A/N: First of all, hope you all had a nice Christmas. I had to work Christmas morning, but I had a good time nonetheless. Second, thanks to all who read and reviewed the last chapter. Hope you will enjoy this one as well!! Third, thanks again to Jessi for her input in this chapter!!

Chapter 6 - Engagements

"In the past few weeks we have talked about how your friendship turned into a relationship and how that was for you. Then last week we talked about your parents and the roles they had in your lives, and in your relationship. This week I want to talk about your first engagement. A couple of years I would have asked, Luke how did you propose but times have changed and women can just as well propose as men nowadays. Sometimes they have to take the matter in their own hands to take their relationship a step further. Anyway, who proposed to who?" Spencer asked, another week later.

"I proposed to Luke." Lorelai replied, smiling at Spencer's little speech.

Spencer nodded. "See. Totally normal nowadays. How was that for you Luke? That she proposed to you?"

"It was fine by me." He gave his short reply.

"Good, good. Otherwise you wouldn't have said yes of course. But still, didn't you feel like it should have been you? That she stole your moment?"

"Not at first. But then Patty and Babette were all over me saying they felt sorry for me that my moment was stolen. Then I bought a ring for her and I gave it to her in the full moonlight and I still had my moment."

Spencer nodded again, writing something down on his notepad. Then he turned to Lorelai. "Why did you propose to Luke? Did you feel like he was waiting too long or that he was never going to pop the question? And how did you propose? Did you prepare a romantic moment or did you just ask him without giving it too much thought?"

"You remember that I told you last week that my parents betrayed me when Rory dropped out of college? That I went to their house and had decided she was going to drop out of college and live with them for a while?"

"Yes." Spencer nodded.

"After that I drove around for a while, sad about the things I lost and finally ended up at the diner. Luke was the only person I could still trust and I needed someone to comfort me. So I walked into the diner and told Luke what happened and then he started ranting about how we were going to kidnap Rory from my parents and drive her to school, making sure she would stay there. Being with her at all times so she couldn't run away. He would take one shift, I would take the other. And I sat there, watching him going on and on and all I could do was think about how much I loved that man standing in front of me and how I wanted to spend the rest of my life with him. So when he finally finished his rant and waited until I said something. I said 'Luke will you marry me?'"

"What did you say?" Spencer asked Luke.

"I said 'yes.'"

"And then I asked if he was sure, because I hadn't expected him to answer so fast and he said yes again, and I asked once more if he needed some time to think and he said no. So then we were like, what now?"

"What now?" Spencer asked, confused.

"I felt like we had to do something to make it official. So we were standing there and it was a bit awkward and then we decided that we were going to toast to our new engagement. Only Luke had no liquor in the diner so we had to go and buy some. Of course nothing was open anymore because it is Stars Hollow, but then we decided to go to Doose's market because there was this bike tournament going around in town that still wasn't over so Taylor was still there.

At first he wasn't willing to let us in. Told us to come back at 6 when he opens but when we told what happened, he allowed us to go in. But the bikers had bought every alcohol in the store. All he had was some cheap alcohol-free champagne that really wasn't good enough for our celebration. But then he thought of this case of Zima in the back so we bought that. Then we went outside and I led Luke to the gazebo in the middle of town square. It was decorated with Christmas lights and as it was really dark, it was so romantic. We toasted with the Zima and then finally sealed our engagement with a kiss."

"All on the night you were betrayed by your parents and all this bad things happened with your daughter?" Spencer asked.

"Well yeah. I know it sounds like bad timing, but I had a really bad night until I got to Luke's and I really needed to not think about it. I knew it was still there and that it wouldn't go away, but this thing Luke and I had was for real, and I wanted to celebrate that."

"I understand." Spencer said. "What did you do next?"

"We went back to the diner and had sex." She stated, as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"You did what!" Spencer said.

"We went to Luke's apartment and had sex." She said, a little more detailed this time.

"Lorelai." Luke hissed, not comfortable to talk about that.

"What?" She asked in an innocent voice. "He's almost 60 years old. He knows what sex is."

Spencer smiled. "I think that is a save assumption."

"See." She said and crossed her arms in front of her, like a little girl who finally proved she was right. Then she turned back to Spencer, deciding to tease Luke a little. "It was really good sex too. I mean, we had or share in good sex ever since we started dating, but there was something special that night…"

"Lorelai." Luke hissed again, interrupting her story. "I am not talking about this."

"Well you don't have to talk because I was talking. It's only polite if you keep quiet and just listen. Didn't your parents taught you it's impolite to speak before your turn?"

He shook his head in response, angry at her.

"Anyway," Lorelai continued, ignoring the expression on Luke's face. "I'm not sure what it was that made things so special that night. But we really took the time and spend hours making love. After that I was exhausted and I didn't really realize that Luke said that he bought us a house and then sold it again. And that he wanted to have kids and buy furniture and plants."

"Plants?" Spencer asked, confused again.

"Yeah that's what he said." She said, pointing towards Luke. "He was rambling about a house and kids and told me that I shouldn't forget about the plants."

"Plants are very important in a house." Luke replied.

"Plants?" Spencer asked again.

"Oh just drop it." Luke said, annoyed.

"Tell me some more about that night." Spencer then asked.

"Well it just was really special. Of course we had nights like that before. We slept together after our first date and it was amazing. Not that I usually sleep with guys on a first date, but Luke and I had been dancing around each other for so long and we waited an entire summer before we finally went on that date so we really had it coming." She turned to her side and saw that Luke's face was turning different shades of red. Deciding to ignore that she continued.

"With Luke it was different than with any guy I ever dated. With him I learned the difference between having sex and making love. Most of the time we make love although we did have sex as well. Like the time we had a quickie in the storage room and another time in my office when Luke stopped by to fix the banister. And I remember this one time we had to go off the nearest exit when we were driving home from Woodbury after having dinner there, because we really couldn't make it home. And.."

She stopped when Luke suddenly jumped up and walked out of Spencer's office, throwing the door shut behind him with a loud 'bang.'

"Oh." She said, suddenly really embarrassed and looked at Spencer. "I think I should go after him. I know he doesn't like to talk about these things in public. I should have just kept my mouth shut." She sighed and stood up.

"It's okay." Spencer said. "You obviously don't have any problems in that direction so let's leave the subject to this."

She nodded and then went out to find Luke.

He wasn't in the waiting room so she went out and found him next to his truck, pacing around angrily.

She watched him for a minute and suddenly realized that she had walked outside without her jacket. Shivering she closed her vest in front of her, holding her arms tight around her chest, hoping to stay warm. Then she approached Luke.

"I'm sorry." She immediately said.

He just huffed. Not wanting to talk to her yet.

"Luke, come back inside. It's really cold and we're not wearing our coats."

He looked up and noticed her lips were turning a bit blue. "You should have put on your jacket before you went outside."

"Just come back inside. I shouldn't have said those things. Spencer said we don't ever have to talk about it again either because obviously we don't have a problem in that direction." She winked at him, hoping that would make things better.

"This is something between you and me. There is enough embarrassing stuff we have to talk about because Taylor won't give us the stupid license without a letter. I agreed to come here for us. Because I want us to get married, but I refuse to talk about things like this."

"I know that."

"You don't tell someone where we have sex and how. Then you can just as well tell him that you told me on the way here that you are wearing the red lingerie I like so much and that we will most likely do it the second we get home. And that we most likely won't make it to our bedroom."

"I could have told him that," she said, flashing him a smile. That he was saying this and that he still wanted to have sex with her when they'd be coming home later meant he wasn't so angry anymore.

"Well it's good you didn't," he grunted.

She smiled. "Come on, let's go inside. We're paying an awful lot of money to just stand here on the street during our session."

He nodded. "Yeah. Let's go back inside. But…"

"I promise." She said, knowing exactly what he was going to say. "I won't ever say anything like that to Spencer again."

Satisfied with the answer he put his arm around her and pulled her a little closer to his body so they could warm each other a little and whispered, "I really can't wait to get that lingerie of off you."

"So everything is good?" Spencer asked when they came back in.

They both nodded and sat down again.

"Good. Earlier you were saying that Luke bought a house without telling you?"

Lorelai nodded. "The old Twickham house. It was this big house in Stars Hollow that was owned by this old man, and after he died it was turned into a museum. After that it went up for sale and apparently Luke was interested in it. He went and bought it without telling me and then got rid of it again before I knew about it."

"Why did you buy that house?" Spencer asked Luke.

"I always liked that house when I was growing up so when it became available I had to fight about it with Kirk, who also wanted it and apparently had a lot of money we didn't know about. I wanted to live in that house with Lorelai and I thought it would be nice for kids to grow up in. But in the end I realized that Lorelai didn't want to move so we did remodeling on her house and made it bigger."

"Why didn't you tell her about it and made the decision together at the time?"

He raised his shoulders. "I wasn't sure if we were ready for that yet. And then I wasn't sure at all if it was what Lorelai wanted so I backed out and gave the house back to Taylor. And then that evening Lorelai came to me and proposed so suddenly we were engaged."

"How did it make you feel, that he made a big decision like buying a house without telling you?" Spencer asked to Lorelai.

"I didn't like it. Buying a house is a life-time decision and something you have to make together. But he had already backed out when he told me so we still had to decide where we were going to live and at first I was open to living there but I didn't want to get rid of my house and I did not really like the idea of anyone else living there either. And that's when Luke suggested remodeling it. I also made him promise never to make such decisions without me again."

"What happened next?"

"The few months following we spend remodeling the house together. Sometimes we slept in his apartment above the diner, other nights we spend in my house where we had put the bed in the living room. During that time Rory and I weren't talking so it was nice to have someone around."

"So you did a lot of things together?"

"We did. For example Luke became the sponsor of the local girl's soccer team and ordered shirts and went to the game together. Even Paul Anka had his own shirt."

"Paul Anka?"

"My dog." She smiled.

"Ah. I see." Spencer replied. Then he asked. "You also planned the wedding together?"

Lorelai shook her head. "No. I didn't want to plan the wedding while Rory and I weren't speaking. I wanted to wait until things were okay between the two of us before I could marry Luke."

"I understand." Spencer replied. "So you planned the wedding after that happened?"

"Yes. I thought that it was going to be a lot of work to plan the wedding but actually I planned the entire wedding in one da. Everything just came to me and it was all planned within a day."

"You did that together?"

She shook her head again. "No. I planned the wedding together with Sookie."

"And that was okay with you?" Spencer asked Luke.

"Yeah. Whatever she wanted was fine with me."

"But then April came into his life and we started drifting apart. And then he wanted to postpone the wedding." She sighed, still regretting everything that happened afterwards.

"That's a whole different subject. Something we do not have enough time to discuss anymore so we will save that for next week. I think that we have talked about a lot today and that we should leave it at this for now. I'm sure my next patient is already waiting."

Both Luke and Lorelai nodded, stood up and took their coats outside this time.

T.B.C.