Dixon
02-08-2010, 03:39 PM
He quickly put the soup into his pocket and moved towards the checkout.
His heart was bumping heavily, but when Marcy said “I´m feeling so dizzy”, he knew what to do and grabbed her tiny cold hand even harder.
But in the same moment someone started shouting: “Stop! You´re a shoplifter!”
A shop assistant stood before them, fishing his mobile phone out of his trousers.
“I´ll call the police”, he said maliciously. David felt sick and Marcy started crying.
The situation was desperate and he knew that perfectly well. Just when he was about to say some pathetic excuse a woman appeared.
“Don´t,” she told the assistant very sharply.
“Don´t. I will pay!”
She sounded so determined that he really stopped.
He only muttered: “Do you want them to get away with that?”
But she already had pushed them to the checkout.
Outside she wrote an address clumsily on a slip of paper.
“St. Pancras Church Charity – Holborn Rd. 34”, it said.
“It´s around the corner. There you can get a hot meal. And you can talk to Mr. Tayler the social worker.”
Before David could say anything she had disappeared into the crowds of people on the pavement.
His heart was bumping heavily, but when Marcy said “I´m feeling so dizzy”, he knew what to do and grabbed her tiny cold hand even harder.
But in the same moment someone started shouting: “Stop! You´re a shoplifter!”
A shop assistant stood before them, fishing his mobile phone out of his trousers.
“I´ll call the police”, he said maliciously. David felt sick and Marcy started crying.
The situation was desperate and he knew that perfectly well. Just when he was about to say some pathetic excuse a woman appeared.
“Don´t,” she told the assistant very sharply.
“Don´t. I will pay!”
She sounded so determined that he really stopped.
He only muttered: “Do you want them to get away with that?”
But she already had pushed them to the checkout.
Outside she wrote an address clumsily on a slip of paper.
“St. Pancras Church Charity – Holborn Rd. 34”, it said.
“It´s around the corner. There you can get a hot meal. And you can talk to Mr. Tayler the social worker.”
Before David could say anything she had disappeared into the crowds of people on the pavement.