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This is the story about 5 people who were disappointed of the system and considered it a real failure, since they all had been suffering from it. The decided to take out their revenge,.... a 17-year-old called T.J. and his brother Taryll 20, became the victims of their crime......
T.J. had left with his friend for a day trip, totally unknowing of thatthis trip would be his lastHis life was about to get the living hell. Maltreatment, fear and rejects are only three ways to explain it in.This is my story.......
-"T.J. are you in the mood for doing anything today,...or?"
-"Sure, we could bike ride somewhere or take the car if you rather do that? It´s up to you..."
-"Well, I think I´d prefer taking the car, can we take your?"
-"Course we can, I´ll go get the car keys....wait here."
T.J. ran up the stairs and disappeared. At the same time Taryll, his older brother, walked out of the livingroom and came down the hallway. He held a music-book in his hand and was busy reading it, while slowly walking towards Andy.
-"Hey Taryll..." Andy said kinda quiet so he wouldn´t wake up anyone that might was sleeping in the house.
Taryll rose his head, surprised by seeing Andy stand in front of him.
-"Oh, hello Andy. It´s been a while...how are you?" he asked.
-"I´m ok, thanx. And yourself?"
-"Well, I guess I´m alright. I´ve been working on a few songs for our second album, you know........the usual.
-"Yeah, I know" Andy said and couldn´t help sighing.
Taryll nodded, said good-bye and went in to the kitchen, still reading the music-book with high interest.A few minutes later T.J. came back down.
-"OK, let´s get outta here."
They closed the the door behind them and got in the car. T.J. put the key in the ignition and smiled to Andy.
-"So, where should we be heading you think?"
-"I don´t know really" Andy thought about it for a while. "It would be great to drive out of town, for a change."
-" That´s fine with me man. Actually, I know a place where we could...."
Andy interrupted him intentionally.
-"Oh, by the way, I know the perfect place to go. I don´t think you´ve ever been there before, but it´s really cool."
-"Well, let´s go then." T.J. said and smiled so the dimple on his left cheek got visible.
Andy looked jeolously at him, but T.J. was in a too good mood to notice anything.
"If only that smiling idiot knew what was coming his way....hehe...he wouldn´t be that happy at all." Andy said quietly to himself.
When they had gotten out of L.A and driven a few miles, Andy asked T.J. to stop the car. T.J. pulled over and stopped by the side of the road, without asking anything.
-"Nature calls" Andy explained and laughed shyly.
He got out of the car and had soon disappeared behind a few trees.
T.J. looked around.
"Was this close to the place Andy had told him about?"
If so, he wasn´t so sure about what he would think of it. This was like being in the middle of nowhere. It were no bushes, no grass, no nothing on the right side of the road.
But, as an exception, there was an alley on the left side, where Andy had went to hide behind.
"What kind of weird place is this anyway?" T.J. thought while waiting for Andy to come back.
When he had been waiting for about 15 minutes, and Andy still hadn´t come back yet, T.J. decided to go out and look for him. He had not even got out of the car, before a gun was pointed at him. T.J. grew stiffed when he saw who held the gun.
-"Walk slowly out of the car" Andy commanded.
-"Is this some kind of sick joke or something?" T.J. said, while keeping his eyes on the gun.
He knew what a real gun looked like, and he could tell this wasn´t a fake one from any store.
"Andy can you please take that away from my face?" he begged.
-"Shut up!" Andy roared and stroke T.J. in the head with the gun.
T.J. fell backwards and hit the door to the car, screaming in pain. He tried to stop the blood with his right hand, but it didn´t work very well.
"This is not a game T.J." Andy yelled frantically. "You are going to respect me!!"
-"I don´t understand what you´re talking about......I do respect you Andy."T.J. said while trying to protect his face from getting hit again.
-"No, you don´t and have never done.....but you will before I´m done with you" Andy said confident.
He grabbed T.J. and drew him to the back of the car.
-"What are you going to do?" T.J. said in despair, almost afraid of asking the question.
-"Shut up!!!" Andy yelled again.
He opened the trunk and drew T.J. closer to the car. T.J. was trying to get free, but Andy hit him with the gun again and again to make him stop. At last, when he had hurt T.J. so bad, he couldn´t even stand by himself, Andy finally made T.J. get in the trunk.
-"Why are you doing this?" T.J. asked weakened, still in such shock he couldn´t realize what actually was happening.
-"I told you to shut your mouth, didn´t I?" Andy said and closed the hatch above him.
T.J. started to shiver of fear in the complete darkness that surrounded him.
"Oh my God what is happening?" he whispered to himself and started to cry.
Andy took seat and drove as fast as he could, without breaking the speed limit.
-"I can´t stand him being so lucky" he mumbled to himself. "He´s rich, he´s famous, he got a family that cares, he get all the girls...... It´s pretty obvious he doesn´t know what real pain is....I bet he´s never even heard the word."
He continued mumbling stuff to himself while concentrating on driving. He had never had much of a practise to learn how to drive. After all, his stepfather hated cars, actually all kinds of vehicles, and had never given him permission to drive or even let him learn how to drive. In fact, it was T.J. who finally had decided to buy him a car and teach him how to drive it. Of course, Andy would not be able to get a drivers licence just yet, so either he could choose to drive illegally or let somebody else drive him where he wanted to go. Usually he got T.J. to drive him though, coz T.J. had never been bothered to take him around in his car.
Andy shook is head.....
"Don´t get all nervous and bleedy now" he said to himself. "He deserves this. It´s his own fault."
By these words he felt a little less guilty than before and focused hiseyes on the road. Three hours later, he decided to let T.J. sit in the seat beside him. After all, they were not that near the city, that he would put himself in danger for doing it. He stopped the car, got out and opened the hatch. T.J. closed his eyes hard when the sudden light hit him. Andy helped him to get up.
"You should be grateful to me for doing this" he said to T.J. and pushed him into the car.
T.J. leant back in the seat and put his hand carefully on the cuts, he had gotten, to make sure if he was bleeding or not. He felt something warm and wet on his fingertips and realized it was still bleeding. At the same time, Andy ran over to the other side of the car and got in he too.
"OK...it´s OK this far" Andy said. "But I swear I´ll shoot you if you try to get away."
T.J. looked at him with his sad brown eyes, but he didn´t say anything. Soon he closed his eyes and turned away. Andy started the car, turned on the radio and continued his way on the road. Sweetbox´s song Everything´s gonna be alright was on. Andy smiled to himself, while thinking....."Nothing´s gonna be alright.......for T.J it won´t anyway." Suddenly he saw something that almost made his heart stop. In front of them there was a police checkpoint! Andy tread on the brake and backed the car behind a few bushes that were on the left side of the road. He turned off the engine and got out of the car.
"Are they after me?" he asked to himself. "No, that can´t be possible...nobody knows about this except for me and T.J., plus, his dad couldn´t be worried already?!....we have come home much later than this before." Andy scratched his head while thinking over what to do. "Well" he said a few seconds later. "T.J. won´t be able to sit beside me any longer, that´s for sure."
He went to the trunk and opened it, then he opened the side door to the seat where T.J. was supposed to sit.
"Shit! Where is he?" Andy thought.
He turned around just about time to see somebody disappear behind the hill.
He figured it was T.J. and ran after.
The only thing Andy could do better than T.J. was running. He was actually the fastest student on Buckley High School, and had been since the start. Sure, T.J. was a fast runner as well, but he wasn´t even near the speed Andy could reach. There was no doubt T.J. would lose this game. And Andy knew that....
"He´ll have to pay for this....I´m gonna punish him" Andy thought while using his absolute strength and power to catch up with the person in front of him.
When he was 2 meters away, he yelled, almost hysterical, "T.J. if you stop now, I won´t punish you, but if you don´t.... He left the rest unsaid.
Even though T.J. was full aware of what kind of punishment he might would be given, if he got caught, he just kept on running. No way he´d stop now!
Andy, on the other hand, did the total opposite thing. He ran up behind T.J. and kinda threw himself over him, making them both fall to the ground. T.J. groaned.....
"You bastard" Andy yelled in his ear while sitting on his back, pushing him harder to the ground. "You should have known better than try to escape from me! Now.....see what happened....."
And just like that he started to hit T.J. with whatever he could find on the ground beside them. T.J. screamed in pain when Andy suddenly hit him in the head with a stone. He put his hands on the back of his head to protect it from further injuries, while begging Andy to stop.
"Andy please listen, I don´t know why you do this. But it´s really not necessary. I respect you and you know that......so please, quit this before you do something rashed."
T.J. really had to force himself saying this, as he certainly didn´t respect Andy at all, after what he had done....not any longer....
Andy noticed his hesitation as he said 'I respect you....', and he wasn´t too sure of what to think. After a minute though, he helped T.J. get up, still holding his arm, and said....
"OK.....I´ll give you a second chance then. But I won´t give you a third."
T.J. took breath, he was kinda relieved though he knew this this wasn´tover yet.
Andy dragged him to the car again and T.J. got in the trunk without a single word passing his lips. Andy closed the hatch and got in the car. He passed the police checkpoint without getting pulled over or anything. He now felt pretty calm and drove, without any worries, the last miles to 'The Meeting'.
When he got there he tooted two times, the signal. Three guys came running out of the house, to the car.
-"So, you got him?" one of them asked.
-"Yes, he´s in the trunk." Andy answered.
The guys he met up with were Yonny and his brother Derek, friends of his older stepbrother. The third one was T.J.´s other, also involved, friend Karl.
-"Let us see him" Karl said.
Andy got out and went to the back of the car, and opened the trunk. Because of the dark it was almost impossible to see who was in the trunk. Neither Karl nor anyone else really cared anyway. Yonny lifted up T.J., who had went unconsious in consequence of the bad air in the trunk, and carried him to the house. They placed him on the couch in the livingroom and went up to the second floor.
20 minutes later......
T.J. opened his eyes and looked around. He had no clue of where he could be.
"I guess I´ll have to find out...." he whispered to himself.
He stood up and slipped out of the room. When he came in to the hall, he stopped when he heard voices coming his way. He hurried back to the livingroom and laid down on the couch, closing his eyes. Two persons entered the room. While they kept on talking, T.J. recognized Karl´s voice.
"What is Karl doing here?!" he thought.
Suddenly someone grabbed his arm, shook him and called his name. T.J. opened his eyes again and looked straight into Karl´s eyes.
"Yes?" he said quietly, trying to act like he normally did.
"Get up!" Karl said with an evil smile.
T.J. did as he was told to do.
Karl and the other guy, who he didn´t know who it was, took him by his arms and lead him out of the room and down the stairs to a big concrete door.
"You have to forgive Andy." Karl said, opened the door and pushed T.J. into the cellar. "He got a little carried away before."
With these words he closed the door and locked it behind him.
T.J. just stood in the middle of the room , without moving, without thinking.
He was tired and the cuts on his face hurt a little. He took a step back to find the door, which he did pretty fast, sat down on the earthen floor and leant back against the wall, wondering if they would ever let him out again. Soon, without even noticing it, he fell asleep.
6 hours later.......
When he woke up, after, as it seemed to him, a few minutes of sleep, he saw Andy stand over him looking kinda irritated.
"I have to say it was really hard to get a hold of any of your brothers." he said. "But somehow Brett succeeded." he laughed an evil laugh.
"What....what are you talking about?" T.J. said.
"You know what I´m talking about T.J." Andy said. "Brett has gotten you some company. Now, smile and be happy, you don´t have to be alone any longer."
Andy turned around and yelled up the stairs to somebody.
"OK Yonny......bring him in."
T.J. looked up, most surely this Yonny would come down with one of his brothers.
And soon, Yonny came down carrying someone on his shoulder. T.J. recognized Taryll´s blue pajama bottoms with white clouds on them and yelled franticly:....
"What have you done to him?!"
He pushed away Andy, who stood between him and Yonny, and roared at the big, muscular guy in front of him:
"Let go of my brother!!"
Yonny looked pretty surprised by this sudden anger which, obviously, was pointed at him.
"Why is this guy yelling at me anyway?" he thought.
Quiet and carefully he put Taryll down on the ground, although he was still holding on to him. T.J. soon noticed why.....Taryll had been put to sleep.
"Lay him down...." T.J. said to this, for him, total stranger.
Yonny did and took a step back. Andy, who hadn´t said anthing for quite a while, commanded Yonny to leave.
T.J. sat down beside Taryll, and watched him with this visible worry in his eyes.
Andy looked at the two brothers for a while and then he got out of the room and locked the door behind him.
"How sweet...." he mumbled with sarcasm and went up to the first floor again.
To Be Continued..........
By: "KB"
E-mail: kb3t@hotmail.com