Chapter 2:
One month later
They all decided to meet at the airport an hour and a half before the flight took off. So far Gina, Greg, who shared a cab, and Grissom who was always the first, were there. Grissom was pacing and Greg and Gina were sitting there watching him. "Would you stop, I have motion sickness, I don't need it to kick in watching you pace around." Gina playfully scolded.
"I can't help it. Where is everyone?" He said looking at his watch for the hundredth time.
"Here comes Cath and Sara." Greg said looking up from his Revolver magazine, he and Gina were reading.
"Hey that's a good price on amps, I should call Ryan." Gina said talking about an add, and her cousin.
"The plane takes off in one hour." He said as he began pacing and the girls took a seat next to Greg.
Catherine and Sara looked at them expectantly. "Nick and Warrick aren't here yet." Gina filled them in.
Fifteen minutes later Gina and Greg were sharing headphones listening to a cd. Greg had the right ear piece, and Gina had the left. They had switched to a different magazine now, showing people with tattoos. "That one's cute." She spoke up. She already had one tattoo and was thinking of getting another. She had given Grissom the tickets five minutes ago so he would focus on putting people in seats rather than making everyone dizzy.
"Attention ladies and gentlemen. We would now like to start boarding rows sixteen and higher on flight 53 service to New York." The girl said over the loud speaker.
Grissom looked at the tickets and saw that they were in sixteen and seventeen, and Warrick and Nick were still not here. "I knew it." He turned to Gina. "I told you we should have met at the lab."
Gina rolled her eyes. "Here, you take everyone and get them seated." She said taking the three tickets. "I'll wait out here for them." She took her purse and gave her back pack to Greg. "Save me a seat." She said to him.
He took the bag and was followed by Sara as Catherine ushered Grissom onto the plane. Gina stood tapping her foot knowing that at any minute they would get here. "This is the last boarding call for flight 53 service to New York." The man said once more.
Gina sighed and was about to board when she saw two people running down the terminal. She rolled her eyes and shook her head seeing that it was Nick and Warrick. "Sorry." Nick breathed heavily.
Gina snickered at both of them. "He's going to rip you a new one." She said handing the man their tickets as they all showed id. They got onto the plane and Grissom, Catherine were seated in the two seater in row sixteen, across from them was Greg, Sara, and an empty seat, and the two seats in row seventeen behind Griss and Catherine were empty. Gina slid in row seventeen and Nick followed her as Warrick took the seat next to Greg, all the while the two boys received dirrty looks from Grissom.
It was three hours into the flight, with two to go, and Nick was fast asleep. Gina tried to watch the movie on her laptop but she couldn't keep her focus. She hadn't told anyone but she get's very antsy when she has to sit in one place for a long period of time. And it didn't help that her attraction to Nick was growing very quickly. He was wearing a t shirt that hugged his muscles and the jeans that wrapped around his butt rather nicely. She went back to her movie. Ashton Kutcher and Brittany Murphy were attempting to do it in an airplane bathroom. 'Mile High club.' Gina thought. 'It enhances the orgasm ten fold. No. Get your mind out of the gutter.' She shook her head, and glanced over as Nick stirred in his sleep. 'I bet he would enhance my orgasm ten fold on flat land.' Gina was surprised by her own thoughts. 'Bad, Gina, bad.' She scolded. 'He's a friend, give it up.'
Nick woke up from his nap and looked around. He turned to Gina and saw that she was engaged in a movie on her computer. He nudged her arm, and she took her headphones off. "How long was I out for?" He said stretching.
"About two hours." She said going back to her movie.
He glanced down and saw a blonde girl talking to a dark haired guy. It looked familiar but he couldn't place where he'd seen it. "What are you watching?"
"Jenna Jameson in Wicked Weapon." She said simply.
Nick's eyes got wide. 'She's watching a porno?' He asked himself. Sure enough Jenna was stripping down to her skinnies. He looked around him and the rest of the team were all asleep.
Gina put the laptop back in her bag putting her tray table up. "You know Nick." She started as she removed her seatbelt. "I know that you think of me." She sat forward and slowly removed her sweatshirt. "And I know it's more than a brotherly love you have for me." She removed her shirt, leaving her in a bra.
"Gina, stop. There are people around." He said, trying to cover her with the blanket he was holding.
"You don't really want me to stop. Do you Nicky?" She said straddling his lap. He was captivated by her eyes and when she licked her lips he was surprised he didn't go after her. She reached behind and began to remove her bra. "I hope you like what you see." She said.
Nick opened his eyes and saw Greg coming back from the front of the plane and sat back down. He looked over at Gina and saw that she was staring at her computer. He carefully looked over and recognized the move as Just Married. He took a deep breath and smiled as he looked at her. She had this adorable look to her with her bouncing curly hair and big brown eyes, not to mention her figure was to die for. He definitely wouldn't mind making his dream a reality. Nick looked around the plane trying not to think of her but his eyes once again landed on her. She looked back at him with a confused look. "Sorry what?" He said.
"Just wondering what you're looking at." She giggled.
God he loved that giggle. He shifted in his seat and realized that his dream brought something into reality. "Nothing. I'll be right back." He said as he left for the bathroom. The two in the front were full so he went to the one in the back. Gina watched him go back and got a glimpse of his butt. 'You like him, he likes you. So why not just do it?' She thought. She looked back and saw him go into the bathroom.
Nick locked the door and leaned his hands on the sink. "You have got to get a grip man." He told himself. He undid the button and was about to tackle the zipper when someone knocked. "Just a minute." He said but another knock stopped him. He left the zipper up. "Someone's in here." He tried again, but the knocking persisted. He buttoned the button and turned to open the door.
Gina waited until he opened it slightly and then pushed herself in. "I'm kind of in here." He said confused.
She didn't answer him, and instead she crashed her lips to his. 'If he kisses you back you know you can go on, if he doesn't then excuse yourself and just go to your seat and die.' She thought.
He pressed his lips to hers when he realized what she was doing. 'This may be a dream, and I may wake up any minute, but I'll be damned if I don't at least start.' He thought.
Ten minutes later Nick walked out of the bathroom and back to his seat, trying to hide his smile. "Hey Nick, where's Gina?" Greg said.
"Bathroom." Greg gave him a look, teasing him about what they just did. "Get your mind outta the gutter. She was waiting in line." Nick said. They agreed not to tell anyone anything until they figured it out themselves.
Gina came back a minute later and took her seat next to Nick. She went back to her movie and Nick secretly took hold of her hand and held it under the blanket so no one could see.
Two hours later the plane landed and the group got there first big wiff of New York City air. They found a van that would take them to Gina's parents place and thirty minutes later they arrived. It was a huge white house, with dark green shutters, that had a wrap around porch and columns in the front. It reminded Nick of the houses down south, not something you would find in New York. Gina opened the front door with her key and she was hit with the smell of fresh baked corn muffins, pot roast, and the smell of the house. She almost burst into tears from being away so long. "Mom? Dad?" She yelled out.
A woman who was the same height as Gina came out of one room walking swiftly. "Gina?" She said hugging her. The two were almost identical, with the same eyes, and the same shortish curly hair.
"Gina didn't say she had a twin." Greg said quietly to Nick.
"Hi mom." She said hugging her back. Nick laughed at Greg who turned a slight shade of red. "Mom these are my coworkers." She said as she went around introducing everyone. "Guys this is Deb, my mom." Deb took an extra look at Nick and she knew that there were sparks between him and her daughter.
"Geen, why don't you show everyone to their rooms while I cook dinner." She said before saying welcome again to the group and heading to the room she came from.
The group looked at the rather large staircase in front of them and then looked at their suitcases, before looking at Gina. "Do you really think I'd let you guys carry those all the way up there?"
"Do you want an answer?" Greg joked.
"Looks like we have a volunteer to lug the suitcases up." Catherine spoke up.
"This way." Gina said leading them to the end of the hall in front of them. She opened a door and there was an elevator big enough for four people. She loaded the suitcases in and the group took the stairs. The second floor led to another hallway. "This is my parents room." She said pointing to the first room. "Then the rest are yours. The two on the end have two beds."
"Where are you staying?" Sara asked.
"My room." She answered pulling the suitcases out.
Catherine came out of the very last room. "Sara and I call this one." She said as Sara brought her suitcase into the room.
"How shall we do this?" Greg asked.
"I'm the supervisor so I chose this one. The rest is up to you." He said smiling as he left.
Gina left her suitcase in the elevator and stepped in. "Gina." Nick called out.
She poked her head out. "What?"
"Where's your room?" He asked curiously.
"Third floor." She said before closing the door and riding up.
The guys did rocks, paper, scissors, shoot and Warrick won the single room.
Nick finished unpacking and decided to see what Gina was doing. He went up to the third floor and knocked on the door. There was no answer and the door was locked so he decided to explore the house. He went to the first floor and heard music, so he followed it.
"I swear."He heard Gina say.
"Well if there isn't now, there will be by the end of this trip. I guarantee it." Her mom said.
"Whatever." Gina laughed. "Oh my God, I love this song. It's the new one from Britney have you heard it?"
"Is it that Outrageous one? I heard that." When ever a child of hers leaves home she tends to listen to some of there music, just to make her think of them.
"No, this is a different one." She said turning it up. Nick walked to the door way and saw Gina in a pair of pink sweat pants and a white wife beater, her hair in a messy bun on top of her head. When the banjo kicked in she started doing a little dance. Then she stopped doing the dance moves and stood in front of the island counter swaying back and forth while doing something on the counter. "I see you looking my way and I know that, you have something to say. Watching every inch of my body, like you wanted to play." She sang. "I begin to dance just a little bit, to turn you on." She sang doing a little belly dance move. "I got that boom boom, that you want. Watching me all night long, hurry up before it's gone. I got that boom boom, that you want. I don't think you should wait, woman it might be to late." She said doing a little spin with the bowl in her hands and walking over to her mom. "Boom boom boom, boy you look so sexy." She said as she bumped her hip to her moms.
"I don't think I like this song." Her mother said. "It's to sexy." She laughed.
"Exactly." Gina laughed. She flinched when her mom flicked water at her. Gina took another bowl to the island and sat down swaying in her seat as she began to pick the ends off the second bowl of green beans.
"Whatch ya lookin at?" Greg said coming up behind him. He had gotten so lost in watching Gina that she didn't hear him come downstairs.
"Nothing." He said as he and Greg walked into the kitchen.
"Talking about dancing, I ran into Mary and she said you better come see her while you're home."
"I should." She said nodding her head and eating a raw green bean as the guys walked in. "Hey." She said greeting them. Her mom turned and saw Nick then turned around back to the stove.
"You boys wash your hands, you can help cook dinner." She told them. "Which one is the vegetarian?" She asked Gina.
"Sara." She said eating another one.
"Gina Marie." She tisked. Greg dear, would you crack the tips off before she eats them all. "Gina you and Nick go set the table."
Gina laughed to Nick as she took the silverware and napkins and he took the plates. Nick set the plates at each chair and then looked at the pictures as she finished the silverware. "Who are all these people?" He asked.
Gina walked over to him and started left to right. "In the back, by my parents, are John and Brian. John is a music video slash film producer in LA and Brian is an English teacher in the city. Those are the twins Dylan and Josh. Dylan is a cop and Josh is a fireman. John and I are the only ones to leave New York, also the only ones that aren't married." She said glancing at the single portraits of Dylan and Josh in their uniforms.
"So you're the baby?" He joked.
"Yeah. But I have no problem holding my own." She said her accent poking out more since she got off the plane.
Nick came around behind her and gave her a small kiss. "I bet you can." He joked giving her another kiss and going back to the kitchen.
Everyone had finished the meal but were still sitting around the table drinking wine and talking. Gina had on leg on her chair and she held it close with one arm and held her glass of wine in the other. "You so can not tell that story." She said turning red.
Everyone suddenly peeked interest. "Tell, tell, tell." They all began to chant.
"I hate you all." She said sipping her wine.
"Ok, so one day when Gina was about one, maybe a little younger, she was in her little walker going all over the place while I was doing dishes in the kitchen." Her mother began as Gina leaned over and buried her face in Nicks arm. "All the sudden I heard the door slam closed and so I went to check it out. And on my way I didn't hear Gina anywhere so I started to panic and I thought she had gone outside, because our screen door wouldn't shut all the way unless you closed it hard, and her nanny use to leave it open all the time. So I ran out looking for her and she was no where to be found. Now I know you all saw the steep driveway outside, well I thought she started rolling down, so I was running all up and down the street looking for her, and still I couldn't find her. So I went to the top of the driveway and out of no where I here this very soft, eeee, eeee." There were a few giggles from the crowd in anticipation of what happened next. "So I look around following the eeee, and I see these two little baby feet sticking out of a bush." The whole room erupted into laughter as Gina turned bright red, giggling herself.
After more friendly conversation the group cleaned the dishes and the kitchen, and with all seven of them it went by fast. Gina brought up the rear as the group headed up the stairs. Everyone went into their assigned rooms with intentions of sleep because tomorrow was there first big day in the city. Gina climbed the next flight to the third floor. Gina use to spend all of her time in her room. Since the twins were four years older than her she got the room the summer before highschool. John use to have the room and the summer before he went to college he passed the room to Brian and moved into a smaller room, and so on and so on until Gina got it. When you got to the top of the stairs there was a door that led to a hall way. And at the end of the hallway was the elevator, and on the left there was a door that led to a huge room. Gina had set it up as a living room slash dance floor. She had been involved with dance since she could walk. The first half, on the right where you entered, was the sofa, love seat, and a huge chair, and also a tv set. She had put a rug down under the furniture but left the other half of the room bare, so she could dance on the wood floors. She had even talked her parents into letting her line one wall with mirrors, just on that side, and they put in a bar as well. If you took a right at the elevator there was another door that led to a huge bedroom, that was the size of two of the smaller rooms. And if you went through her room to the back she had her own bathroom with a shower and all. And the best part about getting it after her twin brothers was the sound proof. They were as loud as can be with there music so they padded the walls in the living room so that they could do whatever they wanted, and wouldn't bother the rest of the house.
Gina went to her room and started looking at the pictures on the bulletin board on her wall. She had so many pictures of friends and memories that she had a section of her wall, three feet by one foot, that was tiled with cork and she pinned them all up. She heard a knock on the hall door and went to see what it was. She opened the door and saw Nick and Greg. "Need something?" Figuring they needed toothpaste or something.
"We wanted to see your room." Greg said as Nick smiled and nodded. She let out a giggle as she invited them in. She showed them the living room and then her bedroom. She plopped on her bed as the two looked around. Greg went for the cd's and Nick went for the pictures. Her bed was on a six inch platform and the bed itself was high, so Gina always had a little trouble getting in without jumping. She loved it being high though. Her bed also had high posts and a sheer drape came over it, covering her, but at the time being she had all the sides tied back. Gina's phone rang and so she answered it while the two looked around. "Hello? Hey, long time no speak. I know. Well geez it's been a year. If I can get the summer off I'd be happy too. Really? No I just thought since you always go to LA, it would be there. That's true. Hey can I call you back tomorrow? Yeah it was just a long flight and I have to take them all sightseeing around the city tomorrow. Ok, I promise. Love ya too. Bye hun."
Nick got a little jealous wondering who that was but he didn't want to ask, in fear it might be someone he should be jealous of. A picture caught his attention. "You met Britney Spears?" he asked with a smile. Greg ran across the room to see the picture.
"Yeah." She nodded.
"How could you not tell me?" Greg asked faking hurt. Gina shook her head. "Was she hot?"
"Oh yeah." Gina said laughing when he pretended to faint on her bed. "You two better get some sleep because we have a big day ahead of us tomorrow." She said crawling under the covers.
The two began to walk out. "Ok but tomorrow you're telling me all about Britney." Greg said leaving.
"Goodnight." Nick said winking as he followed Greg out.
"Night." She smiled at him. She heard the door in the hall close and then drifted off to sleep thinking of Nick.