Sinner's Heist

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Amos glanced over to Vanessa in wonder. She ended his confusion by saying, "It'll be one hundred and fifty each." He agreed, removing the chains from his neck and handing them over. "Aight. Oh, and tell him to add that poncho too. Shit's tight." Vanessa giggled, translating to the Spanish man and he nodded in agreement, taking the chains over to the engraving machine.
"Qué poner?" The man asked, just before starting. "What you want it to say?" Vanessa continued being the afternoon's translator. Amos answered without any side thought and confidently.

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀POOH STARED OUT the dingy screen door as her hands were planted on either side of her face. She watched her older brothers, Lil Zay, Hayden, and Roderick, as they played in the yard, prohibited to leave any further than the sidewalk of their house. They made the best of it the first hour or two but once seeing their usual playmates out of the neighborhood roaming the streets freely and inviting them to come play but having to decline, the four of them soon sat on the porch with their bottom lips poked out in a pout. "Man, this sucks." Roderick grumbled, kicking small rocks that sat in front of his foot. Pooh shook her small head, her five puffy plaits with beads on the ends smacking against her cheeks. She left the door and walked off to the back, passing her few sisters that was watching an antenna channel on the tube tv in the living room. She glanced into every bedroom until she saw the only door being closed being the hall bathroom.

Her small hand closed into a fist as she knocked on it, yelling her big sister's name. The front door opened and the door slammed back against the doorpost causing her to turn around swiftly. Hayden walked inside the home, passing his little sister to get to his room for a deflated nerf football they found themselves toying with often. Pooh turned back to the bathroom's door and knocked continuously, shouting, "Sissy!" Hayden came back, clutching the ball as he gave more attention to his sister's goal and decided to open the door for her. Soon as it opened, his eyes widened and Pooh screamed.

Bebe eyes were filled with tears as she gripped her throat, unable to swallow another pill after the many she'd taken. Her mouth was beginning to foam as Hayden ran out the house frantically, his foots stomping straight to Tatiana's house. She sat out on her porch, as she did usually and looked to the side to see him coming. The worry on his face made her stand to her feet immediately, dusting off the back of her skin tight jeans. She popped the bubble she'd made in her gum with her mouth closed, waiting for him to speak once he was close enough. "Bebe is choking." He cried and they both made a run for the house he'd just exited. Tatiana swung herself inside from holding the doorpost and followed the sound of Pooh cries. Her heart dropped seeing her friend in such a position on the floor, fighting for her life she'd just tried to take. She covered Pooh's eyes, pulling her into the living room with the rest of the girls and shooed them to stay back.

Tatiana entered the restroom and kneeled beside bebe, moving her hands from her throat and forced her mouth open. Gargling noises begin to erupt from Bebe's mouth before Tatiana stuck two fingers far down her throat and caused a gag reflex instantly. She pulled her forward to the toilet, watching as many pills left her mouth into the bowl. She shook her head as she held her hair back, allowing her to empty her stomach herself and catch her breath. Once her lungs filled with oxygen again, she cried a gut-wrenching cry. Tatiana kneeled again, wrapping her arms around her friend's shoulders and rocked her slowly. "You need help." She admitted in a whisper, but Bebe couldn't reply with words, her cries were too powerful. But them in themselves were enough of an answer. She could see through her tear filled eyes her younger siblings, the ones who looked up to her in hope, looking down at her in concern. Pooh lunged her small body to the floor and hugged her tightly, crying right along with her. She hugged her back, leaning her head on top of hers as she rubbed her small back in comfort.