This is my first fanfiction and I hope you all enjoy. I do not own the characters to Fillmore, if I did I would have the show on TV still.

~BlackendRose

Karen Tehama was looking up the tree trying to get the nerve to climb all the way up to her and her best friend Joseph Anza's tree house. He had chosen the tallest tree there was and make sure the tree house was 20 feet up knowing Tehama hated heights. For once in all their years at X middle school she had decided to let her hair down and have her bangs hanging to the side instead of in her face. "Why don't you just get it over with and climb up, I will be right behind you." someone whispers to her from behind.

Normally hearing Anza say that would comfort her but instead the obviously taller boy with dark blue hair behind her made her stomach have butterflies and made her more nervous. "Just imagine that I am not here and just climb Tehama, either that or I will have to resort to the second choice."

"What second choice would th-" Tehama started saying until Anza picked her up threw her over his shoulder and started carrying her up the tree to the tree house.

"This my dear is the second choice." Joseph says to her smirking.

"I do not like this second choice and why did you call me dear?"

"Because I can, and the second choice is only happening because SOMEONE is too chicken to climb up the plank ladder to the tree house."

After he says that the rest of the way up is quiet. Once they get inside the make sure the walkie-talkies work before communication with Fillmore and Ingrid that they are in position whenever they are ready to find them. This was part of Vallejo's new plan of training and practice incase they get kid-napped or something. "So Tehama I was talking with Fillmore and Ingrid the other day and they accidentally mentioned that a girl with black hair with pink bangs has a crush on me, any idea who she is?" Anza asks knowing what the answer is and wanting to see what she will do.

"Nope not a clue." Tehama lies with a slight blush coming to her face.

Anza moves closer to her and moves some of her hair that was in her face behind her ear. "Well you may not know who I am talking about but I do and I happen to feel the same way."

"Really? You feel the same way about me?" As soon as Tehama says that she blushes darker and looks down.

"Yes I do." Anza says lifting her chin up making her look him in the face then he kisses her.

First the kiss was hesitant and nervous, then after a bit it was more passionate and romantic.

From that moment Joseph Anza and Karen Tehama were dating. Ingrid and Fillmore never found them, but years later after high school Anza and Tehama got married then a few more years after they were followed by Ingrid and Fillmore. Little did they know you can leave X Middle School but their cases would haunt most until the day they died. The End :3