Hey Guys! I just keep updating and updating. Anywhoo...sorry about all the gramatical errors, english has never been my strongpoint. Oh and I wrote this when I was under the weather (Actually I'm still sick) so if I missed a word or two..sorry!

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------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Chapter 5

"Thanks so much for the breakfast, Greg"

"Anytime, I'm glad you had fun" Greg said opening his car door for Lorena.

"So how about you just drop me off at a bus stop and I'll just get to my hotel from there." Lorena said trying to convince Greg.

"Nonsense, I'm just going to drive around until you recognize something"

The truth was Lorena had no idea what to do! She knew exactly where Gil's house was, but she should take the risk of telling Greg where to go and then him recognizing where they were and call her out on it? Lorena started to bite her lip, a nervous habit she had since she was little.

"Ok. Start driving then." Lorena said motioning toward the steering wheel.

"Cool" Just then Greg turned out his car radio. Lorena didn't know what music station it was, but they were playing a song from Marilyn Manson, not exactly her taste in music. Lorena switched off the radio.

"I think I found our thing"

"What?" Greg looked very confused.

"Our 'thing'" Lorena said again.

Greg looked at her with a confused face. What in the hell did she mean by "thing?"

"Ok. Greg you seem like practically the most perfect guy on the face of the earth."

"I like where this is heading."

"Except..well…your music..it scares me. A lot. Not even going to lie. If you were any other guy I would have jumped out of the car, while it was still running mind you, right when you turned on the radio."

"Oh" Greg said quietly.

"How about we just talk while you drive?"

"Sure. What about?"

"Tell me more about Gil Grissom"

"Oh, Grissom, he's a character all right. Not the best social skills a guy could have, but he is the most amazing CSI I have ever seen. He's kind of like a father figure to the lab; at least he is to me. Most of the other people I work with our closer to his age. I'll tell you one person who does not see him as a father figure though, Sara Sidle. That girl is smitten over him and I think he feels the same way. There has always been this like chemistry, well actually more like tension between them. I don't know. Neither one of them has made a move or anything. I think Sara is too insecure and I really don't know what is going in Grissom's head."

Suddenly the car got silent.

"Turn here" Lorena said suddenly staring straight ahead. Lorena had heard enough about her father flirting with some girl. For some odd reason she felt betrayed, like he was cheating on her mother. She decided that she didn't want to hear anymore and was going to tell Greg where she was staying. She didn't want to "protect" her father anymore.

"Ok" Greg said turning the wheel a bit too sharply "Are you ok? I didn't mean to upset you or anything. I don't know what I said, but I'm sorry."

"It was nothing you said. Suddenly I feel sick, maybe breakfast was bad. It could be the lack of sleep…" Lorena said lying through her teeth. "Turn right." Lorena said looking at Greg cautiously 'Does he know that we are heading straight towards Gil's house? Omigod what if he thinks I'm dating him and that's why I'm upset? Oh no! I hope he doesn't think that!' Lorena got ready to hear Greg say something about where they were. Then she told Greg to stop in front of the Grissom household.

"Hey, I thought you were staying at a hotel?" Greg said in suspecting voice.

"Yeah, well, I lied. I'm sorry. I just didn't…"

"It's cool. You don't need to explain a thing to me." Greg said unbuckling.

Lorena smiled weakly. This guy was amazing! He didn't need an explanation? She had just told him that his music sucked ass and then mysteriously she got upset at him for no reason at all. With any other guy Lorena wouldn't blame them if they hated her, but Greg didn't, he just acted as if nothing happened.

"Home Sweet Home," said Lorena as she walked up the steps swinging her knapsack.

"It's nice." Greg said, obviously he had never been to Grissom's house before, Lorena sighed with relief.

"Well, thanks again for breakfast, good…morning." Lorena said while giggling, "I've never said good morning at the end of a…" Lorena stopped. 'Was this a date? I mean of course it was a date to me, but was it a date to him? Please God say he thinks it was a date too!' Lorena thought to herself.

"A date?" Greg asked. Lorena blushed a deep shade of red.

"Yeah," Lorena was so nervous about what he was going to say next that she didn't even notice how close he was getting to her face. Then, suddenly the guy she had met just a few days ago kissed her softly on the lips.

"We need to do this again," Greg whispered softly. Lorena nodded like a bobble head.

"seeya," Greg said while walking backwards down the steps.

Lorena walked into her new home with such grace, like she was walking on clouds. She was so happy that she nearly forgot about just minutes before this she was furious that her Dad might be in love with a woman that was not her mother. Lorena heard footsteps down the hall and was snapped back into reality.

"Where were you?" Gil asked not too authoritatively.

"Out with a friend," Lorena said nicely. She didn't want to give Gil a snarky answer, after all he was a new Dad and didn't deserve attitude from her, yet.

"Oh. I was worried"

"Well you shouldn't have been." Lorena said quite politely.

"Well I was," Gil said more as a statement to the air than as a statement toward his daughter.

Lorena couldn't believe it she was having her first fight with her dad and they were talking to each other so nicely! This was so awkward. Maybe she had made the wrong decision by coming here; maybe she should have stayed in New Mexico and never had come here.

"Look, I was out with Greg, the guy from your lab and we had a great time and….he told me about you and Sara."

"Nothing is going on between Sara and me."

"Yeah? By the way Greg was talking he said you two seemed pretty into each other"

"Greg doesn't know anything!" Gil said becoming visibly upset.

"He knows more about me than you do!" Lorena yelled, "He asked me questions! He asked me about my life! He wasn't afraid of talking about a subject he wasn't comfortable with! He knows how to talk to people! He learned more about me in 3 hours than you have tried to in 3 days! I know I haven't been here that long, but by now I thought you would at least ask me when my birthday was!"

"I'm sorry," was all Gil could say.

"Don't be sorry! Talk to me, ask me about things, and act like you are the least bit interested in what I have to say! Don't talk to me like a stranger! You're my father and I know this is new to you, but…talk to me!"

"About what?"

"Tell me about you and Sara" Lorena gritted through her teeth.