A little Secret ch 3

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By the end of the day, Kira was not a happy camper. Sure she woke up fine this morning and her day seemed to be sailing smoothly after that. She was paying attention in class, taking good notes, had no intention of falling asleep. But when lunch time rolled around, Kira got two dreaded calls.

The first wasn't so bad. It was the babysitter calling to inform her that while crawling on the floor, Austin tried to reach something shiny under the coffee table and bumped his head on the rim, leaving a little knot on his for head. That she could take care of when she got home but her next phone call was one she didn't want.

She got a call from work. That stupid imitation Hooters. It was one of her co-workers, Shelly, telling her that she had to work a double shift tonight because the a new manager was working there and already fired 3 of the waitresses. Thereby resulting in Kira taking one of the fired girls' shift. Not to say that she wasn't happy about the manager being replaced, this finally meant no more of that dirty old man trying to hit on her. But this new manager sounded like a tough cookie. He already fired 3 waitresses on his first day! And he was making her do a double shift without even meeting her! Kira could tell that she was not going to like this new manager and her days at that job were just going to get worse.

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After the school bell rang, Kira jetted out of school without even a so much of a goodbye to her friends and headed to work. She didn't want to be a minute late with this new boss of hers. Although she hated her job, Kira couldn't take the risk of being fired, the money was too good.

Parking in the back, Kira grabbed her uniform from the back seat and struggled a bit to change in the tiny Volkswagen Beetle but finally managed and walked into the restaurant and clocked in. She sighed as she looked at the clock. She wasn't early but she was on time, 3:00 on the dot.

Just as she was scanning the area for any signs of a new boss man, another co-worker of hers, Melinda walked by, balancing two trays of hot wings.

"Hey Kira, can you help me with one of these?" she asked.

"Sure" Kira said taking one of the trays from her.

She followed Melinda to whatever table she was serving, still scanning for that boss man. She didn't know what he looked like but the managers' were supposed to wear a green button down shirt so she figured any man in green might be him.

As Kira set the platter of wings down on the table, she didn't even notice the four filthy men, staring down her shirt and Melinda had to give her a little nudge to pay attention.

"Huh?" she said snapping out of her scanning and looking at the men at the table. One of which winked at her. Kira only rolled her eyes before heading back to the kitchen area with Melinda.

"So looking for the boss man huh?" Melinda asked now picking up about 4 plates of food and balancing them on her hands.

"How'd you know?" Kira asked. Had she really been that obvious in her searching?

"Because we all wee like that when we came into work today, looking around for that famous button down green shirt." She explained.

"Oh, so what does he look like?" she asked hoping Melinda caught a peek of him already.

"If you ask me I think he's drop dead gorgeous, almost like that John Hues actor guy." She said and Kira rolled her eyes. Leave it to Melinda to think that the new boss was cute.

"Melly…." Kira said and she only laughed.

"Anyway it's pointless to look for him because he's in his office." She said

"Oh"

"But, he does want all employees to check in with him so he can "get to know you" if you haven't already." She added.

"Oh great" Kira said with a sigh.

Melinda only laughed. "Good luck!" she said before going to serve the next table.

Kira rolled her eyes for the second time in the passed 5 minutes and made her way over to the boss' office.

She gulped suddenly becoming a little scared. What if this guy was a complete jerk? What if his sole mission was to fire her? She couldn't take the chance of being fired, she needed the money. He already fired 3 waitresses, what if she was next? What if he was just like the last boss? She couldn't take it, there were to many what if's!

"Enough Kira! Stop this! Just knock on the stupid door and get this over with!" she angrily thought to herself.

Taking in a deep breath Kira gave a meek knock on the door waiting for a reply. She stood there for about 15 seconds before a reply was heard. "Come in"

She took in another deep breath before opening the door. "It's now or never"

Waling into the office Kira didn't know what to expect because she'd never really been in there before. Her last boss always called it his "private headquarters" and no one was supposed to disturb him there. She pictured it to be some dimly lit, dirty room, with old pizza sitting in the corner but when she walked in it was quite the contrary.

The walls were a soft pastel green with a white border and tan colored carpet without one stain. There were two light green chairs sitting in front of the oak wooden desk were the boss man sat. Ah yes, the boss man, he of course was not what Kira expected to be at all.

From the height he was sitting down in his chair, he seemed to be a tall man, with brown eyes and short brown hair. Sort of like Dr. Oliver's hair, minus the gel. He dressed professionally in cotton green button down shirt and a pair of black slacks. Kira felt sort of out of place sitting there in her cut off shorts and skin tight jeans. He office looked so……business official and she just looked like some loose waitress.

Looking up from what ever papers he was signing, the new boss gave her an award winning white smile, ushering her in with his hands.

"Hi, come in, come in!" he said all cheery like and Kira timidly walked in.

"Wow, he really does look like John Hues." She thought while taking a seat on one of the chairs in front of the desk and sitting as scrunched up as possible trying not to gather any unwanted attention.

"Why do you look like I'm going to pounce on you, I don't bite you know." He said with that smile again.

"I um…..I just…..hi, I'm Kira" she said.

The boss laughed. "Hi Kira, nice to meet you finally, I've heard a lot of things about you." He said.

"How'd you…………."

"Your last boss was my Uncle"

She made an 'o' shape with her mouth.

"Well nice of you to come in, I'm not here to fire you or anything, I just wanted to get to know you. It's hard being the new manager of a whole staff of women."

Kira smiled.

"That's a beautiful smile you got there." He complemented and she blushed.

"Oh God please say that he doesn't try to hit on me." She thought.

"So how old are you?" he asked.

"Um, 18 sir" she replied.

"Oh call me Derek." He said.

"Ok" she said still holding on to herself instead of sitting comfortably. She didn't know what it was about this guy but something about him creeped her out. Maybe it was him being so nice. Was it real or was it an act?

"hmm, 18, well you fit the age requirement, that's good. I had to fire 3 girls this morning because they were under aged." He said aloud to himself.

"Mina, Lindsey and Julia, that's why there were fired." She thought.

"Oh….well yah, I'm 18 alright." She said nervously.

"That's good, well I suppose that's all for now, it's Friday and we've got hungry costumers so, I think it's time you started you shift." He said.

Kira could never be happier to get out of there, that little "meeting" was way to creepy for her liking. "Alright" she said getting up and heading for the door.

"It was nice to meet you Kira" he said.

"Nice to meet you to……..si…..Derek" she said before exiting.

As soon as she shut the door Kira shuddered. That man was way to creepy.

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10:30 at night and it was finally closing time. The restaurant initially closed at ten but it took awhile to get the place clean and organized for the day ahead. Kira sighed wiping the last table clean and setting the chairs on top of it. Finally after a long day of serving perverts, changing orders for costumers who couldn't make up their minds and resisting the urge to deck whoever decided to try and peek down her shirt, she could go home.

She walked over to the back and clocked out, saying her goodbyes to her co-workers who were locking up.

Kira grabbed her purse and keys from her little cubbyhole and headed out the restaurant to her car.

"Man today was a long day. I can't wait to get home and see Austin. I just hope the poor thing isn't too fussy after staying with that baby-sitter for so long." She thought to herself while unlocking her little Beetle.

It was pitch dark outside with the exception of the dim streetlight making it hard for her to see. She thanked God that her five senses worked wonders though because at the moment her hearing was like a leopard.

Hearing something rustle in the distance, Kira began to get a little anxious about being out there late at night all alone. Who knows what sort of weirdo or creep was lurking around these parts of Reef side. (Like her boss)

Deciding to get out of there fast, Kira quickly inserted the key into her car to unlock it but before she could even pull the key out she heard the last sound she wanted to hear.

The cocking of a gun.

Her heart skipped a beat as she could feel a presence behind her. A big heavy presence who currently had a gun probably to her head.

"Give me the purse" demanded a deep rusty voice.

Her breathy became rigid and she was scared out of her whit's. she didn't know why either. She was a power ranger, she should be able to take this guy out no problem. She's faced bigger things than this. But some how this just seemed to be different, she had never been directly held up at gun point, blasters maybe but not a gun. She was scared no terrified of guns and that to say the least was truly awkward coming from a power ranger.

Kira looked at the reflection in her car window to see a broad tall man behind her, with a ki mask over his face, holding the gun to her head just as she had suspected. Her heart skipped another beat as she looked at how huge the man was. She had doubts about fighting him because he was so big, could she really take him on? It was no use anyway because Dr. Oliver always told her, you can never fight when you're scared, you have to be brave and push all your worries aside. And at this point that wasn't happening, she was scared for her life, she was a sitting duck.

"Give me the purse!" he yelled now, shaking the gun some.

Kira tried to calm down as she handed the guy her purse without turning around. She didn't dare want to look him in the eye.

As he dug through the purse he still had the gun aimed at her head meaning she was still a sitting duck. She praised the Lord that she had no credit cards and her drivers license was in her car rather than in her purse. As a matter of fact the only thing that was in her purse was about 5 dollars, a couple of pictures of Austin and maybe some gum. Maybe if the guy found nothing he'd go away.

But boy was she wrong. Frustrated the purse was empty he slammed it down on the ground and now grabbed her and held her close to him, putting the gun directly on her head now.

She could feel the end of his pressed against her skull and now her heart was beating fast as ever and her breathing was irrational while she panicked uncontrollably.

"There's nothing in that stupid bag of yours bitch. Look's like I'm going to have to take something else from you." He horsed coldly.

Before she could even comprehend what he was saying the guy spun her around and slammed her against her car pressing himself on top of her and beginning to fumble with her pants line.

Now her brain was working properly and she clearly understood what he was trying to do thus leaving her to attempt at fighting back.

"No! Stop it! Leave me alone!" she screamed at him trying to push his hands off of her.

"Shut-up!" he yelled holding the gun to her once more reminding her who was in charge.

Kira instantly shut her mouth now, remembering the gun and remembering her life was at stake. What was she going to do? He had a gun to her head and was prepared to shot if she didn't do what was told. She began to cry now, as all the thoughts of abuse and death crossed her mind.

Just as he was about to yell at her once more to shut up, the man felt himself being brutally thrown off of his victim, the gun being kicked out of his hand and now was being pounded into pavement.

Kira was in just as much shock as he was and everything happened in a blur. Her heart was still racing and she looked down to see her savior and for the millionth time that night she was surprised.

It was Trent.

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Sorry I just had to leave it there. I had to let your minds wander. Review and tell me what you think!