It's been a week since Juli has spoken to Harvey about what happened. She can't help but feel she's caused a rift between the only person, other than Mike, that she has managed to get close to.
Juls sits at a table in the copy room, sifting through a massive amount of papers.
Mike walks in, "So this is where they have you hidden today." The truth is, she's been finding obscure places to hide out at work, seeing Harvey is too difficult.
"Yeah, sweet set up huh?" Mike just laughs.
"Shit, I forgot my copy card… do you have yours?" Juli tosses her card to Mike.
"Thanks Juls. Oh, hey. Harvey and I are going to grab some lunch soon, do you want to come with?"
I am hungry, but damnit… "Yeah, just let me know when, and I will come with y'all. Are you eating there? Or bringing it back?"
"Probably bringing it back, my desk looks like yours, I don't know if I can afford to leave for too long."
"Okay, sounds good, Call me?"
"You betcha, here's your card. See you later." Mike leaves the copy room, Juli puts her head down on the table, and what the hell am I doing? Juli, you're an adult; start acting like it. You can't avoid Harvey forever.
As Juli sits with her head down on the desk, Louis walks in.
"I'm sorry, am I paying you for nap time?"
Juli jolts up, "Oh my! Sorry, I was just…"
"I don't really care what you're doing. Just get back to work."
Harvey is passing by the copy room when he hears Louis' voice.
"Louis, there you are." Harvey walks into the room and sees Juli sitting at the desk.
"Hello Julianne." Louis is starting to get irritated.
"You were looking for me Harvey?"
"I know I can't believe it myself. I need your opinion on something."
Louis, looking very suspicious asks, "What it is?"
"I have the case in my office, join me?" Harvey leads Louis out of the copy room and sends him on the way to his office. Harvey, however, steps back into the copy room to talk to Juli.
"Hey, are you avoiding me?"
"What? No, not at all."
"Sure seems like it and you answered me mighty quick there."
"I'm just busy, but I am going with you and Mike to grab lunch later. Would I do that if I were trying to avoid you?"
"I guess not, see you later." Harvey hurries out of the office and catches up to Louis before he realizes Harvey was missing.
"I'm going to go use the restroom before we head back to the office, mind holding this Juls?" Mike says while handing Juli his bag full of food.
Harvey watches as Mike enters the restroom, "So… how are you doing?"
"I'm good. Louis has been giving me an insane amount of work lately, it's terrible."
"Ah, the life of being an associate, an encouraging thought? It doesn't get easier when you're a partner."
"Ha! Thanks, makes me feel loads better!" Juli fiddles with the bags in her hands, she's incredibly nervous.
Harvey gives Juli a look, a look that Juli loves, a half smile and she swears there is a slight twinkle in his eye. "What?"
"Can I come over tonight Juls?" he steps closer, "I know you're trying to avoid me, don't lie, but I don't want this to continue, the not talking." Harvey grabs her hand, and squeezes it.
"Of course you can. As for avoiding you, I'm sorry." Harvey checks for Mike and then kisses Juli's cheek.
The minute Juli gets home from work she heads straight to her bedroom. She cannot wait to get out of her clothes. Immediately she takes her skirt and blouse off. Rummaging through her dresser drawer, Juli finds her favorite pair of Cal sweat pants and puts on a loose fitting tank top.
Now that she has changed her clothes, it's time to do something about the hair. Juli walks over to the vanity that she has placed on the right side of her bed, and sits down. She proceeds in taking the bobby pins out of hair, the ones that have been giving a slight headache all day. Taking a minute to rub her head, Juli sits and enjoys how good it feels to not have the pins in her hair. Afterwards, she takes her hair and wraps it into a messy bun and plops it on top of her head.
Just as she finishes, she hears a knock at the door. Juli rushes to answer it.
Before she can say anything, Harvey wraps his arms around her and they both get lost in a passionate embrace.
"What was that for?" Juli says, with stars in her eyes.
"That was for making me wait so long to kiss you. I've missed you." Harvey gives her another kiss and then walks into her apartment.
"Harvey, I don't know what to say. Are you we going to be okay?"
"Yeah, we are. It just took me by surprise. I didn't think I'd have to worry about you being off with another guy."
"You said yourself you weren't a relationship kind of guy, if I thought for a minute this was going to be something serious, that would have never happened."
"I know Juli, that's why I can't get mad at you. I can't expect a beautiful woman such as yourself to not seek attention from another man when I can't be there to give you what you need."
"That's not what happened though Harvey; I am not that kind of girl. I don't sleep around. That's why I told you… that's why I am… fuck."
Harvey laughs, "What?"
"We're both contradicting ourselves, ya see that?"
"How do you mean?"
"You tell me you aren't the relationship type, implying that there can't and won't be an attachment here. But when you find out I've slept with another man, you get angry. Which is… cute, but it goes against what this is supposed to be. Then me, I tell you, you can't get me into bed any time you want, but yet I go to bed with some man I don't really even know. Wow, we're really messed up here."
"Then let's just be messed up together." Grabbing her hand and pulling her closer, "what do you say?" Harvey kisses Juli.
"What are we, exactly? Because honestly, we hardly know each other, but we have this strong attraction to one another."
"I don't know what we are. We shouldn't label each other boyfriend, girlfriend, but we can't really say we're just dating… it's more than that. I want more than that. But like I said, I'm married to my job; I can't make a formal commitment to you…"
Juli smiles, she's so glad she didn't ruin this with Harvey. Juli grabs his hand and leads him to the room.
"Juli… are you sure?"
Juli starts to take off her clothes, "I've never been so sure of anything in my entire life."
Juli gets out of bed and throws on Harvey's button up shirt and heads out to the kitchen.
While making the pot of coffee, Juli can't help but smile from ear to ear. This is how my life is supposed to be: great job, great guy, great everything, no complications.
"Juli?" Harvey hollers from the bedroom.
"In the kitchen," she hollers back. Harvey stumbles out of the bedroom and kneels on a sofa chair and faces the kitchen.
"Coffee, thank God. I definitely will need an energy boost this morning." Juli grins and walks over and kisses him.
"Last night, was great."
"It was, you under estimate yourself Juls, you are… incredible in bed."
Juli starts to blush, immediately.
While wrapping her arms around his neck, she says, "I am pretty sure I won't be able to keep my hands off you anymore."
Harvey opens his shirt on her and slips his arms around her waist, he kisses her collar bone.
"You shouldn't do that."
"Why?"
"You know why, and after our marathon session last night, I don't know if I can handle another time."
Harvey opens his mouth to answer, but there is a knock at the door.
"Who would be coming to your place, this early?" Juli glances at the clock, 6:00am, who would be coming to my place this early?
Juli walks over to the door, and looks through the peep-hole.
"Shit! It's Greg!"