So here is the first chapter of the sequel. I am not gonna lie. I had no idea how to end the first. I wanted to start with Charlie in college and start getting her freedom of being an adult and in college without being at Harvey's. You will see some reoccurring characters as well.

"I miss you, Mikey. I still love you."

Her sorrowful words still rang in my head more than six months later. I could tell she still loved me even if we hadn't uttered a word to each other since her escapade at NYU. Every now and again, I'd get a glimmer of a look from her—just letting me know she still cared. Even as the days grew into months, I still replayed her words. I could still see every text and hear her voice from every call. My memory wasn't going to let her go as easily as I led Harvey to believe.

Within that time, Charlie stopped coming around the firm. A lot of the time when I saw her, it was because I dropped by Harvey's on my way home to drop off some case files or something he needed. Then, I would get a sight of her. She'd give me the same look no matter what she had been doing. That same wide-eyed expression that made me think of a doe in headlights. It looked surprised that I had noticed her (not that I couldn't help but to notice her) and that look of nearly coming to tears. Charlie had taken the reprimanding from Harvey with stride—or so I heard. She knew it was coming anyway. My guess was that she was mentally preparing for it as Ray drove her back to Harvey.

I tried ignoring what Donna and Harvey were saying about Charlie at the firm. She had graduated with nearly top honors and a hefty scholarship to NYU. I was proud of her and wanted to show it to her, but with no way to show it personally. I was still scared I would be fired if I had given her even a card. Harvey was still peeved about that, and I couldn't blame the guy. Thankfully, Donna had gotten a card and had me sign it for her; in turn, I wrote a small note hoping she still remembered I still loved her too.

I was working in my office when I started hearing Harvey and Donna talk about moving Charlie into her dorm and how they were going to make the time to do it. I knew for a fact that it was more than likely going to end with me working more while Donna and Harvey took the day off to move her in. As much as I wanted to be there and see her off, I knew better. I knew better than to look in her direction anymore. It hurt, but I knew why it had to be like this.

"Mike, I need you to make sure these briefs and files are proofread, retyped and ready to go by Monday. No exceptions," Harvey said as he flopped about six files onto my desk.

I stared at them for a moment before looking up to him. "Anything else?" I asked a little more shortly than what I wanted.

Harvey raised his eyebrow at the tone I didn't mean to give. "No, unless you want me to send Louis your way."

"No," I said as I shook my head, "I can get to work on this right away."

"Good, you should have plenty of time tomorrow while Donna and I are out of the office."

I couldn't help the look I gave Harvey. "Both of you are going to be out of the office?"

Harvey nodded. "Yeah, Charlie is moving into her dorm and Donna wasn't going to let me off the hook and she wanted to help her move in," he said with a small sigh that could either mean that he didn't want to drop Charlie off or that Donna gave him a lecture about how he needed to be a good dad to her and help her ease into this part of life. I was thinking the lecture, knowing Donna, she would have guilted him into it with using Robin, Charlie's recently deceased mom, as leverage and hadn't even come close to the tears when Harvey cracked.

I nodded, feeling the pang in my chest. If I could, I would have been there with Charlie in a heartbeat. I would have helped her move in and then some. Hell, if I could, I would have made sure that she was comfortable before leaving her. But, since Harvey knew about us and made us break up, I couldn't have any contact with her.

"Have fun doing that," I said dryly as I looked at one of the files and started highlighting parts of it.

Harvey nodded, leaving me to my own devices for the rest of the day.