If love is a crime

HUGH I was panting and hyperventilating as I was preparing for tonight’s solo heist. I guess that’s why I was scared because I had to do it alone for the first time. I usually go on heists with my friend,Melvin and the rest of the gang who aren’t really friends. I didn’t tell Melvin or the gang anything about it as I wanted to do it alone for some weird reason I’m yet to figure out. As I was about stepping out of my small room that could barely accommodate me talk more of me and my little brother,John, who asked in a sleepy voice “where are you off to by this hour?” I looked at the clock on the wall and saw that it was pretty late which was also a perfect time for a heist. It was 11:34pm by the clock on the wall and the whole neighborhood of downtown where I live was definitely asleep. I answered John in a low tone saying I’d be back soon. He looked at me,turned to the other side of the bed and continued sleeping. Now that John is settled, I’m left with the bigger problem,my mum. She’s usually never home by this time which would have been easier as she’s always shuffling jobs and shifts to make ends meet for me and my brother. She’s home tonight because she has a flu. She would’ve loved to work like she always does but the rules of her workplaces doesn’t allow staff to work while they’re sick especially not with a contagious sickness like Flu. I love my mum so much and she’s the reason I’m doing all that I do. I want a better life for my family,my mum especially. She deserves all the good things of life and I’ll do anything in my power to make it happen. Ever since dad died things have been quite rough. Putting food on the table has been kind of difficult and exhausting for mum. All the responsibilities has fallen on her and I can’t just sit there and watch and do nothing,I have to help in any way I can. I finally managed to sneak out of the house through the old, front door that made loud creaky noises. I guess mum must have fallen deeply asleep not to hear that. As I leave Downtown behind heading into the big neighborhood of Uptown,I start putting on my gears; my black balaclava which is under my black hood that I’m wearing on my black pants and shoes. I whistle as I put my black gloves on after which I tie my black bandanna on my face. The only part of my body visible is my eyes so no one recognizes me of catches a glimpse of any part of my body that’s recognizable. As I arrive Uptown a feeling of peace rush through my mind and body like I belong here or I’m finally home. It’s almost as if all what I’m seeing here is all mine. The flashy,exotic cars,the gigantic houses that looked like they could house half the people that stayed in Downtown. Some of the houses looked like Royal palaces as though a king or a royal family lives there. The street is well illuminated and the whole street as I’m walking into it feels like I’m ascending to heaven. This is literally heaven on earth. As I was day dreaming about the life I could live here,I got carried away and forgot my physical appearance was quite questionable. I have to find a way past security and into the main residential area of Uptown. The Uptown is the Residential area for the rich people of Eden city. There was no in between as to social class to live in Uptown. You were either rich or not. Only the wealthy and influential stayed in Uptwown,some richer than others though but all were living the life and could also afford the good things of life. The people who control Eden city live here. Some,oppressors even. I’ll be robbing the second richest family in the city tonight; The Bucknors. The Bucknors are one unique family in the neighborhood of Uptown. They own the most exotic animals and cars in the whole of Eden city that sometimes people argue they’re the richest family in the city and not the cooks who are the richest family in Eden. One thing that’s quite distinctive about the Bucknors is the architectural design of their beautiful mansion that some call it futuristic as they’ve never seen anything like it. As I walk past houses I spot the Bucknor Residence in a split second as it’s very easy to identify in the midst of all the mansions. I go through the back and try get into the house from climbing up the window so I get into the house from the top as I imagined all the valuables to be up and not downstairs of the mansion. I’m about to start climbing when my hands start trembling and I thought it was first time jitters as I’m doing it solo. My hands keep trembling as I ascend the walls of the mansion. My heart starts to skip a beat and I’m wondering why this is happening as it’s never happened before. I get into the building in stealth mode as though I’m a trained ninja. I creep through the hallway into the house and I’m finding it hard to focus on the reason I’m here as I’m being blown away by the beauty of this house. I whisper under my breath as I keep creeping through “this is the life!!”. I pause for a second to observe my new surroundings. The whole house is pin drop silent. I guess the whole family must be asleep. As I keep creeping in stealth mode,I notice something that looked a fancy egg you see in those Arabian night movies where the owners are rich and I try so hard to remember the name of the fancy egg as I reach out for one of them. There’s like a lot of them arranged in different colors. And as I pick it up,the name comes back to my head and I say it out slowly”fabergé egg”. I was distracted by the beauty of the thing that I didn’t know when a bumped into a furniture that made a loud noise. My next instinctive response was to quickly ascertain whether or not there could’ve been someone who heard that.