Chapter 2: Another mystery

I was sitting in the driver seat of my Honda Civic flipping trough the file. I really hated going after people who had guns but hey she was conected with Ranger and Ranger was the man of mystery right. Well, truthfully I had acepted this file as I was curious, oh all right maybe curious wasn't the right word, nosy was more like it: so sue me I was down right nosy.

I was reading her adress when I heared the passenger door open and watched Lula squeeze her way in. Lula was a 200 pound black woman who had squeezed her body into a pair of fluro yellow spandex made for a much smaller woman. Her top was encrested with gold sequenzes and looked as if it was bearely holding everything in.

"Hey girlfriend," She said as she slid in peering over my shoulder to get a look at the file I had in my hand.

"Hey, you busy at present, thought I'd go and pay this FTA a visit."

"Lets role, I'm ready to kick some ass." Lula replied adjusted her hand bag as she spoke and straping on her seat belt.

"You havn't got a gun in there have you?" I asked already knowing the answer.

"Damn right I got a gun, only sissies don't carry guns and you of course, your not a sissie, well maybe you are when it comes to guns but..." I held up my hands to silence her shaking my head slightly.

"Leave the gun in the car, your not going to need it, she proably just forgot her court date."

"Yeah, of course she could have but with Rangerman sponsoring her Bond, do you think its real likely?"

"No, but its worth a shot."

"Does Ranger know she FTA I mean he's sponsoring her, he should know right."

"Vinnie dosn't want me to tell him, he's worried that Rangerman will take back sponsorship and he'll be out of a shit load of money."

"So it's up to us then to go and drag this sorry ass person back to jail."

I shook my head it was no good argueing with Lula, so I occupied my thoughts into turning the car out of the bond office car park.

"Where are we headed?" Lula asked pulling the file out from my lap.

"Someplace of Greendale drive, she's aarently been living there for ten years and her employement is listed as self employed so she should be there."

Lula nodded and looked up the adress in the new road map I had pinched from Connie's desk.

Finally I tured onto Greendale drive it was a street full of newish aprtment complexes and small parks, Lula and I started counting of house numbers till we came to 207.

"This can't be right..." I murmered looking at the vacant lot that was number 207..."There's nothing here."

"And the mystery gets deaper and deaper." Lula mumbled on the seat next to me both of us staring out of the window and the large vacant lot.

"This is real weird, I mean this FTA is meant to have a 6 year old daughter, they have to be living somewhere."

"Mmmmm" Lula mumbled next to me as we drove away from the empty lot, "Maybe she's pulling a Ranger on us or something."

"Now you mention it this sounds exactly like something Ranger would do, in fact he already does it."

Lula had a very smug look on her face, "So where to next?" She asked.

Chapter 3 - How will Stephanie and Lula track down an FTA who lives as a ghost on the wind and what is Ranger's conection to the FTA.