Hello Next Door

Untitled Part 7

"You need some new stuff." Sylvia stated decisively.

We were sitting in the Kitchen eating breakfast. The day before Sylvia had rampaged through my room and closet poking her nose into everything. I groan full well knowing what comes next.

"A shopping trip!" I come out of my thought just in time to hear Sylvia excitedly exclaim.

As kids we would go into town with our mom to pick up a few groceries or something for the endless projects going on around our house and more often then not it would turn into an all day shopping spree. We could hardly drive by a store without Sylvia begging to stop, stating that we just had to go there. She always had to get a little something, a pair of new earbuds, a shirt or anything else that caught her fancy. I guess it was a good thing that our town trips were infrequent or she would have been constantly bankrupt.

We finished eating and Sylvia literally drug me out the door and practically threw me in the car.

"Hey take it easy!" I proclaimed, "I'm getting in!"

Sylvia drove to the mall and we got out.

"Here's fifty bucks, you can get whatever you want with this money."

I knew it wasn't worth arguing with her, I would never win. She is a very generous person and loved to get stuff for others.

We entered the mall, it was huge! Now I have slight social anxiety which has to do with crowded places full of strangers, so this is going to be fun. I decided to head for a furniture store, my bed was rickety and practically falling apart, curtsy of a garage sale so that was first on my list. Eventually I found a twin to queen pull out bed. The main part had dark wood corner posts and black metal head and foot board. The other half could collapse to role under the bed for storage, this part was unadorned. I also got a mattress that that didn't have springs poking out, definitely a step up to me. Thankfully both of those items were on clearance so I got both for just over fifty. We arranged for them to be shipped to our house and then headed home.