A/N: Thanks goes to Tiffany & Sherry.
What's going to happen with our girl? Let's find out…
Chapter 10
Okay, so I knew that I shouldn't be doing this and that Jasper would kill me if he found out, but he wasn't going to find out because I wasn't gonna get caught, right? I was just gonna go into the store and help myself to a little, five finger discount, then leave. No biggie.
Yeah, if only things had gone as planned.
The store wasn't busy and normally, in times like this I would walk, it was too much of a risk, but today I was desperate. I just wanted to escape life for a blissful few hours. So, I took a risk that I knew I should never have taken.
While the store clerk was reaching under the counter for something I lifted a watch and slid it into my bag. It would be more than enough to get me a hit. I smiled at the clerk, while looking him right in the eyes as I walked out the door. I only got about five paces from the store before someone caught my arm and pulled me back.
"Miss, I think you forgot something."
I turned around to see a very angry store clerk looking at me. He tried to pull my bag off me, but I gripped it tight, knowing that if he saw what was inside, I was screwed. "Hey! What the hell do you think you're doing? Get your hands off me!" I shouted, pulling the bag back.
"Miss, let me see inside your bag."
"No!"
"What's going on here?"
I turned around to see Edward standing by my side. Great, just great.
The clerk took one look at him and quickly let me go. "She stole something," he protested.
"I did not. He's lying," I said, glaring at the man. "If this is how you treat all your customers I'm surprised you have any left."
"Customers?" he scoffed. "You didn't buy anything."
"Well, no wonder!"
"Did you steal?" Edward asked, snatching my bag from me. He looked inside it before I had the chance to answer him. I cringed as he pulled out the watch.
"I have no idea how that got in there."
He didn't look like he was listening to me. "I'm sorry Ranny," Edward sighed, going into his pocket and pulling out some money. "Here, take this, it should be more than enough to cover the cost of the watch and your troubles."
"I dunno Edward," Ranny said. "I can't just let every shoplifter go. I mean, what message would that send to the rest of them?"
"Look," Edward said. "She's a friend of a friend, please just take the money and let her go. I'll make sure she never comes near your store again."
Ranny reluctantly took the money and the watch. Edward grabbed my arm and started marching me towards the street. "Hey, what the hell are you doing? Where are you taking me?" I asked, worried that he was taking me to Jasper.