Okay, so I'm on vacation and I get this idea for a story so naturally one night I stayed up and wrote it. Please enjoy and give reviews! It is complete and I will be posting a couple of chapters at a time, as I proofread it. For those of you waiting for the next installment of "The Session" I will be posting it in a couple of days.
Chapter One:
"Sara, I don't want a child." The words were harsh and Sara felt as though she couldn't breathe. She had asked him to be honest and for once she had wished he would have lied or not been so frank. The words echoed in her head over and over. She stared out of her apartment window as their last encounter replayed in her head.
"Grissom, I'm not getting any younger and I'm ready to begin a family. I never dreamed you would be so opposed to this," whispered Sara as she tried to hold back the tears.
"Sara, a child would only complicate our lives. I don't want to change us. If we had a child I'm afraid it would be the end of our relationship. Couldn't you be happy with just us?" His voice was almost pleading but Sara had not noticed. She had wanted the conversation to turn out different. She had been trying to tell him that she was already pregnant but now she felt complete isolation. She stormed out of the townhouse and never went back.
Even days after she submitted her request to be switched to the swing shift Grissom did not call. She had hoped that once he knew how important the subject matter was to her, he would reconsider. When he didn't extend the olive branch, Sara realized she was on her own.
She was surprised when she ran into Jared Robertson after all these years. She had accidentally bumped into him at a drug store. He glanced at her contents and congratulated her. She blushed at being caught with the prenatal vitamins. She blushed even more when he asked for the name of the lucky man. Their light conversation landed them into the nearest coffee shop where he discussed his life in politics. She didn't bother telling him that anyone could pick up a newspaper and read about his life. She on the other hand, was able to sum up her last ten years in just a few short sentences. He took her by surprise when he asked if she was married. He had always been direct with her. It was one of the characteristics she had admired in college. You didn't have to guess what Jared Robertson thought of you. He was very frank and candid. They had dated for several months in college but she had broken it off when he wanted a more intimate relationship. Sara enjoyed his company but she could not see herself spending the rest of her life with him. She particularly hated the political chaos that followed Jared. He came from a prominent family that lived and breathed politics. Jared had gone through a rebellious stage in college and had even considered departing from the political scene but his mother would not hear of it and after being cut off financially, he decided that politics wasn't so bad after all.
Sara wasn't quite sure why she confided in Jared. Perhaps it was because she needed someone else besides Nick. She had always been able to tell Nick everything and anything. When Jared learned that Sara had no intentions of marrying the father of her unborn child, he made her an offer she never would have accepted before, marriage.