Chapter 11

The next week went by quickly for Sara and her charges. She hadn't heard from Grissom since the day she had sent him out of her apartment and she assumed she wouldn't hear from him any time soon, since over the past week he'd made himself completely invisible.

After looking around, and doing a lot of research the day had come for her to get her oldest nephew squared away, at least in the educational department. They had an appointment with what Sara hoped would be Jeremy's new school. The Baleson Academy was set up for students like Jeremy, the class sizes were small and there would be a lot of individualized instruction which would help him succeed, and she figured it was far better than one of the local schools.

The only problem Sara had was that Owen had a bit of a cold and she knew that she couldn't take him or Olivia to the meeting at Baleson.

The first call she had to make was to Greg but he wasn't able to baby-sit. He of course recommended Grissom but Sara was adamant that Grissom had to come to her not the other way around.

After much finagling Sara was finally able to convince Catherine to come over and watch the two toddlers for a couple of hours. Lindsey was at school until 5:00 and Jeremy's meeting was at 1:00 which would give them plenty of time.

The drive over to the school, was to say the least, tense. Jeremy was very quiet and sat with his hands clenched in his lap.

"Are you nervous?"

"Yeah, I don't really like school." He stared out the window absently.

"How come?" She asked glancing at the boy.

"I usually get into a lot of trouble at school." His eyes were solemn.

"I think this school will be different for you Jeremy at least I hope it will." The pulled into the parking lot at the school.

It wasn't a large building but it still looked foreboding to the boy. "Sure..." He mumbled softly.

Sara started toward the building and Jeremy followed reluctantly behind.

As they walked into the building they were immediately greeted by the principal Marlee Tompson.

"Ms. Sidle?" Sara nodded her head and held out her hand to shake Mrs. Tompson's.

"You can call me Sara, and this is my nephew Jeremy." The woman's kind eyes lighted on the boy and she gave him a genuine smile.

"Hello Jeremy, it's great to meet you. I hear you are interested in going to school here?"

"Um, yes. Sara said this was a good school and she would be able to drop me off and pick me up everyday because you start at 9."

"Well that's good we really like parent involvement." She started leading them down the school's hallways, and began an animated tour of the premises.

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Catherine was having a pretty good afternoon with the two toddlers. It had been a while since she'd been around truly little kids, and she kind of missed it.

Owen was fast asleep in his bed and Olivia was on the floor in front of the couch playing with some dolls.

She'd spent the better part of her time reading a magazine but had kept a close eye on the toddler in front of her.

Catherine's cellphone chirped on the coffee table, she grabbed it quickly so it wouldn't wake Owen.

"Hello," she responded.

"What? She did what?"Her heart rate began racing as the woman on the other end of the phone began explaining the reason for her call. As it turned out, Lindsey had hit another girl in the face at school and they needed Catherine to come get her because she was being suspended.

"All right I'll be there in a little bit." Catherine hung her head. She didn't want to call Sara and end the interview they were having, so she did the next best thing she called Grissom.