I stare at the empty seat across from me, stunned for yet a third time in mere minutes. She’s gone. The first real thing in my life, and I don’t even know if she was real at all. When? I thought. When did I become so reliant on others to blindly follow my will, that I myself had gone blind with complacency. Letting life slowly pass me by. Content in drinking away my sorrows. No. No more. I jumped out of my seat.

“Bartender!!” I squealed

“That woman, where did she go?”

“She just left.” He replied in a calm robotic demeanor. Good, I thought, she was real after all.

“Which way did she-“ I catch myself. This was the problem wasn’t it. Right here. I had stopped living life and had started letting others live it for me. They were my eyes and ears. My willing full puppets to string along in anyway I saw fit. No never-mind that, This is no time to question the past! The woman, where did she go? I turned my attention back to the bartender.

“Bartender, which way did she head out?” I hastily said again, this time firm in my resolve. He pointed out the side door, and I ran out after her.

The rain has picked up and from under the bars awning, I can see only a few feet in front of me. Damn it. Which way should I go?

Suddenly, I see a figure heading down the side-road, running perpendicular to the window we just sat at. I run after them.

“Hey wait! Waiitttt!” I yelled, as I run across traffic towards the side-road.

“You there, Stoppp.” I yelled again, to no avail, they kept going. It must be her, anyone else would listen, right?

I ran fast. As fast as my legs could carry me, but when I catch up, I stand alone at a dead end. Not a trace of the person I had just seen. Damn it, where could she have gone? I slither back to the hotel in defeat. Upon arrival, I head to my room and lay down on the bed.

I lie awake, my mind uneasy from the day's events. That woman who was she? I was missing something, had I been there before? she said it was her favorite spot, but I’d never seen her there before. Have I? Ughhh, what was it?

The next day, I head back to the bar.

“Bartender, let me see your security tapes. All of them” I say pointing to the camera behind the bar. He obliges and brings me to a room behind the counter, I sit down and start scrolling through the tapes.

"Leave me." I say to the bartender, who promptly leaves, shutting the door behind him. I start with the moment I met the woman and scroll backwards determined to find her.

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