Chapter 1
Even when you're popular and you have a lot of friends, school sucks. After 2 months of vacation school starts again and there is always one student who is late: Junior Mattew Rizzoli. Everybody knows him and everybody wants to hang out with him and every girl wants to be his girlfriend.
The school bell rang and for the first time Junior entered the school while the bell was ringing. The teachers were looking strange at him because he wasn't late this time. He even seemed happy. He immediately walked towards his friends but ran into a girl. It was a beautiful girl. "I'm so sorry. Wait let me help you", he said while taking her books off the ground. "I'm Junior", he said. "I know who you are", she said. "But I don't know who you are. So who are you?" "I'm Claire. But I have to go now. Thank you for helping me." "No prob. Will I see you again?" 'I don't know", she said while she was heading to het classroom.
His friends came to him and they walked to their classroom. When junior entered his classroom he couldn't move anymore because he saw that beautiful girl again so he stood there for a while until the teacher spoke, "Look who we got here, Junior who isn't late on the first day of school. Are you coming or are you going to stand there the whole time?" "Yeah, sure. Like I have a choice", he said while entering the class and heading to the backseats. "Junior, what are you doing?" "I'm taking a seat. Why?" "I don't think so." "What?" "You're going to sit in the front so I can keep an eye on you." "But…" "Do we have a problem, Junior?" "I guess not", he said while sitting next to the beautiful girl.
"Hey", he said but she didn't answer. "So, you're new here?" he asked. "Yes, my mother and I moved this summer because of my mother's work." "What does she do?" "She is the new chief medical examiner of the commonwealth of Massachusetts." "Oh, that's nice. My mom is a homicide detective. But how come you knew who I was if you're new here?" "Your name is on your shirt." "Oh yeah." "Do you want to sit with me during lunch?" "Oh, no. I don't want to intrude." "I don't mind." "If you're sure." "I'm." "Ok."
Not much later the bell rang and it was time for the next class. The time went by and it was now lunchtime. Junior waited at the entrance of the cafeteria like he promiced when Claire was there they went inside and sat down at a table. They had a nice chat till the bell rang. They went their separate ways but they would walk to precinct together. So when the last bell rang they walked together to the precinct.
When they arrived at the precinct they heard a scream from a lady. So when they turned around they were face to face with Angela Rizolli, Junior's nonna. "Nonna, you scared me. What are you doing here?" "I work here." "Since when?" "If you would come outside more and would come visit your nonna more you would know that. And who is this beautiful young lady?" "This is Claire. She is in some of my classes. Her mother works here too. Talking about mothers is ma busy?" "Nice to meet you Claire. I'm Angela. I haven't heard or seen Janie today. Why don't you go upstairs and see what she's doing?" "Ok but can I have a coffee first and make one for ma too. I have a feeling she could use one." "You sure you don't want tea?" "Nonna we have this talk every damn time. And last time I checked I still do,'t like tea. So no, I don't want tea." "Ok, fine. Have it your way." When Angela went to make the coffees Junior turned back to Claire and said, "I'm sorry about that. She can be a bit noisy." "I don't mind. She seems nice. But I really should go to my mother." "Do you know where you have to be?" "No, I have been here only once." "I'll go with you if my nonna is back." "Thank you."
When Angela returned with the 2 coffees they said there goodbye's and went to the morgue. When they arrived in the morgue Junior said bye and went upstairs. When he arrived in the bullpen he didn't see his ma but her partner was there so he went to him.
When Barry Frost saw Junior he stopped doing what he was doing and said, "Hey Junior. How was your first day?" "Hey Barry. It was nice." "Did you just use the word nice to tell how school went?", a voice behind him asked.
It was his ma. "yeah. Why?" "But you hate school." "I know." "And you are smiling." "I know." "And you brought me coffee." "I know." "And you are here early." "Yeah." "Are sure you're not sick?" "Yeah ma. I'm perfectly fine. Is it that strange that I had a nice day?" "Yeah. It is. So what happened?" "Nothing happened." Hey Maur, what are his expressions saying?"
That's when Junior saw the 2 other people in the room. The first one was a woman his mothers age and the other one was Claire. "Ma, I'm fine. Can we go home now? I have a lot to do." "Like what?" "It doesn't matter what I have to do. I just want to go home." "OK. Fine. We'll go home. Frost see you tomorrow. Bye Maura." "Bye Jane.", Frost and Maura said.
When they exited the precinct Jane turned to Junior and asked, "So why did you want to go home?" "I already told you. I have a lot te do." "Bullshit and you know it now tell me the real reason." "Fine. I'll tell you. The girl with that Maura woman she goes to my school and we have some classes in common." "And?" "I like her. Are you happy now?" "Hey, I'm not your enimy here. I just want to help." "Like you show that all the time. You know just go back to work like you always do I'll just be fine on my own. Nonna already made dinner anyways." "I don't like your tone Junior. How about I'll help you with the girl. I know her mother and she invited me for dinner this weekend. You can come with me if you want." "You really want to help me?" "Of course I do. If it makes my son happy. You know I would do anything for you. I'm sorry I didn't show you that enough." "It's ok. I know how important your work is for you. I'm sorry I got mad at you. It was uncalled for." "It's ok. How about we go to the Robber tonight. If I'm correct the Sox play tonight." "I really like that but I'd rather watch the game at home just the 2 of us. If that's ok for you." "That's fine."