Aaron stares at the blinking cursor in his text thread to Emily. He wants to send her something. Something to make her smile. Or even he wants to ask her to come hang out with him and Jack. But she had plans last night, who knows how late she was up, who knows if she wants the day to relax. So instead he backs out of the message thread without sending anything.

Emily looks at the last conversation between her and Aaron. She should have invited him. Why didn't she? She would have at least gotten to see him, which was clearly what he had been wanting when he sent the message. Honestly, she wishes she could have seen him too. She misses him, even though it's only been a little over 24 hours since she last saw him. You've lost it Prentiss, her mind screams at her, but she shoves the thought from her mind. She hasn't lost it like her mind is saying, she's in love. And she doesn't want to wait any more. All she wants is him. She wants to be with him, spend time with him outside of the work day, and show him how she really feels. But is telling him over text messages the best way to tell him that he's waited long enough? No, he deserves better. He deserves being told in person.

So instead of sending anything, she backs out and puts her phone down. She's not chickening out, she's not! She's just waiting until they're in person.You could go over now, her mind reminds her. It's a Sunday, the likelihood that he has things going on besides taking care of Jack is low. But should she take away from his day with Jack? That's not fair to Jack. Emily runs a hand through the curls left over from last night. She should wait. She'll see him at work tomorrow anyway, she can deal with it then?

But that leaves the question of what to do with today? She's already tided her apartment, put a load of laundry to get done, and even started some meal prep. So what else can she do today besides get a workout in? You could invite Aaron to workout with you. But then it clicks, it's Sunday. Which means it's a rest day. She doesn't even have a workout to do. There's no excuse to invite him over or reason to explain her showing up at his house either.

"I guess I could read a book." Emily says to no one. Sergio looks up from where he's lounging in the sun, but sees no reason to move. "Or should we watch a movie, Serge?" Sergio lets out a single meow at her before rolling onto his side and letting the sun drench him more. Emily loves living alone, but she's bored. She needs something besides talking to her cat to get her through the day.

As Jack kicks the soccer ball to him, he can't help but think what could have happened if he had taken up the invitation that Garcia had sent him. Not that he really would have wanted to get into a suit last night, but at least seeing Emily would have been better than not seeing her. There's no workout for him to do today, which means no added reason to reach out to her. I miss my best friend. Her text from a few days replays in his mind and he misses the ball that Jack kicks. As he goes after it, he realizes what his brain is trying to tell him. He doesn't need a reason to see her. Maybe he should just text her and see how her weekend is going?

Across town, Emily's phone pings with a text. Lifting her phone up and setting her book down, she glances at the screen to see a text from Garcia including a picture from the ball last night.

YOU LOOK HAWT!

AND WHO'S THE ARM CANDY?

Please tell me he's available.

Thanks. That's my friend Marshall.

He is engaged so unfortunately, not.

Plus he would go after Reid and Morgan

before either of us.

All the good ones are gay, taken,

or both. (crying emoji)

We will find you a man.

You always have Morgan

Very true. Options of Hot Chocolate or being

single, well I know which one I'd take.

Where did you even find the pic?

I have my ways.

A magician never reveals her secrets

Whatever you say. Google deep dive?

Something like that.

Side note, I was thinking of seeing if Reid, Morgan,

and/ or JJ were up for seeing a movie tonight.

Maybe like Captain America? Wanna come?

Sure. Let me know when and where.

Guess that takes place of finding something to do tonight. Plus seeing the team outside of their normal work environment would give them a chance to chill out and just hang without the stress of a serial killer looming over them.

"So the boys aren't joining us?" Emily asks as she meets up with JJ and Pen, who had already bought tickets for tonight.

"Reid claimed he had a lecture he couldn't miss. Morgan said his sister is in town for the weekend." JJ explains.

"Girls night it is. It's been ages since we've been able to just hang out. Emily and I grabbed brunch yesterday and she had weeks of stuff to tell me." JJ catches Emily's eye trying to figure out if Penelope means what JJ thinks she does.

"Yes, you both know all there is to know about Aaron and I."

"Oh thank god!" Garcia says quickly. "I thought I wouldn't be able to ask about it."

"There's nothing to tell. You saw me less than 12 hours ago. I haven't even seen him since we spoke." Penelope's face fell and Emily knows she did something. "What did you do?"

"I may have sent an invite to Hotch. I thought he might show up and make the evening easier on you."

"Garcie you promised to leave it alone." Emily knows Penelope meant well, but she still can't believe that Pen did that. Or actually, knowing that it was Pen that did it, it makes a lot of sense. Aaron had an invitation and didn't come? Maybe he didn't see it until late in the evening and it was too late. Her brain starts making excuses for him, not wanting to believe that he didn't want to go.

"I couldn't. I needed to help you out!" She looks at Emily with pleading eyes. "I had to at least push the two of you a little bit. You clearly weren't doing anything to push each other." JJ's blue eyes are watching the back and forth between her two friends.

"And I told you not to mess with it." Emily pauses for a moment and then asks, "Wait is this why you were finding pictures from last night?"

"I was trying to see if he showed."

"Well he didn't. So either he didn't get your invite until too late or…" Emily trails off, not wanting to finish that thought.

"He probably didn't see it." Penelope says as they stand in line for popcorn.

"Or he realized you were messing around with other people's lives and he decided not to go since the invite didn't come from Emily." JJ suggests.

"Actually that one sounds more like Hotch." Penelope agrees.

"Either way, you need to promise not to do anything else. I'll decide if and when I want to make a move." Emily sternly states.

"Fine, but can you decide to do something sooner rather than later?" Her eyes go wide with her plea. "I'm sick of my ship not being happily together."

"You two will be the first to know if anything changes, I promise."

Across town, Aaron shuts the door to Jack's room after getting him down. He still has hours before he needs to go to sleep himself, so right now he needs a distraction. Maybe he should check his social medias he never looks at. The first picture posted is from Garcia and it's three people holding movie tickets to see Captain America. The caption reads 'Movie date with the girls #ChrisEvansYouAreMySuperSoldier.' She had tagged Emily and JJ, which doesn't surprise him, but he finds himself being drawn to click on Emily's profile.

Maybe she will have posted something from the event last night and he can at least see what he missed out on. But there's nothing new on her page besides a picture from when she had gone to the park with them last weekend. It wasn't even any of them, but just Jack's soccer ball sitting in the grass and a caption that reads 'Lazy Sunday playing at the park.' He didn't even know she had taken a picture while they were there, but the fact that she shared that and not last night makes him feel a certain way. It makes him feel...loved by her. Maybe this is a step in the right direction to where they can be more than friends one day. Maybe.