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Chapter 5-A Birthday Party
Two Months and a week have past, now it was March. Things were going very well with everybody and everybody's relationship.
Sara was enjoying the single life and everyday during her third period English class if she had gotten her homework done she would go to Mr. Grissom's classroom and help him grade papers and put the results in the computer, he always graded the tests and her papers.
If she couldn't come in third period she would come in before School and help him then, he was always there early and she enjoyed that time with him and they both got to know each other a bit, nothing major or personal but little things and the more Sara learned about him the more she liked him, she knew she wasn't allowed to but she couldn't help it her feelings were getting stronger for the blue eyed man.
Her lightness and happy mood didn't go unnoticed by her friends, they didn't exactly ask why she was so happy all the time these days but they had very strong suspicions but they trusted her and knew she would do the right thing.
Unfortunately her friends weren't the only ones to notice, her ex-boyfriend Travis saw every look they made at one another and he was getting upset each day and he wanted Sara's and Mr. Grissom's friendship or whatever it was to end, he just needed something to help him out and soon he will get it, he just knows it.
It was coming to the end of their spring break, in-fact school started on Monday but now the gang was enjoying Nick's girlfriend, Catherine's 21st birthday, They all liked Catherine, she was nice, even though they don't see much of her.
They were all at one of the underage hottest clubs in Vegas, it had dancing, food, drinks but no alcoholic beverages and if you wanted a quiet place they have a little area with chairs, couches and a TV.
After they had their food and Catherine opened her presents that the gang got her, she took BreAnna and Amanda on the dance floor, while Jim and Greg went to go get more drinks, Sara was sitting across from Nick and Nick was watching Catherine but he didn't look very happy.
Nick looks at Sara and Sara said. "Are you ok?"
Nick just nods, Sara sighed and gets up from the chair and sits down next to him and said. "you don't look ok, what's the matter?"
Nick takes a minute and said. "Do you think Catherine's happy?"
Sara looks at the dance floor and she is smiling and laughing, Sara looks back at Nick and said. "Are you questioning it because of your age difference?"
"Yes, she is 21 now she can go to bars anytime she wants, met older guys. Why would she want to see me anymore?"
Sara puts her hand on his arm and said. "if she dumped you, then it would be a stupid mistake on her part, you are a wonderful guy and if she can't see that then she isn't worth it and the age gap shouldn't matter." She smiled and continued. "but look Nick she is smiling, laughing and hanging out with your friends if she didn't want to be here then she would have already left."
Nick looked on the dance floor and at the same time Catherine looks over at him and her smile gets bigger and she waves at him and after he waves back Catherine continues to dance, Nick looks back at Sara and said.
"Your right, Thanks Sara."
Sara nodded takes her hand off of his arm and Nick goes back to watching Catherine, Sara smiles a little bigger when she saw the look in his eyes, the look that told her that he was in love, respected her and would do anything for her, so she said. "You love her don't you?"
Nick looks back at Sara and said. "I think so, I know it's only been two months but I can't help but feel it."
Sara nodded and reaches for her drink and right when she took a sip Nick speaks. "just like you and Mr. Grissom."
She spit's out her drink, looked at him and said. "I...what?"
He smiles with a smirk and replied. "you heard me."
She sets her drink down and grabs a napkin and wiped her chin and the table off then spoke. "I don't know what your're talking about Nick."
Nick shook his head and said."I think you do." he sighed and replied. "All jokes aside do you love Mr. Grissom?"
Sara sighs and this time takes a drink and swallows it then said.
"even if I did I can't do anything about it, so many things are stacked against us." She looks at him and he is waiting patiently for her to answer his question directly, not an around about way. She sighed continued. "I believe I do, but don't tell anybody."
Nick smiles that he got it right and says. "I won't but I don't think you can hide it from us?"
Her eyes got wide and said. "you all know?"
"yeah, it did seem kind of obvious to us but don't worry you can only tell if we know you a long time."
Sara sighs in relief and said. "well that's good I don't want anything bad to happen." That's something she didn't want to deal with, the principle, the school board and getting him fired. It was a few minutes of silence than Sara speaks. "I'm surprised Greg didn't turn into protective brother on me."
Nick chuckles a little and said. "He wanted to but all of us told him to just let you be happy and surprisingly he listened, but we are still a little concerned."
Sara nods, puts her hand on his shoulder and said. "I understand but you know me, I'll never jeopardize his career or my education." Nick nodded, if he knew anything about her it was that she cared about the people who mattered to her.
They go back to looking at the dance floor and after a few seconds he looks at her and said. "can I make a confession?"
She turns to him, raises an eyebrow and said. "uh oh that doesn't sound good but go ahead."
"when I started going to school with you I used to have a little crush on you."
She looks at him with wide eyes again and said. "I had no idea why didn't you ever tell me?"
Nick shrugs his shoulders and said. "I don't know you had always had a crush on Travis and when you started dating him, my feelings turned to friendship and you turned into one of my best friends."
Sara smiles and replies. "you are one of my best friends too and everything worked out in the end though didn't it?"
They both look at the dance floor again and this time Catherine was waving Nick over, he holds up a finger indicating one minute and Catherine nodded and turned back to the girls, Nick looks at Sara and said. "it did and do you know what else I think?" Sara takes a drink and after she swallows it she looks at Nick and he continues.
"it will happen between you and Mr. Grissom." Even though he said that, he still wanted her to be careful.
Sara looks at him with a hopeful feeling and asked. "how do you know?"
Nick smiles bigger, letting his romantic side show, stands up but bends down so she could still hear him. "Because when he thinks nobody is looking in class he gives you the same look I just gave Catherine, and what Jim and Greg give BreAnna and Amanda, just have faith and it will happen and like you said age thing shouldn't matter." Sara nodded and Nick finishes with. "but if he hurts you I might have to get all protected of my little sister."
He winks at her and turns to walk to the dance floor and started dancing with his girlfriend, when Jim and Greg came to the table.
Jim and Greg set the drinks down and Jim went to the dance floor for some dancing, Greg looked at Sara and she just wiped a small tear away, she was so happy Nick called her a sister, it felt good to hear and it felt like she was gaining a bigger family, Greg was concerned so he said. "Sara are you ok?"
She smiled, nodded and said. "Never better, I have a new brother."
He looks at her confused and said. "Sara how can you have a new brother, I..."
Sara cuts him off with. "oh forget it, let's go dance."
She got up from her seat and took Greg by the arm and dragged him on the dance floor and they all stated to dance. After few minutes into the song Greg looked over at Sara and Nick, now he got it, Nick had that brother look, the same look he got when he wanted to protect her, he smiled and Amanda was looking at him weirdly he just shook his head and told her it was nothing, she just smiles at him and they all continued to dance and have a good time.
AN: Next chapter, GSR moment coming up. So please review!