They walked over to Sookie and Jackson's house enjoying the comfortable silence and each other's presence.
"Ready?" Lorelai asked him before she knocked on the door and Luke nodded with a reassuring smile on his face.
Sookie opened the door, widely grinning at them. "Hey, there. Come in, come in. Good to see you guys, dinner's almost ready."
Lorelai went inside and Sookie hugged her hello. She also hugged Luke who felt a little uncomfortable doing so, but he didn't show it. They went into the living room where Jackson was.
"Hey Jackson." Lorelai said and also hugged him.
"Hey." Jackson and Luke shook hands.
"Hey Jackson. How's it going?"
"Pretty good. How about you? Want some beer?"
"Yeah, sure, why not."
Jackson went into the kitchen to get the beers and then he and Luke settled down in the living room while the girls disappeared into the kitchen.
"We'll be right back." Sookie said and closed the door behind them.
"Soo how's Davey doing?"
"Fine. He's taking a nap right now."
Lorelai nodded and peered into the pots on the stove. She loved to tease her friend. She knew Sookie wanted to know about everything that had happened during the last couple of days.
"LORELAI!!!! COME ON!!!" Sookie said. "Don't do this to me."
Lorelai had to suppress a smile. "I don't know what you're talking about, sweetie."
"You know what I mean… you gotta tell me about what happened with you and Luke."
"Ah. That's what you mean."
Sookie was about to explode.
Lorelai grinned at her best friend. "Allright, allright, don't get a heart attack, Sookie. "
"Well then don't give me one!!!"
"Luke and I are dating." Lorelai said grinning.
"Oh my god. Oh my god. You gotta tell me everything." She said and pulled Lorelai over to the kitchen table. They sat down and Lorelai started to tell her everything.
"Well, when I came back from cooling off from the encounter with Jason Luke was sitting in the lobby. He asked me if he was a mysterious man and of course I didn't really get what he meant. So he started talking about Jason and that Jason had said that we were still together and that he didn't know what he's being doing all the stuff for, he's been doing if I was already taken. And of course I told him I'm not taken and that Jason and I broke up. Let me tell you I'm so gonna kill this Jason guy. Anyway. So he angrily stormed out onto the front porch and just kept rambling. He told me that he'd never bought flowers before for someone and that he tried to let his actions speak because that's the romantic way to do it and that when he walked me home after the wedding, you know his sister's wedding, he thought there was a moment and I yelled back at him and said that there was a moment. All of a sudden he was completely quiet, then he took a step forward and I asked him what he was doing and he told me to just stand still. And then…. "
"And then what??" Sookie asked excitedly.
"And then he kissed me, Sookie." Lorelai said just as excited as her best friend. "And… I kissed him back. And then this stupid Kirk came running down the steps naked and Luke took off after him, but you've heard about that."
Sookie was staring at her best friend, completely speechless.
"Sookie? Say something." Lorelai said and shook her by the hand.
"Wow."
Lorelai grinned at her "I know!"
"Lorelai this is amazing I'm so happy for you."
Meanwhile in the living room Luke and Jackson were talking about that night, too.
"I just told her to stand still and kissed her and she actually kissed me back. And then this stupid Kirk comes running down naked and well you know the rest."
"Wow." Jackson was just as speechless as his wife had been.
"Yep."
"That's great, Luke. I mean that you guys finally got together."
"Yeah, it took us quite a while."
Sookie slowly got her voice back.
"Wow, that is so awesome, Lorelai. I'm so happy for you guys."
"Thanks, Sookie. He's just so sweet." Lorelai smiled at her best friend.
"Hey, what did Rory say to all of that."
Suddenly Lorelai's expression got sad she had just forgotten all the stuff about Rory for a while. Sookie softly touched Lorelai's arm.
"Hey, sweetie, what's wrong? Did I say something wrong. Is Rory not happy about this?"
Lorelai swallowed hard fighting her tears back.
"Sweetie, what's the matter." Sookie stood up and hugged Lorelai.
"It's allright, Sook. Rory… Rory doesn't know about us yet. She's gone to Europe with my mom."
Sookie sat down in the chair next to her. "Oh. Did something happen Lorelai?"
Sookie sensed that there was something wrong but she didn't wanna push Lorelai too far, if she didn't wanna talk about it.
"Yeah. But I can't tell you what happened, not yet. Luke is the only one who knows and he promised not to tell anyone. She really screwed up, Sook. And she ran away. With my mother who's running away from her problems with my dad."
Sookie tried to lighten up the mood. "Well, what do you say we go back to our guys, so they don't forget we still exist, and have dinner."
Lorelai tried to smile at her friend. "Allright."
They walked into the living room to the guys. Jackson had brought Davey back downstairs who was done with his nap.
"Hey, look, Davey. Mommy's here."
"There's my little boy. Did you have a nice nap, sweetie?" Sookie said in a baby voice and sat down next to Jackson on the couch with Davey in her arm, who happily smiled at them.
Lorelai walked over to Luke and sat down in his lap.
"Hey." She said and kissed him softly on the lips.
"Hey. You allright?" Luke noticed her red eyes and figured that she must have talked about Rory, too. He gently stroke her back while she cuddled into his embrace.
"Yeah, I'll be allright, I guess." Luke nodded and kissed her.
Sookie and Jackson smiled. They were so cute together. It was like the world stopped moving around them when they were together.
Lorelai and Luke really enjoyed the dinner with Sookie and Jackson. With the opening of the inn being only two weeks away, they never really had the time to get together just for fun and not for any business stuff.
The rest of the dinner was spent with light conversations and a little after ten Luke and Lorelai said goodbye to the young family.
Sookie pulled Lorelai away from the guys to talk to her for a second in privacy.
"What is it, Sookie?"
"Nothing, really. I just wanted to say how happy I am for the two of you. And if you need to talk about you know what, you know you can come to me anytime."
Lorelai gave Sookie a hug.
"Thanks, Sookie. I know. But this is something that Rory and I have to deal with pretty much on our own. And you know I have Luke now. He's helping me a lot. I just can't tell you what happened. I'm really sorry, Sookie."
Sookie shook her head. "Don't worry. I totally understand. I'm glad you got someone like Luke to be there for you, he's special, you know."
Lorelai smiled. "I know, he really is. I'm really glad I have him."
Again they said goodbye and Luke and Lorelai walked back to her house.
When they arrived at the door, Luke stopped. Lorelai turned around when he didn't come inside after her.
"What is it, Luke?"
"I, I think I should get going."
Lorelai's smile faded. She didn't want him to go but she also didn't want to put him under any pressure.
Luke saw her face change and quickly responded. "I mean, unless you don't want me to go."
Lorelai walked over to him and softly kissed him bringing her arms around his neck. "No, I don't want you to go."
Luke kissed her back and pulled her into his arms. "Then I won't go."
They walked inside hand in hand. Lorelai stopped abruptly when she saw the light on the answering machine blink.
To be continued…
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