"Okay, Prentiss. Whats going on with you today?" Garcia asked, leaning over the table. JJ had gone to the restroom while they waited for their food and this had given Garcia the perfect opportunity to corner her friend.

"Nothing is going on, Garcia, you're just a little paranoid." Emily replied, rolling her eyes.

"Don't lie to me, Prentiss. I AM ALL KNOWING!" Penelope exclaimed.

"Calm down, Penelope. I assure you nothing is going on." Garcia remained unconvinced, and Prentiss watched in horror as something clicked in the technical analyst's brain.

"Oh my god!" Garcia said, pretending to know what was going on in a cleverly planned ploy to get the truth from Emily. "Why didn't you tell me?" Emily's stomach fell and a fresh blush filled her face.

"What was I supposed to say? Hi there, nice to see you, Garcia, have I told you that I am gay, or that I have fallen head over heels in love with JJ? Oh, and by the way how's Derek today?" Emily dropped her head into her hands.

"You're gay?" Penelope asked, a little shocked by Emily's outburst, "Not what I suspected but... Um, okay, that's cool." She tilted her head, smiled

and looked at the other woman. "JJ? Really?" She was intrigued as to how far these feeling of Emily's went.

"I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU TRICKED ME." Emily yelled, her anger was soon replaced by a feeling of betrayal. "You're supposed to be my friend, Garcia. Did it never occur to you that this little game you're playing with people will end up getting someone hurt." The smile disappeared quickly from Penelope's face. "This is my LIFE not your GAME!" Emily stood up and planned to storm out of the Café.

"Emily, wait!" Garcia started, feeling ashamed of herself.

"Save it, Penelope." Emily replied shortly, she was almost at the door when she bumped into a very confused looking JJ.

"Where are you going, Em?" JJ asked, worried that the woman she had secretly fallen for was leaving already. Emily suddenly forgot her rage and briefly fell into JJ's beautiful, blue eyes.

"Um, nowhere. Bathroom." she stuttered, rushing past JJ and into the room that the other woman had just come out of.

"What's wrong with her?" JJ asked Garcia, returning to her seat. Garcia panicked, knowing she couldn't tell JJ about what had just happened with Emily, and blurted out the first thing that popped into her head.

"Explosive Diarrhea... very, very bad." she said uncertainly, "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT? Explosive Diarrhea? Really, Penelope? How does that help the situation?" She thought.

"Explosive Diarrhea?" JJ repeated, raising an eyebrow.

"Yeah. Very, very bad." Penelope said, choosing to carry on with the lie instead of inventing another one.

"Oh, poor Emily." JJ said, grossed out by what Garcia had just suggested but rather sure it was untrue. While the two women waited for their food, and their friend to return from the bathroom, JJ's thoughts turned to why Garcia could have lied to her.

Emily paced up and down in front of the bathroom stalls.

"OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD!" She thought "I've got to go back out there, but what has Garcia already said to Jennifer?" she shook her hands nervously in the air before taking a few long breaths, and straightening up her shirt. The way she had come out to Penelope told her she had to do the right thing and tell her friends, because sooner or later they would find out."I've got to tell Jennifer about my being a lesbian, crush or no crush she is still by best friend, and I don't want her finding out from someone else." she stared at herself in the mirror before trying to convince herself that everything would be okay. "I'm sure it won't affect our friendship."

Cara, the waitress who had called Emily "Em." put the girls' food down on the table and handed JJ a note.

"Can you give this to your friend for me please?" She looked at Garcia awkwardly, "Not that one." She said, "The hot one." She turned on her heels and hurried towards the kitchen, staring at the floor.

"Um, sure. Great." JJ called after her, before turning to Penelope and raising an eyebrow. "Hot one? Does she mean Emily?" Penelope giggled at JJ's naivety.

"Well I'm pretty sure she doesn't mean Derek, and she made it very clear she didn't mean me." JJ scowled at the sarcastic comment.

"Well, anyway, Emily's straight." Garcia picked up her coffee mug and drank from it, making an unintelligible noise in supposed agreement with JJ's statement. "And even if she wasn't she would never be interested in a skank like that." JJ continued, jealously filling her body.

"Hmmm? No, never." Garcia continued, picking up her coffee mug again and holding in midair, she decided to change the subject to save her from blurting out Emily's secret "Anyway... What are your plans for the week?" She asked a very irate JJ.

"Nothing much. Why?" JJ answered suspiciously, narrowing her eyes at the other woman.

"No reason. Jeez JJ why are you always assuming I'm up to something." tilting her head I feigned innocence.

"Because, Pen, you usually are. So what are you up to this time?"

"Fine. You got me." Penelope exclaimed, shaking her head "Are you free on Wednesday?" she asked JJ, pausing to take another sip of coffee.

"Uh, yeah." this earned her a squeal from Garcia.

"Great! Are you up for a blind date with my hacker buddy Ross?" JJ pretended to think about it for a few seconds before and image Emily swam into her head and she answered with a sharp

"No."

"Why?" Garcia whined.

"Pen, I'm interested in someone else, okay?" Penelope squealed again at JJ's statement.

"Who is he? Do I know him? I bet I can get you a date with him, there's this whole Hacker-Phone-Tree thing, it's very cool!"

"Hacker-Phone-tree?" JJ repeated, tilting her head to the side and raising an eyebrow.

"Mmm Hmm." Garcia answered, taking a long drink off her coffee. JJ decided it was the time to tell her friend that she was not interested in guys, she had never had a better friend then Penelope and it was only right that she should know the truth.

"Well, I don't know how to tell you this, Pen..." JJ started nervously, Penelope looked intrigued and took another long drink off coffee. "You must promise to let me tell everyone else in my own time, okay?" JJ continued, Garcia took yet another long drink of coffee. "It's not really a 'He' I'm interested in, but more of a 'She'." Garcia, shocked that her two bestfriend had both come out to her in the space of half an hour, spit her coffee out and it flew across the table, just missing JJ and hitting the seat beside her.

"What?" Penelope asked, sure she had heard wrong.

"I'm a lesbian, Penelope." JJ repeated. "Oh my god! I might just die, right here in this seat. My best friend is going to hate me!" she thought.

"That's really great, JJ." Penelope answered, taking JJ's hand and squeezing it. "I'm glad you felt you could tell me." JJ smiled at her friend.

"Thankyou for being so understanding, Pen." JJ said, and let out a long breath, her secret was finally out and she didn't have to keep it locked inside any longer.

Anyway, who is she? This mystery woman you have these feelings for." Garcia asked.

"Promise not to tell?" JJ insisted.

"Cross my heart."

"It's Emily."

"Emily Emily?"

"Yes."

"What? Emily Prentiss?" Garcia asked again, just making sure she had the right end of the stick.

"Yes." JJ assured. "Emily Prentiss." Garcia went quiet and started to become very interested in the ceiling of the Café. a plan was forming in her head to get her friends alone together,

"Buzz. Buzz."

"What are you going?" Interrupted JJ.

"Buzz. Buzz." Garcia repeated.

"Garcia what the hell are you doing" Garcia acted like she hadn't heard JJ.

"Oh, my phone's ringing," Garcia answered, picking up her cell phone that was obviously not ringing.

"Garcia stop being stupid." JJ demanded. Garcia ignored her and pretended to answer the phone.

"Hello?"

"Garcia stop." JJ repeated.

"An emergency at home you say?" Garcia said, feigning concern.

"Garcia, you live alone."

"Shhh, JJ. Can't you see I'm on the phone?"

"Penelope?"

"Okay, I'll be right there, don't panic." Garcia 'put the phone down.' "Sorry, JJ. I'm going to have to go home. You stay here with Emily."

"Oh, I get it." JJ interrupted, Penelope handed JJ some money.

"Here, this should cover my food. See you, bye." Garcia rushed out of the Café before JJ could accept, leaving the two lovestruck women alone together.