This is my entry for a
writing contest by ha7lie!
The theme is "Romance"
Word Count: 1840
Due Date: May 31st 2017
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It all started when Agent Effie Hawkins got her hands on the love letters left for her in her small BAU mailbox. They were always anonymously addressed "Secret Admirer" with two little x's beside it, signifying kisses.

She tried to recognize who's handwriting it could be but she just couldn't place it, trying to decide if she should confide in her bubbly best friend Penelope Garcia, to see if she could recognize the anonymous handwritten calligraphy style writing.

Effie finally decided to go for it, the girl slightly hoping the handwriting belongs to Doctor Spencer Reid, her long-time crush that Penelope and Derek know about.

Once she arrives at the bubbly girls office she knocks quickly with the notes securely in her hands.

"Coome in!" Says the sing-song voice of Penelope Garcia through the door.

Effie quickly rushes into the office, shutting and locking the door behind her before nervously running her hands through her short light brown hair.

"What's up my little sugarplum?" Garcia asks her friend.

"W-Well uh, I've been getting these," Effie starts, shoving the notes quickly into Penelope's hands "for a few days in my BAU mailbox, who do you think could be the owner of that handwriting? They're all addressed as Secret Admirer."

"Ooh lah lah my little sugarplum has a secret admirer!" She says excitedly, examining the writing on the paper with a soft gasp.

"What is it Penelope? Do you know who's handwriting it is?" The girl says, slightly impatiently.

"It's Spencer Reid!" Penelope says with a squeal, happy that her friend is finding out her crush likes her back.

"No way! Holy cannoli I'm... I'm going to write a note back and address it the same way he did and leave it in his mailbox!" Effie says excitedly.

"Yes! Yes! My little sugarplum here use my pen and paper and do it now!" The cheerful blonde says handing Effie a pad of paper and a pen.

"Okay!" She says a bit nervously, taking the pen and paper from her friend and sitting in a the extra seat next to her, using her desk as she writes a letter back to her Secret Admirer.

"Dear Spencer Reid,
I have got your previous letters and I too am in love with you. You make my days so much more enjoyable and I don't know what I would do without you in my life. Maybe we can talk and uh, go out for a date sometime?
-Your Not-So-Secret Admirer.♡"

Effie reads over it a few times before taking a deep breath and removing it from the pad of paper, folding it in half before hugging Penelope "Okay I'm gonna do this!"

"You go Effie! I will be the Captain sailing the Speffie ship let me know what happens! This is so exciting." Penelope says, hugging her friend before Effie leaves Garcia's office.

The nervous girl quickly glances around the bullpen, seeing Spencer sitting at his desk, back to her, as he worked on some papers. Good now she could sneak to the break room where the mailboxes were and gently place her folded note into Spencer Reid's mailbox.

Once she put the letter in the mailbox she heard the door opening, jumping slightly and hurrying to act like she was getting a cup of coffee.

"Hawkins, Little Bird, what is up?" Her other best friend, Derek Morgan, says to her noticing her jump away from the mailboxes, piquing his curiosity.

"Well hi there Derek Morgan, it would seem like I am making myself a cup of coffee. What are you up to?" Effie asks, trying to not act suspicious to not gain the relentless teasing of her older brother-like best friend.

"I needed some coffee myself, you seemed a bit jumpy there Effie." He says, nudging her playfully as he grabs a cup of coffee for himself.

And as he does that the door to the break room opens again and this time, Spencer Reid walks through the door. Effie's green eyes briefly locked with Spencer's brown ones, feeling her cheeks heat up as she turns back to her and Morgan's conversation.

"No, no, I'm not at all jumpy Derek, you're just imagining things. I'm just tired from the last case is all." Effie says with a small smile at the man in front of her.

"If you say so," he says with a chuckle, sipping his coffee as he watches Effie's eyes glance briefly at Spencer who was grabbing his mail out of his mailbox.

Effie could feel her heart beating in her chest as she took a sip of her coffee, giggling nervously before muttering out "I have some more paperwork I need to finish, enjoy your coffee" and quickly darting out of the room and to her desk.

Spencer finds himself reading the letter from Effie over and over again in his head, seeing her dart out of the room nervously as he reads her letter.

He rushed to his desk after and wrote one more letter for her, a huge smile on his face as he does so.

"Dear Effie,
I see you figured out who I was, in that case I would love to go out with you sometime. How does tomorrow sound since the Bureau has the day off? We could have a picnic in the park. Call me tonight and we can talk?
-Your Now Not-So-Secret Admirer,
Spencer Reid.xx"

He quickly folds the note and gets up from his seat, walking past Effie's desk while she sat there as he drops the note onto her desk before making his way back to his own desk.

Effie looks up when she notices Spencer drop the note this time onto her desk being since she figured out who exactly was leaving the notes.

She grabs the note and opens it up, reading it with a smile before grabbing her phone to quickly send a text to Spencer "That sounds wonderful, It's a date."

After she sends the message she watches across the bullpen as Spencer checks his phone, a smile gracing his features as he looks over to Effie's desk, their eyes briefly locking as she blushes bright, smiles on both of their faces.

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Today was the day her and Spencer Reid were going out on a date, Effie was nervous to say the least, but she also felt the faint fluttering of butterflies in her stomach as she approached the blanket Spencer has laid out for them in the park, awaiting her arrival.

"H-Hello Effie!" Spencer says nervously, blushing when she smiles at him.

"Hello Spence!" Effie says with excitement evident in her voice as she sits next to him on the blanket.

"H-How are you?" He asks her, smiling shyly at her.

"I'm great! How are you Spencer?" Effie replies.

"I am also great now that you're here. I've waited awhile to tell you my feelings and I was too shy to tell you face to face so I wrote those letters, hoping you'd figure out they were from me but if you didn't, either way, at least you knew my feelings. I was so happy when I saw that note from you, knowing you figured it out, and I'm so happy that you feel the same way. I never thought a beautiful girl like you could go for a nerd like me." he says with a chuckle.

"I couldn't quite pinpoint it because of how amazing your calligraphy was on the letters, I admittedly had to ask Penelope for a bit of help identifying it. But Spencer I've had a huge crush on you since I started working here. You're totally my type, with your cute honey brown eyes and long curly hair and your lovable nerdiness." Effie says, blushing slightly as she feels Spencer's hand intertwine with hers.

"I-I thought you had a thing about holding hands, Spencer Reid?" Effie asks with a smile, lacing her fingers with his.

"Well, with you, it doesn't bother me" he says, smiling at Effie before her stomach growls, both of them starting to laugh when it did.

"We should eat! I made grilled cheese sandwiches and I brought your favorite drink, Vanilla Coke, as well as some macadamia nut cookies I bought from the store." Spencer says with a smile, opening the picnic basket up and grabbing out the neatly wrapped sandwiches and cookies on plates and the two bottles of Vanilla Coke.

"Wow this is amazing Spencer! Thank you" she says with a smile, grabbing one of the plates with grilled cheese, each plate holding two sandwiches each.

Spencer felt his cheeks heating up, him proceeding to grab his own plate with two sandwiches before unwrapping the plate of macadamia nut cookies.

The two started eating their sandwiches together, one hand still interlocked with the other's as they ate.

Once they finished their grilled cheese Spencer offered Effie one of the cookies, to which she gladly obliged and took from his hand, them being the girls absolute favorite type of cookie.

Spencer smiled brightly as he grabbed one for himself, taking a bite of it as he enjoyed the scenery of the park around them. It was a nice breezy sunny day, which made it the perfect day for a picnic.

After awhile of comfortable silence between the two Spencer decided now was the best time to finally muster up the courage to ask Effie to be his girlfriend.

"Uh, E-Effie?" He starts, gently squeezing her hand.

"Yeah Spence?" Effie replies, taking her eyes off the flying birds in the sky to look at Spencer.

"Will uh, w-will you be my girlfriend Effie?" Spencer stutters out nervously, scared of what her answer may be.

Effie's cheeks turned bright red, "Y-Yes! Of course I'll be your girlfriend Spencer. You don't know how long I've waited for you to ask me that."

"And you don't know how long I've waited to ask you that question.." he trails off, his eyes glancing down at Effie's light pink lips before looking into her eyes.

Spencer's cheeks heat up again as he brushes some of the stray hair from her face "W-Would it be okay if I k-kissed you Effie?" he stutters, eyes dancing back down to her lips as he bites his own lip.

"Please do kiss me, Spencer Reid, I would love that very much." Effie answers with a bright red blush making it's way onto her cheeks.

Spencer leans in slowly, placing the hand that isn't holding Effie's on the right side of her cheek as he closes the space between them. His soft lips meet Effie's in a gentle but passionate kiss, her free hand snaking its way into Spencer's hair as they kiss.

The two pull away from the kiss breathlessly, leaning their foreheads against each other's as they look into the others eyes as they steady their breathing.

This day was so perfect, And it's all because of those love letters.

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