C3 An Attempted Murder Case

A suspenseful court session was ongoing in a fully furnished courtroom, which led us to the witness box, where Rhea Sanders, a girl who fell victim to an adverse circumstance, took her stand to state her claim, on the continuous hooliganism being perpetrated against her by the accused...Jason Taylor, her ex-boyfriend.

The agony from all the proceedings, as Rhea's honor, was being smeared in mud, against the atrocities of the savage predator, whose only aim was to use Rhea, as his endless prey in an obsession called love.

All thanks to an unknown stranger in the world today called, equity and fairness, Kristine Sanders, and her sister...Rhea, had to go through an endless round of listening to the despicable accusations of the evil-minded rowdy lawyer of the opposition, who was known for winning his every case, at the risk of his opponent's shame...a painfully series of emotions, resulting from an awareness of inadequacy or guilt called conscience.

"Your honor, this is strong evidence, of the CCTV live footage, recorded at the scene. This shows the accused here..Rhea Sanders, of her willingness to take part in all the charges she had labeled on my client, therefore I demand the dismissal of this case from court.!" Jason's Lawyer argued after he riled his vicious tongue at Rhea, and tormented her with baseless questions at the witness box, and accused her of how willingly she took part in all the demonic accusations she had labeled on his client, and the endless flow of Rhea's tears pierced like a double sword into Kristine's heart.

As Kristine Sanders sat amidst the courtroom where her sister's attempted murder case was ongoing, she couldn't help but wonder about the thin line between Justice and Revenge. Since the sentence the judge was about to proclaim wouldn't be in their favor, judging by the strong arguments the opponent put across. He eloquently interpreted worse-case scenarios to appear like a mirage in front of an entire court, which rendered their case meaningless.

"Now the verdict! After a week of the court proceedings on the accused... Jason Taylor, of attempted drug overdose case on the victim...Rhea Sanders, with all the strong evidence, presented to the court by the opposition lawyer, and due to the insufficient evidence from the victim's side, I hereby dismissed this lawsuit." The judge finally concluded her verdict, and all the people in the court rose to attention before She left her courtroom.

And true to Kristine's thoughts, their case was dismissed, and once more, the criminal they have all been fighting to put away behind bars, for his countless terrorist acts against her sister, was let loose to roam free. Exempted from all their accusations, to continue his repeated rounds of being a thorn in Rhea's life.

Why was it called Revenge, when one takes the law into one's own hands to punish a criminal for his evil acts, while it was considered justice to gather and sit, with a leading head as a judge, to listen to the excuses of a criminal's actions, and make sense of his meaningless gibberish as explanations, to excuse or forgo getting punished. Through manipulations, which ended up freeing the criminal on the loose, to continue his despicable acts, with a lame excuse called lack of sufficient evidence. When all the shreds of evidence were staring at them right in the face.

In any case, when was evidence ever sufficient? until she buries her sister six feet under? or let her sister's life leads to complete destruction...is that when the evidence was enough to prosecute and hold a criminal captive, behind bars?.

Are they so blind to reason, hard on hearing, or maybe afraid to show a brave face in the face of truth?

Either way, she is now done with the justice aspects, the tragic end of good and right, which always led to a fruitless end, in the face of power and wealth. Their offender was simply her sister's ex-boyfriend who had always abused her sister in their relationship, all in the name of his obsession called love. His outrageous rage on his sister, this time around, led to her near death in a drug overdose, which takes us back to where it all started when Kristine led a deeper investigation into her sister's boyfriend.

Upon her detailed investigation, she discovered that all these diabolical acts led to a beginning called 'The Truth and Dare game, between Jason and his wayward friends.

It simply started with a 'Dare' a friend threw at Jason in the game, to ask Rhea out and he did.

Deceived by his good looks and cute smiles, Rhea accepted to date him. So it went from a 'Dare' to a 'Let's have fun with her' and then the obsession after.

Even with Kristine's nonstop warnings, Rhea fell for him and wouldn't listen to anything evil against her newfound boyfriend, until he began to show his real character. But still, Rhea wouldn't let go of him, she thought she might be a reason for him to change for the better, until he began to spike her drinks with drugs which she later got addicted to.

That's Rhea for you, always compassionate and sees the good in people, that was why Kristine's concerns for her, and her aim to protect her sister never ends.

Kristine wondered if the addiction to the drug was why Rhea wouldn't let go of him or break up with him.

Meanwhile, Kristine's endless determination to protect her sister from impending doom in her sister's love life, made Rhea see her as her worse enemy who couldn't stand seeing her happy.

Rhea hated her to the point that, their once connection as sworn sisters, who always stuck together and never hide anything from each other, got broken in shatters. And Kristine's apartment, which she shared with Rhea, went silent without conversations for days...It was like a haunted house for Rhea.

That was when Kristine made a decision to risk her life to save her sister from harm, no matter the risk involved.

"It's either him or me, Rhea. Choose one!" Kristine threatened as she held onto the deadliest poison in her hand, to kill herself.

On the other hand, Rhea thought her sister was only bluffing, since she didn't get her way with breaking her relationship with Jason, and was amused at Kristine's threats. Until her eyes watched in horror as Kristine consumed the entire drops of poison in the tiny bottle, to make good on her threat, which took effect immediately. Rhea was so shocked she could barely move her feet towards Kristine's lifeless body on the floor and stood rooted in the same spot trembling from the extreme agony of panic. Until she recovered her senses later, gave her sister first-aid before she called 911, and saved her sister's life.

At the hospital, on Kristine's bed, Rhea prayed with desperation to save her sister's life and make her well again.

"I would promise to never see Jason's shadow or ever go near him, ever again! please Kris...wake up!" Rhea's tears were endlessly flowing as she held onto her sister's arm by her bed, and Kristine miraculously opened her eyes. She had been awake for a while now, and even heard Rhea's solemn prayers to God and her promise to her, which brought a weak smile on Kristine's paled sick face.

"Really? you just promised and I would hold you on that promise once I am all better." Kristine's weak voice penetrated its sound into Rhea's ears, as she snuggled into her sister's arms. Rhea quickly raise her head in relief to hug her sister and thanked her for making it alive, and blamed herself for everything. And both sister's finally reconciled with harmonious smiles and happiness.

Kristine Sanders had to do all these to convince Rhea to break up with Jason and she succeeded. She later convinced Rhea to file a court charge against Jason, since he wouldn't leave her alone and kept pestering her. Kristine even talked her sister into standing witness against him, so Jason could end up in jail, for nearly attempting to end Rhea's life through a drug overdose.

But now, here they were, after all they had been through to get what was termed Justice, they rather ended up in the mockery and irony of their case.

As Jason's deadly smirked at Rhea before he exited the courtroom, after being cleared of all their charges against him. which made Kristine regret ever trying to get her sister on the witness stand to testify, and it also took a toll on Rhea's emotions, a feeling of an immense pain which led to emotional distress.

The only positive aspect of their case was that, Jason was given a restraining order.

A court order was given as a protective order which protected Rhea against Jason's presence in her life...from being physically or sexually abused, threatened, stalked, or harassed, etc.

On the other hand, Rhea enjoyed her freedom away from Jason for three solid years. In those three years, Rhea underwent endless therapies through Kristine's insistence to get over her drug problems and finally had her life on track. With her college continuation to become a medical doctor and fulfill her long childhood dream, and even found a new decent boyfriend, whose relationship with Rhea was going smoothly.

Now, they had it all with the continuous perfect life, until they moved to stay with their Parents in Textile State, who weren't aware of everything both sisters went through, and Rhea and Kristine also hid it from them.

Unbeknownst to them, the restraining order was simply a piece of paper to Jason, who found another way to become a never-ending nightmare in Rhea's life.

And it was now time for Kristine to become ruthless, into taking the path of lawlessness. In order to protect her sister one more time, Kristine had to take the bull by the horns, take Justice into her own hands, and lead it toward the sweetest revenge.

To cut down an endless thorn that keeps growing into a person's life, one needs to uproot it from the roots. Simply cutting the branches would simply allow sunshine and rain, to make it grow once more.

So Kristine decided to delve into the real power and wealth behind Jason's ruthless ways, and how he easily escaped justice through his connections. She needed to fish out that heartless mastermind in the shadows, to be able to cut him down first, and finally clear Jason's existence from the world after.