Disclaimer: I own nothing of CSI
Life Changing Moment
Jackie had gone into her classroom to start preparing for the next school year, even though school was a month away she didn't want to wait until the last minute to start getting ready and since her friend and teaching partner Sue was also prepping at the school today Jackie thought it would be a good day to go in since she didn't like going to the school by herself.
After she was finished at the school Jackie decided to stop at the mall and grab a couple of pizzas for lunch since she had a coupon for a pizza joint in the mall that was about to expire. After getting the pizzas Jackie was walking back to her van when something sparkly on the cement caught her eye. Jackie bent over to see what it was and noticed it was an absolutely beautiful engagement ring. It looked like it cost a fortune.
"Wow whoever lost this must be devastated." Jackie thought to herself.
Jackie had once lost her own wedding ring, and she'd been frantic, she'd taken it off while she was pregnant so the ring wouldn't get stuck on her swollen fingers. She had found it in a drawer in her jewelry box, she had just accidently put it in a different drawer then the one she normally kept it in when she wasn't wearing it and hadn't realized it, but until she found it she was heartbroken.
Jackie wasn't sure where she should turn the ring in at, the mall didn't have a lost and found and since there were so many stores in the mall she wasn't sure where she should take it. She ultimately decided to take it home and ask Nick what he thought she should do with it, she just wanted whoever lost it to be able to get it back.
"Nick look at this." She told him as she walked into her house.
"Who gave you that, obviously someone who has a lot more money than I do." He quipped.
"I found it in the mall parking lot, I wasn't sure where to take it, what do you think I should do with it?" She asked.
Nick thought for a minute.
"We could put a notice in the paper, saying we found an engagement ring in the mall parking lot, if someone calls about it we could have them describe what it looks like so we know they are the rightful owner." Nick suggested.
"That is a great idea." Jackie said.
Nick and Jackie then went down to the office building the paper written at and placed the notice.
Nick told the paper to put his cell phone number on the notice instead of the house phone number just as precaution to Jackie and the kids, he didn't want some weirdo coming to their house looking for expensive jewelry in the middle of the night, especially because he worked nights and Jackie was home alone with the kids.
The very next day the paper ran the notice and that very afternoon a woman called about it, she like Jackie had suspected she would be, was completely frantic.
She described the ring perfectly.
Nick was confident that it was the rightful owner but just to be on the safe side he set up a meeting for the woman to meet him at the lab at 8:30 the next morning to pick up the ring.
That night when Nick went into work he put the ring safely in his locker and then started his shift.
At 8:30 the next morning a woman walked into the lab. The secretary greeted her with a smile.
"Hi, I have an appointment with Nick." She said.
"Ok, I'll have him paged, he'll be out in just a minute." Judy (the secretary) said in a friendly voice.
"Ok thank you very much."
"You're welcome, and by the way I love your hair, that color looks great on you." Judy said.
"Thank you." The woman said, finding the friendly lady's compliment sort of odd.
When Nick got the page he knew what the meeting was about so he went to his locker and retrieved the ring and then went out to meet his visitor, but when he walked into the lobby and saw the woman his mouth literally dropped open.
TBC…
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