Part Two

After one week of a boring summer vacation, Randylynn decided to do something useful and buy her parents' anniversary gifts.

The special day would be coming up in 4 days and Randylynn needed to buy something worth it.

The best stores around that sold one-of-a-kind trinkets were all downtown on Main Street.

Randylynn left to go shop at around 2:00pm, the time when most guests in her inn had checked out, and today she felt like leaving the cleaning to her mom and dad.

She'd taken a bus to the center of the town and got off at a little store called 'Rona 'n Fred's.'

Inside the store was lines of clothing and tables with sparkling glass animals.

The cash register was at the front and sitting next to it was a teenager boy reading a sports magazine.

Randylynn didn't find anything interesting or anything that her parents would be proud of, so she went to at least 8 other different stores until she found something.

Randylynn saw something perfect held up in the store's window that was wonderful. It had been two matching 'mother' and 'father' golden towels and bathtub soaps and shampoos.

She ran up the steps of the store and near the window saw a box holding the set together.

On the side of the box was the price tag and hand written, it said '$49.99.'

"No way." Randylynn exclaimed quietly to herself.

Inside her head was a good and sly, yet horribly awful idea.

Randylynn was gripping a $20.00 bill in her palm, and the idea of stealing the set floated in her head and made her gut cramp up.

The store was filled with many people, though most of them were in the back looking at the fudge, one boy was over to the left of her staring down at a rug.

Hey, her parents meant the world to her and besides, there were no other good gifts in the cheap shops.

She was safe to just take it and leave, and without hesitation-then she did.

The teenage boy in the corner stood up and watched her, and then followed her.

He meet her up a hill and reached out for her shoulder.

Randylynn gasped and turned around, only to see a handsome, chestnut hair, green eyed boy with an astonished look on his face.

"Who do you think you are just stealing from a store like that?" He yelled at her.

"Don't touch me, and don't act like your one of my parents!" Randylynn knew she had to make up some sort of lie quickly. "M-my family owns the store I'm just trying to take this box to a relative down by the bus stop, before she leaves back to Texas."

The boy looked even more stunned and took a deep breath, "I'm sorry, I thought, you know, you stole it." He tried to laugh it off.

Randylynn's heart sank as she dully laughed too. "What's your name?" She asked trying to sound calm and politely.

"Noah, yours?" He questioned back to her.

"Randylynn, I have to go." Noah brought his hand off her shoulder and she ran off in a cloud of tourists.

He stood there in awe of what just happened.