Telling a Story: Blog Assignment

John walks into a coffee shop after he partied all night with his friends in Las Vegas. While waiting for his coffee, a young female walks in. Soon after, her boyfriend shows up and begins to ask her why she left the hotel without telling him where she was going. Frightened, she tells him she only left the hotel for a coffee and that she would be right back. She said, “I didn’t think there was going to be a problem.” “Oh, yea, then you won’t have a problem with this,” said her boyfriend. He begins to punch her. For a second, John was just standing there.

John was drunk; he thought the fight was a product of his imagination. Meanwhile, the casher was scrambling trying to call the cops as the young girl yelled for help and screamed in pain. John’s friends walk in and stop the guy from beating the girl. John and his friends leave the coffee shop with the girl forgetting about the coffee. The “woman beater” stayed on the ground after he got sucker punched.

While driving away, they ask the girl if she is ok, if she needs to go to the hospital. Her face was bleeding, but everyone else was worried about internal injuries. Headed towards the hospital, she asks where are they taking her. The driver responds by saying, “I am taking you to the hospital.” No! I have to go home. If I am not there before my boyfriend, he will start beating me again. No matter what John’s friends would say about her health and safety, she retaliates. “I have to go home, why don’t you listen,” said the girl.

Once at the hospital, she gets out of the car and begins to run away as she limped in pain. She doesn’t go far. As the guys go after her, she collapses before even getting to her. Once inside the ER, the doctors found three broken ribs and a severely damaged kidney. Fortunately, the girl came out of the OR with no complications. Days later, John comes to visit her at the hospital and a friendly relationship begins. Months later, John marries Katie, the young girl who was beaten by her ex-boyfriend. Now, John only talks about how blind he was. How blind he was at multiple levels.