Jessica Zane/Rachel Pearson
Rachel pulled into the parking garage, once she swiped the card, opening up the parking garage door.
She found a parking spot in the garage, then once parked, turned off the engine.
Moving towards the mirror in the car, Rachel checked out how she looked before getting out of Jessica's car and heading in to the firm.
"God, I love this dress! It looks amazing on Jessica!" Rachel said as she looked in the car mirror.
"Jessica's wardrobe is a thousand times better than mine! Really all of her outfits are fantastic! They have to be! Not any one of her outfits are less than three-hundred dollars! Not one of my outfits is even two-hundred!" Rachel continued, talking to herself.
"This really is a gift in disguise! I shouldn't be so worried about switching back! This is what I wanted! To be Jessica Pearson and now I am! I'm now a Harvard law graduate that own and run the most successful law firm in New York, that has a wardrobe any women would die for, an endless supply of money, my own fancy car and a huge house, plus the kind of body I've always wanted! So what if I'm a few years older and skipped the "working" part? This is your dream life!" Rachel told herself.
"But I do miss having Mike in my life and Donna too! Twelve years is a lot of life to lose too… Fuck! I don't know what I want!" Rachel admitted to herself.
Rachel grabbed Jessica's purse, putting the car key back in the purse, then opened the car door, getting out, then closing and locking the car.
She began walking towards Pearson Hardman, hoping to herself, she could pull off being Jessica Pearson for another day.
Once she made it to the front door of the firm, she unlocked the door with the key to the building, opening it up, walking inside, and turning on the lights.
When Rachel made it to Jessica's office, she sat down on Jessica's fancy office chair, putting Jessica's purse in one of the bigger drawers inside Jessica's office desk, then turned on her computer to see her schedule for the day.
Looking at Jessica's schedule, Rachel was a little more nervous than yesterday, when her eyes made her way to 11 AM on the schedule.
"Meeting with Jan from Chrysler. Major client." Rachel read out loud from Jessica's schedule.
"Shit! She's trying to bring in a major company for the firm today?!" Rachel said rather loud.
Rachel was nervous and a little frightened, knowing she had to do this. Bringing in a client this huge would be a big deal to the firm and maintain as well as boost Jessica's reputation. Rachel had never brought in a client, since she had no firm, nor was she even a lawyer, just a paralegal. Though Rachel did have one thing going for her… she had studied law for years on her own through her father's law books from Harvard. Rachel felt if she could take a test that proved she was capable of being a lawyer, she'd likely pass.
"You can do this, Rachel! You can do this! You're not just a paralegal! You're Jessica Pearson! You're the managing partner of Pearson Hardman! You're a lawyer!" Rachel told herself, trying to calm herself down.
She eventually calmed down, then finishing reading the schedule, which wasn't anything that Rachel knew would be too much of a challenge.
A few hours later, Rachel completed the things listed on Jessica's schedule prior to 11 AM. She looked at the clock, seeing it was 10:15.
"Fuck! I only got 45 minutes!" Rachel told herself.
Rachel dug up all the information she could find about the company, then began thinking of ideas on how to persuade Jan so that she'd let her company be represented by Pearson Hardman.
It was now 10:55 AM, five minutes before Jessica's meeting with Jan was to begin.
She made her way towards the conference room that the meeting was scheduled to take place in. While waiting in the room, she kept going over ideas, while thinking positive that she could pull this off.
At exactly 11 AM, she saw one of Pearson Hardman's secretaries walking with a blonde woman that looked to be in her 40s towards the conference room Rachel was in.
"Ms. Pearson. Jan is here for the 11 o'clock meeting you've had scheduled." The secretary told Rachel.
"Thank you." Rachel told the secretary.
"Please come in." Rachel next, told Jan.
"Thank you, Ms. Pearson. I've heard such high praise from you and your firm, frankly I wouldn't have even scheduled a meeting, I'd just have employed you for my company, but they insist I go through the process." Jan said to who she thought was Jessica Pearson.
"Well that should help make things a little less stressful." Rachel thought to herself.
"Thank you. I understand the process has to be respected." Rachel replied with a smile.
During the half hour meeting, Rachel was asked various questions by Jan from Chrysler. She responded based on how she thought Jessica Pearson would and what she had known about the firm, which was pretty much everything, since she had worked there for three years and had researched the firm, even before applying for her paralegal job there as well. Rachel felt she made a few slight mistakes and was a little worried until she received an answer from Jan.
"Well Ms. Pearson, everything you've told me sounds good for us! We'd love to be your new client!" Jan told Rachel.
Rachel was enthused, hearing that she had won the company over.
"If I can do something as big as this, I can do anything as Jessica Pearson! I can be her without screwing this life of hers up!" Rachel thought to herself, ecstatic with herself.
"That's great!" Rachel said, possibly a little too excited. "We'd be honored to represent a company like yours!"
Rachel then took out the papers out of the folder she had brought in, for Jan to sign to confirm the firm and Chrysler were now in business together.
"Just sign these and will be in business!" Rachel said with a great, big smile.
Jan took the papers and signed each of them.
Once Jan finished signing the papers, Rachel wrapped up the meeting, with Jan heading out of the firm.
Rachel when back into Jessica's office feeling the best she had ever felt in her life.
"I love my new life! Being Jessica Pearson is fucking great! This is the life I've always wanted!" Rachel thought to herself, still ecstatic.
"I've never felt as good as I do now than I ever did as Rachel Zane!" Rachel continued, thinking to herself, but then the negatives popped back into her head.
"I can get over not being able to be with Mike, right? There's got to be so many other guys out there that are as amazing as him! Though with Jessica's older body, I can't get men Mike's age!" Rachel thought to herself, realizing she couldn't go out with Mike in Jessica's body nor was it likely she could get a man in his late twenties like Mike.
"Wait! Jessica told me about this Jeff guy that I have to call him and ask to dinner! He could be really great! Even if he's Jessica's age… he could still be a sweet and handsome guy like Mike! I'll have to give him a call after work…" Rachel continued, thinking to herself, open to the idea of Jessica's love interest.
After thinking to herself about her life as Jessica, Rachel eventually got back to work, completing the things listed on Jessica's schedule for the rest of the day.