"Ouch" Lorelai complained after stabbing herself with the hook.

"Here let me do it" Luke went over and took the rod from her, applying the bait without stabbing himself, then went over to the other side of the boat.

"Wow, someone's grumpy in the morning" Lorelai said.

"I'm only grumpy because I had to drive into town, which is a half an hour away from here, to get you coffee"

"I can't believe you didn't bring me coffee, nor anticipate the fact that I would want coffee at five o'clock in the morning." Lorelai said.

"Yah, well now there's no fish out here," Luke complained.

"Sorry" Lorelai said softly.

"No, I'm not mad at you… just thinking" Luke said trying to phrase it correctly.

"Thinking?" Lorelai asked and put down her rod, moving over to Luke.

"Yah, about us" Luke said and Lorelai's eyes grew big. "No, not in the bad way, in the good way, like you and me, we're going well."

"What's up?" Lorelai asked and put down Luke's rod. (Yes I know that was dirty)

"Nothing" Luke replied a little too quickly.

"Luke common, tell me please"

"It's nothing okay, well nothing you can know about"

Lorelai was taken back from this; she thought Luke was mad at her and hiding something from her.

Luke sighed, common Lorelai, he thought, just drop it, I can't exactly tell you I'm going to propose to you tomorrow and I'm thinking about how I'm going to do that.

"Fine" Lorelai said quietly and sat in the middle of the boat.

"Lorelai please understand if I could tell you, I would" Luke said and sat next to her.

Lorelai avoided his glance and simply said "Can we go back to the tent now?"

Luke simply nodded and started the boat.

Wait a go Danes; you screwed it up before it even began.


Lorelai was silent for the rest of the day, simply hanging out at the lake and Luke did his best to get her to understand he really couldn't tell her what was going on. It wasn't a bad secret, it was one he was hoping she was going to like, and not be upset about, that plan backfired.

That night they both sat at the fire, Lorelai was reading a magazine and Luke was poking the fire with a stick.

"I'm sorry" Luke said simply, Lorelai looked up from her magazine.

"For what?"

"I don't know, what ever I did this morning, I'm sorry" Luke said.

"No, I'm sorry, I'm sorry I'm a coffee addicted person who needs caffeine at five o'clock in the morning, I'm also sorry that my boyfriend of one year didn't know that I was a caffeine addicted person who-" Lorelai said with attitude, and was cut off by Luke.

"I know you love coffee, I'm sorry, I was just thinking-"

"About something I'm not aloud to know about, you already told me that"

Luke closed his eyes hoping the answer of how to fix this would be on the inside of his eyelids or something.

"I'm not mad okay, just bugged you're not telling me something," Lorelai said setting her magazine on the ground beside her.

"Come here" Lorelai half smiled and went over to Luke and sat on his lap. (Yah I know that was in an episode last season, but it's SO cute!)

"I'm hiding something from you that you can't know about because it's a surprise for you"

"A surprise party?" Lorelai asked.

"No"

"A penguin?"

"No, just don't ask, you'll find out sooner or later"

"Fine" Lorelai said and rolled her eyes.

"So we're good?" Luke asked.

"Totally, but the surprise better be damn good" She said and kissed him softly on the lips.

Luke thought to himself… he hoped the proposal was going to be good.


At about two o'clock in the morning, Lorelai woke up for the third time. It wasn't that the hard ground she was sleeping on was extremely uncomfortable, or that she kept hearing noises from the forest, it was really bugging her not knowing what the surprise was.

Luke never kept secrets from her, it was very hard to surprise Lorelai Gilmore, so what could this surprise be?

She couldn't clear her head so she got up and unzipped the tent quietly before sneaking out.

Sure in Stars Hollow they had bright stars, but there were way more stars out tonight blanketing the sky. There were still red coals in the fire from a couple of hours ago.

Lorelai was looking at the stars so intently; she didn't realize Luke coming out of the tent behind her.

"Hey" When he spoke she jumped.

"Oh my gosh warn me before you sneak up on me!"

"Sorry" Luke said and stood next to her. "What are you doing out here?"

"Just looking at the stars, and I couldn't sleep"

"Why?"

"I really want to know what the surprise was," Lorelai said.

"You really want to know?"

"Yes" Luke went back in the tent and then came back out.

"But only because you wanted to know." Luke said and then got down on one knee, startling Lorelai. "Lorelai I know that I forgot your coffee, and I am really bad at keeping a secret apparently, but some how you still love me" Lorelai laughed a little threw the tears. "And I don't know why you do, but you're my best friend, and I love you, Lorelai will you marry me?"

Lorelai looked like she was going to faint, she quietly whispered yes and threw her arms around Luke before kissing him.

"I can ask you tomorrow how I originally planned you know." Luke said, Lorelai still in his arms.

"No this was perfect, believe me" Lorelai said.


Engagement CHECK MARK

WOO… okay I had this planned out, but now I'm just thinking… the only reason I write these is for the people reading them… so tell me what you want next… almost anything's open, except NO CHRIS… um, and well that's about all your restrictions, so review and tell me what you want next.

MEGGAN