Thank you for all of your reviews, they motivate me a lot, glad people seem to be enjoying it. This is a short update, and their actual date will be in the next one. Sorry to split it like that, I've just been busy.
Emily groaned and ripped her shirt off for the third time. Nothing she put on looked even remotely good. Yelling out in frustration, she dug back through her closet. She was not unaccustomed to being nervous before dates, but this was a whole new level. Emily had considered calling JJ and telling her she was sick twice already. JJ wouldn't tell her where they were going, all she had said was to dress casual. Hearing her phone ring, Emily crawled over her bed and grabbed it from the nightstand.
"Hey Princess, how's it going?" Morgan asked her.
"I'm going to die." Emily moaned.
"What? What's wrong?"
"Derek, I have no idea what to wear, my palms are all sweaty and I think I might pass out. I've never been this nervous in my life! Help me!"
"Okay, okay, hang on." Emily heard some shuffling and then Garcia's voice greeted her.
"Your dark jeans that show off your ass."
"Already wearing them"
"Good girl. That red backless top drove her crazy when you went with us to the club."
"I don't want to wear the same thing."
"Do you have anything similar? Anything in red, low cut, or backless and she'll go nuts."
"Garcia I can't do this." Emily whined.
"Do I need to come over there and slap you?"
"Garcia, I am horrible on dates. I get all nervous and do this stupid giggle thing and spit out facts worse than Reid."
"Sweetie that's not possible." Garcia said seriously.
"Garcia!" Emily yelled.
"Okay, okay, sweetie, this isn't some random person you barely know, its JJ."
"That makes it so much worse! If it was just some random person I never have to see them again if I don't want to. JJ is my friend and my coworker, I'll see her all the time."
"Yeah...that's true, but what do you think is going to go wrong?"
"I could say something stupid, or it might just be awkward or..."
Garcia cut her off. "Stop it. Sweetie, I have known JJ a long time, and I can tell you that I have never seen her so into someone before. Your not going to do anything wrong."
Emily was silent for a few moments. "Red or black?" She finally asked. She could practically hear Garcia grinning through the phone.
"Are either low cut or backless?"
"Red is low cut, black is backless."
"Low cut, red definitely." Morgan's voice said as he took the phone back from Garcia.
"How would you know?" Emily asked him with an annoyed tone. She crawled off her bed to find the shirt all the same.
"I've gone out with JJ before, I know what catches her eye."
"I'm going to pretend you didn't say that because it makes me oddly jealous."
"Good." She heard him say with a laugh. "Now, get dressed and have a great time. I expect details tomorrow."
"Not a chance." Emily said with a smirk, and promptly hung up on him. She yanked the shirt on over her head and stared at herself in the mirror. It wasn't half bad. Grabbing her purse and a light jacket, she headed downstairs to wait.
JJ pulled around the block in front of Emily's apartment for the third time. She had been much to early and felt like a creeper circling the block. She had called Garcia almost twenty times since leaving the bureau for the day and she was sure she had driven the technical analyst completely crazy.
"Jayje, really? Chill out." Garcia told her after she called her again from the car.
"Garcia! I don't do proper dating well. I don't really do it at all! I have no clue what to do. Emily is rich, she's probably used to crazy fancy restaurants and shit."
"JJ, whatever you do, she'll love."
"How do you know?"
"Because she likes you! God, between the two of you I swear to god!"
"What does that mean?"
"It means, Morgan just hung up with her after I was calming her down and you so rudely interrupted for the millionth time!"
"What?" JJ asked, shocked.
"Look, I love you both, but quit talking to me. I mean it, your both freaking out and using me as a middleman and I can't do it anymore! Go make out with her and leave me alone!" JJ sat in her car, speechless after Garcia's rant. She heard her friend take a deep calming breath. "Jayje, I meant that in the most supportive, nicest way possible. You're both freaking out over nothing, you like each other, go have fun."
"Thanks Penelope."
"Anytime. And I expect details tomorrow."
JJ looked out her window and could see the silhouette of a nervous Emily pacing back in forth in her living room. JJ grinned and got out of her car. "Not a chance Pen." She said as she hung up the phone and walked up the steps to greet Emily.
