Chapter 2

Greg was sitting at home trying to sleep when he decided to try giving Eve, the girl who's phone number he got, a call. He got her voice mail and hesitated about leaving a message, but decided to leave one seeing as she was probably at work and unable to answer her phone.

"Uh, hi Eve. This is Greg Sanders, the CSI guy from this morning. As he said it he realized how stupid that sounded but carried on anyway. I'm at home right now so you can reach me at 555-1565. Maybe we can set up a lunch date or something sometime soon. Bye, hope to hear from you soon."

He hung up the phone and felt like a fool. He realized just how long it had really been since he had asked anyone out. For so long he pined over Sara, trying to get her to go out with him but she never budged. He finally decided they were just meant to be friends and nothing else. It was time for him to move on. Plus with everything going on this past year with the Demetrius James case, he was longing to have someone outside of work to talk to about how he felt.

He did not feel comfortable telling Nick or Sara that he still had trouble sleeping at night or that he was extremely anxious about the civil trial and what the outcome could mean to him and maybe his career.

He still knew that if he came upon the same scene again today, he would try to save the man. He just wished that Demetrius James had run away. If he had run away he would not have had these problems. He would be sleeping peacefully again.

He woke up to his cell phone ringing. He guessed he finally managed to doze back off. He looked at the time on his phone and saw it was already 6:30pm. Only a couple hours until his shift began.

He flipped open his phone and smiled when he saw who was calling. "Hello?"

"Hi! Is this Greg," the pleasant sounding female voice asked.

"Yes it is. I am assuming this is Eve since my called ID said so."

"Ah, so I see you really do know how to investigate things. Yes, your deductive reasoning is correct, this is Eve. I just got a chance to call you back. We had a major group check in today and I had to stay until they were all here."

Greg though for a second, trying to remember where she said she worked again. Then it dawned on him. She was an assistant manager at the Rio Resort and Casino.

"That's okay. I have to go back into work in a couple hours anyway. I was just getting up," he said as he was literally getting out of bed.

"Oh yeah, you work night shift, don't you? I guess that makes sense why you proposed a lunch date. Well just let me know when you are able to do it. I am game."

Greg was smiling to himself. This was definitely a girl he wanted to get to know better. "Well, I am never quite sure when exactly I will be out of work. We hardly ever really end on time. I guess we could tentatively schedule a time and a place and I can call you probably ah hour before to confirm. Would that be okay?"

She agreed it would be okay. So they scheduled to meet for lunch the next day approximately a half hour after he got off shift.

When he got off the phone with her, he felt as though things might finally be improving for him again.