Waiting Patiently

Chapter 6

Chapter 6

Five years ago

I had just turned twenty-one. I went to a club to celebrate my birthday. Also, in just a few months I would be celebrating my graduation from college with a degree in business. Life was good.

I was with a group of friends from my dorm building. They were all twenty-one and life was going good for them too. Todd and Jenny came into my life about a year after this event happened to me.

I walked into the club with Tyra, Maddy, and Sarah. We were all pretty excited. We set our minds to be sexy, flirtatious, and to drink whatever we wanted. I scanned the crowed, immediately thinking that this wasn't my ideal place to be. It wasn't for me. But, for my friends, I would try my best to have a good time.

My friends and I had gotten some drinks and we were all together. Sarah spotted a tall guy with blonde hair and immediately started making herself look sexy without deliberately throwing herself at him. He came over to us, introduced himself to her, and then swept her off her feet to dance.

Maddy, being a shy one stuck around with me while Tyra went to find someone to dance with. Maddy and I watched Sarah and Tyra in the crowd and envied how much fun they were having. Then there were two guys, they both were very attractive. Their "names" were Ben and John. At least, that's what they told us. I doubt it was the truth.

We started dancing with them, and they started supplying our drinks. They were starting to touch us all over. I had John. He leaned down and whispered all the kinds of things he would do to me in bed. The things he said were nasty and vulgar. I believed in love making, not dirty nasty sex. He then told me that if I didn't agree to do those things, he'd make me regret it.

Scared to death, I looked over at Maddy. She was looking at me too, in fright. I knew Ben had told her the same thing. Trying to get us out of this situation, Maddy and me excused ourselves to go to the bathroom for a moment. In there, we would figure out a plan to get away from them.

We walked hand in hand to the bathroom. As we turned a corner I felt my hair being yanked. My head was smashed into a wall. "Maddy! Where are you?" I yelled. All I could hear screaming and squirming. The next thing I knew, I was being thrown into a backseat, and I knew Maddy was not with me. "Let me go!" I shouted. I realized my hands were tied up and so were my legs.

"No can do madam. You didn't follow my rules. You planned to escape me," John said. "And now you have to suffer the consequences."

"Where's Maddy?!" I yelled.

"Maddy's with Ben. He will be done with her by tonight too."

"What are you guys going to do to us?" I asked. I was crying and screaming. I was scared to death. I may die. Maddy may die. I can't imagine her sweet little innocent body being bruised and beaten by a stranger when she never deserved such a thing.

"You'll see," John said. "Now shut up!"

John stopped the car and came to get me out of the backseat. I squirmed, screamed, cussed, and cried. He wasn't cutting any slack. He slapped my face and punched me in the neck. We were at a big house. He carried me up to a room, and he made sure to bump my head on everything we passed. My head was throbbing. I could feel that I was bleeding. He threw me onto a hard floor and untied my legs. He started unbuttoning my pants. I tried to kick him. "Please don't do this to me! I'll do anything!" I cried. "Please!"

"Would you just shut up you nasty bitch?!" John growled at me. He started hitting every part of my body until I couldn't move anymore. He finished taking off my pants and stared unbuttoning his. He was in me. With every bit of strength I had, I tried to get out from his grip, but that just lead to more beating. He took it away. He took away my innocence. Something I had been saving for someone special someday for the last twenty years and he took it. I couldn't even fight him for it.

His arm was underneath my neck, holding my head down. I couldn't breathe. I knew I was going to pass out. I knew he was going to kill me before this was over. I don't remember anything else after that.

I remember waking up. My body was aching. My head was pounding. Dry blood was on my body. I turned my head, and it hurt. My neck was broken for sure. John was lying about ten feet away from me. He had passed out.

I had to get out of there. I couldn't wake John or he would kill me, for sure. The tie around my wrists had come loose enough for me to slip my hands through them. I slowly grabbed my pants that were laying beside me. I eased up slowly and tip toed out the door. And then I ran with every strength I had in my being.

I had escaped and I was alive. I needed to find Maddy. I didn't know where to start. I went to the police. I went to the club and asked the owner if he knew the guys who called themselves Ben and John. No luck. I called Tyra and Sarah so we could all search for her. They panicked as soon as I told them. They cried they hugged me, they apologized.

We looked up and down everywhere for Maddy or any sign of Ben and John. John never even returned to the house that he took me to.

One day, we were watching the news and it said: "MISSING GIRL, MADDELINE SMITH SEEN DEAD ON THE STREET."

Maddy had not made it. My world fell apart. Nothing felt right after that. Not graduating. Nothing. It felt wrong to go through life knowing that I had escaped and she hadn't. I had survived and she hadn't. She didn't deserve this.

Ever since then, I look at men a different way. Except Vince. For some reason, he felt safe. He would change. He couldn't want this. He wouldn't want this after he found out.

Three weeks went by since the morning he made breakfast for me. I ignored his calls, stayed clear of the restaurant at night, ignored his knocks on my door, and refused to see him if Ryan told me he was there to see me at the restaurant.

It was agonizing. I longed for him each and every moment of everyday. I wanted him to hold me, to listen to me, to make love to me, to kiss me, and to tell me that everything would be alright. But after the second week of dodging him, he stopped trying. The calls stopped, the visits stopped, it all stopped. Before it all stopped he sent me a text that said, "When you're ready I'll listen, love. Be safe. -- Vince."

I wanted to call him. To spill to him. I started to feel like I needed him, but I knew better. After he found out, he'd think I'm crazy and selfish for not found something more to help Maddy. Even the best man in the world couldn't want all this. I was screwed up and I knew it.

One night, I was tossing and turning. The night that I lost my innocence and Maddy haunted my dreams. Every time I closed my eyes I thought about that and how I had pushed Vince away. First, with throwing him out of my kitchen and then by dodging him in every way I could.

"He probably has someone new," I thought to myself. The thought of him being with another woman killed me. I couldn't take it anymore. I needed him more than anything at this moment.

It was now 2:30 in the morning. Instead of pushing this off like any normal person would, I picked up my phone and I dialed his number.

A/N

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