"It's um..a microphone." He puts his head down
"Katie, we are busted." He says into it.
"See ya" She says and disconnects quickly.
"I was nervous about tonight and wasn't sure how to talk with you and I didn't want to do or say anything wrong." Luke says to her.
"So you needed our 14 year old daughter just to get through a night with me?"
"Its not even like that Lorelai."
"Then why can't you talk to me by yourself? Is it that hard?"When he hesitates for a minute, Lorelai takes that as a yes. "Maybe this was a bad idea...I should go." She starts to fidget around in her seat, getting her jacket, but as she moves her hand it knocks over a glass of water and it spills all over Luke. "Oh god, I'm sorry. This really was a bad idea, looks at me, I'm shaking." She attempts to grab napkins to help Luke dry off his shirt and and pants.
"It's okay. Stop. I can just take you home." He says sadly and grabs his coat and then hands her hers.
"No, I have to clean this up. The table is all wet. We can't leave." She pulls her arm away from him and continues to clean up the table, Luke looks at her with a worried Luke. Lorelai is acting strange, even for her.
"Leave it. Come on." He says and pulls her lightly
He pulls her to her chair and then moves his chair so that he is sitting right next to her. "If you didn't want to go out with me alone, why didn't you just say so?" She asks sadly.
"I never said I didn't want to go out alone with you tonight. I wanted us to go out as a family because I thought it would have been nice, but then Katie proposed the idea of the both of us going out alone and that sounded even better, but I freaked. I didn't know what to say to you, or if this was a date. I feel like I'm never going to be let back in your life, or never trusted again. I'm afraid I will screw up. Just tell me. What else do I need to do for you to believe that I will never hurt you again?"
"Its not that I think you will ever hurt me again Luke. Its the trust, I need to trust you again, and up until tonight, I was really starting to trust you. But then you hide some small microphone and gets tips on what to say to me. What else am I supposed to think?"
"Lets just go home." He says. He was embarrassed and didn't want to talk about their night anymore
"Come on Luke, tell me. Why did you do it? Why can't you just talk to me?"
"Because I wasn't sure what to say Lorelai. I didn't want to say the wrong thing because you know why? It seems like if I make one wrong mistake, I'm done and then thats it."
"I thought we were past all of this. We've been living together for five weeks, I thought that maybe....never mind. It doesn't matter anymore now because apparently you aren't as tough as you used to be. The old Luke wouldn't just back away from me, he'd fight for me."
"I have been fighting for you, Dammit! Why can't you open your eyes and notice that? What am I doing wrong?" He says getting mad and agitated at the same time.
Lorelai still continues to speak in a calm voice. "I'm not yelling at you, I am just trying to talk to you."
"I don't want to fight either, but what am I doing wrong?" He asks.
"Nothing...you are being perfect...its me." She admits, and looks down at her food.
"Why is it you? What's wrong?"
"What's wrong is that I expect too much out of you."
"That sounds bad on my part. Not yours."
"But its not fair, I shouldn't expect so much out of you all the time."
"It's okay, really."
She just nods, half agreeing with him. "I'll pay for the check, you can take the car home. I just want to take a walk around this town for a little bit, I'll find another way to get home."
"I will pay for it and you are not walking around town, Lorelai. We are in Hartford. Let me take you home. Then if you want to walk around, you may."
She sighs. "Okay...besides, walking around by myself got me in trouble last time."
He smiles at her and they get up. They walk to the register and pay and then start to walk out the door. Luke bravely slips his hand down and grabs hers, interlocking his fingers with her.
She smiles back and holds tightly to his hand as he leads her to the truck. He helps her in, then goes to the other side, gets in and starts the car.
"Thanks for a great night Luke, besides all the drama at the end." Lorelai speaks up after being silent for 10 minutes into the car ride home.
"Yeah..it was fun."
When they get home, Lorelai debates going for a walk by herself, but decides that that would be taking a big step backwards. So instead, she shocks herself and Luke by asking.
"Hey, you want go for a walk?"
He looks at her and says, "Sure." as they walk back out the door.
They walk hand-in- hand around town. As they are walking down the wooded path and head to the lake, the bump into someone.
"Oh sorry I-Lorelai?"
"Steve? What are you doing out here?" She asks and hides behind Luke a little bit.
"When you told me you were pregnant, I realized, I want to know the kid."
Lorelai looks at Luke, who is giving her a, what did you tell him, look. "You're a drunk Steve, I don't want you near any child of mine."
"Oh come on give me a chance, or at least let me give you money for the kid."
She shakes her "No."
Luke pushes her behind him "She doesn't need anything from you at all. She will be taken care of, as well as the baby. If you come near her, our children, or her baby when it's born, you and I are going to have trouble."
"Whatever, she is just a slut anyways. The baby is probably not even mine."
"Oh. I can assure you it is yours."
"Psh." Steve says.
"Just get the hell out of here. I don't ever want to see your face again." Luke says.
"I have a right to know if the kids mine. Isn't that what you said when you called me Lorelai?" Luke stands there, shocked, and moves away from Lorelai. She tries to move closer to him, but he backs away.
"I see you didn't tell him you called me."
"Just get out of here Steve!"
"No, I like seeing you squirm when nervous."
"Steve, please, just leave." She begs him.
He laughs and walks up to her, grabbing her and kissing her. Luke grabs him by his shirt and throws him on the ground.
The guys both start fighting, Lorelai stands there screaming at them. "Stop it you guys! Please! Just stop!" They don't listen to her so she turns and runs in the direction of her house.
Steve gets up and runs after Lorelai. He pushes her and she trips falling into the lake. Luke gets up running toward her
"Lorelai! Are you okay?"
Lorelai stands up, dripping wet and nods. "Yeah...I'm fine."
He wraps an arm around her waist and walks away with her. "Lets get you home." He whispers.
"Thanks.." She turns her head to see Steve walking away, then looks at Luke. "I'm sorry I didn't tell you that I called him."
"It fine, but why exactly did you call?"
"I wanted to tell him about the baby."
"Are you going to let him see it?"
"God no, I just....wanted him to know that he is going to have a kid out in the world. Who knows, maybe it'll somehow inspire him to get help or something."
"Good. Thats good." He says and they finally get home.
"You're not mad at me?" She asks curiously, as they walk in the house. Rory had gotten all the kids to bed and was in bed herself, when they got home.
"No." He says "Do you want me to do anything?" He asks.
"No, but I'm just surprised you aren't mad thats all."
"I don't like the fact that you told him because he will try to come around now, but I'm not mad."
"He's a drunk Luke, he probably will forget I ever told him that I was pregnant."
"Lets hope so " He says. "Now why don't you go and get a shower."
She takes a deep breath and lets it out slowly. "I could use one, thanks...will you still be up when I get out?"
"If you want me to be, yes."
"If you want to go to bed its okay. I was going to stay up for a little bit."
"No. I can stay up its okay."
"Alright." Lorelai leaves Luke alone downstairs while she goes to take a shower. While Luke is sitting on the couch, he hears little footsteps coming down the stairs.
"Hi daddy." Little Colin walks over to him, dragging his blankie along with him.
"Hey kiddo. What's going on?"
"I don't wanna sleep no more. I hear you and mommy come home." He explains and climbs up on the couch with Luke.
"Its really late kiddo. you should be in bed."
"How tum you not in bed too?"
"I'll be going to bed soon."
"Why not now?"
"I am doing something right now."
"What are you doing?"
"I have to talk to mommy when she gets done her shower. Then I'm going to bed. Okay buddy?"
"Okay. Night daddy." He gives him a hug and slides off the couch.
"Night kiddo." He says and Colin goes back to bed. then ten minutes later, Lorelai comes down.
"Hey, you're still up."
"Yup."
"So..did you..want to talk?"
"Sure. What would you like to talk about?"
"No, I meant, did you want to talk to me about anything?"
"Um..not about anything in particular."
She sits next to him on the couch. "Really? Nothing?"
"Not that I can think about. Do you have anything you want to talk about?"
"I think you should explain why you couldn't just talk to me by yourself tonight. You still haven't apologized."
"I thought I already told you this?" He just looks at her wondering why she needs here it over and over.
"I told you I was nervous. I was expecting us to go out as a family. I hadn't planned on it being just the two of us and if I knew if would have been, I would have planned something great for you. Am I not allowed to be nervous, Lorelai?"
"No, you are. I just...wanted to know. I want you to be able to talk to me. I thought we could be friends. Don't you want to go back to being friends with me?"
"Of course I do, but I thought we already were friends again? We weren't? Do I have to wait until you decide what we are?"
"No Luke, I know we were already friends. But its not the same, I talking about friends like the way we used to be. Were were best friends Luke, I know you remember. You were my best friend before any of this other stupid stuff got in the way...I just...want my best friend back." She explains in a sad voice and sits next to him on the couch.
"He didn't go anywhere. He is sitting right here." He says, pulling her into him.
She moves her arms so that she can hug him. "Good, because I've missed him so much." She admits to him.
"I missed you too." He says.
She pulls away a little bit so that she can have eye contact with him. "I want you to know, I'm so sorry for the way I've been acting. I'm sorry I was ever with Steve, I'm sorry I got pregnant with his child, I'm sorry that you are going to have to raise this child, knowing that it isn't really yours...I'm just...sorry. For everything Luke."
HE touches her face lightly. "Don't apologize. People make mistakes it's normal and as far as this pregnancy goes, it's not like you tried it. You didn't ask for this to happen and I would be happy to help you in anyway with this baby. We have the money and we can do this Lorelai."
"You know Luke...Steve really isn't a bad guy when he's not drunk. He can be really sweet. I just can't believe I fell for it."
"I do not see that guy being sweet at all." He says and then looks at her. "I'm sorry for what all I did to you, cheating, and everything." He says sincerely.
She smiles at him, glad that he actually said the word cheating to her. "I'm not going to say its okay, because what you did...well thats never okay. But I really, truly forgive you. Maybe all of this stuff happened to make us open our eyes and realize how much we lo- I mean, care for each other."
"Yeah, maybe" He says. He really did love her, but he didn't know about her loving him.
"Could I ask you a personal question?"
"Sure." He says. "Go ahead."
"After you and Rachel...you know...did you ever gain any closure with her?"
"I haven't actually talked to her since that night."
"Ohh Luke, not good. You never sleep with someone and then never talk to them again. Thats probably one of the meanest things a guy could do." She explains to him, liking that they are such good friends again.
"It's not all my fault. She could have called too you know. Besides I ruined my marriage that not, calling her would have been even worse."
"No she couldn't have. You are the guys, guys are always supposed to be the ones to call. Duh, come on, everybody knows that Luke."
"It takes two to have sex. It shouldn't always be the guy. I didn't want to be with her."
"After it was over you didn't. But you wouldn't have done it at all if there wasn't a small part of you that wanted to remember what it felt like to be with her again. You wanted to see if your feelings for her were still there. Its okay, you can admit it, I understand that all guys are stupid."
"All guys? I thank you for characterizing me as all guys." He says and gets up off the couch. He wasn't mad, but irritated.
"I'm going to bed." He says and goes to his room.
Lorelai jumps off the couch and follows him upstairs. "Come on Luke. I thought we were just talking as friends."
"Well I don't want to talk about that event anymore. I know what I did was stupid, but I'm not stupid Lorelai. I can't even believe that you are characterizing me with all the other guys. Maybe I am one of those guys now. then if I am, I might as well give up because you don't deserve someone who is stupid and foolish. I'm done." He says and closes his door and locks it.
Lorelai becomes very frustrated with him and the way he overreacted so she kicks the wall. Then goes into her room, slams the door shut and goes to bed.
The next morning Luke got up before Lorelai and wrote a note for her before leaving for work.
Lorelai,
I think this time you need to think about what you want. When you know for sure, let me know. I'm sorry for the way I acted.
-Luke
Lorelai gets up a little while later and reads Luke's note. She can't believe him.
"How could he think I need to think about what I want! That little jerk! I try to be his friend and this is what he does!" Lorelai talks to herself in an angry tone.
"Hi momma" Colin says as he walks into the room
"Hey little man, you want something for breakfast?"
"Yeah, but I want daddy to make it."
"You know what, thats a good idea. Here," She hands him the phone and dials Luke's number. "Talk to daddy." She grins, this is payback.
"Hi daddy."
"Hello Lukes." Luke says
"Daddy!"
"Hi Colin" He says
"I'm hungry."
"Oh really? Well wheres mommy?"
"Right here, but I want you to make it."
"Ok. You want me to come to the house to make or you come here?"
"You come home!" He cheers.
"Be right there buddy." He says. He would do anything for his kids, but he didn't know that Lorelai was doing it as payback.
Luke comes through the door a couple minutes later. "Well, well, well, look who's home." Lorelai says as Luke walks into the kitchen.
He doesn't answer her. He gets out the pan and starts to make eggs for Colin.
Lorelai continues talking to him. "So, back to what we were talking about last night. I think you should call Rachel." She says with a big grin on her face, knowing that he can't just get mad and storm out of the house with their 3 year old sitting at the table.
"Yeah maybe I will. Then we will be right back where we started from. You will get ticked off and because I contacted her, or wait it will be all my fault because I'm stupid right?" He says referring to her comment
"Daddy not stupid!" Colin says.
"I never called you stupid! And I won't be mad if you call her, especially since I'm the one who is suggesting it!"
"You said all guys are stupid. That includes me now doesn't it?" He asks, still having his voice calm.
"Its just an expression Luke. Since when are you so defensive?"
"I don't know. I could ask you a lot of things that changed about you too."
"Excuse me? What is that supposed to mean?"
"It means what I said. You have changed too."
"How have I changed?"
"You have. I can't explain it."
"No way mister, you accused me something, you better be able to explain it."
He sighs. "I can't explain it because it's not true. You were right and I was wrong."
She stands back. "Really?"
He just nods. "I think I have changed for the best though, but what do you think?" He asks turning around to face her.
She folds her arms. "You've definitely become more trusting and open, but you've also become rude and defensive."
He just nods and puts Colin's breakfast on the table.
"Do you want anything to eat?" He asks Lorelai
"Sure, I'll have some eggs and some pancakes and some bacon." Even though she would normally eat this much, she is also trying to tell him that she really wants him to stay.
"Coming up, but your not getting coffee." He warns
"What! Thats not fair! I need coffee!"
"You know why you can't have coffee. Now I'm not fighting you on this."
"Why tan't momma have her toffee?" Colin asks
Just then Katrina walks in and sits down.
"No reason baby, be quiet and eat your eggs." She orders her son, who knows better and listens to her.
"Mom? Why can't you drink coffee?" Katrina asks curiously and worried.
"I'm fine honey, I just...can't drink it thats all."
"Are you sick?"
"Colin, eat." She points to his food sternly.
"Why does everyone care about my coffee intake! I'm a grown women, I can make my own freakin' decisions!" She raises her voice, her pregnancy hormones showing in full force. Colin sinks down in his seat and starts to cry, taking a spoonful of egg
"Mom, calm down. Are you okay?"
"I'm fine!" She realizes how that came out and calms herself down a little. "I mean, yes honey, I'm okay."
Colin takes his spoon filled with eggs and purposely flicks it onto the floor. Thats when Lorelai goes crazy. "Colin! Turn around and eat your god damn eggs before you get sent to your room without eating!" She yells at him and slams his spoon back on the table next to his plate.
"Not hungry." He says and runs to his room crying.
Lorelai ignores it. "What do I have to do to eat some breakfast around here!?" She sits down, her face is red with anger. Luke and Katrina exchange a glance and Katrina realizes what is wrong with her mom. Her hormones were this crazy when she was pregnant with Colin 3 years ago.
Three years ago Luke had a secret meeting with the kids, everyone had to be extra nice to Lorelai no matter what. During the last 4 months of her pregnancy with Colin the doctor had put her on bed rest, thats when Luke's plan had to really kick in.
Katrina sighs, as does Luke, realizes that its going to happen all over again.
"Why are you guys staring at each other? Is there something wrong with me? Say something!" She yells at them.
"Is there anything I can do for you mom?" Katrina asks quickly and Luke brings Lorelai her food.
"I could use a glass of water."
She nods and gets a glass of water for Lorelai and sits it down in front of her.
"Here you go mom."
"Thanks." She chugs the water and puts the glass back on the table. Then she takes one bit of her pancakes and runs to the bathroom, throwing up.
"Oh no." Luke says and runs after her. He sits down on the floor, holds her hair, and rubs her back.
Lorelai puts her own hand on her forehead. "I hate this." She mumbles.
"I know you do." He says softly.
"Make it feel better Luke." She whines and leans against his leg. This was the other thing she does, make people feel sorry for her so that they'd take care of her no matter what.
He smiles knowing her trick, but gives in. "I'll take care of you. Don't worry. I'm calling you off work."
"But I have to go to work." She whines.
"You really want to go to work?"
"Noo, but I need to. Michele is gonna burn the place down."
"Don't worry, he won't. " He laughs.
"But what if he does?"
"Lorelai, it will be okay. I promise."
"Fine, but if its not, you will pay." She threatens him.
He smiles. "You think you can get up now?"
"I don't think so, could you carry me?" She asks in a baby voice and pouts.
"Sure" He says and smiles, picking her up. "Where to?"
"The couch...then could you bring me the breakfast you made for me?"
"I will go get it." He says putting her on the couch and going.
Luke brings her the breakfast and she gives it a weird look. "Ew, there's something in the eggs. I can't eat this!" She hands the plate back to him, he looks at the plate and doesn't see anything wrong with it.
He knows it's because she is pregnant and offers to make her something else
"Do you want something else?"
"Yes, I want french toast and a bagel." She orders.
"Alright, anything else?"
"Some apple juice, and more bacon."
"You got it. " He says, getting up and kisses her on the lips out of reflex.
"I'm uh sorry." He says.
Lorelai sits up and moves to the other end of the couch nervously. "Um...don't...uh...worry about it. Its okay."
He nods, going to make her breakfast.
A couple of minutes later Kelsey comes downstairs, after Lorelai has calmed down and becomes normal again.
"Mommy, why is Colin upstairs crying?"
"Colin's crying?" She asks, not remembering what happened before.
"Uhuh, he's screaming and crying really loud."
"Luke!" Lorelai shouts for him.
Luke comes in the living room. "What's up?"
"Kelsey just told me that Colin is screaming and crying upstairs. What happened?" She asks, seriously not remembering what happened earlier.
"You screamed at him. It was pretty bad."
"Oh right...he hates me now." She says sadly and tears start to flow.
"Hey. I bet he doesn't hate you, Kels, go get your brother."
She calms down and waits for Kelsey to bring Colin downstairs.
She is dragging him downstairs, he is still screaming. "NO! Stop it! I don't wanna see mommy!"
"See, he does hate me. You lied to me Luke!"
"I didn't lie to you!" He snaps back.
"You said he wouldn't hate me, but he does." She says and sits back on the couch, crying. Now Luke has to deal with his very hormonal wife and a screaming 3 year old.
"Colin, come here" He says and takes him to the kitchen, sitting him on the counter.
"Do you hate mommy?"
He wipes his little nose and nods. "Yes daddy, she yell at me."
"Kiddo, let me tell you something. Mommy is going to be having a baby, so that means you are going to be a big brother, so you got to be extra nice to mommy. She didn't mean to yell at you and she is sorry."
"Why do we need a be extra nice to her?"
"Because mommy can't be stressed. Its not good for the baby."
"Why?"
"Because it could hurt the baby, and she'll drive us all crazy."
"I gonna be a big brother?" He asks, starting to understand and to Luke's relief, finally stops asking why.
"Yup, just like Brendan is to you."
"I be da bestest big broder in da whole world." He cheers and Luke helps him off the counter, then Colin runs into the living room and touches Lorelai's stomach.
She smiles. "Hey Colin, what are you doing?"
"I going to be a big broder?" He asks.
Lorelai smiles and nods. "Yes baby, you are."
"I'll be the best big broder ever!" He exclaims.
Lorelai lifts him onto her lap and gives him a big hug. "I know you will buddy."
"When will it be here?" He asks.
"In about nine months."
"Thats a very long time."
"It seems long, but it'll go by fast."
"Yay!"
"Okay buddy, why don't you go upstairs and get dressed."
Colin ran up the stairs and changed and then sat down and played his Vsmile game, forgetting to come back downstairs.
Luke at back down on the couch next to Lorelai.
"See I told you he didn't" He says
"Yeah..well I think I'm going to go upstairs and take a nap."
"Okay." He says.
"Ill be down here if you need me." He says, he planned on taking the rest of the day off.
She stops at the stair case and turns around. "Don't you have to go to work?"
"I'm going to take the rest of the day off. I thought maybe we could hang out, but I understand you need to sleep, so go ahead. I'll watch TV."
"What did you want to do?"
"I don't know. Just hang out. Can't we just hang like we used to do?"
She smiles and walks back over to the couch. "Sure we can. What'd you want to do?"
"Well. We can just watch tv for now if you want to."
"We could do that. What do you feel like watching?" She asks and hands him the remote.
Next day~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Nice of you to show up." She snaps at him.
"You don't even give me a chance to explain." He says to her.
"Go ahead, explain."
He sits down next to her. "Rachel called."
"I'm listening." She adds.
"She said she needed to come over and talk to me, so I said okay. She came over to the dinner and we went upstairs to talk. She said she really misses me and wishes we could be together and try again and basically asked me if I would do that. I told her no because I have to be a father and husband to my family and not only that I want to be with my family. She didn't take it very well and we argued a lot. She brought up that famous night and asked what it ment. I told her that, yes I thought it meant something that night, but it doesn't. I told her I'm no longer in love with her, but I will always be there and love her as a friend. She asked me if I really loved you and I said yes and I'm really sorry I didn't call you, but I didn't get the chance and.." She cuts him off.
She takes in Luke's rant and can't help but smile a little. Thats the first time he's ranted like that in a long time.
"So, Rachel called you?" She asks. Still not fully over the shock of it. "That little, Bitch. Thinking she can just come up here and-" Luke laughs and cuts her off.
"Yeah. I don't know what gave her the right to just come up here like that." He says and smiles back at her.
"If you still have feelings for her, I'll understand. I mean, you were in love with her at one point. You would have probably married her if she didn't leave you the first time."
"I will probably always love her Lorelai. she was my first love, but I love you so much more. Do I understand what I'm saying?"
"Sure...yeah..I know."
"Are you sure you do? You seem like you don't" He says.
"Yeah, yeah. Don't worry about it Luke. Its okay." She says and brushes it off, wanting to change the subject.
He just nods and leans over and kisses Lorelai on the cheek and then lays down.
"So, how was work overall today?" She asks him curiously.
"It was good. A bit stressful when I had to go inventory with no help, but it was good. How was the inn?" He asks.
"It was good. The funniest thing happened. Michel was beaten with a towel."
"Do I even want to know why?" He asks curiously.
"You had to be there, its hard to explain." She says and starts laughing.
He just smiles at her "At least you got a good laugh out of the day right?"
"Yeah, it was very funny."
"Good. Thats good." He says and nods.
"Yeah..it is." Then a weird silence falls between them. "Did you eat dinner?"
"Well, no I didn't get the chance to eat anything, but I'm fine. It's late and you have to get up really early for work." He says remembering she had to be there earlier tomorrow.
"I know I have to get up early tomorrow. What does that have to do with you eating something?"
"Because if I go downstairs to get something to eat, and then I come back up I will disturb your sleeping and I don't want to do that. I'll be fine. Don't worry."
"No you won't, its okay."
"Are you sure it won't be a problem?"
She nods and he nods back and then goes downstairs to get something to eat.
She sees him come back up a little while later. "So, how was your dinner?"
"It was good. Thank you for making dinner for the kids and again, I'm so sorry that I wasn't here."
"No problem, I'm used to it."
"O..o..oh okay." He says feeling bad, but a bit upset that she wasn't giving him any credit.
She rolls her eyes and laughs. "Luke, hun, relax, I wasn't trying to be mean or anything."
"I'm sorry. It seemed like you meant it that way."
"I didn't. Now come on, let's get some sleep."
He nods and drapes an arm around her and they fall asleep
The next morning Lorelai gets up and so does Luke he gets downstairs and makes breakfast for her before she goes to work.
Lorelai smiles when she sees her breakfast on the table. "Hey, this looks so good...but I can't eat it."
"Why not?" He asks confused.
"Morning sickness. Not feeling that great this morning."
"Okay, but you should really eat something." He says concerned.
"I'll just have a pop tart."
"You should have something nourishing, you are pregnant."
"Pop tarts are nourishing."
"Well as long as you think so, but stop by the dinner for lunch and I will make you something?" He suggests
"Sure, that sounds good."
"Good, so I'll see you then?" He asks.
"Yeah you will."
He nods. "Have a good morning at work." He says sweetly.
"You too." She says and gives him a hug.
"Thanks" He says and hugs back.
She stops outside, and wonders why Luke's not going to work also.
He waits until she is out of the drive way and then comes out, gets in his truck and leaves
About an hour later at Lorelai's work, a delivery man comes up to the front desk where Lorelai was at the moment.
He walked up with flowers and a medium sized teddy bear. "Is there a Lorelai Danes here?" He asks
"Thats me. Can I help you?" She asks
"These are for you." He says and sits them down on the counter.
She looks at the flowers and then reads the card.
They were from Luke..
She takes a big sniff out of them and smiles. "He really wants something." She says and giggles. Then she picks up the phone and dials the diner.
"Luke's Diner" Luke says and answers.
"They're beautiful." Lorelai says over the phone.
"I'm glad you like them."
"I do, this was a really sweet thing to do Luke. But you didn't have to."
"I wanted to. You deserve something nice."
"Thank you."