Justice Deferred
By: Alex. P
For Disclaimers see Chapter 1
Chapter 8
For the rest of the holiday
Kelly continued to try to persuade Cheryl to try and build a relationship with
her, but the small blonde steadfastly refused to even consider it. Cheryl soon
became concerned over the dark eyed woman's obsessive behavior.
The more Cheryl turned her down the harder Kelly pushed her to be her
girlfriend, and Cheryl was beginning to get the creepy feeling that the woman
was coming into her room at night while she was asleep.
To her dismay the night after New Years Cheryl woke suddenly in the middle of
the night and found Kelly sitting in a chair next to her bed.
When Cheryl demanded she leave Kelly just stared at her like she'd grown
another head and said she was only watching over the woman she loved as was her
right.
The next day Cheryl moved all her belongings into the spare rooms in the
finished basement. She figured she would be safe as the basement rooms were
like a separate apartment. It had it's own bathroom and kitchen and it had its
own outside entrance and could be closed off from the rest of the house, thus
giving Kelly no chance to come into her rooms without breaking in.
When the two younger room mates returned at the end of Winter break they were
curious about the new living arrangements but were told by Kelly that their
other normally outgoing and friendly roommate wanted the extra privacy.
She explained the locked inner door the same way, Kelly assured them that there
was nothing unusual going on and began using them as her servants just as she
had before.
Kelly changed tactics but still kept trying to pressure the pretty blonde into
being with her while Cheryl continued to steadfastly refuse to even consider
it. Everywhere Cheryl went sooner or later Kelly would show up, and if Cheryl
happened to be sitting with friends or talking to another woman, Kelly would
create an embarrassing scene calling the beleaguered young woman a cheap slut
and a philandering whore and any other nasty name that came to mind.
Finally Cheryl quit going out socially all together hoping that would put an
end to the Greek woman stalking her.
The black haired psychotic beauty began showing up at Cheryl's job, her
classes, even at her table in the law library.
Cheryl was a nervous wreck, never knowing where her stalker would show up next.
She couldn't sleep or eat and she nearly jumped out of her skin every time
someone said her name above a whisper, but still she stood her ground refusing
to give in to Kelly's constant harassment.
Finally in an effort to help the frightened young woman some of her friends got
together and confronted the fiery tempered frustrated suitor, and told her in
no uncertain terms that if she didn't stop harassing their friend they would be
forced to take steps to stop her.
When Kelly tried to call their bluff they threatened to call the authorities,
while in truth it was a hollow threat because none of them had actually seen
the belligerent Greek woman bothering Cheryl, except for once or twice at the
bar, and that really wasn't enough for the authorities to act on, but they knew
Cheryl and they believed what she told them and how she looked.
Kelly was livid, not only had the peasant refused her, but Kelly was convinced
that Cheryl had sent her barbaric friends to threaten and insult her. Kelly
knew better than to create an incident that might get back to her father, so
she quit trying to get the beautiful little blonde to be her lover.
After a couple of weeks passed without any contact from Kelly, Cheryl breathed
a sigh of relief thinking the incident over and that her life could now
continue as before.
Kelly was seething in fury at being spurned by the little green eyed blonde,
and while it was true that she no longer wanted the woman as her lover, her
Greek blood was boiling for revenge for the wrongs she perceived Cheryl to be
guilty of.
Never before had anyone refused to give Kelly what she wanted and she was not
about to let some American peasant be the first.
To top that the blonde was responsible for Kelly being threatened and insulted
by even more of these barbaric Americans. It was more than the proud spoiled
Geek heiress was willing to tolerate, so Kelly stopped pursuing the blonde and
turned all her energy and considerable wealth to seeing that the young American
peasant was properly punished for her transgressions against a superior such as
herself.
Sometimes Kelly forgot that her great grandfather was once a peasant olive
grower himself.
The next couple of months were a time of quiet and Cheryl was beginning once
again to spend time doing things other than study, work and sleep, she actually
began to go out with her friends and even went so far as date a few times
nothing serious, just having food and fun with someone. Since little Cheryl was
not only a sweet and friendly young woman with a brilliant and outgoing
personality, she was actually a very good dancer.
It wasn't long before word got around the Rose and soon the one time wallflower
had more date requests and perspective dance partners than she knew what to do
with. She was finally letting herself have a good time and was meeting some
very nice and interesting women.
Then one night as Cheryl was escorting a friend out to her car they were
attacked by four young men wearing ski masks. Both women were severely beaten.
The woman friend was battered and bruised and required several stitches to
close some deep cuts but was released and allowed to go home after giving a
statement to police.
Cheryl on the other hand had put herself between her friend and their attackers
and so had received the brunt of the assault. Besides a multitude of deep
bruises and cuts, some of which requiring stitches, the little blonde also
suffered three broken ribs, her right arm broken in two places a fractured jaw
and skull and a severe concussion.
Her injuries kept Cheryl in the hospital for nearly a week. The police took her
statement as well as from a witness that had been passing by and had seen the
assault in progress.
The young man had scared off the attackers and had called the police, he was
the one that had heard the attackers yelling dyke and whore and fag and several
other slurs that had police writing the attack off as another gay bashing.
While they said they would investigate they actually wrote it off as a hazard
those people faced for living their lifestyle in public and never really
followed through.
If they had the might have been surprised at the person behind the attack and
the reasons that were truly behind the beating outside the Rose.
Having gotten her moneys worth out of the young thugs she had paid to give
Cheryl a beating, Kelly then used the blonde victims hospital stay to set the
next phase of her plan into motion.
Kelly had decided that for Cheryl's crimes against her the young woman was not
only to be punished she was to be destroyed, everything that the orphan had
worked and sacrificed to gain the vindictive Greek woman was going to
have taken from her including her future and her freedom.
Cheryl had been home from the hospital for two days and was getting ready for
bed when her outside door burst open and her little apartment was suddenly full
of men holding guns and yelling at her to lay down on the floor.
When she was slow to move because of her injuries one of the men grabbed the
small blonde and threw her on the floor. She cried out in pain when her broken
ribs were jarred as she hit the hardwood floor.
The rest of the night was a blur as she barely remembered a man's voice reading
her rights and asking if she understood, the confused blonde nodded numbly as
she watched the men tearing up her rooms, searching for some unknown prize.
The next thing she knew someone was leading her out of the house and loaded
into a van and taken downtown to the central police station where she was
finger printed, her picture taken and she was left sitting in a cold grey room
that held a table and two other chairs.
She noticed a mirror on one wall and looking into it, Cheryl brushed her
fingers through her hair trying to get it into some semblance of order when two
big men wearing heavily wrinkled shirts and slacks entered the room.
She sat there cold, tired, in intense pain and extremely frightened while they
began yelling at her asking strange questions about drugs, dealers, suppliers,
money laundering, connections, and dozens of other things Cheryl knew nothing
about.
Frightened and crying hysterically Cheryl was at a loss what to do, as the men
continued to badger her for answers.
Suddenly from somewhere all the knowledge she had picked up during her time in
law school kicked in and she realized these men were trying to trick her into
saying something to incriminate herself in some kind of drug charge.
She sat up straight wiped her eyes and demanded to know what charges had been
brought against her.
When one of her interrogators told her the charges were yet to be determined
Cheryl demanded to see a lawyer and refused to cooperate further until she was
adequately represented.
Eventually, due to her financial status the innocent young law student was
assigned an overworked public defender and once he arrived the charges against
her were revealed.
Cheryl found herself charged with two counts of possession of a controlled
substance, a pound of marijuana, and an "eightball" or one-eighth
ounce of cocaine, also one count of possession with intent to distribute and
several misdemeanor charges.
Cheryl was beside herself, she told her lawyer the truth and naively refused to
accept a plea bargain on the grounds that she was innocent and there was no way
a jury could find an innocent woman like her guilty of such ludicrous charges.
She had no idea how that kind of thing got into her house let alone into her
rooms. Her mind couldn't conceive of someone planting the evidence in an
attempt to frame her. Cheryl had yet to learn how far a certain young and
vindictive Greek heiress would go to get back at someone that spurned her
romantic advances. Using the argument that since Cheryl was an orphan she had
no permanent ties to the community and the prosecutor was able to convince the
judge that it was possible that the pretty young blonde was a notorious drug
dealer and more than likely had large amounts of ready cash hidden away, the
judge agreed that Cheryl was a flight risk and ordered her held without bond.
Leaving her to sit in the county jail until her trial date.
The papers went for the forgotten and embittered orphan turned vicious drug
dealer angle, saying Cheryl had conned the system to use taxpayers to finance
her way onto college campuses so she could sell drugs to innocent young
students.
They ran front-page stories on how she was getting secretly rich by poisoning
the bright young minds of the local students, and it wasn't long before the
press stopped differentiating between college students and high school and
junior high students.
Almost daily there was a new story of the plague of drugs that was running
rampant through the state and in every story there was some mention of Cheryl.
Behind the sudden attention of the press and the constant mention of Cheryl in
the papers was sudden large jumps in the bank accounts of certain reporters.
Kelly also made large donations to the judge and the prosecutor's re-elections,
being sure they understood there would be further donations if they proved
themselves to be hard on drug dealers, going so far to "accidentally"
mention the State of Missouri v Cheryl Killian.
She was heard to mention several times how horrible it was that her former
roommate was a hardened drug dealer and how she was such a blot on the state
because of her orphan status. That she used her status to get away with
everything. The reporters ate it up and it was all finding its way into
front-page stories and by the time Cheryl's case came to trial she had already been
convicted in the papers.
Kelly had generously spread her money around so that by the time the trial
began all she had to do was sit back in the gallery and enjoy her enemies'
humiliation as she was subjected to a very public and closely detailed trial.
Cheryl couldn't believe it after all the friends she thought she'd made in her
years in Columbia, not a single one of them testified on her behalf.
Some even got on the witness stand and lied about her including her two
undergrad roommates. People she had never seen before got up and lied about
buying drugs from her, all courtesy of Kelly Antropos. The only two people that
Cheryl was sure would support her, her two foster mothers, and they were kept
out of the courtroom because the
prosecution had been sure to subpoena them so they were forced to stay out.
By the time the jury had returned with the verdict Cheryl knew she was already
convicted, and as the verdict was being read she simply stood there weeping
silently, confused and hurt, not understanding why this was happening to her.
After the verdict came the sentencing and since her foster mothers were
threatened with having their foster credentials pulled if they testified on
Cheryl's behalf, so the young blonde refused to let them testify. This part
went quickly and she was stunned when she heard the judge sentencing her to ten
to twenty-five years at a maximum security facility.
As the stunned young woman was being led handcuffed from the courtroom she
heard someone calling her name. When she looked in the direction of the voice
Cheryl saw Kelly watching her with a self-satisfied smirk on her face, and when
she was sure that she had the dejected young blonde's attention she made a
statement that would haunt Cheryl
for a long time afterwards.
The dark eyes took on an evil gleam as the scorned Greek woman gave the
dejected and lost young woman a pleased self-satisfied smirk and told her:
"The next time you'll respect the wishes of your superiors."