A/n- hey guys, sorry for the time lapse between chapters. Its been crazy lately. Tons of tests, plus my whole family, including me, is sick. So, I'm going to try to make thhis one a reasonable length. Enjoy!

p.s- I realized that I hadn't put a year in, so im going to start that now.

Lorleai's apartment

Wed., June 25, 2012

8:15 am

crash!

"Lori!Logan! What did you do this time?" I asked, yelling from the twins room. The kids were hyper, crazy- and they had to be at their gramdparents house/ mansion (yes I am talking about the Huntzbergers) in four hours (this is counting the 2 hour drive). I knew I shouldn't have given them my coffee.

"Logan pinched me" Lori said in her tattle-tale voice. I sighed and stood up from the floor near the kids dresser, "why don't you watch tv?"

"Boring"

"Read a book?"

"Boring"

"Colour?-with crayons and paper?" (before I had told them to colour, and they decided to fingerpaint- the kitchen and all the windows) Suddenly Lori's eyed lit up. "I know!"

she said excitedly, nd bounced out of the room. I went back to packing, not thinking about what Lori The Trouble Maker had up her sleeve. A couple minutes later I stopped. Ut was quiet, a bit to quiet. I went to find the kids. I half to admit, half of me curious as to what they had gotten themselves into this time. I finally found them in my bathroom. "Oh no," I muttered to myself.

"Hi Lorelai!Don't I look pretty?" Lori and Logan had decided to play beauty queen with my makeup. Well actually, Lori was the beauty queen, Logan was the makeup artist. Logan and Lori sat there smiling at me. God, I needed help. I would never gat them packed at this rate, and I don't thimk I could stand another day of the Terible Two. "You guys wash up, I'm going to make a phone call" I saidsnapping into problem solving mode. I picked up the phone and pressed speed dial for Charlie's.

"Lorlelai, what can I get you?" Claudine answered the phone.

"Actually, I was wondering if Luke was there-I… I need to talk to him"

"Um, yeah he's here.. one moment" Cluadine sounded weirded out. A minute later, Luke picked up the phone "Yep"

"Luke…it's Lorlelai"

"Lorelai? Are you …"

"The twins are leaving soon, and they're not even close to packed, and they're hyper and playing trampoline, and… I would really appreciate it if you could maybe-"

"I'll be there in 5"

"Luke, you don't have to if you don't-"

"I have your address, right?"

"Yeah. But Luke the diner-"

"Claudine and Charlie are here. Don't worry. I'll see you soon." And he hung up. And that was Luke… my knight in shining armour.

I went back into my room. The twins had graduated to trying on my clothes. I put on my discipline voice, although to admit it, they did look kinda cute. "Go get dressed and put aside everything you want to take to Hartford. My friend is coming to take you out." Now this, got their attention.

"But.." logan started

"Go. Now"

The twins ran straight out of my room and into theirs. 4 minutes later, we were sitting in the kitchen, me tying Lori's hair int a ponytail, and Logan attempting to do up his laces for the hundrenth time. The doorbell rang. I stood up. "Logan, put on your slip on shoes for now" I said, walking to the door. "Hey Luke" I said, opening the door.

"Hi" Luke said as he walked through the threshold. Threshold- that was a cool word. I quickly did the intros. "Lori, Logan, this is Luke. Luke, these are my offspring, Lori and Logan. " The twins looked kinda stunned to see a male standing in the doorway. "My name isn't really Lori, " Lori clarified, "It's Lorelai, like mommy and Lorelai" needless to say, Lori was very proud of her name.

Luke smiled at Lori and then looked up at me, "What do you want me to do with them?" ah, the classic Luke jargin.

"Um, I dunno. Do you have any errands to run? The kids love shopping."

"um, sure. When do you want me to bring them back?

"2 hours"

"2 hours. Fine. Lori, Logan, let's go." The twins happily ran out the door. I could sse that they were going to get along fine.

"Luke?"

"yeah?"

"I smiled at him, "thankyou"

Lobby of apartment

6:00 pm.

I had finally dropped the kids off, and now I was finally back home to prepare for my date."Hey Randy" I said, walking into the building

"Hry Lorelai. The elavators here ar out of service, so you're going to have to use the use the ones by the pool"

"Ok thanks" I headed towards the out-of-the-way elavators. I pressed the up button and waited. Suddenly I felt familiar arms around my shoulders.

"Welcome home" Luke whispered in my ear as the elavator doors dinged open.