------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------chapter 3

"Yes, Papi I'm fine. I told you and Nana not to worry, I'm fine, and I'm here with Gil." Lorena said into the phone. She was calling her grandparents to tell them she was safe and she had a place to sleep. Ever since her mother died her grandparents had been very protective. They really discouraged her from going to see her real father, but Lorena protested and finally got her way.

"Bye, Love you too"

Lorena looked around the house filled with bug collections everywhere. It didn't really bother her, it intrigued her. She was always interested in bugs, when she was little all the kids made fun of her. While other little girls were out pretending, playing princess and dreaming of a pony on their next birthday, Lorena would be sitting on the ground looking at the creepy crawlies all around her. Sure she had a lot of boy friends when she was little, but as Lorena's interest in bugs became more technical it was more of a turn off than anything. When she would complain to her mother that she was an outcast and labeled the "weirdo" at her high school her mother would tell stories of her father and how he was called a "weirdo" too. Gabriela would tell Lorena how weird was sometimes interesting to people and that is what attracted her to her father. Gabriela always told her that whenever she was called a "weirdo" or "freak" that she should take it as a compliment because they were comparing her to her father. 'Maybe it's a genetic thing' she thought to herself. Suddenly the phone rang and scared her half to death.

"Hello?" she practically shouted into the phone.

"Lorena, Hi it's um well it's Gil, I was wondering if you could maybe find a, a book for me and bring it in to the lab, here." Gil said very uneasily. Lorena didn't know why, but he always seemed nervous around her. Sure, she had just sprang on him that she is his daughter only three days ago, but you think he would get more comfortable around her. It seemed like Grissom treated her as a porcelain doll and if he even would breathe wrong she would shatter into a million pieces.

"Yeah I could do that. Can you tell me where the book is?"

"Well, where are you in the house?"

"I'm looking at your collection of Gossamer-wing butterflies"

Gil was shocked at such an answer. He thought maybe she would say "by that gross looking bug" or "the scary thing with the wings" he didn't expect a detailed answer. He especially didn't expect that type of answer from a 19-year-old girl. He thought 19 year-olds liked make-up and boys and nothing else. Obviously Lorena had proved him wrong. Lorena, his daughter, had proved him wrong. Grissom smiled to himself, "Go to your left and look at the second shelf on the bookcase. The book is called Egyptian Scarab Oracle. It's a white book, pretty thick."

Lorena searched the shelf and found the book, called a cab, and got to the lab as quick as she could. Not that she had anything to prove, but Lorena wanted to show here Dad that she could do this one simple thing. That she could be trusted and was very mature, she wanted to prove more than anything that she was worth of being called Gil Grissom's daughter.

Lorena was walking in through the lab. The lab that just three days ago she had surprised her dad with the shock of his life in. Being interested in the book Lorena started to read thinking that she would make it to the lab fine and people would just move out of her way. She was wrong.

"OW!"

'Oh crap I just hit someone in the stomach…I'm so dead!' Lorena thought to herself. Lorena looked up and thankfully it was Greg standing next to a girl about her height with short brown hair.

"Oh Greg I am so sorry! I didn't mean to I was reading and I…"

"It's ok Lorena you didn't hit me that hard and I wasn't paying attention either. By the way this is Sara Sidle."

"Hi" said Lorena

"Nice to meet you. Greg told me about you, he never said why you were here though. Are you trying to get a job? Interested in forensics science?"

"Oh no, no. I um mean, I'm sure Forensic Science is very interesting, but I actually am still in college. I'm going to UNLV this fall so I won't be getting a job like this anytime soon. I am really interested in bugs," Lorena gestured to the book.

"Interesting. Well Greg and I must be getting back to our work."

Lorena smiled weakly at both of them, "Again, Greg I'm sorry."

Greg's mouth brushed her ear "We really need to stop meeting like this."

Lorena sighed and started walking to her dad's office.

"That's weird" Sara said more to herself than anybody else.

"What?" asked Greg.

"That book she was reading. I ordered that exact same book for Grissom for Christmas, it's really hard to find."

"Hey! Why didn't I get a book for Christmas?" Greg pouted.

"Because." Said Sara, "They aren't loud enough for you."