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It was a bad idea. Johnny knew it was a bad idea. But it was the only idea had he, being unable to think of anything better on the drive over. He didn't want to hurt Meena's feelings and didn't think he'd be able to bring himself to ask for the bracelet back. Just the thought of her disappointed face, or even potentially heartbroken face, made his guts knot up in guilt. He couldn't stop thinking about how hesitant Meena had been that morning when she had accepted the bracelet, how her eyes had lite up with surprise at receiving such a gift. No, there was definitely no way Johnny could just ask for it back. If it weren't for the chance of someone recognizing the stupid bracelet and getting either her or Johnny into legal trouble, he'd probably just let her keep it.

Johnny pulled into Meena's neighborhood and parked about a block away from her house. At this point, it was just past 10:00 pm and was dark out. He sighed and let his head fall against the steering wheel. How had the day gone so wrong that he was considering breaking into his friend's house. And that that currently was the winning idea as well. This morning, he'd only been nervous about whether or not Meena would like the cruddy gift. Now here he was, planning his way to break into her home and steal a gift he gave her under false pretenses to avoid worse legal repercussions later on. As Johnny pulled himself together to get out of his truck, he wished he'd never gotten out of bed that morning.

Johnny swiftly snuck through the neighbors' yards and hopped a fence into Meena's backyard. He'd been to Meena's house before and knew her room window faced the backyard. Her light was on and the curtains were drawn. He crept up to the window and tried to peer in for half a second before yanking his head away out of guilt. He felt like a peeping tom. Still, he could hear Meena walking around and knew he had to get her out of her room before he could look for the bracelet. Acting in his panic, he did the first idea that came to his mind.

Johnny texted Meena's cell asking if she was still awake and waited nervously. He could hear her cell phone chime in her room. After a few agonizingly long moments, she replies.

M: Hey, what's up?

Johnny texted back the first excuse he could think of to get her out of her room.

J: Are you busy? I was in the area and wanted to show you something?

After the text was sent, Johnny waiting anxiously for a reply. The plan his brain had haphazardly thrown together was that he just had to lure Meena outside
and away from her room long enough to sneak in, grab the bracelet, and sneak out. After that, he could just ninja his way back to his car and drive up like it nothing, say he got lost and that's why he's late. It would work. It had to work. It was the only plan he had.

His phone off and he looked down at his message from Meena.

M: Right now? It's kind of late. Is everything ok?

Johnny swallowed thickly and wrote back.

J: It'll only take a minute

After a moment, he also sent.

J: And yes everything is fine

Another agonizing few minutes later, Meena replied.

M: Okay. I'll meet you out front :)

Johnny heard movement from in Meena's room as she got ready to leave. After hearing her bedroom door open and click shut, he peeked through the window. Empty. Quietly, Johnny opened the window and snuck through.

Looking around, Meena's room hadn't changed much from the last time he'd seen it. It was a busy little room with a desk, bed and nightstand on one side, and a dresser and closet on the other. The room also had, what Johnny considered, an excessive number of stuff animals and nicknacks covering most every horizontal surface. It didn't take long for Johnny to spot the little jewelry box on Meena's bedside nightstand. He had just opened it to look through it when he suddenly heard yelling.

"What do you mean you're going out?! It's late! Where you goin' at a time like this?!" Johnny quickly recovered from the mini heart attack caused from the gruff voice. He immediately recognized it as Meena's grandfather. As well as recognizing the next voice as Meena's mother.

"Oh leave her alone, dad. She's fine!"

"She too young t' be running around at this time of night!" Meena's grandfather retorted grumpily.

Then Meena herself chimed in. "I'm eighteen, Grandpa. Ya know, the same age you were when you got married." Meena called back with a giggle in her voice. A grin tugged at Johnny's lips as well at her comment.

He returned his focus to the small jewels box. Focus soon turned into panic as he pawed through the box's contents twice. Johnny's anxiously starting looking around rest of the nightstand before moving on to check the dresser, so focus on his search that he wasn't listening to his surrounding. And didn't hear the approaching footsteps. By the time Johnny registered the sound of the bedroom door open, it was too late.