Madison ran until she was out of breath. She didn't know where to go, Xander and Vida were at the movies and Chip was with Claire and Udonna at Rootcore. She only had one person she could think of to talk to….Ben. So she ran towards his house hoping that he was home.
She willed herself not to cry as she gently knocked on the door. Once the door opened she looked up to see a middle aged woman standing there staring at her.
"Oh, um hi I'm Madison I was just wondering if Ben was home." She explained quickly
"Oh I'm sorry honey, he just went for a walk. He should be back in a little while if you would like to wait for him."
"No that's alright, thank you though." Madison replied as she turned on her heels and headed down the driveway again and decided that she should at least ask Nick about everything that was going on and headed back towards his house.
Meanwhile
"Hey man what the hell do you think you're doing!" Ben exclaimed as he ran up Nick's driveway toward the young man in red.
"What are you talking about?" Nick asked confused as Ben's yelling pulled him out of his thoughts.
"You know what I'm talking about. You kissing that girl in front of Maddie and then just letting her run off!"
"Wait Maddie was here! She saw the kiss? Where did she go?"
"I don't know but you better stay away for now otherwise I'll make sure you do."
"Is that a threat? I mean seriously. You have no right telling me what to do especially when it comes to Madison."
Once those words came out of Nick's mouth Ben's fist went flying at Nick's face. Nick stumbled back and then lunged at Ben having them both fall to the ground rolling around fists flying. After a few minutes of punches Madison had finally reached the house again and noticed what was happening.
"You guys! What's going on? Stop it!" She yelled watching them roll on the ground
"Seriously you guys stop fighting! Nick stop! Nick you're hurting him. GET OFF HIM!" she finally screamed as she saw Ben losing the fight and ran to pull Nick off of him.
"Maddie, What you saw when Leelee was here wasn't what happened. I swear she kissed me I didn't have anything to do with it I was trying to get her to leave!" he explained winded from the fight blood running from his lips and nose.
"I don't want to hear it right now Nick. First Leelee and now you're beating up Ben!" she exclaimed as she struggled to help Ben off of the ground letting him lean against her.
"Hey, listen I didn't start this fight! Ben was the one that attacked me"
"Just stop. I can't listen to you right now. I'm going to take Ben home. You should just calm down."
"Maddie, please you have to believe me I didn't have anything to do with this. Maddie seriously." Nick pleaded as he watched Madison help Ben down the driveway, only to have her ignore him. Slowly he turned around and headed inside to take a shower and clean up. As he stepped into the shower he felt the hot water sooth his sore muscles and he watched the bloody water fall through the drain. The one thing running through his mind was Madison and all he could do was hope that maybe tomorrow she would be willing to listen to him.