Stellaride behind the flames

girls on fire Part 2

Stella's POV: it's been a couple days since I got the idea to do girls on fire and once Wendy got on board we started thinking of how we can get girls to want to join the program. Right now me and Wendy are at a local high school to pitch to some girls to join the program

S= any that's why were calling it girls on fire, hell yeah it will be challenging but you show up you put in the blood sweat and the tears and this program could change your life
WS= we'll have a lot of fun too
S= ( looks to the girl that is popping her gum) hey you with the gum you must have a lot of energy to snap gum through my whole presentation this program could be a great way for you to channel that energy ( the school bell rings) all right sign ups are right here
WS= thanks for listening we know the school made you show up but  we really appreciate it fun starts next week ( girls leave)
S= that's the third time we've done this pitch and there's still no takers
WS= we might need another approach one a little less intimidating

Wendy leaves once she leaves I hurry up and clean up my stuff and head into work once I get there I go into the locker room to put my stuff away and I run into Kelly and start telling him what happened Today at the presentation

S= intimidating can you believe that
K= it's a great idea for a program I'm sure you'll get signs up
S= well it Better be soon because captain Horton says that if we don't get recruits by the funding deadline next week then he will shut us down and not for nothing but Seager has opinion about everything I mean it must have been tough working with her
K= um nothing I haven't dealt with before ( the bells go off)

Kelly's pov: everything with me and Matt has been good since that one call and me and Stella are doing great. I am so proud of what Stella is doing about making a program for young girls to be junior firefighter I just hope her and Seager get along and also hope they have some sign up soon or the program will be shut down. After Stella tells me how her morning presentation we got a call to a motel fire when we got there only one person survived. A couple hours later I am sitting at the squad table doing my crossword when someone comes up behind me

DL= afternoon
K= help you with something
DL= Darren Lamar Milwaukee PD ( shows his badge) I understand you guys pulled a victim out of a motel fire this morning caucasian male 30
K= that's right but he didn't make it smoke got to him
DL= he was dead before the fire started
K= how did you figured Milwaukee
DL= he was a witness to a homicide I'm working on up north I guess someone didn't want him talking

Once he said all that I thought it was best for chief to hear the full stuff

DL= Anthony Harns 14 years old good kid thought if he played ball well enough he'd go to college but his older brother sucked him into his gang life and a week ago Tuesday was shot and killed outside the Wisconsin center drug deal gone bad
K= damn
DL= black kid gets killed selling drugs nobody cares but I do that was me once. I escaped that life and he had a chance to do the same so I'm working the cases as hard as I can but I was getting nowhere until out of the blue I get a call from brad Whittier form Chicago
K= our victim at the motel fire
DL= he was at the convention center last week some kind of  medical equipment show says he has info on Anthony's death, but he doesn't want to talk on the phone something's got him scared. So I told him to check into a motel and wait for me by the time I got here motel's roosted Whittier's dead
K= hey chief can I get a little latitude to get involved in this one
CB=  absolutely

  Once the chief  gave me permission to get involved I tell my squad what is happening and then I go and wait for Seager to get here since I will be working with her on this case