"You will die tonight." The voice said behind him. Justin turned to see who it was and seen his mother standing there with a knife in her hand. She held it up like she was about to stab him. She walked closer and Jason appeared behind her holding a rope. He stopped Marge and walked in front of her. He grabbed Justin by the arm and twisted It. He let out a groan from the pain and Jason quickly wrapped the rope around his neck. He pulled it so tight that Justin couldn't breath. Marge stepped closer and slid the cold steel blade across his cheek leaving behind a small cut trailed with blood. She pulled the knife back so it was back in his view, then she smiled that familiar sweet smile and went at him again. This time Jason pulled the rope a little tighter making Justin's eyes feel like they were going to pop out of their sockets, and Marge slid the knife across his neck just above the rope. The pain was unbearable, he struggled to free himself but was unsuccessful. He threw his foot up and kicked marge in the head, then tried again this time aiming for Jason. Before his foot reached the side of Jason's head everything went black.

Justin sat up quickly in his bed looking around to see he was safe at the Thomas' house, let out a breath, and fell back on the pillow. "It was just a dream, go back to sleep, it's all over." He said to himself trying to calm his nerves. His heart was pounding and he was out of breath, he closed his eyes trying to relax but it wasn't working. He opened his eyes and stared at the roof tucking his hands under his head, and his mind began to drift. "Do you really think we are going to let you die?" Jason asked. "We are having to much fun with you to let you get out of this that easily." Marge chimed in. They hog tied him yet again and strung him up letting him hang like a pig getting ready to be slaughtered. They took turns pushing him back and forth letting him get good a dizzy spinning him as they pushed. His stomach began to turn and he felt sick. The color from his skin turned from it's normal caramel tan color to a pale white and vomit spewed out. They laughed and treated him as if he were a punching bag continuing to swing and spin him now throwing punches as well. As soon as they got up a good rhythm, Jason got his sward and swung it like a samurai slashing the rope allowing Justin to go flying across the room. He hit the wall and slid down leaving a trail of vomit and blood on the wall.

Justin snapped back into reality when May opened his bedroom door to check on him. "Hey, sweetheart. I just wanted to check on you." She said. "I'm ok, I think I'm going to get up now though. I don't really feel like sleeping anymore." Justin ended up sleeping the day away and it was time for dinner. May cooked hamburger steaks with brown gravy, mashed potatoes, and green beans. While they ate Justin's mind slipped again and he began to relive the torture he endured while being held captive by his parents. This time he felt as if he was really there and began trying to fight back. Jack jumped up and pulled him away from the table so he wouldn't hurt himself. He picked Justin up and tried to put him down on the couch, that didn't work out to well. In Justin's mind it was Jason holding him and taking him to a meat grinder trying to drop him in. He hit Jason in the chest a few times trying to break free, he didn't understand the extent of what Justin was experiencing so he didn't think to hard on being hit, instead he sat on the couch with Justin in his lap holding onto him to try and sooth him until whatever he was going through passed and he came back to reality. It took about ten minutes for him to escape the nightmare. When he realized he was having an episode he apologized over and over again to Jack for hitting him. "Don't worry about it Justin. I don't know what you were seeing, but I'm glad it's over." Jack said still holding onto him slightly rocking back and forth. "Do you want to talk about it?" May asked. "No, not really." Justin said staring at the floor.

Two months passed without anymore episodes, luckily that was the only one. Jack and May were getting the kids ready to start school and this year Justin was returning as well. They weren't sure what grade he would be in since he hasn't been in a while so they checked with the school board and were told he had been completing his work through homeschooling so he would be in the same grade as JT. They were both heading into eighth grade and apparently had a few classes together as well. The first day of school came quickly and Justin ran into Kimberly Andrews, a girl he knew from elementary. During their first class together she sat two seats away from him and kept staring. When Justin looked at her she smiled, waved a little and looked away. She did this several times and continued to do so in all three classes they had together. The only place he felt safe from her was during homeroom. One day during class Justin got the idea to start staring back to get her to stop but it back fired and he ended up winking at her one to many times and she asked to be his girlfriend. "Are you sure you want to do that? It comes with a price." Justin asked. "What price is that?" She asked smiling. "Oh, you will see. So do you really want to hook up?" "Yes!" "Ok, you got it."

News about Justin and Kim being together spread around the school quickly. Kim was one of the 'popular' girls in school and Justin was one no one really paid any attention to. With Kim being as 'high rank' as she was people glued themselves to the scoop of her dating someone that was supposedly beneath her. They began getting obsessed with their private business and stayed focused on how the relationship progressed. Some even placed bets among each other about when it would end. Calvin was one of the 'popular' boys in school and had been trying to get Kim under his arm since they met in fourth grade, but she shut him down every time he tried to ask her out. When he caught wind of her dating Justin he got angry. He decided he was going to try to break them up somehow. He held off until the first bet was lost. The first bet was that Kim and Justin wouldn't make it a month being together.

Calvin was in on that bet, he lost. A month flew by and Kim was still head over heals for Justin and he seemed to enjoy having her around. He walked her to each class, they sat together at lunch, and he walked her to the bus everyday. The more time she spent with Justin the more she quit hanging with her friends. Her friends didn't approve of him, why, Kim didn't know and really didn't care. She liked Justin, he was such a gentleman to her, and that was all that mattered. With Calvin losing the bet he decided to put Justin through hell until he agreed to break up with her. Stuffing him in lockers, tripping him in the hall, shooting spitballs at him in class, belittling him every chance he got, and when that didn't work he resorted to fighting.

He caught Justin in the bathroom and cornered him along with a few friends so Justin would feel weak and over powered. That didn't work either, Justin ended up beating the boy unconscious. He conned Calvin's friends to help him give the boy a swirly after he passed out. After that, Justin hoped Calvin would leave him alone but he didn't. He kept pushing for Justin to break up with Kim, "You know what? You can keep trying all you want, but Kim is mine! She doesn't like you and she never will so let it go already." Justin said. "Never, you just wait and see. She will leave you and be with me." Calvin said with an angry expression. "Whatever you need to tell yourself kid, but for now she is about to get out of class and she will be expecting me."

After Calvin realized Justin wasn't afraid of him or his shitty friends, he wanted to take things further. An idea came to his mind that he could cause Justin to disappear and when Kim got all broken up about it he could use that time to swoop in and take over. Then she would see how great he was and finally agree to be with him for sticking by her side when she needed a shoulder to lean on.