"Can I take a shower now?" A deep and low voice behind her said.
"Yep, but be careful." She said slowly getting up, holding herself up by placing a hand on the wall, they both were trying to stay up but somehow they both were unstable and ended up holding on to each other. Her hands on his broad and wide bare chest, one of his hands was on her hip and the other was holding her shirt. She carefully looked up and noticed he was looking straight at her.
For the first time she noticed how beautiful his eyes were, and knew that if she would stare in them to long she would drown in them. The hand that was placed on her hip gripped her and pulled her even closer, now she could feel every muscle of his upper body against her own body and it felt kinda good. She was afraid to look at him but when she did she could see his face coming even closer to hers and before she knew it she felt his lips on hers.
She resisted at first but before she knew it she wrapped her arms around his neck, remembering the last time she did that he moved away so she lowered them but he stopped her, wrapping his own arms tightly around her. They heard something in the living room and broke the kiss. He looked at her carefully, hoping she wouldn't shy away, instead she looked up and smiled at him before slowly walking out of the bathroom leaving him by himself smiling.
He took a quick shower and felt better afterwards. When he entered the kitchen he saw Calleigh picking up pieces of glass.
"What happened?"
"Oh one of the glasses broke." She simply answered. He saw the girls looking a bit afraid, he got a bit mad when it happened a few days ago.
"That stuff happens." He said. The girls looked relieved and went back to drawing. He helped Calleigh and when their fingers reached for the same piece of glass, they looked at each other and she smiled again, which made him smile back. She slowly got up and threw away the pieces in her hand. She got cut buy a small shard and it started to bleed.
"Ouch." She said.
"What? Let me help you with this." He said. She didn't know what was going on between them but she liked it. She was scared as hell and he could tell, he saw the look of fear and he wanted nothing more then tell her he wasn't gonna hurt her, but it would be too soon, he was gonna wait till they would be alone, and by the looks of it, it wouldn't be until the girls were back to sleep.
"Ok which one of you monsters is gonna help me, get some clean sheets on all the beds and maybe put up a spare bed?"
"Can me and Sara sleep in my room then?" Brie asked getting all excited.
"Only if the both of you help me." She said smiling and taking a quick look at Eric, he was smiling as well.
First they took of all the sheets and then made Brie's bed and put up the spare bed, when Calleigh was about to start on her bed the girls were nowhere to be found, when she went to look for them she heard a lot of noise coming from the living room. She found the girls beating Eric with their pillows, he was holding up his hands to fend off the blows, all 3 of them laughing. She quickly grabbed a pillow and attacked him from behind.
"Hey no fair." He said. She had to laugh until he reached behind him and grabbed her, pulling her over the back of the couch onto his lap, she was half upside down and looked at him laughing.
"Think that's funny huh?" He said with an evil smile. She didn't see his other hand grab hold of a pillow until it came crashing down on her. They all had fun taking shots at each other and after a while they settled down. She was still on his lap and tried to move away but he wouldn't let her move. The girls didn't seem to notice what was going on between them and Calleigh was kinda glad.
"Why weren't you 2 helping Calleigh with the bed like promised?" Eric asked.
"We did!"
"Yes, with your beds, but what about her bed?"
"Why don't you help? You sleep there!" Sara said. This made Calleigh blush a little.
"Ok I will help." He said getting off the couch pulling Calleigh with him, she wasn't sure she wanted to be alone with him already but he pulled her to her room and closed the door behind them.
"So let's do this." He said walking towards her bed.
"You don't have to help, I can do this myself." She said shyly.
"Hey you heard my daughter I have to, I sleep here." He said sounding smug. She carefully looked at him and saw him starting to make the bed, she helped out trying to come up with excuses to tell him why she couldn't let him sleep in her bed with her.
"You ok?" He asked, seeing the serious expression on her face. She nodded but he knew what was on her mind and he stopped her.
"Look, I'll sleep on the couch. Don't worry about it, I just got to get up early and sneak in here before they wake up." He said. She looked relieved somehow and he wanted to know why.
"You ok with me kissing you earlier?" He asked now that he had her to himself.
"Yeah." She said in a small voice.
"What's wrong then?"
"I can't tell you."
"Why not?"
"It's… it's personal."
"What? Tell me! Please?" He wanted to know so badly and she heard it in his voice.
"I...I haven't been in a serious relationship in a while, never with someone I work with either…" He raised her chin and made her look at him.
"All we're suppose to do is sleep, not sleep with each other." He said reassuring her. She let out a deep breath, slowly relaxing a little.
"Are you 2 asleep?" 2 voices on the other side of the door asked.
"Yes." Eric said smiling while still looking at Calleigh.
"To bad, now we can't play our favourite game." Brie said.
"Don't say anything, please?" Calleigh whispered.
"Why not?"
"Cause I know what she is up to and you'll regret it if you do."
"Are they really asleep?" Sara asked in a whisper from behind the door.
"Let's check ok? To make sure." Brie replied.
Calleigh quickly jumped into bed and Eric followed her lead. Calleigh pulled the covers over their heads and didn't move a muscle. The door opened and they could hear the girls walking in.
They're not asleep, they're hiding." Sara whispered loud enough for them to hear and they were trying real hard not to laugh out loud.
"Look then." Brie said pulling away the sheet. Calleigh shot up and grabbed both girls pulling them into bed with them. They squealed out loud and Calleigh started to tickle them, Eric did the same and the 4 of them just had fun. After a while they were all exhausted and the girls fell asleep. Calleigh looked at both of them and then at Eric. He was looking at her and smiled. It felt like they were a family, something they both wanted and needed for so long.
"Maybe we should try to get some more sleep." He said reaching out and caressing her cheek.
"Maybe your right." She said closing her eyes to his touch. He liked it that she let him caress her and closed his eyes as well. They slept for a few hours and when Calleigh woke up she could feel his breath in the back of her neck and his arms around her. She closed her eyes again and tried to get some more sleep.
"Turn around." He whispered. Her eyes shot open and she debated with herself for a second, she slowly turned around and looked at him.
"I like you, a lot. Since I met you my life has been bearable again, Sara is happy again and those are things I didn't expect to happen for a very long time, but I want to thank you for that." He said.
"You're welcome, since we met, you and Sara have made quite an impact on our lives as well, for the better, Brie has a real friend, you mean a lot to me as well." She said.
He kissed her roughly and she put her hand on his cheek, they deepened the kiss and didn't hear the door being opened. They heard the girls giggle and broke the kiss. Calleigh was a bit worried about what they might say, but was relieved and surprised when the girls didn't say anything about it at all and left the room.
"You're wondering why they are ok with it aren't you?"
"Uh yes." She said confused.
"I told them while you were still asleep that I like you and hoped to kiss you, and if I would and they would see it then you would like me as well, and you just said you did so I didn't lie." He said leaning closer, she could feel his lips barely touching hers as he spoke and she wished he would just shut up and kiss her.
"Did you now? And they are ok with it?" She asked, he was now feeling the same as she just did and wanted to kiss her.
"Yes they are, the question is do you want this? Me?" He asked.
"Yes I do." She admitted. "But, I am scared, I never really had a serious relationship before with someone I work with, and we got to remember the girls as well."
"Don't worry so much, we'll do fine, the girls like it." He said trying to reassure her. She looked at him and he could see the doubt and the fear in her eyes. He tightened his grip around her and she felt safe and wanted, something she never experienced before, she was scared and yet somehow curious and excited.
"I hope so." She whispered. He kissed her again and she wrapped her arms around his neck and he pulled her even closer. They could hear the girls laugh and Calleigh wanted to know what was up. She broke the kiss and moved out of his arms and bed.
"Where are you going?" He asked catching his breath.
"To see what they are up to." She opened the door a little and saw Natalia and quickly closed the door.
"Shit."
"What?"
"Nat is here."
"Shit."
"You got that right." She said leaning against the door.
"So shall we see if they are awake?" Natalia asked.
Calleigh quickly jumped in the bed and whispered. "Pretend to be asleep." She was on her half of the bed and he stayed on the other side, both with their backs to each other. Nat opened the door and saw they were asleep, she closed the door again and said: "Looks like they are still asleep, want to watch TV or something?" Both girls happily agreed and Calleigh turned to
Eric, who turned to her.
"She's still here." He whispered.
"I know, now what are we gonna do?"
"This." He said kissing her.
"We can't stay here forever." She said.
"Just a few more minutes." He said closing his eyes again. She watched him until he was asleep and carefully got out of bed, she took one more look at him and walked out of the bedroom.
"Hey you're up." Natalia said.
"Hey I didn't know you were here." Calleigh said pretending to rub the sleep from her eyes.
"Yeah I came by to see how you were doing I didn't expect to find you in bed with the cute CSI" She said amused and it made Calleigh uncomfortable.
"I didn't plan it, but if he hadn't been here I think we would have been worse off. We are still under the weather, so it will be like this for a few more days until we all feel better." Calleigh explained.
"Sounds ok, want me to go to the store to pick up some things?"
"Would you? That would be great." Calleigh gave her a list and some money. As soon as Nat left, Eric came out of the room.
"Does she know?" He asked.
"I don't know, I didn't tell her. Maybe the kids did."
"Told her what?" Brie asked.
"About me and Calleigh."
"No we didn't just like you asked." Sara said.
Calleigh looked at him a bit surprised wondering why he asked them not to.
"I thought it would be better to keep it to ourselves for the time being." He explained.
"Oh ok, well let's just hope she buys it."
"She probably will, especially if I make sure I'm not awake."
"So your gonna hide? And let me handle this all by myself?" She asked joking.
"Damn right that's what I'm gonna do. Keeps things simple for the time being." They heard Natalia slam the car-door and he quickly ran back into her room.
"Don't tell her he's awake ok?"
"Ok."
Nat came back in and placed the bags on the kitchen table, starting to unpack them.
"Need some help?" Calleigh offered.
"Sure, I got to go soon, I got a date tonight."
"Oh really who is the lucky guy?" Calleigh asked. Natalia told her and then left. Since it was around 5 Calleigh started to fix something to eat and they ate, played with the girls and then tucked them in.
"How about we watch TV in your room?" Eric suggested and she nodded and went to check on the girls, then let the dogs out in the backyard before joining him.