The day started off terribly. My classes were long, and I had to leave immediately to head to work for my 8-hour shift. The customers today had sucked too. There was this lady who kept changing her order over and over and just kept insisting that it was her original order, and another man who really wanted this meal we didn't have anymore, but kept saying that he knew we had it in the back. We didn't. My whole body aches, and I want to eat dinner, so when I drove past this restaurant, I had to get some food. I ordered and sat down. After about 20 minutes, this older man sat with me. "Long day? You look tired" he said. "Yeah, work and classes sucked, am sure you know what I mean." I replied. He let out a small chuckle. "More than you know. I've had maybe the longest day." I raised an eyebrow. "How so?" Now you maybe asking why I wasn't weirded out by this old guy sitting next to me. To tell you the truth, I don't know. He seemed comfortable to talk too. After I had asked him about his day, he went into this long story I didn't really pay attention to, I kept spacing off, and after the beginning, it sounded like Gibberish to me anyway. I was really only thinking about how long it was taking for my food to get here, though after a bit it arrived, and the man said, "Though by the looks of it, I suppose I talked too much, you look quite unfocused. Well, that's for the better, not like I had a lot of time left anyway." He stood up and began to walk away. That's when I noticed he left a watch on the table. I grabbed it and felt something on it turn. "Sir, I think you left your wa-" There was this flash and boom, everything around me changed. I was in a completely different city and place! The buildings looked different, and the cars driving past looked old. I also lost all that hunger and fatigue from earlier. I looked down at the watch. It said England, United Kingdom, London, September 24th, 1888. I couldn't believe it at first. Did I really just time-travel? I moved the watch in my hand again, and the outside of it turned. I saw as the place and time began to change. It now said United States, New Jersey, Weehawken, July 11th, 1804. I pressed a tiny button on the side, and everything around me changed again. This time I was behind a tree. I looked around, and on the other side, I saw two old men turn around with guns. One shot above the other, but that's when the other one shot him in the abdomen, and he fell. I looped back around the tree. It was true, I was really time-traveling! I thought that maybe the old man would want this back soon. Then I realized soon was whenever I wanted it to be! I messed around with the watch a lot. I didn't ever feel hungry or tired. I loved it. I went to so many places! Ancient Rome, Egypt, and Greece. I met Kings, Presidents, and so many historical figures! I went to the discovery of fire, the invention of the wheel, looked at moments in time that insipired stories and myths! It was so fun. I couldn’t get tired or ever feel hungry! The benefits didn't even end there. One time I had travelled to the Old West but landed in the middle of a gun fight. I ended up taking a stray bullet to the chest. I thought it was over for me, I felt my blood trickling down as the man who shot me looked confused from my sudden appearance and got shot himself. The other shooter booked it after that. The first man fell in front of me, and I watched the light leave his eyes. I thought the same would happen to me, but then I felt fine. I put my hand on the wound, and it was gone. I couldn't be killed. "How did that old man leave this watch behind!" I thought to myself. I could do anything! I stood up, and went back to the middle of wars, the Salem witch trials, and so many other places. I had gone to the future, but I couldn't seem to remember anything that happened in the future the moment I went back to the past. So I couldn't tell you what happened. However, one moment, something weird happened. I had gone to the Boston Tea Party and looked at my reflection in the water. I had grown a beard. Not the small peach fuzz I had before I found the watch. I had grown quite a bit of facial hair. I was scared and confused. "There's no way it's been that long!" I thought to myself. The only conclusion I managed to come to was that the watch was messing with my mind and perception of time. So I suppose I lied in a sense when I implied this was all a story of my singular day, but in another sense, there's no such thing as time for me, so I didn't really lie. Nonetheless I knew I had to try and return to my own time, but for the life of me I couldn't remember what time that was. I tried and tried to remember, but nothing, I could only remember vauge details. I decided to just go through random dates until I saw something familar and rememered something. I just kept traveling through time until I can find something, but came up empty, I had hit a hard space mentalily and was drinking in a bar, back at the old west, near the area I was shot, when a lady walked up to me. "Well you look quite down mister, something wrong?" I looked up and saw the most beautiful woman I ever met. I stuttered through my words. "Well I uh, am just a little lost." I said to her. "Well that's a shame, maybe I could help you, my name is Annie." She stuck her hand out for a handshake. I took the handshake of course and introduced myself. I felt a little bad, since she obvisouly wouldn't be able to help me, but I was just happy to have a friend. We talked and talked it felt like our conversation's went on forever, maybe because of the watch, or maybe because I fell in love, I gave up on returning to my own time. Years had passed and me and her got married. She wasn't able to have children, but that was okay with me, all I needed was her. One day she got sick, she was on her death bed, when I got the idea to put the watch on her, maybe it'd keep her alive, but before I could she told me her final words. "Don't be sad or try and stop this my love, I don't need more time, my life was amazing, and regardless of how much time we had or lost, I am just glad we got to be together, and I don't need to ask for more. I belonged with you." Then she died. I was lost. I thought about waiting to pass and be buried with her, but I decided I didn't belong in this time. I didn't deserve to be buried with her and remembered. I was a man who stole too much time, I deserved to die in a random time, and I was old, I didn't have much time left myself. The one thing the watch didn't stop was age. Ironic if I'm being honest. I put in a random time and ended up here, I took off the watch and held it by the strap as to not activate it again. I saw you walk into this food place looking upset and tired, so I followed, hoping to cheer you up. "Though by the looks of it, I suppose I talked too much, you look quite unfocused." I stand up and begin to walk away, the young man I just spoke too suddenly stood up and said, "Sir, I think you left your wa-" and then he disappears.
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