Shopping Can be Hazardous to your Health Who: Bella and Dom Where: Lenore Bookstore When: Early evening
If there was one thing Bella loved to buy, it was books. Most of the time she didn't really care about what the book was about, but if it had an interesting cover, she tended to pick it up and give it a try. If she didn't like it, she sold it to the second hand book store and got maybe two dollars for the thing. It was better than nothing, she supposed. She had a couple books in her hand already and she was busy skimming the stacks for more. As she reached for another book, the books in her arm began to slip and in her haste to catch them, she knocked the book she had been reaching for off the shelf. She attempted to catch that one too, but she wasn't terribly coordinated at the moment, and all of the books fell to the floor with soft thumps. Bella cursed under her breath and bent down to pick up the books, figuring that was why they had bags and baskets at the front of the store, for shopping convienence and so this kind of stuff didn't happen. As she knelt, the bag on her shoulder tipped and the contents of her purse began to spill out to join the books. With a sigh, all she could do was snatch her purse back and then flop down onto her knees to try and clean up the mess she'd just made.