Disclaimer: I do not own CSI, or of the characters.


After a long day at work, Nick was glad to be back at his apartment. Some people could be real jerks! Why couldn't they understand that he's just doing his job, not personally harassing them? He sighed.
"At least not everyone is mean like that", he thought, sitting in front of his computer. "Let's see if this site is any good", he mumbled.

With a few keystrokes he landed at his destination, match .com. His co-worker Jay had referred him to it, claiming that it would be perfect for "a guy like him".

"Ok, I'm a 'man' seeking 'men' between ages '26' and '35' near zip code '89103'" he clicked a pretty blue button labeled 'Start Looking Now'.
"Well that was easy" he said, surprised.

Some profile pictures appeared, and as he went to click on picture of an attractive looking young man he got a fun looking pop-up from the site.

"It's free to look…Register now to see who's in your area"

"That figures" he muttered. "Ok then, username 'Cowboy324', password 'Stokes', E-mail phone number? I don't think so." He clicked a second blue button labeled 'Begin Now'.

About 30 minutes later, he had finished about a third of his personality profile.

"Damned website! This had better be worth the trouble" be complained. "What color eyes should he have? What color hair; what body type; what ethnicity??? How shallow ARE these people?!?" A rapid fire of clicks to the 'any' button made short work of that section.

"What turns you on…and off? Hmmmm... Brainiacs, on. Candlelight, on. Sarcasm, on. And for the rest of you, 'no opinion'. Submit!"

Nick was glad that all the hassle was over.

Too bad it wasn't.

"Upload a photo? Not now."

A click of the 'next' button brought him to a page with no useful information. So, he clicked next. Then he clicked it again, and then once more for good measure. The following page was the worst page of them all.

"Payment Options"

He sighed and selected the cheap, 9-month, basic package.

It would be over a month before Nick returned to match .com


End chapter two. R and R,