Chapter Fifteen

Diane's nervously waiting for her husband's call, who promised to report about his meeting with Miranda. The anticipation makes it impossible for her to concentrate on her work, the words, sentences she's reading make no sense, but she has to at least try to focus on them, doing nothing would only be worse.

If Miranda refuses Kurt again, he will surely insist on the lawsuit, which won't be pretty. Kurt will need all the support from Diane, and even though she is willing to give it to him right now, she isn't sure how long she can keep up this attitude until she collapses again. Fighting for a child who she secretly wishes had never been born, who is innocent in all this, but still she hates the idea of sharing Kurt with him.

On the other hand if Miranda lets Kurt into their life it would mean she has to share him with the kid and his mother even sooner. And it would also mean playing by Miranda's rules. And even though she only met the woman once in her life and she was as charming with her as she could be, Diane doesn't trust her. Maybe she kept her pregnancy in secret so Kurt can be happy with Diane and maybe she never wanted him to know not to mess up their marriage, but she will surely enjoy having him around and Diane will be the other woman.

But there is one thing she is sure of, she loves Kurt, she married him because she wanted to spend the rest of her life with him and she won't let anyone stand between them. And as long as Kurt feels the same way, she is sure they can work this out.

She doesn't regret changing her attitude. She might have been angry with him at first, for putting them into this situation, but it hasn't changed how she feels about him. And trying to get through it together is much better than shutting him out and suffering on her own.

When her cell phone rings she reaches for it hoping to see Kurt's name on the screen, but she reads another name instead, someone's who used to call her even more times a day, but hasn't called her in a long time. She hesitates whether or not she should answer, but in the end she decides to take the call.

"Hey."

"Hey, I hope I'm not calling at a wrong time," Will sounds insecure on the other end of the line.

"No, it's fine."

"I'd like to have a coffee with you one of these days, so we can talk."

She hardly believes her ears and she has no doubt what he wants to talk about is this silence between them and what happened in the past. It would be so much easer to just have a drink together, like in the old days when nothing and no one could really come between them.

She takes a few seconds to consider her reply, even though she feels there's only one right answer to his suggestion.

"All right. How about tomorrow after work?"

"Sounds perfect," he replies happily.

"There's a café here on the opposite side of the street. I can meet you there at 5."

"I'll be there."

"See you tomorrow."

She places her phone back on her desk wondering what could have triggered this call. Was it her hiding from him yesterday? She knows it was sort of stupid, but dealing with the news he brought for Kurt was enough for her at that time.

She thinks back on their last conversation months ago, when she went to see him and offer her help when he was about to lose the firm, but he not only refused her, he also told her what happened was her fault. It made her angry and she threw things at his head she never should have told him. She was very pissed when she left and decided to never look back again. Will brought this on himself, thinking he would be able to do it on his own, she wanted to feel for him, but he made it impossible.

For a few days she was sort of waiting for a call from him and contemplated to call him and try to talk about what happened, but neither of them called. She knew what happened to the firm later, that he almost went bankrupt when Patti offered her financial help and saved Will's ass. No matter how much feud has always been between the two of them, and how she seems to enjoy bossing over him, at least he is still a partner at a prestigious law firm.

But she knows he isn't happy like this, she saw how embarrassed he was when she visited his office. It was painful to see him in that small room, to know she has to put up with Patti's tantrums on a daily basis. She had tried to not think about him after their fight, to accept that their roads have separated for once and for all, but it's impossible to simply erase long years of friendship.

He has taken the first step and she appreciates the gesture more than she was able to show through the line. She feels that he is just as uncomfortable as her and it sounds so wrong. Their friendship and partnership meant a lot to her, she still misses those years of her life, misses him. And if he really wants it, she will be ready to end the awkwardness between them and start all over.