For several days, Horatio and Yelina crossed eyes and said nothing. The redhead noticed that whenever he was sitting at his desk in his head just thought about Detective Salas, making his concentration to decrease. His desk work was slower than usual and that made his shift to lengthen every day a little more. Concentrate, Caine! he thought angrily to himself while writing his report of his last case .

- " Are you coming to Jame's birthday, red? " - Cardoza asked as he cleaned his table.

- " You know I don't like big crowds ..." - Horatio said as he signed the report .

- " Do you have any other plan? ... with July of DNA, for example? "

- "July ... no, what makes you think that? " - Asked the surprised redhead - "she is married , you know?

- "Is she? How would I know it if half of the day she is looking at your ass when you leave the lab? " - He laughed

- " What?! , are you losing it, Jesse?" - he bent down to open a drawer so Jesse couldn't see he was blushing - . "God , Jesse ... you know how make me feel uncomfortable. How am I going to give her a sample without thinking about it?"

- "You are very intelligent to resolve crimes but with women you have no clue " - he stood up and grabbed his jacket - "Come on, we will drink some beers, talk to some girls and then you can escape to your home. It will be fun "

Horatio sighed and got up from his chair. Although he did not like the idea he knew he had to do some social life and not always hide indoors. Since he discovered that Clara had been cheating him, his interest in women had been reduced to zero so going out with his coworkers had lost interest .

He looked at Jesse and saw a smile forming on the face of younger man, knowing he had won the battle .

- "Okay ...but I'll take my car. I do not want to have to cometomorrow morning to work in the same clothes because I had not had time to change at home" - Jesse nodded and laughed out loud .


An hour later, Jesse and Horatio were in a bar near the beach , with a beer in hand, talking about rugby with a couple of officers . When Horatio discovered that the other two men liked rugby , he decided to give an opportunity to the party because he could at least be entertained while enjoying his free time.

When he finished his beer he looked at Jesse and saw that he was finished too - "I will order a couple more, okay? " - Horatio said as he patted Jesse 's shoulder .

- "Thanks, pal!" - Jesse screamed as the redhead headed toward the bartender .

Arriving at the bar he managed to get through crowd to order the beers without screaming as if he was in the middle of a battle ground. When he bent to draw the waiter's attention, he felt a hand gently tugging his shirt and he turned to see who it was.

- "Uh ... hi " - he said a little surprised to Yelina.

- "Hi... hey, while you're there, could you could ask me a beer , please? I've been here for a little trying to get to where you are right now but it has been impossible"

- "Uh ... sure, give me a moment" - he turned when he saw the waiter and shouted what he wanted. After waiting a bit he got the three beers and gave hers to Yelina - "Here "

- "Thank you very much. How much did it cost?" - she took a sip of her bottle and smiled at the redhead .

- " Uhm ... my treat this time, ok ? " - he raised his arm to draw the attention of Jesse to come and pick up his beer - "By the way ... I'm Horatio" - he reached out his hand and the colombian shook it .

- " Yelina " - she smiled - "Where did your mother find your name?" - she asked curiously .

- . " Ah ... yes ... a writer, Horatio Alger. Actually she decided to use his surname name for my middle name. She was a true fan" - he saw that Jesse was close and gave him his bottle.


When he get to where Horatio was , Jesse could see that his partner was speaking with a woman. When he was close enough to the redhead he saw that the woman was none other than Yelina Salas. In recent days he had seen both of them exchanging looks at work and that had aroused his curiosity.

- "Thank you, Horatio " - he took the beer and saw July approaching their spot - " bird at one o'clock" - he whispered to the redhead - "I got your back you , pal ... July, I'm so glad to see you"- Jesse said in a exaggerated tone to attract the attention of the lab technician - "right now I was telling Horatio how you look at his ass every time he leaves the lab ..." - he said as he sneaked his arm around July's shoulders and headed away with her.

- " Ugh ... " - Horatio growled while wishing that the earth would swallow him in that moment.

Listening to Jesse , Yelina almost chocked in her drink when she started laughing . She did not know what was funnier...if Jesse embarrassing July so she wouldn't disturb the redhead or Horatio's panic face.

- "So...blackmailing technicians to process your DNA samples ? " - Yelina asked trying not to laugh more .

Horatio smiled and looked down- " It seems to work better than when I use the expression please " - he joked as he looked again at the Colombian - " Uhm ... hey, the music is so loud in here ... what ... what do you say if we go out for a while? "

The redhead smiled with relief when he saw that Yelina laughed and took his hand to lead him out of there without getting lost.