------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Chapter 8

Maura slammed her car door and put the keys in the ignition.

"You have his eyes. Your noses are kind of the same too." Maura said lightly.

"Yeah I noticed that too, right away actually." Lorena said with a sigh

"Kind of hard to miss." Dark stated.

"Really? You think so?" Lorena scrunched her nose then bit her lip.

"Definitely," confirmed Jack.

"So," Lorena tried to change the subject, she turned in the shot gun seat of the car and looked at the two boys in the back, "How are you crazy kids doing?"

"Good," they both said in unison.

"Anything happen after I left?"

"It became a lot quieter, more peaceful even." Jested Dark.

"Ha ha ha very funny." Lorena said swatting her hand at the boy's dyed purple hair.

Dark ducked. Then hit Lorena's hand away. Lorena tried to hit him again, but with both hands. Jack just watched them fight, and then he started in on Lorena's arms holding them so she couldn't move. "Hey if you two don't stop fighting I will turn this car right around and go straight back to New Mexico!" Maura yelled.

"So, how has your life been going, Maura?" Lorena inquired sweetly.

"You know same old same old." Maura shrugged "School's good, my parents are always going on a trip which gives Dark and I more time to spend together."

"Oh la la" Jack said in a girly voice.

Maura made a face at Jack in the rearview mirror. Jack and Maura had never been the best of friends and Lorena still couldn't figure out why Jack was even here. Lorena sighed and looked straightforward. She wondered what Greg was doing right now. Probably finishing up a shift, or even better maybe he was thinking about her. She sighed. Finally Maura got to the hotel that was about 10 minutes from the Grissom household. Both of the boys unbuckled and started to get their things. Lorena started to unbuckle when Maura reached over her and stopped her. Lorena looked at her confusingly. Maura waved Dark around to where her window was and rolled it down.

"You boys have fun, I'm going back to get settled. We'll see you tomorrow."

"TOMORROW? It's 8 in the morning! We just got here!" Dark said in a high pitched voice.

"Go sleep or something, Lorena and I are going to catch up with each other. I love you. Now, go away" Maura said while shooing Dark away with her hand.

Dark slumped his shoulders and walked towards Jack. He said something to Jack and Jack turned around to look at the car with his eyes wide. Lorena shrugged her shoulders at him and waved. The boys both waved back reluctantly. Maura then drove away and a minute later parked in a Dairy Queen parking lot and got out. Lorena got out of the car as well. Maura shoved the keys into Lorena's hand and got into the shot gun seat of the car.

"Here, you drive."

"What? But you just said..."

"My parents won't care if you crash the car, but if one of them does, they would go berserk, and you're like family Lorena. I'm tired I've been driving for years, it seems, please just drive."

"Kay"

The Next day, Noon

Lorena got some clothes out of Maura's suitcase; she found a white tank top and some capri's. The tank top looked oddly familiar Lorena examined it carefully then finally realized it was hers. She took the clothes and threw them at her friends head. "Wake up! We're going to lunch." Lorena said.

Maura sat up and rubbed her eyes. "Lunch? You mean breakfast, don't you?"

"Look at the clock, Maur."

Maura looked at the clock next to her head. It read 12:03. "I guess you do mean Lunch."

Maura and Lorena drove to a little diner near the house. Lorena really didn't know where else to go, she had been in Vegas for awhile but had never ventured more than a few miles from the house. They got a table and both ordered immediately.

"Who's the guy?"

Lorena looked at her friend wide eyed "What? What guy? There's no guy. I have no idea what you are talking about. There is no guy. A guy and me? No! No guy." Lorena shook her head furiously.

"Accept there is a guy. God, you are a horrific liar. I know his name is Greg."

"WHO TOLD YOU?"

"You did." Maura smiled slyly. "Hasn't anyone ever told you that you talk in your sleep?"

"No." Lorena pouted. "What did I say?"

"Well he proposed, I'm assuming because you said 'Yes Greg I would love to be your wife! I have been dreaming of this since the day we met! Yes! Yes! Yes!' and then you hugged your pillow tightly."

"Yeah well I guess I could tell you. Ok so his name is Greg he works at the Crime Lab with my Dad. He doesn't know that Gil is my Dad. Let's see what else? Oh! He's 30 years old."

Maura's coke spewed out of her mouth and on to the table. "He's 30! Lorena! You're 19!"

"Soon to be 20!"

"Still that's a whole decade. He was 10 when you were born. He was in college when you were in 5th grade! He experienced the 80's! He saw The Breakfast Club when it first came out in theaters."

"Maura, he was10 when The Breakfast Club came out, I highly doubt that he went to go see it."

"Still. He could have if he wanted to." She said crossing her arms.

Just then Lorena's cell phone began to vibrate and play the song "No Good Deed" from the Musical Wicked. She looked at her phone and Greg's picture popped up. "Speak of the devil" she said and showed Maura her phone. Maura just sat there and listened to Lorena talk on the phone. "Hey greg! Yeah you're on my caller ID. Well I'm sorry. That sounds fun! Oh no I can't my best friend Maura is here, yeah the one I told you about. Maybe another time? Great!" Lorena shut her phone.

"What did the cradle robber say?"

"He's not a cradle robber Maura! I like him, he likes me. Just be happy for me? Ok?"

Maura sighed loudly. "Do I have to like him?"

Just then Lorena flipped open her phone and pulled Greg's picture up and shoved it in Maura's face. Just then Maura's face lit up. "I take back that whole conversation. When's the wedding? And does he have a brother?" Maura said the last sentence Jokingly.