From my brain to this blog part 1

The post is following the creative exercise,  started and hosted by Brooke Bluestocking Guide. Feel free to comment and join in, writing a short story which begins like this:


That’s what happens when you follow your heart...

That’s what happens when you follow your heart: you end up standing in front of a shop window, drooling over the nicest pair of red stilettos you could imagine and knowing fully well you can't afford them. They were cherry-red beauties, made of calf leather in Italy (where else?), and very, very high - about 5 inches or 12 cm if you live across the pond.

The price tag was taken straight from my worst nightmares, though; a four-digit monster starting with 3...let me only tell you that I could have bought 10 (say:ten) pairs of decent, sensible, genuine-leather shoes for such an amount of money. Why love at first sight can't be cheap? I fell head over heels with these ones nonetheless. I couldn't eat, I couldn't sleep. I felt I would be a better, happier person having them on. Without them, my life seemed to be utterly miserable. I had no choice.

I spotted them on a Saturday. Two days later I dressed up for the occasion, put on a bit of make-up and returned to the shop to talk with the assistant and try on the sweethearts. My first date with a pair of shoes. Fortunately you don't have to pay for trying them on. The stilettos were comfortable but painfully high- definitely too high to walk around town or dance or just stand and be bored at functions and such. Not that I go out a lot anyway. Usually I wouldn't even bother looking at them too long - what's the point, after all? You can't wear them - you don't buy'em, as simple as that. Love makes you foolishly blind though, and I was blind enough to ask about any possibility of purchasing one pair on the installment plan. After all for such a sum of money I would be able to get a new laptop or an old car. The assistant was understanding about my inquiry but she had to talk to the shop manager first. I promised to return soon and asked to put aside one pair of the right size. I was sure they might disappear overnight despite the outlandish price - who wouldn't want  a pair of such beauties!