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Chapter 5

"Here you go."

"Thanks" Luke handed Lorelai a glass of champagne before taking a sip from his own.

Lorelai saw Rory and Jess across the room dancing and having fun and smiled to herself. She may not like Jess much but he made Rory happy, and that was the most important thing. Looking across the room the next person she recognized gave her the complete opposite feeling that Rory had. It was her mother, Emily Gilmore. She turned quickly to Luke and said, "Hey we should…", but she was too late. Emily spotted her and was headed her way with Richard following close behind.

"Lorelai, there you are, I was beginning to think you wouldn't show"

"Hi mum" Lorelai said with her best trying-not-to-cry smile.

"Hello", said Luke extending his hand to Richard.

"Hello young man", said Richard cheerfully which is better than Emily's reaction to the diner man.

"Ah", said Emily with obvious dislike, "You must be Luke"

The awkward silenced that followed this greeting was finally broken when Richard announced that he had seen a golfing friend and then quickly left the conversation.

Figures, thought Lorelai, as soon as things get awkward dads gone. This fact didn't seem to put Emily off however as she continued to death glare Luke while starting a conversation with her daughter.

"So I see your still letting your daughter date that disgusting boy"

"Actually mum, he's very nice."

At this Luke choked on his drink a little but soon recovered. He wasn't particularly worried with Emily's view of his relations after all he wasn't particularly fond of hers either (apart from Lorelai and Rory of course). But Lorelai had, as she always did, jumped into defensive mode even though she was defending someone she dislikes.

"He treats Rory very well and I approve completely" stated Lorelai while thinking to herself 'only a small lie'.

"Well of course you would", said Emily with a hint of exasperation in her voice.

"What does that mean?" said Lorelai the anger beginning to swell inside her.

"Well…"Emily answered clearly indicating Luke.

Lorelai was about to retort when Luke took her empty glass from her hand and placing it on a table with his own began to lead her out to the dance floor without so much as a goodbye to Emily.

The slow music drifted through the hall as Lorelai and Luke gently swayed, Lorelai's hands placed on his shoulders and his around her waist. Lorelai gently placed her head on his shoulder nuzzling into the crook of his neck. It seemed as though they stayed like that forever yet at the same time it felt like no time at all.

Lorelai lifted her head from Luke's shoulder to look him in the eye as she said, "Thanks for that."

"That's ok, I just thought it was best to get out of there before…well you know."

"Yea I do." Lorelai chuckled and placed her head back on Luke's shoulder.

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"So… I saw you and Luke getting pretty close out there on the dance floor," said Rory knowingly while a small smile played on her lips.

"Hush you; he was just protecting me from the wrath of Emily that's all," answered Lorelai as she stood with her daughter next to the champagne table.

"Sure mum, whatever you say." Rory said in a tone that insured Lorelai knew she didn't believe her.

"He was!"

"You see that lady over there chatting up the waiter?" asked Rory changing the subject knowing that her last comment about Luke would stay in her mothers mind.

"The one in the horrible lime green dress?"

"Yea well I heard from the lady with the fake hair that she was once a man."

"Really? Wow. Though that does explain the lack of a fashion sense."

"I wonder if Grandma knows…"

The two Gilmore women looked at each other and cracked up and had just stopped laughing when Jess came over to dance with Rory again. Lorelai now on her own began looking around for her own date that seemed to be missing. After five minutes of observing the room she spotted him. Laughing. With another woman. Another young attractive woman. Another young attractive woman who had just put her hand on Luke's arm. Lorelai's first thought was get off he's mine! Then she realized that Luke wasn't in fact hers and that they were just friends but the green monster inside her wasn't listening, it was getting ready to attack.

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