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The breeze of the Italian air flowed through my long brown hair. Today was a good day. I was focused and ready for the job. I was sitting on the boat with my good friend Lyle. I just checked the boat to see if it was ready for its ride ahead. Lyle was doing some computer stuff. I never really understood computers. My other buddy Left Ear was reading some book on shore. I was just sitting there daydreaming about the beautiful city of Venice. It was a nice day. The sun was high the skies were clear it was beautiful.
"Hey I said move!" came the voice of the stupid Englishman. I snapped out of my daze and gave him a look.
"Why do you have to be such an asshole?" I said to him mocking his accent. He gave me a look that could kill.
"Because I still don't understand why you are here." Handsome Rob and I never got along. We had done a few heists in the past and sometime the guys had to split us up.
"I am here because I am the mechanic, the lookout, the girl who runs errands, and if god forbid something happened to you the second driver!" I said back to him he rolled his eyes and moved around me.
"Cant you guys get along?" Lyle said.
"No!" Handsome Rob and I said in unison.
"Come along, make yourself useful. Untie that line." he said to Left Ear I suppose. "Today."
"Yeah." Lyle said.
"Yeah Gillian. If you don't mind." Left Ear said. I muffled a laugh. We sat down and Handsome Rob put the boat in drive and we were off. The wind was whipping my hair around and for once I was prepared with a hair tie and put my hair up. We arrived at the meeting place to see Charlie and John waiting. As soon as the boat stopped they got on.
"We set?" Charlie asked Lyle.
"Yeah I've enhanced the viewing matrix to track both the Cartesian coordinates and three altitude angles, the yaw, pitch and roll to give us the exact position an orientation of our baby." Lyle said. All of which basically flew over my head. I got the basics of it but I didn't understand most of it.
"Were in Italy, speak English." Left Ear said.
"Yeah." I said.
"Michelle how's the boat?" Charlie asked turning to me.
"Ship shape." I said with a smile he smiled back. I have know Charlie since grade school, and I have known John for almost the same amount of time Charlie has. These guys were basically my family.
"Steve, how we looking?" Charlie said into his headset. To prove Handsome Rob's point of me having no place here I didn't get a headset. I always had one before though. But I was going to be on the boat the whole time with Handsome Rob and Lyle. I didn't really need one, but the downer was I didn't get to hear what was going on.
"Still no word from the garbageman?" John said. Steve and I were different from the others. We had dated way back when but come to find out he is a bigger asshole then Handsome Rob, but we put up with each other. Even if it is incredibly awkward.
"Steve how many times do I have to tell you? Trust everyone. Just don't trust the devil inside them." John said his famous words. Then we started our nice leisurely boat ride to our destination. I looked around us. Venice was magnificently beautiful. Charlie gave Lyle the nod to open the gate and we drove in like we owned the place.
"Were in." Charlie said to Steve. We all got off the boat doing the things we had been told to do earlier. I tied the boat to the dock with the help of Charlie.
"Your men are still not in position?" John said to Steve. John walked around and I couldn't really hear what he was saying. I helped grab some of the materials from Handsome Rob as John looked over at Charlie. Not knowing what they were saying was killing me. My headset was damaged on the last heist and we hadn't thought about getting a new one.
"Our baby's being taken out of here tonight. This is our only shot at it." Lyle said.
"Keep going?" Charlie asked John.
"Its up to you, kid." John said. This was Charlies first heist that he was in charge of. I could tell he was a bit nervous but he still had it together.
"It's a go." Charlie said with a smile and we all got back to work. Lyle was giving Steve directions on where to paint the explosives. I wasn't really paying attention. The only reason I went on this heist is because I had nothing else to do and I want the money. I started to get the scuba gear ready for John and Charlie.
"OK Left Ear you're up. 14 feet 4 inches from the west wall." Lyle said.
"You need some help Rob?" I asked as he was putting together the fake safe.
"From you? No." he said.
"Rob..." Charlie said. That was all he had to say. Rob rolled his eyes and motioned for me to come and help. We completed it and we were ready. Minutes later the safe came crashing down, Rob put the boat in drive and we were off.