Chapter 14!! YAY!! Ok, thanks for all the wonderful reviews!! I love them all!! :)(:
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"Do you think we were too obvious?" Jordan asked.
"No," Catherine assured her. "They don't suspect a thing."
It may have taken a while but Grissom finally got around to the reading he told the group he wanted to do. It didn't last long though. He had read about two pages before he smelled the delicious food coming from the kitchen. He walked in to see Sara just finishing up their lunch.
"Smells delicious." Grissom said as he leant down and kissed her.
"It better." She joked, "Did you get much reading done?"
"No, I only read two pages."
"You were reading for half an hour!"
"Well, it was a little hard to concentrate." He looked at her.
"And this is MY fault?"
"Well…"
"It's not my fault I'm irresistible." She said innocently. "Blame genetics."
He just laughed and kissed her again. It started to turn into more but Sara remembered the food.
"Gil," She tried to say but he kissed her again. "Honey, our food's getting cold."
"I have all the food I need right here." He said as he started kissing her neck.
"That feels good." Sara moaned. She was about to give in when her stomached reminded her it was hungry. "Gil, as much as I," she moaned again, "uh, enjoy this-" She didn't get a chance to finish, her stomach did that for her.
Gil just laughed. He kissed her one more time and then they both sat down at the table.
The group met up around 3 and decided to grab a late lunch. They were trying to stay out as long as possible so the couple would have as long as possible to get what issues they had out of the way.
"So what do you guys want to do until its time to go back?' Catherine asked.
"When ARE we going back?" Greg asked.
"After dinner?" She asked. They all shrugged saying it was fine with them.
"Ok, so what are we going to do until then?"
"We could go shopping?" Jordan suggested with a smile.
"How about you two go shopping and us guys will…go…" Jay couldn't come up with anything he really wanted to do.
"Oh, come on, Honey," Jordan said, "It'll be fun. And, if you do this for me, I'll make it up to you later." She said seductively.
Now, honestly, how many men could say no to that?
"Fine" He answered his wife.
"UGH!" came from the mouths of all the other men present. The girls just laughed.
"So when do you think the guys will be back?" Sara asked Grissom at about 3 in the afternoon.
"Who knows. Cath and Jo could have gotten the guys to go shopping." He answered.
"Well, if that happened we shouldn't expect to hear from them for months." Sara joked, referring to how much both loved to shop.
"Well, it gives us more time to ourselves." Grissom said suggestively.
"Good point." Sara said right before their lips met.
It had been a few hours and the guys still weren't back. Grissom and Sara had already eaten dinner and were trying to think of something to do.
"Hey, I was just thinking." Sara said.
"Well, that's dangerous." Grissom smirked.
"Shut up!" She laughed. "Anyway, as I was saying, I was thinking and, what if we made it seem like the groups efforts to get us together were backfiring."
"How so?" Grissom asked.
"We can act like this alone time together has had the opposite affect than what they intended. Instead of it bringing us closer together…."
"It pushed us farther apart?" He answered.
"Exactly." She said.
"So we're supposed to pretend to hate each other?" He asked.
"Only when we're around them." She answered.
He looked skeptical.
"Oh, c'mon honey. It'll just before the rest of the trip."
"But-"
"I know, you don't want to act like that, right?" He shook his head.
"C'mon! The look on their faces when they found out, that has to be worth something, right?"
He considered this. He imagined the guys doing crazy things, trying to get them together. And then their faces when they found out they didn't have to do any of it. He started laughing.
"You do have a point, it would be hilarious." He said.
"So we're going to do it?" she asked, her eyes sparkled with excitement.
"Yea, like I could say no to that face." He replied.
She laughed and then kissed him.
"Thanks." She smiled, "I love you."
"I love you, too…Sarbear."
"UGH! I hate that nickname!"
"I kinda like it." He said.
She threw a couch pillow at him.
The guys walked into find every main room in the house empty. They were all getting excited, hoping Grissom and Sara were where they thought they were. As it turns out, though, they were wrong. They found Grissom outside on the deck, alone.
"You guys finally back?" Grissom asked.
"Yeah. So what have you been doing all day?" Catherine asked.
"Just some light reading." He said and lifted the book to show how far he'd gotten, which was about halfway through. But if you asked him about the happenings of those two hundred and something pages he wouldn't be able to tell you anything about it, since he was really on page three.
"Yea, light." Catherine snorted when she saw how think the book was. "Is Sara in the house?" she asked trying to get a reaction out of him.
It didn't work.
"Probably, although I wouldn't know for sure. Haven't seen her in hours." He replied, as nonchalantly as possible, pretending to read so they couldn't see right through the lie he'd just told.
The entire group groaned inwardly when they heard this response. "Well is that stupid book your reading at least good?" Catherine asked, not hiding her annoyance.
"Yes, it is actually." He was telling more lies in these past few minutes than he had in the past few months, but the privacy was well worth it.
"Well, we'll leave you to it then." Jordan spoke for the first time.
"Uh, huh." Grissom said, pretending to be to engrossed in his book to be paying them much attention.
The gang was not pleased with the outcome of the day. It seemed nothing had happened. And they had yet to run into Sara. She was apparently in her room, since she was nowhere else in the house. They probably spent the whole day apart, the group shared the same thought, probably only spoke to each other once. All of a sudden a bedroom door flung open.
"Oh!" said a very startled Sara, "I didn't know you guys were back." She said, lying through her teeth. She and Grissom had seen them pull into the driveway, only moments ago.
"We just got back a few minutes ago." Jordan said, "We were talking to Grissom."
"Oh? How's he doing?" She asked as if she didn't know.
Catherine looked at her, trying to tell if she already knew the answer to her question. As far as Cath could see, she didn't.
"He's fine." Jo said, "He's on the deck reading."
"Oh yea, that's right, he went out there after lunch." Sara said, "Haven't seen him since. Although I think I heard the screen door open around five, he was probably getting dinner."
"What have you been doing?" Catherine asked her.
"I've been reading too, I would be outside but the bugs get annoying." She said. "I was just coming out to get dinner myself."
"You didn't eat earlier?" Catherine asked.
"Nope. Was at a good part in my book." She said. She started walking toward the living room and ran into Grissom coming in.
"Finally getting dinner?" Grissom asked, having heard the last part of their conversation.
"Yep."
"Well, I think I'm going to call it a night." Grissom said.
"Ok, see you in the morning, Griss." Sara said, whilst thinking, wait for it…wait for it…
NO! All the guys practically screamed in their heads. Apparently giving them the whole house gave them too many places to stay away from each other. But you can't really get away from some one if your sleeping in the same room. They group looked at each other trying to decided who would be the one to get them to 'sleep' together. Or at least try.
"Actually," Jay said.
BINGO!
"Even though last nights nightmares weren't bad, they normally never go away this quickly, right?" he asked. Sara shook her head, trying to keep from smiling. "Well we decided it probably wouldn't be a good idea to tempt fate, so we were thinking maybe Gil should stay with you tonight as well. You know, just to be sure."
"You want me to spend seven to eight hours in a room with him?" Sara asked, pointing to Grissom and looking at them like they'd just suggested she cut off her right arm.
The group looked at each other. This was so not the response any of them were looking for. Of all the ways the group thought this scenario would go, this was not one of them.
"Umm…yea?" Jay said, instantly regretting it when Sara gave him a death glare.
"No." Sara said, trying to think of anything to keep her going. Right now she was pretending she was talking to Ecklie. The name alone was enough to piss her off.
"Now if you'll excuse me, I'm hungry." She said as she breezed past them.
The group looked at Grissom. The expression on their faces giving away their thoughts, What did you do?
"What?" Grissom asked.
"You know what!" Catherine almost screamed.
"Hey, if the little brat wants to stay in her room all night by herself, then who am I to stop her?" He asked before he went into his own room.
"What the heck was that?" Catherine wanted to know.
"Apparently they're fighting." Greg said.
"Surprise, surprise." Nick said.
"I swear! I don't get those two! One minute everything's fine and the next they want to wring each other's necks! I bet it was Gil fault." Catherine said sending a death glare a Grissom's door.
"Well, there's nothing we can do about it tonight." Jay said.
"Yea, and I'm beat." Nick said.
"Me, too." Everyone else echoed.
"We'll deal with it in the morning." Jo said.
"Yea, because they are going to make up. Whether we force them or not is entirely their decision." Cath said. And with that and a bunch of 'good night's and 'see you in the morning's the group went to their rooms and fell asleep almost instantly.
When the hallway was clear, Sara came out of the kitchen and into her room. A hand stopped her before she could get the door all the way closed. She turned to see Grissom standing there.
"Hi." She said softly.
"Hi." He said back. He didn't break eye contact with her as he closed the door and then bent down to give her a kiss. When it was over the just looked at each other and smiled.
"I didn't know you were such a good actress." Grissom said.
"I didn't think I was. But it wasn't hard. I just pretended like I was talking to Ecklie." Sara said.
"Well it worked. That was a very believable performance."
"Thank you." And "You're welcome" were the last coherent words spoken between the two that night.
Ok, first of all I am like SUPER sorry for not getting this out sooner. But between homework and papers and colorguard I had absolutely no time to write. Sometimes real life can get VERY annoying. I will try to get the next chapter up ASAP. I know how much you guys are waiting for them and I hate to leave you hanging for so long. So I finally told you guys Sara's nickname. If its been used before, I'm sorry and I had no intention of copying anybody. It just got stuck in my head one day and wouldn't leave, so I was like 'what the heck.' You know I love hearing from all of you so leave me a review. :) Tell me what you think about it so far and/or any improvements I could make, or just tell me how much you like it, love it, or even hate it. I don't care. I love hearing your opinions. :)(: