A/N: Gosh, I'm just getting worse and worse at this whole "let's update our stories" thing! Well I'm really excited, and I know half of you could care less, but I'm getting the complete series of Gilmore girls for Christmas! Yay! How do I know this you might ask? Well…my mom just isn't very sneaky. Let's put it that way. but anyways! Yes yes yes. I'm so excited. However, I'm sure most of you probably already have in your homes as we speak and are working on disk 23. Lucky! Haha. For now I'll stick to abcfamily as sad and tiny doses as it may be, it keeps me in my Gilmore happy world. Haha. Okay so, I hear some of you didn't like my last chapter?! What!? Nah, to be honest, it kind of killed me to write it but it plays into the MAIN STORY LINE so don't think it's just ya know, in there for kicks and giggles, I'm not that mean…but I'm definitely not damn Marry Poppins either…okay enough ranting, on with the story! And "FINALLY!" they said together!

Chapter FiVE

About an hour after Rachel arrived Luke realized that he had completely forgotten about Lorelai and how she had asked him to come over and help her look for a "baby chick". He wasn't exactly sure there was actually a baby chick, or if Lorelai was just saying that to get him to come over. Knowing Lorelai, it was the second, but he didn't let himself get too cocky with the thought.

He excused himself from Rachel as soon as he remembered, just in case Lorelai was waiting for him. He assumed she wasn't, but had probably definitely missed him since he had said he'd be right over.

"Rachel, I've, uh, got to go out for a bit, I'll be back in about half an hour. Make yourself at home, you remember where everything is, and don't worry, there's plenty of food obviously so eat if you're hungry." Luke said, as he excused himself from the apartment, but not before Rachel had the chance to question him on where he was going…

"Okay, thanks, but, where are you going at 11:30?" Rachel inquired, giving him a funny look.

"Oh, uh, a friend, called…earlier…and I completely forgot…" Luke said, looking at his shoes, praying she wouldn't pry any deeper than that.

"A friend?" Rachel asked, looking taken aback at the way he had said friend like he wasn't sure what to call it.

"Yeah, you wouldn't know her." Luke said, glancing up to see her face, she wasn't showing jealousy or resentment in anyway however.

"Her eh?" Rachel said in a teasing way, to cover up her jealousy that a female "friend" had called Luke late at night to come over. She could only think of a few reasons of why that would be…and they weren't all innocent…

"Yeah. Well…I'll be back." Luke said, ending the questioning.

Rachel just sat down awkwardly on the couch looking around the apartment. Luke has a…female friend? She took in the surrounding of the apartment, Everything looks the same…I guess I just never pictured Luke with another woman…besides me of course… Rachel thought to herself as she let out a deep sigh, now feeling like she shouldn't be in a "taken" man's apartment.

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Luke approached Lorelai's house mere minutes after he had left the diner, considering the short distance, and was shocked by what he saw through the window. He caught himself staring in at the couple and quickly hid himself against the cold wood of the house. He wiggled his fingers a bit in his pockets to make sure he could still feel them, he could, barely. He felt as if all the blood in his body that had been filling his veins had at one moment rushed to his face and he could feel the anger rising as he took another glance at the two in the living room of Lorelai's house, just to make sure he wasn't seeing things.

Sure enough, there, in what the two thought was the privacy, of Lorelai's living room, stood Max Medina, holding Lorelai in his arms, kissing her passionately just as he had seen before. God, take a breath… was the only thought that came to Luke's mind surprisingly…well besides those of the feeling of Max's broken teeth tearing into the skin of his fist. Angrily, and enviously, even though he denied it, he stalked off back into the dark. She obviously didn't need his help anymore.

Luke had never been one who cried, never. The last time he remembered his eyes even welling up was at his father's funeral. But the ache he felt in his chest right now, it felt like his stomach had dropped to his ankles. He couldn't believe how naïve he had been, how had he thought that Lorelai would actually be sincere in something? Especially something like this, no, she would never see him that way, never. Who was he kidding? But as long as he had the coffee, she would keep coming back. However, he was afraid that that wouldn't be enough this time. When she walked in the next morning something told him things wouldn't be the same, it wouldn't be one look at her and he would have forgotten all about it. No, she had ruined that. No more. I'm done. He told himself as he walked on to the diner as a single tear fell down his cheek and onto his flannel. He swatted it away and entered the diner and up the stairs to find Rachel asleep on the couch. He gently covered her with a blanket and went on with his nightly activites and went to bed, but didn't sleep of course.

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Lorelai jumped away from Max's lips causing a curious questioning look to cross Max's face as to why she had been startled. "Did you hear something?" Lorelai asked glancing around, resting her hand on Max's chest to give her a bit of space as she listened intently to the sounds of the night. She could've sworn she heard footsteps crunching leaves.

"Lorelai?" Max asked concerned as she still looked around paranoid.

"Sorry." She said after a few moments of silence and let out a breath that she realized she had been holding in as she listened, "It was nothing." She said, but didn't go back to kissing Max as he had expected. Instead she walked towards the window and watched, almost longingly, down the road that led to the middle of town.

Max approached her from behind and wrapped his arms around her waist kissing her shoulder; she crossed her arms over her chest and tensed up at his touch. She didn't feel much like letting him be this close to her right now, but she didn't refuse him. She tried her hardest to block him out, all of her thoughts once again, returning to Luke and the kiss they had shared in the diner. She kept wishing that it was he whose arms now held her. But instead it was Max, the man who meant a lot to her, but she couldn't admit to herself that she loved him…because deep down…she knew she didn't. As much as she wanted to, she just couldn't.

"Max…" She said after Max's hands began traveling south and Lorelai started to feel uncomfortable since she was still thinking about Luke and didn't want to do that to Max right now. She wasn't that heartless.

"Hmm?" He replied quietly and continued his earlier actions, not considering the tone she had used when she had said his name.

"Max." She said, this time firmly and wiggled a bit out of his grip.

"What?" He asked, finally getting the message and loosening his grip from her waist but not completely.

"I'm really tired, and I would really just like to go to bed now. I'm sorry, but we can talk tomorrow." Lorelai said and stepped out of his embrace and away from the window with her back to him.

"Lorelai, what's the matter?" Max asked taking a step in her direction but stopped abrubtly when Lorelai turned around to face him but didn't move any closer to him.

"I just really think it would best if you left now. Rory should be home soon, and I'm going to bed." Lorelai said with an indifferent look on her face. She quickly kissed him on the cheek and led him to the front door. Max approached slowly, a bit confused about what had happened and where he had lost her at.

"Lorelai…" Max started but Lorelai stopped him.

"Goodnight…Max." Lorelai said and stared at her feet, not holding eye contact for too long.

"Goodnight." Max said, giving up and just accepting that she was tired even though he knew that wasn't what was up, what more could he do?

Lorelai closed the door behind him and leaned against the wood of the door. She just stood there for a long time until she heard the crunching of gravel under car tires and the hum of the engine speeding off down the street towards Hartford. When she couldn't hear the car anymore she released a breath again she didn't realized she was holding and let herself slide down the door. She sat with her knees to her chest and her face against her knees as she let the tears fall, the tears of confusion and complete misunderstanding. She had no idea.

Her original plan had been to use Max to get back at Luke for deciding he didn't want to be with her, well, at least that's what she assumed he had decided by his neglect to at least call and say he wouldn't be able to come. She had wanted to rub Max in Luke's face but soon realized that the only thing that would cause would be heartache for all of them ultimately. She wanted Luke, but he didn't want her. She knew she shouldn't have fallen so easily or have trusted him so easily with that power to break her heart. She had learned to never trust anyone with that, even those whom she thought would never in a million years, use it against her or take advantage of it…even the father of her own child. She just couldn't trust anyone with that kind of power because so far no one had proven to her anyone deserved it.

"Mom! I can't find Cinnamon!" Rory shouted as she entered the house searching for her mother, "Mom!? Are you here!?"

"I'm here!" Lorelai called as she quickly got up and brushed herself off, including the few stray tears the had slipped down her cheeks.

"Mom—" Rory started as she entered the entryway but then noticed the look on Lorelai's face, "Have you been crying?" Rory asked concerned.

"No, just these damn allergies." Lorelai fibbed through a smile.

"Oh, okay." Rory didn't buy it, but didn't pry if her mom didn't want to talk about it. The stood there in silence since both minds were in two totally different places.

"So, what did you say about Nutmeg?" Lorelai asked, barely recalling anything Rory had said as she entered the house.

"Come on." Rory said smiling, as she pulled Lorelai into her arm and walked back over to Babette's house, offering her mother silent sympathy which Lorelai accepted grateful for her daughter's willingness to just leave the topic alone for tonight.

Okay so that was just chapter five. There are many more chapters in the making, just wait my friends! I know, I'm not updating as fast as everyone would like, including myself, but I've been having lots of homework lately so please say you'll forgive me? Oh and I've uploaded like four more videos to my youtube account, maybe more, since my last chapter so you should totally check those out. Again, youtube me at SweetKaytee8792, just search that and all my videos should come up. Thanks: )

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Kati