Chapter 2- Old Friends Reunite

" Quiet all of you," shouted Vallejo as he walked to the front of the room, " we have a lot to go over today and we only have a half an hour before school officially starts, so let's get to work. First off we have a new officer joining our force well not completely new he was here about two years ago but he moved away and now he's back, his name is Cody Hunter and I want you all to keep an eye on him." Vallejo's gaze settled on him and it turned into a glare. Anza's head turned so fast Cody could of sworn that he hadn't moved at all, Tehama also whipped her head around, Cody just grinned at them. A grin which they returned very fast, feeling slightly happier he glanced at Fillmore who was already grinning and gave him a thumbs up, which he returned, just like old times. " His record is pretty bad and I don't want him getting into any trouble while he is here," turning his gaze back to everyone else, " second we have had a series of…" he stopped here because a girl had just come walking through the door with absolutely no fear and an very bored expression on her face. Cody just stared at her, he tried to find words to describe her, and all he could come up with was, whoa. He gave her a searching look, trying to see if he could read her like he could to other people, but all he could think was, again, whoa. This was unknown territory for him, he had never really liked a girl before, usually they just liked him and he would just ignore them, but he felt his stomach do a back flip when she looked at him with that same look on her face, although he could of sworn that it changed just a tiny bit, became more…. interested. Damn he thought I don't need this, I have enough to deal with right now… hey… hey… she's looking at me!

Oh man, she thought as she walked quickly down the hall to get to the Safety Patrol office, I am going to be so late. Vallejo is going to kill me, and Fillmore will flip again, oh well who cares. Just before she opened the door she put a bored expression on her face and pushed open the door. Walking in was simple enough, she wasn't afraid of Vallejo or Fillmore really, so she decided that she didn't care at all, and then she saw him. He was sitting calmly in the chair that was right in front of her desk, looking very bored and haughty, but what drew her to him was the way his gaze turned to her immediately. They were just staring at each other across the room, he gave her a searching look the way he was looking at her, it made her feel like he was trying to see right through her, it made her stomach flip flop. Whoa she thought to herself, who is he, he's really cute. Hey don't start with that you need to concentrate on your studies and the safety patrol… what… whoa he just grinned at me!

" Third," screamed Vallejo, " your late!"

" Sorry," she replied forcing herself to stop staring at the mystery guy, " my sister was late getting up and dad forgot his coffee." Turning she walked down the aisle past the guy, who gave her the same look, feeling her stomach flip again she sat down and stared at Vallejo.

" Ok well now that Ingrid has had the courtesy to grace us with her presence," glaring at Ingrid as he said that, " I will once again introduce our new officer, Cody Hunter, and… oh where was I again, oh right, lately we have had a series of thefts from lockers, gym rooms, even as far as shoving a person down and just taking the stuff. So far they have taken only taken things like lunches, books, projects and stuff. But Principal Folsom suspects that they will keep moving up to things like money and portable devices so we need to catch these guys. We also suspect that there are at least two people involved in the racket, so find out what you can and good luck people." With that final word Vallejo turned and walked away into his office, slamming the door behind him. As soon as they heard the door slam, Tehama, Anza and Fillmore came running over to him, he stood up and barely managed to catch Tehama as she flung herself into his arms and hugged him, nearly falling over he simply laughed, Anza and Fillmore joined in.

" Whoa," he said with a broad grin on his face, " careful now don't knock me over." Tehama released him and gave him a hard shot in the arm with her right punch. " Owwiiieee," howled Cody in mock pain, " that hurttttt." Anza stepped forward and grabbed Cody in a bear hug that almost lifted him off the ground, laughing Cody returned the hug and then shoved Anza away still laughing with him. Fillmore walked so that he was in front of Cody and grinned at him, grinning back they gave each other a brief one-armed hug and then shoved each other and that got them all laughing again.

Ingrid sat at her desk simply staring at the four of them, wondering what exactly was going on. Obviously they know each other from somewhere, she thought, but where…could he be an old flame of Tehamas? Or what if he is here to replace me? Oh no what'll I do, I love the safety patrol…wait a minute… he's looking at me…he looks even hotter up close…wait what am I thinking he could be here to replace me! Don't look at him look away… but his eyes are so…perfect. Forcing herself to look away she walked over to Danny O'Farrels desk.

" Hey," says Ingrid, " who is that guy talking to the others?"

" Oh him," Danny says excitedly, " he used to go here, back in seventh grade, but then he moved. Those four have been best friends since like kindergarten; word is that they were the best safety patrollers on the force before he moved. They were like a legend according to Vallejo, but then he left and the others were still great but not like before." Danny grinned at her stunned expression, " I'm going to try and get his autograph, you want one?"

" No," she said, " no thanks Danny, I don't need his autograph." As she walked back to her desk, she mulled over the information that Danny gave her, so they had been a legend huh? Well that doesn't mean much, maybe they were good, but they might not be anymore. Well at least he's not here to replace me that scared me for a minute there…. Sitting back down at her desk she pulled out her chemistry book and pretended to study so it looked like she was doing something. Looking up she noticed that he was looking at her again, he keeps looking at me…I wonder…no no no don't just smile and then start to study, she gave him a quick smile and looked at him long enough that she saw him return it, she then looked down again and started to actually study with a slight smile on her face the whole time.

He had seen her go over to the red haired kids desk and knew that she was trying to figure out more information on him. He watched her go back to her desk and sit down with her chemistry book out. After a second or so she looked up and noticed him looking at her. Uh oh she saw me… he thought panicked, wait what is she… she smiled at me! Smile back idiot smile back. Shooting her a quick grin her turned back to what Anza was saying, with a slight smile on his face. The bell rang and most of the officers picked up there books and left. Leaving the four alone with Ingrid.

" Damn gotta go to class," scowled Fillmore, " too bad we can't skip anymore." Grinning at Cody as he said that. " Come on, let's go Tehama."

" Ok," she replied, " we'll meet back here at lunch ok everyone." Cody, Anza and Fillmore nodded in reply and Tehama and Fillmore walked out, leaving just Cody, Anza and Ingrid in the room.

" What's your first class?" Cody asked Anza, while glancing unnoticed at Ingrid again.

" Chemistry," he replied faking sick, " you?"

" Chemistry," he said with a grin, " should be a fun class hey?"

" Yeah, it should," Anza said grinning back at him, " oh right, Ingrid's in that class too, aren't you Ingrid?" looking up from her chemistry book she glared at Anza.

" I sit in front of you, idiot," she snapped while avoiding looking at Cody, " great memory huh?" Cody laughed and her eyes darted over his features once more, smiling again she looked back at Anza who was looking mad.

" Bite me third," he snapped, " oh right sorry you haven't met Cody yet have you, Cody this is Ingrid third, Ingrid this is Cody Hunter." They both looked at each other, reaching out a hand for her to shake Cody gave her a smile.

" Yo, nice to meet you" he said smiling. Wow her eyes are so green, so beautiful… hey…hey remember no thinking like that…but she really is beautiful.

" Hi, nice to meet you too" Ingrid said returning his smile. Whoa his eyes are really pretty when you look deeply in them…. no…. stop it remember you have to concentrate on studying…. although he really is cute. She reached out and put her hand in his, the second their hands touched she felt a jolt of electricity go through her arm. Her eyes shot up to meet his, and by the look of shock in his, he had felt the jolt as well.

Her hand had just touched his, just a handshake…but then why did that jolt of electricity go through my arm? Do I really…no I can't feel that way forget it…but it felt so good… her eyes had just met his and he looked deep into them seeing for himself that she had also felt that jolt of electricity go through her as well. They slowly released their hands, and just continued to stare in each other's eyes until Anza grabbed Cody and hauled him over to his computer to show him something. Sighing he pretended to be interested but was really thinking about Ingrid and her green eyes. Unknowingly across at her desk, Ingrid was also thinking about him and his electric blue eyes. They glanced at each other and stayed looking at each other on and off until the bell rang and they all headed for the chemistry class.