Liveblogging As the World Turns: Lean on Me Edition

We're back to get all up in the business of As the World Turns' Alpha Gay Teen Couple, the adorable ... wait, what was their name, again? ... Noodle? Tuque? Nuprin?

To be honest, it feels like it's been so long since I saw the young lovers that I may have to assign them clueless nicknames like I do for the rest of the characters I don't recognize. Lady Drumstick, meet Charlie Brownbagger! Quaker Oats Lady, are you acquainted with Dances With Bert?

Okay, I'm just grousing from Nuke-deprivation and am excited to see the next tentative (and physical-therapy-assisted) steps in Luke and Noah's romance. To see how things play out, click through the jump and refresh often for breaking updates!

Let the healing begin...

2:56PM EDT: Noah comes by and when Lily hears that Dusty drove her, she leaves skidmarks in the linoleum to get outside.

Luke starts to apologize and then starts yelling at Noah again. Noah admits that he's scared when Luke falls out of his chair and Luke says that he doesn't want this. He tells Noah he'd better go, but his eyes say otherwise...

Meanwhile, Austin is molesting the Blonde Obstacle in a cemetery. Hello, can he be any more perfect for me?! Oops -- Matthew Perry 2.0 is watching, and he is NOT amused...

Preview Time! Uh ... nothing, again. Oh, come ON! You can't leave things like that with Oakdale's Alpha Gays and not give us ANYTHING! Will Luke ever leave the kitchen again?

2:48PM EDT: We cut back to Luke and Noah and Luke has somehow levitated himself back into his chair unassisted while a few extras look on dutifully. Noah moves to help him and Dusty swoops in and takes Noah away. Did I say house arrest bracelet? I meant "equal-opportunity c*ckblock". (Insert chapter 2,348 of Noah/Dusty slashfic HERE.)

Lily takes Luke home and Luke regrets yelling at Noah in public. Lily tells him she can tell Noah cares about him and he should think about calling him. No sooner is she out the door than his phone is in his hand...

2:44PM EDT: Luke has gone out to meet Noah at the Halloween parade! Naturally, the minute Lily leaves the house she runs into Dusty. He's like a hot house arrest bracelet with a tendency to squint.

Luke finds Noah with some friends and Noah is thrilled that he came. They go to sit down at a wrought iron patio set and Luke, in trying to move to the chair from his wheelchair, falls on his tukkus. Oh crap...

2:37PM EDT: The blonde getting between me and Austin From Days makes him kneel and blindfolds him. Atta girl!

Luke has wheeled himself onto the porch (thank heaven -- I was starting to wonder if he ever got to leave the kitchen anymore) to watch Noah's taillights fade in the distance, and Lily comes in to give him some relationship advice. She tells Luke maybe Noah doesn't mind taking care of him as much as Luke thinks he does. The she recommends going undercover as a hooker, getting stinky drunk in his ex's hotel room, and starting arguments in hospitals to strengthen their relationship. Works every time!

Back in the graveyard, Jordana Brewster-lady grabs Ice Truck Killer's hand and sticks it somewhere below camera range, insisting, "THIS IS WHAT MATTERS!" Now, you and I know that it's her baby bump that she's referring to, but my oh my is that open for misinterpretation...

2:27PM EDT: RoseAnne HecheKowski was just crouched behind a gravestone spying on ITK! It's like a Mario Bava film! Or Night of the Living Dead!

2:24PM EDT: Luke tells Noah he has to have something better to do on Halloween than sit there with him. Noah asks what he would be doing instead, egging houses? Trying to sleep with Maddie? I mean, she blew town!

Noah tries to get Luke into a good place by having him remember his favorite Halloween on the farm. We slowly dolly into Luke's face as he tells a story about when he was seven and his bone structure is really amazing and his grandmother used to take him on hayrides and have you ever noticed how his hair kinda sticks out on the one ...

Oh, sorry, got distracted. And whoa, we cut out to a wide shot and Noah is extending and bending Luke's leg while he's lost in his memories! Awwww! As he helps with Luke's circulation, Noah asks if any of the ghosts in the cornfield when he was a kid were cute. No, but this sure is!

A few minutes later, Noah is making Luke a rootbeer float and Luke knocks a glass off the table and we're back in "Shelby, drink the juice!" territory...

2:18PM EDT: There was just an Amazing Race commercial that shows the two lesbians saying "The Amazing Race is a love letter to the planet." Awesome!

Wow -- Vitalis Man is dropping some serious wedding day science on RoseAnne HecheKowski. He just called her to tell her that the Ice Truck Killer is going to leave her at the altar. I guess FDT doesn't have a bouquet that says that in flowers.

Lily lets her guard down and admits to Luke that she and Holden are splitsville. He asks when she was going to tell his sisters and she says they wanted to wait until after Halloween ... what, so they have lots of chocolate to drown their adolescent sorrows in? Luke asks how this happened and Lily says that it just happened (cough*Dusty!*cough) and that she and Holden will be there for Luke no matter what.

We cut back to them a little later and Luke is struggling with a few 3-pound weights, and Noah pops his head in. Luke jokes that he'll soon have the strongest upper body in Oakdale ... yeah, you'll be challenging Austin from Days to arm-wrestling by Friday (insert Luke/Austin from Days slashfic HERE). Lily goes to help with "Your grandmother, Emma!" as though Luke doesn't know his grandma's name, and Noah asks if he can sit down. Sadly, he meant in a chair.

Luke says that he'd get Noah a drink but he keeps getting jammed in the fridge. Noah says that he's there to see him, not to drink ... and besides, he carries his own bottle in a paper bag, anyway.

2:05PM EDT: Lily bids farewell to the girls as they go out to Trick or Treat (with Holden, presumably ... or maybe one of her hooker friends?), and when she goes back inside she finds that Luke has gotten into a fender-bender with the kitchen island. She helps him out and offers him some pumpkin pie, but he wants none of it. Testy, Luke!

She tells him she's not babysitting him and he asks why she didn't go out with his sisters, then. Luke tells her he and everyone else knows that she and Holden are on the skids. She looks like she's either going to cry or bite him.