Chapter 2

Once more, the corridor outside Will's office was filled with the sound of high-heels. Grace briskly walked towards her best friend's door, hoping to have caught him before he left for lunch. But before she could open the door, Will's secretary, Lisa, stopped her.

"Are you looking for Mr Truman?" she asked quickly.

"Ah...yeah. I was just going in to see him." Grace replied, somewhat confused by the secretary's questions. She'd never stopped her going into his office before. Usually she just let Grace walk straight in. What was going on? "Why, is there a problem?"

Lisa hastily looked at the door then at Grace again.

"Yes…ahh…he's not in. He went out about twenty minutes ago."

"Oh…well, where did he go?"

"He didn't say. I think it was a meeting with a client."

Something wasn't right, Grace thought to herself. "He didn't tell me about it this morning." She said, her hand on the door handle ready to open.

Lisa saw this and rose from her chair, slowly making her way to the door. "Well, it was an emergency…he said something about a will. I'll tell him you stopped by though when he comes back."

Grace still wasn't happy but this woman clearly wanted her gone for whatever reason. She released the handle and started to move away. "Well…ok. Tell him that he needs to meet me at 3 back at home because I need help with my outfit for tonight."

"I'll tell him."

"Ok then…bye…"

Lisa watched as Grace walked down the hall and just as the elevator doors closed, she knocked once, opened Will's office door and walked in.

"Are you looking for Mr Truman?"

The sudden voice caused Karen and Will to leap up from the desk where they were now lying. The heated kiss had lead them to Will's desk where he had swept everything aside with one swift movement of his arm and Karen had pulled him back onto her. But now they were panicking. Will hastily picked up his shirt off the floor as Karen buttoned hers up and tried to fix her hair. Neither of them said a word as they scrambled to look half way decent for whoever they guessed would be coming in the door at any moment.

"Ah…yeah. I was just going to see him."

Grace. They both stopped as they heard Grace's light hearted voice on the other side of the door. Guilt soared through Will's body, haunting him to his very core. What if she'd walked in on them? How would…how could he have explained it to her? He couldn't even explain it to himself. They dressed silently and as quickly as they could, praying she wouldn't open the door. Finally, after what seemed like a lifetime, they heard her say goodbye and walk away.

Karen opened her mouth to speak after heaving a huge sigh of relief but the door opened and Lisa walked in.

She looked at them both knowingly. Karen's blouse was buttoned up wrong and Will had a red lipstick stain on his shirt collar. The mess of papers on the floor showed exactly that what she had thought she heard happening, did in fact take place.

"I…"

Will started to speak but Lisa cut him off. "Don't. Don't explain. I don't want to know. Just…forget about it. Mr Truman, Grace was just here. She was looking for you. She said meet her at home at 3."

"Umm…thanks, Lisa. Thank you so much." He couldn't think of anything else to say. She had obviously heard them together from her desk outside. She didn't say anything as she turned and walked out of the door, closing it behind her.

Will turned to Karen, who was looking straight at him with tears in her eyes.

"I…I'm sorry." She whispered.

This took Will by surprise. Shouldn't he be apologising to her? But Karen continued. "If Grace had walked in…" she couldn't say what would have happened. "…I'm just…I'm so sorry."

"No, Karen, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have…I mean, I never…fuck, I don't even know what to say."

She smiled slightly, "Me neither. Strange, isn't it? The two people who usually have something to say…"

He nodded but said nothing. They stood in silence for a few minutes before Karen voiced the inevitable question.

"So what do we do now?"

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