"If anything," She continued, "why don't you tell me what's happening with your job?"
"What about my job?"
"Is everything well?"
"Yes," Grace answered, the volume of voice getting low as she did, "why would it not be?"
She knew, and grace knew that she was just buying herself, a little bit of time before her grandma would snap, and tell her that. How did she even know was the question?
"Liar!" Lorelai spat. "How dare you lie to me?! While you were out deciding to drink yourself, I found out the stuff you had left on the table. You brought everything you had in that office home and you expected me to find out? Especially when you left them out in the open."
Embarrassed, Grace looked down on her lap. While the corporate world may be understandable to a lot of people, her grandmother was a stranger to it. How was she supposed to explain what had happened to her grandmother and how no matter what she did, she still had to be let go.
