Prompt 10:

You make me wanna call you in the middle of the night
You make me wanna hold you til the morning light

You make me wanna love

You make me wanna fall

You make me wanna surrender my soul

March 2012

"I know you love the guy," Emily said into her phone, as Reid sat in the chair next to her couch, "but Kevin is way off base on this one. Men and women can be strictly platonic friends, even if they spend a lot of time together. Your best friend happens to be a guy...yeah, well, that is a matter of opinion but I guess most people find Morgan pretty attractive still that's not the point...All I'm saying is don't let Kevin talk you into something you know is wrong for you. The friendship you have with Morgan is the friendship you need or else it wouldn't be the way it is. You both get what you need out of it, what you can't get from anyone else. Kevin needs to love you enough and trust you enough to understand that..."

After a while long, Emily finally got off the phone. "Sorry about that," she told Reid. "I feel like I've had that same conversation with her one thousand times already. Kevin is just so insecure about her and Morgan, thinking that men and women can't ever strictly be friends when they are so close but he's wrong."

"Jealousy is a primal instinct that helps to ensure the continuation of a species so in that sense he's right and only doing and feeling what comes naturally."

"Yeah, well this isn't cave man days and we're more than our base instincts. Kevin just needs to chill out. It's not like Garcia is ever gonna jump Morgan's bones or vica versa."

"Want to place a wager on that?"

Emily smirked. "You're lucky you're banned from Vegas because I think you could develop quite a problem with gambling."

"Doubtful. I'd have to lose to have a problem and I rarely lose."

"You keep saying that and I keep beating you- in poker, chess, scrabble-"

"You cheat! It doesn't count if you cheat."

"You're the cheater among us. Everyone knows that. I'm just good."

"Yeah, sure, a good cheater."

She smiled. "Says the sore loser."

"I don't lose."

Emily let out a laugh.

He said "It doesn't count if you cheat."

She kept laughing and Reid felt his heart lighten just a little bit more. It felt right to be here with Emily- like he was where he belonged.