CSI: Break Away
Chapter 1 of a new CSI story. It's been a while since I did one of these, hope you enjoy it :)
Disclaimer: I don't own CSI or it's characters.
Chapter 1
It had been four years since the Korzhakov's move next door to the Kennedy's. Due to them falling in love at the tender age of fourteen, Sharon and Yuri had split up a few times and dated other people. But these relationships always ended badly and they would end up coming back together to comfort each other over the failed relationships. Now at eighteen they had realized that they were always happiest when they were together and were still going strong. While Sharon occasionally wore contacts she had now stopped and gone back to wearing her glasses, mainly due to Yuri's comment that she looked even cuter with them. The group was currently at school, Sharon and Yuri sat together, she rested her head on his shoulder while he had his arm around her. Sitting with them was Sharon's fourteen year old sister Susan and fourteen year old Tonya Stokes, Sharon and Susan's cousin. Sharon looked around for a moment before speaking.
"Say, where's Sam and Holly?" She asked.
Sam was Tonya's twin brother while Holly was the sixteen year old daughter of Gil and Sara Grissom; they were all close friends of the family and therefore Holly was considered a cousin in all but blood.
"Don't know where Sam is?" Tonya replied shrugging, "But I think Holly is with Mark."
Mark Wallace was seventeen year old student who Holly had taken and interest to, they had been dating for three months now.
Yuri nodded, "Either that or she's still in the entomology club."
The others all laughed a little at that; while initially freaked out, they had gotten used to the fact that Holly had inherited her father's love of bugs.
It was then they saw Sam approaching, something about the smile on his face piqued their interest. He sat down, still smiling.
"Hey guys." He greeted cheerfully, they all returned the greeting and then Tonya asked, "What are you so cheerful about?"
Sam immediately looked flustered.
"Nothing." He lied, the blush on his cheeks was a dead give away. Tonya shook her head, "Nice try dear brother, now what are you hiding."
"It's nothing, really." Sam mumbled, Tonya however noticed something sticking out his pocket and grabbed it, Sam jumped when he realized. "Hey give that back."
Tonya simply smirked as she read the slip of paper.
"Hmmmm, a phone number." She stated much to the others amusement, "Who is Tara?"
Sam's face seemed to be doing an impression of a tomato as he snatched the slip of paper back.
"You never told me you had a girlfriend Sam." Tonya teased, Sam shook his head, "She's not my girlfriend, I only met her today."
"But she gave you her number, maybe she's interested." Susan stated, Sharon then added, "C'mon Sam, if she's interested you should ask her out."
Yuri agreed and Sam sighed.
"Fine, I will." He replied, "Just get off my back guys, let do things when I'm ready."
They all nodded and, after some prompting, got Sam to tell them what he knew about Tara.
While they were talking a girl of fourteen approached their table. She was roughly the same height as the twins, with shoulder length shiny blonde hair and sparkling blue eyes. Although still young and therefore not fully developed she had a stunning figure. She stopped in front of their table, smiling.
"Hey, gonna introduce me to your friends Sammy?" She asked.
Sam blushed as the others laughed at her nickname for him.
"S-sure." He stammered, he indicated each person as he introduced them. "This is my twin sister Tonya, my cousin Sharon Kennedy, her sister Susan and Sharon's boyfriend Yuri Korzhakov."
The girl nodded and smiled at them all in turn.
"Nice to meet you all." She stated as Sam introduced her to the group, "Guys, this is Tara, Tara Williams."
The others all returned the greeting, smiling.
'So this is the girl who gave Sam her number.' Tonya thought to herself.
Tara sat down next to Sam and looked around.
"So, is this everyone?" She asked, Susan shook her head. "No, our cousin Holly and her boyfriend, Mark, aren't here."
Tara nodded smiling as she gently touched Sam's arm, Sam blushed deeper but made no complaint.
While they were talking Sharon spotted Holly working her way through the crowd and called out to her. Surprisingly Holly made no motion or reaction and continued onwards, heading out of the lunch hall.
"That was weird." Sharon stated surprised, "Why would Holly ignore us like that."
Yuri tightened his grip on her reassuringly, "I'm sure it's nothing." He stated, Tara nodded, "Yeah, she probably just didn't hear you; it is pretty loud in here."
Sharon nodded in agreement, after all; the cafeteria was full of people and all of them were quite loud. Meanwhile Holly had just parted company from Mark and had cut through the cafeteria on her way to the bathroom. Once inside she hid in one of the stalls and waited, making sure she wasn't followed. Nobody came in after her so she stepped out and stared at her reflection in the mirror.
'Crap, I can't let the others see me like this.' She thought desperately.
She immediately began rooting in her bag, just then her phone signalled that she had a message. She picked it up and read it.
'Where are you?' It was from Mark. She quickly typed back her reply. 'Going to meet up with the others.'
She continued to root through her bag and finally found what she was looking for when her phone rang again. She picked it up.
'Okay, but remember, I wanna talk to you ASAP.' She replied, 'Don't worry, we're in class together after lunch, I'll see you then.'
After he replied to that and ended the little message conversation she got work using the make up she had taken out of her bag. Once she was done she left the bathroom and returned to the cafeteria. When she made it she greeted the others and confirmed that she hadn't heard them before being introduced to Tara. She remained with the group, she occasionally joined in the conversation but they all noticed that she was much quieter than usual, as if her mind was elsewhere. By the time the bell rang and they headed to their next classes they were suspicious. They were certain of it now, Holly was hiding something.
End of chapter, hope you enjoyed it, read and review please.