"Sweetness Fights Back"
Chapter 1:"In Broad Daylight"
He felt the knife plunge into his chest and felt himself grow weak at the knees as he trembled slowly to the ground. Steve moaned and groaned in utter agony. He could feel himself start to lose air. Breathing was a struggle. His vision was starting to blur.
Faintly, he could hear the laugh of his attacker. It was an evil laugh, a demented laugh. The laugh of someone who's sole mission in life was to cause pain in the hearts and minds of all that dare cross his path--- it was the cold and heartless laugh of Andre DiMeria's. Though his vision was quite blurred and everything in the room was getting fuzzier and darker, Steve could vaguely make out the outline of Andre's face. Looking up at Andre, Steve could see nothing but a cold heartless man. He wondered what or who for that matter turned this man into the monster that he was. For the briefest of moments, Steve actually felt sorry for this man.
Then, he stopped when the reality of his current circumstance set in.
Andre towered over Steve and smirked.
"You thought you could get away with it, didn't you, Steven"? Andre asked.
"I can't believe you actually thought you could get away with it. You and your pathetic family... Now I am the one with the last laugh! Death becomes the Patchman!"
With that, Andre tied Steve's hands behind his back and took his phone from his black leather jacket pocket.
Steve could feel anger start to boil up inside. Weakly, he grumbled,
"You lowdown, sneaky underhanded son of a ---"
Andre cut him off. "Watch your mouth there, my boy. You are in a church!"
Laughing again, Andrea held the phone over Steve's head and continued his banter of torment.
"We must call your precious Kayla... yes, what do you call her now? Sweetness is it? Yes, yes... we must call your precious Sweetness."
Steve tried to get up to take the phone away from Andre, but it was no use. He was too weak. Moaning in pain and frustration, Steve raised his voice.
"Don't you dare harm Kayla! Do you hear me? Leave her out of this! You got what you wanted. Just leave Kayla, Stephie and Pocket alone! You've done enough damage!"
Andre shook his head and grinned that evil grin of his.
"Oh, you ain't seen nothing yet..."
With that, he took a tape recorder from his bag and dialed Kayla's cell. With tape recorder in one hand and phone in the other, he waited for Kayla's voice to answer and then played the chilling message.
Steve's voice cried out:
"Kayla, Sweetness... help! I'm so scared baby! Please! Hurry! I'm at the church!"
When the message was done, Andrea hung up the phone, let out one final evil laugh and left the church; leaving Steve alone.
Hearing Steve's message chilled Kayla to the bone. When the phone suddenly went dead, Kayla yelled back at it...
"Steve! Steve! Answer me! What's going on?!"
All she could hear was static.
"Hold on, baby! I'm coming!"