Chapter 10

June 25th, 2015 8:00 p.m.

"...And Who ordered the Classic 56?" Maddie asked a group of five frat boys that were seated in one of the red booths. She was working at her summer afternoon job at Cafe 56, A resturant located on the outskirts of Burgess, named after the year of its establishment which was in 1956.

"That would be me!" A boy in the group wearing a baseball cap on his head backwards said to her.

"Here you are." Maddie said to the boy as she handed him a plate holding a large, mouthwatering burger with tasty fries on the side. She then turned to another boy with a shaved head hairstyle and was slightly overweight "And you ordered The Triple Sliders with onion rings on the side, right?"

"That's right!" The other boy said to Maddie as she handed him a plate holding three small slider burgers with onion rings.

"All right, I'll be back in twenty minutes with your bill."

"Wait Hot Stuff!" A boy with a rap industry beard who was the leader of the group said to Maddie, making her stop in her track "At the end of your shift, you should grab a drink and hang with us later."

"Uh... Thanks, but no thanks" Maddie politely answered him, feeling uncomfortable by the way the guy was hitting on her.

"Why not? You too good for us or something?" Another boy with chin length brown hair and stubble on his face said, laughing as if Maddie's response was a joke.

"No! No! I don't mean it like that! I just have to be home by a certain time." Maddie quickly responded with uneasiness "Besides, I don't drink."

"Okay, whatever you say Babe." The leader of the boys told her with a smirk.

Maddie felt relieved to be out of that uncomfortable situation. But as soon as she turned her back and was about to walk away, one of the boys grabbed her rear end, causing her to flinch and look back at the boys with alarm. The boys began to eat their food, acting like they didn't do anything. Maddie decided to walk away and pretend nothing happened, feeling too afraid to call out on the boys for grabbing her behind, not wanting to cause trouble or make things worse.

"Sarah! Come up here and show everyone what you got!" Wade Malcom called out into a microphone on the stage where the resturants live band stood. Sarah Palmer, a college age girl with sleek and smooth straight copper colored hair and one of Maddie's co-workers went up on stage and began to sing "Candyman" by Chirstina Aguilera with the live band playing the music.

Cafe 56 was populare in Burgess because not only do they have the best customer service and the most scrumptious burgers anyone has ever tasted, but also every half an hour, one of the waitresses would go up on stage and entertain the customers by singing a song with the band. Technically if you wanted to work as a waitress in Cafe 56, not only do you have to be good at serving tables, but you also have to have a passion for singing.

Maddie has gone up on stage and sung dozens of times before. Even though she had an amazing singing voice that sounded as loud and clear and lovely as Lea Michele's, she wasn't considered the best singer in the house. Instead, Sarah Palmer held the title for best singer in the house, having a voice that sounded better than Maddie's. Sarah could sing every high and low note loud, clear and beautiful without cracking her voice, which gives her a standing ovation everytime she went up on stage to perform a song. Hearing Sarah sing would make Maddie feel insecure about her own singing voice, believing she will never be as good as Sarah. She didn't feel any hatred towards Sarah, but she was envious of her co-worker.

"Maddie, I need you to come to my office." Wade told Maddie. Wade Malcom was Maddie's employer and the current owner of the resturant, having inherited it from his father, who founded the place back in the mid fifties. Wade was a middle aged heavy set man with thick brown hair, a walrus mustache and brown eyes. Just like his father, Wade was extremely professional at managing the place and was very compassionate towards his employees, always putting their well beings before his own.

As Maddie entered his office and sat in one of the two chairs in front of his desk, she began to feel worried, thinking that she might be in trouble or something. But as Wade sat down behind his desk, Maddie noticed that he look more concerned than dissaproved.

"Am I in trouble?" Maddie asked, still feeling worried.

"No, I called you here because I'm worried about your safety." Wade answered her, making Maddie feel agitated, knowing what he meant by that "The boys who you just served, I saw what they did to you, and I don't accept customers sexually harrassing my employees or vise virsa or even between co-workers or supervisers. So for your own safty, I'm gonna have you do janitorial duty for the rest of your shift - Kelly will give the boys their bill - and I'll give those boys a stern warning that-"

"No! No!" Maddie quickly said with panic, interupting Wade.

"Yes Maddie, I have to!" Wade told her in a serious tone.

"No Wade please don't! That will only make them mad!"

"Maddie their college boys and you're under eightteen! What they did to you is unacceptable and they need to be taught that it's never okay to treat girls like that, especially underage girls like yourself. I wouldn't be a good boss if I let get away with situations like this. If I don't confront them about this, I'm letting them think it's okay... and they'll do it to other girls. Now do you really want other girls to be put at risk just because you're afraid of having me confront those boys about their behavior?"

Maddie opened her mouth to respond, but the last thing that Wade told her made her stop. She was afraid of retailiation, yet she didn't want other girls to experience what she just experienced. She would feel blameworthy if she put other girls at risk by not letting Wade tell those boys that what they did was not okay.

Having no other choice, Maddie reluctantly agreed with Wade before she was given permission to go back to work. As she wiped off the tables and scraped the wads of chewing gum out from under them, she eavesdroped on the talk Wade had with the boys, who were acting innocent that later turned into becoming defensive.

"What are you talking about? We didn't do anything." one of the boys said trying to act as innocent as possible.

"I don't know what she told you, but whatever she told you, it's a lie." The leader of the group said.

"She did not tell me anything! I saw you boys harassing her!" Wade told them sternly "Now if I see you boys harass any of my employees like that again, I will have to ask you boys to leave! Do I make myself clear?"

The boys all agreed while rolling their eyes at Wade, feeling ticked off by the resturant's owner comfronting them about what they think is just them trying to have a little fun. As Wade walked away, the boys gave Maddie a dirty look that told her that in their heads, they were calling her a snitching whore.

Seeing the dirty look the boys were giving her, Maddie looked away from the boys and carried on with her job, trying to forget what had just happened and pretend the boys weren't there. She was relieved when she looked back ten minutes later and they were gone. But then she started to worry that she might have to clean one of the restrooms, believing that they might be in there hiding in the stalls, waiting for her in order to attack her.

The hour went by slowly with Maddie feeling edgy, fearing she would have to clean one of the restrooms, where she might get attack with the locked door keeping her in as she was assualted. She was relieved when her shift finally ended and she punched out and said goodbye to Wade. She was becoming more relaxed as she walked out into the parking lot towards her SUV, believing that the last hour of her shift went by smoothly after all.

But unfortunatly, her feelings of reassurance was cut short. Before Maddie could even press the unlock button on her car keys, she gasped in alarm and accidently dropped them when she saw the reflection of the frat boys in the window of her car. Maddie quickly spun around to face them, feeling scared as the boys backed her up against her car, looking at her in a menacing way. She quickly bent down to pick up her car keys so she can press the panic button in order to catch the attention of anyone nearby, maybe even Wade. But one of the boys swiftly kicked the keys under the car and out of her reach, chuckling in a taunting way at the girl's terrorfied reaction to it.

"So you like to talk don't you?" The leader said to her while smiling in a threatening way "You like to be such a tease, whores like you always do."

Feeling absoultely terrorfied, Maddie could guess what was probably going to happen. She thought of herself as stupid for not thinking of the possibility of getting assaulted on the way to her car. Seeing an opening, she quickly ran towards it in order to escape but the boys quickly blocked it off, surrounding her and giving her no way of escaping.

"Whoa, whoa, where are do you think you're running to slut? The fun's just beginning!" said the boy with the baseball cap on his head as he reached out and began to tug at the buttons on her red waitress uniform.

"Don't touch me!" Maddie said to the boy as she shoved his hands away. The boy made another attemp to unbutton her uniform and this time Maddie smacked the boy across the face, telling the boy once again not to touch her.

Wanting to show the boys how it's done, the leader of the frat boys grabbed Maddie by the wrist and pinned her on top of the hood of her car. Maddie screamed in terror as the boy rubbed his clothed core up against her, struggling to get out of the boy's grasp but to no avail because of the boy being heavier than her. Her fear was starting to become mixed with the feeling of humiliation. She didn't want to lose her virginity to these bastards who were disrespecting her wishes and invading her personal space.

Just when the boy was about to lean down and give Maddie an unwanted kiss on the mouth, out of the blue the boy was hit in the face by a snowball, causing him to immediately stumble backwards a few feet away from Maddie. The boy brushed the snow off his face, wondering what just happened. It took him a moments to finally realize that what hit him in the face was a snowball, which both shocked and confused him and his buddies.

"What the fuck!?" The leader said in shock.

"Where the hell did a snowball come from?... and in the middle of summer?" The overweight shaved head boy said also feeling shocked.

Maddie turned around and saw Jack standing a few feet behind her, giving the boys a displeased look. The boys obviously couldn't see Jack since they don't believe in him, making them wonder who threw the snowball. As the boys stood around confused and chilled to the bones, Jack flew past Maddie, standing a few feet in front of the airheads. He then pointed his staff at the ground near their feet and blasted ice there, making the boys stumble back away from it, becoming even more confused and scared.

"Jesus Christ!" the boy with chin length brown hair exclaimed when he and the others saw the ice on the ground. Jack blasted ice near their feet again and then two more times before the boys became so scared and confused that they decided to get the hell out of there.

"What the fuck is going on?!" the leader exclaimed.

"I don't know man! But I'm getting the hell out of here!" The boy with the baseball cap said as he began to run away with the others immediatly following pursuit. As soon as the boys were far away, Jack turned towards Maddie who was trembling from the assault.

"Are you ok Maddie?" Jack asked her feeling concerned about her.

"Yea, thanks Jack." Maddie said as she began to feel more at ease "I'm glad you showed up before those boys did... whatever they were going to do."

"Well personally, I have no patience for guys who treat girls like that." Jack told her.

"Well thanks again for saving me." Maddie thanked him again giving him an appriciative smile "It seem to me I have Jack Frost as a stalker!"

"I was just in the neighborhood when I spotted you." Jack told her smiling back. He then kneeled down next to Maddie's car and used his staff to get her car keys out from underneath. He then picked them up and handed them to her.

"Thanks." Maddie said as she took the keys. She then began to remembered something... something she wanted to ask Jack the next time she saw him "Would it be alright if you accompanied me back to the Bennett's? There's something I want to talk to you about."

"Sure." Jack accepted with a smile. Maddie unlocked the car and with Jack sitting in shotgun, they drove away from the resturant.

I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. I apologize for not warnig anyone who has been a victim of sexual assault, I'm terribly sorry for causing frightening flashbacks or such. I got the idea of writing this chapter from the Twilight saga.

Sexual assualt is not about sex, it's about power and control. The boys didn't try to assault Maddie because she was attractive, they wanted to have a bit of fun by making her feel vunerable and humiliated.

The next chapter will be about Jack telling Maddie his background story. Please review, next chapter coming soon.