Chapter 1-Prologue

Reid twirled his finger through his now curly hair. Everyone on his team would always laugh and embarrass him. His fingers on his right hand slowly made their way to his bottom pants pocket and onto his pocket knife. He was tired of being humiliated by everyone.

He unsheathed the knife.

It looked dull in the moonlight, but would've looked shiny and brand new if the sun was shining. Reid felt dizzy and was sure that if he didn't kill someone soon, that he was going to faint.

His palms and forehead started to sweat and his pulse ran fast. Reid cautiously walked up to a little girl (maybe 4) standing outside of her house. [Why a little girl was outside at night, I don't know. But on this particular day, there was].

Reid put on his innocent act and stepped up to the girl. "Hi," he waved his hand. "I'm from the FBI. I'm investigating murders in this area. You might not have heard of them, because they're trying to keep it secret. Anyway, my name is….." but Reid never finished his sentence as he took the girl [Who would later be known as Lauren James, or Victim #1] by the neck and stabbed her multiple times.

He stabbed her in the head, the stomach, and the chest. Lauren never screamed, but let out small squeaks of pain. When she let out her last gasp of air, and let go of her grasp on life, Reid felt remorse. He kissed her cheek out of pity, and carried her off to his car like a mother would to a sleeping child.

Reid drove out to the lake in a grove of trees and threw Lauren's body into the lake and ran away before anyone saw him.

As he drove, Reid thought of something he would think every time he killed someone. "I had to do this."