New Testaments Narrative

At the Trenton music festival, My friend Darren and I were roaming the newly abandoned fairgrounds to waste time until the award ceremony. Over the course of the day we had been given many New Testament books by a man who, if you didn't present one when he saw you, would give you another. Our group of friends had used these as a form of meaningless currency so Darren and I were tasked with the job of finding more. So, as a two man team, we were scavenging the pocket bibles from every (mostly) clean corner, bleacher, hot dog stand, and picnic bench until we had found our way out of what had previously been the festival grounds. Eventually the dark was creeping over us and we turned up very little success in Bible hunting, therefor

They had been mentioning sneaking the Testaments into opposing bands hat boxes, bags, and purses. We thought the idea was “dope” and thought we would allow them to tag along. This is when we passed what had previously been the booth of the man who gave the Testaments out in the first place. This is also when I jokingly mentioned stealing the crates of the remaining Testaments which, not surprisingly, didn't come off as a joke to them. Chip asked”have you ever shoplifted before?” and me, being a good actor said “of course, but nothing more than $30”. Then Dale and Chip began the sad and mostly embarrassing attempt to pull the boxes through a chain link

They drew a knife each. “We could go back and cut open the boxes with these” chip said with a smirk. Darren and I objected subtly, only to be answered with a classic “what are you scared?”. Me and Darren, being very scared of both the knives and the possible crime, said no. That is when there was a long, awkward silence where something possessed the sketchy chip to suddenly lunge at me with the knife, completely startling me, and reduce to a giggle where he laughed out “I could have just killed you there”. I had no response to this other than literally just the statement, “dude, that was hella edgy”.Then the conversation oddly continued. “Have you two ever shoplifted?”. I played my character and lied “Totally, but nothing over $20”. I decided that the testaments weren't anything getting stabbed over and apparently Darren had my thought because we snuck away as soon as we