Photographs and memories.

Chapter 11

Reid stared at Jessie in the wedding dress. And then he instantly had to escape.

"I'm sorry." Reid said as he turned and ran out. Morgan didn't even get a hold of him.

"What are you doing here?" Jessie asked Morgan.

"He wanted to tell you how much he loves you." Morgan said flatly.

"What?" Jessie was touched. The other girl got even more excited which made no sense to Morgan at all.

"You should go." She encouraged Jessie. "I'll take this off and wait for you. But don't ruin that dress, it a Vera Wang! Someone still has to wear it."

Then Jessie took off. She ran past Morgan and the old lady and out the door. Jessie ran into the hallway and saw Reid walking to the elevator.

"Reid, wait." She repeated, trying desperately not to trip over the layers of white material.

Reid ignored her and headed into the stairway. Jessie followed and half tripped into the fancy stairway.

"Reid, stop! I can't run in this dress and I can't do stairs in it either. It's not mine!" Reid stopped and turned. He was already halfway down a flight of stairs.

"What?" Reid was confused.

"Reid…" she started but then another thought occurred to her and she changed her words. "Where are my flowers?"

"Your flowers?" Reid felt enraged. There she was, in a wedding dress, half an hour away from getting married and she was asking him about flowers.

"It was my birthday yesterday. You didn't send me any flowers." She explained and seemed to expect Reid to understand. For a second there Reid forgot why he was there in the first place.

"You told me you burn them!" he exclaimed angrily.

"Doesn't mean I don't like receiving them…" she said.

"You're insane." Reid turned to walk down the stairs.

"I know." She whispered sadly. Then Reid stopped again and walked back up the stairs.

"Shouldn't you be getting to the wedding?"

"As soon as I change." She said as she toyed with the material. "And as soon as you tell me why you're here."

Reid got closer and finally stood in front of her. When he didn't answer, she put her hand open on his chest stopping him from moving again. "Is it true that you love me?"

"Does it matter?" he asked pointing at her dress.

"Oh. I'm not getting married. I told you that." She said but it confused him even more. "This isn't my dress."

"Then why…?"

"Nichole and I are the same size. She wanted to see what I look like in her dress and vice versa."

"Oh." Reid felt stupid.

"I should probably get back. Someone still has to wear it."

"Can we talk?" Reid finally said, taking her hand. "After?"

"Sure. You should stay. For the wedding. Morgan too."

"We have a lot to talk about."

"A lot of matters to clear." She agreed.

Then she gently pulled her hand away and headed out the stair way. In the hall, Morgan just flipped his phone open to dial when Jessie and Reid walked out.

"I was about to call you, man." Morgan said and put his phone away. "What happened?"

"I'll tell you later. We have a wedding to get to." Reid said as he ushered Morgan to the elevator. Jessie smiled and disappeared into room 607.