1993-10 years old
"Daddy? I don't want to do this. I'm tired and it smells like urine in here." Chase sat on a old bar stool watching her father drink a beer.
He turned to her, his eyes puffy and bloodshot, obviously drunk.
"Baby, remember how Mommy left us?" Chase nodded her head "She left us because you didn't make her proud, nows the time to make her proud show her how well you play the game, don't feel bad these people told me they want you to take their money."
Chase looked at him shocked "Seriously?"
Her father nodded his head and pushed her towards a group of men at a pool table. Chase remembered what her father had taught her
Bump, Take, and Apologize.
She saw a man head towards the bar. She walked towards him and bumped into his side, she could feel the bump of his wallet in his front right pocket, so without him noticing she quickly reached into his pocket and took his wallet.
"I'm sorry mister." she said
He grunted "Go back to your Daddy, Kid, before you get hurt."
Chase ran back to her father "I did it." she whispered and handed him the wallet.
"Hey! Where's my wallet!?"
"He has it" A man pointed towards her dad.
"Shit." Her father said and picked her up, stumbling towards the door. But a man from the pool table stopped him.
"Give him back his wallet."
Chase was confused, "But Daddy you said they wanted me to steal their money, why are they so mad?"
"Shut up!" he growled, looking around, noticing he was surrounded, "You want the wallet here take it." Her father handed her the wallet And threw her to the man who was blocking the door. It knocked him off balance, and her father ran out the door.
"Daddy!" She cried, tears running down her face.
The man held her and rubbed her back "Shhh…. Sweetheart, we'll take you somewhere safe."