"Come on Lazuli, It's not that hard!" A young boy called, legs dangling off the top of a large brick wall he'd managed to climb all the way up.
Lazuli, the boy's twin sister, looked up at him. "..I'm not sure about this, Lapis..." She muttered. "Shouldn't we be home by now, it's getting late."
"It's okay, mom's used to use getting home late. Come on up!" Lapis stood up, smirking. Lazuli sighed. "Alright, if you say so." She grabbed on the one of the uneven bricks her brother had used to climb the brick wall, and made her way up.
After she was about halfway up, she made the mistake of looking down. She gulped. "Uhm.. L- Lapis, I'm not sure I can do this..."
"Sheesh, Lazuli! It's not even that high!" Lapis called from the top, looking down at his sister. "But what if I fall?" Lazuli asked, still looking at the long drop down.
"You're not gonna fall! Just focus on climbing!" Lapis called from the top, sounding annoyed.
Lazuli, feeling quite nervous, forced herself not to look down and continued climbing. "Lapis! It really is a long way up." She was a little more than halfway up, and she was nearly six feet off the ground.
It was making her very nervous- She really wasn't sure if she could make it to the top.
"Lazuli, you're ridiculous! It didn't take half as long for me to get up here! Keep climbing." Lapis called from the top.
Lazuli stayed silent for a moment, staring at the ground. "...Lapis, can I just got back down?" She asked him.
"No! Keep climbing!" Lapis called from the top. "It's not that high!"
"Speak for yourself!" Lazuli called back up to him, climbing up just a little higher. She screeched, as one of the bricks broke.
She quickly grabbed onto another one, eyes widening. "L- Lapis... I'm scared, I'm going back down." She took a step back down.
"Come on Lazuli! Don't wimp out now! You're almost there." Lapis called to his twin, looking down at her from the top of the brick wall.
Lazuli gulped, and took a few steps up. Finally she grabbed onto the top of the brick wall, then screeched as one of the bricks she had her foot on broke off.
Lapis grabbed her, and helped her the rest of the way up. She sat there, panting for a moment, before standing up- She was ontop of a large brick building.
"Should we really be up here?" She asked, glancing at Lapis. "Nobody's even allowed near this place at night, especially not ontop of it."
"Oh come on, nobody'll ever know." Lapis turned, still looking back at his sister, and took a few steps forward.
"Follow me." He walked to the other side of the building, Lazuli following reluctantly behind. Lapis lead them to a vent, leaning down and pointing down it.
"We can get in from here." He told her, smirking. "...Lapis, isn't that breaking in!?" Lazuli looked at him, bewildered.
"Don't worry Lazuli, nobody'll ever know." He got the top off the vent and slipped into it. Lazuli was very reluctant, but she realized she had no choice.
She followed her twin brother into the vent, crawling after him. He sat at the very end, pushing out the other door, and climbing into the building.
The building was actually a Grocery Store that they visited quite often during the daylight hours. Welsh Grocery, a large supermarket that sold all types of things.
Lapis, whistling, made his way to the back of the store and started looking at different knick knacks and gadgets.
"Lapis, we shouldn't be doing this.." Lazuli whispered, walking up to join her brother. "It'll be fine!" Lapis replied, grabbing a gun off the shelf and attaching it to his pants.
"Lapis! What're we gonna tell mom!?" Lazuli asked, worriedly. "She's used to us being out this late." Lapis replied, grabbing a thing of bullets.
"Not about that, don't you think she's gonna ask where you got a gun from?" Lazuli asked. "I'll just tell her some dude gave it to me." Lapis replied.
"Like she'll believe that!" Lazuli replied, crossing her arms. "She might! How does Wakomi Zaturza sound for a name?" Lapis asked.
"..It sounds ridiculous." Lazuli replied, huffing. "Where'd you even get that from?"
Lapis shrugged. "It was the first name that came to my mind." He snickered a bit, grabbing a wallet from the top shelf.
Then, the door opened. "You're sure you left the keys in here?" A man asked- The owner of the store, John Welsh.
"Yes, I'm sure." A woman's voice replied. "..Mom! Hide." Lapis grabbed his sister and dragged her into a dark corner of the store.
"Hey... Why's the door to the vent on the floor?" Mr. Welsh picked up the door. "And are those footprints!? Somebody broke in!"
"Well whoever it was is surely gone now?" The woman replied, looking at Mr. Welsh from what she was doing.
"The footprints lead this way.. Hm.." He tracked the footprints to the shelf the two children had been at. "One of my guns is missing!"
Then, he saw the footprints leading into a corner. "There, they are still here!" He stomped over to the corner, and roughly pulled Lapis and Lazuli out.
"Hey, aren't these your twins!?" Mr. Welsh looked at the woman. "Yes, they are!" The woman exclaimed.
"Lapis, Lazuli, explain yourselves!" The woman put her hands on her hips, eyes narrowing. The man let them go.
"...I'm sorry mom, it was my fault, I decided to break in..." Lapis replied. "I thought it would be fun..."
"Lazuli, is this true?" Their mother looked at the girl. "...Yes mom..." Lazuli replied. "I had nothing to do with it! I wanted to go home."
"Come on Lapis, lets go home right away! You too Lazuli!" Their mom grabbed Lapis by the arm, and practically had to drag him home.
"Please don't tell dad.." Lapis muttered, looking up at their mom. "Oh you'd better bet I'm going to tell your father! And he won't be happy either!" Their mother replied, shouting.
Lazuli stayed quiet as they walked home, on the verge of crying. When they got home, she was locked in her room while her parents dealt with Lapis.
She could still hear the yelling and screaming coming from downstairs, and it was driving the young girl out of her mind.
A few minutes later, their dad shoved Lapis into the room. The boy was bleeding from his arm, where he'd obviously been hit with something.
"Lapis, are you okay?" Lazuli, who had been laying in her bed, sat up. "I'm okay, but I'm getting quite tired of how our parents treat us! They overreact over every little thing!" Lapis replied, shouting.
"I'd hardly call this overreacting, Lapis. You broke into a store and stole a gun for goodness sakes!" Lazuli replied. "You've got to understand the severity of that."
"..." Lapis didn't reply. "Lazuli, I want to go somewhere." He walked to the window and opened it.
"You mean like.. run away!?" Lazuli's eyes widened. "But that's crazy!"
"Come on Lazuli, wouldn't you like to see other places other than just this city?" Lapis looked back at his twin, smirking.
"Well, maybe." Lazuli got up and joined Lapis at the window. "But this city's pretty interesting." She looked at him, grinning.
"Oh come on, Lazuli! There's a lot more out there than just this city!" Lapis tossed a rope out the window and tied to a small tree, sliding down it.
Lazuli reluctantly followed. "I guess so, Lapis... But mom and dad will be so worried!" She argued, following after her twin brother.
"They can worry." Lapis shrugged. "I don't care." He crossed the road, Lazuli following slightly after him. "You can't mean that!" She yelled at him.
"I do." Lapis replied, still smirking. "I don't care what they think. We'll be fine on our own! Right, Lazuli?" He glanced back at her.
"I.. guess so." Lazuli replied, still very unsure about this. "Well I know so!" Lapis jumped over the fence that marked the end of the city limits.
"But.. Where are we going?" Lazuli asked. "Everywhere!" Lapis whirled around, his smirk turning into a full on grin. "We're going to explore!"