This chapters for Laura, thanks for the help hun!
Chapter 2
I go home anyways, dissipate my own wishes. I lay down on my couch and take in the smell of stale cigarettes, nasty. I open the window then once again lay on the couch. Why do I even bother to sleep? It's not as if I can always sleep, and when I do I wake up in a cold sweat because of the victims cries that I failed to settle. I reach for my cell and phone and dial the first person I could think of to call, Nick.
"Stokes." A muffled sound comes out.
Shit I think I woke him up, "Hey Nick, it's Sara."
"Oh, hey babe is anything wrong?" He certainly sounds concerned for someone who just woke up.
"Not really, but I was wondering if maybe you want to come over. I've umm, I haven't really been sleeping well lately." I fumble for the words to make it sound like I'm not hitting on him.
"Yeah, I'll be there in a couple of minutes, ok?"
"Kay." I said in such a small voice that I didn't even recognize it as myself. I hung up my phone, then picked up a few things around my apartment. Because I'm sure that Nick really want to be looking at my dirty clothes that were randomly thrown around. There was a knock on the door, I opened the door and Nick stood there dressed in a pair of blue jeans with a t-shirt nothing over the top.
Nick smiled at me, "Hey. Are you feeling alright?"
"Nice way to greet someone." I joke at him trying to lighten the mood. Nick enters my apartment and I shut the door. He turns towards me and wraps his arms around me. I feel myself tense at his touch.
"Is that better?" I smile then hug him back, loosening my muscles. After a couple of minutes standing like that, Nick spoke "You said that you couldn't sleep, do you want to watch TV until you do? I'll stay with you the whole time."
"I just don't want to be alone right now."
"I know babe." He whispers to me. We walk over to my couch and flip on the TV, putting it on low.
Nicks arms wrap around me and I rest my head on his shoulder. I close my eyes, trying to sleep but it doesn't work. So I open them and see Nick looking down at me.
"Thought that you fell asleep." He softly smiled.
"No." I snuggle closer to him, "You really do deserve the promotion Nicky."
"Sar-"
"See it doesn't matter though, because I wouldn't want for that to get between us." I explain to him.
"Seemed like you were mad at me last week about it."
"I wasn't mad at you, I was mad at Grissom. Now shh." I closed my eyes once more this time falling asleep, I think.