[ WP ] Write a story beginning with : `` Are you buying that or what ? ''

“ Are you buying that or what? ” he asked only to break the silence. For the better part of the hour this small girl who seemed to be at least forty percent messy hair and fifty percent glasses had been holding onto the same book with the sort of grip you ’ d have to describe with words like “ vice ” and “ death ”. As if a stray thought would force it back on to the bookstore shelf she found it on and chain it down. Breaking the silence must have sounded like suddenly shattered glass to her when the question made her entire body jump. 
 
 “ I don ’ t know if I can, ” she said. It was a simple answer, but it made his mind churn with the circumstances of it. He always thought too much. Perhaps so did she. He leaned over the counter to get a look at the book. Amongst other descriptors, the book was rare. With a weary smile he asked her, 
 
 “ What if it was free? ” 
 
 ugh, I borked the limit by 65 words. You're more than welcome to use my text. 

