Post by rlyzitzmollz on Jun 19, 2009 10:33:04 GMT -5
Lauren Graham's version of "I Will Always Love you" from episode 7.20 "Lorelai? Lorelai?"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLfHqWK9oOM
above^^the video of this song. Please watch! I don't own it. What this songfic is, is just a normal songfic that she happens to sing. But it is also what might be going through her head as she sings it. She is reminiscing. The little reminiscing parts are all from the show, I'm just arranging them.
I apologize for the large blocks of dialogue with not much in between but im watching these as i write them...mostly. for the ones i havent memorized.
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Lorelai stepped onto the karaoke stage, prepared to sing Rory a graduation song.
"Honey, it's another embarrassing moment for your diary!" she said as the music started.
If I should stay,
I would only be in your way.
Lorelai turned to Rory as they passed Luke's diner. "Hey," she said, "what do you think of Luke?"She looked through the window at Luke scrubbing tables and putting up chairs.
"What do you mean?" Rory asked.
"Well, I mean, do you think he's cute?"
Rory stared at her blankly for a moment, looked at Luke, and back at her mom. "Ooooh, no!"
"What?"
"You cannot date Luke!" she exclaimed.
"I never said anything about dating him!!!"
"If you date Luke, you'll break up, and then we'll never be able to eat there again. Date Al from Al's Pancake world. His food stinks!" Rory complained.
"Hey, Al's food does not stink! Al stinks," Lorelai giggled as they moved away from Luke's and across the street. She pushed her previous thoughts out of her head. At that same moment, Luke stepped out of the diner, looking after them. He had seen them standing outside. He watched for a moment, looking longingly after Lorelai, then caught himself, stepping back inside.
So I'll go, but I know
I'll think of you each step of the way.
They stepped inside and sat down at the table nearest the door. The population of their town smooshed their faces against the glass window.
"Why are people making such a big deal out of this?!?"
"Everyone knows Luke has a thing for you," Rory informed her mom. Lorelai was being forced to tell Luke that Max had proposed to her and that she was saying yes. She shook her head.
"Luke does not have a thing for me!"
"Tell him," Rory challenged her.
"We can barely get through a single conversation without biting each other's heads off..."
"Tell him."
"Everything about me repulses that man, my coffee drinking, my eating habits, remember when I called him 'Ranger Bob' last week? He hated that!"
"Will you get me a muffin while you're up there?"
"Okay. God. Fine." Though she thought he was disgusted with her, she expected a little more out of him when she told him Max had proposed.
"Yeah, I figured," Luke said.
"You did?" Lorelai asked.
"Well, it was obvious, you two were gettin' kinda close, he was around a lot, and then last night with that 'life changing' comment, I put two and two together and figured it out."
"Oh..." Lorelai said. To any outsider, the disappointment was obvious.
"Congratulations, by the way," Luke said, calm as can be. "You set a date yet?"
"Well, no," Lorelai said, taken aback. "I haven't answered him yet..."
"You're gonna say yes."
"How do you know?"
"Well, you're making a big deal about telling me he proposed..."
"Uh, I don't think I'm making a big deal!"
"You wouldn't do that if you weren't gonna say yes," he continued.
"I was sharing something with you, sharing is not making a big deal, sharing is a nice gesture. Like when you're a kid and you have one of those popsicles and you break it in half and offer half of it to another kid, that is sharing, that is what I'm doing!" she insisted.
"You offered me half a popsicle..." Luke tried to comprehend.
"Yes." After a brief moment of awkward silence, she said, "Okay, so now you know."
"Yep, now I know."
"Uuuuh, huh, so I guess I'll just have two blueberry muffins and some coffee," she said, trying to restore a normal state of conversation.
"Comin' right up," he said. When he turned around to warm the muffins, Lorelai's shoulders sagged. Maybe she had believed that he had a thing for her. Soon he was asking her about how long she was going to work after she was married.
"You've probably already talked about that with him..."
"No, but I do believe he and my father have come to an agreement on how many goats I'm worth!" she said, frustrated. Secretly, she was slightly pleased with the tone he was taking now. She was able to go back to her table feeling somewhat smug, somewhat disgruntled.
And I will always love you.
I will always love you.
"Luke, will you marry me?"
"What?"
"Luke. Will you--"
"Yes."
"You don't have to be so quick to--"
"Yes."
"Are you sure you don't wanna--"
"No."
Bittersweet memories
that's all I'm taking with me.
Lorelai walked into the diner to the sight of a young girl filling salt shakers.
"Hi," she said.
"Hello there," the girl said.
"What are you doing?"
"Chores," the girl said laughing.
"Yeah, I see," Lorelai said.
The girl hesitated for a moment, then said, "Are you a strangler?"
"No," Lorelai said immediately.
"Just checking," she said, going back to her salt shakers. Lorelai laughed. The girl started talking about how rice prevents clumping in salt.
"So, uh, who do you belong to, Cesar?" Lorelai asked after a bit of salt talk.
"Who?"
"You're not...Cesar's?"
"Not according to the lab results..."
"Well how'd you land the gig?" Lorelai referenced her salt filling job.
"My father owns the place, the diner at least, I'm not sure about the land."
"Your father?" Lorelai asked, confused.
"My biological father. I'm not really sure what to call him, it's kind of new. Not the biological part, that was years ago..." Then she started talking about salt again, but Lorelai was no longer listening. Luke had come out from the back and frozen when he saw her.
"I thought you couldn't get away..." he said, coming towards her.
"I got away," she said, hurt.
"She said she wasn't a strangler," the kid said, holding her hands up in defense.
"You wanna...go outside, and uh..." Luke gestured towards the door.
"Uh-huh."
"April, I'll be right back, okay?" he said to the girl. She nodded and went back to the salt again.
Once outside, Lorelai attacked him.
"So she's--"
"Yeah."
"Wow."
"I know."
"That's--"
"My daughter."
"I don't believe it," Lorelai said.
"I still have trouble believing it," Luke said, though he knew Lorelai didn't mean quite that.
"You have a--"
"Yeah."
"And what is she, 12?"
"Yeah. Twelve."
"Twelve years...twelve years. And this is for sure?"
"Yeah, it's for sure..."
When did you find out?"
"I just found out."
"Just??! When just? She's in there filling salt shakers, it doesn't feel that new to me!" she yelled.
Luke hesitated. "Two months ago."
"Two months?!?" Lorelai exploded. "That's a hell of a long time to go without telling me!!!"
"I know I should have told you..."
Lorelai, close to tears, said, "She's cute." Her voice was barely a whisper.
"Lorelai, I'm sorry I didn't tell you, I'm sorry! It's all just a blur of stuff happening, she just came into the diner two months ago, no warning, talking about a science fair, how I may be her father, pulled my hair out, DNA tested it, then I wanted to forget the whole thing, but I went to the fair, and found out the truth, and we were at the park, and she wanted to come here! And I called you today, wanting you to come over to talk about it, but you were busy, and so I put it off, again, and here we are," he said, out of breath by the end.
"Here we are."
"It's stupid, I'm stupid."
"Look. I need to digest this, and you have to get back inside, so, uh, I'm just gonna go someplace where I can digest this, and we'll just talk more later, okay?"
"Yeah, okay."
Lorelai walked away that day, feeling more hurt than the time she and Luke broke up because of Christopher, and that's saying something because that time she locked herself in her house for two weeks.
So, goodbye.
Please, don't cry.
"Hey," Lorelai said, walking into the diner when Luke was in the middle of an argument with a customer. "I need to talk to you." Luke turned to her.
"Where have you been??" he asked, worried.
"It-it doesn't matter." She had other things on her mind besides where she had been.
"What are you talking about, 'it doesn't matter'? I've been looking everywhere for you, I tried your cell, I went by the inn, Patty was at your house..."
Lorelai couldn't stand it anymore. "Let's elope." They had talked about it before, and she just wanted to marry Luke. She didn't care if it was a big deal or not.
"What?" Luke said, in shock.
"Come on, Luke, grab your keys, let's go! You said that would be fine, in Martha's Vineyard, didn't you say that would be fine, in Martha's Vineyard??" she demanded.
"Yes," Luke said, "I did, I'm just--"
"Come on then, let's go!!!" she interrupted him. "We can drive to Maryland, what the hell, right? I mean, you have to see Maryland eventually, we can drive there, and get married, and we can come back here, and you'll get your stuff, and you'll move in."
"Okay, hold on..."
"I mean, we had the plan already, right, we just have to put the plan in motion!"
"Let's calm down, we don't have to figure all this out now, do we?" He was slightly uncomfortable having this conversation standing right in the middle of the diner by the door.
"Yes we do, because we've been waiting and waiting and putting it off and I don't wanna put it off anymore!" she complained.
"Yeah, but right now?"
"Yes, now is the right time, it's the best time, because it's now!"
"Come on," Luke said opening the door for her and pushing her out.
"Your car or mine?" she asked.
"Lorelai, let's just talk this through!" he said, ushering her outside and away from the diner.
"No, I don't wanna talk, all we've done for months is talk, I wanna do, I wanna go!"
"We can't just take off and get married!"
"Why not, Luke, don't you love me??"
"You know I do!"
"But I love you Luke, I love you, but I have waited and I have stayed away, and I have let you run this thing, and no more, I asked you to marry me, and you said yes!!!" she yelled at him.
"I'm just...tryin to think here..." Luke murmered.
"We fixed up the house, right, we have a bigger closet, and I didn't get the purple wallpaper, because you didn't want the purple wallpaper, and if it's between you and the purple wallpaper, I pick you, I pick you!!!!" she said, getting very animated.
"I didn't tell you not to get the purple wallpaper..."
"Oh my god," she said not believing he was going into this. "You didn't like it"
"I don't care about wallpaper!"
"Do you care about me???"
"Yes!!!"
"Because I'm going crazy here! I made a commitment to you and I need to make it happen!"
"It will, it will happen, okay, I just have April to consider!" he said.
"But once we're married, everything with April will be fine!" she tried to convince him. "Anna said so!"
"Anna said so? What does that mean??"
"When I talked to Anna, she--"
Luke cut her off. "When did you talk to Anna?!?"
"After the party! She--" Anna had been upset that Lorelai helped with April's 13th birthday party.
"I didn't know you talked to Anna! You weren't supposed to talk to Anna."
"I know, I'm sor-god NO! I'm not gonna defend myself! For months now, I've been skulking around, not saying anything, not having an opinion on anything, like I'm Clarence Thomas or something, and-I-I-I'm done with that!" she stuttered. "I-I've been waiting for a long time and I don't wanna wait anymore!" Lorelai was close to tears now.
"I have to think this through!"
"No!!!"
"I have April!"
"You're gonna have to figure out how April fits into our lives, not the other way around!"
"I'm trying," Luke said, trying to stay calm.
"Well try marriage!"
"Just wait!"
"No. I'm not waiting, it's now or never!"
"I don't like ultimatums," Luke complained.
"I don't like Mondays but unfortunately they come around eventually!"
"I can't just jump like this!"
"Well, I'm sorry to hear that." She hesitated, taking a deep breath to calm down. It only somewhat worked, however, as she fought back a sob. "And I have to go." And with that, she walked away from Luke, her love, the one thing that had always been there for her. She wrapped her sweater around her to block out the cold of the world, fighting back tears. But she couldn't fight them back forever.
We both know I'm not what you need.
Luke looked down the isle of the supermarket to see Lorelai standing by the ice cream.
"Hey," he said.
"Well, I guess both of us avoiding Doose's didn't work out that well, huh?" she said dryly.
"Well I wasn't avoiding Doose's, it's just the closest market to Liz and TJ's house..." he explained.
"Right," Lorelai muttered. "Cuz you're not affected by this, you're not mad, I forgot." Earlier, they had met in the street and he had told her that he really didn't care about their break up.
"No," Luke said trying to explain himself, "I-I was mad, I was really mad."
"Yeah. I kinda figured."
Luke sighed. "I know I was a jerk. I was just....mad."
Lorelai started walking towards him. "I was the jerk, I was such a jerk."
"I'm not mad anymore, well..." he continued, "that's not true...I won't be, you know, eventually." The look on Lorelai's face showed that she wasn't buying it. She felt so bad. He had come back to her after their break up, ready to elope, and she had told him it was over because she had already slept with Christopher, Rory's dad. "Really."
"Yeah?" she asked skeptically.
"Yeah."
"Okay."
Luke hesitated, then said, "It's not your fault, it's not my fault, it's just...we're not right together. You're you, I'm me, I just wanna stop pretending we're something else. You don't belong with me. You belong with someone like Christopher, I just....let's just stop fighting it! Okay?" Lorelai looked at her feet. He was so sweet. "And you go back to being Lorelai Gilmore, and I'll go back to being the guy in the diner who pours your coffee." That was, after all, how they had started out. Luke thought of all when she had said, "No, this is just Luke. It's Luke!" as an explanation of why that man next to her was not her boyfriend.
Now she stood there, staring at him, the floor, everywhere. She grimaced and held up the ice cream in her hand.
"My hand's getting cold."
"Okay."
She brushed past him. "Kay." And that was the end of that.
And I will always love you.
I will always love you.
I hope life treats you kind,
and I hope you have all you've dreamed of.
And I wish you joy and happiness.
But above all, I wish you love...
As the last notes faded away, some of the more ignorant, uninformed people in the audience applauded. Lorelai shrugged, smiled, and laughed a sad laugh. As she stepped offstage, Rory looked to see where she was going, to make sure she was okay. Patty touched her heart, moved speechless. Luke stared at his shoes and at Lorelai.
When she had begun the song, it was a simple tribute to her daughter's graduation. But when Luke walked in, everything had changed.
And I will always love you.
I will always love you.
I will always love you.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLfHqWK9oOM
above^^the video of this song. Please watch! I don't own it. What this songfic is, is just a normal songfic that she happens to sing. But it is also what might be going through her head as she sings it. She is reminiscing. The little reminiscing parts are all from the show, I'm just arranging them.
I apologize for the large blocks of dialogue with not much in between but im watching these as i write them...mostly. for the ones i havent memorized.
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Lorelai stepped onto the karaoke stage, prepared to sing Rory a graduation song.
"Honey, it's another embarrassing moment for your diary!" she said as the music started.
If I should stay,
I would only be in your way.
Lorelai turned to Rory as they passed Luke's diner. "Hey," she said, "what do you think of Luke?"She looked through the window at Luke scrubbing tables and putting up chairs.
"What do you mean?" Rory asked.
"Well, I mean, do you think he's cute?"
Rory stared at her blankly for a moment, looked at Luke, and back at her mom. "Ooooh, no!"
"What?"
"You cannot date Luke!" she exclaimed.
"I never said anything about dating him!!!"
"If you date Luke, you'll break up, and then we'll never be able to eat there again. Date Al from Al's Pancake world. His food stinks!" Rory complained.
"Hey, Al's food does not stink! Al stinks," Lorelai giggled as they moved away from Luke's and across the street. She pushed her previous thoughts out of her head. At that same moment, Luke stepped out of the diner, looking after them. He had seen them standing outside. He watched for a moment, looking longingly after Lorelai, then caught himself, stepping back inside.
So I'll go, but I know
I'll think of you each step of the way.
They stepped inside and sat down at the table nearest the door. The population of their town smooshed their faces against the glass window.
"Why are people making such a big deal out of this?!?"
"Everyone knows Luke has a thing for you," Rory informed her mom. Lorelai was being forced to tell Luke that Max had proposed to her and that she was saying yes. She shook her head.
"Luke does not have a thing for me!"
"Tell him," Rory challenged her.
"We can barely get through a single conversation without biting each other's heads off..."
"Tell him."
"Everything about me repulses that man, my coffee drinking, my eating habits, remember when I called him 'Ranger Bob' last week? He hated that!"
"Will you get me a muffin while you're up there?"
"Okay. God. Fine." Though she thought he was disgusted with her, she expected a little more out of him when she told him Max had proposed.
"Yeah, I figured," Luke said.
"You did?" Lorelai asked.
"Well, it was obvious, you two were gettin' kinda close, he was around a lot, and then last night with that 'life changing' comment, I put two and two together and figured it out."
"Oh..." Lorelai said. To any outsider, the disappointment was obvious.
"Congratulations, by the way," Luke said, calm as can be. "You set a date yet?"
"Well, no," Lorelai said, taken aback. "I haven't answered him yet..."
"You're gonna say yes."
"How do you know?"
"Well, you're making a big deal about telling me he proposed..."
"Uh, I don't think I'm making a big deal!"
"You wouldn't do that if you weren't gonna say yes," he continued.
"I was sharing something with you, sharing is not making a big deal, sharing is a nice gesture. Like when you're a kid and you have one of those popsicles and you break it in half and offer half of it to another kid, that is sharing, that is what I'm doing!" she insisted.
"You offered me half a popsicle..." Luke tried to comprehend.
"Yes." After a brief moment of awkward silence, she said, "Okay, so now you know."
"Yep, now I know."
"Uuuuh, huh, so I guess I'll just have two blueberry muffins and some coffee," she said, trying to restore a normal state of conversation.
"Comin' right up," he said. When he turned around to warm the muffins, Lorelai's shoulders sagged. Maybe she had believed that he had a thing for her. Soon he was asking her about how long she was going to work after she was married.
"You've probably already talked about that with him..."
"No, but I do believe he and my father have come to an agreement on how many goats I'm worth!" she said, frustrated. Secretly, she was slightly pleased with the tone he was taking now. She was able to go back to her table feeling somewhat smug, somewhat disgruntled.
And I will always love you.
I will always love you.
"Luke, will you marry me?"
"What?"
"Luke. Will you--"
"Yes."
"You don't have to be so quick to--"
"Yes."
"Are you sure you don't wanna--"
"No."
Bittersweet memories
that's all I'm taking with me.
Lorelai walked into the diner to the sight of a young girl filling salt shakers.
"Hi," she said.
"Hello there," the girl said.
"What are you doing?"
"Chores," the girl said laughing.
"Yeah, I see," Lorelai said.
The girl hesitated for a moment, then said, "Are you a strangler?"
"No," Lorelai said immediately.
"Just checking," she said, going back to her salt shakers. Lorelai laughed. The girl started talking about how rice prevents clumping in salt.
"So, uh, who do you belong to, Cesar?" Lorelai asked after a bit of salt talk.
"Who?"
"You're not...Cesar's?"
"Not according to the lab results..."
"Well how'd you land the gig?" Lorelai referenced her salt filling job.
"My father owns the place, the diner at least, I'm not sure about the land."
"Your father?" Lorelai asked, confused.
"My biological father. I'm not really sure what to call him, it's kind of new. Not the biological part, that was years ago..." Then she started talking about salt again, but Lorelai was no longer listening. Luke had come out from the back and frozen when he saw her.
"I thought you couldn't get away..." he said, coming towards her.
"I got away," she said, hurt.
"She said she wasn't a strangler," the kid said, holding her hands up in defense.
"You wanna...go outside, and uh..." Luke gestured towards the door.
"Uh-huh."
"April, I'll be right back, okay?" he said to the girl. She nodded and went back to the salt again.
Once outside, Lorelai attacked him.
"So she's--"
"Yeah."
"Wow."
"I know."
"That's--"
"My daughter."
"I don't believe it," Lorelai said.
"I still have trouble believing it," Luke said, though he knew Lorelai didn't mean quite that.
"You have a--"
"Yeah."
"And what is she, 12?"
"Yeah. Twelve."
"Twelve years...twelve years. And this is for sure?"
"Yeah, it's for sure..."
When did you find out?"
"I just found out."
"Just??! When just? She's in there filling salt shakers, it doesn't feel that new to me!" she yelled.
Luke hesitated. "Two months ago."
"Two months?!?" Lorelai exploded. "That's a hell of a long time to go without telling me!!!"
"I know I should have told you..."
Lorelai, close to tears, said, "She's cute." Her voice was barely a whisper.
"Lorelai, I'm sorry I didn't tell you, I'm sorry! It's all just a blur of stuff happening, she just came into the diner two months ago, no warning, talking about a science fair, how I may be her father, pulled my hair out, DNA tested it, then I wanted to forget the whole thing, but I went to the fair, and found out the truth, and we were at the park, and she wanted to come here! And I called you today, wanting you to come over to talk about it, but you were busy, and so I put it off, again, and here we are," he said, out of breath by the end.
"Here we are."
"It's stupid, I'm stupid."
"Look. I need to digest this, and you have to get back inside, so, uh, I'm just gonna go someplace where I can digest this, and we'll just talk more later, okay?"
"Yeah, okay."
Lorelai walked away that day, feeling more hurt than the time she and Luke broke up because of Christopher, and that's saying something because that time she locked herself in her house for two weeks.
So, goodbye.
Please, don't cry.
"Hey," Lorelai said, walking into the diner when Luke was in the middle of an argument with a customer. "I need to talk to you." Luke turned to her.
"Where have you been??" he asked, worried.
"It-it doesn't matter." She had other things on her mind besides where she had been.
"What are you talking about, 'it doesn't matter'? I've been looking everywhere for you, I tried your cell, I went by the inn, Patty was at your house..."
Lorelai couldn't stand it anymore. "Let's elope." They had talked about it before, and she just wanted to marry Luke. She didn't care if it was a big deal or not.
"What?" Luke said, in shock.
"Come on, Luke, grab your keys, let's go! You said that would be fine, in Martha's Vineyard, didn't you say that would be fine, in Martha's Vineyard??" she demanded.
"Yes," Luke said, "I did, I'm just--"
"Come on then, let's go!!!" she interrupted him. "We can drive to Maryland, what the hell, right? I mean, you have to see Maryland eventually, we can drive there, and get married, and we can come back here, and you'll get your stuff, and you'll move in."
"Okay, hold on..."
"I mean, we had the plan already, right, we just have to put the plan in motion!"
"Let's calm down, we don't have to figure all this out now, do we?" He was slightly uncomfortable having this conversation standing right in the middle of the diner by the door.
"Yes we do, because we've been waiting and waiting and putting it off and I don't wanna put it off anymore!" she complained.
"Yeah, but right now?"
"Yes, now is the right time, it's the best time, because it's now!"
"Come on," Luke said opening the door for her and pushing her out.
"Your car or mine?" she asked.
"Lorelai, let's just talk this through!" he said, ushering her outside and away from the diner.
"No, I don't wanna talk, all we've done for months is talk, I wanna do, I wanna go!"
"We can't just take off and get married!"
"Why not, Luke, don't you love me??"
"You know I do!"
"But I love you Luke, I love you, but I have waited and I have stayed away, and I have let you run this thing, and no more, I asked you to marry me, and you said yes!!!" she yelled at him.
"I'm just...tryin to think here..." Luke murmered.
"We fixed up the house, right, we have a bigger closet, and I didn't get the purple wallpaper, because you didn't want the purple wallpaper, and if it's between you and the purple wallpaper, I pick you, I pick you!!!!" she said, getting very animated.
"I didn't tell you not to get the purple wallpaper..."
"Oh my god," she said not believing he was going into this. "You didn't like it"
"I don't care about wallpaper!"
"Do you care about me???"
"Yes!!!"
"Because I'm going crazy here! I made a commitment to you and I need to make it happen!"
"It will, it will happen, okay, I just have April to consider!" he said.
"But once we're married, everything with April will be fine!" she tried to convince him. "Anna said so!"
"Anna said so? What does that mean??"
"When I talked to Anna, she--"
Luke cut her off. "When did you talk to Anna?!?"
"After the party! She--" Anna had been upset that Lorelai helped with April's 13th birthday party.
"I didn't know you talked to Anna! You weren't supposed to talk to Anna."
"I know, I'm sor-god NO! I'm not gonna defend myself! For months now, I've been skulking around, not saying anything, not having an opinion on anything, like I'm Clarence Thomas or something, and-I-I-I'm done with that!" she stuttered. "I-I've been waiting for a long time and I don't wanna wait anymore!" Lorelai was close to tears now.
"I have to think this through!"
"No!!!"
"I have April!"
"You're gonna have to figure out how April fits into our lives, not the other way around!"
"I'm trying," Luke said, trying to stay calm.
"Well try marriage!"
"Just wait!"
"No. I'm not waiting, it's now or never!"
"I don't like ultimatums," Luke complained.
"I don't like Mondays but unfortunately they come around eventually!"
"I can't just jump like this!"
"Well, I'm sorry to hear that." She hesitated, taking a deep breath to calm down. It only somewhat worked, however, as she fought back a sob. "And I have to go." And with that, she walked away from Luke, her love, the one thing that had always been there for her. She wrapped her sweater around her to block out the cold of the world, fighting back tears. But she couldn't fight them back forever.
We both know I'm not what you need.
Luke looked down the isle of the supermarket to see Lorelai standing by the ice cream.
"Hey," he said.
"Well, I guess both of us avoiding Doose's didn't work out that well, huh?" she said dryly.
"Well I wasn't avoiding Doose's, it's just the closest market to Liz and TJ's house..." he explained.
"Right," Lorelai muttered. "Cuz you're not affected by this, you're not mad, I forgot." Earlier, they had met in the street and he had told her that he really didn't care about their break up.
"No," Luke said trying to explain himself, "I-I was mad, I was really mad."
"Yeah. I kinda figured."
Luke sighed. "I know I was a jerk. I was just....mad."
Lorelai started walking towards him. "I was the jerk, I was such a jerk."
"I'm not mad anymore, well..." he continued, "that's not true...I won't be, you know, eventually." The look on Lorelai's face showed that she wasn't buying it. She felt so bad. He had come back to her after their break up, ready to elope, and she had told him it was over because she had already slept with Christopher, Rory's dad. "Really."
"Yeah?" she asked skeptically.
"Yeah."
"Okay."
Luke hesitated, then said, "It's not your fault, it's not my fault, it's just...we're not right together. You're you, I'm me, I just wanna stop pretending we're something else. You don't belong with me. You belong with someone like Christopher, I just....let's just stop fighting it! Okay?" Lorelai looked at her feet. He was so sweet. "And you go back to being Lorelai Gilmore, and I'll go back to being the guy in the diner who pours your coffee." That was, after all, how they had started out. Luke thought of all when she had said, "No, this is just Luke. It's Luke!" as an explanation of why that man next to her was not her boyfriend.
Now she stood there, staring at him, the floor, everywhere. She grimaced and held up the ice cream in her hand.
"My hand's getting cold."
"Okay."
She brushed past him. "Kay." And that was the end of that.
And I will always love you.
I will always love you.
I hope life treats you kind,
and I hope you have all you've dreamed of.
And I wish you joy and happiness.
But above all, I wish you love...
As the last notes faded away, some of the more ignorant, uninformed people in the audience applauded. Lorelai shrugged, smiled, and laughed a sad laugh. As she stepped offstage, Rory looked to see where she was going, to make sure she was okay. Patty touched her heart, moved speechless. Luke stared at his shoes and at Lorelai.
When she had begun the song, it was a simple tribute to her daughter's graduation. But when Luke walked in, everything had changed.
And I will always love you.
I will always love you.
I will always love you.
