Outstanding Stories » Kleptomania

“Kleptomania” is one of the outstanding stories (junior) of the second biannual International Short Story Contest 2018 written by Aishwarya Singh, GIIS, Singapore.

Kleptomania

Have you ever come across a person suffering from kleptomania? Sounds unusual right? Well, I was also introduced to this term quite recently. Let me share my inedible experience with you.

“Ring," “Ring" The bell struck piercing the silence of the school. Sam, a boy wearing an old blue dress and a green cap, stood up and shouted at the top of his lungs that he had lost his pencil case while taking one of his books from his bag. Mrs. Katherine, our teacher, told us to check all our bags as well homes. Me and my friend, Joanne were happily skipping towards the corridor. Suddenly, Joanne wanted to take an urgent visit to the toilet, she passed me her bag to respond to any call and she approached the girls’ toilet.

Instantly, Joanne‘s phone rang, I rummaged in his bag and then I stopped in my tracks. “My best friend ………" Joanne’s bag was filled with CD players and one of my newly bought pencil case as well as Sam’s one. I was bewildered and stunned but I did not succumb to the partiality of my friend and in a blink of an eye, I ran to the principal’s office which was at a stone’s throw.

After I narrated the whole incident to the principal who was robbed out of speech and flabbergasted, he took a wise choice and sent Joanne for a mental evaluation after insisting to accept her mistake. After the evaluation, Joanne was found suffering from Kleptomania in which you have the urge to steal unnecessary or unwanted things. Joanne was given a few medicines and she recovered in just a few days. A lesson for all of us is that all the people who steal are not thieves.

Do not judge a book by its cover.