Chapter 3

   "Oh, We just lived in DLTA,"Jessie said and seeing the confused look on Kimberly's face, added,"Downtown Los Angeles. We had a condo in the South Park district."

   "Oh WOW, city folk,"Kimberly said, giggling a little at her own jock." What brought you to Orange County and our community?"

    "Kyle works for a wealth management firm, Jessie explained." They opened a satellite office down here earlier in the year, and it expanded. It's a big thing for them because PGF it is a pretty conservative operation. Anyway, they asked him if he'd help them run it. We figured it was a good time to make a change since we are thinking about starting a family."

    "Oh, with the size of this house, I assumed you already had kids,"Kimberly said.

   "Nope - just being optimistic,"Jessie answered, trying to hide the sudden embarrassment, she felt surprised." Do you have any children?"

    "Two, Ourr daughter is four and our son two. I'm actually going over to daycare to pick them up in a few."

   Kyle arrived and wrapped one arm around Jessie's waist as he extended the other to shake Kimberly's.

       "Hello,"he said warmly.

       "Hi,Welcome,"she replied.

  "My goodness, between two of you, your future children are going to be gains. I feel like a munchkin next to you both."

   There was brief awkward silence as both Jessie and Kyle wondered how to respond.

     "Thank you?"he finally said.

   "I'm sorry, That was rude of me. I'm Kimberly, your neighbor from that house,"she said, pointing across the street.

    "Nice to meet you, Kimberly. I'm Kyle Voss, Jessie's husband."

   "Voss? I thought it was Hunt."

     "He's Voss,"Jessie explained.

   I'm Hunt, at least for now, I've been procrastinating on doing paperwork to change it."

  " I see, Kimberly said,"How long have you been married?"

     "Almost two years, Jessie said sheepishly. I have real problems with procrastination. That might explain why I'm still in school."

    "Oh,"Kimberly said, clearly That lived to move away from the last name topic." What're you studying?"

"Forensic psychology."

"WOW - that sounds exciting." How long before you're officially a psychologist?"

"Well, I got a little delayed,"Jessie said, sharing the obligatory story every cocktail party they'd attended for the last two years." I started out in child psychology when we were undergrads at USC that's where we meet. I was even doing an internship for my master's when I realized I couldn't

Handle it. Dealing with children's emotional problems was too much for me. So, I switched."

She pointedly neglected to include some other details of why she'd dropped out of internship. Hardly anyone knew about them and she certainly wasn't going to share them with a neighbor she'd just met.

"So you find dealing with the psychology of criminals less disturbing than children?"Kimberly asked,dumbfoundedly.

"Weird,huh?"Jessie conceded.

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