A/N: I got one review for that last chapter. Depressing. In fact, I'm so depressed that I'm not posting a friendly message. Hmph. By the way, thank you Sophie for the review!!!

Chapter Six

The next day, Lorelai woke up craving coffee like she had never had it before in her life. She quickly got out of bed as fast as she could and got dressed for work. She didn't even bother making her own coffee knowing that it would taste so much better if she just went straight to Luke's ASAP.

She was finally ready 30 minutes later, having taken the shortest shower of her life, made her way out the front door and was finally on her way to her destination.

Half way to Luke's she realized what had happened last night. It all hit her all at once as if due to coffee withdrawals her reactions had been mightily effected, or maybe it was just because she hadn't been able to properly wake up yet. Either way, she just knew that last night had not been the best night. However, she had realized this a bit too late as she hadn't stopped walking towards Luke's as this revelation hit her, again most likely due to lack of caffeine, because now she was standing in front of Luke's diner staring in through the glass door at none other than Luke himself.

He still hadn't noticed her so she could still get away easily without being seen, but something kept her glued to the spot since she didn't move or even fidget a bit. Just stood there staring at his blue baseball cap perched perfectly on his head as always. She admired his chest muscles that she could now see through the flannel since she was actually paying attention, not that she hadn't before, but now she actually had a reason to.

Suddenly a look came across Luke's face as he twitched a bit but didn't look up from the ticket he was still ringing up. Oh, thank God. Lorelai thought to herself in relief. As if hearing her thoughts, he looked up at the exact moment and made direct eye contact with her. She felt blinded by the blue in his eyes that she could see from where she was standing. You could've called her Bambi due to her deer-in-the-headlights reaction.

They held eachother's gaze for another few seconds until something distracted Luke from behind the mysterious curtain the Lorelai had never crossed except to go to the bathroom. Lorelai quickly looked down suddenly embarrassed. She decided to go ahead and go inside since it wasn't like she could just turn around and go home, he had seen her. If she left now, he would know why and things would on become more awkward between them. She needed her coffee, not matter what she had to suffer to get it.

Lorelai entered the diner simultaneously with the bells ringing overhead. Looking around at the packed diner, glad to see it since it would mean less 'alone' time would be left to Luke and herself to talk about what happened last night. The longer she put it off, the better. But due to the overflowing residents inside the diner, Lorelai decided to just take a spot at the counter this morning, she was alone anyways since Rory had left early for Hartford that morning for another college fair.

"Hey." Luke said gruffly, and not nearly as friendly as usually, as he sat a mug down clumsily in front of Lorelai and poured coffee in it.

After putting the coffee pot back on the burner, not giving Lorelai a moment to even get in a simple "Hello" he walked behind the curtain and Lorelai heard heavy steps thudding so she assumed he had gone upstairs to his apartment.

"Well hi, yeah my morning's alright," Lorelai spoke to herself and then took a sip of the coffee, "This coffee's great by the way."

Kirk noticed Lorelai and gave her a funny look and moved down a stool away from her, continuing to give her awkward glances and guard his food as to protect it from germs. Lorelai just rolled her eyes and continued drinking her coffee wondering why Luke had acted the way he did. It wasn't like he had a reason, but God knows she did.

Luke returned minutes later, not even offering her a side glance, as he picked up the next order up and took it to the respective table.

"Luke." Lorelai said as he came back around the counter doing different busy tasks, ignoring her.

"Luke." She said a bit louder and firmer. He continued scuffling around as he was before, not bothered by her any more.

"Luke!" She said as loud as she could manage to bring about. The whole diner who had been buzzing mere seconds before suddenly went silent. Luke stopped and turned around slowly to face Lorelai, giving her an incredulous look as to say "What the hell are you thinking?" with his eyes.

The diner gradually returned to it's earlier state as Lorelai and Luke had a glaring contest at the counter. Kirk, who had earlier had his back turned towards Lorelai, was now subtly turning to face forward and watch them out of the corner of his eye.

"Lorelai?" Luke stated, trying to get her to say what she wanted to say without being tacky.

"Um… can we talk? Somewhere, more, private?" Lorelai asked, gesturing towards the curtain.

"Uh, yeah. Sure." Luke said, almost reluctantly, taking the rag he had been holding and placing it on the counter. "Caesar I'll be right back." Luke called into the kitchen and gestured for Lorelai to follow him, which she did.

Lorelai followed Luke behind the curtain and into, what she assumed to be, the storage room since it's walls were stacked to the ceiling with condiments, pickles, napkins, etc.

"So?" Luke said, crossing his arms over his chest, waiting to hear what Lorelai had to say.

"So…last night…" Lorelai said, talking more about how they kissed behind the counter, rather than how he didn't show when she had called him, trying to ease into that with something that wouldn't start the conversation off badly.

"Last night…um, some things came up. Sorry." Luke said looking down and fiddling with his hands.

"I was talking about…" Lorelai said gesturing behind the counter, "But I was definitely going to bring that up." She finished, referencing what he had just brought up.

"Oh. Yeah. You know, it was a mistake, we both know we were just caught up in the moment, nothing special. Don't even worry about it." Luke said, brushing it off. However, Lorelai was incredulous. She couldn't believe how he was taking this! She wanted to be mad, she wanted to cry, she wanted to slap him, but she knew if she did any of these things he would know this was not as light to her as it was to him and he might get freaked out.

"Oh, yeah. Right." Lorelai said, just trying her hardest to stop all the emotions she was feeling to burst through her ears and splatter the walls behind her.

So, I'm glad that's settled." Luke said, forcing a smile and making his way back into the diner.

Lorelai stood her ground, not even turning around. She thought he would at least get that her words meant nothing, she thought he knew her better than that. Apparently not.

"Lorelai?" Luke asked, noticing that she wasn't following him.

She turned around and face him, her eyes red from the anticipation of tears, but she didn't acknowledge them. "Lorelai?" He asked again, this time more concerned, taking a step in her direction. Again she was glued to the spot. She wanted to run, run forever, away from him and never come back. She was so torn up that she had given up her independence for this guy and he was just blowing it off like it was nothing? Who did he think he was?!

As all these thoughts ran through her mind, she hadn't realized that Luke had embraced her in his arms in a tight hug. She just laid her head on his shoulder, enjoying the way his arms felt around her body, even if it was in pity, in this moment she didn't care. She just didn't some substance, something that was there for her to hold onto, even if it was the one who hurt her in the first place.

"Uh, Luke?" Lorelai thought she had said the words but realized it hadn't been her, and instead had come from the doorway of the storage room. Luke let go of the hug and with Lorelai, turned towards the doorway.

"Uh…Rachel. You're up." Luke said, taking a side-ways glance at Lorelai.

"Rachel?" Lorelai asked in general, "Your Rachel?" Lorelai whispered towards Luke, "Your Rachel?" Lorelai asked louder in Rachel's direction.

"Yeah, uh, hi. I'm Rachel." She said, taking a step in Lorelai's direction, rolling up the flannel sleeve she wore to shake her hand.

"Hi." Lorelai gave Luke a small awkward smile towards Luke and raised her eyebrows in revelation as to why he hadn't come last night. She shook her hand in response politely, not neglecting to notice that she was wearing Luke's shirt, understanding the secret message that that sent that said Hey! We had sex!

"Well, I was just leaving." Lorelai said trying to step around Rachel.

"Oh, please, don't leave because of me! I was just going to get more coffee." Rachel explained, pointing towards the coffee cans on the far wall behind Luke who was still staring at his shoes as if they had suddenly turned into ducks.

"Oh, I'm not, I just have to be at work like, 10 minutes ago." Lorelai laughed and Rachel smiled at her joke.

"Well if you insist!" Rachel said, stepping out of her way completely, "Bye!" Rachel called as Lorelai walked away. Lorelai turned around and walked backwards a few steps and offered a small wave to them both and left.

Rachel huh… She is an El McPhearson kind of pretty…

Short, I know. But one review kati doesn't really feel like updating so this is all ya get! Haha just kidding. Actually it's merely the fact that…I'm really sleepy and want to post something tonight so here ya go. Well goodnight: )

Kati