broken love |s.reid|

chapter two

"Hey sugar plum! Wait, what's wrong my love?" asked Garcia as I strolled into her computer cave, pulling up a chair beside her with my head down. Garcia has always been my go to girl on the team, other than Spencer, she just gets me. And she gives some of the best advice.

"Promise to not tell anyone else?" I said, holding up my pinky.

"Your secret is safe with me." she replied, intertwining her pinky with mine before we both kissed our thumbs to seal it in. Call me old school or whatever, but pinky promises are the best promises.

"So what's wrong sugar plum?" Garcia asked, reaching out to hold my hand as she always did.

"I'm sad." I replied, sounding like I was five years old.

"And why would that be?" she asked, sounding as if she were a mother tending to her child.

"Spencer is in love with someone else."

"How does that make you feel?"

"It makes me feel sad because I love him."

"Wait? Actually? Like a more than friends love?"

"Yes"

"Since when?"

"I don't know, I can't even explain it. Everytime I am around him, he makes me so happy, and makes my heart flutter all the time. And whenever I see him with another girl, I get sad. I know that Spencer loves me as a friend, but he doesn't love me like I love him."

"Oh girl, you are jealous. Who is this other girl?"

"Seaver." I said, rolling my eyes as I did so. Even just to say her name made me want to either throw up or punch her.

"WHAT?!" Garcia said, rushing over to close her door to make sure nobody would hear.

"Okay, let me be honest. I want to be with Spencer, but I don't know how to tell him, because what if he doesn't like me like that. I mean, gosh, if he's going out with Seaver, he obviously doesn't like me like that." I said, beginning to cry.

"Oh come here my love." said Garcia, pulling me into a hug. I rested my head on her shoulder for a few minutes before we were rudely interrupted by, you guessed it. Her.

"I'm so sorry- Oh my Abby what is wrong? Are you okay?" asked Seaver, walking in on me, crying like a baby to Garcia. Gosh, does this girl not know how to knock on a frickin door? What is so hard about it? You take your fist and pound it on the door. As simple as that.

"What do you want?" I said, wiping my tears while holding back all my urges to unleash on her. "I mean don't you know how to knock?" I added, sounding extremely annoyed.

"I'm really sorry, Rossi wanted to know if you guys wanted to come over for dinner at his place tonight." the blonde-headed nuisance asked.

"Tell him we will be there." Garcia responded for the both of us. After Seaver finally got her answer, she left to go do what ever it is she does with Spencer. Chills covered my body just thinking of them together. Gross.

"Garcia, I don't want to go. I can't go and see them together. I'd rather go home and crawl into bed and cry forever." I said, leaning back in the chair I was in.

"Oh no no no! You are not going to do that. We are going to get you all dolled up and ready for tonight and make you look like the total hottie you always are. No choices here." Garcia said, getting all excited about dressing me up.

"Ugh. Fine then. And who is we?" I asked praying she wouldn't dare add Seaver into the mix.

"Come on. The girls! All the girls! It's a whole team reunion tonight. So, we will be: JJ, Emily, Tara, Kate, Alex, and of course you and me."

"Wait what about Elle?"

"She won't be able to make it. I called her earlier to see if she was going to come, but she's somewhere in the Bahamas right now."

"Bummer. I haven't seen her in so long." I honestly, wished I got to see Elle again. Even though when she left, it was hard on me and I was a bit mad at her, I missed her everyday. She was pretty much the older sister I never had. But now, I have all the girls on the team, past and present who are all kind of like older sisters and aunts to me.

"I will meet you at the elevators at 5pm, along with JJ and Emily. Sharp. If you want, we can go to your house, or mine. But let me know soon so I can send the rest of the girls the details. Oh and I have this!" Garcia said, pulling out a bottle of wine from her purse.

"My house it is. You're lucky my maid came by today while I was at work to clean." I said, getting up to head back to my desk.

"Thank you Garcia for being my shoulder to cry on. Literally. That's just what I needed. I love you."

"I love you more."

"And let's keep my secret love for boy wonder between us, okay?"

"Your secret is safe with me. Now go work a little before we leave."

"Yes ma'am." I said, heading out of Garcia's office to make my way back to my desk. Of course I had to pass both Seaver's and Spencer's desk on my way back.

"Hey, you good?" Seaver asked as I passed her desk.

"Better than ever." I replied, flashing a fake smile to get her off my case. I finally made it back to my desk, where I sat down and began to finish more paperwork.

"Are you going to Rossi's tonight?" asked a familiar voice behind me. I just knew it was Spencer, so I ignored him.

"Hey? What's up with you? All of a sudden since we got back, you want nothing to do with me." Spencer said, trying to get my attention.

"I don't want to talk to you right now." I said, dropping my head closer to the desk.

"Oh no, we aren't gonna do this today." Spencer said, pulling my chin up with his fingers, softly.

"Spencer, I said I don't want to talk right now." I snapped at him, looking into those brown eyes of his. I honestly didn't want to talk to him ever again, but knew I would have to.

"Fine then. This isn't over yet." Spencer said, walking away from my desk. As I watched him walk away from my desk, back to his, I felt tears burn my eyes. I wanted to cry so badly but knew that Morgan, who was sitting across from me, would know something was up. At this point, all I wanted was to go home and sulk over the fact that I'm going to be single forever. Ugh, why does love have to be so complicated?

Glancing over at the clock, I saw that it was finally time to go. I logged off my computer and grabbed my bags.

"Hey are you ready to go?" I asked JJ as Emily and I stood in the doorway into her office.

"Shoot, yes let me grab my bag and leave this file with Hotch before we go." JJ said, beginning to shuffle a bunch of papers into the case folder. After JJ had everything together, we followed her over to Hotch's office.

"Hey Hotch, we have another case. It's not dire urgent, but I think everyone should be prepared to leave tomorrow morning." JJ informed Hotch, handing him the case file.

"Thank you, JJ. I assume that all of you are going to Rossi's tonight for dinner?" Hotch asked.

"Yes, we all are" I interrupted. "We're headed to my place now to get ready if that's okay with you."

"Have fun. I will see you guys tonight." We all headed down the small staircase from Hotch's office to the elevators to meet an impatiently waiting Garcia. I glanced down at my watch that read 5pm on the dot.

"Right on time." I said, hoping Garcia wouldn't go bonkers because we weren't early like her.

"I guess. Now let's get this party started!" Garcia said, as we all walked into the elevator. My goal for tonight was to hopefully focus on me and not Spencer. I mean it had never been like this before, we have never really fought like this before.