The End of Julien

Janie woke up to a knocking on her door. She looked through the peephole. It was Hunter.
"Here's your keys."
"You okay?"
"Yeah. I was just sleeping."
"Oh, sorry. Go back to sleep. Night."
"I just noticed. You aren't wearing your sunglasses."
Hunter laughed and closed the door. "Night, Janie."

Janie dropped her keys on the dinner table and went back to bed.
***
Janie went to work running. She was almost late. She looked at her watch. Just then Julien is by her side power walking with her. "Janie."
"Julien? We need to talk today." They both entered the elevator. The doors were about to close when a hand slipped through and stopped the doors from closing. It was Hunter. "Morning."
"Morning." Janie said with a smile. And in came Logan. He didn't make any eye contact with Janie. He did notice Julien standing beside her.

The elevator stopped on Julien's floor. "Let's meet during lunch." Janie didn't reply, she only looked down at her shoes. Hunter jokingly elbowed her. She gave him a half smile. It was Logan's floor. He stepped out of the elevator quickly and Hunter followed. Janie stayed in the elevator alone and looked up at the numbers to wait for her stop. The doors opened and she solemnly walked to her desk.
"I got you some tea." Eddie said with a wide smile.
"Thanks. I really needed it."
Jane plopped onto her chair. She started typing away. Morgan glanced at Janie from far away. She wanted to ask Janie, but didn't want to give her a hard time. During lunch time Janie walked down to the cafeteria to see Julien. He was already waiting for her at a table.
"Janie, I'm sorry about the other night. If I said something offensive please forgive me. It's just been so stressful for me lately. So many things are on my mind and I can't focus on one thing."
"I think we should end this. Let's just be friends. You were better when you didn't have me to worry about. You just focus on work."
"No. I could do it. It's just sometimes you occupy my whole day. Meaning you're in my thoughts and I can't work properly. But I am trying."
"Julien, I'm serious. We could try it again when you really ready. But I don't think it would work. Could I be straight with you?"
"Yeah."
"You need to things to be orderly and under your control and this relationship seems to be going slower than you want it to be so you're stressing out. I'm a girl who likes to take things slow. Girls before me probably thought you were a workholic because work was first and then it was love. And things were probably under your control so you didn't stress out much."
"You could be right but I really want this to work. I haven't had a girlfriend for almost 3 years now and I want to make this happen."
"We haven't gotten far into our relationship so you won't be losing much, Julien. It's better if I back out of this now than later."