The rest of the evening Derek couldn't keep his eyes off of Penelope, he knew hat if only he could get the chance to talk to Penelope to tell his side of the story that he could make her see that he didn't do anything wrong, that Jordan had kissed him not the other way around. He watched as several times during the night Kevin tried to hold her hand or wrap his arm around her waist.
Penelope sighed happily as the meal was finally over, Penelope looked over at Kevin and said, "would you mind terribly if we went home my head is killing me"?, Kevin said, "awwwww sweetie I didn't know that your head was hurting, I'm sorry, sure come on, I'll take you home". Penelope pushed herself away from the table and glanced over to see Derek talking to the waitress, she felt her heart ache as he was happily laughing and smiling at the beautiful thin girl.
Derek smiled at his cousin Shannon and said, "you are doing a great job cuz, are you liking working here"?, she laughed and said, "ohhhh yes, I love it here, everybody is so friendly". JJ smiled at the young girl and said, "this job seems like it would be hard to do, I mean standing on your feet all those hours in that heat".
Shannon said, "well those are the two downsides but having great people to work with makes it all worth it", Derek laughed and said, "that is really good Shan, I'm happy for you". He glanced across the room just in time to see Kevin put his hand on the small of Penelopes back as they walked out of the door and headed toward his car.
He balled his hands into a fist and Shannon said, "what's wrong with you cuz, you look like you could kill someebody", JJ said, "Derek is a little upset right now, the girl he likes thinks he is dating someone else because she saw him kissing another woman". Derek said, "I have already told you JJ, I didn't kiss Jordan, she kissed me".
Shannon laughed and said, "ohhhhhhhhh cuz when a woman is in love it doesn't matter who kissed who, what does matter is that the kissing actually happened". Derek looked up at her and said, "I lo really care about her Shannon and she wouldn't even listen to me, she just blew me off like I didn't even matter".
Shannon smiled at her cousin and said, "you need to take things slow with her, make her fall in love with you all over again, woo her Derek, send her flowers, write her poems, send her letters". He smiled and said, "that's the plan cuz, that's the plan", she laughed and said, "well it is time for me to get back to work and good luck with your girl, whoever she is she must be something really special".
A few minutes later Kevin and Penelope pull up in front of her house, he starts to get out of the car and she says, "have a good night Kevin, she gets out and quickly walks to the door, she turns around and smiles at him as she walks inside. Kevin sighed happily and said, "one date down and hopefully more to go", he puts his car into drive and pulls away from the curb.
Penelope runs up the stairs and changes her clothes, how could things have went so bad so quick, at lunch everything was perfect, trueeeee my shirt was ruined but Derek was so kind, loving and I thought that he really liked me". She flopped down on the bed and rolled over onto her side and humped up to her pillow.
Everytime Penelope closed her eyes all she could see what Derek kissing Jordan, she couldn't get the picture of his lips against Jordans lips no matter what she did. After trying to sleep for a while she sat up against the backboard of the bed and opened her computer and sighed as she looked through the pictures that were saved there.
She smiled at the pictures of her and JJ at the beach building a castle, the pictures of Hotch and Emily kissing, the picture of JJ posing next to her car, the picture of Reid laughing as they all start tickling him. Her heart speeds up when the pictures get to Derek, there are some of Derek in his uniform, some of him during practice and her favorite him making the winning touchdown at the last game.
She ran her finger over his face on her screen and said, "why Derek why", she then sighed and closed her computer up and laid back down and hoped that sleep would soon come. She tossed and turned most of the night and when she finally got to sleep her alarm clock started blaring through her room.
She turned it off when she realized that it was Saturday, she didn't want to talk to anybody today, she wanted to stay away from everybody and everything this weekend. She sighed as she realized that she wasn't gonna fall back to sleep, she rolled over onto her back and stared at the ceiling for a few minutes.
She rubbed her eyes and threw back the sheet and got up and headed towards the bathroom, she took a shower and got dressed, she then headed down the stairs and into the kitchen where her mom had her breakfast ready and sitting on the table. She kissed her mom on the cheek and said, "thanks mom it looks delicious".
Her mom could tell that something was off with her this morning but she didn't want to bother her, she sat down at the table and said, "so what would you like to do for your birthday this year"?, she took a bite of her oatmeal and said, "I don't really want to do anything this year mom,
can't we just stay at home and watch movies or something".
Penelope felt her moms fingers on her cheek and said, "baby what's wrong, you usually love you birthday, what's so different this year"?, she shook her head and said, "nothing momma, nothing at all". Penelope and her mom spent the rest of breakfast eating silently, when she was finished she put her stuff in the sink and kissed her mom on the cheek and said, "I love you mom".
The weekend flew by and Penelope stayed in the house and ignored the calls and texts from her friends, she didn't want to be with anybody, she didn't want to see or talk to anybody. She mostly stayed up in her room or in the living room watching tv with her parents, her mom sighed as she watched her daughter walking down the stair to head into the kitchen on Monday morning.
Penelope sat down at the table and ate breakfast by herself, after she finished eating she cleaned her things and put them into the drainer and sighed as she dried her hands off. She looked out the kitchen window and the sight of the beautiful day and the sound of the birds chirping only made her feel more lonely.
Monica walked over and wrapped her arms around Penelope and said, "are you alright today honey"?, she nodded her head and said, "yeah momma I'm ok". Monica said, "you haven't been yourself this weekend, you haven't left the house, you haven't answered any of your friends calls or texts,
I am really worried about you".
Penelope turned and hugged her mom and said, "I love you momma and I am alright", Monica wrapped her arms around her daughter and said, "just know that I am here if you ever need to talk". Penelope smiled and said, "I know momma and I love and appreciate you so so much", Monica kissed her on the top of the head.
Monica watched as her daughter headed out of the kitchen, she stood up and said, "I love you to baby, have a good day", Penelope sighed as she opened the door but what she saw sitting on front seat of her car put a huge smile on her face.