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Chapter 2. Coffee, What Else?

Ever since little (well, now a bit bigger) Lorelai Gilmore had walked into Luke Dane's diner, his life had taken a 360-degree turn. All of a sudden, this beautiful young girl found him fascinating and the type of person who has a shoulder to cry on.

Luke Danes is not a shoulder to cry on.

But maybe for Lorelai, he could make an exception.

As usual, Lorelai walked in the diner and sat down on the stool directly in front of the counter where she knew Luke spent most of his time. She didn't even have to look at the menu or order for that matter before a plate of steaming hot pancakes with syrup and butter smothered all over, running down the stack appeared before her. She licked her lips and dug her fork in.

"Hungry this morning?" Luke asked, drying off a cup to use for her coffee. "Or is it just the pregnancy?"

Lorelai looked up, a bit of syrup on her upper lip. "Mmmfsawtat," she said.

Luke gave her a weird look and nodded. "Sure." He turned around so his back faced her and started to pour a cup of her favorite coffee.

"Coffee!" she said, reaching her arms out so they almost reached his back and began waving her hands, trying desperately to reach him. "Gimme!"

Luke turned around, almost smiling, and handed her the cup. "What did you say before?"

Lorelai guessed that Luke still hadn't learned to not ask her questions when she had a cup of coffee in her hand. She took her time sipping it and savoring the flavor and warmth. "I said," she took another sip, "No, it's not that."

Luke leaned on the counter and began playing with his pencil. "Then what is it?"

"It's my friends. I'm thinking of dropping out of high school," she sighed, grabbing a spoon and stirring her coffee.

Luke attempted to make eye contact. "You should never drop out of school, no matter what happens. You can only experience high school once, you know."

Lorelai sighed again and took the spoon out of the coffee and put it in her mouth. "You sound like my mother."

Luke put the pencil back in his flannel shirt's breast pocket. "Is that a bad thing?" he asked.

"Very," she smiled up at him. "But, see, it would just make life easier if I dropped out of school, seeing my mother's already kicked me out of the house."

Luke nodded and took her now empty coffee cup and refilled it. "Couldn't you move in with one of your friends or something?"

"Well," she said, taking the new cup thankfully, "My friends are the second reason why I want to leave school."

"What have they done?" Luke asked.

"It's more of what they haven't done," she replied, playing with her soaked pancakes. "They won't talk to me. It's almost like I don't exist to them."

"Well, if they don't like you because you got pregnant, that's just stupid."

Lorelai seemed to agree. She nodded very slightly and took a large gulp of coffee. "I can't rely on you and coffee for the rest of my life."

"You'll have your baby," Luke said, trying to reassure her. Not his best area.

"But it won't be a baby forever," Lorelai pointed out. "Soon, it will be all grown up and it won't have a stable mother to lean on, or a father at all. I'm worried about the baby. I'm worried that I won't be a good mother. What if it turns out to hate me or . . . or it turns out to be a drug dealer?"

Luke looked away, not knowing what to say. "You'll pull through. You . . . you're not stupid."

Lorelai almost laughed. "You don't even know me, Luke Danes."

He watched Lorelai down her second cup of coffee and wondered how one person could consume so much caffeine in not more than two minutes.

"I'm looking forward to meeting you, Lorelai Gilmore."

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A/N: Short and I know I haven't updated in FOREVER, I am so sorry, but I've been on vacation, school, more vacation, friends . . . life basically. And GG isn't my main FF thing anyway. And I have this thing where I find it fun or something to make a new chapter, delete, and not update for three months . . . urg.

Read . . . review . . . throw up because this was so disgusting, you know, whatever you do after you read a fanfiction.

Love,

Eternal Love LJ

P.S. Hey, I just replaced this chapter because I realized I had made a mistake. I had said that her parents "would kick her out" in this chapter, and in the prologue, I said they already did. Sorry!