Recollection of the socks

At the local thrift store, many of the people that wandered through the store had different needs and desires. Everyone wanted to walk away with something special, something that you wouldn’t find anywhere else. Yet what the people didn’t realize is that within the store, there was something that had it’s own needs and desires. Something else that wanted something special, something that wouldn’t just take any person. Like a pair of snakes, there lay two pink socks within a sock pile, coiled together with their.. “heads” poking out of the top ever so slightly. They laid there watching the store and watching all of those that passed them observing and analyzing. They weren’t always like this, they were just a pair of socks originally. Within the basket people would pick them up and take a look, just a pair of pink long socks that looked brand new really. Yet everyone they had came in contact with would just throw them back in, and this continued for what felt like ages. Yet these actions are what fueled for them to come to life. At first it was little things, like tightening around peoples hands so they wouldn’t put them back. Then slowly beginning to move themselves around like worms. Overtime they became bitter and wanted to stay inside their bin, so much so they began rejecting people who finally tried to take them home. From smashing sneaking out of the bag and pressing the gas peddle in someone’s car, to lunging at someone’s face and covering their eyes so the other could slink back into the store. They chose to confine themselves back into their sock bin. Until Sherry walked in that is. There was something about her that immediately grabbed the attention of the socks. The smile on her face, the energy she carried, they fell in love. A bit too in love…. and they watched her movements from within the sock bin and waited for the chance to make their move. When Sherry went to go check something out near the sock bin. They watched her place her bag down and crawled out of the bin and wormed their way into her bag. They hid under all the stuff she had put in the bag and waited. When they felt the bag being placed down they slowly lifted themselves up and stared. They stared at her as she started to lean her head back towards the ceiling slowly drifting off to sleep.