( TRIGGER WARNING: child abuse and sexual harassment)
General pov
'Who knew that The Spoon would be so pack during the weekend,' Buffy thought to her self seeing her isle filled with customers.
She put on her friendly waitress face as she went to take another tables orders. It's been about a week since Buffy had started working at the spoon, only making a small amount of money. It was barley enough to pay for the bus ride.
" Hi I'm Buffy your waitress, what would you like to order?" Buffy asked a man who seemed to be alone.
" you seem a little young to be working, how old are you?" The man said studying Buffy. He then brushed his hand across Buffy's faced, pushing her hair aside.
" that's better, now everyone can see your beautiful face" he smirked.
" if your not ready to order, I'll give a few minutes," Buffy said getting freaked out by the man. She took a moment to get her act together but she was too freaked out and uncomfortable about what the guy did. She couldn't control her breathing, she felt like she was drowning. She then remembered the promised she made to her brother and to Marty to repay for his sneaker.
" Miss, we're ready" Buffy heard a familiar voice say.
" not again" Buffy said seeing Marty with his parents. she was tired of playing Marty's games.
It was after the baseball game and Jonah and Cyrus were currently walking together. Jonah was again laughing at this new Cyrus. The stress free and reborn again Cyrus. The long walk consisted of Cyrus twirling around breathing in the air and saying how much of a new man he was while Jonah just watched. All of Cyrus's energy died down the second they were in front of Cyrus house.
" what wrong, this is your house right?" Jonah asked seeing how scared Cyrus looked.
" umm oh yeah it is, it's just what if they saw what happened at the game," Cyrus said nervously.
" oh" Jonah said remembering the kiss.
" they're going to be so angry at me" Cyrus said panicking.
" Don't put yourself down like."
" You think this is me putting myself down. You should see me when I'm really putting my self down. Actually you shouldn't, its dark," Cyrus said fidgeting with his sleeves.
" you will be fine and anyways the kiss was just for the crowd, they wanted us to do it. Just explain that to them," Jonah said and instantly regretted it. He didn't mean to sound like the kiss meant nothing to him, in fact it was the opposite, the kiss meant everything to him.
" Oh, I guess your right. It was just for the show," Cyrus said in a different tone, he felt hurt by what Jonah said, that kiss wasn't just for the crowd to Cyrus.
" I'll see you later Cy-guy" Jonah said leaving the awkward situation
" Hello mr. and mrs. Miller( just pretend that Marty's last name) how are you guys today" Buffy asked.
" oh we're doing great, were out celebrating another case won. And Marty just wanted to celebrate here again" Mrs. Miller said. Buffy had grown close to Marty's parent since they were almost here all the time that Buffy just so happened to be working.
" Congratulations, so I'm guessing you guys want the usual" Buffy said knowing what they always order.
" You know it" Mrs. Miller said. Buffy wrote down their order and took a deep breath before approaching the creepy mans table.
' Remember Buffy, you need the money so don't do something stupid' Buffy repeated to herself.
"It's about time, I missed you. What did you say your full name was, Buffy something?" He asked.
" Please sir, I'm just here to take your order. Are you ready to order now?" Buffy asked.
" Yes, I'll have a slice of the cherry pie" he smirked. Buffy shivered feeling the man move his hand along her leg. She quickly ran to the kitchen, trying not to fall apart in front of her customers.
' Remember Buffy, you need this job and the money' Buffy told herself trying to calm down.
After Jonah left Cyrus, he hadn't move. He still stood in front of his house. He took a deep breath before walking a step closer to his house. Each step Cyrus took, more memories flooded inside his head. Not just any memories, the bad ones.
15 feet away from front door.
' one month after the divorce. The day Cyrus's step dad first hit him. It during family dinner and Cyrus had his phone out texting his friends. Normally this wasn't a big deal with his dad but to his step dad he saw it as disrespectful. Instead of telling him to put his phone away, he threw his beer bottle at the wall near Cyrus getting his attention as glass fell everywhere. And then hit him and threw his phone across the wall."
10 feet away from front door.
' Month 3, the day his mom and stepdad went out of town for 3 days. His step brother Dean was in charge. Being the big talk of the school, he had thrown a party. Him and friends came up with the prank of locking Cyrus in a closet, as their way of making fun of his colourful personality. They had broke into his room when he was asleep and carried him and threw him in a closet calling him names such as faggot. Being claustrophobic and scared of the dark, Cyrus screamed for his life. This brought laughter to his stepbrother and his high school friends.
Three days later, the stepdad was the one to find Cyrus shivering in his closet surround my urine stains. Growing outraged by the mess in his closest, he pulled out a belt hanging above Cyrus and hit him repeatedly until Cyrus could barley keep his eyes open'
5 feet away from house
" Last week, Cyrus had came home late after supporting his friend at frisbee practice. Being outraged of his wife being attacked at work, Cyrus's stepdad took out all of his frustration on Cyrus. Surround him against the wall, and then chocking the life out of him to the point where his wife threaten to leave if he didn't stop."
0 feet away, arriving at destination.
Cyrus stood at his front door remembering all the memories of living with his new family. He took in a deep breath before slowly opening the door.
" And that wraps up today's world changing baseball game," Cyrus heard come from the tv. His heart froze, knowing that it must have been his step dad and step brother watching the game from the living room. Then the door slammed shut, causing Cyrus to panick even more.
" there he is" Cyrus's step brother Dean shouted seeing Cyrus. Cyrus ran as fast as he could to his room as his step dad threaten to kill him. He barley made it past his step dad and brother. Cyrus locked his door and ran into his closet closing the door. He cried as he planted his head to his knees, his heartbeat at this point was faster than the flash.
Cyrus screamed hearing the door to his room being kicked open. Dean dragged Cyrus by his leg. Cyrus tried holding onto the door but Deans grip was to strong. He then threw Cyrus in front of his dad.
" Dean, hold him down. This little faggot is dead meat," the Step dad said taking out his belt.
" Thank you" Mrs. Miller said as Buffy handed their table their meals. Marty was going to play his usual game with Buffy, but he noticed something off about her. Her sparkle in her eye was gone. Instead her eyes wear red, Marty would have guess she was crying.
Marty saw Buffy stop in her tracks as she made her way to another table. Marty was growing more worried.
Buffy was so nervous to give the creepy man the pie he order. She took another deep breath as she handed him his plate.
" Thank you dear, you are by far the best waitress here. If you ever want to make some extra cash. You can find me at this address," the man said taking out his wallet, which was filled with money. He took out two hundred dollar bills and a piece of paper in which he wrote his address and set on the table.
" ahh no t-thanks, you just enjoy you food sir" Buffy said growing more scared. Then the man intentionally dropped his glass of water all over Buffy.
" woops, here let me help you clean up" he said.
" no sir, I'm the worker I clean the messes." Buffy said bending over to pick up the cup.
" no I insist, let me help" he said bending over behind Buffy. Placing his hand around her waist.
" Would you look at that your shirt is all wet, how about I take it off" he whispered into Buffy's ear. This was the last straw for Buffy as she pushed the man off her and ran off into the employees room.
The Miller family had seen the whole thing, with Mrs Miller recording the last part of the illegal scene. Being outraged Mr and Mrs Miller stopped the man before he got a chance to leave, having enough evidence to sue him and put him in prison . While there son, went to help his friend. He ran after Buffy into the employees room,
" Buffy" Marty shouted in fear as he came just in time to catch Buffy as she fell to her knees in tears.
Jonah's pov
The second, Jonah's body hit the mattress he screamed out in frustration. It was a bad idea leaving his mom alone. He just wanted one day, just one day to go out like a normal kid and have fun. The second he came back home after the baseball game, his heart sunk hearing a loud crash sound coming from his house.
Jonah had screamed out his mothers name trying to find her. He found her on the kitchen floor crying in pain. She had been trying to clean the entire house, ceiling included . She had climbed on top of the fridge reaching up to clean the ceiling. She then slipped and fell onto the floor just as her son came in.
Being terrified Jonah had panicked and ran into the bathroom grabbing all the pill bottles he could find. He brought them all up to his mother, crying out for her to tell him where the pain was. Jonah's version began to blur as he tried reading the pill bottles. He didn't know what he gave his mom but it seemed to stop her pain and put her to rest.
Jonah wasn't strong enough to carry his mother to bed so he wrapped a blanket around his mother and placed a pillow under her head. He gave her a kiss goodnight before going to his room. He sighed as he finally got some rest on his bed.
Ring Ring Ring
" ahh" Jonah shouted hearing his doorbell. He just wanted a moment to process all of what happened this day. Jonah opened the door only to be traumatised.
" Cyrus" Jonah shouted in fear seeing Cyrus covered in blood and bruises. Jonah caught Cyrus just as he fell down being too weak to stand up.