Harvey is still waiting for an answer.

Jax nudges Landon. "Hey, do you think I can fit fifteen marshmallows in my mouth?"

Landon sighs, but he's looking at him fondly. "You're a hazard to society, babe."

"And a coward. Do twenty," says Abe.

Jax rips open the marshmallow pack.

Abe sighs exasperatedly and roughly places a hand on Harvey's shoulder. "Dude. Stop sulking. There's plenty of fish in the sea!"

"Yeah, but I've got my eye fixed on that specific emotional salmon with commitment issues," Harvey mutters, flipping his phone around his fingers. He faces his friend and exclaims, "You know what my kink is?"

"No one asked," Landon says.

"My kink is when people actually care about my feelings and what I have to say."

Abe shakes his head. "Too unrealistic, bud. Settle for bondage like the rest of us."

Harvey didn't need to know that. Jax has ten marshmallows in his mouth.

He opens his message window with Sky and pushes his tongue against his cheek when he finds no response. Sighing, Harvey sends her another message. What do you call a teenage sith? A palpaTEEN!

He waits a minute before typing again. What's the title of the movie that starred Mandy Moore and was based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks? EWOK to Remember!

Sky reads those. Harvey's eyes widen as he scrambles to type. Can you at least tell me what I did wrong or what you find so wrong in your feelings?

Sky takes a minute. i don't want to lose my job, harvey

Harvey runs his hands through his hair and pulls at its roots. He replies quick. THAT'S IT? FUCKING SHDJSHDJHS LETS JUST WAIT FOR THE SEMESTER TO END THEN, EASY. DONE

no, that's just not it

What else then??? Tell me so I know, Sky, come on

Sky reads it. Harvey waits.

No, no, no. She's shutting down again. Jesus Christ. Sky, hello, are you dead? No, you can't die yet, I need to date you first heLLO

stop it you're making me panic. i'm just...trying to decide how incredibly stupid this thing i did is

What did you do?

well.

Harvey waits, tugging his bottom lip in with his teeth. Jax fits eighteen marshmallows in his mouth before he spits them all out, and Landon and Abe are laughing.

i realized i like you.

Harvey's heart skips three beats. His finger shakes as he taps the screen. BUT? But you don't want to lose your job and easy solution: we wait 'til the semester's over but we don't date anyone else. What else, Sky?

Five minutes pass again. Harvey can't do this anymore. He tried to give her the space she needed over the weekend, but they're running around in circles and Harvey—Harvey can't.

He snatches his jacket from the sofa and leaves the apartment. His friends holler at him, but he ignores them and heads to the student lounge.

Sky has her face in her hands, slumped forward, her phone untouched on her desk when he peeks in through the small window from the door. When he comes in, she stands up, knocking her chair over. Her eyes are wide and blinking. "Harvey—"

"Can we just talk like adults?" he asks, raising an eyebrow. He tosses his jacket on the table. "I'm so confused."

Sky swallows the lump in her throat. "Confused about what?"

"Confused about why the grass is green—your feelings for me, Sky, what the hell else?"

She looks like she wants to run. Again. She tries to side-step him. "I don't want to do this with you, Harvey—"

"If you leave," Harvey warns, blocking her way. He stares at her. "If you leave, I'll follow you, and I'll follow you everywhere even if it takes us as far away as Tattoine. You said it's not just about the job. What is it?"

Sky hangs her head and takes a deep breath.

Harvey steps closer. "Sky, I like you."

She looks at him. "A horrible decision, really."

A laugh escapes his mouth. "Stop making me laugh, we're arguing here."

Sky purses her lips and takes a deep breath. "I—I had a crush on you. Last semester."

Harvey stops laughing. "I—what?"

Her eyes fleet around the room, like she's too afraid to look at him. "You flirted with me last semester and when class ended, I was waiting for you to ask me out again so I can say yes because I'm not your TA anymore, and then you never did so I assumed it was a thing you do, you flirt just to see me get riled up and you enjoy the thrill, but now you say you actually like me? But I'm not sure?"

Harvey opens and closes his mouth. Like a fish.

Sky swallows again. "And then you actually read the book I wrote with Bennett, and you watched Star Wars for me, and you're interested in class material and you listen to my lectures even though I know you want to sleep and you look at my butt through my jeans, and your essays make me want to kiss you and you're not a misogynistic asshole? And you're sweet and the way you love your sister is adorable, and you said I was cute when I was sick, thanks for lying, by the way," she says in one breath, all in a rush. "But then maybe you just like the chase and not me, as a person, and I'm shit at relationships and I'm really, really blunt and I can be insensitive sometimes and I don't think before I talk, and I run at the slightest mention of feelings, and—"

"You talk too much," Harvey whispers, hooking his fingers on the waistband of her jeans and tugging her closer to him. When their lips meet, Harvey smiles through the kiss and Sky pinches his arm.

Harvey grins. "I'm sorry I didn't ask last semester. I didn't want to feel down from rejection on the last day, and I figured I'd let you off."

"It's fine," she says, shaking her head. "I wasn't exactly...encouraging."

"Mild word to put it, but yes."

Sky pinches his arm again.

Harvey laughs. "Can we be together, then? After the semester?"

Sky bites her lip. Harvey wants to kiss her again. "No, not really."

Harvey groans. "What now?"

"I said I'm shit at relationships," Sky says defensively, crossing her arms. She scrunches her nose and mutters, "I'll probably forget to reply to your messages. And like I said, I can be insensitive and blunt. Oh, and I won't let a sexist joke pass."

Harvey grins. Ah, this girl. "I'll let you know if anything you say hurts me. And I won't make sexist jokes, I'm not an asshole."

Sky looks up at him, still hesitant.

His grin grows wider. "Is that why you always give me a hundred on my tests? Because you like my essays?"

Sky pushes him. "I don't grade them all the time. Bennett does, too."

"Do my essays turn you on, Sky?"

"Shut up, you're so annoying," Sky says, but she's smiling. She pulls him to her. "Just kiss me already, laserbrain."

"I like you so much, what the fuck," Harvey breathes, then kisses her again.

Sky smiles in their kiss this time.