Chapter Three: Who is Samantha Tyler?

'Backstory'

Samantha Tyler was your basic avenge typical high school teenage girl with everything that was going for her. She lives in a fancy house, both of her parents were business junkies and her older brothers and sister were going to college to maybe someday run the family business, and this is where Samantha comes into the picture, and becomes different and difficult. She doesn't want to run the business when her parents retire, she wants to become a kindergarten teacher and a voice actress. Her parents and older siblings don't except her choices in life or her group of friends.

When Samantha was in middle school, she hung out with the popular kids because of her parents being all rich and whatnot. The girls that she was hanging around at the time were Sarah and Tara. They called themselves the "Mean Girls of Middle School" because they basically ruined that middle school with an iron fist. Until it came time for the three girls to enter junior high, and that's where Sarah's future boy toy came into the picture. Sarah was all over Jackson that got both Sam and Tara sick to their stomachs, which got to the attention of yours truly Sarah. When she heard about that both her BFF's were jealous about the fact that Sarah has a boyfriend now and didn't have time for them, she came up with the idea to invent the punishment room (which at that time was the gym's supply closet). Sam and Tara were both thrown inside this room by Sarah's new friends that she made that year, thanks to Jackson… Tara and Sam were locked inside of that digesting supply closet for the whole week and the weekend, until the gym teacher found the both girls in there on the following Monday afternoon. Both girls tried their very best to get Sarah into trouble, but it didn't work, even Sam's mom tried her best to get Sarah kicked out of the school. In the end, things didn't work out because of Sarah's mom being on the board of education and rejected the removal movement on her daughter from being kicked out of the school. After a while, Tara decided to become friends with Sarah and Jackson for what they did to her, to only leave poor little Samantha Tyler behind in the dust to suffer.

End of the Backstory.

After last night's puzzling encounter with the winged mystery man Mikel, Amber woke up fresh and determined to get down to the bottom of things with Samantha, into what sort of secrets she is hiding from her. Amber walked downstairs to see that Samantha was sitting with Amber's little brother Travis, (Travis is thirteen years old, and attends the same junior high school that her sister Amber went to, but not Samantha because she went to a different junior high).

"Hey sis, how are you feeling today? Did you sleep well?" asked Travis?

"Yea I did, did mom and dad leave already for work?" asked Amber.

"Yea they did, they told me to tell you that you have to be home tonight to babysit the neighbor's daughter Krystal."

"Alright that's fine, thank you for telling me Travis,"

As Amber opened the door; her friend Sam was waiting for her out on the porch.

Amber said, "Samantha hi, I didn't see you there, I'm still waking up as you can clearly see."

"It's okay I decided to come over and surprise you, and maybe walk together to school?" said Sam.

"Oh, okay that would be great," said Amber. "Travis, make sure you lock up the door behind you; you remember what mom said to you last night about how the door wasn't locked the right way."

"Yeah I'll remember to lock the door the right way when I'm leaving for junior high," said Travis as he walked back upstairs to get himself ready for school.

Amber and Sam stepped outside and started to walk down the pathway to the counter and head onward to the high school. Amber wanted to ask Sam about what Mikel wanted her to ask to her about a certain secret, she didn't know how to approach the conversation and ask Sam. Upon arrival towards the school entrances, Tara was waiting by herself for Sarah and Jackson to show up, it wasn't like her to be staying there for such a long period. So, both Amber and Sam started to walk over towards Tara; as they walked passed Tara, Amber noticed that Sam and Tara both looked at each other for a good solid minute, it was like they wanted to say hi or something to each other; but none of them spoke or said a single word; until Sarah and Jackson came walking inside the building and Tara spotted them and started to walk forward towards 'Mr. and Ms. Bad Company'.

During lunch period, Amber sat down at the table and noticed that Ashton didn't come in this morning, something must of happen to him to miss a day of school like that. Amber saw her other friends approach the table.

"Hey Kim, did you hear from Ashton this morning? It's not like him to miss school?" asked Amber.

Kim responded, "Nah I didn't hear from him at all actually sorry Amber, but if I do, I'll let him know that you asked for him."

Suddenly, their other friend Ashely ran into the classroom screaming and ran towards Kim and Amber.

"Guys you need to come quick, it's Ashton, he got into a fight and he's hurt pretty badly. Come quick!" shouted Ashley.

As she grabbed both Kim's and Amber's arms and brought them to where Ashton was, where he laid on the floor.

He was laying on the ground bleeding badly, the EMT's put him onto the stretcher and brought him into the ambulance. Ashley, Kim and Amber wanted to go with him, but their supervisor stopped them in their tracks.

"Amber and Ashley, where do you two think you are going? You have classes to attend this afternoon, I will let you know if I hear anymore news about Ashton. Now hurry on along back to the lunchroom, and this goes for you too Kim," Said Ms. Chambers.

The girls walked around the counter and saw Jackson leaning against the wall with his hands inside of his pockets, and Amber noticed that there was a little spot of blood on his white t-shirt.

"How could you! Why did you attack Ashton?" Shouted Amber. Jackson continued to consider Amber's eyes as they started to tear up with emotion.

"Answer me!" Amber continued to shout towards Jackson, until he leaned forward from the wall and started to walk away.

Amber wasn't going to let Jackson get away with this that easily, so she ran down the hallway; to catch up to him, and when she turned the corner; there was no sign of Jackson around.

"Why are you hiding from me Jackson? Are you not man enough to come out from hiding and confront me for your actions! Jackson!!!" as Amber shouted down the hallway, she fell to the floor. Ashley and Kim ran to her side.

Ms. Chambers couldn't stand seeing this anymore; so, she walked over towards Amber, picked her from the floor and brought her into the office.

"Sit down right now Amber! I'm not going to have a war break out here in my school. Oh, no I'm not going to stand for it at all," Shouted Ms. Chambers. "You listen and listen good missy, what happens in this school, will be taken care of by the people in charge of this school, and I'll be damned if a little freshman teenage girl like yourself is going to solve her issues in causing a war against a senior classmate because of something that he did or didn't do, that's not how we solve our problems here at this school Ms. Banks, now do I make myself very clear?" asked Ms. Chambers, as she lowered her tone of voice to normal.

"Yes mam, it won't happen again. I'm sorry for my actions and my outburst towards the situation. May I be excuse to leave now?" asked Amber.

"Yes, you may be excused to leave now, and head onto class,"

(As Amber got up from her chair)

"Amber, if I hear another one of your outbursts towards one of the students ever again, you'll be asked to leave the school grounds for two weeks. Do I make myself clear?" announced Ms. Chambers.

"Yes mam, I'll respect the rules for now on,"

As she walked outside from Ms. Chamber's office, she noticed that both Sarah and Tara were standing outside of the senior's lunch den.

"I'm so sorry to hear about your friend Ashton, I guess he got what was coming to him for putting his nose into our busy once again," Sarah said, as she raises her head back and laughs sarcastically towards Amber.

Amber didn't do anything about, she gave no attention towards Sarah and Tara's laughing; she needed to find Samantha before the day was over. Amber walked into the ladies' room to here crying in one of the stalls, and she peek her head over the doorway and saw it was Samantha.

"Hey Sam, are you okay? Did something happen to you?" Amber asked her, as she walks inside.

"Amber I can't believe what happen to Ashton, I saw it all from the corner of the classroom door window," said Sam, as she continued. "Some hooded man grabbed Ashton by the neck and started to attack him; I wanted to do something, but I kept inside of the classroom like a scared little girl. I could hear his pain from each hit that he was getting from him. I couldn't believe it. Why would someone does that to him?"

Sam cared about Ashton, she liked him as her boyfriend. When I saw both during lunch, they didn't show any connection in the other. Some sort of connection must of happen right behind my very own back with these two while I wasn't looking. I didn't know what to say to her during her emotional episode, but all my mind was telling me to ask her about what Mikal said.

"Sam, I know this isn't a good time to ask you this, but how do you know Sarah and Tara? Did they do something to you long ago or something?" Amber said with a sad look on her face but was determined to get an answer out of her.

"Huh? What? Yeah, I knew both Sarah and Tara, in fact I was somewhat close to them; very close to them, said Sam.

Amber asked her, "What do you mean that you were somewhat close to them?"

Samantha continued to explain herself, "I meant them in middle school, and in junior high. Things were good, until Sarah turned her back on me and Tara because of Jackson; she threw both me and Tara into the punishment room for the whole weekend.

Flashback: (Inside the punishment room)

"Sarah please let us out. Why are you acting like such a bitch!" Shouted Tara.

Sam started to say, "Give it a rest Tara, she isn't going to release us. She's busy with her new boyfriend. I don't know what she sees in him for?"

"I don't know about you Sam, but I know Sarah won't leave her girl hanging like this."

"how can you be so sure of yourself? She changed, and once Sarah has her mind set on something there is no going back from it."

Sam continued to tell her side of the story to me, "But that wasn't the case. When Monday came around, we both heard the door opening and it was Sarah and her boyfriend Jackson. They were just looking at us, until things turned for the worst."

"I'm very surprised that you both survived the weekend inside of my punishment room. Now did you both learn your lesson," asked Sarah.

Tara spoke first, "Yes I did, I'll never look at you the wrong way ever again Sarah."

Sam chimed in, "Now wait just a second, Tara you're such a liar. You told me that Sarah was acting like a bitch for locking us up in here!"

"Is what Sam said is true Tara? Did you call me a bitch for locking you in here?" asked Sarah.

Tara answered to her question, "To be perfectly honest Sarah, I don't know what she is even saying. Those words didn't come out of my mouth. I think being inside of this room is making her lose her shit."

"You just lied again!" shouted Sam.

Sarah shouted at both, "Enough!! It is clearly that both of you are losing your shit over what was said or wasn't said. I know firsthand that my girl Tara would never call me a bitch out of spite."

"Are you kidding me Sarah! you're defending her. I heard her say those words about you," shouted Sam.

"Told ya that she was losing her shit," said Tara.

Sam answered back, "I'm not the crazy one here. You are Tara."

Sarah heard enough from her, "Shut the fuck up Samantha. How dare you accuse my best friend in saying that she called me something that I'm already am. Maybe it was you that called me a bitch and not Tara. You know what Sam; you just earned another week inside of this punishment room. Let's go Tara, make sure you slam the door behind you. I'm done dealing with this loser."

(End of Flashback)

"After that, Tara decided to go hang with them, to only leave me in the dust to suffer inside of that punishment room for another week. Of course, my parents were getting worried that I wasn't home, and they called the cops. They found me inside of the room and brought me home," said Sam, as she finished her side of the story.

I didn't know what to say after she got done with her story. My blood was boiling with rage. I wanted to slap her in the face and leave her there to suffer in her own pity. Before I can utter a single word, she looked back at me with tears running down her eyes.

"I'm sorry I didn't tell you right away Amber, I didn't want you to think less of me. I don't want this to affect our friendship as well," cried Sam.

At that point, I felt sorry for her; she's been through a lot and I couldn't say mad at her for holding on to a big secret like that one. There was still one question I wanted to ask her before I left.

Amber calmly asked "Just answer me this Sam, since you saw Ashton getting his ass handed to by an unknown punk, please tell me who done it? Who kicked Ashton ass?"

"It was…Jackson, Sarah was telling him what to do, and he listened to every order that she was throwing at him; Amber are you okay?"

I wasn't alright when she uttered her name, I stormed out from the girl's bathroom and that is where I saw the little bitch; talking and laughing with her bratty friend Tara. My mind completely went blank; I couldn't control myself, until I confronted the queen bitch.

"You evil wicked monster, how could you order and control your man slave of a boyfriend to beat up on my friend like that! You don't have a soul, you evil witch!"

Sarah slapped her in the face and pushed her hard onto the floor. She yelled at Sarah, as I got up from the ground; with blood pouring from my nose and lips.

Sarah walked over to her, and grabbed her by the neck, as she slammed her back first into the lockers. Tara walked over to pull Sarah by the arm, but she shoved Tara down towards the ground.

Sarah angrily shouted towards her, "If you ever come near me ever again, you will be thrown inside of that punishment room until you die; and I'll see it that you'll stay locked away in there forever! I don't even know how you managed to escape when I threw you in there the first time, but I won't make the same mistake twice."

Ms. Chambers walked from out of her office, to see Amber once again getting into trouble for the second time with another senior classmate, and this time it was Sarah.

"Sarah! lower her right this very minute!" Ms. Chambers announced from the hallway.

Sarah answered back, "Why should I answer to you for? You're not even my class supervisor."

Chambers answered, "I may not be your class supervisor, but when one of my students is in danger. I have every right to step in and act. So, I'm asking you again; release my student right this minute."

"Whatever, she doesn't mean anything to me anyway." Sarah threw her to the floor, and as her head bounced off the ground.

I laid there; bleeding from my forehead, as the blood poured down the school's draining system.

The school was empty; the students were asked to go home early from the outburst that took place. Amber was lying on the nurse's bedtable with an Ace Band-Aid wrap around her head to stop the bleeding. Sarah was asked to leave the school ground until further questions can be answered. Amber didn't know what was going to happen to her now, and what will Ms. Chamber's do to her when she wakes up from her slumber?