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"Hey Rocky, check it out!"

Rocky looked over Tommy's shoulder and immediately saw what had caught his attention. Billy, usually the model student, was sitting in his desk with his head slumped over one arm, fast asleep. They tiptoed through the room to take seats next to their sleeping friend.

"Should we wake him up?" Rocky said.

"Hey, guys, what's up?" Kim's voice said over Rocky's shoulder. He looked up and saw Aisha and Adam taking seats behind her. "What happened to Billy?"

"Don't know," Tommy said. "He was like this when we got here."

The warning bell rang and Billy didn't move.

"We should wake him up before class," Aisha said. "If Mrs. Appleby sees him he'll get in trouble."

Tommy shook Billy on the shoulder. Nothing. He shook harder. "Billy!"

Billy jumped and sat up. His face was red from fatigue and there was a deep slash imprinted across his face from his sleeve.

"Dude," Tommy said. "What happened to you? You never sleep in class."

Billy rubbed the sleep out of his eyes and sighed. "Marcy's roommate Sarah is in the hospital. She called me early this morning and I went out there to see her."

Rocky felt his stomach hit the floor. "What happened to Sarah?"

Billy shook his head. "We think her boyfriend beat her up. Marcy found her late last night in the apartment."

"Is she alright?" Rocky asked. He had to wait to get his answer until Billy finished yawning.

"She was in surgery when I left. The doctors said she should be fine though."

Tommy was shaking his head. "Man, Marcy called you in the middle of the night and you just went out there?"

"Yeah," Billy said. "I'm grounded for two weeks, my dad caught me coming back this morning. He took the keys to the Rad Bug."

The second bell rang and Mrs. Appleby came in and started the lesson so they had to settle into their books and Rocky couldn't ask any more questions. His friends sat studiously listening to the lesson, but Rocky couldn't concentrate. His thoughts kept drifting to Sarah.

How could someone have done that to her? And her own boyfriend? He couldn't imagine the type of rage you would have to feel to hurt someone like that. He wished there was something he could do. He had a few fantasies about paying the boyfriend a visit as the Red Ranger. Maybe bringing Adam or Tommy with him. Having two Power Rangers show up at your door would be enough to scare the bejeezus out of anybody.

He was enjoying the thought of watching some faceless girlfriend beater on the floor begging the Red Ranger not to hurt him when the classroom door opened and Mr. Kaplan stepped in.

"Excuse me Ms. Appleby," he said, "but I need to borrow Mr. DeSantos for a minute."

"All right," Ms. Appleby said sweetly. "Rocky go with Mr. Kaplan, please."

Rocky stood up and followed Mr. Kaplan to his office. It was a fairly long walk to the office and Mr. Kaplan said nothing on the way there. A small pit of fear started forming in Rocky's stomach. Something wasn't right about this.

"Excuse me, Mr. Kaplan," he said slowly. "Am I in trouble?"

Mr. Kaplan didn't answer right away. Rocky couldn't see his face, but he was pretty sure whatever his principal was about to tell him wasn't good. "Not exactly," he said finally. "But there are some people here who want to talk to you."

They were to his office by that point and when Mr. Kaplan opened the door Rocky saw two fully uniformed policemen standing inside the office. Rocky stopped cold. Something was wrong. Was it his parents? There could have been an accident at the bakery. Or one of his brothers or sisters.

A million possibilities were rushing through his head so fast he almost didn't hear Mr. Kaplan speaking to him.

"This is Officer Morgan, and Officer Reed," the principal was saying. "They have some questions for you."

"Sit down, Mr. DeSantos," Officer Morgan said gesturing towards the one of the leather bound chairs in front of the desk.

Rocky sat slowly, his heart pounding. Please don't let anyone be hurt, he thought. What am I going to do if Mom or Dad is hurt?

Officer Reed took the seat next to him. He was a thin man with pale blonde hair cut extremely short. Officer Morgan was leaning against Mr. Kaplan's desk holding a small notepad in front of him. Mr. Kaplan had taken position standing in the far corner of the small office.

"Do you know a Sarah Drysdale?" Officer Morgan asked.

Sarah? Were they asking about Marcy's roommate?

"Is that Marcy Tannon's roommate?"

"Yes," said Reed. "You know her then?"

Rocky let out a breath and some of the tension faded. "I met her once, last weekend. I don't know much about her."

"You've only met her once?" Morgan said with a little shock in his voice.

Rocky nodded. "Yeah, Billy, my best friend, he's dating Marcy and they were having this thing to help with Sarah's cooking class. All of us were there."

"All of us?" Reed asked.

"Tommy, Kimberly, Adam, Aisha, and Billy, of course," he said. "And her other roommates were there, I don't remember their names."

Morgan nodded and scribbled something in his notebook. "And you haven't seen her any other times besides that?"

Rocky shook his head. "I called her once," he admitted. "To see how her final went in cooking school."

"That's it?" Morgan said, his pen poised above the pad.

"Yes sir," said Rocky.

"Did you ever meet her boyfriend, Jasper Kilne?

"No, I didn't even know his name."

"What were you doing last night?" Morgan asked the question without much emotion, just a routine question, not like the cops say it on TV.

"I was home with my brothers and sisters."

"All night?"

Rocky nodded. "My parents had to work late at the bakery and there was a PTA meeting at school."

"How many brother's and sisters do you have?" Reed asked, casual, friendly.

"Six," Rocky said automatically. "Four brothers and two sisters."

"You the oldest?"

Another nod. "Yeah."

Reed let out a low whistle. "Wow," he said. "That's a big responsibility."

Rocky just nodded again. He was used to getting this reaction from people. He loved having a big family, and at the moment he was suddenly grateful for it because he had a feeling it was about to be very helpful.

Morgan wrote something briefly then looked at Reed for a second, then back to Rocky. "Can I see your hands please?"

"What?"

"You're hands, hold them up, palms down."

Rocky did as he was told, not sure why they were asking this. He watched as Morgan looked at his partner again, this time for a longer exchange of glances that obviously stood in for a private conversation. Then Morgan sighed and stood up.

"Okay," he said. "I think we have enough. We may need to talk to some of your friends and your parents to confirm everything."

"Am I in trouble?" Rocky asked again.

Both cops were on their feet now and they turned and looked at each other then down at him. Reed shook his head.

"No," he said firmly. "You're name came up in our investigation and we just wanted to check everything out. You can go back to class now."

With that they turned and left the office. Mr. Kaplan repeated the order for Rocky to return to class then followed the officers out.

Short chapter this time but hope you enjoyed. Drop a review in my slot, tell me what you think.