AN: Thanks to the reviewers and Readers, you have inspired me to continue.
Chapter 6
The next night Grissom and Sara had the night off so they were going to have a romantic night to celebrate their engagement since last night they had that party with everybody else.
At the moment Sara was getting stuff for a salad at the store and Grissom was setting up, he puts the wine on the table, puts two candles on the table with the lighter in the middle.
He walks back into the kitchen, checks the vegetarian lasagna and grabs the plates, walks back into the dinning room puts the plates in place, rubs his hands together and smiles happy that they will have a night to themselves. He just wanted to make it perfect, he snaps his fingers like he forgot something so he turns to walk to the stereo and just when he was looking at the CD's somebody knocked on the door he mentally sighed and thinks while he is walking to the door. 'it better not be work related.'
He gets to the door, opens it up and when it was all the way open he did another mental sigh it wasn't that he didn't like Haley, but lately it seemed like she had the worst timing.
He tries very hard to put on a happy face and said. "Hi Haley what can I do for you.?"
A little shiver went down Haley's back at his words and mentally smiled too, then she mentally shook it off a second later, her feelings going up and down. She looks over his shoulder and could tell that he was setting up for a romantic dinner, she fakes a upsetting face and said. "oh I came at a bad time I should go." She put enough guilt in her words to hit Grissom right and it seemed to work because he felt bad so when Haley turned to walk away he said. "it's oK, I can spare a few minutes."
She looks back at him and asked. "are you sure?"
He nods and moves out of the way, she walks in and he shuts the door then he turns to her and said. "can I get you anything?"
She nods and asked "if a glass of water isn't to much trouble?"
He nods, then turns toward the kitchen.
Haley watches him then walks over to the fireplace mantel were the photos of Sara and Grissom were sitting and dreamily looks at his face and does a sigh. When he walks back in with a glass of water in his hand, she turns to him with a smile grabs the glass and said. "Thanks, so were is Sara anyways?"
"She had to go to the store."
Haley nods looks back at the pictures and asked. "what you said last night to Sara was it all true?" she looks back at him.
He raises an eyebrow and said. "which part?"
"oh you know, keeping her at arms length because you were to scared that she would leave you and all that."
Grissom walks to stand next to her so he is looking at the picture of Sara, then looks at Haley and said. "yes, of course it was, I mean she is beautiful and young. She could have any man, why would she want me? but it turned out well in the end." He shrugs his shoulders and looks back at the picture.
Haley is looking back at him, titling her head a little then said. "Why do you put yourself down like that, don't you know how special you really are?" She puts a hand on his arm.
Grissom could feel the emotions shift in the room and he cleared his throat, stepped back, having her hand drop to her side and Haley shook her head and said. "I am sorry if that was uncalled for." she looked down and continued. "man I can be such an Idi…" Again playing the guild card.
He cuts her off. "no your not an idiot and that was a sweet thing to say."
She looks up and smiles then said. "it was?"
He nods back then continues. "But Haley you kno.." knowing what he was going to say next she tried to step back but acted like she was feeling dizzy and dropped the glass on the floor making it shatter and Grissom did a knee jerk reaction and caught her around her waist, she puts her arms on his shoulders and he asked. "are you.." he gets cut off when she puts her lips to his at the same moment the front door opened, Sara gasped and dropped the bags.
Grissom pulls back, helps Haley stand up very shocked on what happened himself, he released her and looks at the door and Sara was stepping back out of the house and before she turned she said. "I can't do this again." then she ran back towards her car
Grissom ran after her saying. "Sara wait! it wasn't what you think it was."
Sara gets to the vehicle but she was sobbing so much her hands were shaking and she couldn't get the keys in the door and Grissom caught up with her and said.
"Sara let me explain."
She shook her head finally getting the keys in the car door and said. "explain what? How you are like every other man I have ever been with? How of all people it had to be her again, I can't deal with this." she opens the door, but he shuts it grabs her shoulders and turns her around.
She leans her head down and he asked. "what do you mean again? Sara?"
Sara keeps her head down sniffing then he lifts her head up and she dose the mistake by looking into his blue eyes, the same eyes that makes her melt just be looking in them, she could see so much emotion in them and a feeling to tell him everything ran through her so she sniffled back some tears away and said. "Since Haley has been here everybody kept hearing only the good or the fun stuff we did together but what no one knows there was a very big rough patch."
She wipes her tears away and continues to look at him while she continued to talk. "When I first got to college Haley took me under her wing and I was so happy that I had already made a friend because during my high school years it was very hard for me to do." She stops, shakes her head and continued. "Anyways there was this boy that I liked he was on our dorm floor, he was cute, one year older then me, he had brown hair, brown eyes and very smart, Haley found out I had a crush on him so she did the friend thing and asked him if he would go out with me."
She stopped for a minute and Grissom took the time to ask. "Did he say no and she went out with him instead?"
She shook her head no and continued. "not exactly, he went out with me and we started dating. On our two month anniversary, class had let out early and I was going change and make reservations to the restaurant we went to on our first date, I walked in our dorm room and I see Haley and him kissing, he pulls back and told me that it meant nothing and it was a one time thing but a week later I found out they had been sleeping together for about as long as I had been dating him and of course I broke up with him and not long after he dumped Haley, we didn't talk for months and when we finally did we put our issues aside we moved forward and things were good with her after that, but my guy problems only got worse, I always ended up with the bad apples, ones that would date me until somebody else better came along, and when I found you."
She had to stop because she started to cry again Grissom puts his hand on her cheek but she pushed his hand away and said. "I just never thought that you would be the guy to hurt me like this you were suppose to be different."
She turned back to the door but before she opened it, he took her by the shoulders again but doesn't turn her around he moves his mouth to her ear and said. "I am different then those other guys. When I tell you I love you I mean it with every fiber of my being and not until somebody else comes along. Do you honestly think that I would wait over 40 years for some one like you to come in my life, finally get to be with you and turn around and throw it away like you were some piece of garbage."
He slowly turns her around and she looks into his eyes again and they have misted over a little and he continues with so much emotion. "you are the best thing that has ever happened to me and what you saw wasn't my doing, she looked like she was falling and I caught her which I see know was a trick and yes she kissed me but I never kissed her back. Sara you have to believe me because I don't want to lose you, I can't lose you."
A tear goes down his cheek and Sara had to gasp because out of all the years she has known him this was the second time that she could remember he has shed any tears.
She puts her hand on his cheek to wipe it away and said. "Do you promise you didn't do anything?" She could see the answer written all over his face she just wanted extra reassurance.
He reaches to put his hand on her cheek and this time she lets him, he looks right into her eyes and said. "I promise with everything in me that I didn't do anything and to me I can't get any women better then you, your perfect."
Sara half sobs and half chuckles and said while they were both wiping each others tears away. "Yeah right, I don't think so."
He moves her head closer to his and put his forehead against hers and said. "To me you are and I love you so much."
She nods and says with a smirk. "I know." He pulls back and she looks into his eyes and said. "I love you too."
He smiles and they lean toward each other and kiss when air became an issue they pull back and put their foreheads back together and when Grissom got his air back he said. "What was that guys name?"
She pulls back to look at him and said. "Why?"
His eyes twinkled a little and said. "Because I want to find him and give him a handshake in fact I want to do that with every dirt bag that let you go?"
She crosses her arms over her chest, raised an eyebrow and said. "are you nuts your happy they hurt me?"
His eyes was still twinkling a little but a little concern had shown in there too when he answered that. "no of course not honey I just want to thank them for letting the best thing they ever had get away so I can love you, take care of you and spend the rest of my days with you and then if you want I'll punch them."
She chuckles a little then smiles, takes his hand and said. "I can't wait to marry you."
"Me neither how about a short engagement, two months?"
"I would like that."
Grissom smiles and they get into a hug and while in the hug, Grissom feels Sara tense and before he could ask what was wrong he found out the moment he heard.
"Guys can I talk to you?" Grissom pulls back from the hug, turns around and puts his arms around Sara's shoulders and lets Sara take the lead on this one.
Sara crosses her arms over her chest and grounds out "Fine." showing her displeasure with her at the moment.
Haley nods back, looks at Grissom and said. "first off I want to apologize to you, what I did was..…"
He holds up his hand to stop her from talking she wasn't going to play the guilt card on him again and speaks.
"Not a good decision and I don't want anything like this to happen again you know I love Sara and that's not going to change."
Haley nods and says with sincerity not sure if she really meant it. "I know and I am sorry."
Grissom nods, then Haley looks at Sara and before she opened her mouth to speak, Grissom speaks again looking at Sara. "listen I am going to give you two some privacy." Then he leans toward her ear and whispers. "and try not to kill her I do want my fiance to have her wedding day."
She chuckles a little, he pulls back to really look into her eyes and she nodded and replied quietly. "I'll try not to." Grissom smiles a little, pecks her on the lips and walks up the walkway and into the house.
As the front door shut Sara moves her eyes to Haley and Haley saw how much hurt she put there once again, she shook her head and said. "Sara I am sor.."
Sara cuts her when she shook her head and replied. "I don't want to hear your explanations or your apologies I just want you to stop what ever game your playing!"
Haley shook her head took a step closer to her and said back. "but Sa…"
She gets cut off again. "I mean it Haley just stop."
She puts on her innocence face and replied."man I really made a mess of things, maybe I should just leave town."
Despite the mess Haley tried to cause, Sara couldn't imagine getting married without her oldest friend, yes Haley made a mistake but she was willing to forgive her just this one last time, so she shook her head, sighed then replied. "Haley what you did really hurt me but despite everything, it would be nice to have my oldest friend here, just stop with the scheming and games alright?"
Haley nodded and said. "I really am sorry Sara."
Sara nodded again and said. "Fine but one more trick and your gone, got it?"
Haley nodded again and Sara said bye and walked up to the walk way, to the front door then she walked in the house shutting the door behind her.
Haley looks through the window and sees Grissom hug Sara and kissed her on the head, then they walked to the couch and cuddled, she cringed her teeth and said to herself. 'I know you felt the spark Gilbert it's just a matter of time before you realize I am the better one for you, until then sweetheart.' She watched for a second longer, then turned to her vehicle and as she was driving to her apartment she couldn't stop thinking on how it felt to have his lips on hers even if it was only for a second and the feeling warmed her to her toes.
AN: Well what does Haley have planned? Or is she really going to just walk away? Please Review to find out.
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