C6 A debt owed to a friend

A few years back...

The walls of detention were a hell place for teenagers whose crime was severe enough to serve time in a real prison. Yet, due to the offender's age as a minor, they were kept in detention to undergo a series of training, to transform their once awful character, into an exemplary one, and shape their future for a better tomorrow.

Within these walls, was a high school boy who was arrested on his final day as a teenager, the happiest day of any teenager's life...The Prom day! It was a day to mark an end to a bubbling and exciting high school times in any student's life.

Yet, it seemed it became the most dreadful day for our newly recruited in detention custody...Sam Wilby. For an attempted theft while armed...an illegal possession of arms.

Sam Wilby thought his life was over in detention until he met the guy whom he attempted to rob. He paid him an untimely visit and introduced himself....as Jason Taylor.

Jason admired the young Sam's temerity to rob him, so he gladly helped the boy go scout-free, and Sam became indebted to him. Sam Wilby saw Jason as his savior from his starving wretched life along with his kid sister, so Jason also took him under his wing as his lapdog, and they have been inseparable since.

Back to the present...

Jason's restraining order against Rhea was merely valid for a span of three years until renewal. So he decided then to secure a long-term plan to get back at Rhea, since he couldn't stay completely away, as well as his strong obsession to avenge her.

At that time, Jason and Sam were now intimate friends, until Jason demanded an undesirable favor from Sam that he couldn't refuse, thanks to the debt he owed Jason for saving his life in the past.

This was a promise Sam made, to pay back double what Jason did for him then. Since he had no connections to get his ass out of detention, which Jason easily did, without any stress.

Sam was simply so grateful to the point, he would do anything Jason asked of him. Because that point in his life, Jason didn't only save him, he also saved Sam's sick sister, to whom he needed money to get her treated in the hospital. His sister would have died alone in their abandoned home while he was rotting away in detention, if Jason hadn't freed him at that time, and even gone further to help him get his sister treated until recovery.

Therefore, Jason took advantage of Sam's earnest actions to please him, and that was why he decided to give Sam a chance to pay his debt in full, once and for all.

"Sam...I have a last favor to ask you. once you do that, I would consider all the debt you owe me cleared." Jason met with Sam, a month after he was exempted from all the charges, the Sanders sisters accused him of.

"Anything Jason, you only have to mention it and it's done!" Was Sam's confident reply.

Instead, Jason took Sam into his car, and drove towards the current hospital, where Rhea was currently undergoing therapy, after she was so broken from all she went through at the hands of Jason. And it seems he was still stalking her, since he knew exactly where to find her and what time she was there.

As both boys waited in the car for God knows what, Sam became curious about what kind of favor Jason would ask him to do, which would clear him of all his debts. He simply hoped it wasn't murder, and as long as it was not that, he would do anything for Jason. He was the only friend who helped him and brought him out of his struggle years back. When his parents were suddenly killed and was left alone with his ten-year-old sister on the run, from his parent's murderers. Sam was only a young seventeen years teenager, who had the responsibility to take care of himself and his little sister. Until he met Jason Taylor, which was like a heavenly blessing in his life...and who also seemed to have strong connections, and saved him and his sister from their impending death with simply a phone call. An action that impressed Sam so much, he hero-worshiped Jason since then.

Thirty minutes passed and Both boys were still waiting in the car, before Jason proposed a game to pass time, He introduced the 'Truth and Dare' game to Sam. And Sam chose 'Dare' without a second thought. Jason turned to spot exactly what he came looking for, at that same moment.

Rhea came out of her therapy center with her sister Kristine, who always escorted her to her sessions. Then Jason called Sam's attention to them.

"Well, your Dare is to woo and date that red-haired girl for three years, until further notice...but note, during that entire three years, you are allowed to do anything with her but never get laid...I mean never, ever sleep with her. She is mine and will always be." Jason fiercely warned Sam as he pointed at the two girls walking toward their car.

Rhea Sanders was a red-haired girl with a pretty silver-blue set of eyes, an amazing height, and figure, and quite beautiful too. Even though her beauty and unique features wouldn't compare to her gorgeous brunette elder sister...Kristine. Her drop-dead gorgeous beauty and figure made her high school times the craziest, with boys trying to make an impression on her as their number one girl-to-date on their lists, on campus. Which continued until college. Yet, none of them met Kristine's credentials for a date until she met the famous basketball legend...Caleb Donnells. Well, that's a story for another time. For now, back to our topic.

After Sam heard what Jason requested of him, all he did was nod his head with confidence, since it seemed easy for him. He didn't have to know the reason for Jason's request, that's how much his hero worship for Jason went.

"Consider it done...It's a long three years so I would have her at the tip of my finger in seconds." Sam uttered with confidence.

"I like that...you seem confident with your looks, but I doubt Rhea would be an easy prey though, but better still, Good luck. But we shouldn't be seen together once you embark on this mission, just calls, for now, to keep me updated on all your progress. I don't want to risk that demonic sister of hers, spotting us together and then losing my chances of you getting Rhea." Jason added, as he drove away from the therapy center after accomplishing his aim.

So, in order to give Sam what he called a 'fair trial', Jason introduced 'The truth or Dare game' to play together with Sam, and he caught Sam exactly where he wanted him, when Sam chose 'Dare'. All these were Jason's perfectly laid-out plans for the future, until his restraining order expires. He simply couldn't stand to see Rhea moving on with her life later on, in the near future with some freak, so he shut that chapter of her life with Sam instead.

However, it wasn't as easy as Sam thought before, when he began loitering around Rhea to begin his mission. During that time when Rhea just came out of her doom relationship with Jason, and was overcoming her tragedy through therapies. With her sister's assistance, Rhea soon developed her focus to also aimed her full concentration on her college education to fulfill her dream as a Medical doctor.

Nevertheless, Sam never gave up and pestered Rhea over his 'Dare game', he bothered her with his fake love and fruitless proposals. Until Rhea gave in to him, after a year when she noticed all his efforts went towards the sincerity of his feelings, and never gave up. She also figured out how kind and pleasant Sam was, compared to her ex. And that's the reason she agreed to date him, and move on with her life, instead of getting stuck in the past.

Meanwhile, Sam didn't miss a strong warning from Rhea's dad...Steven Sanders, to take care of his daughter and never hurt her, or else... So unfortunately for Sam, he had already fallen prey to another one of Jason's plots against Rhea at the consequences of facing Rhea's military undercover dad's threats for his little girl.

So, was Sam together in this with Jason, or was it all Jason's plan all along??...and that's another question for next time.

Finally, Jason's extreme patience he exerted for the last three years, was fruitful. With his wish granted, plans successful, and target on sight, exactly where he wanted her all these years...alone, distressed, and scared of him. Even though he aimed to get her back, he realized it wouldn't be possible now, Rhea would only go back and renew the restraining order, to keep him away from her once more. All he had now was this opportunity, his long-awaited time from a genius long-term plan, had indeed paid off in the end. He had Rhea now, all to himself to do whatever he wanted...with no evidence, no case, and even threaten her into the silence of never telling anyone, including her meddling so-called sister of hers.

And this was how Jason planned his second attempt as an endless thorn, in Rhea's life.

"You are trapped, Rhea...There's nowhere else to run!" Jason's icy voice roared to the scared girl, hiding not far from where he stood.

He menacingly took steps to approach her, to avoid risking her second attempt to escape him once more. Jason blocked all the roots of escape, as the tone of his cold voice sent shivers down Rhea's heart.

If only she knew beforehand, that this would happen to her. Why was it always her, who regretted after acting on her decisions, to even attempt to consider attending a party hosted by her ex. she had no one to blame but herself... if not for Sam's insistence to be his date, whom she thought she was safe with, and bravely confronted her worse nightmares.

"I told you, I would come back...you thought a simple restraining order, was big enough to hold me away for all eternity? no! here I am! and like I told you...If not me, then it's no one else...You will be stuck with me forever...

Meanwhile, Rhea ran passed him while he was talking, and nearly knocked him down to escape through the door, where she and Sam entered from in the first place.....into the warehouse.

In her desperate haste to hide properly after her escape towards the woods, and not risk getting caught, Rhea mistakenly tweaked a branch underneath her feet from where she stood. She held her hand to her mouth to muffle her whimpers, as the branch pierced through her barefooted foot.

But unfortunately, even the sound from the branch contributed to exposing her hiding spot, and her whimpers of pain weren't muffled as she expected, which alerted the silent approaches of her tormentor.

Jason plastered one of his deadly smirks, whilst Rhea trembled in fear, and a scream escaped her throat, when Jason surprisingly roared to scare her from where he spotted her hiding.

Rhea ignored the pain underneath her foot to make a run for it and escape her tormentor once more, she was limping on one foot, as she hastily took another direction to hide away from Jason.

Meanwhile, Jason was amused at how she still chose to never give up and willingly surrender to him....after all they had been through together in the past. Jason was surprised Rhea took a drastic change toward her newly-found perfect life, merely three years of their break up, after she condemned him to a life in hell without her. Jason followed behind a limping Rhea, who couldn't go far because of her hurt foot.

"Someone once told me, craziness was doing the same thing over and over again, and still expecting a different result." Jason called out behind her, he didn't have to stress his efforts to catch up with her...she was within his sight. Just a few trees ahead, he could catch her in mainly a few treads of his feet.

However, he simply wanted to torment her, stalling time with her, to maximize his terrorizing game and traumatized her once more. He wanted to instill the fear of him, deep into Rhea's heart, so she would remember him, her entire life.

"You still don't learn from your mistakes right? Why would you hide from me?.. Jason uttered, as walked to reach her.

"Sam...Sam..where are you?" Rhea screamed at the top of her lungs, looking for her boyfriend..Sam Wilby.

She came to this party because of him, if not for him, she wouldn't even want to breathe the same air as this bully, her tormentor Jason.

Why wouldn't he just let her be? She had moved past the crazy senseless love she once had for him...since their high school.

"What did you do to Sam? He was with me a while ago...where did you take him! please!" Rhea pleaded with him, about her boyfriend.

And that was when Jason roared with a burst of amused laughter, about how worried she was, about the guy who, upon his order, brought her into his clutches in the first place. But she doesn't know that yet.

Better still, he needed to torment her more, before he confesses to her about how she fell prey to another one of his schemes by dating Sam, who approached her too, simply based on a Dare from him.

He can't wait to see the look on Rhea's face once she finds out about it.