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Maxxie

It was a cold Saturday night in South California and everything was quite normal except for a silent movement on the corner of First Street, at the Central Bank.

Maxxie

I don't rob to get money or to buy expensive cars and have sex with whores. I rob to try to feel something, but nothing ever changes. It's always the same: we make a plan; we execute it; we get money; cops can't solve the case.

For the mentioned reasons, Christian and Felix decided to take a few risks, spice up things a bit. I marked the day on my calendar: November, 7th. We were about to get in the famous Central Bank by a tunnel underground that took almost 3 months to be built. Once we were inside, our technical team would guide us and make sure the plan was successful.

At 2 am we were already passing through the tunnel and, I have to admit, it was thoroughly planned. We were on the end of the tunnel, about to get into the Bank and Owl, from our outsider team, gave us a signal through the connected phones and in a second the lights, cameras and alarms were off.

"Run as fast as you can. Good luck boys, you have about fifteen minutes till their energy gets back." Owl said.

We were wearing black beanies, black pants and black shirts and our faces were also covered.

We ran around the bank for almost five minutes to get to the management room that would take us to the money's boxes and suddenly we saw a flashlight somewhere near.

"Owl, are you there?" Christian whispered waiting for Lucas to say something on the phone.

"Owl?" no answer "Fuck, he is not answering"

"So what?" Felix said

"We run."

They looked at me like if I was crazy.

"Are you fucking mad?" Christian said and we heard a wheezing coming from the phone.

"Boys..."

Felix got scared and let the phone fall. The alarm started buzzing.

"Fuck."

"Who's there?" a man voice screamed.

"Run." Christian said.

We tried to reconnect with the outside team but none of our phone lines were working.

"We're lost." Felix said when he caught us. "What do we do now?"

"Let's get the mon' boxes," Christian commanded.

"And what about the guards? Shouldn't we try to be safe?" Felix questioned.

"I said that we are getting the damn money, so that's what we are going to do."

Christian was an asshole sometimes but he was the leader and we must obey him no matter what. And that's how things worked. Christian was the head, Felix cared about the group being fine and I, well, I was the one who risked my life. I loved risks.

My phone started to whir:

"Boys, follow my directions."

"Thank Lord!"

...

I was running so fast that I could feel my heart coming up and down and my hands were starting to get wet. The alarm's sound was mocking my head and actually, it was the worst of all. I could hear Felix's sighs for carrying the bags.

"Let me carry these now. You stay in line with Owl."

He waved his head and then I was with almost 10 lbs of money on my back.

"Boys, they are getting close to our center." Lucas said kinda calmly.

"Right, so if we can't go there where do we go?" Felix answered.

"I don't fucking know."

"What?"

"Sorry but you're in a crossfire."

"Owl, I'm not kidding. We are getting near the end of the tunnel. Where the hell do we go now?" Christian took charge.

"Boys?"

"Hm?"

"We have to go. Like now."

"What?"

"They found us and they are coming here. To the house."

"Fuck."

Christian started to look nervous.

"Ok. I don't care about yall but I'm going to follow plan C." I said

"Are you crazy?" Christian said

Is there a plan C?" Felix indagued

"No. Hell no. You are the crazy ones. Lucas just fucking said they're evacuating the house and you wanna go there just to what? Chat with the po-po? Think a little."

"So you suggest we just go out to the street like this and with this lot of money?" the leader questioned me.

"Exactly."

They looked at me as if I was out of mind and I kept trying to convince them.

"Weren't we supposed to feel something? Let's do it."

Felix covered his face and laughed at me:

"You are the unsentimental one. I'm peeing on my fucking pants."

"Yeah, right. Let's go." I took the front.

and then right after that, I felt it.