Donna's sister from back home

Part 15

It's now night time and I am still at PH. Rachel left early today and said I could use her office to do my work. Right now I'm bring some files Harold forgot to bring me back to the office. I walk past a conference room and see Mike, he seems to be watching a video of some kind. I walk in and he looks up, "Hey." I look at the video, "you're studying up to break the house?" He looks at the remote, "counting drinks." I give him a confused look, "don't most people count cards?" I let out a small laugh and he looks up at me and smiles. Then he looks back to the screen, "it's a thing. Ah, right there you see that? drink number 15."

He writes that down and I give him a strange look, "your client? That's awful." He looks up from his notepad, "no, no, no, it's good. We're even putting his in rehab. To help nullify his contract." I put my had over my heart, "touching. Harvey truly cares about his clients." Mike smiles, "uh-uh-uh, my idea." I smile, "well, you're really coming along."

He laughs and then looks back at the screen, "what are you doing here so late?" I fix my hair, "working with Louis." He gives me a confused look, "I'm sorry? With Louis?" I nod, "associate work. Turns out I'm really good. He, um...He replaced Harold with me." He smiles, "you really are good at everything. Maybe you should drop whatever job you got and come here." I laugh, "thanks for the offer but it would have to be a no. Us Paulsen's have bad luck here." Before he can say anything I leave with a smile on my face. He thinks I'm good at anything.

I spent the whole night In Rachel's office and I felt someone shake me awake, I look up to see Rachel, "Hey, I got you some clothes and coffee just the way you like it." I smile and take the coffee and clothes. I look at the outfit and smile. I am so lucky to have a friend like Rachel, who also knows how to dress herself. I say thanks and take the clothes and make my way to the ladies room. (outfit above.)

I pick up the files and the coffee. I walk up to Mike's cubical, "I am leaving my stuff here. Now if you touch that coffee I will kill you understand Ross?" He nods, "yep, loud and clear Paulsen." I walk away with my head held high.

I walk into Louis' office, "Louis, I finished." He looks me up an down, "you were here all night?" I put the files down on his desk. I look up at him confused, "you said you wanted everything by this morning, so here's everything on the lease agreements and all of the financials." I hand him the files, "oh, no, Sergei waltzed me through the financials earlier. Did you know that he danced with Nureyev?"

I nod, "I did. Um also... I found this." I hand him a piece of paper, "lead paint? Okay, this is... Excellent." I smile, "so you can use it." He looks up at me, "'use it'? we are gonna pas de deux all over their asses with it." I smile, "'we'?" He does a movement with his hand I curtsey, we smile and then his face goes straight again, "get out." I nod, "okay." I have a smile on my face as I walk out. I go back to the bullpen to see Mike is nowhere to be seen. I get my stuff and leave a note so he knows I was the one that took it.

I walk back to the library and start to read up on some points Louis could make in the meeting. My phone goes off I get a text. I look at it to see it's a unknow number. I read the text, 'hey it's Jake here. want to hang out soon?' How in the world did this guy get my number, 'only if you don't ask 200 questions about my job' He sends me the thumbs up emoji and we start to text more. Now before I know it I am going on a date in two days. I am now panicking because I have never been on a date before in public.