Best date

Best date

“Come on, Garcia, it’s just a date between friends.” she scolded herself when she threw what seemed to be the twentieth outfit on her bed. She barely ever had problems figuring out what to wear. But Derek had told her to dress up a little and she simply couldn’t figure out what that was supposed to mean.

Penelope considered calling JJ for some advice. But that would also mean she’d have to tell JJ all about her date with Derek. Hell, she wasn’t even sure it WAS a date in the first place. Why for God’s sake had he asked her out?

It wasn’t that they hadn’t been out together before. It was more the fact, that Derek had insisted on picking her up at her place and that he himself had called it a date – and the fact that he’d made such an effort to ask her out.

Sighing Penelope opted for a red dress that in her opinion was the closest to dressing up she could get. Besides it fit the earrings he’d given to her.

She shouldn’t have agreed to go out with Derek Morgan! It was simply stupid. She knew where this was going. He would take her to one of his favorite bars and she would surely spend the rest of the evening standing or sitting alone at a table watching him dance with a bunch of hot girls.

But that didn’t necessarily have to keep her from enjoying this evening herself. Maybe she would meet a nice guy to talk to while Derek was showing off what a skilled dancer he was. This evening didn’t have to go bad.

Examining her outfit Penelope nodded to herself. This would do. At least, she could draw the attention of a few guys, maybe even the right one. Yeah, Penelope, keep dreaming!

Two minutes before six p.m. she heard a knock on her door. She could still refuse to open and pretend she wasn’t there. Stupid idea! Sighing she opened and was stunned by the sight in front of her. There he was, Derek Morgan, chocolate tan Adonis, most gorgeous profiler in the world. He wore a black suit, a huge bouquet of roses and a wide grin on his face. Or to cut it short, he once more looked like the cover of this year’s sexiest men on earth calendar.

Smiling Derek reached out, grabbed Penelope’s hand and made her turn around for him. Whistling appreciatory he remarked: “Now that’s what I call dressing up.”

“Well, it’s hard to look good next to you.” she giggled.

Chuckling Derek leaned forward and brushed his lips over her cheek. “Not for you, baby girl.” he whispered into her ear.

The sound of his voice made Penelope shiver. Maybe this was going to be a really good date – but Penelope wasn’t sure she would want it to be. If this date was good all other dates she’d had in the past would just look more… pathetic. Sighing she decided that she would just let go and see were this evening was going.

However, when he walked her to the restaurant, Penelope froze in front of the door.

“Baby girl?” Derek asked and gave her a quizzical look. “Is everything okay?”

“No” she shook her head, her eyes fixed on the sign above the entrance, “this is not okay. Derek, this is probably the most expensive restaurant in the whole district and I can’t…”

“Don’t worry about that, sweetness.” he put her off with a big smile. “I know that you love French food and that you always wanted to come here, so…”

“That’s true, but…”

“No but” Derek grinned and gently tipped her nose, “only the best for my goddess.”

Still a little unwilling Penelope gave in to him and decided, she could just choose the cheapest meal on the menu. Unfortunately, when she skimmed through the pages she had to realize that there were no prices.

She gave Derek a deprecating look and raised an eyebrow: “Why aren’t there any prices on my menu?”

Grinning to himself he replied: “Because I want you to choose what you want to eat and not what is the cheapest meal.”

“I didn’t even know they have menus without prices.” she mumbled.

“Me neither.” Derek shrugged still studying his own menu. “But I thought it couldn’t hurt to ask. Et voilà.”

Her wariness dwindled away the longer the evening got. The dinner was probably the best she’d ever had and they flirted like usual, Derek never at a loss for paying her a compliment and Penelope really found herself enjoying their date – more then she enjoyed any other date before.

A few minutes after they had finished the wine Derek asked for the bill and Penelope was sure this meant their evening was over. She was a little sad because it had really been a lot of fun. But Derek had surely made other plans for the night – plans that didn’t include her.