A/N: You guys probably hate me, I don't blame you, hehe. Life had been pretty crazy lately, finishing school, sorting college stuff out, and I had major writers block, I keep on saying that I'll try and update regularly, but yeah, I don't. Sorry! Hopefully this chapter will make up for my lazyness!

Hidden Emotions
Chapter Twenty Seven

Since their breakfast together all those weeks ago, things were better between Grissom and Sara, they noticed this, and so did the whole lab. People were starting to wonder what was happening between them, it was becoming the talk of the lab.
Grissom and Sara were making the most of their new found friendship, they would have breakfast together at his at least once a week, sometimes even go out together to a fair, or just go shopping together. Today, on one of their rare days off, they had decided to go shopping together, Grissom had phoned Sara.

Sara had been sitting at the island in her kitchen, doing the crossword in her paper, drinking a glass of orange juice, and eating pasta, when her phone rang.

"Ugh, it's Grissom, he better not want me in the lab." She mumbled to herself as she checked the caller I.D.

"Hello?" She sighed.

"Sara, it's Grissom" She heard from the other end.

"Yeah, I guessed that, Grissom, I do have caller I.D" She smiled at his evident embarrassment.

"Oh, yeah, sorry.." He was struggling to ask her, he didn't know why, 'come on Grissom, it's only shopping, it's not like you're asking her to move in with you'

"Grissom. What do you want?" She got down from her stool and wandered her small flat, checking the fridge, seeing it empty she sighed.

"I was, um, wondering, if you want to... Well, I was going to go down to the supermarket... I was wondering if you wanted to maybe, come with me? I was going to get something to eat, maybe a coffee, so, I would like it if you, came with me... I mean, obviously you don't have to, but..."

Sara laughed, they had gone shopping together before but most times it had been accidental, either bumping into each other or talking about things they wanted to buy at work and deciding to go with eachother.

"I would love to, Grissom"

"Great! I'll see you down there?"

"Sure, bye, Grissom" She hung up and hurried to get her jacket and shoes, she smiled as she remembered his struggle to ask her to go with him, and how happy he had been when she said she would love to. That was one thing that was quite funny about Grissom, he never got nervous about things "normal" people would get nervous about, but things "normal" people wouldn't think twice about.

She checked herself in the mirror, grabbed her car keys and left her flat. Walking down the stairs she passed her neighbor, Julie, they weren't as close as Sara would like them to be, but Julie still looked out for Sara, she was at least twice Sara's age. Julie was a widow, her husband died in their house fire, which is why Julie had moved into these flats, before Sara had even moved to Vegas.

"Hello Sara, dear" She smiled gently.

"Julie! Hi, how are you today?" Sara always made sure to stop and make small talk when she saw her dear neighbor.

"As good as any other day, what about you, honey?"

"I'm fine, thankyou, I'm going out with a friend, actually, to do some shopping"

"Oh, well isn't that nice? There's nothing better than a girly day out shopping!"

Sara's smile faltered, "Um, actually, it's my supervisor from work, he invited me"

"Oh dear! I'm sorry, I shouldn't have presumed you were going with a girl, there's nothing wrong with clothes shopping with a man!"

"well this is awkward" Sara thought. "Actually, it's food shopping"

"Oh, sorry, again! I better shut up now, it's just that I don't think I ever remember you going food shopping"

"I know, I know, it's fine, I used to order in all the time, but that changed about two years ago, I'm vegetarian now" This conversation proved to Sara how little her and her neighbor knew about each other.

"Dear, I'll leave you to it now, I need to be getting in anyway, my neices are coming in about an hour, I need to cook dinner for us"

"Okay, Julie, i'll see you later"

"Yes Sara dear, you will"

They both walked in their opposite directions, Sara hurried because her little conversation held her up a little.

When she got to the supermarket she noticed Grissoms Mercedes right away, she smiled and walked over to it, tapping on the window, she noticed he had fell asleep. She tapped harder and he jumped, banging his knee he cursed, then turned and noticed her, grinning he got out of the car.

"You're late." He told her, giving her the "Grissom" look.

"Sorry, my neighbor stopped to chat, she thought that when I said I was going "shopping" I meant, "Girly shopping" you know, clothes, makeup, that kinda stuff.

"I don't think I make a very good girl, actually" He said as they started walking towards the entrance.

"I don't know, you'd be surprised what a skirt can do!" They laughed, it felt good to have their friendship back

A/N: Hopefully I'll update again soon!