i won't say anything at all {c}

After a particularly successful heist, Lionel had slipped into the first unlocked door he found to get off the street. It seemed like a good idea at the time. The streets were likely crawling with police. He had to throw them off his trail. He couldn’t be too careful, except the door he ducked into was a mistake. The lights had been off and he thought there was no one inside. How wrong he was.

Two teens sat in the dark living room with the blue glow of the television illuminating them and the sounds of a horror movie drifted through the house. Well, they were occupied but the only other exit was past them, he discovered after moments of creeping around the house. He couldn’t go back the way he came either. Going out the window was his only choice. There was one down the wall.

Unfortunately, one of the teens must have heard something as he heard her voice sound and her footsteps approach. He tiptoed up the stairs, quietly disappearing from view. He listened for a moment to the voices before. Lionel condiered going back downstairs when the cost was clear before deciding he should try the upstairs window for escape. He found his chance in an opened window in a bedroom.

Lionel was crawling through it before he had time to think against it. It was on the opposite side of the house and the girl’s downstairs were likely not to hear him above the sound of their movie. There was a tree diagonal from the window. He made the jump easily, but the branch he landed on gave way under his weight. He fell to the ground, landing on something soft.

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He eased himself off whatever it was he had fallen on, which turned out to be a girl. Whoops. Lionel felt a pang of guilt for the unfortunate victim of his fall. “Whoa, are you okay? I didn’t mean to fall on you.” He would have squeezed in some line about falling for her, but he decided against it. That just wasn’t his style.

“Shhh, not so loud.” The thief pressed his finger to his lips. “You don’t want to wake anyone. It’s late you know. Someone might get mad and come to scream at us or something.” And he didn’t want to draw unnecessary attention. “What are you doing out so late?”

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