Luke was on today's As the World Turns, sans Noah. The episode started with Lily calling Luke up and inviting him and Noah to dinner, since they never get to see the guys now that they live in their own apartment. Which, apparently, we viewers will never be seeing onscreen. In fact, I think the guys have actually just leased a table at Java, where at least Noah doesn't have a long commute to work.
Luke agreed to meet his parents, but said that Noah was busy editing and couldn't come. Over dinner, Luke told Holden & Lily that Noah is always so busy with the film now and that even when they are together, Noah's mind is still focused on his movie. Luke is worried he'll see even less of Noah once the new job at Grimaldi Shipping starts the next day.
Holden & Lily basically brushed aside Luke's legitimate relationship worries, like the stellar parents they are, since discussing that didn't fit in with the real purpose of the dinner: convincing Luke not to go to work for Damian. The two of them told their son that they'd accepted that he didn't want to go back to school, that he wanted to try business, but they felt that he'd learn more about management if he went to work for WorldWide (his Grandmother's company), where Lucinda will be needing a right hand man.
They insisted that this wasn't about Damian, but rather about the byzantine corporate structure of Grimaldi Shipping (not to mention all the crazy Grimaldis themselves) and how Luke would be better off working at a more 'local' global conglomerate like WorldWide.
Around that time, Lily spotted Damian eating Meg's face across the room (maybe they were making out; either way, I had to look away!) and ran off to talk to him, ostensibly about the fact that she and Holden were giving Luke another option, but really because she was oh so jealous that one of the men from her past isn't still hung up on her.
Holden and Luke tossed the issue back and forth, with Luke pointing out that this wasn't about choosing Damian over him, except that Holden himself seemed to be trying to force him to make such a choice.
Once Lily returned with Damian and got him to tell Luke that he was fine with whatever Luke decided, Luke said that he hadn't changed his mind: he was working for Grimaldi Shipping. Holden wasted no time in telling his son that he was making a big mistake.
Well, it seems like they're setting up a story where Luke & Noah may be drifting apart a bit, and Mason will certainly be figuring into that. I'd much rather watch that story than anything to do with Luke going into business with Grimaldi Shipping. That can only lead to more crazy Grimaldi psychos of the month, and it doesn't really suit Luke anyway. Luke has never been a business person and I just am not buying that he ever would be. The only way this story can work is if he tries it out and realizes it's not for him.
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