'I would think very carefully before you do what I think you are just about to do?!' I heard a familiar deep baritone voice from behind me, which made me jump immediately before I turned myself around.

'No, I wasn't going to take it...I promise,' I spoke guilty as I dropped the make up set back on the shop shelf that I had been on the verge of placing secretly into my bag without paying for.

'Ben...I didn't realise it was you,' I spoke with both relief and embarrassment, as I faced my next door neighbour, who just so happened to work as a cop as his police uniform he was wearing confirmed.

'Really now are you sure that you are telling me the truth Karen?'I got a cynical reply back.

'I...I...was.' Rendered speechless I found myself looking up into Ben's penetrating and striking blue eyes not knowing what to say to him.

'I am really disappointed Karen in you...and your mother would be too if she knew what you were playing at...you're not a kid anymore at twenty one, so you should know better than to steal,' he started to give me a lecture.

'Please, Ben, don't arrest me or tell my Mum? She has enough on her plate as it is,' I spoke hastily as I began to panic.