Hmm not so sure... oh what the hell!

Have fun watching Will squirm.

Tell It Like It Is

Chapter 5

If Will Darcy knew a way to become invisible he would probably spend his entire life that way.

"Will? Are you even listening to me?" Melanie asked smiling sweetly. That was one of the things Will loved most about Melanie, she never got angry or crude. If something upset her she'd save it for an appropriate time or place, but she made sure to never make a scene in public. At times like this, that was a very much appreciated trait.

"Huh?" Will snapped his attention back to his girlfr- fiancé and smiled. "Of course I am. What else would I be doing?" It just goes to show that Will had absolutely control of his body when his eyes automatically gazed back across the little café to the same two people that had occupied his thoughts.

"How am I supposed to believe that you're listening to me when I can clearly see you looking in the opposite direction?"

This time, Will couldn't even bring himself to force his eyes back to Melanie. It definitely wasn't that Melanie wasn't the most amazing person to look at, because believe Will, she is, with her shiny dirty blonde hair and gorgeous smile (not even to mention her perfect ten figure). No, it wasn't anything to do with Melanie at all in fact.

It was his little sister. Well, only partially his little sister. Primarily it was the girl that had followed his little sister into the café and now sat across from her with a smoothie in hand and the type of smile that Will could place even if he were blind.

Melanie was quickly becoming impatient. How dare anyone be preoccupied with anything but her, in her presence? "What are you even looking at?" she asked trying to angle her line of vision to see whatever it was Will was so intent on. All she saw was his sister and a plain looking girl that would easily blend into a crowd if it wasn't for her magnetic smile and familiar face.

"What's your sister doing with Lizzy Morgan?" she asked blankly.

"You know Lizzy Morgan?" Will asked as his attention quickly snapped back to his lunch companion.

Melanie shrugged and looked at him with quizzical eyebrows. "Ye-es. Is that some sort of problem?"

Will looked her up and down. On some sort of conscience level he took into account the giant ring on Melanie's finger and the binder she held in her lap filled with choices for their wedding invitations. He noted her confusion but didn't perceive a single note of jealousy. Then, automatically, he thought about Lizzy and his sister sitting at that nearby table and the entire multitude of things they could be discussing.

His mind immediately jumped to the worst.

"Under what circumstances did you meet Lizzy?" he asked slowly trying to keep his face as calm and blank as he possibly could.

Melanie smiled as if she too had just had an epiphany. "Will, are you into some sort of payola scandal?"

Will chuckled for a second. "You're not going to like what I'm about to tell you," he muttered once he'd finished his quick laugh and taken a deep breath, "but you should watch out for Lizzy. She and I have some… issues."

Melanie eyed him as if he'd just told an ostentatiously unbelievable lie. "You have issues with Lizzy Morgan?" To her it seemed more likely that Will would be caught up in a payola scandal rather than have a personal life with the rebellious radio host.

Will nodded once. "She's my ex girlfriend."

Melanie's entire face seemed to melt off her body. Her eyes turned down at the corners, her cheeks slumped, and her bottom jaw dropped all in one quick motion. Two thoughts first entered her mind. The first being: I just signed a book deal with my fiancé's ex. The second, of course: I am so much hotter than her.

Will tried waving his hand in front of her face to snap her back into reality. "It was seven years ago. She hadn't even picked her major, yet alone become successful."

He'd said it hoping to help but he hadn't thought that maybe that would make things worse. The thought, of him being with her before she even had a name to rely on or make her seem special, would only seem to make things worse had Melanie thought it.

Lucky for Will, Melanie couldn't get passed the Gap jeans and the thickness of Lizzy's thighs.

Eventually, once Melanie had fully weighed-up Lizzy and self pronounced her to be no more glamorous or hot than Melanie had thought her on their first meeting, she stood resolutely. "Well I think I should go say hello."

"What?" Will tried to grab her hand as she stood and pull her back into her seat. "Why?"

Melanie smiled again, in what Lizzy would love to call her pseudo-smile, and kissed Will softly on his shocked lips. "Because she's my client."

"Client?" he asked but the words had to chase her across the café as Melanie floated her way toward the window table where Georgie Darcy quickly hushed her companion's laughter.

"Lizzy Morgan I thought that was you!" Melanie said brightly as she finally reached the table.

Lizzy looked up at the woman and compulsively had to smirk. She tried to hide this as she cupped her face pretending to shade the sun from her eyes. "Oh hi" -Evil Sea Witch- "Melanie."

"Hello Mel," Georgie grumbled, not even bothering to play along. That was even so far out of Georgie's character that Melanie would have immediately called her out on it.

Melanie shot her a patronizing glare and didn't even bother with a greeting. "Will and I were just wondering-"

"Will?" Georgie asked suddenly very brightly.

"Yes he's over there." Melanie pointed across the café to where, once again, Will was practicing his art of invisibility.

Lizzy shot only a quick look across to Will then immediately made herself as small as she could in the confines of her chair. She hadn't laid eyes on Will Darcy since the day he'd told her about the horrible thing he had done and she'd slammed a door in his face amid a myriad of tears and yells. How could she now, after seven long years, just look him over as if nothing had happened? As if he were a stranger?

As Georgie got up, and practically carried her brother over to their table, Lizzy realized that in few seconds she would have to. How hard could it be? After all this time he practically was a stranger.

"Hello," Lizzy muttered trying furiously not to actually look at him.

Georgie sat back into her seat and Melanie pulled around a chair for herself and Will. "So tell me everything you have done for the book so far!" Melanie said excitedly and Lizzy remembered the mask she seemed to wear around people. I wonder what she looks like when she takes it off.

Will and Melanie sat as close to each other as is physically possible and Lizzy could tell, without even looking that their hands were clasped beneath the table. Once upon a time that had been my hand.

Georgie talked them through the next five minute, for which both Lizzy and Will were grateful, then Lizzy made a quick pardon and left as fast as she could and without ever even attempting to make eye contact with Will, nor Will to her.

As she left the café alone she wondered about the evil person that designed the world. Why is it so easy being in love and so hard to forget it?

But in the end it didn't really matter why life was so hard sometimes, because when she'd get back to her apartment she'd steal some of Corey's food (like she has the time or patience to grocery shop) and they both would watched all the chick-flicks a girl could ever dream of and moan about how unfair it is that the guy in "Never Been Kissed" got to be so hot while simultaneously helping Anya prep for a date with a stockbroker.

Some things in life really do get to come easy. And stay that way.

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Now help console me because I just found out the date of the end of my childhood. July 21. HP is over. I'll never be a kid again.