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Five stores and three hours later, Sara had two new outfits she was proud to be carrying in the department store bags. She was glowing, happy she got what she wanted and that she had Catherine along side her the entire time. She felt like a lovesick fool, but it didn't matter as long as Catherine still cared for her.
The party was nearing and Sara knew she had to get home to help her brother set up a little more, but as she was about to grunt and apologize to Catherine before asking for a ride back home her phone rang.
"Hello," she answered, plugging her other ear to hear clearly through all the chaos of the local mall.
"Hey, sis, I just wanted to let you know that I had the guys come over and they're gonna help me set stuff up. Have a god time shopping and don't get home until the party. I want everything to be a surprise."
"Oh, I'm okay. You know I have a ride, right? She's going to have to walk into the house with me."
"Are you out with that woman you mentioned earlier," he started to get angry.
"What's it to you? I don't like it when you tell me shit like you're the only one who's going to be there for me!"
"Well, it's the truth. Think about how messed up our lives our, look at mom and dad! We're so fucked up, she'll never want to be with a dyke like you!"
Sara's jaw dropped and felt like crying. His harsh words registered as though she was alone in her bedroom with her father before the torture began. He always told her how useless she was and that no one could love her like he did. A few times after she would protest he would call her a dyke because she didn't like the things he did and the fact that her brother was becoming nothing unlike their parents was something she couldn't live with much longer.
"Fuck you! You'll be lucky if I come home now," Sara spat into the phone before hanging up abruptly.
Catherine stood in shock and worried about Sara as the brunette put her phone away, appearing heartbroken.
"Sara, sweetie, are you okay? What just happened?" Catherine inched closer to Sara and extended her arms to take the younger woman in them for the second time that day.
"Nothing, it was just my brother showing me how much he reminds me of my past. That's all." Sara held off her tears and clung to Catherine for a bit before starting again. "Hey, can we go somewhere."
"Sure," Catherine pulled away to see Sara's face. "Where to do want to go?"
"I don't care. Anywhere but my brother's place and somewhere we can be alone."
"Well, sweetie, I'd love to be alone with you longer, but I think Grissom is starting to get worried."
"Fine, whatever, take me back to the hotel and we can hang out with Grissom. Just as long as you don't leave me…I'll be fine."
"Okay," Catherine nodded and pulled Sara into a chaste kiss, running he hand down Sara's arm to her hand and taking in her own. "Consider us gone."
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Catherine and Sara walked hand in hand up to the hotel room with pleased expressions. The red head knew Grissom wouldn't be keen on the physical aspect of their relationship, but she was only willing to compromise: they would touch, but keep there hands enough to themselves that Grissom wouldn't feel uncomfortable.
They stopped in front of the room, Catherine's back to the thick door with a smug grin as she ran her hands up Sara's biceps, the brunette tugging on Catherine's hips to bring her closer.
"This has to stop when we walk into that room, you know that right," Catherine purred to confirm.
"Yeah, and that's why I'm doing this now," Sara bit her lip and leaned in, passionately kissing Catherine.
Immediately, the red head moaned and smiled into the rapidly deepening kiss, throwing her hands around Sara's neck. Content, the two remained incessantly making out in front of the room until they knew it was time to call it quits for a while, making sure Grissom wasn't going insane without a so much as a call from Catherine reassuring him they were fine.
Sliding the key card into the slot, Catherine giggled at Sara's roaming hands from behind. When the green light gave the women the opportunity to enter, Catherine swatted away Sara's playful hands and pushed the door opened to reveal Grissom lying on his bed with a book occupying him.
"There you are," Grissom smiled, addressing his best friends with worry but his smile filled with relief. "I was beginning to wonder!"
"We're fine, Gris," Sara laughed as she walked up to him, holding her arms open for a hug.
"I can see that…now! How was shopping," Grissom asked as he pulled away from the friendly embrace.
"It was fine until Sara's brother called," Catherine got her two cents in, making her presence known once again as she headed over toward Sara and Grissom.
"He called? What did he say," Grissom touched Sara's arm, giving her comfort he thought she might need as he saw her expression of sorrow and slight regret.
"Nothing, he was just being an ass. He told me to come in with the rest of the guests so I could be surprised at what the place looks like, so…that's what I'm doing." She forced a smile and awkwardly kicked her feet around as they became the heart of her attention.
"If you have any problems with him…you know to call me, right?" Grissom's fatherly gestures were unfortunately becoming overbearing and Catherine could tell by looking at her 'new-found love'.
"Uh, Gil, I think she should tell you if anything were wrong," Catherine stepped in, watching Sara's demeanor soften before she mouthed 'Thank you' to the older woman redirection Grissom back toward his bed. "Why don't you get back to reading your book or something while we come up with something to monopolize our remaining time before the party."
"We could go see a movie," Grissom suggested, though he hated the idea of watching something in a sticky theater that always smelled like urine despite the cleaning crew's efforts to make the place somewhat presentable.
"Wow, I thought I'd never see the day that Gil Grissom actually said that we could see a movie," Sara demonstrated how shocked she was as she approached the bed and plopped down on the edge, smiling.
"Well, if it's something you want to do then I'll deal. After all, you are the birthday girl," he smiled.
"Oh, that reminds me," Catherine bit her lip, too excited to do much else other than head toward the room's closet. She pulled out a nicely wrapped box and handed it to Sara with glittery blue eyes, like crystals though certainly not cold and glacier resembling.
"What is this? You didn't have to get me anything," Sara laughed as she took the gift in her hands.
"I wanted to… After the first time I saw you I thought about all the things to get you and, well, just open it and then I'll explain," Catherine smiled.
Sara took a deep breath and unwrapped the tiny box. When she saw the romantic red suede of the real box she figured it had to be for jewelry. She bit her bottom lip in anticipation and popped the little container open to much delight at the shimmering object inside.
"It's…it's beautiful," Sara's face glowed well with the necklace she slowly pulled out of the box and dangled in front of her with amazement in her expression. Catherine was radiant in Grissom's opinion by the way she raked her eyes over Sara's features. It was a sweet moment he knew meant everything to his girls.
"I love it, Catherine, thank you," Sara smiled, revealing her gap teeth.
The smile was infectious and had Catherine mirroring the action, Grissom following when he saw his colleague flash off her pearly whites.
"Your welcome," Catherine laughed as she smiled into the several chaste kisses they exchanged. After the first consecutive five, the two stopped smiling and got serious. Catherine raised her hand to Sara's cheek and darted her tongue out, running it across the brunette's bottom lip.
Sara happily allowed Catherine access, forgetting Grissom was awkwardly still behind the couple on the bed at a loss for words. Sara advanced and ran her right hand up the outside of Catherine's left thigh, resting her hand very briefly on Catherine's left ass cheek, squeezing the older woman's behind and pulling Catherine onto her lap.
Both moaned and seemed more than ready to enjoy the rest of their time before they had to attend the predicted to be wild party of the now twenty-one year olds. Grissom shot up off the bed and cleared his throat as he bolted past the two women on the bed and into the bathroom. Sara and Catherine weren't completely unfazed by his actions and smiled into another chaste kiss.
"Who knew a tiny little necklace with a red diamond outlined heart would drive people to nearly having sex," Catherine joked.
"Mm," Sara smiled before taking in a large breath then contentedly sighing as she rubbed Catherine's left arm. "I guess we do know."
Both smiled and got up from the bed, walking over to the mirror outside the bathroom, beside the television, and fixing their hardly affected appearances. They shared tiny giggles and playful elbow jabs as they straightened out their hair and applied Vaseline to their plump and slightly dry lips.
Grissom, one giant hand of his covering his eyes as the other guided him through the room, immaturely exited the bathroom. "Are you two still messing around or id it okay for me to look?"
Catherine and Sara exchanged a knowing glance of smug grins and laced their fingers as they went back to the bed. Sara threw Catherine onto Grissom's bed and pinned her hands above and beside the older woman's head. Sara was on all fours hovering over Catherine and smiling so much both thought her face was going to get stuck in that position.
"Yeah, it's fine," Sara lied as she attacked Catherine's lips in an attempt to make Grissom uncomfortable.
Grissom dropped his hand, his jaw soon following the leader when he saw Catherine under Sara playing around the brunette's pant line, dipping her hands into her jeans and raking her hands over Sara's ass.
Sara moaned and pushed her backside into Catherine's touch as the red head's fingertips dug lightly into her skin. Grissom could also noticeably tell Sara and Catherine's tongues were in a heavy duel to determine which one of them was the one in control of the situation, both at a tie from what he concluded against his will.
To him it was one of those rare moments for him where it disturbed him and yet he could not seem to look away. Catherine loudly moaned when Sara dove one of her hands into the older woman's pants hat really set Grissom off. He was the most baffled he had ever been in his entire life and it all because of a little game the women in his life decided to play with him.
Sara made sure to only run her hand along Catherine's core over the panties, knowing Catherine wanted things to move slower and they never actually intended to go much farther than they already had. Simultaneously, completely in sync with the other, they smiled and agreed to a chaste kiss before removing their hands from each other's bodies, wiping there swollen lips and raising their eyebrows at Grissom as they made their way toward him.
"You like the show," Sara asked, almost giving in and cracking up like she badly needed to at Grissom's shocked pale face and agape mouth. Catherine didn't have the self-control and doubled over, sending a shiver down Sara's back that signaled the brunette to let go and laugh her ass off as well.
Grissom shook his head to rid the image of the two of them on his bed for the remainder of his and Catherine's stay and ran his tongue over his now dry lips, working with personal motivation to build up saliva in his mouth since it too went dry like his lips.
"Did you catch any flies" Catherine clutched her sides that were now hurting her like she had been tickled and harshly poked at for at least a good five minutes.
"I'm sure if he did, he would've shown more enthusiasm and would be enjoying this moment," Sara let her laughter subside.
"Ha-ha," Grissom sarcastically laughed along. "Very funny, now let's do something we all agree on?"
Though it was a question, Grissom firmly delivered it. Sara and Catherine both knew to relax and get back to pleasure as usual, without incidents like the previous one and carried on to the rental car Catherine had taken to Matt's place.
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After much debate, the three of them decided on going out to a restaurant for a real meal before snacking all night long. They had a hard time agreeing on a movie because Grissom only wanted to see some science fiction thriller that had recently been released and the women settled on a romantic comedy. When Grissom showed how strong willed he was for his choice, Catherine and Sara turned to each other and grinned before accepting their friend's choice.
Once inside the dark theater, the trio already being late, they got situated as quickly as possible in the left corner of the back row. Sara waited a good ten minutes when the movie had officially sucked Grissom in to the point where she understood he wouldn't tear his eyes away from the screen until the end of the film. When she felt he had reached the point of o return for the rest of the presentation, Sara smiled and made her move.
Catherine felt a hand sliding up her thigh making her jump when she whipped her head in Sara's direction. She grinned, knowing they could get caught and escorted out of the theater but shook her head in blissful disbelief before leaning in to their first kiss among many throughout the entire movie.
"That was interesting, don't you think," Grissom turned to see the two of them still feverishly making out a few seats away from him, Catherine straddling Sara's lap. "Oh, come on!"
The credits were rolling as Grissom forced himself to get up and slap the two of them on their arms, both becoming aware of their surroundings and becoming grumpy and agitated.
"What the hell," both protested to Grissom's way of getting them to keep their hands to themselves and leave peacefully.
"We have…" he looked down at his watch, "less than fifty minutes until the party starts. Let's get out of here. I assume you two need to get ready anyway?"
At the raise of his brows the two of them gulped and knew to get up and get out of the half decent theater.
The walk to the rental car was silent, but Catherine and Sara couldn't keep their hands off each other so they compromised and intertwined their fingers as they held hands to the car. Grissom knew they weren't teenagers but the women sure as hell the raging hormones to match those of adolescents so he made it perfectly clear what the rules were.
"Sara, sit in the front seat and Catherine, get in the back! I'm not trusting the two of you back there together."
"How come she gets to be in the front," Catherine was a bit thrown off and slightly angry that her being older meant nothing more than her losing her beauty faster.
"She'll sit up here because I trust you and your hormones over hers any day of the week, okay? Just do it and let's get back to the hotel so we can have a great time and look spectacular at this party."
"Yeah, okay," the two of them mumbled in reluctant compliance. Grissom smirked and giggled to himself as the two of them got into the car before he did. He was thoroughly pleased with setting the groundwork and having them listen for once.
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