Hanna Paxon was born into, and grew up in, a household where money and love were in abundance. Despite her parents' wealth they gave their three children, Hanna being the youngest and the only girl, all the love that a child could want. Although they did not want for material possessions, the children were not spoiled. They were respectful toward adults, kind in their interrelationships with each other and people in general, generous, and had a strong moral compass.
Hanna was also intelligent and always got great grades. She graduated High School in three years and college in three and a half, with a double major in chemistry and chemical engineering, unusual for a woman.
Despite her chosen fields of study and her rapid advance through the educational system, Hanna also had a decent love life. However, she made sure that the only intercourse she ever had was with loving, respectful, partners, and with adequate protection.
Hanna had many prospective sexual partners because she was more than moderately good looking. Although not beautiful in the classical sense, she had a cute face, a curvaceous body, a winning smile, and beautiful silken hair that she kept just past shoulder length.
According to Hanna's father, Jim, and his view was shared by her two older brothers and somewhat by her mother, Hanna had only two significant problems. She was almost too kind, and too trusting.
"You're the greatest, kindest, most gentle person I know. However, someday you're going to have to blow your top, Hanna," her oldest brother, Gil, told her during her freshman year in High School.
"You can't take everyone at face value," her other brother Goren told her many times in her life. "There are some snakes and charlatans out there. You need a little skepticism!"
Hanna knew that her brothers had her best interests at heart, and allowed as they probably were right. However, that wasn't translated into action on her part, leaving all three of her close male relatives to believe that they probably would have to protect Hanna, in one way or another, her entire life.
There was one incident that provided an exception to Hanna's gentle nature. Perhaps because of pent-up feelings of people taking advantage of her because of her kind and gentle nature, at the end of what would have been (had she not been so advanced academically) her sophomore year in the private High School she attended, she exploded.
John was a junior who Hanna had a romantic interest in. They had gone out on a few dates, and he seemed to like her.
Samantha was a sophomore who had always been unkind to Hanna, most likely because of jealousy. Hanna would have hated her if Hanna were a normal person, but being her gentle self just tried to avoid her.
Two days before school was out Hanna found John kissing Samantha right in front of Hanna's locker. When they noticed a stunned, gap-jawed, Hanna staring at them with a tear forming in her eye, Samantha made an excruciatingly cruel comment and John just laughed. Then they walked away, arm-in-arm.
Hanna was livid, but a plan quickly formed in her brain. She pulled the fire alarm while wearing a glove (this was before the days of surveillance cameras in all schools) and in the pandemonium snuck into the Principal's office and took the master key for the lockers, then joined her fellow students outside.
Once it was determined that the fire alarm was a false alarm, everyone went back to class. After school Hanna entered John and Samantha's lockers, removed everything and put it into trash bags along with the master key, and put the trash bags in the school dumpster.
Unfortunately for her, a janitor saw Hanna dump the garbage bags, retrieved them, and found what was inside. He reported it to the principal.
The principal called Hanna and her parents into his office the next day. Hanna refused to admit to anything, refused to accept a suspension for the first two weeks of the next school year, refused to apologize -- in fact she was completely contrary, much to the shock of her parents and the Principal since she had never come even close to acting that way before.
The principal had no choice but to threaten expulsion despite the fact that she was valedictorian of her class. Hanna's father talked him into letting her withdraw from school so that the expulsion would not be on her record, and agreed to make a $20,000 donation to the school to install surveillance cameras.
Hanna's parents were almost too stunned by her actions to punish her. However, they did "ground" her for the summer. Hanna enrolled in the local public High School the next year and graduated at the top of her class in what should have been her junior year.
Gil's only comment after Hanna's tirade was "Good Sarab; except that if you get pissed and need revenge, next time don't get caught!"
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While Hanna was growing up as a pleasant, kind, and gentle person -- with of course the one obvious aberration -- Will Walters was growing up in the next county as an underachiever who spent most of his time chasing girls and causing trouble. Not so much trouble as to end him in jail for more than a few hours, but then again many of his escapades weren't found out.
Will was a year older than Hanna but in High School the same grade as Hanna because of her advanced academics. Will had always been a good looking child, and as a teenager and adult he was very handsome. He was about six feet tall with big captivating brown eyes and light brown hair, with a slim though muscular build. Although his physical attractiveness got him many women, unless slutty they normally didn't stay around long because he never seemed to show them respect.
In fact, he didn't really show respect to the female members of his middle class family, undoubtedly because his father never did either. His relationship with his mother, sisters, aunts, and female cousins was strained since he was about thirteen.
After two years of community college, where he just scraped by, Will got a job as an insurance adjuster apprentice for a vehicle insurance firm. The thing he probably knew best was cars and motorcycles, so he caught on quickly. He was soon promoted to adjuster, but didn't have either the ambition or dedication to ever advance beyond that position.
One good thing about Will's job was that his boss was a positive role model. His boss had several talks with Will about how he treated the female employees, and within a year had shaped him up -- at least to the extent possible.
Most of the women Will dated were slutty. He was on the lookout for a high class woman, however, and vowed that if he ever got one interested in him he would never return to his old ways.
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Hanna had been brought up to believe that family life was important if one were to be fulfilled, and that devotion to one's spouse was critical. Therefore, as a young woman she had a clear idea of what her dating life should be directed toward. She wanted a man to marry that would love children and who she could be faithful to and love for the rest of her life.
After Hanna had been working several years for a large agricultural chemical company she met Will Walters. To her Will was handsome (better looking than she was, she concluded early on), the ultimate extrovert, and seemingly deferential to women. After they dated a few times Hanna was starting to fall for him, so in the analytical way that she had been taught in her math and science oriented schooling and profession, she grilled him about his wants and desires.
"Will, I'm going to be frank with you, and tell you that I need the answers to a number of questions," she said on their fourth date as they sat on a bench next to a lake with Will's arm around her shoulder.
"Do I need to get an attorney for this?" Will joked.
"Only if you have some nefarious things in your past that you need to hide," Hanna retorted, grinning.
