I gathered my things and walked
quickly out the door and locked it behind me.
I hurried to my car and also locked that door behind me the moment I
settled inside the vehicle. Reality was
crushing me and I wasn’t sure what to do.
I’d asked myself enough questions and pondered my situation for far too
long. If the answers were waiting for me
on the corner of Carlson and Fort it only made sense that I would go. If I had any more time I would have called my
brother and had him wait down the street, but I had just ten minutes to find my
destination. Kent seemed like a nice
guy. Perhaps his kindness seemed more so
in contrast to his fellow coworkers but I still felt like I wouldn’t be in
danger if I met him there. Besides, it
was a public street corner and if anything happened I could always whip out my
paper spray or scream bloody murder.
My
GPS revealed that I need only drive two blocks over and in the space of three
minutes I was there. I parked a little
further down from the corner but within eyesight. The corner was absent of Kent but I waited
there anyway. A few minutes passed and
five fifteen was upon me. And just like
my alarm waking me from a deep sleep I noticed all the people in suits that
were walking by. I became so self
conscious of how out in the open I was that I felt a sudden urge to run to my
car. My eyes darted from person to
person and my heart began to pound. This
is a bad idea, I thought.
“Oh
crap,” I whispered. “What have I done?”
In
the time it takes for someone to realize their mistake and then act on it, it
was in those few moments when my guard was down, that he came up from behind
me.
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