"Ill be back."

I called out as I left the house. There is gonna be an important meeting, Ruby sent out an email, which I briefly looked through. Its summer, i dont wanna read. I made to Jasmines place, the crew was already there, but no Jamal.

"The 'Its all Relative' results came in this morning, and we filtered 3,000 names by age, gender and birthplace." Ruby said as he was handed folders by Jasmine.

"Which left us with only the people that share Lil Rickys birthday and whose names contain 'Ricardo' or 'Galindo'. That brought is down to 4 candidates."

"Now, Jasmine and I knocked one guy off the list, and we found him on Facebook, which means hes not hiding. The three others dont have social media."

"Uh, wasnt Chivos saliva supposed to tell us exactly who Lil Ricky was?" Monse asked them.

"You didnt read the notes I emailed!" Ruby sighed. Oops, he's gonna get big mad at me.

"Uh... what notes?" Cesar said. At this point, im not gonna say if I did or I didn't. Jasmine and Ruby looked at each other with disbelief.

"Theres no time to not be paying attention at all times!" Ruby yells. "The golden state killer was caught because a relative unwillingly submitted their DNA to a database, and the police matched that DNA to a GSK crimes scene. Now, we had Chivos DNA, but no crime scene to tie it to."

"If you read the notes, youd also know that George Lopez is related to Chivo!" Me and Jasmine squealed. That part i did read. "I wanted to follow up on it..." Ruby gave me and Jasmine a look and I slowly sat down. "But because of my dedication to this investigation, ive postponed interrogating Mr. Lopez until a later date!"

"I wanna help with that when you get to that date." I said. Ruby shook his head. Amor! Its THE George Lopez! Monse hums and raises her hand.

"What?"

"How do we know Lil Rickys one of the three remaining names?"

"Because he loved puzzles, and theres no greater puzzle than yourself." Ruby told her. Cesar groans and raises his hand. "No more questions!" Cesar snaps and I sat back. "You all got assignments." Jasmine passes the folder to Cesar, who is mostly gonna work with Monse.

"Wheres-"

"Jamal?" Jamal said as he walked in the room, late. "Hes been having sex." I rolled my eyes.

"This is our assignment." Jasmine gives him the folder. That puts me with Ruby. Im perfectly fine with that. Jamal looks at us, happy. Which was creeping me out.

"Did you read the notes?" Ruby asked him. Jamal laughs.

"Of course! You're down to four suspects?"

"Three." We all said to him. Jamal gasps and clapping his hands. He sits down but Jasmine pulls the chair away, making Jamal stand. They did it for about 3 more times until Jamal decided to stand.

"Way to go team!" He claps. "See? I can lead an investigation and still have SEX!" He laughs. Disgusting. "Work hard, play hard! But not too hard, cause im learning. Want to know about it?"

"No need. We can smell it." He reeks i swear.

"And taste it." Ruby said with disgust.

"Well, its a good thing I cant taste you because you look like shit." He said to Ruby, which he did. After a phone call with him last night, he was scared of Cuchillos and we spent the whole night on the phone, keeping Ruby company.

"Yeah? Well you would too if a gang boss threatened you, your family and stole all your knives."

"Enough!" Jamal stops him. "Everyone find your suspects. Monse and Cesar left. Jasmine headed to the waiting on Jamal. And I waited for Ruby. The boys had a talk.

"Jamal! Lets go!" Jasmine yells at him. He rolled his eyes and off they went. It was now Ruby and I.

"Ya? We got this. We'll find him." I said to Ruby. He started to blink and rubbed his eyes. He was out of it.

"When you mean when we find him. You mean Lil Ruby?" He smirks. I looked around, huhhh what?

"No, Lil Ricky!" I said to him. He snaps back. "Stop calling yourself small." I walked out of Jasmines room. I looked back and saw the Ruby was still at the same spot. "Are you coming?"

"No!" He yelled out. My eyes widen. "Yes!" I got hella confused but he did come. We made our way to the spot we had our suspect working. I opened the folder. "This is it." Verminator Exterminator. Rubys phone went off and he rolled his eyes. We saw that Jamal sent a photo of a old back man. We shook our heads. Then he called.

"Who is that?"

"Not Lil Ricky!" Jamal sang. We both rolled our eyes. Wonderful.

"Well thanks for being quick and thorough."

"Ah! Thats what she said...right after we had sex!" Ugh here we go again! We get it! Jamal lost his virginity! First of all how! I still didn't believe it, he list his virginity before me! Me!

"Okay! Great. Well I appreciate your hard work." Ruby continues.

"Thats what she said." Okay that one did not make sense. I shook my head and pinched my nose. "Okay getting off now."

"Thats also what she said."

"Stop!" I yelled.

"She did not say that." I groaned and took a seat on the steps, away from the call. I cant believe it. Nasty.

"My god! We're down to two suspects and all Jamal can think about is sex!" I screamed. Ruby rubbed his eyes again, panting. He was out of it again. His phone was getting a call. "Ruby? Your phone. Are you gonna get it?" He looks down and answered it.

"Whats up?"

"Not it. Our guy was really short, and Lil Ricky was really tall. Well over six feet." Thats a huge bitch.

"People shrink when they get old, that happened to my abuelo." I told Monse.

"Yeah but you dont go from Lil Ricky to Lil Ruby." I tried not laugh. I held it in. Ruby shook his head.

"Whats that supposed to mean?" He yelled at them.

"Thats you're short, and Lil Ricky was tall. We asked him if he knew Cuchillos, and he said no."

"Why would you ask that?"

"To rule him out."

"Hey, maybe thats why Rosé didnt text back either." Monse and Cesar talked to each other. Ruby was gonna exploded.

"You asked Rosé if she knew Cuchillos too?" He was getting angry. "Thats it. You dont read the notes. You ask asinine questions and you're putting the investigation in jeopardy! I have no choice but to put you two on standby until further notice."

"But you arent the leader."

"Sorry Monse but Im with Ruby on this one. We'll call you when we need you."

"Fine." They hung up. Ruby joined me by the steps.

"Princesa, maybe the DNA database was a waste of time." He said sadly. "Lil Rickys probably not in it. If he aint in it, then so isn't your dad." I looked down.

"Looking for me?" Said a man. We looked up, smiling.

"Yes." We said at the same time. He let us into his office, we took a seat. We found him! That means my dad is near by or here with him! We decided to talk about our fake rat infestation at Rubys place.

"This is totally normal, but i like how seriously you are taking this rat issue, and I assure you that I take it just as seriously. To me, finding rattus norvegicus is like solving a puzzle." That it! Its him! Ruby and I started to kick each other, signaling that its him. "In fact, I gotta show you a pic of this one crazy infestation that I uncovered. Where is that picture?" Oh no. Please no picture. Rats are on my top list of 'Valerias Scared List' first are clowns, snakes and then rats. "Where is that picture?" I showed the picture of old lil ricky to Ruby. We pointed out the similar things. Ladies and gentlemen we got him. He turned back and hid the folder, smiling like we didn't do anything. "Ah! I dont know where it is."

"Dang, i was hoping to see it." I lied.

"It was such a good one. Rats decapitating each other, limbs torn from bodies, blood flowing." He laughs. My jaw dropped, thats the mostly horrific thing! EWWWWW! I dont want to see it at all! "It was glorious!"

"Again, real sad you couldn't find it." I was gonna throw up, why was I imagining it? He shrugs.

"we're ready to schedule. Can you come to Freeridge tomorrow?"

"Oh oh oh!" He backs up. "Freeridge? Im not going to Freeridge." We looked at each other.

"Why not?"

"Id rather not say." I kicked Rubys leg, Thats a sign.

"Why are you being so dodgy? Hm?" I asked him.

"Why are you?" He called me out. I backed up.

"We havent slept for days because of the rats." Ruby tells him, i nodded my head.

"Listen, i know a great guy in Freeridge." My dad!? Please let it be him!

"We'll pay double." Ruby said.

"Ill be there between three and six." He gave up to the deal. We both smirked. We got him.

"Whats next? How do we do this? Is this gonna be delivery or pickup?" Ruby said as we walked out of the building.

"De que?"

"Lil Ricky!"

"I dont know, call Cuchillos." I said with my arms up.

"How?"

"Amor! Piensa con tu cabeza!" I touched his hand. "Didn't she give you a phone that you can call her for this type of stuff?"

"I dont call her. She calls me. What if the phone doesnt have minutes? I dont want to cause her overage fees." I rolled my eyes.

"Then text her, or tell her hes gonna be at your place mañana during three to six."

"I cant give Cuchillos a window!"

"Dios mio! Ay! Then tell her 5:30. These guys are hella late to appointments." Ruby stopped giving me excuses and pulls out his phone. He texted Cuchillos.  Theres no going back. "Lets go and get some rats." I said, holding Rubys hand as we walked to the store. "Hey, do you guys got rats?" I asked the person behind the counter.

"Dead or alive?" I frowned.

"Whats the difference?"

"Dead are cheaper." Ruby sighs. I spotted puppys on the other side.

"Puppies!" I squealed! I skipped my way to them. They are so cute! "Oh hi! You are all so cute! Yes you are! You love me dont you!" I babied them. Ruby laughs as he stood behind me. "Yo quero uno." I pouted.

"I know. I promise to get you one." I kissed him. "Look at this one!" He pointed at the little baby frenchie.

"Oh my god!" I yelled. I ran to it. I picked it up. "You are so cute yes you are!"

"Here you guys go." The guy handed me the bucket of dead rats. I placed down the puppy and gave him a look. "What?"

"Im not touching that."

"Ill take it." Ruby said, taking the bucket. We got to his house. "Can you set these out for me?" I gave him a disgusted look. "Ill give you gloves."

"Only because you said nicely." I said as he passed me gloves. I put them on and started my job. I gagged every time I touched one with the tongs. "Where should I put the rest?" I said as I came inside, Jamal gagged. "Should I spread them out or put some more in the front?" Ruby goes again rubbing eyes. Jamal and I jumped as Ruby came out of his dream or whatever.

"Jamal you gotta go." Jamal was offended. I just gave them a weird look.

"Imma go spread them out all over the yard." I frowned and walked away. 'Lil Ricky' came by, early. Too early. Ruby and I kept calm as he collected the rats.

"Dead. All the rats are already dead." He said as he came back inside. "Your problem solved itself."

"What we do now?" I whispered to Ruby. We nervously chuckled. "Are there any other options?"

"We could whip out my big hose."

"Are you sure? I dont wanna see his big hose?" Ruby said, he has been hella weird all day.

"Then I wont get it from my truck, but thats all I can do." He started to walk to the front door.

"But that cant be everything."

"Call me if you have another problem." He said. Ruby ran and knocked down the bucket of rats. I gasped. The man picked up the rats and then Ruby and I ran to the door, blocking him from leaving. "What the hell are you doing?"

"Please you cant leave. This is life or death." Ruby pants.

"Its not Lil Ricky!" Jamal said as he ran from the back door. "He left to escape the violence."

"Whos Lil Ricky?" The man, who we thought was him, was confused.

"You are!" Ruby and I shouted.

"The leader of the of the Santos!"

"Cuchillos long lost love?"

"Chicos best friend!"

"Whats a Cuchillos?" He frowned. Jamal shook his head. I closed my eyes. Its really not him.

"Its not him." I sighed.

"Ill send you a bill." He said as he opened the door.

"What are we gonna tell Cuchillos?" Ruby freaks out. We heard the man scream. "What the hell!" We all ran out to see his tires had knives in them. She was here and she wasn't happy. She sent a text to Ruby, shes was tired of waiting.