Christmas with Mulaney

•Day dreaming•

John takes his hands and rips off my dress. He throws me on the bed and runs his hands through his hair. I slowly unbutton his shirt revealing his handsome chest. Our body's were tangled together on the bed. Then John-

"Julia? Julia!" Cathy shouts snapping at me.

"Huh? Oh....I must have been day dreaming.." I say.

"Well we don't have time for daydreaming. This Christmas special is due in a week and if we don't finish it by then, we're toast!" Cathy continues to type quickly on her computer.

I continue drawing a new character, and working out a few tweaks.

"I don't want to sound rude or anything," Cathy looks up from her desk. "But why are you in the same clothes you were last night?"

"Oh. Well I lost track of time and ended up falling asleep at Johns place."

"Ooooo! Did anything happen?" Cathy perks up.

I give her a funny look. "What? No. Nothing happened."

John walks over to us to check our work.

"How's it going lady's?" John hovers over my desk looking at my design.

"Pretty good. This is coach Steve dressed as Santa clause." I point to my iPad.

"Eh you know Merry Christmas!" John does his best coach Steve impression.

Me and Cathy burst out into laughter.

"Stop your giving Nick a run for his money!" Cathy says sarcastically.

"Oh buy the way guys don't forget we have secret Santa. At the end of the day we'll all meet in the whiteboard room to pick names."

"That sounds so fun John!" I smile at him proud of his idea.

"Sounds great." Cathy chimes in.

"Hey Julia, there recording some scenes today for the special, do you want to come see the recording room?" John says.

"Sure I would love to."

He sticks out his hand for me to take it. I take his hand as he helps me up from my seat.

We continue walking down the hallway and I make some small talk.

"That's for letting me get ready at your place this morning. I feel really bad for intruding."

"It's no problem. I'm glad I just cleaned my bathroom." John elbows me.

"You know the only reason I came last night was to see Petunia."

"That's the only reason?" John smirks and turn his head at me.

"I think so."

We both walk into the booth to see Nick and Maya standing inside.

I give them both a little wave and they wave back.

"Here you can sit right here." John pulls a chair for me.

John points to the short man standing by the controls. "That's George. He helps with the sound in the show.

"Ok 3rd take of the snow scene."

George turns around and shushes both of us.

We nod and Nick and Maya start the scene.

There both so talented. I'm so lucky to be working with these people. I wish my dad were still alive. He never believed in me. And if he saw me now, working with these Emmy winning people, I just know he would say he's proud of me.

I was so sucked into the scene I didn't even realize that it had ended. Me and John both leave the room waving to Nick and Maya again.

The scene continued and it was finally time to pick names for secret Santa.

"ALRIGHT EVERYONE TIME TO PICK NAMES!!" Nick shouts from the whiteboard room.

Cathy, Nick, John and a few others walk into the room. I follow.

There was a hat sitting on the table with little slips of paper in them.

"Ok everyone I'm gonna pass the hat around and everyone can pick a name."

Each person picks a name but we're not allowed to look at it until we leave.

We all pick our names and and everyone heads home for the night.

I grab my purse and notice John at his desk looking a little down.

I walk over to him to see what was the matter.

"Hey John." I sit in the chair next to him.

"Oh. Hey Julia." He says in a quiet sad voice.

"Everything ok?" I rub his back as he sinks lower into his chair.

"I'm alright. I just-"
John take a big breath.

"If this Christmas special fails, we're not getting a season 5 of big mouth."

"What?!" I curl my eyebrows and frown.

"The producers just informed me. So if they don't like it, we're toast." John lays his head on the desk and closes his eyes.

"It's going to be ok. We're going to do everything we can to make this great." I lay my head next to Johns and gaze into his eyes. I stick my tongue out to make him laugh.

A tiny smile forms on his face.

"Your so silly." He giggles.

I sit up and nervously try to get something off my chest.
"Do you ever just....have dreams about someone? That....you don't like....but the dream was like....romantic."

"I suppose so." John sits up.

"Ok. Just making sure I wasn't the only one." I look at the ground.

"Who are you dreaming about?" John says curiously.

"Definitely not you if that's what your asking." I say.

"So it is me!" John shouts.

"Shhhh!" I put my hand over his mouth.

"No ones even here! They all left." John smiles.

"Oh."

"So back to this dream about me?" John says flirting with me.

"Oh just shut up and kiss me." I tackle John in his chair and kiss him passionately. We kiss and talk and cuddle in his office for the rest of the night. And of course, we end up both falling asleep there in each other's arms.