but would most likely cast pity glances their way over today's date, the very thing Lorelai wanted to avoid about today. Lorelai asked Rory if she would like to help but she left the couple to do the work themselves while she went to spend time with Lane.

"I think it looks pretty good," Lorelai commented. With her hands placed on her hips, she turned towards Luke who stood beside her. "Good as new."

"We did do a good job," Luke agreed.

"And now you're all ready to re-open tomorrow," Lorelai pointed out. "I can finally get you to make me breakfast again."

"What are you talking about? I make you breakfast most mornings. I made you and Rory breakfast this morning, chocolate chip pancakes as requested with a terrifying and unhealthy amount of whipped cream on top of them," Luke said.

"I mean diner breakfast, as in breakfast in the diner," Lorelai explained. "Having breakfast at the house can be great, especially if it's in bed, but in the diner you get the whole experience. I get all the latest gossip, you get to argue with me about cell-phone usage in the diner, I get to watch you be annoyed by Kirk and Taylor, it's like dinner theater but for breakfast."

"Breakfast theater then."

"Never a dull moment," Lorelai added. "At home all I have is Paul Anka freaking out when I drink my coffee. Not as interesting as the diner."

"Tomorrow you can have your breakfast theater back but for right now I have to clean this place up so I can open tomorrow," Luke replied.

"Need any help?" Lorelai asked.

She watched him begin to clean up their painting supplies all the while making her way over to the stools at the counter to sit down. Luke turned towards her and declined her offer of help when he sat that she was already seated. He quickly gathered the rest of the supplies before going behind the curtain and heading up the stairs to store their supplies in his apartment for the time being. As soon as he was gone, his cellphone that he placed on the counter-top began to ring.

Lorelai didn't give it a second thought as she picked up and answered the phone. "Luke's phone, this is his lovely fiancée Lorelai."

"Hey Lorelai," a voice on the other end of the line chirped.

It took Lorelai a moment to place the voice but when she did she froze. She and Luke had talked about her getting to know April and spending time with her but they had yet to make plans so she wasn't sure where a phone call with her future step-daughter would rank.

"Hello? Lorelai?" April's voice rang in her ear. "Are you there?"

"Oh yeah, I'm here," Lorelai answered quickly. "Sorry, just spaced out for a minute. Hey April, how are you?"

"I'm good. Since I got out of school I've been reading over the book that Luke got me for my birthday, it's really interesting," April replied. "I still haven't used my gift certificate yet, there's just so much cool stuff at the Discovery Store."

Lorelai looked towards the curtain to try and determine if Luke was coming back soon. "Well you know what always works wonders for me? Pro-con lists. It's how Rory and I make all of our big decisions."

"Pro-con lists, that's a good idea. I might have to try that."

"They always work for us." Lorelai paused for a minute waiting for Luke to show up. "Do you want to talk to Luke now? He's around here somewhere."

"I wanted to tell you that I had a really fun time at my birthday party/slumber party," April admitted causing a smile to appear on Lorelai's face. "My friend Marcia tried to throw a slumber party like that at the end of school but it wasn't as fun."

Lorelai let out a small laugh, "Well it takes years of slumber party experience to be able to throw them like I do." As Luke came back into the diner, she gestured for him to come over to her. "Okay April, I have to go but Luke's here now so I'll give the phone to him. Bye kid."

"April?" Luke mouthed as he took the phone from Lorelai. She nodded and gestured for him to answer the phone.

"Hey April," Luke said as he lifted the phone to his ear and sat down next to Lorelai.

She stayed quiet as Luke talked on the phone with April. Over the past couple of weeks, she watched him talk on the phone with her a couple of times. She found that she loved watching him talk with April. His face always lit up when he talked to her or about her, though she kept that to herself since Luke got awkward with compliments. She perked up when she heard talk of summer plans but since she was only listening to Luke's half of the conversation, she was a little confused as to what April's summer plans were. Before too long, Luke said goodbye to April and hung up the phone.

"Well I would ask how is April but I already kind of know since I answered your phone. I only answered because you weren't in here and I didn't even see who was calling before I answered it, not many people call you on your cell-phone though so I could have assumed it was April."

Luke held up his hand to stop her rambling. "It's fine that you answered it. I told you that I wanted you two to get to know one another."

"Yeah but we haven't really talked about in detail or when you would talk to Anna about this or anything like that," Lorelai replied. "So I wasn't sure about the phone call."

Luke hated the fact that she sounded insecure about answering the phone when it was April on the other end. He knew that his earlier actions made her feel that way though. It was something he was working on trying to fix and with the information that April gave him over the phone, he knew what his first action would be.

"I know we haven't but it's fine that you answered the phone Lorelai," Luke assured her. "She told me that she likes talking to you and that you suggested she make a pro-con list about what she should buy with half of her birthday present."

Lorelai smiled. "Well if I have the opportunity to pass on the brilliant idea that is a pro-con list, I'm going to take that opportunity."

"I still think they're a little stupid especially when it comes to major life decisions."

"They have always worked for Rory and me. Plus April likes science and pro-con lists are a scientific process so it's a great match."

"I don't know if they are that scientific," Luke doubted.

"Leave the rules of the pro-con lists to the pros, babe. So what else did you and April talk about? I heard talk summer plans. Is she going to spend some of that time in Stars Hollow?" Lorelai asked.

"Well she already has a lot of activities lined up for the summer like sleepovers at friends, taking a trip with her mom, and science camp, but she has a few days before all of that starts so she was wondering if she could come here," Luke informed her.

"You said yes of course," Lorelai replied.

Luke nodded. "I said yes. I have to talk to Anna about the details of when she'll come but while she's here I want you two to spend time together, all three of us to spend time together. Four if Rory will be here."

"Is that okay with Anna?" Lorelai asked.

"April is my daughter too, Anna is not the only one that can make decisions about who is in April's life and who's not. I'm her father I can make decisions like that and I want you to be in her life," Luke replied. "Anna will just have to understand that."

"But you're going to talk with Anna about this before April gets here, right?" Lorelai asked. "I'm just asking because I know how she feels as a single mom and it will be better if she knows this beforehand instead of finding out after. I don't want this to be like the incident after April's party."

"It won't be. I'll talk with Anna and let her know that I want you in April's life and that you're not going to disappear out of her life one day and neither am I." Luke replied.

"My offer still stands if you need help with talking to Anna."

"I think I should talk to her about this on my own. We're partners but I just think that talking with Anna should be something that I do on my own, about this anyways."

Lorelai nodded her head. "I understand, you're her parents." She reached over and gave his hand a gentle squeeze, "But I am here if you need anything, need me to step up and defend you to Anna about how you're always going to be in April's life and that you're already a great dad. I'm here for all of that."

"I know you are. Thank you."

"You're welcome." Lorelai's eyes scanned around the diner. "We done here? Can we go home?"

"Let's go," Luke replied.

Luke went to go towards the back exit of the diner but Lorelai tugged on his hand and pulled him back to her. Her arms snaked around his neck and she pressed her lips to his softly. "Thank you for involving me."

"Of course, not going to make that mistake again," Luke said with a smile.

"You better not," Lorelai mock-warned him. "That was too rough to have to go through again."

"Yeah it was."

Lorelai took his hand in hers and began to pull him towards the back exit of the diner. "You know this could be our June 3rd thing. Instead of thinking about the plans that were set for today, we could just always paint something."

"What would we paint?"

"Oh like a room in the house, small touch-ups at the Inn, the diner again if it ever needs touch-ups...we'll find something," Lorelai replied. She sent a playful grin. "And then we can shower together to get all the paint off."

Luke glanced back towards the stairs that led to his apartment before he focused back on Lorelai. "Upstairs?"

Lorelai grinned in response.

"I like the way that you think," she said before she took off for the stairs calling for Luke to chase after her.


This was not my original plan for this chapter but I do like what it turned into.

As always, reviews are appreciated!