Lorelai woke up the next morning next to Luke laying in the front seat of his truck. Then it all came back to her last night, dancing, kissing, giving up on the tent and just sleeping in the front of his truck. She sat up straight letting the opened sleeping bag fall of her happy to find herself fully clothed.
"Good morning." Luke said with a smile, happily reminiscing about the night before.
"Luke…" Lorelai said her voice wavering.
"What's up?" Luke said in a concerned voice, sitting straight up now.
"I wasn't really thinking straight last night." Lorelai said taking a deep breath "I mean I… have a boyfriend."
Luke smiled more to himself than her. A disappointed, I-should-have-thought-of-this ahead-of-the-time smile. "It never happened."
Lorelai thought to herself, 'Oh, it happened. Trust me it happened. I just can't let it happen again.' But she said, "Thanks." instead.
Luke turned around and looked outside the window "It finally stopped raining. You want to stay the rest of the weekend or head home?"
"Let's stay."
"Okay, well let's get the tent set up first then do you want to go fishing?"
"For fish?"
"Yes, for fish."
"Well, I'll give it a shot."
They both got out of the truck and walked over to the half set up tent laying soaked in water on the ground.
"Well folks we've got ourselves a brand new swimming pool."
"Let's just lay it out to dry and we'll come back to it later." Luke said, picking it up and laying it spread out across the ground.
"So, all we need now is the fishy box thingies?" Lorelai asked.
"Yes, the tackle boxes." Luke said, grabbing them out of his truck.
They walked over to the lake, and Luke handed her a fishing pole.
"What do I do with this?" Lorelai asked.
"Okay, first take some bait." Luke said.
"Where's the bait?" Lorelai asked.
Luke held up a can of worms.
"Luke?"
"Yeah?"
"I don't want to kill a fish."
"Put a cork on it."
"How mean!"
"On the hook."
"Oh, okay." Lorelai smiled, grabbing a piece of cork. "Now what do I do?"
"Here," Luke said, stepping behind her putting his hand on the fishing rod. "Hold it like this."
"K."
"Then pull it back and hold this." Luke said moving her hands to the correct spots.
"Then release the line as you throw it forwards." Luke said, letting go.
"Like this?" Lorelai asked, throwing her line into the water.
"Great."
"Okay, now what?"
"You wait for some fish to bite."
"But they won't because I have cork on my hook."
"Exactly."
"Okay." Lorelai said, smiling and holding her pole.
After fishing and a lunch of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, they set up the tent.
Lorelai helped Luke spread out the tent occasionally looking up at him.
Luke pounded the stakes into the ground with complete concentration, giving Lorelai a chance to stare at his muscles.
They finally got the tent up without speaking a word and stood there side by side looking at it.
Luke turned to her…
She turned to him and their eyes meet for one unbearable second before Luke decided to break the silence.
"S'mores?" Luke asked.
"Oh! I've never had real S'mores!"
"You were a very deprived child."
"Yes, I was."
The rest of the night went by smoothly, they played card games ate S'mores and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Lorelai realized they were both supposed to sleep in the smallest tent known to man.
"It's pretty late, you want to turn in?" Luke asked.
"Yeah, sure." she said "I'm just gonna go change."
"Oh, okay. You stay here. You've got more stuff than me. I'll go change over there." Luke said, pointing to the forest.
"K." Lorelai said as she gave a polite, what-the-hell-am-I-doing-here smile.
She changed and added some of her new perfume. Secretly finding herself doing all these extra little things for Luke. She had a boyfriend! What was she doing here, in the middle of the woods, with Luke of all people?! She had to admit he was… attractive… in a completely different way from Christopher.
"Can I come back?" Luke called, interrupting her thoughts.
"What? Oh, yeah." she shouted back.
They both climbed into the tiny tent and settled down rather close to each other, for that's all the room they had.
"This tent used to be bigger I swear." Luke said in amazement.
"Well the bag said two person tent."
"Two oompa loompas."
"Yes, because they're so common around these parts."
After awhile, Lorelai and Luke said good night each still wide awake listening to each other breathe.
Luke was smelling the perfume she had freshly applied, and Lorelai smelling his natural scent mixed with pine trees which formed an irresistible combination.
He got out of his sleeping bag because it was too hot in the middle of the summer for his heavy winter sleeping bag. His bare leg was touching Lorelai's now, and he instantly pulled his back.
Lorelai's heartbeat faster with every accidental touch and every sound he made. Finally, she feel asleep to the sound of him breathing.
The next morning they got up, packed and were on the road before 10. They got back to the Gilmore's House around 11 and were surprised to see a large group in her front yard.
"What's going on?" Luke asked
"It looks like a croquet game between my parents, Babbett, Moray, Taylor, Mrs. Patty, and some other guy?"
"Oh that's Kirk"
"He's are age"
"Yeah… that's Kirk"
"Okay" Lorelai said getting out of the truck glad the awkward mood was finally broken.
She put all her stuff in the house and Luke left as Lorelai went to go see what the croquet game was all about.
"Oh, sugar who's the hunk in the Porsche?" Babbett asked as Lorelai walked up to her
"That's Lorelai's boyfriend Christopher" Emily said almost bragging
"Oh honey, aren't you going out with that Lucas boy?" Mrs. Patty Chimed in
"Apparently there just friends" Emily replied
Lorelai gave up and walked and ran over to the Porsche as Chris got out.
"Chris" she screamed as she hugged him "What are you doing back? I thought you still had another week?"
"Well you know that game where you're supposed to fall and trust everyone to catch you? Well, no one caught him"
"Oh my gosh"
"He'll be okay he just needs some minor surgery" Chris said putting his arm around her shoulder walking her inside the house "So how many more days until you can go home?"
"2"
"Only two!" Chris said sarcastically "Where has the summer gone!"
"It's on vacation it was tired of skiing and wanted to do some surfing this year"
"That very possibly makes no sense at all"
"Well, I couldn't think of a witty come back and since you've been gone so long I didn't want to let you down" Lorelai smiled looking up at him then kissing him. "I missed you"
"I missed you too"
A/N- Okay, So I just want to thank my Beta Moe and beg you guys to review! I feel like none of you guys are reading so if you're reading and don't review just say something like "I hate Chris" but not "I hate Luke" because we all love Luke. Whoa I just realized Every Body Loves Chris is a horrible name for a show! Review! I'm Begging You! (Hey that rhymed! I think?)