Sara drives up to Nick's apartment building, pulls into the closest spot available. Sits in her car thinking about how tonight should go down.
"Should I break it to him easy and pull the "It's not you, it's me" story or tell him the truth that I can't get attached." She thinks to herself. "Telling the truths always better. Plus Nick knows when I lie and he wouldn't buy some cheap excuse and it'd just make it even worse."
She gets out of her car and walks up the stairs and down the hall. Finding the number of his apartment she knocks nervously.
"Hang on a minute out there!" She hears him say kind of nervously himself. Almost like he knows something's going to happen. "Stop being paranoid Sara. He doesn't know anything. He thinks everything is fine."
The door opens interrupting her paranoia.
"Hey there." He says with Texan accent showing fully.
"Hey." Sara says walking in past Nick while he closes the door behind her.
"What are we eating tonight?" Sara asks trying to accomplish unobvious small talk.
"I thought I'd try a old recipe from my mom that I haven't cook in years. Don't worry it's meat-free."
"What's in it?"
"Different vegetables, in a salad that if I remember correctly, was excellent."
"Sounds good." She says, almost to herself in a reassuring manner has if she was trying to convince herself of everything she's been trying to.
"It can't be that hard just to break it off. I've done before. I mean come on it's not like I'm dealing with Grissom here. Its just Nick and Nick is the kind of guy that wouldn't let some stupid thing come in-between our friendship. Or at least I hope not." She thinks to herself.
Dinner goes by fine. Nothing out of the ordinary. "Gosh, why am I so nervous? It's like I'm back in high school breaking up with someone I thought I was madly in love with. I'm not in love with Nick. I just like him…. A lot. Now all I have to get through is dessert. Than I'll talk it out with him."
Nick starts cutting a cake he made. When he says, "Hey, Sar, something up with you tonight? You've seemed like you weren't really there all night."
"Uh-oh. This is way too soon. I wanted to finish a piece of cake first." She thinks to herself.
"How so?" She asked sort of interested.
"You've just been quiet like I'm the only one speaking this entire conversation. That's not usually like you."
"You know Nick, I'm glad you asked actually. I have something I wanted to talk to you about."
"Go ahead I'm all ears," he says handing her a piece of cake.
After taking a bite and chewing a little she says, "Well look Nick, the thing is, I can't really, uhh, do this sort of thing like this."
He immediately straightens up and says, "What do you mean?"
"I don't get this attached usually and I don't know if I can handle it."
"Don't you think it's at all willing to see if you can?"
"Nick don't make this hard. I don't want to be doing this, trust me."
"Than don't Sara. It's your choice, you decide what you do."
"Nick, I'm the kind of person who can stay in a relationship for only so long. And that point, was about 2 weeks ago."
"Sara, everyone meets someone who takes those 2 week flings into someone. Maybe I'm your someone."
"Maybe, I should leave." She said so quietly he almost didn't hear her.
"Maybe."
Sara got up from the table, grabbed her bag and walked out the door. She walked down the stairs into her car where she broke down. Tears started rolling down her cheeks almost symmetrical. She needed to find someone else to talk about with this. Catherine isn't the type of person she'd go to. Grissom can't interact with other human beings. Warrick is busy tonight. Nick's up there. Who else is there?