Chapter 2: Suddenly
Disclaimer: The characters of this story belong to Amy Sherman Paladino; I just like to mess around with them for my own enjoyment
A.N: I would like to take this opportunity to thank all those who alerted this story, it means a lot to know that I have readers out there and I know it's sure but I had to get the Emily part in. Chapter 3 is where it really begins.
It was a good five minutes before either Luke or Lorelai remembered that they were exposed in view of everyone and all of stars hollow were in the next room; also Emily and Richard Gilmore were around somewhere.
Lorelai was the one who came to her senses and pulled away from Luke: she went to the foot of the stairs leaving him standing at the door (he'd arrived about ten minutes ago but still failed to make it further than two steps in).
He stood there looking at the half melted ice covering her hallway and feeling kind of foolish. *Dammit you've just lost your best friend, you'll have to close up Luke's diner and go far far away.* He was about to open his mouth to apologise when Lorelai grabbed his hand, turned him to face her and kissed his cheek then sashayed out of the room.
"What just happened?" he said to himself as he went to the kitchen in search of something to clean the ice off the floor.
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A short time later Lorelai saw Emily climbing the stairs and opted to follow her (not really understanding why). She found her in her bedroom.
"That's quite an assortment of characters you have down there," Emily stated, knowing Lorelai was behind her.
"They're great people," Lorelai replied, pride obvious in her voice.
"This Patricia, she teaches dance?"
"Among other things."
"And the man with the ice?" Emily eyed her daughter very closely as she said this.
"Luke." Lorelai tried to keep the smile from her face as she said his name
"How long have you been seeing him?"
Lorelai panicked, did her mother know? No there was no way; she wouldn't be this calm if she did. She put on her best poker face and said "Mom I'm not dating Luke."
"He seems to like you"
*Well duh! We were just playing tonsil hockey (such a better hockey game than bagel hockey) in the hallway!* She has to ask, just to be sure her mother didn't catch her making out (god that sounds like something a 16 year old would be worried about).
"You're judging this by what?"
"By the way he looks at you."
"Which is how?"
"Like you're about to give him a lap dance."
Lorelai looks at her mother trying to decipher where this thought came from, although after their little make out session, she isn't surprised that Luke would be looking at her like this, after all she did just jump on the poor guy. She brushed off her mother's opinion, adamant that her and Luke were just friends and prayed that her mother believed her.
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Emily Gilmore had never been close to her daughter but she always thought that she knew her, walking around the house that her daughter and granddaughter had lived in for five years; she was slowly learning that this was not the case with every corner she turned. Here she was reflecting on these moments in the car ride home.
There was the picture of Lorelai with her leg in plaster, there was Rory's old baby clothes, Sookie who made the fabulous appetisers, the story Babette told with Rory and the fairy tree stump, then there was the man who looked at her daughter like she was about to give him a lap dance, which she almost did. She wondered why Lorelai lied to her when asked if they were dating.
"I don't know my daughter at all" she directed this comment to Richard who just started to drive.
This chapter was inspired by the song "suddenly" by Angry Anderson
"I only dreamed that I would find, a loving heart, an open mind
You see the real me, and I hoped that you would be the one
A chance to talk, a chance to grow
I'll take the risk, let my feelings flow
I found the words I need to say
Suddenly you're seeing me, just the way I am
Suddenly you're hearing me, so I'm talking just as fast as I can to you
Suddenly every part of me needs to know every part of you
Now I know that you are mine, you bring me love and peace of mind
You see the real me and I know that you're the key
Suddenly you're seeing me just the way I am
Suddenly you're hearing me so I'm talking just as fast as I can to you
Suddenly I believe you're all I need, all I need to be
Suddenly every part of me needs to know every part of you (its you)"