I'm an assistant for a girl in some kind of school club. She's very pregnant and demands to go to the mall to look at stuff, so I drive to meet her there. The mall is a perfect mix between the mall in my hometown and the mall where I currently live, so it's very very big. I don't have the girl's cell number, so we're communicating via email on an app. There appears to be some kind of event going on, so the mall is packed with people. As I'm walking around, I see a stall that looks like a carnival display. A man dressed as a carny hands me a goody bag and exclaims, "You've won!" The goody bag just looks like a rolled up brown paper bag (like what people put lunches in) so I was curious about my prize but skeptical that it was anything cool.
I finally meet up with the girl at Spencer's. It's enormous inside- it's like walking into a craft store. The girl is going down aisles pulling things off of shelves and handing them to me. I'm trying to hold everything while attempting to keep my goody bag separate from her pile. I also have my backpack on (for some reason) and my purse, so it is getting quite cumbersome to carry everything. We get to the back of the store where there are rolls of fabric on one side and tables on the other (the tables looked like the long, rectangular kinds you find in some classrooms). I immediately plop her items on one side of the table and set my backpack, purse, and goody bag on another. She comes over and asks what's in my goody bag, so we decide to open it up. Inside are handfuls of candy, three large deflated balloons, and (surprisingly) a gun. The girl immediately grabs the gun and cocks it. I scream at her to put it down, but she just points it at me, laughs, then flings it absent-mindedly on the table. We were lucky it didn't go off, but I was still fuming! I yell at her that she could've killed someone. She then starts to throw a fit. She knocks her entire pile of things on the ground then falls backward, yelling, "You pushed a pregnant girl!" Everyone looks back at us, so I hold out my arms to give her something to hold onto to help her up. She grabs my arms but doesn't help in the least while I struggle to pull her up. I manage to pull her up halfway, but she slips and slams back down to the ground. She starts to cry and accuses me of trying to hurt her baby, so I again try to help her up, this time digging my heels into the legs of the table for support.
I manage to pull her up, but as soon as she is on her feet she sprints away from me. At this point I notice two teenage boys sitting next to my stuff, eyeing my goody bag and looking sneaky. I tell them not to touch anything, then chase after the girl. I get to the cash register and am stopped by a manager. She tells me that she and other employees saw the girl eat all of the Taco Bell that was bought for the employees. I apologize profusely and ask for some time to find the girl so she can pay them back. The manager remarks, "No need" and holds up her phone. It says that she is calling a person named "Melissa" so I assume this to be the girl's name. I ask the manager if I can go get my things and then come back- she agrees. I run back to the tables to find that the boys have ransacked everything! They're eating the candy and have already blown up the balloons (they were in the shape of a smiling pink heart, a huge alien head, and a regular-shaped balloon with a boring logo). I yell at the boys to stop, but they look at me and burst out laughing.
One boy pulls out a big, scary knife (I think to intimidate me) and pops the boring balloon, sending it flying around the room. The other starts to sing a System of a Down song I recognize, so, trying to connect with him, I say, "Oh, cool! I like that song!" He just laughs at me and continues to go through the goody bag. He grabs the gun and points it at his friend. I yell, "Stop! It's loaded!" He smiles at me, points the gun at a nearby window, and shoots. I see the bullet whiz through the glass and break the window of another store, but no one in the large crowd outside seemed to notice. I'm relieved, but furious. I yell at the boys for their recklessness, but they just laugh at me. I hurriedly grab the gun and what's left of the candy and shove them into the goody bag. I check through my purse to make sure the boys didn't steal anything then put it and my heavy backpack back on. I was carrying so many things that I knew I couldn't carry both of the remaining balloons with me (they were both larger than my head and had thick rope for the string), so I ask the boy with the knife to pop the alien head for me. He happily agrees and sends the balloon flying around the room. Trying to connect with them one last time I ask, "Well, what are your plans after you leave here?" One boy says that he is going to go play Minecraft. I excitedly exclaim that I, too, love Minecraft. Both boys laugh at me again, so I give up and leave.
When I get back to the register I see the manager and three employees looking at me furiously- one is holding a wad of Taco Bell wrappers. They remind me that they have evidence that the girl ate their Taco Bell. I again apologize and tell them that I will go find the girl and bring her back here to pay them back. I run out of the store to find her, but I think the manager thinks I am trying to escape the situation, so she chases after me yelling for me to "Wait!" and "Stop!" There's so many people in the crowd outside that I manage to get lost in the crowd and get away safely. I remember that I still don't have the girl's cell number, so I send her an email telling her to come find me. I nervously hide amongst the crowd and worry the workers at Spencer's will accuse me of stealing the food with the girl. I also worry that the girl will never show up and I will have to pay for all of the Taco Bell she ate. I'm starting to panic until I finally wake up!
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