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Chapter 14.

Later that night

Will was finally home. It had been a hard day at work, while he was trying to concentrate on his job, thoughts of Karen ran through his mind and images of her face and her smile flashed before him.

'Oh man, Will Truman you have surely fallen for that obnoxious woman' he thought to himself.

He took off his coat, suit jacket and loosened his tie before he went to his bedroom and sat down in bed, opening his laptop and going online.

"You've got mail" the electronic voice said.

He was nervous, should he open it now or never? If he never opened it, she would surely be heartbroken and wonder where he had gone. If he opened it, he might get heartbroken. What if she said no to ever seeing him, what if she hated him for suggesting they would meet? What if .. ? There were many "What if" but he didn't open it, he would never get the answers he sought after and he wanted those. He took a deep breath and pressed the button to open his mailbox.

While reading it, he felt sad that she didn't want to see him. In a way he also felt relieved, he wouldn't have to face her just yet.

"Will, I'm hungry" he heard Grace's voice from the livingroom.

He rolled his eyes, closed his laptop and went to the kitchen.

"So, what did she write?" Grace asked.

"That she doesn't want to meet me" Will said with a neutral voice.

"I don't think that's true actually" Grace said and smiled at him.

"What do you mean?"

"She came to the office really early today, it freaked me out. It showed though that she had a weird dream last night and couldn't go back to sleep once she had woken up. She said something about dreaming about a guy, someone who she thought both sounded and looked familiar but she couldn't put her finger on who he was."

"Really?"

"Yeah, and I watched her all day, she was smiling like a geek sometimes when she was staring out in the blue, of course she usually does that anyway, but this time it was something different."

"How do you connect that to she wanting to meet me?"

"Well, I bet that the guy she dreamed about is you."
"What? No way. It was probably just Jack" he said and smirked when he figured out what he had just said.

"No no, I tell you it's you she dreamed about. I didn't say anything to her of course, but it was really hard. Will, you have to get going, I don't know how much longer I can keep my mouth shut."

"Now Grace you promised to keep your mouth shut" Will said and pointed at her warningly with his index finger.

"Yeah I know, but you know me."

"Yes I do and you have to keep your mouth shut, not even a mistaken slip can escape, you hear me?" Will said firmly.

"OK, I will try, I promise to try, that's all I can promise."

"You have to really make an effort then" Will sighed.

He went on to make dinner, leaving Grace to herself for a little while. While making dinner, his thoughts were on Karen. What was she doing right now? Was she alone? Was she drinking her martini? OK that last question was stupid because he knew that one, but the other questions, what about them?

The urge of emailing her became to strong and he left the food on the stove and turned off the heat to go into his bedroom and email her.

"Hey, where are you going? I'm hungry" Grace complained when he left.

"Then do it yourself" Will said and went to his bedroom.

"Oh man, I hope he gets it on soon" Grace sighed and went to the stove to fix dinner.

Will sat down on his bed, opened his laptop and went online again.

Dear Smistress

I'm sad to hear that you don't want to meet me, but I understand. We did agree on not talking anything personal, and meeting would definitely cross that line.

I do however someday want to meet you, if you are up for it that is. Hey, maybe I'll dream about you if you dream about me, how's that? Then we wouldn't actually have to meet in real life, just in our dreams. Are you up for that?

Anyway, I really do enjoy this friendship online and I too want to continue with these emails. They always seem to brighten my day, even if it already is bright.

Until next time

I'm yours

Hatlawyer

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