I Am Not Broken, I Am Chipped

Ryan

You were someone I never expected to cross paths with me in the way you did. You were a football player with a huge flirty personality. I was just a weird emo kid who worked with you. As sad as it sounds, I always had a slight crush on you specifically because it felt nice to be flirted with by someone of a popular status. It felt nice to feel wanted.

It was Junior year and we were working together at McDonalds. We always slightly flirted with each other while at work or when we saw each other in the halls but it wasn't anything serious. While I was in a relationship I didn't flirt back and made it known I was in a relationship. That didn't stop you, you still flirted.

You normally worked the grill and I worked the table. In simple terms, he cooked the meat, and I assembled everything. So our stations were right next to each other and relied on each other. You were a lot of fun to work with though. You would blast music on a speaker and dance around and make jokes. You made that hell fun. Until one day you became my hell.

I had to go in the deep freezer to get something for the line and didn't think much of it when you had followed behind. That is where we store all the meat before its cooked so it made sense. What I hated most about the freezer is the air, it was so cold it would hurt to breathe in after a while so I always tried to make these trips fast.

What I didn't expect was you to turn the lights out in the freezer. The lightswitch is on the inside of the freezer and it's a loud noise when the door shuts so I knew you were still in the freezer with me.

"haha, very funny" I aimlessly joked in the dark cold room.

I started walking towards the freezer door through the dark room. I eventually felt hands on me. Not in a violent way but in a lustful way. The hands started pulling my shirt from being tucked into my work pants. Lingering under my shirt up towards my breasts. He began grabbing me, trying to force other activities to happen. I pushed back to get you off me. I was pressed against the freezer door, I began banging on it trying to get any attention to help I could. The one thing about this freezer is it's very hard to hear through the doors over the fans in the freezer and the fans in the fridge. No one would be able to hear me unless they were in the walk-in as well.

You began to try and kiss me and continue his hands elsewhere. Eventually after what felt like forever which was probably only a 5-10 minutes someone started to pull the handle to walk in the freezer which startled him back off me. You quickly turned the lights on like nothing happened before they walked in.

I told my coworker friend what you did to me. From then on I never walked into the fridge or freezer alone after that day, he came with me to make sure nothing happened ever again. I told the store manager what happened and they said they would investigate it. Nothing ever happened, they never even talked to me.

You continued to flirt with me after that day. I was too uncomfortable and didn't know how to handle the situation to say anything, I just let it happen. A weird part of me liked that you at least gave me the attention and time of day, but the other side was disgusted as to what happened.

I ended up hearing that my ex told people I cheated on him with you. Which I got over because he just made up an excuse so he wasn't to be blamed. What I didn't expect was you to run with the rumor about it. I didn't find that out for over a year.