"Damn you, Taylor!" Lorelai pointed to the sky cursing an innocent man, as her daughter looked at her in admiration, and annoyance.
The sky had gone dark, winter jackets had been worn, and it was officially winter in Stars Hollow Connecticut. Lorelai had always had a different glow in the winter. Or is could've been that her cheeks were pale and got red easily.
"How can Taylor feel no shame in running the meeting that late!" Lorelai looked down at her watch '11:36pm' it read. While Rory, confused, looked down at hers. Which read '9:36'. "Mom" "Hm?" "Your time is wrong." "What? No it's not?" "Yours is 2 hours ahead." "Let's go ask Luke. I'm starving too." "Of course you want to ask Luke. But fine, whatever lets go." "Fine!" "Fine!"
They walked up the wobbly steps, shivering as Lorelai called out "Lukey Pukey!"
People had all looked at such a name, but they were all tourists. Miss Patty hadn't even noticed what Lorelai said as she closed the barn doors to her dance studio in the freezing cold.
"Mom!" Rory said tapping Lorelai's shoulder in disapproval "Luke is a business man! You can't say that out loud!"
Then all of a sudden, the door bursts open and Luke appears.
"She's right. My name is Luke. Not whatever you just said."
Rory giggles and Lorelai gives her a dirty look.
They step inside and Rory walks to the counter and sits, while Lorelai walks behind the counter and opens the donut display lid. "What should I choose? Do I want sweet or savoury? Sugary or plain? Oh whatever will I do?" Lorelai says dramatically staring at the donut display. "They are all 2 days old, you might be lucky to find a little dust on one." Luke says, monotone as usual. "Ew!" Lorelai says, dropping the lid rather clumsily on the now gross looking donuts."
"Gross." Rory gagged as pouring their coffees. Hers into a dark navy cup, and Lorelai's into a light green mug.
Lorelai walked back to her seat and took a long sip of coffee. It was silent for a minute.
"Caesar?" Lorelai called
"Yup?" Caesar called from the back
"You got pancakes?"
"Yeah, the mix. Why?"
Luke looked into the kitchen shaking his head at Caesar.
"What? I'm answering her question honestly. I would never lie. It's what my mom taught me." "Well aren't you a saint. Make her pancakes and go home, it's almost 9:45 and I don't feel like paying you overtime."
"Ha! It's 9 not 11! I told you!" Rory shouts excitedly quickly taking her head once buried in her coffee cup out. "Oh be quiet!" Lorelai said hand signalling for her to go back to drinking her coffee.
"I hope you know this is a one time thing, and I don't let most customers order pancakes at 9." Luke said making it clear it was a 'one' time thing. "Are we your favourites?" Lorelai said teasingly. "Whatever helps you sleep at night."
Lorelai gasps and looks at Rory with wide eyes "I can't believe you said that to an insomniac!" "Maybe it's from all the coffee you drink?" "The coffee you serve me?" "He's been giving you decaf for 3 weeks now!" Caesar calls laughing from behind the counter.
"You know what Caesar? Go home its 9:50 now, I legally can't have you here for this long"
"How dare you give me decaf, you don't have my permission. Let's go Rory." Lorelai says dramatically as Caesar walks out of the door.
"What about our pancakes?" Rory said resisting as Lorelai tried to pull her off the stool. "Get em tomorrow. I'll make them fresh, plus Caesar's already gone." Luke said wiping down the counter with an old rag.
"Sounds good!" Lorelai said walking towards the door, opening it for Rory and then stepping out herself without fully closing the door. She peeks in "Bye Luke." He looks up and smiles and she leaves.
They had always had a.. connection.
And though sometimes he refused to admit it, she was his favourite customer.
"Mom, you do realize Jess is in the diners in the mornings?" Rory said holding hands with her mother, it was a thing they did in the winter so if one of them slipped on ice, the other did too. Theres no logic behind it but i'm sure you could ask Lorelai and she would make it sound normal.
"Argh!" Lorelai said, stopping. She lifted one foot off the ground, now holding onto Rory's shoulder, kicked herself.
Rory, watching her mother do such an odd thing said "Thats supposed to be a metaphor."
"Yes but I did such a bad thing a metaphor isn't enough. I had to execute the metaphor."
Rory rolled her eyes and linked hands with her mother as they walked down Stars Hollows most busy street but during cold winter nights, you could hear a pin drop. They called it small town charm.
But some would say its a simple past, awaiting a really complicated future.
first chapter done!! i had the most amazing caramel iced coffee while making this holy crap i was literally in heaven this chapter took me a while cause this was supposed to be a oneshot but i changed my mind midway and turned it into a fanfic
there isn't going to be a lot of narrators pov, mostly lorelai and luke talking but i didn't know whos pov to start with so i just did how i saw it
its hard to put writing into words especially while doing tv show fics cause i kind of imagined this whole thing as a scene and and its frustrating when it doesnt seem how i imagined it and how some people may interpret this interaction a whole different way with lorelai wearing a like lime green jacket when i intended it for hers to be maroon and rorys to be brown and ahhhh but whatever ily guys thank you for reading chapter one <33
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