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The Popular Kids

I just got back from a blind date my friend Susan set up for me. She's been dating an architect for a year and she thinks that I need a steady guy in my life. I love her, but she just doesn't understand that my career is really important to me. I don't see myself with anyone that doesn't understand how important my life at the FBI is to me.

The guy she fixed me up with is a medical student. His name is Henry and he's pretty cute. He's about six two, really thin with brown eyes and wavy brown hair. He's really nice and Susan said he didn't even blink when she told him that I was an FBI agent.

We went to dinner and Susan boyfriend wanted to try a new club in DC, called "Fly." It was a very small and intimate, with a jazz band, and a bar that served anything you could imagine in these colorful twisted glasses that looked like really large hummingbirds. They made me laugh and Henry said "I had to come to DC to drink alcohol out of a bird's ass."

It was nice to spend time with someone that makes me laugh. We're going to go out again next weekend if I don't have a case.

Speaking of cases, we ended up in Virginia two days ago. I got a call from Sheriff Bridges in McAllister. There were two bodies, a football player at the local high school, and a skeleton that was unidentified. The twist this time was Satanism. There was a pentagram painted on the tree and an anagram, "LOD," painted below it. It was right where the skeleton was found.

Gideon said there had never been a proven case of satanic ritual murder. Spence, as always, knows everything there is to know about Satanism and the "Satanic Panic." I wonder if I should be concerned at some of the things he knows. By the way, Spence looked really tired and stressed. I hope he's okay.

Besides all the facts on Satanism you ever wanted to know, but were afraid to ask, Spence went off on this tangent about birthday cakes. It was funny to see Sheriff Bridges looking at him like he was from another planet. I have to admit that some of the things he says make me want to roll around laughing even if I don't show it. The comic relief makes this job bearable.

I didn't think things could get worse till we found out that the football player's girlfriend, Cherish, was missing. The woods were way too thick and confusing to search so the Sheriff called in help from the State Police. I got the task of convincing him to let the townspeople help. Gideon wanted to profile the townsfolk because there was no way an outsider could come into those woods and not get lost.

As always, Garcia is good for a laugh. We ran the names of the people that came to help and most of them were normal, upper middle class townsfolk that want a good place to raise kids. We found one guy that owns shoes stores, but he was married. As Garcia says, "Story of my life… Sunshine."

I was a bit worried for Elle because one of her searchers did time for assault, but she was okay and she found a note and some clothing that belonged to Cherish. The Sheriff's son put us on to what LOD means. It was "the Lords of Destruction," a bunch of teenagers and this older guy that was self proclaimed Satanists.

It turned out that it was the Sheriff's son that had killed Adam and Cherish. Morgan told me about how he grabbed Spence and threatened to kill him. Can we just go one week without Spence getting into trouble? I mean, he's a friend and I don't want anything to happen to him, so don't read anything into that.

Elle told me that the popular kids just watched that other hiker decompose and didn't tell anyone. It was like a game to them. What is the matter with kids today? The whole scenario makes me sick. At least I got a good nap on the plane. It was good to be out of the woods again. I get the shivers every time I go into a forest and I don't even know why.

It's been a four of days since we got back and I'm going out with Henry again tonight. He called me last night, and said that he had wanted to call me the night after we met because he missed me, but he didn't want to scare me off. I'm not scared off, as long as he gets that I'm not leaving my work behind. I hope this time he'll be different from the other guys.