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Chapter 6: A Family thing

The next day at School the gang was so happy that they couldn't stop smiling and talking about the newest member of the family and the girls couldn't stop looking at the pictures they took of Little Gil, so it was a very good day for all of them.

The bell rung for them to go to the last class of the day and Stephanie goes to her locker, to get the books she needs and gets rid of the ones she didn't and when she shut her locker she was smiling, this was her favorite part of the day, her favorite class because one it was like a free period and she could do homework at this time unless she had a lot of helping with grading papers, or putting scores on the computer or making copies and two she gets to spend time with her favorite teacher.

The more she hears him talk the more she is falling further and she can't believe he only came into her life a week ago but she better get a handle on what she is feeling because her parents are starting to look at her funny and asking more questions and she can only imagine on how they will react if they find out her deepest crush is her teacher especially her father. She sighed and at that point Amelia was standing next to her putting her stuff in the locker and asked. "What?"

"Oh nothing."

Amelia shut the door looked at her best friend and said. "Your thinking about Mr. Lewis aren't you?" She said that in a teasing tone, Stephanie just looked at her, shook her head and started walking.

Amelia sighs this time, caught up with her and spoke again. "I am sorry but Stephanie seriously you need to get a handle on whatever your feeling for the guy, I mean he has only been in this school for a week and you already can't stop staring at him every time we are in class or when he is walking by, soon people are going to notice and I can only imagine how you are when you are alone with him."

Stephanie narrows her eyes at her and said. "What are you saying? I can't control myself? I am not like you wanting to jump my boyfriend every five minutes."

Amelia looked at her best friend with hurtful eyes and started walking past her, Stephanie sighed, ran up to her and said. "listen I'm sorry, I know your relationship with Jarred is more than that, I am just frustrated because I know your right, I have all these deep feelings for somebody who is totally and completely off limits and if I don't stop staring at him the wrong person could find out and It could be really bad, but the one thing I can do is control myself, it's my heart I am afraid of."

Amelia looks at her, accepted her apology and when they stopped at Mr. Lewis's room Amelia talks again. "I am just worried about you."

"I know you are but what do you think I am going to do ask him to play strip poker, go at him like a crazy animal while the principle and school board are watching, eating popcorn." Stephanie smiles teasingly and Amelia busted up laughing then Stephanie joined, when they calmed down Amelia spoke again. "very funny Steph but seriously I just don't want to see you get hurt, I can tell your feelings are strong and different then before but not only is he your teacher he is also a lot older than you, so be careful and you know I am always on your side."

She smiles, Stephanie smiles back gives her a hug then when they pull back Stephanie speaks. "I know, now get to class before your late."

Amelia nodded and she turned to head to class, Stephanie watched her for a minute then opened the door and walked into the classroom, then she stood in the doorway while the door closed behind her and looked at Mr. Lewis sitting at his desk with his head looking down at something.

He was wearing that blue shirt she liked him in and she started to stare like she was in a trance, she knew she should stop doing that but she couldn't help it, he was everything she was looking for in a man the only problem was he was off limits and even if she could date him, she figured the feelings were one-sided and that made her sigh and she must had done that too loud because the next thing she knew he lifted his head up and asked. "are you ok?"

She snapped out her trance state, nodded her head, walked to her desk and said. "Yeah, I'm fine."

Jason nodded his head buying what she said, then stood up, grabbed a stack of papers and walked over to Stephanie and asked. "Can you grade these?"

She smiled, took the papers when he was close enough and said. "Sure."

She sets them down on her desk and was about to sit down when she saw he was looking at her, she raised an eyebrow and said. "You want to say something?"

Jason nodded his head and said. "Yeah, I couldn't help but notice that your little group of friends seemed happy today."

"Oh, well my nephew was born yesterday."

Jason smiled and said. "Congratulations."

"Thank you."

He smiled, then changed his look, She looked at his face and he seemed puzzled about something, so she asks. "What are you thinking?"

He replies a second later. "Well I know a baby is good news but their happiness seemed like it was part of their family too, you know what I mean?"

Stephanie nodded, smiled bigger and said. "Well in away it was, you see Roses brother is married to my sister."

"So it is like a family thing?"

Stephanie nods and she speaks before she thinks. "you have no idea."

Intrigued he says. "sounds interesting will you tell me?"

She raises an eyebrow and said. "You want to know?"

As his answer he walks over to the desk next to hers, sits down and looks at her, she sits down in her seat, looks at him clears her throat and begins to tell him the tangled web called her family.

When she was done, it took him a few minutes to find his voice and when he did he said. "Wow, I guess that's one way of keeping it in the family." She nodded and looked down at the papers she hasn't graded and after a few minutes of silence Jason speaks again. "so I can see you went outside of the 'family.'" He used the air quotes around the word family.

She looks up confused and said. "huh?"

This time he speaks before thinking. "Dating wise, you're not dating anybody from the 'family'." She looked at him wide eyed, he looks away after realizing what he just said, then he got up, cleared his throat and said. "I'm sorry that was an uncalled for statement."

He looked down and She looked at him and he really did look apologetic but she couldn't help but tease him for a minute so she said smiling. "How do you know I'm not?"

There was still two available men in the 'family', Jim Jr. and Justin. She looked into his eyes and could have sworn she saw a little hurt, but the look quickly went to fast for her to be sure, she shakes her head and said. "Your right I am not dating anybody from the 'family'." And as she was turning her head away from him she mumbled under her breath. "And unfortunately not outside of it either."

Jason heard it and his heart soared, he didn't want to think that another man was with her, holding her hand, caring her books, kissing her. He shook his head from those thoughts, He knows he shouldn't be feeling this way but like her situation He was falling for her and not only because he thought she was beautiful but because she had this thirst for knowledge that he liked and he knew that when he was standing up in the classroom teaching she was always listening wanting to know as much as she can and not only staring at the way he looks, she was different.

Jason's thoughts were interrupted when he head Stephanie speaks. "Mr. Lewis are you ok?"

He mentally shook his head again then said. "yeah, I'm fine." she nodded and he turned and walked back to his desk with Stephanie watching the whole way and when he turned to sit down, Stephanie looked away and started grading the papers.

Jason sits down and looked over at Stephanie grading the papers, he wished things were different but also in the back of his mind he was wondering even if they were the same age would she even be interested in dating him? he mentally sighed again and looks in his daily planner and started writing what he wanted to teach tomorrow.

After 25 minutes, Stephanie gets up from her desk, grabs the papers she had graded and walks over to his desk and hands them to him, he smiles grabs them from her and said. "Thanks Ms. Grissom."

"No problem." She then turns and walks back to her desk.

When she got there he speaks. "The first day of class when you were talking about the butterflies how did you know all that stuff."

She sits on top of her desk, turns toward him and said. "How long have you wanted to know if I was related to Gilbert Grissom?"

He smiles walks over to her row of desk and sits three desks down from hers and said. "Since I found out your last name."

"yes, he is my father and he is partly the reason for me loving and knowing so much about butterflies." He nods and She speaks again. "So I take you know him?"

"I know of him, before my parents got a divorce one of my cousins went to a seminar of your fathers at UCLA and when she came over and talked about it, I hoped one day I would get to hear him speak, even though my cousin said that he was a little dull as a speaker but what she said got me interested." She nodded her head and he continued. "But by the time I was old enough to attend one of his seminars I found out he stopped doing them." Stephanie looked down and Jason speaks again. "What?"

She looks back up and said. "He stopped doing them because he turned deaf and he didn't want people outside of our family to know about it." He nods in understanding and before he could speak, she spoke and once again she wasn't thinking before doing that. "You know if your interested, I could maybe talk my dad into talking to you."

After she said that it was like his whole face lit up like a little kid and that made her heart soar big time, he maybe athletic but she could defiantly tell this man was a science geek just like most of her family members. He smiled and said. "You really can do that?"

She didn't want to sound like she got everything just by asking so she just said. "I can try but I won't promise anything."

He smiles, gets off the desk and when the bell rung saying it was the end of class, she gets off the desk and before he thought of what he was doing, he walks over to her and brings her into a hug and the moment she was in his arms, they both felt that spark.

Stephanie was shocked at first with the sudden hug, then she tensed but before she could relax and enjoy it, he steps back embarrassed and said. "Stephanie I am so sorry I don't know why I just did that, I shouldn't have done that." He really meant that but he will never forget what it was like to hold her even if it was just for a second.

She shook her head and said. "Mr. Lewis it's ok." And she also really meant that but she will never forget what it was like for him to hold her in his arms.

They look at each other intently with their hearts beating fast. After a few minutes their spell was broken when the class room door opened, they turned to the door and Amelia was standing in the door way and she speaks. "Stephanie I need a ride, Jarred text me and said they scheduled a last minute practice."

Stephanie nodded, cleared her throat to control her heart rate and to take the dryness away from her mouth then said. "Yeah ok." Stephanie grabs her bag, looks at Mr. Lewis and said. "Have a good day Mr. Lewis."

"You too." then he looks at Amelia and said. "And you."

Amelia just nods, and steps out of Stephanie's way when she was by the door, Stephanie looks back at Mr. Lewis and he was looking back at her they had eye contact for a minute then she walks out the door and when the door shut that's when Jason calmly took a breath and let it out and thinks. 'Good going Jason do you want to get fired.' He was just so excited that he might get to see his favorite idol as a kid and he acted on what he felt, he was just happy that nobody else saw that or he could be in serious trouble. Then he sighed and locked that memory in his mind and goes back to his desk and starts putting the students scores for their papers on his computer.

When Amelia and Stephanie was walking to her vehicle, Amelia was talking the whole time but Stephanie was in her own little world, she couldn't believe that he hugged her and she got to admit that it was nice seeing that side of him and like her, he was really interested in learning more and that just made her like him more then she already did, if that was possible.

When they get to her vehicle and got in, that's when Amelia got her attention. "Stephanie did you hear a word I said?"

Stephanie blinks a few times looks at her and said. "Huh, what?"

Amelia just shook her head and said. "Never mind, So tell me what happened? Did your hands bump into each other."

Stephanie had just put her keys in the ignition and sharply looked back at her friend and with her heart beating faster each minute and her mouth getting dry she said. "what did you say?"

Amelia looked at Stephanie and she looked like she was just about to freak out so she said. "I was just joking you know what I meant, did you make sure that when he handed you the papers to grade that your hand touched his."

Stephanie wanted to laugh at what she said and she wanted to tell her that there was more than hand touching and that she was in his arms but she shouldn't, so she mentally calmed herself and said. "no nothing like that."

Amelia just shook her head and turned on the stereo to her favorite station with the loud music. For today Stephanie was glad because she was afraid that if they continued to talk about today she might have told her what happened and she wasn't ready to share, she wanted to keep that memory locked away for herself right now.

With one more calming breath, she started her vehicle and got out of the parking lot and took Amelia over to the college so she could watch her boyfriend practice basketball, then when she drove home she had that special smile on her face the whole time.

Later that night she asked her father if he would do a special lecture for her history teacher and when she explained to him that Mr. Lewis was an entomologist at heart and had always admired him, Grissom said he would do it but would like for her and Sara to be there to translate any questions he might have so it would go smother and Stephanie had no problem with that because now she got to hear and be around her two favorite men in the world.

So the fallowing day, Stephanie told Jason it was go on Friday and he kept apologizing for what happened and Stephanie kept reassuring him that it was ok and that she was fine. After the talk they became comfortable around each other again and both were really happy about that.

AN:Well Mr. Lewis is coming over, wonder how that will go. Please Review.