Short Story #52: High Tops

At that minute, I really wanted the pair of purple high tops. They looked really comfortable for wear and it was in my favourite colour. Did I mention that it was on sale and that it was the very last pair left?

So as a result of those pressing circumstances, all logic was thrown out of the window. I completely forgot that I had an unpaid debt of $4,000 to the banks and my own friends, that I still had not prepared a budget plan for the month and that I still had not paid my phone bills (which I had not opened yet due to my own fear of seeing a lot of numbers glaring back at me). It was as if an overwhelming force had taken over my mind and my body, and my feet suddenly moved on their own till they arrived inside the shop. My hand suddenly started having a mind of its own too when it reached out for the high tops and tucked it under my arm in a protective gesture, in case there were other people eyeing it and would try prying it off me.

Now I remembered that I even ignored the fact that I was running late for my afternoon lecture. Like I said, all logic was thrown out of the window. Once my gaze caught the large red banner that said 'SALE', my normally functioning brain just halted and my body just instantly reprogrammed. I could feel my brain screaming at me to stop but the voice was really faint and at the back of my mind so I just continued walking to the counter, brimming with unknown confidence that I was not even aware of. I just felt that I had to have this pair of high tops. Not only that my old sports shoes had been tattered and worn out, I could finally jog outside, with a newly-bought sports bra to match.

As soon as I left the shop, my phone vibrated in my pocket, the shock of it almost jolted my entire body into some electrical shock. It was my friend's text message. Seemed that from the message being typed in all caps, it sounded pretty urgent. As I read the content, my eyes automatically widened.

The professor had already arrived in the lecture hall. And what did I do? I sprinted as fast as I could to my university, all while clutching the plastic bag holding my precious high tops protectively against my chest.