The next morning Grace got up early just to pick out a sexy outfit for Karen, one she pleaded Karen wouldn't make fun of and maybe, actually like, it was a stretch but she strived for it. Karen was at home doing the same, she paced back and forth in her bedroom and fell on the bed and sighed. She unhooked her plain black bra and put on her lacey red one, hopefully Grace would like it. Grace put her left earring in; Karen did a shot of mouthwash mixed with gin, so her breathe would smell okay and she'd be a little buzzed. Grace drew on her eyeliner a little heavier, like she did when she dressed up fancy; Karen brushed a stray piece of hair back into her up-do and took one final glance in the mirror before walking out, she was planning on being on time, maybe even a little early to work, something she'd never done or desired to do before.
Karen popped a pill in the service elevator on her way up to Grace's office, praying Grace wouldn't be there yet so she could look in the mirror one last time just to make sure everything was perfect, she felt pretty, hopefully Grace thought she was pretty too. Grace was there. God she looked amazing, Karen thought. She smiled sweetly at Grace and Grace smiled back. "Hey Kare," said Grace. "Hi honey, sorry I'm late," said Karen putting her stuff down on the desk. "Oh, um" grace looked at her watch and then the clock on the wall just to make sure her clock wasn't wrong. "Your not late" Karen laughed, "oh, just a reflex to say that I guess," Karen sat down at her desk and glanced up at Grace every couple of seconds just to see if she had noticed how pretty Karen looked today. Grace did notice how gorgeous she looked today, but it was nothing new, Karen looked absolutely stunning every single day of the week, every day of they year. "We're actually both about a half hour early today" said Grace. There was a long pause; Karen knew she had to say what they were both thinking. She stood up and made her way over to grace, whose stomach was showing slightly, and Karen could hardly resist holding her closely but she did and uttered, "Was yesterday a mistake?" There was an awkward pause, Grace was expecting her to say that, and she wanted to say, 'no absolutely not it was the best day of my life I love you! I am in love with you Karen Walker and it took me until yesterday to realize it!' but instead, Grace said, "I don't know, what do you think?" Karen wanted to say, 'no absolutely not it was the best day of my life I love you! I am in love with you Grace Adler!' but instead she said, "I, I don't know." Karen began to walk back to her desk heartbroken, but Grace grabbed her forearm and turned her around roughly and pressed her mouth to Karen's. Karen's toes curled in her pumps, and she breathed in deeply. They stumbled to the wall and Karen took her shirt off and Grace kissed her perfect cleavage lightly, Karen let out a slight moan and Grace felt as though she had control over Karen at this moment, Karen was so vulnerable and exposed Grace liked knowing that she could just break her heart, and at the thought of that she whispered in Karen's ear, "I'll never hurt you"
Words Karen's body tingled upon hearing, men had told her they loved her, they told her they'd always take care of her, they said that she was beautiful and wonderful, but this, she assured the most important thing she felt with Grace, among many many other things, security, knowing that if they weren't always going to be lovers, they'd at least be best friends. Karen knew they were about to go a lot farther a lot quicker than they did yesterday to she pulled away from Grace's passionate kiss and said, "not here" If it was anyone else, any other person on the earth Karen would have made love to them in the most random, raunchy, unpleasing places, but for her first time having sex with grace, she wanted it to be nothing less than perfect, she wanted it to be romantic, passionate, fiery, and most of all, meaningful, and a quicky before work seemed far from that. Grace didn't question Karen's retreat she just kissed her lightly on her lips one more time before going back to work. All day long Karen gazed at Grace, her newfound love. God was she really doing this? If someone, one week previous had told Karen that her and Grace would be madly in love and fool around in the office, she would have laughed them off making a smart comment like, "How? Wouldn't her hair tangle around my body and suffocate me?" and for thinking she'd say anything remotely of the sort, she frowned. Then her train of thought changed direction, what set them off in the first place? What was it that made them just falling so hard and fast in love? Maybe they subconsciously knew all along they were in love, but something had to trigger it. Grace was sad, which made Karen sad; can other emotions trigger different emotions? Out of Grace's tears came love, but why? Karen pondered this momentarily and came to the conclusion, emotions are all the same, they just make the real you come out, and since Karen showed little emotion, no one had ever really seen the real her, but when Grace cried a part of her came out, the part of her that subconsciously loved Grace for all these years, a part she herself wasn't even aware of. She silently vowed to show more emotions from there on, but knowing that she couldn't, unless it was with Grace.
They shut down the office early, after a slow day of various phone call coming in one every hour, and a couple faxed being sent. Grace had secretly cancelled a meeting with a client that day and rescheduled it for Monday so she could just be alone in the office with Karen, and listen to her beautiful voice hum commercial jingles. They chatted awhile too, but nothing out of the ordinary, about the weather, new movies, friends, stuff that normally would have been considered small talk, but now it just meant so much, Karen was addicted to Grace's every word and Grace was longing every breath Karen took. Five minutes before closing Grace said to Karen, "hey Karen, Will and Jack are going to see RENT tonight, you wanna come over?" Karen smiled, 'perfect' she thought, "Sure honey," she said shuffling papers on grace's desk, trying to tidy up a bit, "What time?" Grace almost laughed with joy but contained herself to a normal state of mind, "around seven?" Karen agreed, Grace usually stopped at the bank, the doughnut shop and the farm stand before heading home on Fridays but this Friday she went straight home, and began to cook a romantic meal for her and Karen.
"Who's all this for? You have a date tonight?" said Will, upon the feast Grace was preparing in the Kitchen; he was in front of the mirror fixing his tie. "No, Karen's coming over though, and we're going to have a girl's night" she said, she knew she wasn't exactly lying to Will, but she felt bad not telling him the whole truth, and she felt miserable not telling anyone, but her and Karen took a vow of secrecy without either of them actually verbally agreeing to anything, they just knew, this was their little secret. "All this just for Karen? Well she IS the antichrist." Will chuckled at his own joke, Grace pretended to giggle as well, although she didn't find it funny, and she thought that was odd because two weeks ago, she'd be rolling with laughter at this statement. "Haha, yep, all for me and Karen, Karen's feeling a little blue," she lied, "I'm just trying to cheer her up!" Jack enters combing his hair. "Look who I found!" he dragged in Karen. He slapped Karen's butt and Karen grabbed his package, Grace was slightly jealous. "Okay come on Jack we're going to be late!" said Will rushing out of the apartment grabbing Jack with him, "Escalator!" said Jack just before the door shut, Grace looked at Karen's glowing smile, "Hey honey" said Karen. "Ya look amazing like usual Kare, ya hungry?" Karen shook her head yes, then they both sat down at the table, Grace close to Karen and they ate, soon after the meal was over and the table was cleared they were out of excuses not to do what they knew they both wanted to do………