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Chapter 2: First day of school

September 4, 1961

5 years later

It was a nice, quiet morning in the Grissom household and Betty was in the kitchen cooking up breakfast for her husband and son before they started their productive day, George was a popular botany teacher at a local college and her son was starting his first day of school.

She couldn't believe these last five years flew by so fast and that her son was ready to step into the world of academics and since he was a little advanced at his age, especially in the reading department, he was skipping kindergarten and going straight to the first grade.

Her thoughts get interrupted when she feels her husband's arms wrap around her from behind, she tensed for a few seconds but calmed down when she felt him kiss her on the cheek. She smiles bigger when she saw him smile over her shoulder then after one more kiss he releases her and signed. 'Good Morning.' She nodded with a another smile and as she was putting the eggs on three plates he was walking over to the refrigerator to grab the Orange Juice.

He brings the juice to the table and pours for three glasses then walks back to the refrigerator and once it was back in he goes back to the table, sees the plates and noticed that something was missing on his that wasn't missing on his wife's or son's.

He looks at his wife as she was walking to the table and signed. 'What, no bacon?'

She shakes her head and signed back. 'You know what the doctor told you.'

He gives her a pouty look and signed. 'Please?' She was about to shake her head no but when he gave her that puppy dog eye look and she looked into those beautiful blue eyes that get her every time, she sighed, turned and walked back to the counter, grabbed two pieces of bacon, walks back to the table then puts them on his plate.

He smiles, kisses her cheek, pulls back and signed again. 'Thank you.'

She smiles again. 'You're just lucky I love you.'

'Yes, I am.'

He wraps his arms around her waist and gives her a few kisses then they pull back and she signed. 'Please get Gilbert so he can have breakfast before school.' He nodded and after a kiss on the cheek he walked toward their son's room.

He gets to the door, knocks and said. "Gilbert you up?"

A few seconds later the sound of a five-year old Gilbert could be heard. "Yeah Dad."

Arthur opens the door to his son's cowboy themed room then looks to his right were his son was sitting at his desk, looking at his ant farm.

Watching his son get older the last five ears he noticed Gilbert was becoming more fascinated with bugs/insects. He wanted to know everything he can about them and that's one of the reasons why he was so advanced in reading, the other was because of his mother, she loved to read so she taught him.

Gilbert looks away from his ant farm, saw his father just staring at him so he raised an eyebrow and asked. "Yeah dad?"

Arthur shakes his head of the past, smiled at him and replied. "Breakfast is ready, you better come and eat before your first day of school."

Gilbert sighed with a nod, stood up and replied. "Ok."

Arthur watched his son grab his coat from the back of his chair, picked up his binder and notebook from the end of his desk but he wasn't the excited boy he saw during the summer, Gilbert couldn't wait for school, this kind of worried him so as his was walking by him to go in the hall, Arthur puts his hand on his shoulder and asked. "Hold up little man, what's wrong?" Gilbert looks up at his father with his sad blue eyes then looks down, Arthur bends down so he was eye level with him and asked again. "What is it?"

Gilbert sighed and asked. "What if nobody likes me? I feel like I am different."

Arthur smiles, puts his hand on his son's shoulder and replied. "Who wouldn't like you? You are a great and smart kid and anybody who tells you differently is wrong and yeah you are above average on some things right now and that will probably classify you as 'different' but that's what also makes you so special, somebody is going to recognize that and see that you are just like them. You just watch it, by the end of the school day you'll have dozen's of friends."

Gilbert raised an eyebrow again and asked. "Can't I just try to get one today?"

His father chuckled, nodded and replied. "Ok."

Gilbert smiled, gives his father a hug and said. "Thank you dad." He wasn't only thanking him for that answer, he was thanking him for the whole speech.

Arthur puts his arms around him and replied. "You're welcome son, now let's go get some breakfast."

Gilbert pulls back, nods then runs to the kitchen table, feeling a little better.

Arthur smiles as he watched him, happy that he got his son's good spirit back, then he stands up and walks to the kitchen table too.

After Gilbert got done with breakfast, he stood up while picking his plate and glass up then walks to the sink, puts his dishes in there, runs water on the items then turns around, walks back to the table, taps his mother on the shoulder and when she was looking at him he signed. 'Thank you mother.'

Betty smiled and signed back. 'You're welcome honey.'

Gilbert smiled then Arthur speaks to his son. "If you don't want me taking you to school you better stand out there for the bus."

Gilbert nodded with a smile, kissed his mother's cheek, grabbed his binder, notebook and coat, said bye to his father and ran to the front door then a few seconds later shuts the door behind him.

The parents smiled as they looked at each other then after they stood up he took her hand and walked them to the living room window then moved the curtains to make sure their boy was ok.

Five minutes later the bus stops at their house, Gilbert turns toward the window, smiled and waved then got on the bus.

As it was driving away, Arthur kissed her temple as if saying, he will be ok, Betty nodded then sighed, hoping he will be.

When the bus stopped in front of the school about 15 kids got off, including Gilbert. He took a few steps forward then stopped and looked at the medium-sized, one story, flat-roofed, school building, as a few students walked around him so they could get into the building.

He had been here a few weeks ago to get enrolled in school but the time of the day that he came here there was barely anybody here so seeing a bunch of kids made him a little nervous, he always liked it when he was alone with his thoughts but he knew it was time to be brave and go to school so he took a breath, moved his binder and notebook close to his chest and followed the students into the school building.

Now usually at this time the students were either playing outside on the playground with friends or sitting in the cafeteria eating or doing homework but since it was the first day for little Gilbert he didn't have homework, he didn't have any friends, he had already eaten and he didn't feel comfortable to go play yet, so when he walked into the building he went right to the classroom he had been assigned to.

When he got there the door was wide-open so he takes another breath, walks in and noticed he was the first student in the classroom, which wasn't a surprise because the bell hadn't rung yet, and the teacher was standing at the chalk board writing today's agenda on it.

After a few seconds she turned around and saw a little boy with light brown hair and blue eyes then she smiled at her student and said. "Welcome, is this your first time here?" He had the wondrous look of seeing something new for the first time.

Gilbert nodded his head and replied with manners. "Yes Ma'am."

The teacher smiles at his politeness and responded. "Well you are welcome to take any seat you want, I am Mrs. Watson and class will be starting very soon."

Mrs. Watson had blond hair that was in a bun, she was slim, about 5'6, in her early 30's and had green eyes.

Gilbert just nodded with a small smile and goes over to the first seat in the front row and sat down in a school desk that was made for two students, she watches him for a few more seconds then continues her task.

As Gilbert was sitting down he was looking around the room and saw number charts, the alphabet chart and posters that had words under the object it was showing then he looks down at his binder, opens it up and smiles at the book he put in his binder after he had woken up this morning then he grabs his glasses from his jacket pocket, puts them on and starts reading his cowboy themed adventure book.

He became so lost in the adventures of his book that time flew by and got a little startled when the bell rung for the start of school. He closes his book and takes off his glasses then he turned around in his seat and watched as the students came in and sat down at the empty desks.

As the desks were being filled and he was still sitting alone he turns toward the front of the room then looked down at his binder, feeling sad that no one was sitting next to him but a few seconds later he feels a presence next to him so he looks over and sees a boy just sitting down next to him.

He had short black hair, wearing a stripped red and white t-shirt and when the boy looked at him, Gilbert saw that he had brown eyes.

The boy smiled at him and said. "Hi, I am Larry McDonald."

Gilbert gives him a small smile back and replied a little shyly. "Hi, I am Gilbert Grissom, nice to met you."

"You too, so what do you like?"

Gilbert shrugged his shoulders and answered. "Read and look for bugs."

Larry smiles bigger and gets a little excited. "I love bugs too, we should go look for some at recess."

Gilbert nodded and said. "Ok." Larry nodded back with another smile and before anymore words were said the teacher got their attention and started class.

Gilbert watched Larry for a second then paid attention to Mrs. Watson, happy that he had least made an acquaintance but hoping Larry would become a friend.

Betty Grissom was dusting when she saw from the window that the bus stopped in front of the house then she smiles when the front door opens and saw her son walk in.

Gilbert shuts the door, looks at his mother and she signed. 'How was your first day, honey?'

His was face was neutral for a few seconds and Betty became a little worried then he gives her a smile and signed. 'It was very good, I had so much fun.' Betty smiled and he continued. 'And guess what mom?'

'What honey?'

Gilbert's smile gets bigger. 'I made a friend.'

'That is so wonderful.'

He walks to his mother, gives her a hug then with his books he ran to his room to do some writing homework that was assigned.

Betty watched her son leave the room with a smile on her face, she had to admit she was a little frightened that he would come home not happy and she would have to comfort and reassure him that it was just the first day and there will be other days to make friends but she was glad he came home happy because she never wanted to see her child be sad.

When Arthur came home Gilbert happily told him what he told his mother and he was smiling too then mother and father shared a smile together, both feeling happy for their son and thinking today was a very successful first day of school.

AN: Next Chapter: Another time jump and Tragedy will come to little Grissom family. Please Review.