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Chapter 3: Reminiscing Part 3

25 minutes later

(After Christy's and Sarah-Elizabeth's family showed up)

After Christy sat down on the couch, she looked around the living room with a smile as she watched her family in little circles talking amongst one another, then she moved her eyes to two of the men that she held dearest, outside of her father of course.

Unlike her brother, C.J., her major firsts didn't revolve around just one person.

After a few dates with Brian, which that's who she shared her first real kiss with, they realized they were better off as friends, so they broke it off a few weeks after their first day, and even though the relationship didn't last, she never regretted who her first kiss was. But she did end up back at square one, which happened a few times for her.

She never regretted the experiences she shared with the guys that she became involved with through the years, well most of them anyways, there were a few she wished she could go back and have a redo, but overall she thought she did pretty well on her selections. She just couldn't seem to find the right guy to build her life around long-term, and that made her insides turn to Jello or make her heartbeat like it had never done before, until one day 5 years ago, which she almost thought it wasn't going to happen between them.

As Christy continued to look at her husband of 3 years, who also happened to be 5 years older than her and a firefighter, her mind took her back to the first time they met.

Flashback

6 years ago

After graduating from high school with high honors and one high school state championship with the soccer team, she accepted an academic scholarship from the university of Miami, which made the family happy that she was staying close to home for school. After her freshman year at the university, she finally decided what she wanted to be, a grade school teacher.

When she had gotten her degree and was ready to teach, her old grade school was hiring, so she was hired to teach 1st & 2nd graders, and had been doing that for 4 years when her life had changed after she had met the father of one of her students.

It was the morning of the first day of school, and even after 4 years of doing this, she was still enjoying it as if it was her first, she had just finished writing today's agenda on the board when there was a knock on the door and a voice was heard behind her. "Excuse me, but is this Ms. Christy Caine's room?"

Christy turned around with a smile and was about to speak, but the words got stuck in her throat when she saw the man standing there, he was around 6'0, very short brown hair, an athletic build with the most beautiful brown eyes she had ever seen. Her heart had skipped a few extra beats as she tried to shake off this feeling that rushed through her, then she cleared her throat and replied. "Yes, I'm Christy and this is my room..uh...Classroom."

When he smiled she really could have lost it, but she kept her cool as the man looked out in the hall and said. "Come on Brittany, honey, we are in the correct room." He looked at Christy again and said. "She's a little nervous, we just moved here from Los Angeles." Christy nodded in understanding as a 6 year old little girl with brown hair and hazel eyes walked into the room with her pink backpack.

Christy smiled at her as she stopped next to her father. "Hi Brittany, I understand that moving to a new place and going to a new school can be scary, but I promise I'll do what I can to make you comfortable. In fact since you are the first student here today, why don't you pick your seat, would you like that?"

Brittany nodded with a smile, and after taking her father's hand, she walked them up toward the front row before taking the last seat on the left, Christy smiled and replied. "Excellent seat, so I take it you like the front row."

She nodded as she takes her backpack off, then Christy walks to her desk to write down Brittany's name on the seating chart while the father was saying goodbye to his little girl, then she hears his voice again, only this time it was closer. "Thank you Ms. Caine, I feel she is in good hands." Christy smiled at him with a nod, then he held out his hand and continued. "By the way, I'm Tyler Parker."

When Christy shook his hand she felt it, that spark that she's heard so much about from her parents and the older siblings, but before she could lose herself in the feeling, she mentally shook her head while thinking it was never going to happen.

She then cleared her throat and replied. "Nice to meet you."

He smiled as he released her hand, then said. "I better go, enjoy your day."

"You too."

After a third smile, he looked over at his daughter and said. "Have a good day, sweetie, I'll pick you up after school."

Brittany looked at her father with her hazel eyes shinning bright. "You too daddy, love you."

"Love you too, munchkin." Then he walked out of the room as Christy watched his every move.

She didn't have time to daydream though, because a few more students came into the room soon after, then a few minutes later the bell rung for the start of school and she had to get ready to teach, and she won't admit this to anybody, but that was the first time since she became a teacher where it was hard for her to concentrate all day.

When the bell rung to end the school day, she had the students stand in line, even the ones that didn't ride the bus, and she walked them outside and watched the kids that rode the bus get on before taking the rest of them back to the classroom so they could wait on their parents.

5 minutes and three students later, Christy heard the knock on the door and Tyler's voice. "Hi, I'm here to pick up Brittany."

Brittany smiled and turned around as she shouted. "Daddy!"

Tyler smiled as Christy stood up from her seat at her desk. "Why don't you clean up and you can leave, ok Brittany?"

Brittany nodded and started to clean up her desk as Christy walked to the back of the classroom to talk to him.

He smiled at her and asked. "Did she have a good day?"

"She did, and I think she even made a few friends."

"That is very good hear." Christy nodded with a smile, then Tyler cleared his throat and said. "Listen, I don't know if this is acceptable or not, but I was wondering if you would like to have dinner with me some time." She looked at him a little shocked and he continued without hesitation. "Of course if you are involved with someone else, I understand why you can't."

She cleared her throat and asked. "And what about Brittany's mother?"

"We've been divorced for three years now."

"Oh, I'm sorry." She said the words and she kind of meant them, but she couldn't stop her heart from doing small jumping jacks.

Tyler gave her another smile and replied. "Thank you, but It happens. We just became unhappy all the time and realized that it wasn't doing anybody any good staying together."

Christy nodded in understanding, then replied after she cleared her throat. "To answer your question, no, I'm not seeing anybody." She watched his eyes become bright with anticipation, then she shook her head and replied. "But I can't have dinner with you."

It hurt to say that, but she had a very good reason for it, which she was about to explain when he replied. "Oh, I..."

She cuts him off. "I just don't think getting involved with a parent of one of my students is a good idea."

Besides thinking that he was married, her rule about that was one of the other reason's she knew it probably wasn't going to happen between them because by the time the school year was over, she could see him already moving on.

His eyes became bright again as he replied. "Yeah, I understand." Then he smiled. "But when you aren't their teacher anymore?"

She smiled again and said. "Then I'm free to be with anybody."

"OK, then how about dinner on the last day of school?"

Christy's heart just melted, but then she shook her head again. "I don't know, I might have her again next year."

Christy knew that this was it, that the man of her dreams was no longer going to be available or probably won't even be interested if he had to wait two years to take her on a date, but she became surprised when he said. "I'll wait." She stood there speechless as he continued. "When you get that years calendar, schedule the dinner in pen."

As Brittany was walking up toward them, Christy cleared her throat and finally answered as everything inside of her was humming. "Ok, yeah, you got it."

Tyler smiled with a nod, looked at his daughter and asked. "You ready?"

Brittany nodded with a smile before looking at her teacher and saying. "Bye, Ms. Caine."

She smiled as she looked down at the little girl. "Bye, sweetie. Enjoy the rest of your day."

"You too."

After one more smile from Tyler, father and daughter walked out of her classroom, then she took a breath and headed back to her desk, she definitely needed to sit down after that interaction.

End of flashback

Even though they couldn't date for two years, they still became friends, though it was hard to hold back their attraction from one another. But once the last day of school ended on that second year, that night he took her out to dinner, and since then, they were 100% committed to one another.

In the beginning it was hard winning the heart of his daughter because it was one thing being her teacher, but it was another being daddy's girlfriend.
But eventually Christy had gotten through that little girl's tough exterior and they became closer than ever, and when Christy became pregnant with her first child 2 years ago, Brittany actually welcomed her baby sister, Keira, with open arms.

Christy smiled bigger as she places her hand on her stomach while thinking of the little one that she was currently 2 months pregnant with before her eyes turned to the other man that she held dearest to her heart, her second oldest brother, C.J.

It wasn't that she disliked her other two brothers, or her little sister for that matter, she loved them all and would do anything for them, but whether it was because it started with just the two of them for a few years, or because of who she was named after, she really couldn't explain the connection she shared with him, she just knew that he was her brother no matter who his biological parents were.

When he told her more about her namesake than she had already known when she was seven, she could still remember the look in C.J.'s eyes, it was like he was afraid their bond and closeness would go away, and that she would look or act differently around him because they didn't share the same blood, but as he learned from the second the conversation was over, nothing changed for her, she still saw him as an older brother and loved him very much, even till this day.

Her thoughts this time get interrupted when her sister sits down next to her and asked. "Are you being like mom just now?"

Christy smiled with a chuckle, knowing what she meant by that, then she looked over at her sister and said. "I can't help it, seeing the family around us just makes my mind wander."

Sara-Elizabeth nodded as she also looked around until her eyes caught the man that was all hers, which he was a year younger and a cop on Kyle's squad, then her mind takes her back to their first meeting.

Flashback

2 years ago

After Sarah-Elizabeth had finished her high school education, which like her sister, she too had gotten high honors and accepted an academic scholarship to Miami university. But then she did something that no other Caine child had done before her, she actually followed in their parents footsteps, more specifically her mother's, and became a bullet expert under the watchful eye of her mother.

Calleigh and Horatio were a little surprised that it was Sarah-Elizabeth following in her footsteps, because if there was one child they actually thought would, it would be Christy since they were very similar to each other, but she had never wanted anything to do with the CSI thing, and the same with Josh, so in a way it was passed down to Sarah-Elizabeth. Not that they would have disowned her or any of their children if they hadn't followed in their career path, they just thought that one of them would, so they were a little happy when one of them did.

Ever since Sarah-Elizabeth had gotten her degree and first started working at the lab, she didn't get to go out in the field very much, only when it was extremely busy and Calleigh needed another bullet expert to go to another crime scene. But she continued to do her job and not complain about the lack of field time she was getting, and that patience was rewarded on the anniversary of her second year.

Calleigh had walked into the ballistics lab, which Sarah-Elizabeth was already there getting ready to analyze the bullets that was put on her desk earlier that morning, but stopped what she was doing when Calleigh spoke as she handed her the assignment sheet. "How about I do that, and you can go the primary crime scene."

She looked at her mother shocked. "Really?"

Calleigh smiled with a nod. "Yeah, go on, it's time to show them what you can do out there."

Sarah-Elizabeth nodded with a smile as she grabbed the assignment sheet from her before grabbing her kit and double checking to see if it was fully stocked on the supplies she needed, and as she was walking toward the door, Calleigh speaks again. "Sarah-Elizabeth?" She turned around to look at her mother as she continued. "Be safe out there."

She smiled and nodded again. "I will." After Calleigh gave her one more smile, she was out of the door.

When she got to the crime scene and out of her vehicle with her kit, she started walking toward the crime scene tape, where she saw Kyle with a man wearing a cop uniform that was around 5'11 with short blond hair and hazel eyes, which she's never seen him before so she thought that he must be new to the force.

Kyle smiled at his little sister and said. "So I see mom let you out of the lab."

She gave her brother a look that told him, she wasn't amused. "I've been out of the lab before, thank you very much."

He nodded with another smile. "Yeah, but not very often for the primaries."

"Well here is my shot to show that I can do them, got a problem with that?"

Kyle shook his head as he held up his hands in surrender. "No Ma'am."

She smiled as she looked at the man standing next to Kyle again, which he was looking at her, or more like staring, and she started to really look at him too, but before she could say anything, Kyle had cleared his throat, feeling something shift in the air. "Oh, sis, this is Cody Avant, he is new to the force."

Sarah-Elizabeth smiled as she held out her hand, he smiled in return as he shook her hand. "Nice to meet you Cody, I'm Sarah-Elizabeth, and I guess you know now that Kyle is my brother, specifically my eldest."

Cody nodded as he released her hand. "Nice to meet you too, and I did pick up on that."

Sarah-Elizabeth smiled, and after a few seconds of looking at each other, she turned her eyes away from him and spoke as she finally walked under the tape so she could do her job. "I better get to work, I'll see you."

They both said bye, and as she continued to walk, she could hear Kyle talking to Cody, or more like warning him. "Now listen Cody, I felt something between you and my sister, so if you go there, always remember she is my little sister, and I don't think I need to tell you what happens if you hurt her."

"No...No...Sir."

She heard a chuckle. "Don't worry, you can still call me Kyle."

She didn't hear anything else because she had walked into the house, but she couldn't help but mentally smile, hoping Cody will go there, because she could see something there too.

End of Flashback

It took three months for Cody to find the courage to finally ask her out, because not only did he feel intimidated by Kyle, which it may have not seem that he could provoke that much intimidation, Cody knew what guys would do to other guys if they get involved with a sister and they ended up getting hurt, but going through her other two brothers, especially C.J., and her parents seemed like a daunting task, but when he became fully ready, he accepted the challenge with his head held high.

It took a couple of months for the whole family, especially C.J., to accept that he was now dating the last Caine 'child', and since then, things had been great. He proposed to her a year after they got together, and six months after that they had gotten married, now they've been married the last three months.

Sarah-Elizabeth came back to the present when she heard her sister chuckling, she looked over at her with a raised eyebrow and Christy continued with a smile. "Stopping yourself from thinking about the ones you love isn't as easy as it looks, huh?"

Sarah-Elizabeth nodded with a chuckle of her own. "I guess not, and I guess we should have gone easier on mom when she would get those distant looks while thinking about the past." Christy nodded with a smile as she places her arm over her sister.

As the sisters continued to smile at one another, Horatio cleared his throat and spoke so everybody could hear him. "Alright everybody, the food and places are all set up outside, time to eat."

AN: I had to cut this chapter into another one so more flashbacks about the girls next chapter, and don't worry I hadn't forgotten about Josh, find out what's been going on with him. Please review.