“Hey, Shane, where’s your friend Will been lately? She’s usually in by now. Cappucino with a little vanilla essence,” Kit pondered. She had remebered it when Will had first ordered. Seemed strange to Kit but the customer was always right. Besides those rich types always had intersting foods and weird beverages anyway. Will had looked a bit down that day and Kit hadn’t had time to see how she was due to her doctor’s appointment. Lara had told Kit she couldn’t help but mother people and Kit was slowly beginning to agree with her.

“I don’t know,” Shane started now thinking about her friend. It had been a while since she had run into her and she had normally seen her at least once a day. She had tried going around to the beach house to see her but it had been surrounded by red and blue lights and no one seemed to be there otherwise. Shane had decided whatever was going on she could ask Will about it later and had left. Now, however, she had wished she had pursued the conversation.

“I’m sure she’s fine,” Carmen reassured her watching the concern in Shane’s eyes. “She’ll probably call you in a few days and tell you the world is going to end or something,” Carmen told her. She didn’t think much of Will. The way Shane had described her she sounded more like a know-it-all than anything else that hid away from the world in rehab when poor little rich girl didn’t get her way. Carmen drank deeply from her coffee as she listen to Shane chuckle.

“Yeah she probably would,” Shane smiled. It would be just the sort of the Will would say. ‘Hey Shane the world is ending. You want to go crash a Metallica concert?’ But Shane couldn’t help but wonder, where is Will?

The office building buzzed. Phones rang off the hook and people dashed over the computers and type writers while hanging onto their recievers with only one side of their head. Mark stood outside Ms. Gerry’s door and took a deep breath before he composed himself. He knocked on the door before a small reply was uttered. Gripping the nob he turned it slowly and entered the room.