A young girl of only 18 years finds herself preyed on by a man twice her age.
The girl rides the bus home alone one Friday afternoon. She's making the long transit commute from her university to her hometown because she has work the next day at her job she still has there and she has no car with her.
Except for the girl, the bus is relatively empty — until he gets on at the next stop. He stops and after noticing her, takes the seat right next to her.
She has her earbuds in, blasting music into her eardrums, but he doesn't notice. He doesn't care. He begins speaking to her, a waterfall of words pouring relentlessly out of his mouth.
She can't hear what he's saying. She hopes he'll quit if he gets no response, but he doesn't give up so easily. He keeps spewing words out of his mouth like vomit. After a moment of hesitation, she rips her earbuds from their resting place in her lobes.
She hears him say, "The first thing I noticed when I got on was how beautiful you are." He felt the need to tell her this.
"Um, okay," she mumbles uncomfortably. She shuffles her hands in her lap, not knowing how to respond.
"I just don't think you understand how beautiful and sexy you are," he says.
He tells her he's 36 and begins to interrogate her with questions. She unwillingly gives up the name of the high school she used to attend. He tells her he graduated from the same school in 2001, when she was only a baby.
He's wearing a McDonald's uniform. She's uncomfortable with the conversation, and he smells bad. She's eager to return to the peace of the music on her phone in order to feel at ease. After all, she didn't want to talk to anyone to begin with.
More people enter the bus on the following stops, including a group of girls sporting their high school gear, and he shifts his attention to them.