Surprises and Fireworks
Every one was in the break room discussing what they were going to do for the Fourth of July,
"Well, Lindsey doesn't want me to hang out with her when we go to the fire works. She wants to hang with her friends so I don't know I guess I will go with one of my friends or hang out with some of her friend's parents." Catharine said sitting down on the couch in between Sara and Warrick.
"Well, I am supposed to take my little brother and he really wants Nick to come so we will probably go together," said Warrick while Nick nodded his head in agreement.
"Oh, sounds like fun!" Greg said "How old is your brother now 'Rick, um 16, 17?" Greg finished
"16" Warrick said,
"Cool, mind if I join?" Greg asked
"Na you can come if you want." Warrick said
"What about you Griss?" Nick asked
"Yeah, bug man what are you going to do for the Fourth?" Sara asked. She loved making fun of him about his bug obsession as did every one else.
"Well I am going to be doing an experiment on how bugs particularly roach react to loud noises like the fire works, so I will still probably be there." Grissom said removing his glasses.
"Of course you are," Catharine said sarcastically, every one else simply chuckled.
"How bout you Sara?" Grissom asked since she had not yet spilled her plans; she immediately stopped laughing turning her face to a serious look,
"Well," she shrugged "I will probably be working or if my friend is back in town by then we are going to go together, but he probably won't get back until the 6th so…" her voice trailed off.
"Well then why don't you hang with us?" Nick suggested.
"Yeah," Warrick said "my little brother thinks your hot." He finished
"Thanks but I would feel kind of weird, besides I don't want him to show up see me with you guys and then think I blew him off." She said
"Well, then hang with me," Catharine said.
"Well…" Sara started, just then her phone rang, standing up and walking out she answered it,
Sidle.
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Oh hey,
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So you will be back?
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Ok yeah I can do that
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Ok, I miss you too
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Bye she said sort of laughing; walking back in the break room she received curious glances,
"What?" she asked feeling a blush creep up her neck?
"Are you coming with me or not?" Catharine asked,
"Nope, he's going to be back this after noon so…" Sara said sitting back down in her original spot.
"So, that's it, your not going to tell us any thing about this 'guy'" Catharine asked
"Nope, he's just a normal friend, well okay he's not normal but what ever," she said
"So, how long have you known this…friend?" Catharine asked.
"17 years," she answered quickly,
"Well that was fast," Catharine said looking at the others
"Well the other day I think we were asked that question by his parents, various brothers and sisters, cousins and friends about…eh 35 times"
"So, you've meet his parents." Grissom said sounding a little bit like a father,
"Yep, and so have you. Actually you meet them a while ago, before me" she said looking at Grissom.
"Right, "he said slumping into his chair,
"Well, guys I have to go, I have some errands I need to run before he comes home, because I kind of ate all his food." Sara said standing up and blushing slightly,
"Gosh how long was he gone?" Greg asked
"Um, 4 days, but I was taking care of his tarantula and I got hungry," she said blushing even more,
"This guy has a tarantula?" Catharine asked looking from Sara to Grissom,
"And you took care of it?" Grissom asked
"It's a her, and yes I took care of her," Sara said walking even closer to the door, "But I have to go now, maybe if you guys are lucky you will be able to catch us at the fireworks and I will introduce you but until then…." She said with a wave walking down the hall way,
"Ok, so who else here thinks it's weird that Sara…our Sara is taking care of a tarantula?" Nick asked, and every one raised their hand.
LATER AT THE FIREWORKS
As, Grissom was caring a cage filled with bugs a bouncing little blonde haired girl walked up to him,
"Hey Grissom," she said
"Well, hello Lindsey, "he replied stopping,
"What do you got there?" she asked
"Cockroaches!" he said happily
"Ewe, gross!" she said backing up slightly,
"Where is your mom?" Grissom asked, the little thirteen year old still not liking that he had roaches simply pointed to a near by tree in which sat Catharine and a brunette. The brunette had her head turned so he couldn't tell who she was, he hopped it was Sara, but then a man came and sat next to her and put his arm around her which now made him not wish it was Sara. Catharine saw him looking and called out to him, as he approached he noticed that the brunette was indeed someone else.
"Hey!" Catharine cried as soon as he was with in ear shot,
"Hey!" he called back.
"So, you were serious about the roaches?" she said
"Yep, all right here." He said raising the cage slightly; she motioned for him to sit down so he did,
"So, have you seen anyone yet?" he asked hopping she had seen Sara,
"Yeah, I saw Greg and the rest of the guys and met Warrick's little brother," she said
"Really, you seen Sara yet?" he asked
"Nope!" she replied, just then they heard a loud scream
"Aunt Sara!" a little girl yelled running towards the truck that had just pulled up and not even parked yet, the two looked up (Grissom and Catharine) and were surprised to see Sara bending down with open arms and smiling to welcome the girl, they hugged and then the girl yelled again,
"Uncle Ben!" she ran over to greet the man who was now in the same possession as Sara, smile and all.
"I missed you so much," she said as soon as he let go of her,
"I missed you to sugar," he said with a Texan accent,
"Mom, Dad, Sara and Ben are here!" the girl said turning to a table about 30 feet away filled with more than 20 people. Most of the people got up to greet them, most Ben first. Every one could tell this was Ben's family, the people moved their way over to Sara and one man stayed with her the longest, he looked like Ben's father. As every one left and Ben was dragged of by various teen age boys, Sara and Ben's father started walking and talking, finally Grissom and Catharine walked up to the two because they she being Sara had not seen them.
"Aunt Sara!" Catharine yelled to get her attention, Sara turned her head and when she saw the two coming she stepped closer to the man almost like it was for protection,
"Hi," she said as they approached
"So, is this the um friend?" Catharine asked gesturing towards the man she was with,
"Um, no this is his father, Pastor Sam," she said
"Oh," said Grissom his face fading a little bit,
"Um, Pastor this is my supervisor Grissom and my coworker Catharine," she said gesturing towards them, just then the Pastor stuck out his hand, and shook both Catharine's and Grissom's. After a few seconds of studding the both of them the Pastor leaned down and whispered something into Sara's ear which made her laugh,
"No," she simply said laughing, then she looked from Grissom to Catharine, "although they could be." She said still studying them,
"Could be what?" Grissom asked very curious, at this Sara smiled,
"He thought you to are together, like a couple." She said slightly laughing.
"Uh-"Grissom was about to say something when a
"Watch out!" was yelled their way, Sara simply looked up raised her hands and caught the foot ball.
"Nice catch Rag arm!" yelled Ben sarcastically
"HaHa!" Sara yelled back, and then she threw the ball in a perfect spiral right to Ben,
"Whoa," said Grissom sort of in a whisper.
"She can throw," Catharine said
"Yeah I can throw," Sara said looking back at the group, "Nick and Greg taught me at the last 'lab barbeque'" she finished
"Ah," Grissom said nodding his head slightly, "I missed that one,"
"Oh well, there will definitely be more according to Ecklie." Sara said, they all stood in silence for a few moments until a young girl ran up and whispered something into Sara's ear. This made her laugh,
"Will if you guys will excuse me I have some how you say 'girl talk' to attend to," Sara said when the girl was done whispering in her ear,
"Ok," Catharine said slightly turning,
"First introduce us to …Ben" Grissom said looking in Bens direction who was sitting and talking with some teen age boys who kept looking I their direction,
"Ok," Sara shrugged. She received a questioning glance from the teen age girl that had been whispering to her and Catharine noticed this,
"Is their something wrong Sara?" she asked,
"No," Sara replied looking behind her,
"There isn't?" the girl next to her asked,
"Not that I know of" Sara said looking at the girl, "If you see a problem then please enlighten me before I make a fool of my self." She finished
"Well although I would love to see you make a fool of you self I will tell you any way," she paused,
"Well..?" Sara asked
"Its just that you weren't all wild about the idea of meeting Ben's parents and us and I am not so sure he is going to be to thrilled with meeting you parents," the girl said gesturing to Catharine and Grissom. Sara stood there opened mouthed, as did Catharine but Grissom asked,
"Do I really look that old?" to no one in particular, this made Sara and Catharine laugh, when they stopped, Sara spoke first since Catharine suddenly had a loss for words,
"Lauren what is it with your family and thinking Cath and Gil are a couple?" she asked
"What? You mean their not?" she paused looking from Catharine to Grissom and then back to Sara, "Your parents I mean" she finished
"No, ugh Grissom is my boss," she was cut off
"Oh so he's the bug man," Lauren cut in, Sara simply nodded and smiled even bigger,
"An Catharine is my co-worker," she finished, the girl simply made an O shape with her mouth.
"Okay then lets go get you introduced before the show starts," Sara said causing every one to look up noticing it was getting dark.
"Yeah I have to find Lindsey soon," Catharine said
"Oh so you're the Old Ugly-" she was stopped by Sara's hand over her mouth,
"I don't think Pastor Sam would be to happy if he heard you say that last word," she said
"You mean two words," said Lauren holding up two fingers,
"What ever," Sara said
"I don't care what Grandpa thinks" the girl said again,
"Well okay then I know Ben wouldn't be happy if her knew you were eaves dropping on us…again," Sara said
"How do you know we were eaves dropping?" Lauren asked?
"First of all because I only said that to Ben, and because it was when I came over to blow off some steam cause Cath had made me mad and because I told him that when we were alone in the hot tub and I did it when we were supposedly alone, and wait a minute what do you mean we?" asked Sara
"Um, never mind" Lauren said looking away,
"Right," Sara said, "Look Cath, I am very sorry about calling you… that but, I was really mad at you that day," Sara looked at her and frowned, "forgive me?"
"yeah," Catharine said,
"Ok then lets go meet some people!" Grissom said,
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