Later, in the break room Catherine was making conversation with Alaney.
"Are you settling in with Sara, well?" Catherine asked.
"As well as can be expected! - I mean she's never particularly liked me - so it isn't ideal!" said Alaney.
"Surely that's not true!. You must have misunderstood!. She isn't good with kids, but I don't think she has anything against you personally!" Catherine said.
"I swear she does!. She's really strange - always has been. I don't know why I've got to live with the most antisocial person in our community!. But she's not just antisocial - she also has a personal grudge against me, sometimes, for no reason!. Sometimes she'd do everything to avoid me personally - and sometimes I swear she loved me more than any other random kid in our community - I remember once she bought me this necklace out the blue - then another time she bought me this ring out the blue" Alaney reminisced.
"She asked Grissom not to place me on her cases. I overheard them talking" Alaney said miserably.
"What?" Catherine said.
Soon Sara walked in. Catherine watched her behaviour towards Alaney and could tell she was clearly avoiding and even snubbed Alaney. Catherine noticed she didn't like Alaney in her personal space and tried to avoid it happening. And then Sara left and Catherine was gob smacked. "Maybe your right!", Catherine said,
"But why?".
Alaney then decided to discuss with Catherine what had occurred the evening before between Sara and Alaney.
The night before, Sara had been listening to her police scanner waiting to hear the cases that come up. She wasn't scheduled to go to work for another hour and a half but she was bored so she thought she'd do some background research on the cases she heard come up. The first case to come up was that of the shooting of a casino owner. If she could scan the internet for newspaper articles on this casino owner then that would impress Grissom.right?. Sara was in the middle of searching when Alaney came over and started chatting.
"Hey, you don't need to be at work for another hour and half right? - you wanna go for a walk - catch up chat?" Alaney asked.
Sara didn't even look at Alaney when she replied bluntly and almost angrily,
"I can't I'm trying to work here!".
Alaney was disappointed but quickly livened up again when she had a brain wave.
"You want to go to a beauty spa someday next week?. We've hardly seen or spoken to each other since I got here!. I know it's only been two days but - well, it will be a good chance for us to. Are I say - bond!. Plus you need relaxation and recuperation after all the work you do!" Alaney suggested excitedly.
"No thank you" Sara said bluntly, uninterested and annoyed that Alaney was bothering her.
Alaney took this as a direct and personal insult.
"It's the germs, not you - Sara doesn't like beauty spas because she thinks their germ infested" Catherine replied after Alaney had told her.
"Yeah - that's what she said later on. I told her she needed to live a bit!. But anyway, at the time I thought she just didn't want to spend anytime with me - I ended up bursting into tears when I got back to my room - but then the strangest thing happened. Sara was passing my room and heard me crying and she came in - reluctantly though!. Awkwardly! - like she didn't know what to do - she didn't realise she'd made me cry - she said she was so caught up in herself because she'd so used to living in her own world - especially at home - and then she comforted me - she put an arm around me - and said sorry - and said why she didn't like spas - and I told her to get a life - and we laughed - then she said we'd go somewhere else - but then within hours she goes back to hardly speaking to me - it's like we're living around each other - she doesn't want to have a friendship - as far as she's concerned I'm just some kind of lodger!. Well, most of the time!. She probably won't even end up going somewhere with me - she'll make up an excuse!" Laney said.
"Are you settling in with Sara, well?" Catherine asked.
"As well as can be expected! - I mean she's never particularly liked me - so it isn't ideal!" said Alaney.
"Surely that's not true!. You must have misunderstood!. She isn't good with kids, but I don't think she has anything against you personally!" Catherine said.
"I swear she does!. She's really strange - always has been. I don't know why I've got to live with the most antisocial person in our community!. But she's not just antisocial - she also has a personal grudge against me, sometimes, for no reason!. Sometimes she'd do everything to avoid me personally - and sometimes I swear she loved me more than any other random kid in our community - I remember once she bought me this necklace out the blue - then another time she bought me this ring out the blue" Alaney reminisced.
"She asked Grissom not to place me on her cases. I overheard them talking" Alaney said miserably.
"What?" Catherine said.
Soon Sara walked in. Catherine watched her behaviour towards Alaney and could tell she was clearly avoiding and even snubbed Alaney. Catherine noticed she didn't like Alaney in her personal space and tried to avoid it happening. And then Sara left and Catherine was gob smacked. "Maybe your right!", Catherine said,
"But why?".
Alaney then decided to discuss with Catherine what had occurred the evening before between Sara and Alaney.
The night before, Sara had been listening to her police scanner waiting to hear the cases that come up. She wasn't scheduled to go to work for another hour and a half but she was bored so she thought she'd do some background research on the cases she heard come up. The first case to come up was that of the shooting of a casino owner. If she could scan the internet for newspaper articles on this casino owner then that would impress Grissom.right?. Sara was in the middle of searching when Alaney came over and started chatting.
"Hey, you don't need to be at work for another hour and half right? - you wanna go for a walk - catch up chat?" Alaney asked.
Sara didn't even look at Alaney when she replied bluntly and almost angrily,
"I can't I'm trying to work here!".
Alaney was disappointed but quickly livened up again when she had a brain wave.
"You want to go to a beauty spa someday next week?. We've hardly seen or spoken to each other since I got here!. I know it's only been two days but - well, it will be a good chance for us to. Are I say - bond!. Plus you need relaxation and recuperation after all the work you do!" Alaney suggested excitedly.
"No thank you" Sara said bluntly, uninterested and annoyed that Alaney was bothering her.
Alaney took this as a direct and personal insult.
"It's the germs, not you - Sara doesn't like beauty spas because she thinks their germ infested" Catherine replied after Alaney had told her.
"Yeah - that's what she said later on. I told her she needed to live a bit!. But anyway, at the time I thought she just didn't want to spend anytime with me - I ended up bursting into tears when I got back to my room - but then the strangest thing happened. Sara was passing my room and heard me crying and she came in - reluctantly though!. Awkwardly! - like she didn't know what to do - she didn't realise she'd made me cry - she said she was so caught up in herself because she'd so used to living in her own world - especially at home - and then she comforted me - she put an arm around me - and said sorry - and said why she didn't like spas - and I told her to get a life - and we laughed - then she said we'd go somewhere else - but then within hours she goes back to hardly speaking to me - it's like we're living around each other - she doesn't want to have a friendship - as far as she's concerned I'm just some kind of lodger!. Well, most of the time!. She probably won't even end up going somewhere with me - she'll make up an excuse!" Laney said.