Part One: The Start

Most stories say “it didn’t start off this way.” But this one did; you see, from the very beginning he’d been a problem. It wasn’t just the leering or the age difference, it was the clear danger he presented just by visiting her at work. Maggie was no stranger to possessive men, in fact, she was in a relationship with one when Dave first decided he liked her. Jamie was a small man who took his height as a personal attack and used it as an excuse to terrorize the world. It was pathetic, Maggie would realize in hindsight, that one, Jamie thought so highly of himself that he assumed someone would care about his size, or two, that she thought herself special enough to heal the chip on his shoulder. If she couldn’t do it for her father, what made her think she could do it for Jamie? But again, this was hindsight. Where we meet Maggie is in the present; we encounter her as a woman blissfully unaware of the horror that awaits her.