Tina strolled into a twenty-four hour diner on the side of a road in Minnesota. She'd been traveling for days trying see as much as she could with her new eyes. Tina used to be blind until a woman named Jenny Smith, right in Minnesota, was murdered. She got Jenny's eyes and was trying to see as much as she could with them. So far, she had been to a couple of states and had seen many things. She loved having a second chance to see.
The diner was right next to the hotel she was staying at, so she wanted to get a drink a quick cup of coffee. As she came in the diner, she noticed a sign that told her to seat herself and that someone would come to her table to help her. The diner was pretty empty except for a family sitting in a corner and a man at the back of the restaurant, almost in the shadows. Right away, Tina felt like she recognized him. She shrugged it off and took a seat at a table. With in thirty seconds a waitress came by and asked what she would like to order.
"I'll just get the coffee."
"Do you want cream or sugar?"
Tina responded, "Sugar, please."
The waitress walked away and Tina looked around at her surroundings. For the second time, she looked over at the man in the back. She found she couldn't stop looking at him. She knew she had seen him somewhere. She looked down at the table when she noticed that she they had been staring at each other.
Tina was still gazing down at the table when the waitress came back with her coffee. The waitress set the coffee down on the table in front of Tina and they both said their thanks. Then she paid the waitress the money for the coffee. Tina opened the sugar, poured it in her drink, and put the coffee to her mouth, sipping a little bit at a time.
She wondered where she had seen this man before. He looked like he hadn't slept for days. He had bags under his eyes too. Tina went back to sipping her coffee and started to feel uncomfortable. She squirmed in her seat and saw that the man had just glance at her.
She tried to finish her coffee promptly, but then the man got up and came over to her. As he approached her, she saw a menacing look on his face she had not seen before. He demanded her, "Tell me why you keep staring me."
She murmured, "You just look familiar. I'm sorry."
He went back to his seat and continued to watch her. Tina got up and went out of the diner and began to walk to her hotel room. She pulled her key out of her pocket. Her hands were suddenly jerked backed and handcuffed. She reeled around to see who had done it. It had been the man from the back table.
He took her key from her pinned hands and covered her mouth with his other hand. In the hand holding the key, was a bottle of liquor. He must've been drinking it while in the shadows. He inserted the key into her hotel room door and shoved her inside. Once he closed the door, he placed her on the bed and told her to stay put.
She sulked, "What do you want with me?"
He pulled up a chair at the foot of the bed. "I'm not leaving until you tell me why you were really looking at me."
"I'm sorry. I was just being curious."
"I don't think you're telling the truth. Whom do you work for?"
Tina pleaded, "What are you talking about? Please let me go."
All he said was no. He sat there drinking a swig of liquor every once in a while. His eyelids launched into a series of flicking, which almost caused him to fall asleep. Tina desperately hoped he would.
She sat there for what felt like an eternity, staring at the wall in hopelessness. Am I ever going to get out of here? Why did he do this? Finally, the man snoozed off. Just as she started to get up, he straightened his head in alarm and woke back up. Tina just kept being tolerant and hoped he would go to sleep. She closed her eyes and did a quick prayer to God. When she opened her eyes, the man was asleep again.
This time he looked like he was out for good. She took her chance and got up from the bed. Slowly, she crept towards the door and opened with her hands behind her back. She got the key from off the floor and exited her room. She made sure that the door was closed completely shut before she started to run.
She ran as fast as she could, kicking rocks along the way, until she found the hotel lobby building. She ran in and stopped at the counter. The man behind the counter stared at her and wondered why she was handcuffed and panting.
He asked, "Are you okay, Ma'am.
"No, call the police. Quick. A man just handcuffed me and kept me in my hotel room."
He called the police, and they rushed over fast. A police officer asked what happened and she explained everything to him. She gave him the key to the room. They sent three officers in the room to retrieve the man. She stood outside in the cold looking up at the stars. She watched them bring the man out, handcuff his hands behind his back, and place him in a police car. She thought, "He deserves it."
The officer she had been talking to, and suddenly started to talk to her again. "You've done us a lot of help. We've been looking for this man for two months. He's wanted for a murder that happened right here in Minnesota not too long ago. He killed a woman," he said sadly, "named Jenny Smith." Tina gasped in shock. "What's wrong?"
"Oh, nothing," she whispered.
Tina was astonished. She knew that the man had looked familiar. Her eyes had witnessed the murder of Jenny Smith and just couldn't stop watching him.
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