Thanks to everyone who reviewed, seriously, if I had a cookie, I would give you all a whole freaking chocolate chip… I know I'm in a very generous mood today.
Here is your next chapter.
MEGGAN
"Riley and Alexandra?" Rory asked. She and Lorelai were sitting on the couch in their living room reading through the twenty baby name books Rory had gotten from the library.
"Nah, what about Kimberly and Beverly," Rory and Lorelai both said no at the same time.
"This is too hard." Lorelai said and tossed the third book she had looked through, on the floor with the others.
"Why don't we try boy names?" Rory asked picking up another book from the table.
Luke walked into the house carrying two big boxes on top of each other. "Maybe we should just wait until the actual babies are born so then you know the sex and we can name them then."
"Or we could just find out the sex of the babies at one of our appointments, then we could just focus on those names"
"Lorelai, you told me that under no circumstances am I aloud to let you find out what gender they are, I'm not going to cave."
"Fine." Lorelai pouted and looked back in the book. "You know we could just do what the celebrities do, they pick a random item in the room and name their kid after that… Apple, Teddy…"
"Or you guys could pick names that both boys and girls could have, Alex, Sam, Terry…" Rory said.
"We could, although I still don't know who classified Elijah as a boy and a girl name, that's a little creepy for me,"
"I don't mean to but in but where do you want this box?" Luke asked holding up yet another box.
Lorelai was one and a half months pregnant, with the help of the town and Emily and Richard, Luke and Lorelai were getting married a week today, which is a Sunday on July Seventh. Luke had for the most part already moved in, but he was finishing off today.
"Put it up in the attic." Lorelai said vaguely pointing up.
"Okay but it's pretty full, I don't think much more is going to fit up there." Luke said and began ascending the stairs.
"Is it so full the roof is going to cave in a crush us one night?"
"No…" Luke said rolling his eyes.
"Stuff it like a turkey baby." Lorelai said and turned back her attention to Rory.
"So everything is done for next week right?" Lorelai asked.
"Yes Mom we have it completely under control, you don't have to worry about a thing."
"Yeah but I hate not being involved in everything, it sucks"
"You got to pick out your dress, the location, the groom, I think you've had enough say missy." Rory said.
"You're making sure this isn't going to be one of those weddings were the best man suddenly changes the location, and loses the ring and everything goes out of control… right?"
"I promise Eric Matthews will have nothing to do with this wedding Mom," Rory joked. "And anyways, Jess is the best man, we had to practically drag him to the wedding I don't think he's going to partake in drastically changing everything last minute"
"True…" Lorelai said and continued looking through the books.
"So what else are we doing besides looking up baby names?"
"I don't know, check the list," Lorelai shrugged.
"Mom, we totally stopped the list at noon, we have no organizational skills what-so-ever."
"Okay we'll make a new list," Lorelai said and took the notebook Rory was holding and began writing.
"Today we need to… finalize wedding plans, do as little as we can possibly do helping Luke move in…"
"You can check that off your list," Luke said sarcastically as he walked back downstairs.
"Luke this is in no way our fault."
"True," Rory nodded.
"Rory don't side with her,"
"Rory's right. We gave you the opportunity to move in last Saturday when we were actually in the 'moving in mood', but you declined, so in result, you're stuck doing all the work"
"I couldn't get out of work last weekend," Luke defended.
"You couldn't stop work for one day to move into your fiancé, soon to be wife in a week, carrying your babies, love of your life's house." Lorelai said and took in a breath, because she said that whole sentence in one breath.
"I took time off this weekend, I was just too busy last weekend."
"Luke you're digging yourself further and further into the hole" Rory said laughing.
"Luke I'm sorry, but you've done the crime you do the time."
"What crime? I had to work" Luke defended. Lorelai and Rory got off the couch to continue their to do list.
"I'm sorry, but you really shouldn't question your fiancé, soon to be wife in a week, carrying your babies-" Lorelai started but stopped as Luke cut her off.
"Love of my life, yeah, yeah, I get it, now go do your to do list." Luke said
"Bye," Lorelai smiled and kissed him quickly.
"Bye Luke," Rory said as she left the house.
"Yeah, don't have too much fun carrying heavy boxes without us," Lorelai joked and stuck out her tongue as they left the house leaving Luke standing there rolling his eyes.
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"Wait Lorelai, don't come in!" Sookie shouted after she heard Lorelai and Rory on her front porch.
"Um, okay," Lorelai said and shrugged at Rory.
"Sookie if you and Jackson are in there or something, we can come back in like an hour or something." Lorelai shouted leaning against the door.
"No, just wait a minute," Sookie shouted from somewhere in the house.
As Lorelai shot another worried glance at Rory the door opened and Sookie came out wearing her apron along with chocolate frosting all over her face.
"Oh Sookie if you wanted to give me an early chocolate covered wedding present, you could have just put it in a pan," Lorelai joked looking at Sookie.
"Oh you…" Sookie waved it off. "I was just inside, you know, working on a cake for… you know, a party."
"A party, at the Inn? Don't you usually cook the cakes at the Inn?" Lorelai asked as her and Rory stepped into Sookie's house.
"Oh well, you know, I wanted to give this one the extra personal touch." She said nervously, obviously trying to get Lorelai to stay out of the kitchen and trying to hit for Rory to help her out.
Lorelai seemed to accept this answer and smiled, "Well it smells really great Sook,"
"Oh," Rory said realizing what Sookie was hiding. "But Sookie don't you usually make cakes the night before the party, why are you making it like a week early?" Rory realized she hinted on the date and quickly added, "Just hypothetically speaking of course"
"A week…" Lorelai's eyes widened and she jumped up and down. "Ah!" She squealed. "My wedding cake!" Lorelai smiled and started to run into the kitchen but Rory and Sookie held her back.
"Mom you can't see the cake, you have to wait until next week!"
"No I want to see my cake!" Lorelai whined like she was a five year old.
"Mom no, wait until next week."
"Yeah Lorelai," Sookie said sitting Lorelai down. "That's not even the real cake, I'm starting it later this week."
"So why can't I see it?" Lorelai pouted.
"You are three." Rory said rolling her eyes.
"And I like chocolate," Lorelai said wining.
"Okay I'm going to have to take her away from the chocolate, we just stopped by to make sure you have the food situation under control." Rory said pulling Lorelai towards the door.
"Food situation?" Lorelai asked back to her normal tone.
"Well there was a small, tiny problem with some food I was testing making one of our staff go home sick for a week… but other than that everything's fine, it was apparently just an allergy."
"Some body was out sick for a week?" Lorelai asked wide-eyed. "Sookie, we're inviting eighty people to this wedding, the food has to be perfect."
"Lorelai I'll make sure it's great, don't you have faith in my cooking?"
"I do Sookie," Lorelai said realizing she might have offended Sookie. "It's just I really want everything to be perfect."
"It will Lorelai, just go out with Rory, have a nice relaxing day, all of this stress isn't good for the babies."
"Okay, I'll go… but can I have just one tiny taste please?" Lorelai begged.
"Go Lorelai," She said pushing them both out the door.
Once they started walking on the sidewalk after waving bye to Sookie, they started back on their to do list.
"What's next on our fabulous Sunday list?" Lorelai asked.
"Well we should really plan Bride's week," Rory said.
"But we already have it planned for the most part."
"We have to right it down, come on Mom, do you not remember the birthday week of ninety six? It was all planned out and all we ended up doing was one movie night and a late night Star's Hollow classic toilet paper Taylor's house, because we didn't make a list. Do you want that to happen again?"
"I guess not, although, toilet papering Taylor's house never gets boring, in fact, I think it gets better each time."
"I guess we should add it to the list." Rory said gesturing to the notebook in her hands. Lorelai shrugged and Rory continued. "Okay, how about this? I'm going to stop by at Lanes and say hi to her and the band, and we'll meet at Luke's, three for a late lunch and list making session?"
"It's a date, bye"
"Honey I'm home!" Lorelai yelled as she walked into the house and tripped over some of the boxes in the foyer. "Ow!" She cried out as the got up holding her knee. She heard footsteps coming down the stairs and Luke appeared.
"Lorelai what are you doing home?"
"Being attacked by cardboard again."
"Are you okay?" He asked and moved a box aside to help Lorelai over to the sofa. They both sat down.
"Oh I'm fine, I'm guessing you're not done unpacking yet?"
"Almost, those were the last ones from the truck, as soon as I stuff them away in the attic, I'll be done."
"Its kind of funny that you're moving in and we're sticking all of your stuff in the closet, are you going to sleep under the stairs Harry Potter?"
"It's alright, I have all the things I need, and most of that stuff was packed up in my apartment anyways so it's not like it was stuff I needed." Luke said and let Lorelai lean her head against his shoulder. "So what are you doing home? Don't you and Rory have the whole day planned?"
"Yeah but I thought I would squeeze you in for a few minutes, why don't like seeing me?" Lorelai asked turning her head to face him.
"Frankly, I'm getting sick of you," He joked and she playfully hit him.
"Hey do you think we were crazy for letting everyone help plan this wedding?"
"What do you mean? Without them we would have never been able to get married in under a month."
"True. But still, I think we're crazy, agree?" Lorelai asked looking up at him.
"Yes, you are crazy." Lorelai laughed and stuck her tongue out at him.
They sat for a few seconds in silence before Lorelai said: "I can't believe we're getting married in a week, if last year you were to tell me by the end of this year I'd be married, I'd never believe you."
"Didn't think I would ever propose?" Luke asked smiling.
Lorelai scrunched up her nose, "I don't know, I've never thought as myself as the wife type, I've never actually thought a guy would be willing me officially make me theirs, I don't know, I guess it's pretty stupid."
"Yeah it is pretty stupid, only an idiot would not want to make you theirs."
Lorelai blushed and kissed Luke softly.
"I think that the babies in this case made you kind of have an obligation to get married to me." Lorelai said resting her hands on her stomach.
"Keep in mind I did propose to you before I knew that you were pregnant."
Lorelai laughed, "True."
They sat for a few more minutes before Luke felt Lorelai's breathing slow down and get softer, meaning she was falling asleep.
The truth was if someone told Luke he was going to get married he would have laughed in their faces, one, he never thought he would actually get up the courage to ask Lorelai to marry him, two, he didn't actually think she would say yes, and three, he couldn't imagine why she was happy with him. '
Maybe it was all in the coffee…
…But then again, she has been coffee-free for two months, so it must be something more.
Hey guys just watched the new episode… it was alight, kind of slow, predictable… but really, the last few seconds bugged me… what Luke said to Lorelai about how things change… ugh, Luke just freaking kiss her already!
I don't know, I feel every time I watch Luke on TV he seems like a different person, but at times he's the same Luke we all know and love… eh, what ever, we all have faith. :)
Review please and make me happy!
MEGGAN.
