Caught and Punished

"I had to,"

She looked at me curiously as though she did not understand exactly what I meant. "What...you mean your friends forced you to do it?"

"No...no I mean, I had to. I was trying to do something nice for someone I love. My girlfriend,"

Suddenly, her demeanor changed; she moved away from the phone and leaned against the front of the desk again. The look on her face told me that she wanted me to continue explaining just what I had been thinking.

"Tomorrows our anniversary," I said. "I wanted to buy her that necklace. I couldn't' afford it though; there was just no way. My friends...they do shit like this all the time. So they offered to help me get it for her, and I said no at first but after a while I just...couldn't resist anymore."

"Well your friends did a great job at helping you didn't they," she replied sarcastically.

Yeah, they had done one hell of a job for sure. They left me here, didn't even try to help me get away with them just took off and now they were probably home relaxing safe and sound while I was stuck here waiting to have my ass hauled away to prison.

"Their assholes I guess,"

"You guess; yeah, I think their more than that." She replied.

"Look just...call security okay? I just want to get this over with."

She sighed, pushing herself up onto the desk itself and sitting down; she continued to stare at me long and hard and I was getting really annoyed.

"I've never known a criminal to do something like this just for their girlfriend or wife; you must really love her a lot."

I smiled weakly and nodded my head, looking away.

"I do,"

"Well then," she said sliding off the desk. "I have an offer to make you."

Was I hearing her right? Was she offering to bargain with me; this was completely unexpected as you might imagine. What the' hell would she possibly be willing to have me do to bargain with her here.