On Sunday night, after Sophia arrived back at college from her parents' house, she met Darius and they went over to Jonathan's room to tell him the bad news.
Darius stood outside while Sophia went inside.
"Listen babe, I have some bad news..." Sophia confessed. "I was out with my parents Saturday night, and someone broke into our house."
"Oh no! Are you guys okay?" Jonathan replied.
"Yeah, fortunately we were gone...but...babe...he only took one thing. The key to your cage."
"Huh!?" Jonathan replied, bewildered.
"Yeah...and he left a note with his number...I texted him...it turns out that you know him. His name is Darius."
"What the fuck!" Jonathan yelled.
"And he's threatening me, making me do certain things, if you want to get your key back. Which of course is what I want for you babe."
"Holy shit...how did he know..."
"He said he overheard me and Maria talking about it. You see, Darius has been selling Maria and me weed. I didn't know you knew him. We were at the beach one night, and Maria asked if I was gonna go back and fuck you, and I said 'no, the cage, remember?' Because remember, you said it was okay if she knew about the cage..."
Jonathan was devastated. What a wild turn of events. He was angry at Sophia, but this wasn't really her fault, he tried to remind himself.
"So what does he want you to do?" He asked.
"Well, he wants to have sex with me..."
"Fuck...Sophia...I can't believe this."
"I know..." Sophia tried to sell it. "And I think there's more but he won't really say. It seems like he really has it out for you. What does he have against you, anyway?"
Jonathan shared the story.
"Wow...well, I get why he'd be angry, but it wasn't like you had any fault in the matter. You were just trying to help that poor girl."
"Right, but I think he thinks I got him in trouble on purpose. Maybe he thinks I'm racist or something, I don't know."