A/N: :) I have a good feeling that all of you will find this chapter funny. {if you don't find it funny then you'll probably just find it interesting} {B.T.W: I keep hearing that I have misspells in my stories. I spell check my stories, but if you guys find anything misspelled here please tell me.}

Chapter 14

Tehama and Anza were professionals at this kind of thing. That's why they were always one of the first ones called to the scene and why they did such a good job too. They were a really great team. It was obvious whoever paired them up, made a great choice.

Of course all the members of the Safety Patrol always came into the crime scene and got straight to work. That was the reason that the Safety Patrol did so well and solved all of the cases. It was made up of hard working individuals who cared about their jobs and went the extra mile.

They did more than they fair share of work in and out of cases. There definitely was an efficient amount of work needed to be done when there weren't any cases too. Filing, cleaning, many conventions were still going on even when crime wasn't.

"Did you find anything," Roberts asked as he and Fillmore approached them.

Tehama and Anza looked up from their work. Both of them were a little surprised to find Fillmore and Roberts standing over them. "To examine the evidence fully, we need to take it back to the lab," Tehama said.

Anza pulled out a few plastic bags and held them open while Tehama puts the evidence inside. It seemed like Tehama and Anza put a lot of evidence inside the plastic bag. Normally they only took small amounts to examine.

"We think that this was done by a group of people instead of one person," Anza said.

"A group of people," Fillmore asked sounding stunned.

Anza nods. "Yes. It's probably the size of the group you busted back in middle school. You know, your very last case with Ingrid?" He asked.

Fillmore nods. He remembered but Roberts didn't. "Ingrid? Ingrid who? Was that your old partner or something," He asked.

Tehama shakes her head. Fillmore was still hurt about loosing Ingrid when she moved with Wayne. He probably still didn't want to talk about that case.

"I'll tell you later. It doesn't hurt as bad now," Fillmore promised. He really didn't feel much like discussing that particular case. It wasn't the time or the place right now.

"Well is that it," Fillmore asked quickly changing the subject.

Tehama and Anza both stood and nodded. "For now at least," Tehama replied.

Fillmore suddenly realized how cute that Tehama and Anza looked together. They were the perfect couple, but how come Fillmore hadn't noticed this before? He looked at Roberts to find that his partner saw it too.

Over the past four years their looks and personalities had changed since their middle school days.

Anza's hair was mostly the same as it had been since middle school. Only it was as black as a raven and a bit longer than before. If you looked closely you would be able to see the change of maturity in his eyes. His eyes seemed to have a much softer expression in them too.

His style of clothing had changed a little too. He wore ordinary shirts had a lot of color variation in them. They usually had some kind of funny saying or logo on them. Of course he no longer wore his jacket and now the tattoos on his shoulders were showing.

Everyone seemed to love his tattoos. On his right shoulder was his tattoo of a human skull under it was a ribbon like thing that twisted around it. In black letters it said "Anza".

On his left shoulder was a big red rose. Under the rose was a faded name. The only thing that Fillmore could make out was that the name started with a "T".

Fillmore wondered how long he'd had these tattoos. I mean had he had these in middle school but covered them up with that jacket all this time? He wondered if it might have been school policy! That could be the reason he covered them up.

Fillmore thought that Anza's tattoos were really cool looking and wondered why they hadn't been shown sooner. He actually wished that he could get a human skull tattooed on his shoulder. However he knew that his parents would never allow that to happen.

Anza's jeans were very baggy and unlike most of the High School boys here, he didn't have his pants hanging off his butt where it would show the boxers underneath. No, that look wasn't anything like him at all.

"I think that's it for the day, don't you think Anza?" Tehama asked staring up at him.

Anza nods agreeing with her, but his mind wasn't on the case right now, it was on Tehama.

Tehama sure has changed a lot since our middle school days, he thought.

Tehama's hair was still the same color as it had been in middle school. She had the same two strands of hair in front that were both colored pink. The difference in her hair was that it was now down and long. Half of her hair was pulled up in the same ribbon she'd used in middle school.

Tehama's voice had changed as it usually does when you get older. She had a little quieter voice than she had had before. She still wore the same color lipstick and eyeliner. The color of the skin on her face was much paler than before, probably due to the make-up she put on.

Her skin was nearly as pale as Ingrid's skin use to be. That's who it made Fillmore think about. It also made him think of a clowns face make-up they put on.

Today Tehama was wearing some earings that were shaped like moons. The earings seemed to sparkle in even the dullest light around school. If you asked Anza, they looked wonderful on her.

It was as if those earrings were made just for her. They seemed to fit her new image, according to Anza.

The Safety Patrol's orange belt she was wearing seemed to fit her body much better now. The belt actually fit her like a glove, unlike before. She wore jeans like she always had, except she had bellbottoms on.

Instead of shoes, Tehama wore sandals. From what Tehama said, shoes weren't as comfortable as they use to be for her. He'd noticed that most of the time she wore flip-flops or sandals that were open-toed.

"Wait a minute. The Safety Patrol's not going to protect us and make sure that we're not attacked again," Stacey asked sounding outraged.

"Who's this," Vallejo asked rubbing his head.

"Stacey Stevenson the head cheerleader," Fillmore said.

"Right now no. We will protect you the problem is that we can't protect your whole squad 24/7," Roberts replied. It would be literally impossible for them to do so.

"Well you can't just leave! Look what they did to us," Stacy said..

The whole cheerleading squad sits along a nearby wall with towels around the shoulders and cups of cocoa in their hands. All of them looked very traumatized. A few of them couldn't hold the cup of cocoa still because they trembled so badly.

Other members of the team seemed to stare off into space into their cup of cocoa.

"What if they attack us again and we die? We'll blame it on the Safety Patrol for not protecting us," Stacy threatened.

Fillmore grabbed a towel and put it over her shoulders then gave her a mug of cocoa. He led stacey over to the wall and sat her down with the rest of the cheerleading squad. "Just try to relax," Fillmore told her.

Stacey frantically continued to looked around frightened. She was probably the most traumatized out of the entire cheerleading squad.

"Hey King. Summers and Gadosky take care of the cheerleading squad while we get to the bottom of this! Go people!" Vallejo yelled.

Vallejo turns to Tehama, Anza, Roberts and Fillmore for questions.

BACK AT SAFETY PATROL HQ ABOUT AN HOUR LATER:

Tehama sits at Anza's desk examining the evidence closely and Anza's helping her. Anza's behind her watching as she's going over it.

Okay just take a deep breath and relax. You can do this Anza, don't be nervous. Anza thinks putting his hand on the back of her chair. His heart was racing and he was starting to sweat.

He'd been up most of the night thinking this up, he had to do this now or he might not get another chance. He thought it was the right time to ask. It was worth a shot, right?

"Hey Anza, would you hand me my notebook. I need to record this for future reference," Tehama said holding out her hand.

Anza give it to her. He watches as she writes what she's finding on the small piece of evidence from the crime scene.

"Uh....{gulps} Tehama....." Anza asks sounding very nervous and uneasy.

Tehama looks at him. "Yes, what is it Anza?" Tehama asked staring at him. She stared at him for a few minutes.

Anza pulled at his shirt collar nervously. He swallowed hard. Don't blow this. He thinks. "I wanted to ask you if...." He started but he stopped again nervously.

Tehama stood up. "Yes..Anza......" She asked her voice trailing off. She and Anza are just staring at each other.

Everything else in the background seemed to go silent as they just sat there. Take a deep breath, relax and go for it. Anza thinks shoving his hand in his jean pockets.

How on earth was he going to do this w/o looking like a complete idiot? I mean if he did this wrong, it wouldn't go his way.

"Anza? Are you okay?" Tehama asked waving her hand in front of his face.

"Y...yes Tehama. I..I'm fine," Anza replied.

Tehama turned back around to her desk. "Anza, I don't have time for games today. I need to analyze this evidence so that we can solve this crime," Tehama said.

"...Tehama I..." Anza started again sounding very nervous.

"Anza is there something you wanted to say to me?" Tehama asked as she pricked at the evidence.

Anza pulled at his shirt collar again and swallowed hard. This really wasn't going to be easy.

"Tehama, I just wanted to...." Anza started.

He was cut off because there was static on Tehama's talky. "Tehama" She said immediately picking it up.

"Tehama! We need you again. There's more evidence that was found and I think that you might find it quite interesting," Roberts said.

Tehama smiled. "I'll be right there. Over and out," Tehama said putting her talky back on her safety patrol belt and turning back to Anza.

"Anza, will you keep investigating that evidence on my desk? I'll be back later to see if you found anything," Tehama said.

"Okay," Anza said sitting at her desk and watching Tehama disappear out the door.

Dang. I missed my chance. Next time I just have to come out and say it. I won't freeze up next time, Anza thought. Anza slammed his fists on Tehama's desk.

I'm so frightened of what Tehama will say when I ask her. I know the worst thing that could happen is that she could reject me, but that doesn't help. She's so beautiful! Am I good enough for her?,Anza thinks as he analyzes the evidence.

This was definately not easy for him. He had to get this done before next Friday, that was when it was. Anza really wanted to go with Tehama to the show, but he couldn't bring himself to ask her.

Anza knew that if he did'nt ask her, another guy might get her and he might loose his chance forever.

MEANWHILE AT THE CRIME SCENE:

Tehama arrived on the scene to everyone was there again. Tehama knew that all of them had searched the place from top to bottom only hours ago, what else could they have found sinse then?

She walks up to the large group of people in the middle of the room discussing something. None of them seem to notice her because they are too busy arguing about the evidence.

"What do we have?" Tehama asked, kneeling next to Fillmore and Roberts.

Everyone stops talking when they hear Tehama's voice. They all give her a look that asks "When did you get here,"

Roberts holds up a very torn up shirt. "This is what was found," Roberts said.

Tehama was stunned. They called her from the office and away from evidence for this? Was this some sort of joke?

"Tehama can you tell us about this shirt?" Roberts asked.

Tehama took the shirt in her hand and starts looking over it. After a few minutes she looked up at them again. "It's obvious that it's home made," She concluded.

"There's only one person that we know makes shirts...." Tehama's voice trailed off.

"Clementina" Vallejo, Fillmore and Tehama said all at once.

"Fillmore! Roberts! Go question Clementina. Meanwhile, Tehama I have some very important work for you to do," Vallejo said.

To Be Continued{Please read a/n below:}

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