𝓛𝓾𝓬𝓲𝓵𝓵𝓮 𝓲𝓷 𝓢𝓽𝓪𝓻𝓼 𝓗𝓸𝓵𝓵𝓸𝔀

54. The way it has to be

 Walking into Luke's was like herd of something in a very small room. It was suffocating and I didn't know that the diner could have that many customers at once. It's was what I imagined mornings at the diner to be like. The early crowd.

Lorelai, Rory, and I went up to Lisa behind the counter.

"What's going on here?" I asked my friend as she served coffee to us.

"Take a look around. We're being taken over by J. Crew catalog," she explained. I finally noticed all the strollers and babies and diapers all over the diner. "Don't mention it to Luke."

But of course, that's exactly what Lorelai did. "Aw, look, babies!" She said. Luke shot her a glare. "What, Luke? Do you not like babies?"

He didn't answer and instead, directed his gaze to a table where some guy was looking for a yellow ball for a baby. He found a yellow duck and offered it to the baby. That was not a yellow ball.

"Every weekend, the same stupid group comes in here—."

"—Here he goes again—," Lisa whispered to me.

"—They take up all my tables, get their sticky hands on everything, and they do that." He gestured to the families. "They sit, they stand, one person holds the baby, the other looks for the blue ball—."

"—Yellow ball," I corrected.

Luke then went to kick them out, but stopped short when some woman started breastfeeding. "Is that woman doing what I think she's doing?" He asked us in a low voice.

Lorelai took a glance over. "Well, you really can't be sure—oh, yeah, that's lunch!"

"Why do they do this?" Luke complain. "It's a public place! People are eating here."

"They sure are," Rory commented and Lisa and I snickered.

"When did this become acceptable?" Luke continued. "In the old days, a woman would never consider doing that in public."

Lisa took an intake of breath through her teeth. "Wow, Luke, I had no idea you were so retroactive."

"Lorelai, please go over there and make her stop."

My mother shook her head. "Luke, I'm not making her stop."

"Why not? You have the same parts, you shouldn't be scared of it!"

I decided: this might just be the funniest conversation I've had at Luke's.

"Oh, God," Lorelai sighed, "you're going to be a bachelor for a really long time."

Suddenly, out of the corner of my eye, I saw Jess coming down the stairs, but when he saw the woman breastfeeding, he turned on heel and headed right back up the stairs.

It was honestly pretty funny.

Hands went over my eyes, blinding me. "Guess who," the voice said.

I smiled. "Well, I'm hoping it's Ethan otherwise something is very wrong here."

I turned around and pressed my lips to his. We were in the middle of the hall at Chilton, so people were looking, but I didn't really care.

"Miss. Gilmore! This is not appropriate to be doing during school!" Ethan scolded, mocking the headmaster.

"Shut up, you loser and kiss me." Ethan kissed me again.

He pressed me up against my locker. Footsteps sounded next to me and I heard someone clear their throat.

"Not that I want to interrupt but we have to go, Lucy," Rory said, sounded not too trilled with me at the moment.