i sorta stole something today.

it happened so fast. and i completely let it happen.

it feels kinda weird. to SORTA steal something that is. because i would like to very much think of myself as a nice person. generally speaking of course. no one is truly GENUINELY nice. well. not anyone that i know of that is.

so anyways. it happened when i was at the Big Bad Book Sale (yes. im not kidding. that was what the sale was called). Mama was queuing up to pay for the books that we chose while i quickly wander around the area frantically looking for any last minute books that interest me.

and that’s when i saw it. Cornelia Funke’s trilogy that included the books; Inkheart, Inkspell AND Inkdeath on paperback! i’ve read the first two books already and had always wanted to read the last one but could never afford to buy it cause they still havn’t released the friggin paperback version of the book.

so, excitedly, i picked up the book and almost foamed in the mouth when i saw the price.

it was only 15 RINGGIT!! that was INSANELY cheap! the book ‘Inkdeath’ alone, was still selling for about 70 bucks in normal bookstores as it was still only available on hard cover. so i quickly took it and showed it to mama. she agreed to let me have it (even though i already had the first two books at home and had already chose shitloads of books before) and i was ecstatic. until i saw a dent in the cover of the book that is.

so naturally, being the cheapskate that i was, i went to the place where i found it in hopes of finding a better copy.

there was none. i had the last copy in my hands.

and instead, i saw this woman staring pointedly at the book i was holding. i looked at her and she narrowed her eyes at me and i was like “What the hell is her problem?”; until i saw that she was carrying the box of books where i previously found the said book from. realization dawned on me like the mothafucker that i was.

the box which i THOUGHT was actually meant for customers to choose their books from was actually her box of books that she collected. because APPARENTLY, during the sale, you could take boxes which were not used and utilize them to carry the books of your own choosing.

she started walking towards me and the only thought that flashed through my mind was, “who the hell asked you to leave your box of books conspicuously unattended bitch?”. but since i was a coward, i didn’t actually say any of those things and quickly turned, walked as far as away as i could from her quickly and pretended to look at some books because, fuck, i wanted the book sooo badly and i was sooo not willing to give it up any time soon.

i was so scared that she would come after me and confront me because hell, i was a horrible liar but i forced myself to look back anyways and saw her heading towards the opposite direction. Phew! but guilt was a bitch and now i was like, should i return it or should i quickly run back to mama (who by now may be wondering where the heck did i go off to) with the book?

So because i was a scumbag, i kept the book, quickly went to mama, paid for it, got back into the car and drove home feeling like a naughty naughty girl. Even though, TECHNICALLY, i didn’t really steal anything cause she didn’t actually paid for it yet.

But STILL. The memory of not returning the book to her is now permanently etched in my mind forver.

Talk about being stupidly obsessed over one dumb incident huh? Lol.

PS: btw, for those book lovers out there, this warehouse book sale is seriously awesome. Better then both the times and mph warehouse book sale held recently. I seriously SERIOUSLY recommend people to go there to get good bargain for books. Most of the books are going at rm8 each, regardless of whether or not they were bestsellers or merely self-help books. I almost went cross-eyed trying to get as many interesting book titles as i could. It was seriously THAT cheap. X)