Chapter 4

   "You'd be amazed,"Kyle piped in." She has this Knack for getting in the heads of bad guys. She's going to be a great profiler eventually. Any potential Hannibal Lectors out there better look out."

    "Really,"Kimberly said, sounding properly impressed." Have you had to deal with serial killers and stuff?"

      "Not yet,"Jessie admitted.

   "Most of my training has been academic. And with the move, I had to change my schools. So I'm going to do my practicum at UC-Irvine starting this semester. This is last one, so I'll graduate in December."

    "Practicum?"Kimberly asked.

   " It's a little like an internship, only less involved. I'll be assigned to a prison or psychiatric hospital, Where I'll observe and interact with inmates and patients.It's what I've been waiting for."

   "The chance to stare the evildoers in the eye and see into their souls,"Kyle added.

   "That might be overstating it just a bit,"Jessie said, giving him a playful punch in the shoulder." But eventually, Yes."

   "That is very exciting,"Kimberly said, sounding genuinely intrigued. I'm sure you'll have some great stories to tell. Speaking of, you said you two meet at school?"

    "Freshman year dorm,"Kyle said.

      "Oh,"Kimberly pressured.

"Bonded while doing laundry, that sort of thing?"

     Kyle glanced over at Jessie, and before he even said a word, she knew he was going to dive into their go-to cocktail story.

     "Here's the abridged version", he began." We were friends but started dating midway through the first semester after she got stood up by some jerk. He got kicked out of the school, not for bailing on the date I assume. Still she dodges a bullet in my opinion. We broke up junior year, got back as seniors. We dated for a year after that before moving in together.We did that for a year before getting engaged. Then we tied the knot ten months after that. It'll be two years wedded bliss in the October."

     "So you are college sweethearts.That's so romantic."

      "Yeah, it sounds that way, Kyle said. "But it took a while to win her over. And the whole time I was beating the competition off with a stick. As you can imagine, pretty much every guy who saw her was immediately smitten with Ms. Jessie Hunt. And that's just looking at her. Once you get to know her, you are even more besotted."

     "Kyle,"Jessie said, her face turning red." You're embarrassing me. Save some it for October."

"You know,"Kimberly said with a smile,"I just remembered I need to get my kids now.And I suddenly feel like I'm interrupting a happy couple's plan to Christen their new house.So,I'm going to go.But I promise to introduce you around.We have a really friendly neighborhood. Everyone knows each other.We have weekly street barbecues.Kids have sleepovers all the time.

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