Someone told me that Spencer actually was good drawing so I played it out a little here. Hope you like it.

Chapter 6: The portrait, the winner and the loser

It was Saturday and Spencer could not be more nervous. He did not want to mess up their date and he was not clear yet about what to paint.

He was wearing a dark blue suit and a light blue shirt. He put on a dark blue tie and sighs looking at him in the mirror. Then he brushed his hair as much as he could and texted Max to let her know he will pick her up in fifteen minutes.

Then he walked out of his house, went downstairs and to his car. He stopped by a flower shop to buy her some flowers. He picked roses. And continued his way to her apartment.

When he arrived he walked out the car and in the building where he reached her apartment and knocked the door.

She opened it and smiled when she saw the flowers "Aww thank you Spencer, they are beautiful" she holded the flowers and moved a finger to him so he got closer and she kissed him gently "you are so sweet" she whispered before going to her kitchen to get a pot with water for her flowers.

"I'm glad you liked them. I haven't figured out your favorite flowers yet so I brought roses"

"I love any kind of flowers so you can bring whichever you want and I will love them" she holds her purse. She was wearing black jeans, a white blouse and over it her black leather jacket. She decided to use high heel for this date because she always felt to small next to him.

And even with them she still looked short. He offered his arm to her to hold like a gentleman "oh my handsome knight, thank you" she teased him as she holds his arm.

"You are welcome my beautiful princess" he followed the tease and she laughed softly.

They walked out of her apartment and goes downstairs to his car after she closed the door.

When they arrived to the car he opened the door for her "milady" he imitated an English accent and she laughed softly before getting in, then he closed the door and got in the car.

He turned it on and looked at her "ok Max I need the address to get there" she nodded and handed him her phone with the address.

"Got it Spence?".

"Yeah" he answered and handed her the phone. He buckled up his seatbelt and drove there. They were in silence for some minutes until he asked "did you finish your class for tomorrow?"

"Yes, I used the advices you gave me and I'm pretty sure it will be go perfectly" she smiled as she said so.

"Amazing and I'm so proud of you. I'm sure you will do it great"

"Why thank you" she blushed at that "they said I can invite someone and I was wondering if you would like to go with me"

"Sure I would love to" he smiled and added "but I gotta ask... will you do it like yourself if I'm there? Because people do a different perform when they are with that significant other or their family"

"Yeah I will. When I'm teaching my attention is to my students not my surround"

"Ok perfect because I wouldn't forgive myself if you didn't get it because of me" he said as they arrived to the restaurant. He drove to the valet parking and he handled the car to the guy there and went to help Max out.

The guy gave him a ticket as he held her hand gentle "are you ok?" She asked when they walked away.

"Yes it just... I saw so many unsub that sometimes I had doubts about people around me. One of the bad things about this job is the evil vs good battle"

She squeezed his hand softly "it's ok Spencer. I understand and I know it's hard to deal with them. I still have nightmares with Cat"

"That's normal. After a traumatic experience. But you will forget it soon" he assured her then they realized they were standing in the middle of the bar's door. They laughed and walked in. She handed their tickets to the waiter. He checked them and led them to a table.

The table had the equipment to paint, bottles of colors, canvas for each one, painting brushes and more.

Spencer was watching all on the table as the waiter walked to them.

"What can I get you to drink? Also you can order some food"

"Water please" said Spencer looking at Max.

"I want a cup of wine but hold on sir" she looked at the waiter then at Spencer "can you have a cup just for a toast? I can't drink to much because I have the class tomorrow so... we drink a sip or two and then order water" she looked at him.

"Ok I can do it but if we are going to drink so little why don't ask for a smaller amount of wine in each cup?" He looked at the waiter.

"Sure we can fill both cups with half the wine we usually put in"

"Perfect then thank you" the waiter walked away to get there order "hey I was thinking. What about we make a bet" he looked at her with interest "what about if we don't see each other painting and ask the instructor to pick the best. The winner will pick our next date" she smirks feeling the winner after what he said two days ago.

Spencer kept his poker face "you know I'm from Vegas right?" She nodded "I just lost 2 times a bet and it was against JJ and Emily" he raised an eyebrow.

"I'm sure of my odds this time" she looked at her with a serious face "and I will raise the prize, the loser will also will do whatever the winner wants"

Spencer, still with an unreadable poker face, said "ok I accept the bet" he extended his hand toward her to shake her hand closing the deal.

Then when the rest of the people arrived and the waiter brought the two cups with half of the wine and two glass of water for them.

"For our first night time date and for most to come" she said and smiled at him.

He repeated her toast and smiled back then the clink their cups and drink some of the wine. Then they put their cups apart.

The class started with the instructor giving his name, Emmanuel, and the instruction they have to follow. He ordered them to turn off their phone and put them in a basket with their name. Then they started to paint.

Spencer was so competitive that he was capable of doing a portrait of them the day they met. His amazing memory helped him to work on his painting without any effort. Max looked at him from the corner of her eyes and was getting worry because he was so focused that may her think the genius man would make her think he was not good to trick her.

When the class was about to end he finished his work and so did Max.

"Are you done?" She asked.

"Yes and you?" She nodded "want to call the instructor to come over?" She bit her lip nervous.

He was good with his poker face, surely he was from Vegas "sure I will" she said keeping her straight face and moved her hand in the instructor's direction.

The man walked towards them "is everything ok lady?" She nodded and explained their bet and if he could judge their paintings "well the purpose of this event is for entertainment and relax but I guess if you decided this, it was part of your entertainment so... let's see those paintings"

Max was first, she made a beautiful painting of the park where she met Spencer. It has the place where they bought the pretzels next to the place they play with the sprinklers. At the very bottom was coffee truck where they met after he arrived from the hospital.

"It's beautiful and I like all the colors you used, let's see your partner's but it's hard competition"

Then Spencer showed him his painting. And when Max saw it, she held her breath and cover her mouth with her hand. Her eyes were filled with tears.

Before hers and the instructor's eyes was a perfectly accurate portrait of them the day they met. They were perfectly made and with the right amount of light and dark, the color of their clothes, everything.

"Spencer..." she looked at him in shock and he smirks with a little bit of arrogance "...you cheater..." she said under her breath and smirked rubbing her eyes.

"Excuse me?" He looked at her smiling.

"I had to admit this is quite impressive. Are you an artist?"

"No"

"Well with this painting I couldn't believe it. Anyway... we have a winner... sir you won" he patted Spencer's back softly "you have so much talent" he smiled and let the couple alone.

She looked at him in awe "I thought you said you didn't know how to paint"

"I'm a quick study" he smirked "did you like it?"

"Of course I did... it's gorgeous and well done"

"I was inspired" he looked at her and she blushed.

"You are lucky to be so cute or I would totally slapped you for... not just let me make me make a bet against you but also because you accepted it" she rolled her eyes and laughed gently.

He laughs too and held her hand "I'm a very competitive person and I couldn't say no. I don't know call it the Vegas DNA" she laughed more "whatever... now you have to do what I want and I know some nice place we can go" he smiled.

"You are enjoying this, aren't you?" He nodded drinking his water.

The instructor wrapped up the event and said that he was thankful for everyone who were there. He saw some great paintings and he was proud of their job. Everyone clapped at him and the people stood up ready for leaving.

He also said they could take the painting with them. So Spencer held his and Max's "I was thinking about going for a proper dinner" he looked at her.

"Sounds great, I'm starving" she put on her jacket and purse "where are we going?"

"There's a good place a few blocks away from here"

"Awesome, let's go" she smiled and wrapped an arm around his. Then they walked out the bar where the event took place.

OOooOOooOO

Here is this interesting date I imagined a bit different when I first thought about it but while I was writing this all just come to me and I think it was pretty cool.

I would like some ideas for Spencer asking her to finally asked her to be his girlfriend. I wanted to do it here but, as I said, my plans were changed as I was writing.

Comment me your idea and I will totally considered. Thank you again for reading this story.