Chapter 8
[This Ride We're On]
"hold on, wait until that lone sun
breaks from the arms of the lord
hold on, though we may be too young
to know this ride we're on"
[ben howard - depth over distance]
It's been almost a week since Jenn's major confession slash breakdown slash I don't know and I would be lying if I said that everything was back to "normal". Normal for our standards, of course.
It was saturday morning, 10 AM. Harvey and I decided to sleep in after a long week that came straight from hell and we were standing in the bathroom, getting ready for the day dead slow. Again, for our standards of course. And we were from New York after all, so slow is a very subjective adjective.
"We need to do something, all she does is sitting in her room regretting her mistake and letting it eat her up inside. We have to help her!" Harvey started to debate before putting his tooth brush in his mouth. I was standing right next to him brushing my hair but instantly stopped when I started to see through his plan. The Pearson Specter big anniversary tonight.
"We can't take her with us. She's gonna cause trouble again, I can feel it. She doesn't know anyone and she's not a big fan of lawyers, don't take that personally." I patted his shoulder and it was his turn to stop what he was doing. He spit out the toothpaste and gave me a look of doom.
"She's your sister. She has you and me to talk to and Louis will definitely hit on her. She will find someone to talk to. She desperately needs a change, Donna." Knock knock, the lawyer in him is scratching the surface again.He knew he had already convinced me. Or in other words, he knew that I already started feeling guilty. That was the thing with us, if we had to use words, the battle's already lost. Even though we never ever lose. But hypothetically speaking. He put his hands on my waist, pulling me closer to him.
"She apologised already. She can't undo what she did but at least she's trying. Give her a second chance." I laughed out and shook my head.
"Oh wow, may I present: Harvey Reginald Specter, master of forgiving Ex-Whores."
"Well, I'm a master at a lot of things" he winked, giving me the trademark smile. And that's when it got uncomfortable. Neither of us wanted to jump the gun on getting our thing to the next level and Harvey did everything within his power to convince me of his change of mind. But apparently that included waiting for me to say anything about it, giving my permission or whatever which resulted in the both of us being sexually frustrated but still, we were too insecure to make the first move. Wow, so mature.
"I'm sure you are" I gave back, successfully covering the insecurity on my part and trying to push our little talk in the right direction.
"You know..," he's stuttering. Good sign. "Maybe we have some time for.. . After the party." Shy Harvey was the cutest thing I've ever seen and I tried my best to contain my excitement over this. Great, now I'm gonna spend the whole evening even more frustrated and anxious (in a good, no scratch that. In an amazing way) to get home.
"I'm pretty damn sure we will." I whispered into his ear, letting my mouth linger right next to his ear for a little while longer. His hand made his way down my back torturously slow until he finally put both of his hands in the back pockets of my high wasted jeans. The gentleman's way of touching your girlfriends ass, I guess. I brought my face right in front of his again, our lips millimetres apart now.
"So that's settled then," he whispered huskily against my lips and I tried desperately to control my brain, my legs and every single body part of mine. I simply kissed him, figuring that this was enough of an answer.
"OH MY GOOOSH, DOOONNAA! HAAARVEY!" Jenn's shriek made us both jump apart. And it probably woke up the whole city but it sounded like she just found a dead body in our bathtub so we ran to her guest bathroom as fast as we could, mentally preparing ourselves for what we were about to see.
"What?" I yelled totally flustered by the whole thing.
"There's. there's a . a . a spider in the bathtub. GET IT OUT! GET IT OUT!"
I was pretty sure we just got pranked and Harvey's troubled facial expression only supported my suspicion.
"DO SOMETHING, I'M GONNA DIE IF THAT THING STAYS THERE!"
I only shook my head. I didn't need to cause a scene because of a spider but I was definitely not touching that creature created of satan in person. Definitely not.
"Harvey!" I pointed at him. "Your turn to shine."
"I'm not touching that thing, forget it." He pouted like a six year old. But I was Donna after all. I always had a plan.
"Do you remember what we just mutually agreed on? If you don't get rid of that thing, you're gonna sleep alone in that damn bed tonight!" Bam, that worked.
"Ask her!" he grumbled while he went to get rid of it.
"Ask her what?" Jenn cocked her head and simply looked at me.
"Tonight's the firm's anniversary. And, well, we know you're beating yourself up for what happened and we were wondering if you might wanna join us tonight?"
"I'd love to" she whispered and hugged me tightly. "Thanks, Donna."
"Well, I can't take the credit for this one. It was Harvey's plan to get you out of the house."
She laughed now and we turned around to see if the deadly creature already bit his head off. We didn't really come to a conclusion. They were still fighting.
— wherever this goes —
"You never told me you had a twin sister!" Rachel said without even greeting me.
"Hi sweetie, nice to see you too!" I answered in a slightly sarcastic tone. Sorry for that, Rach.
"Hi" Rachel gave back. "But seriously, why didn't you tell me? Having a twin is like the most amazing thing ever!"
"i don't know, I wanted to start over when I came to New York and I never told anyone about her or my family in general. Even Harvey didn't know. Do you have any idea where she is right now?" I gratefully took my two glasses of scotch from the barman and tried to find Jenn in the crowd. She was nowhere to be found, of course but I forced myself to not give a shit at the moment. She was grown up and didn't need a babysitter.
"I saw her like 10 minutes ago, don't know where she's now though"
"She'll come back to me sooner or later. Come on, let's go back to Harvey and Mike."
She followed me reluctantly, I knew damn well that things weren't great between Rachel and Mike but they had to talk eventually. And I was going to help the kid and my best friend to reunite. As good as I could handle it for them. I stopped dead in my tracks when we got closer to Harvey. Mike was nowhere to be seen as well and Harvey was talking to a certain someone. A certain someone I didn't miss at all. Rachel was smart enough to flee from the scene and left me standing there, ready to attack. You're awesome, you're hot, she's got nothing on you.
"Scottie!" I faked a polite smile and handed Harvey his Scotch. "What brings you back to New York?"
"Just checking if everything' okay here." that was probably her attempt to ease the already tense atmosphere. But a lousy one.
"Scottie was just telling me about a new client of hers and she was about to ask me something?"
"Yep, I wanted to know if you wanted to join forces on this one. I know we had our difficulties in the past…" Seriously, bitch?
"Difficulties?!" I couldn't help it, this woman was just unbelievable.
"That's what you call difficulties?! You literally destroyed him after you left and why did you leave in the first place? Oh right, because you fucked up, Scottie. And now you're crawling back to him and need to join forces? What the hell is wrong with you? Do you even have a bit of your dignity left?!" We were standing there in silence for a couple seconds.
"Oh I see, sleeping with your secretary now, Harvey. How classy!"
So bitch had some attitude. Second attack needed, I guess.
"Look honey, first: it's executive assistant. Secondly, this is not some filthy affair like, may I point out, you two have had in the past. We're together now and it's pretty serious. Lat year you've asked me if I was in love with him and to answer that question right now: Yes, I was and I am. It never worked out with the two of you and it never will, so please, just get over it and walk away!"
And that was it. Scottie nodded her head with a hurt look on her face and Harvey simply stood there, staring at his glass of Scotch. She then just went away, glancing at Harvey one more time and left us standing there with a giant elephant in the room. Did I feel bad about what I did? Yes. Would I do it again? Yes!
"What the hell was that, Donna?" he cursed, a hurt look on his face just like on Scottie's.
"That was me telling her off. You know I was right and I don't really get why you didn't even say a single word to defend me! I thought we're together now and last time I checked that doesn't include being ashamed of your girlfriend. I'm sorry I'm not a lawyer, Harvey!"
"That has nothing to do with it and you know it! I am not ashamed of you, the opposite actually but she's a huge part of my past, Donna. And if you like it or not, she was my girlfriend and yes, she made mistakes. But so did I and she didn't do anything wrong tonight! So yes, I am pissed at you for telling her off like that!"
I couldn't believe what he was saying. Did he really just defend his ex-girlfriend? The one who left him shattered in pieces the last time he saw her? I shook my head in disbelief, making my way through the crowd and leaving him standing there. I needed space, I needed silence and I couldn't stand to even look at Harvey right now. I stormed to the elevator, made my way to the file room and forcefully pushed open the door. And I instantly wished I hadn't. I was shocked, to say the least. And utterly disgusted.
"Well, that's kind of a dejá-vú, Jenn." I spat out and left the room without even closing the door. This evening couldn't have gotten any worse.
So who was in the file room with Jenn? I know it's evil leaving you hanging right there but the next chapter's coming soon, I promise! Leave me some feedback with suggestions please, I really need it to keep going!
I needed the workaround to tell you something about Jenn's background and it was too much to put it in this chapter and not enough to make a normal length chapter out of it. So that's that.
Harvey & Donna are kind of having there first fight we all knew that this had to happen. I try to make this story as fluffy as possible but I have to put in some drama in return.
Have a nice evening my honey bunnies! xx L