"Come on! Run faster!" Riven shouted as he sprinted down the alley way to his pals.
All he saw was the dark corners of the buildings, some dumpsters, and the puddles on the ground in order to avoid them. As he was running, he had to remember where exactly to turn.
Right, left. Then a sharp left and a turn to the right shortly after that. These instructions and the goal of getting back to the park is what he focused on.
It was hard to do this though, since Kendall and Dan were trailing behind him and not keeping up the pace. If they got caught, he might get busted too and then he would be done for good. He couldn't get in trouble one more time because then he would have to face serious consequences.
Riven continued to run and sometimes look back to see if Kendall and Dan were still there, and they were, but he could also see the undercover cops following them and gaining speed.
He had to think of a way to lose them quickly before leading them to the park.
He couldn't use force because that would just get him into more trouble, but what else was he supposed to do? Why didn't he just have team mates that were just as fast as him and were better at heisting in general? They are the ones who set off the guards, why should he care if they get caught?
But he did care, because they were his friends and he didn't want to see them caught.
As he made a right into the next alleyway he got an idea. He saw the boxes of apples behind the back door to what must have been the grocer's shop. Riven ran up to them and stopped, waiting for the right moment.
Half a minute later Kendall and Dan ran around the corner and shortly after that the cops turned the corner. Riven had to time this out perfectly.
"Dan! Get some of these boxes quick!" Riven said as he pulled him by his shirt next to him.
One second after that Riven dumped two crates of apples, one in each hand, onto the ground right in front of the cops. Dan had gotten one box out and Kendall continued to run to their destination. Since they didn't have any warning, they tripped over them.
Riven and Dan then began to sprint after Kendall and Riven hoped that they now had a slight advantage over the cops. He didn't look back until he was almost at the park, and when he did he was relieved to see that they weren't being followed.
Once they got to the park then went to the far fence and opened the latch, which led them into a back yard of a worn down house. They got into the house and collapsed onto the beaten up sofa and chairs in the living room.
"Well that was a close one" Kendall said as he looked through his sack of goods. He was responsible for getting the bigger items such as the actual cash and the gold to sell for cash at a pawn shop later on.
"Yeah, because of you" Riven retorted.
"Sorry for not being as fast as you, I was a bit weighed down with this huge bag of cash and gold that you so conveniently didn't volunteer to take" Kendall said.
"Because I took the higher risk stuff." Riven replied. He took out the bags of powder out of his pockets and put them onto the table.
"these need to be stowed away, Don't use all of them for yourselves now, we can only take one bag. The rest has to be sold." Riven said.
"Niiiice steal dude! But you know one is only enough just for one person each! Even you go through those all the time!" Dan responded.
"Well we need cash more than the buzz." Riven said. He put his feet up onto the table and took out a cigarette and lit it. He inhaled it and his nerves calmed down instantly.
"Next time I'm getting the drugs" Kendall mumbled. He got up and went to the kitchen. "Anyone else want a drink?" he asked.
"Yes" Riven and Dan responded. Kendall brought back 3 glasses of scotch and they all drank together.
Riven wasn't proud of the way he had to earn money and his lifestyle, but he didn't see any way out of it and the way he saw it, he wasn't given much of a choice by his parents.
"Anyways good job today boys, but we have to wait a while until we do it again, we cannot get caught because this time we won't be able to get out of it." Riven said.
"Let's just relax then!" Dan said.
"Sounds good to me." Riven said without expression. He laid his head back with his cigarette in his mouth and closed his eyes, trying to forget about all of the bad things he had done not just in the past day, but in the past few years.