Chapter Seven:
Chapter Seven:
Sloans
Lia walked out of the R-Sims room, it was almost 9:00pm and she was now officially leaving the office, no matter what. She noticed that Emily and Matt were still in the office too. Lia walked over to where her friends were still working.
"Hey Matt and Emily, you guys working late too?" Lia asked.
"Yeah paperwork is never ending" Emily replied.
"Finished it tomorrow, I'm headed to Sloans, a few of the guys went there earlier. Come over with me" Lia said
"I don't know." Emily replied trying to think of an excused why she couldn't make it. She already had plans with the guy sitting next to her.
"Oh come on, neither of you have been to Sloans in ages." Lia reasoned. It was true in the past month Matt and Emily had been spending every spare moment they had together in various hotels. They had been blowing off their friends and were slowing running out of excuses.
"Mathers is right Lehman let's finish this in the morning" Matt said. He would have rather been heading to the Marriott with Emily but Lia was a lot harder to lie to than Frank and the boys and Matt knew how important it was for them to keep their relationship private.
"Alright, sounds fun." Emily replied.
The trio left the FBI building and headed around the corner to Sloans. Once there they joined the rest of their unit that was sat in a booth across the bar.
"Hey Lehman, Flannery, and Mathers" Frank said a little too enthusiastically.
“Whoa Frank, you are differently no longer feeling any pain." Emily said laughing as she got into the booth next to him and Matt sat next to her. Lia sat across from them joining Jack Temple another agent of the CNU and Duff.
"Do a few shots of tequila Lehman and you'll catch up to me" Frank suggested
"How about no" Emily said. Just than the waitress Lori, came to take the latest arrivals' drink orders.
"So what will it be tonight?" Lori asked.
"Porn Star for me please" Emily said
"Beer, Budweiser. Please" Matt ordered
"Double white Russian” Lia said
"Wow someone is hitting it hard tonight" Emily said to Lia.
"Yeah I just spend like the last four hours logging in this new program on the computer. It's actually pretty cool it allows me to..." Lia said excitedly but Matt cut her off before she could finish her sentence. "Mathers when you start talking computer talk all I hear is blah, blah, blah"
"Yeah sounds like the teacher from the Charlie Brown cartoons." Emily said tensing her friend
"You two are very funny" Lia said sarcastically.
The drinks arrived and the guys soon started a conversation about football and cars while they were having their conversation, the girls started an interesting one of their own.
"Are you seeing anybody Emily?" Lia asked
That’s a bit random. Why are you suddenly interested in my personal life?" Emily asked
"I'll take that as a no. I know this guy Colin I think you two would hit it off" Lia said
"Would it happen to be Colin Farrell? Because that is the only way I'm going to consider letting you set me up on a blind date" Emily replied taking a sip from her drink.
"You are hilarious" Lia said "He's a really great guy; he is a paramedic over at Mercy General Hospital. You would really like him" Lia continued to talk up this guy, however Emily was no longer listening to her, she was lost in her own thoughts. She knew how persisted Lia could be and without telling her that she was seeing someone, Emily knew she wouldn't drop it. And the problem with telling Lia that she was seeing someone was that Lia would integrate her for as much information as possible which meant it would be only a matter of time before she would figure out the guy Emily was seeing was Matt. And for some unknown reason when it came to Lia, Emily could not straight out lie to her. Plus this thing with Matt was suppose to be causal, Emily try to tell herself; after all it was her rule.
"Fine, Lia you can give him my number" Emily said surrendering.
Matt was also lost in his thoughts. The moment he heard Lia mention seeing anybody and blind date to Emily he had stopped listening to Frank discussing why the eagles were the team to beat this year and started to listen to the girls' conversation. He couldn't believe his ears when he heard Emily agree to the date. He was well aware that they had been only seeing each other technically for a month and it was suppose to be casual. But lately he was starting to get the impression that there could be more to the relationship than just what was happening underneath the sheets. He certainly did not want to see anyone else; he thought Emily was on the same page as him.
"Hey where are you going?" Emily asked Matt as he got up from his seat.
"Bathroom, you suddenly need a play by play of my whereabouts" Matt harshly replied.
"Gee I thought you ordered a beer not an instant bitch cocktail." Emily replied sarcastically. Matt just glared at her as he walked on to the back of the bar to where the washrooms were located.
Duff and Lia blew out laughing at the scene that had just unfolded in front of them. "What is so funny?" Emily asked. She was annoyed and a little confused by Matt's actions.
"You two remind me of my parents" Lia told her
"What?" Emily questioned
"You know, you two fight like an old marry couple. It's actually pretty cute" Lia responded.
“Lehman, Flannery and you should just sleep together and get it over; it's the only way to get rid of the sexual tension you are feeling" Duff suggested.
"Ok, you are both crazy." Emily said "Now I think I need a refill" She said, getting up and walking towards the bar but instead of getting a refill, she headed back to the washrooms, hoping to catch Matt on his way out and figure out what the hell just happen.
"Are you stalking me now?" Matt asked when he walked out of the washroom and saw that Emily was leaned up against the wall waiting for him.
"You want to explain to me what the attitude is all about?" Emily whispered.
"Not really" Matt answered. He was about to walk away from her when she grabbed him and pushed him into the girls' washroom and locked the door. "Emily, you do realize this is the girls' bathroom?"
"Yep and we're not leaving until you tell me what the hell is going on in that head of yours" Emily demanded
"So are you really going out with that guy?" he asked
"Oh that's what this is about" She said smiling and wrapping her arms around his neck. "You’re jealous"
"Hardly" Matt replied pushing her away "I'm concerned" He notice the look of hurt in her eyes when he pushed her away from him but chose to ignore it.
"Concerned?" Emily repeated.
"Yes, concerned for my health. We're having sex therefore when you go out with other guys, I become concerned I might catch something" Matt said cruelly
Emily couldn't believe her ears. "Go to hell Matt" She said opening the door and walking out.