AN: Hope you guys are still hanging in there from last nights episode. Here is another Chapter! and once again thanks for the Reviews!
Chapter 3-Clearing the air
The next morning Sara drove herself to school, usually she would get a ride with Travis but this morning she wanted to go early so she could have a talk with Mr. Grissom. She wanted to apologize for what she asked, she still couldn't believe she did that.
All day yesterday she was so distracted that she hardly remembered what she saw at the movies and when her friends started talking about it she kept saying that she didn't remember that part, they would have asked if she was alright but they all assumed that it was Sara just having her brain on school work again.
She stopped at her locker first then went to the classroom and saw that the lights were on trough the window on the door, she sighed in relief wanting to get this conversation done with.
She tries the door knob and it opened. When she stepped in she looked at him and he was looking intently at something then she saw him have a pen in his hand and started to write something. She smiles and he looked up, takes his glasses off and speaks. "can I help you Ms. Sidle?"
Sara swallows and walks further into the room, nods, then said. "yeah, can I talk to you for a minute?"
He nods and sets his glasses on the desk and folded his hands on the table and said.
"yeah sure."
Sara takes a breath and said. "I want to apologize for yesterday's comment it was a personal question and I'm sorry."
He shakes his head and replied. "Thank you Ms. Sidle but you didn't have to apologize." He stopped for a second, took a breath of his own then replied. "I did tell you, you can ask any question." He smirked and the tension that she was feeling left the room.
Glad that he didn't take the question to mean more than just a blurted thoughtless one, even though a part of her really did want to know, she mentally shook that away, then smiled back and said. "yeah you did didn't you?" This time she smirked.
He nodded with a smile and they were staring at each other again getting more connected. Then finally he looked away first to break it, he cleared his throat, then looked back at her and said. "yeah but how about in the future you only ask questions about the stuff we talk about in the classroom."
She nodded and replied. "understood."
He nodded and she was still standing there and he said. "was there something else Ms. Sidle?"
Sara shook her head and said ."no, I'll see you when the bell rings."
Grissom nods again and unfolds his hands, he looks down at the desk picks up his glasses and he hears Sara's voice again. "you know you can call me Sara."
Grissom looks up at Sara and said "And you know I can't do that."
Sara nodded in understanding but stuck her foot in her mouth again by saying. "only when were alone then?" She realized how that sounded and she was going to open her mouth to speak but Grissom spoke. "it's ok Ms. Sidle I understand how you meant it, but if you don't mind I am still going to stick with Ms. Sidle."
"ok, well I am going to go before I stick my foot in my mouth again."
Grissom smiled and went back to his crossword puzzle and Sara watches him for a minute then turns to walk to the door she gets there and before she opens it she turns back to Grissom and said. "will this tension or whatever this is get better?"
Grissom look up at Sara once again and said concerned. "I hope so I don't mean to make you uncomfortable." He never wanted to make her feel that way.
Sara shook her head and said. "I know you don't and it's probably just me anyways, I guess it's the nervousness of a new teacher." She tried to down play it but they both knew deep down that it was more than that, but neither one wanted to or didn't have the guts to mention it because of the situation, so Grissom just nodded and said. "yeah your probably right, it will get better, I'm sure." Sara nodded, and Grissom spoke again. "so will I be seeing the 'Sara' that I hear around school?"
Sara smiles as his use of her first name.
Grissom wanted to see if he could get her to smile when he used her first name and when he did he smiled back and Sara said. "yeah I will be asking so many questions you would have to stop me to tell me to be quiet."
"I don't think that will happen but I am looking forward to it."
They smile at each other once again their second favorite thing behind gazing in each others eyes. Sara nods, turns back to the door and this time she leaves and shuts it behind her. Grissom watches the door shut and smiles bigger, he is going to enjoy teaching today.
Sara puts the back of her head on the door and smiled then sighed in relief, she would like to be in the room with him without any of that awkwardness getting in the way and now she thinks it will happen. She sighed once more, left the hall and goes to the cafeteria where she saw all her friends, she walked up to the table, sits down and said. "Hi you guys."
They all look at Sara and there was a little sparkle in her eyes and Greg said what they all were thinking. "What's going on? there is something different about you?"
They all nodded, Sara shrugged her shoulders and said.
"I feel different maybe I had a good night's sleep." she was going to keep why she really feels like, a secret, they all looked at her skeptically but didn't say anything and went back to eating,
She looks at them and said. "well I am going to get me something to eat be right back."
They all nodded and Sara got up and left the table when she was out of earshot Nick looks at everybody and said. "is it just me or do you guys getting the feeling that something more is going on with her then a good night's sleep?" They nodded and after a few minutes of silence and eating their food Nick said. " so what are we going to do about...?"
He trails off when he noticed Travis near them he didn't even know he was there. "what are you going to do about what?"
They didn't know what to say so Nick said the first thing that popped into his head.
"my girlfriend, Catherine's birthday is coming up so we were wondering what to do."
Travis shrugged his shoulders and said. "well I am sure you will figure something out, have you seen Sara?"
Amanda spoke. "she's getting breakfast."
Travis smiled at them and walked away from the table to go to Sara, when he was out of sight, Greg said. "so what are we going to do about Sara, she didn't even ask any questions yesterday?"
Amanda speaks again. "I say that if she is happy lets not get involved, since we technically don't know what's up with her."
They all had their ideas on what was making her so happy but they all agreed it was her life and trusted her to do what she felt was right.
They look at Amanda and Greg said. "ok but the moment we see her unhappy we get involved, agreed?"
They all nodded and Amanda puts her hand on Greg's shoulder and said. "aww how sweet Sara's brother getting all protective." She kissed his cheek and he got a smug smile then when she pulled back Nick rolled his eyes and said.
"Great look what you did Amanda you got his ego bigger."
Amanda shrug her shoulders and said. "well if my man is being sweet I like to tell him."
Greg smiles and kisses her cheek then says. "Thanks babe."
Amanda nods and Nick shakes his head then goes back to eating the rest of his food.
A few minutes later Sara and Travis comes back to the table and sits down then Sara said. "where is BreAnna and Jim?"
Everybody was too occupied with something else that they didn't see Jim and BreAnna leave the table, they all sighed and rolled their eyes they knew exactly were they went, they wanted to be alone.
Travis looks at everybody and said. "what? isn't it healthy for a new couple to have some alone time."
They all shook their heads and Sara said. "well yeah but all the time?"
Travis shrugged and mumbled something and turned his head and Sara looked at him and said. "what was that?"
He shook his head and said. "nothing." the group knew that there was going to be a fight, so they got up and said bye, and when they were alone Sara turns to look at Travis and said. "what did you say?"
Travis sighed and said. "I was just wondering why weren't we ever like that?"
"Like what?"
"you know like those couples who are just starting out and want to be with them everyday all the time."
Sara shook her head and said. "we were, you know how much I like spending time with you and still do." A part of her wanted to dispute that but she shook it off before it came to her mind.
Travis nodded and said. "yeah I do but we aren't like that anymore, I mean when was the last time we had our 'alone' time?"
He goes back to his breakfast and Sara is just staring at him then finally she talks.
"well I am sorry that you feel like I am neglecting you and not giving what you 'need' but I have a lot on my plate now, Senior year maybe all fun and games for a lot of people but to me this is serious, you know this." She gets up and walks to the trash can and threw away her trash then when she turned around Travis was in front of her and she was going to step by him but he puts a hand on her shoulder, she shrugs it off and said. "I don't want to hear about it right now."
She walks past him and grabs her stuff from the table and walked out of the cafeteria, with Travis watching her he didn't mean to make her mad but it seems like lately that's all he seemed to be doing. He sighed and grabbed his stuff then headed for his first class.
As Sara was walking the bell rung for first period, she couldn't believe what Travis said, he was never that needy before, but she also couldn't believe she blew up like that. The only thing she knew about them was that something was different. Her feelings toward him was becoming different too, she shook her thoughts away for about the billionth time in two days, before they got to far and made her analyze it all, she was not in the mood for that.
She walked to the science room and was the first person in there like always.
She looks at Grissom and he was already standing up in the front of the room waiting for the students, he looked back at her and using his inner investigator senses, he felt that something was off, he watched her sit down, then he looked at the door and nobody else was behind her, he walks over to her desk and whispered. "are you alright?"
Just the sound of his voice made her feel better she looks into his eyes and said. "yeah I will be fine."
Grissom gives her a small smile and when he heard the door open he takes his place back at the front of the classroom.
Sara felt her phone vibrate so she takes it out and saw that she got a text from Travis and it said. 'I'm sorry forgive me?'
Sara sighed and replied back. 'fine, I got to go.' then she turned her phone off and put it up and grabbed her things for the start of class and when she turned her head she saw that Greg was there he gives her a small smile and said. "you ok?"
Sara nodded and then the second bell rung, it was the start of class and Sara put everything that was in her mind that wasn't related to the subject out of it and concentrated on the teacher and what he was teaching and Grissom finally got to see the Sara everybody was talking about and the gang smiled and knew for sure that their best friend Sara was back to herself but with a slight difference to her.
AN: something happens next chapter. Review and find out. I'll post soon.
