Ridicula by Adam Altman

Author:Adam Altman [Altman, Adam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction/Horror/Literary
Publisher: Adam Altman

Chapter 14

Inside a Jules Verne Novel

Even when she was a young girl, Jade had always been fascinated with shoes. This fascination had often gotten her into all sorts of trouble. When she was only five, she had played with her mother’s slippers. At first, she just tried them on. Then she became bolder and decided to dance in them. Her tiny feet tapped and pranced but then kicked a slipper right at the dog’s snout. The dog yelped and bit the slipper. Of course, that’s when Mommy walked into the room. Since she still danced in the other slipper, Jade had been caught in the act and had been punished.

From there, her obsession increased. She couldn’t stop playing with her mother’s shoes. She liked the way they felt or looked or sparkled, so she had to get a closer inspection or try them on. Since she never ended up putting them back where she found them, she continued to get in trouble when Mommy could not find one shoe or another.

When she reached the age in which she could buy her own shoes, she did so in bulk. Shoe after flip-flop after heel, she bought and bought until she owed too much on credit and couldn’t pay it back. But even this wasn’t enough of an incentive to stop buying them. She had to watch her credit card be cut with scissors by a malevolent manager, who thought it funny to do it in front of other customers when it was confirmed that Jade had gone over her limit. Hence, her credit was poor due to her large shoe collection, many of which she had only worn once or never at all.

Yet, that still didn’t stop her obsession. Occasionally, a pair of shoes was displayed that she just couldn’t resist. Since she didn’t have the money to pay for the designer shoes, she stole them. The first few times she did this she wasn’t caught, but then her luck ran out when an employee saw her try on the shoes and try to walk out with them on. The store did not take shoplifting lightly, so she ended up in jail for a night. However, she got a break because the judge did not prosecute her further. Still, her obsession continued. Although she had learned her lesson about stealing, she still could not stifle her love for shoes and often still bought on sites, such as ShoeDazzle and Zappos, when she had a little money to spare.

Even with all those incidences of shoe impropriety, she never would have expected her fascination with shoes to get her into the mess she and her friends were in now. The irony of it, though, was that the mess had started because she had thrown a fantastic pair of sandals at a car. For the first time in her life she had sacrificed her shoes, and bedlam had happened as a result.

Still shoeless, Jade crawled out of the corn, her home for the night, more tired than a horse pulling a carriage for weeks on end.

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