CHAPTER ONE
 

"…so, what do you think of it, Rollie??  Rollie?? Are you listening to me?? Helloooo?!?!?" came the irritated question from Rollie Tyler’s assistant.
 

"Huh? Oh, um, yeah looks great" was all that Rollie could muster for enthusiasm.  With a sigh, Rollie walked from the lounge to the workstation to see the new project his assistant was working on.
 

"Look, I know that you miss her.  But it has been a while, right?  I mean it’s, what like 4 or 5 months now.  I think you should get on with your life and stop …"
 

"Mourning her??  It would be a pretty hard thing to do.  And it is 6 months today.", was Tyler’s reply although the last was only meant to be heard by Rollie himself.
 

"No, that is not what I was going to say.  I was going to say to stop moping; you can be sooooo depressing at times that just looking at you makes ME depressed."
 

"OK, OK, I’ll try?"
 

"Fair enough.  I’m just going to run down to the copier place and make sure that they are doing the layout in the right colors.  Remember the last time?? Do you need anything while I’m out?"
 

"Nope, I’m fine."
 

"OK, later".
 

With that, Rollie Tyler was alone in his loft.  Sitting back down to his workstation, going over in his millionth time in his life the worst moment in his life.  Breathing hard so as to keep himself from crying, he said to himself out loud, "God, I can’t believe it.  It has been 6 months already. Seems like it was only yesterday.  I really miss you. Why did you die?? Angela, why did you leave me alone??
 
 
 

Seven Months earlier…

"ANGELA!!!!" boomed Rollie from the VR chamber.  "Where are you!?!?  What the bloody hell did you do to my program? Angela!!!!" he screamed as he flew down the stairs to the main floor.
 

With a smirk, Angie Ramirez answered her boss while sitting at her workstation, "Who?? Me??  How come I always get the blame?? What makes you think I did something to your precious program?"
 

"First of all, you are the only other person that works here. Second, you absolutely hate that program !!"
 

"Nope, sorry. It wasn’t me." Angie said as she jumped off her stool and met her boss at the bottom of the stairs.
 

"Oh, yeah? So, you aren’t lying are you?" Rollie asked with a devilish gleam to his eyes.
 

Backing up in fear, Angie replied "uh, no, not lying.  Rol, you know that I don’t lie."
 

"Only because you are afraid of getting caught, right?"
 

"Um…I’m sorry??"
 

"Too late" Tyler said much too joyfully for Angie’s peace of mind, while still advancing on her.  Before she knew enough to move, Rollie had tackled her and was now tickling her mercilessly.  Laughing hysterically, Angie was on the floor with Rollie sitting on her legs tormenting her.  With her laughing so hard, neither one of them heard the door.
 

As  Bluey  knew both Dets. Sanchez and Gatti, they were allowed entrance to the loft.  Upon seeing the two F/X wizards on the floor, Det. Gatti cleared his throat  and asked  "Are we interrupting something?  Have we come at a bad time?"
 

"Francis, what would you do if I said that you were?" Rollie queried, "ah,well…next time Ange." He said with a leer, and with that, he helped his partner up from the floor who was trying to control her laughter but not succeeding very well.
 

"Francis, have you two EVER come at a good time?" inquired  the petite blonde. Francis Gatti looked to his partner Mira Sanchez for help, but she looked just as confused has he did.
 

"Looks like we’re doing it again, Rollie" Angie said as she walked to the workstation.
 

"Doing it again?  I’m sorry, but I am really confused." complained Gatti.
 

"What Ange means is that we are weirding people out.  Her father got like that a couple of times  and a few of the other stuntmen Manny and I used to work with got like that all the time.  It’s kinda fun." Rollie replied to his friend "Now, are you still confused?"
 

"um….YES!"
 

"OK, it’s like this.  Most people think they know me and Angie—ya know, WHAT we are to each other.  But then there are times when we confuse the hell out of them."
 

"Like now?"
 

"Like now" Rollie replied, as Angie chuckled in the background.
 

"Are we done with the ‘Rollie & Angie History Lesson’? because if so, we were wondering if you could do us a favor?" inquired Mira.
 

"How did I know that was coming? OK, just what is it this time?" Rollie asked as he walked over to her

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As Rollie walked over to Mira, Francis went over to Angie who was busy at the workstation. um…Angie?"
 

"Yeah?"
 

"What Tyler said before about confusing people? Does that happen a lot?"
 

"Yep, a lot of people get confused by us." She said, then as an afterthought asked  "Are YOU confused, Frank?"
 

"Truthfully, yes.  I always think that I got you two down  then boom…I’m confused again.  So, what’s the deal with the two of you?"  His answer came in the way of a hearty chuckle from the little blonde.