CSI: Meet the New Neighbours
Chapter 1 of a new CSI story, enjoy.
Disclaimer: I don't own CSI or it's characters.
Chapter 1
It was a bright sunny day as fourteen year old Sharon Kennedy, along with her ten year old sister Susan, sat on the front porch of their home, eating lunch. Sharon smiled as she looked at the flowers that were blooming nearby. Susan heard her sister sigh and looked towards her.
"Sharon, what's wrong?" She asked, concerned.
Sharon turned to her sister, "It's nothing, I was just watching the flowers and…Oh Susan, I just wish you could see them."
Susan smiled, understanding, Susan had inherited their Father's blindness while Sharon merely had bad eyesight and needed glasses, although she had recently switched to contacts.
"It's okay Sharon," Susan reassured her sister, "I'm used to it, besides, you only need to describe it to me, I can very easily picture it in my mind if you do that."
Sharon smiled and hugged her sister happily. They continued to eat, Sharon's gaze fell upon the rose bush at the end of their garden and she shuddered as she remembered the incident from years ago when that dog had attacked her. Ever since then she had been afraid of dogs and hid behind her parents whenever she saw one.
After they finished eating they both heard the sound of a vehicle approaching, they looked around and saw a car and a moving van. They stopped at the house next door and three people got out of the car. There were two adults in their late forties, the man had black hair which was going grey and brown eyes, the woman had dark brown hair and brown eyes. The third person was a boy around Sharon's age; he had short black hair and brown eyes. They were speaking to the people who had got out of the moving van and were moving furniture into the house. They spoke English but their accents were rather strong and sounded Russian.
"Wow," Sharon said quietly smiling, Susan turned to her, "What's going on?"
Sharon replied, "We've got new neighbours, c'mon; let's go tell Mom and Dad."
Susan nodded and both girls, picking up their lunch dishes and headed back inside. They placed their dishes in the sink and headed through to the living room where their Father, Ed Kennedy was watching the news.
"Hey Dad," Sharon greeted; he turned towards them, "Hey girls, how are you doing?"
"Good," Susan replied, before asking, "Where's Mom?"
Right on cue Lindsey Kennedy walked into the room, "I'm right, what's going on?"
Sharon smiled and told them about the new neighbours. After a small discussion they decided to go over and visit them and welcome them to the neighbourhood.
So, after waiting to give the family time to settle into their new home the Kennedy's headed around and Lindsey knocked on the door. The door was answered and all three of the family members stood there. Lindsey smiled.
"Hi, we live right next door and we wanted to welcome you to the neighbourhood," She said cheerfully, "I'm Lindsey Kennedy, this is my husband Ed, and our daughters Sharon and Susan."
Lindsey indicated each family member as she introduced them. The family smiled and the man replied.
"Please to meet you, I'm Pavel Korzhakov," He then gestured to the other two, "This is my wife Anya and our son Yuri."
"Pleased to meet you," Anya replied with a smile as she shook hands with Lindsey and Ed.
Yuri greeted them with a friendly hello and also shook hands, although he was noticeably shy around Sharon, they both blushed and looked away after shaking hands.
"Please, why don't you come in?" Anya offered, "It's nice to meet people from the neighbourhood already."
The Kennedy's agreed and stepped inside.
Later they were sitting in the living room talking away. They spoke about each others pasts. The Korzhakov's had indeed come from Russia, it turned out that Pavel was an ex-KGB Agent. He had retired and they had travelled to America to start a new life. It soon became noticeable to the adults that Yuri and Sharon kept looking at each other out the corner of their eyes. They were quietly amused by this, especially when they would catch each other and look away, embarrassed. It was clearly obvious they were attracted to each other, they all were thinking the same thing however, how long would it take them to act on their feelings. As the Kennedy's began to tell the Korzhakov's about their own history they noticed the surprise on their faces, especially when they told of the several unfortunate incidents that had plagued the family.
"Oh dear, you seem to have made a lot of enemies," Anya stated, Lindsey nodded, "Yeah, luckily they've all been taken care of and we're not under threat anymore."
The two families talked for a while longer and then the Kennedy's left, they politely declined the Korzhakov's invitation to stay for dinner, explaining that, since it was Saturday it was their routine movie and pizza night.
"Well maybe some other time," Pavel replied, smiling, Ed nodded, "That'd be great."
"Well, bye, see you later," Yuri stated, casting a longing look at Sharon until she bowed her head, her cheeks crimson, Yuri blushed too and looked away again.
The Kennedy's left the house and headed back over, they spoke amongst themselves happily. Their new neighbours were an interesting and friendly family, and it was clear to Ed and Lindsey that Sharon had already developed a crush on Yuri. They smiled happily as they got ready for their usual Saturday night dinner pleased to have met the new neighbours.
End of chapter, what do you think? Hope you enjoyed it, read and review please.