Cruel - Criminal minds enemies to lovers

Winter Wonderland of secrets

//The picture above is the inspiration of Athena's dress mentioned later in this chapter so you can visualise it better than I shittily described it lol//

"Are you almost ready? We all want to see!" Garcia's slightly tipsy voice called out to Athena through the dressing room curtain after a particularly boozy brunch.

"I can't figure out which way is the front- both show an insane amount of boob" a painfully sober Athena called back as she wiggled into the dress the girls had picked out for her.

"That's the point" Emily teased

"I'm not going into an FBI party where everyone there wants to either kill me or arrest me dressed like a upper class hooker who works part time as a disco ball."

"Finnne- try on this one."

"I'm not going to a party in a freaking ballgown!"

"It's an event not a party" Garcia corrected "it's being held at a really swanky hotel and the dress code is black tie which means gowns for us dress wearers."

"What's the theme again?" Emily asked, looking through the racks of clothes, "can I wear a pantsuit or like a nice blazer with jeans?"

"There's a fucking theme?" Athena rolled her eyes, hiding back into the  "no wonder there's so many criminals, the FBI are too busy planning extravagant parties."

"Events!" Garcia corrected with a laugh, "and no jeans Emily! The event theme is 'royal winter wonderland' or in other words- princess dresses!"

Her excitable squeal played her out of her dressing room, showing off her waterfall styled, lilac lace dress with a sweetheart neckline and her signature stiletto heels.

"You look beautiful P, like a sweet little princess" Emily complimented.

"Oh my god- you look so hot!" Athena exclaimed through the curtain which made Emily laugh and Penelope blush with a giggle.

"Those are two very different reactions but I love them both" Garica chuckled before going back into the changing room to get into her normal clothes, not that they were less extravagant than a ballgown.

"Have you chosen yours?" Athena asked Emily, coming out of the changing rooms in her normal cloths, discarding all of her options.

"I picked up this but I don't know it's-" Emily went to say holding up a black, sleek gown.

"Oh my god! You'd look insanely hot in this! Like a sexy vampire!" Athena interrupted, looking at the long cape like sleeves and deep V at the front.

"I was going to say it's incredibly expensive"

"Who cares! Money is a scam- how incredibly hot you're going to look in that is worth so much more."

"You're both the worst and best person to shop with- you're going to make me go broke."

"That's what I'm here for baby" Athena winked, sitting down in one of the chairs as they waited for Penelope to come out

"Anything caught your eye yet? We could go back to that one shop with the strapless dress."

"I cannot deal with strapless things, I'm too fussy to keep pulling it up all night and I'd end up just letting it fully drop out of pure laziness" Athena shrugged, "I've still got time."

"It's almost 4pm, we've only got like three hours to get home, get dressed and then get to the event on the other side of town" Emily looked over at her as Garcia strutted out of the dressing room in attempted anger.