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(a girl named delli) wants (to have the new shoes that are in the display window) because (the are her favorite colors and fabrics) but (she has no money).

climax: she gives back the shoes to the store after stealing them.

Stealing the Fins

Delli decided she wasn't going to look into any stores. She had trouble paying for things as it was. Even if she did have the money that she needed, she wouldn't spend it on shopping. As she was rapidly walking along the downtown shops to Five Guys, she stopped suddenly at the big shoe store. Then she saw them. The brand new Fins! They are the coolest shoes out in selected stores and everybody on the track team wants to run in them. In commercials they say they make you run faster and you become lucky. Delli thought to herself how great it would be if she had some more luck in her everyday life. Then she thought about the big track tomorrow…it would be so great if she could run faster to beat her high school record for the hurdles. She looked through the window at how the shoes looked so fantastic and she imagined the smell of the new rubber and soles. It would be her dream to run the hurdles in the Olympics. But for now, she’s stuck working at Five Guys. The smell of the grease and burgers is disgusting after working in that place for the last year. Thinking of work, she realizes she’ll be late if she doesn't get going to work now. It starts to rain. Running down the path she thought about how those shoes could really change her in a good way. When she got to work she was totally soaked and very distracted. All day as she was flipping burgers, she thought about those shoes and how she wanted them bad. After she got off work, she walked back to the shoe store and stares into the window deciding whether or not she should go into the store and try them on. Walking through the doors of the store she realizes how there isn't anyone in there surprisingly. Except the cashier, who was talking to someone on the phone about the hurricane warnings. She goes over to the shoes on display and picks them up. They are her size. She loosens up the laces as she sits down. After slipping off her old shoes quickly, she puts on the Fins carefully. They fit so snug and have just enough space in the front to wiggle her toes. She stands up. They fit perfectly. The shoes feel so comfortable and squishy like she was stepping in a shoe of jelly and warm mashed potatoes. She lifts one foot up at a time. Hops around a little to see how good the spring is in the toes. Then, the ultimate test. Running in them. The next thing she knows she’s sprinting down the path hearing her feet splashing the puddles of water with every step, and the cashier yelling behind her. But now he’s out of her sound reach. It’s almost as if she were swimming since it’s raining so hard. Shooting through the big sheets of rain. The shoes are so light weight and powerful at the same time. With every step, it seems like she is bursting through the air. She runs home the entire way jumping and laughing in the heavy rain. That night when Delli was laying in bed, she decided she was going to keep the shoes and wear them to the track meet tomorrow. The next morning when she got up, she was very excited about the track meet. After getting ready and eating breakfast, she rode with her dad to the track meet, thinking how her day is probably going to go just the way she wants it to. Running and jumping over the hurdles so fast, she breaks the school record. That's how it's going to go today. When she got there, her and her friends warmed up for the meet. And of course, everyone admired and was envious of Delli's new shoes. Ok. Now is the moment she's been waiting for. She's standing on the track looking down her lane, at the hurdles. As soon as the gun goes off, she runs as fast as her body lets her, leaping over the hurdles. The shoes are working, she's in the lead! She's almost at the finish line and she knows she's going to win. On the last hurdle, the toe of her new shoes gets caught on the hurdle and she surprisingly falls to the ground. She doesn't know what to do or what to say so she just sits there, still shocked at what just happened. She is disqualified. Looking down at her shoes she doesn't understand why the lucky shoes didn't bring her good luck. As she was sitting there in dissapointment, she wondered why she believed in the shoes so much.