Keeping Up Appearances

If anyone were to ask him how his weekend had gone, Derek's answer would be something along the lines of "It was very productive. I attended a few functions, played some golf, and at the end of it I made quite a few useful connections, and they should all prove to be very beneficial in the future," And while he had done all of that, and had not told a single lie in the statement, he would have been lying by omission. 

The truth was that Derek's weekend had been awful, and all of the events that he had attended had been a way to get his mind off the situation with Emily. And that when he had gone to play golf, he had been in terribly bad form. More interested in attacking the grass than in actually hitting the ball.

The whole time all that he had been thinking about had been Emily. How she was? Where she was?