Drive to freedom.

Author’s Note: I’m going to speed things up a bit like say about three months, so we can get into a very dangerous scenario at the end of this chapter, which will bring about another dangerous scenario in the next chapter.

 

Chapter Seven.

 

It was three months after their first date, they would go to the movies or go to the Lake, rent a boat and just cruise the lake for a few hours or work on their hand to hand combat skills. Most of the time, they would venture into town to eat but this day, Teri invited him into the house for a meal. Teri was walking into the comfortable kitchen space, she glanced behind her. “Do you like tomato sandwiches, Lennox?”

“I love them,” Lennox replied with a grin. “It is one of my favorite sandwiches beyond a good hamburger.”

“Same here, but I’ve gotten onto a fad eating tomato sandwiches,” Teri replied, as she grabbed the tomatoes and started to slice them, before she sprinkled kosher salt on to them before she went to the fridge to get the mayo out. She started to spread the mayo onto the four slices of bread and placed the tomato slices onto the bread before she sliced it in half and plated the sandwich. She grabbed two glasses from the cabinet and filled them both with water from the sink. She did her own before she picked up the plate and headed for the table and sat down.

They ate the sandwich as they discussed what the day’s plan was going to be which was basically more hand to hand combat since Teri noticed that she was getting really good at handling herself against a trained fighter.

Teri smiled. “So we should rest for another five minutes before returning to the field and continue the practice?”

“Yes,” Lennox stated, as he picked up his glass of water and took a sip of it.

“I don’t think so,” spoke a female voice coming from behind Lennox.

They turned to see a blond haired woman wearing white clothes standing there. “Mother,”

“Teri, you need to go to the grocery store and get this weeks’ supply of food . . . today,” She turned to walk into the living room. “Before night falls, Teri,”

Teri growled, as she got up from her seat and went to the list that was on the kitchen counter and scanned it. “This will take at least four hundred dollars out of my own pocket to get.”

Lennox looked at her. “Do we have time to hit your bank to get the funds or will she give you the funds to buy it?”

“They never give me the money to buy the groceries, William,” Teri stated, as she looked at him as she folded the list up and placed it in her purse. “They expect me to pay for it since I live here and I should put my fair share into the house.”

William glanced at the clock to see it was only 10am in the morning. “We have time to hit your bank before it closes to get some funds,”

Teri glanced at the clock, nodding. “Yeah, I need to head to the bank to get some funds to cover this grocery tab as it will be a bit more since I’ll be buying some food for myself.”

“Then, we better be off?” William asked, with a grin.

Teri nodded as she grabbed her purse and checked it to see if she had her check book, which she didn’t have. “I have to head up to my computer room to grab my check book. I have some deposits to make.”

William watched as she dashed up the stairs. He knew she would be right back as he looked at the list to find that they were going to be getting a lot of food. It was not too long before he heard footsteps running down the stairs and walking over to his side.

“Got my checkbook, let me grab the list and we can head out,” Teri stated as she took the list from his hand and folded it up and placed it within her purse. She held her keys to Optimus up and smiled. “We’ll take Optimus this time around.”

William smiled in return. “Not a problem with me, but will we be able to have the groceries fit in the back?”

“Yeah, I place it in the sleeper when I go out to get the groceries. It fits every time,” Teri stated, as they walked out of the house and towards where she had parked Optimus. “Why do you ask?”

“Well, it looks like it will be a lot of food,”

“No more than twenty bags worth and it always fit in his sleeper before,” Teri said as they neared Optimus.

Lennox went silent as they got into the cab and drove into town to get some funds from Teri’s bank. William noticed that Teri looked a bit stunned as she walked from the bank and climbed in. “What’s wrong?”

Teri glanced at him. “They said that they had to freeze my checking account because of a large deposit made this past Monday.”

“Really? How much was put into your account?” William asked.

“Over two hundred thousand dollars and it’s from the military as that’s what the wire statement said,” Teri replied. “Why would they give me that much money unless it was for something?”

“Maybe they want to make sure that Optimus was well taken care of and to help his new owner out?” William suggested.

“I don’t know, the military isn’t known to do something like that, William,” Teri replied, as she looked at her checkbook.

“Do you have enough in your account to write a check?”

“Yeah, I usually pay cash for it as my dad would pay me back in a check,” Teri stated.

“But I thought your folks made you buy it and not pay you back for it?”

“Yeah, but dad does it behind mom’s back as he knows how hard I save my money for my vehicle,” Teri replied, as she put her purse by William’s leg and pulled out of the parking spot and drove to the exit and drove towards Wal Mart.

Thirty minutes later and twenty bags of groceries later, Teri wasn’t kidding about getting all that in the sleeper bed. William was sure that it wouldn’t fit but Teri made it all fit. He just shook his head.

“What’s wrong, William?”

“I never thought that many bags could fit back there,” William said as Teri smiled at him as she sat in the driver’s seat. “It really is amazing. So what do we do next?”

“We head home and unpack the groceries and after that we can return to do hand to hand combat till you have to head back to base,” Teri replied.

“I would like that,” William said with a grin.

Teri drove back home and after they placed the groceries away and the ones that she bought for herself in her own small college dorm sized fridge before heading back out to the pasture and started to practice their skills till late afternoon when William had to head back to his base with a promise to return the following week.

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The following Monday, Teri hauled more rock to the Eldon area. After she dropped off the last load of the day, she headed towards the local truck stop for dinner. She noticed that a few truckers were looking in her general direction. She ignored it as most men looked in her direction as it is not usual to see a female trucker as they were really rare. Plus the word had gotten out from the police posters about a serial Semi rapist, a man who was raping female Semi drivers. She read the poster and was even advised to take on a male co-driver in her Semi till they caught the bastard but she told the waitress and the Semi driver who had suggested she get another driver with her till they caught him she wouldn’t as the guy wouldn’t come up to a place like this. She knew everyone there and there wasn’t any new faces around the area. She finished her dinner, she wondered why the waitress who usually would have placed her bill on her table didn’t and went to the cashier to pay her bill but found out that it was already paid for by another. She wondered if William was there and paid for her meal before he left, she decided to ask the waitress. “Who paid for my dinner?”

“One of the truckers did. He said he’ll be by your truck to get thanks from you,” She replied before she took another driver to his seat.

Teri smiled. “Thank you,” and she headed out to the parking lot where the Semi’s were parked to see a black haired man with a plaid long sleeve shirt and blue jeans leaning against Optimus. He smiled as she approached him.

“Are you the one who paid for my meal?” Teri asked as she went closer to her Semi.

“Yup,” He replied.

“Thank you for that, I appreciate the gesture but you shouldn’t have,”

“Well, I paid for your meal and now I want payment back for it,” He stated, as he stepped towards her. Teri stepped back against her Semi, her hand frantically searching for the handle to open the door to get away from him. “I plan on getting my payment from your body.”

‘Oh god, he’s the serial Semi rapist! I need to do something!’ Teri cried out mentally.

He grabbed her arms with his dirty stained hand as he started to rip at her pants to get them off of her.

All Teri could do was pray that someone would come out of restaurant or one of the Semis to come to her rescue. She started to struggle to be free from him, knowing the longer he struggled with her pants, the more possibility of a trucker coming from the restaurant and save her.



TBC...