*In the conference room *

“How long is this meeting going to be? I’m starving,” Juliet whispered to Justin as they entered the conference room.

“Hopefully not too long,” Justin responded as his stomach growled, “Because I’m hungry too. We should do lunch,” Justin stated before stammering, “I mean…you know… um… if you wanted too.”

“Maybe we could do that… I’ll think about it and get back to you on how that makes me feel,” Juliet said as she watched Justin frown.

“Oh…okay,” he stated, as she had to keep herself from laughing at his deflating ego.

“J, I’m kidding,” she told him as he let out a sigh, “We can do that if you want too.”

“Don’t do that to me!” Justin stated as he pulled her to him, “Tell me you missed this too,” he said as his fingers ran through her hair as her arms wrapped around his waist.

“I did but J, we’re at work,” Juliet told him as she tried to pull away, patting his chest softly with her hand.

“Awww…. The lovebirds are back together. Now break apart before everyone gets here.” Trace told them as they broke away and took their respectful seats beside each other.

“Are you sure about this decision?” Juliet asked Trace and Justin. This decision was based on her and Thad’s evaluation of Tray so she hoped and prayed it was the right one.

“Yes we are. You did a great job in New York. Thanks for being our eyes and ears.” Trace told her, not once doubting their decision.

“You welcome. I just hope it was enough,” Juliet told them before Tray, Tom, and Shea made their way into the conference room.

“What is this meeting about?” Tom asked nervously.

“Well thanks for getting right to the point,” Justin said with a chuckle, making Juliet giggle, “We wanted to talk about Tray’s performance.

“What about my performance?” Tray snapped, causing Shea to reach out and touch his arm softly, a move that did not go unnoticed by all.

“Some things have been brought to our attention. For instance, some clothing from the new line went missing and ended up on Ebay. Also another rival clothing company was kind enough to call us when you tried to sell them some of our designs.” Trace told him as calmly as possible, trying to keep his cool.

“I never stole any designs or clothing!” Tray shouted rising from his seat and pointing at Juliet, “YOU! You lied to them and filled their heads with nonsense. Why can’t you just fuck Justin and quit fucking with my life.”

Juliet bristled at his accusing of her involvement; she didn’t know what to say since she wasn’t the one to tell Trace and Justin about his doings.

“First of all,” Justin stated through gritted teeth, “Don’t you ever talk to my girl like that again or else I will fuck you up so bad you’ll be spending the rest of your pathetic fucked up life in the hospital eating out of a tube lodged down your throat,” Justin rose from his seat, staring down Tray, “Second of all, that other clothing company named you as the employee trying to sell us out.”

“And third of all Shea is the one that informed us of you stealing clothing and selling it on Ebay. All Juliet did was write what Shea reported to us up in your evaluation,” Trace explained to Tray, rising to calm Justin back down into his seat.

“You turned me in?” Tray asked turning his attention to Shea, “It was your idea! After all the nights we spent together? How could you Shea? Tell them…tell them it was your idea. You even helped me set everything up!” he shouted as Shea got out of her seat to calm him down.

Juliet pulled out her cell phone trying to text Justin’s cell phone in response to what was going on in the conference room. Tom was completely silent, not sure what to say. Justin’s phone vibrated and he looked down at it as Juliet’s picture flashed on his screen. He looked up at her shaking his head before reading the text she sent him.

‘So Timberlake, I’m your girl? ;)’ He read silently laughing. He looked up tossing her a quick smile before texting her back.

‘Seeing how I just defended your honor…Yeah! :) Shea and Tray sitting in a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G’ Juliet read his text laughing quietly at his response before shaking her head.

‘So, what’s going to happen with Shea?’ He looked up at her shrugging his shoulders.

‘I really don’t know. We don’t have any proof she helped him.’ Juliet tapped her index finger against her lips in thought.

‘Good answer Timberlake…good answer. What if we find proof?’ He looked up as they shared a look.

‘What do you mean? Do you have proof?’ Juliet shook her head no.

‘No, but if she helped him set things up…we can check her computer and his computer in the NYC office.’ Justin nodded his head in understanding.

They both looked up as the door to the conference room opened and three policemen walked in. They all looked on as Tray was arrested for attempted fraud and stealing and escorted out of the building in handcuffs. Juliet covered her mouth in a silent giggle as Tray tried to plead with them not to take him away.

“Hey let’s go to lunch and let Trace deal with the aftermath.” Justin whispered as he took her hand in his.

“That’s fine J, just fine….thanks for leaving me hanging man.” Trace said as he threw Justin a look.

“Awww…my poor little hobbit. Seriously though, will you be fine dealing with all this?” Juliet asked not really wanting to leave Trace by himself if he didn’t want to deal with it all by himself.

“No it’s fine. Just a couple of things left to discuss with Shea and Tom.” Trace said, “Go ahead, go to lunch. Just bring me back something, okay?”

“Sure man. Anything you want.” Justin said as he rose from his seat and helped Juliet out of hers, “We’ll be back.”

“Yeah, yeah…go spend time with your girl.” Trace said as he threw Juliet a wink causing her to laugh as they left the conference room.

“Jules,” Alex said causing all three of them to turn around and face him, “Are you ready to finish up that interview?”

“Oh…I forgot,” Juliet, told him and his shoulders dropped, “I’m going to lunch with Justin.”

He let out a quiet, “Oh.”

“Hey,” Juliet said as he looked up at her, “How about we finish it when I get back from lunch?”

He smiled, “That would be great.”

“Okay see ya then,” she told him as her and Justin said goodbye to Trace and left the office ready to go to lunch together.

“Someone still has a crush,” Justin muttered throwing Juliet a sly smile.