11:42 a.m.

Elliot watched as Olivia rushed into work. She dropped her things by her desk and pushed some hair out of her eyes. It really pissed Elliot off that she was late, because he'd had a major, major hangover, yet he'd made it to work on time. Olivia, whom he knew had consumed much less alcohol than him, was late. And why? Because she'd gone home with a rockstar last night, and Elliot was too drunk and cowardly to stop her.

"Why are you late? We got a case, but I didn't have a partner to work it with so I had to give it to Munch and Fin and do paperwork," he spat.

Olivia sat down and squinted at some papers. "Sorry. I forgot."

"You forgot? About work?" he interrogated, getting up and standing by her desk.

Olivia looked up at him. "Look, I'm sorry. I really am. The concert got me really tired-"

"The concert got you tired? Or Bono did?" Elliot questioned.

She stared at him. "You're not my boss. Why are you up my ass about being late? It won't happen again. Is this even about work?"

He shook his head and sat back down. Obviously pissed with her, he just got started on papers.

Olivia ignored him and worked on her papers too. She had seen this coming.

2:12 p.m.

At home, Bono was getting dressed and ready for his peaceful day while thinking about Olivia. She was incredible. She was the type of person he had hoped he'd meet since he and Ali had split apart. She was beautiful, happy, kind, fun, hilarious, and she was as big of a humanitarian as he was. She was a cop. It was her goal to help people. Bono loved that. Yeah, so she had awful work hours, and she probably didn't make too much money, but that didn't matter. When she was with him, she had plenty of money. And she was just so great to be around, and she got along with him so well. He really thought this could get very serious. But if it did, what would happen when he had to go back to Dublin? Would she be willing to quit her job? He didn't see her as somebody who would give up her job very easily. But he wasn't going to ask her to do that. He'd find a way to work this out. He would. If things ever got that serious...

2:30 p.m.

Elliot had been an ass to Olivia all day. She had tried several times to strike up a conversation with him, but nothing had worked out. She kept hoping he'd get over it. Although she thought it was ridiculous for him to be so mad at her for this, she also didn't want to just ignore him all day or be rude enough to truly mess up their friendship. He was undoubtedly still the most important person in her life. But she was beginning to think it may not be like that much longer. After just a little while with Bono, she already realized that he was much more fun to be with than Elliot was on any occasion. But Elliot was just more serious. Elliot was her only good friend for years, and there was no denying that he was still a huge part of her. She couldn't let him stay mad at her. She had to work this out.

4:00 p.m.

Bono had just gotten out of a business meeting, and was about to call the other band memebers to ask them to have dinner with him and Olivia. He thought about inviting Olivia's friend Elliot. He didn't want to mess anything up between the two of them. He felt guilty for kind of intruding on Elliot's time with her. He hadn't meant to cause any trouble, but the guy had been furious when he'd left last night, and Bono didn't want Olivia to have any problems with him. He was about to call her and ask her if she wanted to invite Elliot.

Work was almost over when Olivia received a call from Bono. She answered the phone and tried to make sure Elliot didn't look at the caller ID. Yeah, she'd already programmed his number into her phone. She thought it was incredibly cool that she actually had Bono's number. Not that it was that big a deal when she'd been to his house and slept in the same bed as him.

"Hello?" she asked.

"Hey. I was just going to tell you that if you wanted to invite Elliot to come eat dinner with us tonight you can. We'll go to my place after dinner of course, so we'll get time to be alone, but if you wanted to invite him for dinner, you can.." Bono said.

Olivia thought it was very generous for him to invite Elliot along, even though Elliot had been a total jerk to him last night for nothing other than his talking to her. She really didn't want him to come, because she thought it would be kind of weird. Bono would bring her along and say, "Hey, guys, this is my new girlfriend Olivia." That would be fine. But then he'd add, "And this is her man friend Elliot." Now that sounded weird. Still, though, something in Olivia knew she'd feel guilty if she didn't invite him. She'd feel guilty partly because Bono had invited him to dinner and he was showing that he was quite the gentleman and Elliot wouldn't know that if she didn't tell him, and she partly felt guilty simply because she'd sort of ditched Elliot at the concert last night.

"All right. I'll ask him," she replied loudly, causing Elliot to look up from his papers. "Thanks for inviting him. I'd talk if I could, but I've got to finish up some papers. I'll see you later, all right?"

"Okay, buh-bye," he said.

"Bye. I'll call you later and tell you whether or not he's coming," she said, and hung up.

Elliot stared at her expectantly.

"Bono asked if you wanted to come to dinner with us."

"You, Bono, and me? Uh, no thanks. That's strange. I'm not going to go sit in on your date," Elliot refused.

"Actually, it's not really like a private date type of thing. The rest of the band's going to be there, so I don't think it would be all that uncomfortable for you," Olivia explained.

Elliot softened and thought about it. "It's all right. I'm gonna skip out on this one. Thanks, though," he said seriously. He thought for a minute about how things went down the night before, and he realized that he was really kind of wrong. He shouldn't have been so mad, and the only real reason he was pissed anyway was because of his jealousy. Olivia still wasn't completely off the hook, but he couldn't keep acting like this.

Olivia was truly very relieved that Elliot had turned down her offer. It wasn't that she didn't enjoy being around him, it wasn't that at all. It was really just that she didn't want him to feel left out or anything, and even though she'd told him it wouldn't be too uncomfortable for him, she feared it would. It really would be strange if he came along because the rest of the band might not quite understand that Elliot was just a really, really good friend.

So it looked like she had some plans with Bono again.

AN: Please review! Seriously! (: ~Allison~