Nothing to Everything

6: Crashed Girl's Night

Author Note: foreign languages are created by google translate and may be wrong, but I wanted to add them anyway.

It was finally Friday and all we had to do was get through paperwork. I had an idea so I pulled out my phone.

Me: Hey, would you be ok with me using your Virginia mansion to host a girls night for me and my friends? I promise I'll clean up after us. I just want to be able to host, but your house has all the fun stuff.Frank: Of course, Little G. I didn't just offer you moving in there and give you a key for nothing. As long as I haven't messaged you saying I'll be there, you are more than welcome to use it whenever.

I smiled then texted the ladies's groupchat.

Me (The Better Half of BAU): Hey, girls night tonight? Frank gave me permission to host at his mansion. Hot tub and pool included. Penelope (The Better Half of BAU): you had me at mansion!JJ (The Better Half of BAU): omg please, i need a girls nightTara (The Better Half of BAU): uhm yes pleaseEmily (The Better Half of BAU): i'll never turn down a girls night

I looked around at all the girls at their desks while they did the same, we all were smiling. Derek looked up and saw all of us looking at each other.

"Oh no. They've planned a girls night. Why don't you ever include the men in your fun nights?" Derek semi whined the last part. "Who do you think we are talking about majority of the night?" I replied and all the females laughed. Derek feigned a heartbreak then we all went back to work. I was working for a few seconds before I got a text.

Emily: I'll come over earlier than the others to help you set up :)

I liked the message then got back to work so I could finish at a decent time. I worked through lunch and ended up finishing at 4:30pm. I packed up and said my goodbyes then headed out. I had already texted my mom saying I was staying at Frank's tonight so I went straight to the grocery store to get food to make. I got to Frank's house at 5:00pm and put on the oven after turning on music. I decided to get a bunch of appetizers we could snack on all night. At 5:30pm the doorbell rang. I opened the door and saw Emily. I had to keep my jaw from dropping since she wore a red pool coverup that framed her cleavage then was loose around her hips and went down to just above her knee. I didn't realize she was dressing up so I put on black skinny jeans with a red loose-fitting cropped tank top thinking I would change into my bathing suit later. "You going to invite me in or just gawk at me?" Emily smirked at me. I moved to the side and motioned for her to come in. She entered and looked around with her jaw practically on the floor. It was a really impressive house, I had the same reaction when I first saw it. I showed her to the kitchen when I heard the oven beep to signify the oven was up to temperature. I put the trays that I had already filled in the oven and set a timer. I had decided to make brownies so I started working on that. Emily sat on one of the counter chairs and just stared at me. "Now who's gawking?" I taunted her with a smile. "I just have never seen someone so comfortable in the kitchen. Are you even following a recipe for whatever you are making?" She sounded genuinely shocked. "I'm just baking brownies from a mix. You just put the powder, an egg, olive oil and water." I shrugged. "I've been cooking and baking ever since I was seven. Frank watched me the first few times, but then was confident I was ok and would go about doing whatever he was and checking in periodically then also double checked I shut everything off when I was done. I would make dinner for Frank, my mom and me when my mom worked late. I love to cook and bake."Emily stared at me in awe while I continued mixing the brownies. I poured the brownie mix in the pan right when the oven timer went off. I finished pouring and then checked on the oven items. Soon everything was either ready to go in the oven or was already in the oven so Emily and I went to go sit on the couch. "This is the first time I've seen you not in work clothes besides the last girls night and honestly, I did not expect this outfit to be your go to." Emily said right as we sat down. "I always gravitated to darker clothing and light colors show dirt and wear and tear faster." Emily looked at me as if she was about to cry, but the expression went away when she saw I was looking at her. Emily moved to sit right next to me and laid her head on my shoulder while she grabbed my hand. Every time she is close to me, let alone touches me, everything is magnified. Every thought, every feeling is like electricity running through my body urging me to be as close as possible to Emily. I laid my head on her head and we just sat there, cuddling and listening to music. Soon the oven went off and I had to get up to check the food. I tried to get up and Emily grasped onto my hand even harder."Don't get up, I'm comfortable." She grumbled in a way that makes me think she started falling asleep. "I have to, Em. I need to make sure they don't burn. C'mon get up with me and come hangout in the kitchen with me." She sighed dramatically which made me laugh while loosening her grip to let me get up. She followed me into the kitchen, but instead of sitting on the stool like before she stood on the same side that I was on and was dancing to the music. I switched which trays were in the oven and started to find serving platters to transfer the cooked food onto. I had gotten all the cooked food onto serving platters and started to cleanup what I could. I laughed as Emily got really into dancing and singing as Taylor Swift's Love Story came on. I was walking past where she was dancing and she grabbed my hand. She pulled me into her and we started dancing together. I was laughing uncontrollably with a huge smile on my face. Emily was singing the lyrics to me as we spun around with her leading. We danced around the kitchen together and she twirled me around then pulled me so close our faces were less than an inch apart. I could feel her breath and her chest going up and down with her breathing. We froze there, in that position with the song continuing on. I was staring at her brown eyes and she was staring at my hazel eyes. For a split second she looked down at my mouth then back at my eyes. We started to close the gap between our lips in what felt like slow motion. Beep beep beep. The oven timer went off and we both instantly separated from each other. Our lips had just been a millimeter apart from each other. Thankfully before I could spiral the doorbell rang indicating we weren't going to be alone. I finished getting the food out quickly then went to the door. Penelope, Tara and JJ reacted to the house similar to Emily's reaction. Penelope gave me a look asking if I was ok and I gave one back to show I would talk to her later. I lead them to the kitchen were Emily was putting the food I had taken out of the oven onto the serving platters. "Woah, Izzy, you went full out on hosting." Penelope said wide eyed looking at the counter full of food. "It's my first time hosting, of course I went full out." I laughed. "If you follow me, we can go to the wine cellar and pick out some wine." Frank had messaged me saying that we were free to drink any of the wine in the cellar. I led them to the wine cellar and I think I heard them all stop breathing for a second when they saw how big it was. "Everything is really well labeled and Frank said we could drink whatever we wanted!" "What does Frank do to be able to afford this house, plus other houses and all of this wine?" JJ asked when she started looking at the wine selection. "I'm actually not sure what he does to be honest, something with a lot of traveling." I laughed after I replied. We grabbed more wine than was needed and headed back to the kitchen. "Shall we go in the hot tub before we get too tipsy?" I suggested and the rest nodded in agreement. "If anyone else needs to change, the bathroom is in the front hallway and then you could also change in any of the bedrooms upstairs that are labelled guest. If you are already changed feel free to pour some wine into any of the spill proof cups and then head into the hot tub, it's all ready. I'm going to go get changed!" I headed upstairs to my room. Penelope followed me upstairs and into my room."Ok, spill the tea. I see it on your face that something happened right before you opened the door between you and Emily." Penelope sounded giddy. I sighed while looking through my bathing suits. "We were dancing around the kitchen. Then all of a sudden I found myself less than an inch away from her face." I gave up trying to multitask and sat down on the bed facing Penelope. "I could feel and hear her breathing and she looked at my lips. We started leaning in, but then the oven beeped and we both jumped away from each other." Penelope's smile was so wide she almost looked scary and she was bouncing up and down like an excitable child in her seat. "Also, pick me out a bathing suit, I don't know the typical suits you guys wear and I already was severely underdressed for the entrances." Penelope got up and started looking at the bathing suit options. "Did you two talk about what happened yet?" "No, by the time I dealt with the food you three rung the doorbell." Penelope threw a bathing suit set at me indicating her choice. I looked at which suit she chose then looked at her, "Did you intentionally choose my skimpiest bikini?" I asked. Penelope shook her head no and started laughing. "But now knowing that and hearing the story of before we arrived, I stand by my choice. Now get changed." She laughed and left the room closing the door behind her. It was a cute bikini. Black with red sparkles high waisted cheeky bottoms and a matching triangle bikini top. I put the bathing suit and a coverup on then headed back downstairs. I opened the wine I chose and poured myself some to bring to the hot tub. Everyone else was already in the hot tub when I got outside. I put my wine and all the wine bottles next to the hot tub then went to the chair area to set down my towel and leave my coverup. I took off my shorts and felt Emily staring at me. Once I got my shirt off and was just in my bathing suit I turned around and saw Emily glance over my whole body then back at my face. She saw me watching her and immediately turned away from me as I saw her starting to blush. I got in the hot tub and sat next to Penelope and JJ while being across from Emily and Tara. It has taken me a long time to be proud of my body and I'm still in recovery from eating disorders. We talked for a while in the hot tub. Every once in a while I caught Emily looking at me. "Ok, I say we put Izzy in the hot seat since none of us remember her first official girls night." JJ said with a smirk that told me I wasn't going to like being in the hot seat. The rest of the girls nodded. JJ faced me to explain how it goes. "So this is how it goes, we ask you a series of questions and you have to answer them truthfully. If you absolutely don't want to answer, you take a sip of your wine." Penelope took my cup and filled it with the wine I have been drinking then handed it back to me. I took my cup then they started immediately. "What's your favorite color?" JJ started off easy."Black and red." "Who's your favorite male BAU member? Besides your dad.""uh, Hotch? I guess." They all looked at me like I was crazy. "Ok, break in hot seat and explain that answer." JJ said while everyone else still looked at me like I had three heads. "I don't know, he just seems like the one I get along with the best. He seems to fully care about everyone and he seems to care about me. He has seemed to fully care about me ever since my first day. Then during the case in Montana too I got the same vibe from him." They didn't look too convinced. Emily looked kind of jealous which was interesting, she caught me looking at her and I smirked. "Ok, hot seat back on." JJ announced. "Last time you kissed someone?" Penelope asked with a smirk."Uh, I think it may have been college? I am not sure." They all looked shocked. "What do you mean you're not sure?" Emily sounded fully confused and shocked.I shrugged, "I haven't really been popular in the love department. In middle and high school I was the one getting asked out as a joke. I wasn't ever popular or even had any good friends besides the people I met while traveling with Frank." Before I knew it I was being attacked by a group hug. "Maybe we should stop with the hot seat, you give depressing answers." Tara chuckled while saying it. We all laughed in agreement and took a sip of our wine. I finished mine in a few gulps which caused some side eyes, especially from Emily. Before anyone could say anything else the house security system started making a loud noise. "What is that and why is it so loud?" Penelope was covering her ears with her hands. I had my phone by the wine and picked it up to look at the alert.