* Scenes of violence and blood in this chapter.

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Adrian could feel the dread course through his body as Sam was forcing him towards the car park. He couldn't do anything but follow orders, knowing that Sam was completely deranged if he was willing to go to this extent to intimidate Adrian. Looking down at himself, Adrian saw a touch of blood seep through his shirt.

Adrian tried to remain calm as he attempted to talk Sam down. "Please don't do this Sam, you're going to regret it."

"I don't think you're the one that should be going around and calling the shots now are you?" Sam emphasised this as he made sure Adrian still knew the knife was by his side.

"You don't want to do this!" Adrian exclaimed, trying his best to prevent anything worse happening.

Sam was manically laughing out loud, like a classic movie villain as he edged Adrian further into the darkness of the car park. "Oh believe me, I do! I've been planning this for a long time, just not myself doing this, but then again I had to improvise."

"You'll get caught Sam! Just stop before this goes too far." It was Adrian's last ditch attempt to talk his way out of the situation.

"My family has too much money, too much power over this stupid town, and we can easily buy our way out of anything. There are no cameras around, and no witnesses to say anything."

Adrian recalled his surroundings and realised he was right, no one could see what was happening in the only blind spot right now. Sam continued, "I'll just claim everything was self-defence and you attacked me first, money makes the world go around, and money will buy my freedom."

Adrian tried to stall, hoping that Sam would either calm down or someone would come and help him. "So what's the plan then? Why are you even doing this?"

Sam became more jittery as his manic behaviour intensified. "I'm going to make sure no one ever wants you again, especially Brody. Once he sees you after I'm finished, he'll be running miles away from you."

Adrian swallowed nervously at the threat, the intimidation was working as Adrian became even more scared for his life.

"Honestly, I don't even know what the guy sees in you?! You're not rich, and you're pretty dumb too. How does he even think you're attractive. And don't even get me started with how much of an arrogant douche you are."

Adrian took all of it in as he fired back, "At least I'm not a psychopath!"

Sam made Adrian regret saying that as he angrily plunged the knife into Adrian's side. Adrian quickly huddled with pain as he felt the blade pierce his body.

'Maybe I shouldn't have pissed off the guy with a knife...' Adrian thought to himself.

Adrian tried to mask the pain as he braced himself. "So, this is all about Brody? Is that why you're doing this?"

"Of course!" Sam shouted, as if it made sense. "Things were bad at home, my sister went missing, and my parents were blaming each other. And life was so shit at home, I missed her so much. But then Brody came along, and he made everything better. He always tried his best to cheer me up, we would hang out all the time and practice together. Brody's such a great kisser too, he would make me lose my mind over how his lips felt against mine."

Adrian watched Sam smile to himself, completely creeped out by his behaviour and him reminiscing his time with Brody. "He made me happy when we were together, and I wish we had more time together. But then he drifted away from me..."

Adrian felt Sam's hysterical mode change as darkness descended into his soul. "He broke up with me," Sam stabbed Adrian with the knife as if to resemble the pain he felt when Brody broke up with him. More blood was drawn as Sam targeted the same spot that he hit earlier. "No one dumps me, it was meant to be the other way around. But I didn't want to break up!"

Adrian groaned in pain as he was stabbed again, with Sam lost within his own world. "I was back to being miserable, no else could make me feel as happy as Brody did. No one compared to him, Brody just has this way to make it look like he can fix everything."

Adrian felt his body become weaker as things became more difficult to concentrate on. His breathing became harsher as he started to drop sweat from his forehead.

"I wanted us to get back together, for him to fix everything, to fix me. But then you came into the picture, and you ruined everything." Sam's breathing became harsher and more forced out as he continued. "I tried to get him to notice me again, but you were in the way."

Sam then used the handle of the knife to thump the back of Adrian's head. "You. You. You!" He said with every whack to Adrian's head.

Things became dizzy for Adrian, everything was spinning and his vision was getting blurry. Adrian's whole body was hurting badly and the pain was accumulating rapidly.

"I wanted him to see sense, to see that he needed me as much as I needed him, and I had to do what ever it takes..."

Adrian was incoherent as he struggled to get his words out, his breathing was difficult and his brain was struggling to process the words out. "You- you- w-was it, you? At the, place, did you, attack B-Brody?"

This was the only time Sam felt guilty about everything he had plotted so far, even with the current hostage situation. "I just needed him to want my help. I hired a guy for my alibi so I could then 'catch him'. But no, it was all about needing you instead."

Sam stabbed the other side of Adrian's body, drawing more agony from Adrian as he buckled onto his knees in pain. Sam forced him back up by yanking his hair and facing him head on, with the knife pointed upwards towards his jaw.

"And then at the game, Brody was meant to be celebrating with ME, but you... he went to you... again!" Sam turned the knife in his hand, making the blade spin around against Adrian's skin, not quite drawing out blood from there but enough for Adrian to feel the cold blade against him.

"You ruined everything!" Sam yelled at the top of his lungs.

Adrian felt it in his bones, his instincts took over as he moved his arms in front when Sam tried to attack him with the knife. Adrian intercepted the knife, with his arm being cut in the process. Adrian then tried to use his other hand to force the knife away from him.

But Adrian was already feeling a lot weaker than normal, he had no strength as the blunt force trauma to his head and the knife wounds on his body was snapping away all of his strength.

Sam easily exerted his force over Adrian, he twisted Adrian's arm and head-butted him right on his temple. Adrian was easily knocked onto the ground, motionless as he didn't have any physical strength left in his body.

Adrian looked on as Sam stood over him, covered with Adrian's blood in places as his expression morphed into a sadistic evil grin.

Before he could finish the job, Adrian heard someone call out his name. He couldn't concentrate on who it was, he could barely see them as the figure ran towards them.

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Brody arrived at the restaurant with Ashley and Adam with him. They were already together at the time of Adrian's phone call and they decided to go together.

When they walked inside, Adam noticed that his belongings were still there. There were no other signs of Adrian as it was dead silent inside the building.

With the back door still left open, Brody peeked outside and noticed several drops of something red on the ground when he was about to go back inside.

Brody was alarmed to realise it was blood, he discovered it was recent as it hadn't dried yet. Calling for his friends, they followed the trail of blood which led to them into the car park. The sight in front of them was horrifying as a bloodied Sam was hovering over an injured Adrian.

On instinct Brody ran towards them and tackled Sam onto the ground, knocking the knife out of his hand in the process. Brody was on top of him as he punched him, continuously as he unleashed his fury onto Sam.

Sam was manically reaching around on the ground, grabbing the knife he quickly slashed Brody with it, causing it to slice Brody's arm.

Brody didn't feel anything as he grabbed the knife and disarmed Sam by smacking his hand against the ground, causing it to fall out as he then pushed the knife away from either person's reach.

Now subdued by Brody's strength, Brody continued wailing on Sam who was now defenceless. Brody couldn't stop, he didn't want to as he knew Sam caused all of this trouble, all this suffering over his obsession with him.

He only managed to snap out of it when he heard Adam frantically call out Adrian's name. With Ashley calling the police and an ambulance, Adam tried to check on his wounded best friend.

But Adrian lost consciousness. He seemed to be passed out from his injuries, as Adam kept asking Adrian to wake up, with no response.

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