Alright, this chapter is dedicated to WindowChild. It takes place about a few minutes after the last one did.
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Thalia awoke, crawled out of the tunnel, then climbed off the playground's jungle-gym.
She looked around. There was a woman pushing a little boy on a swing, three girls playing jump rope, and two boys playing frisbee. Besides that, the playground was deserted.
She walked over to the swings and sat down on the one that was farthest away from every one else. Thalia started swing slightly, but not that much. She didn't really enjoy swinging that much because she was afraid of heights.
Thalia sat there, listening to the girls' jump rope rhymes and wondering how much food she could buy with ten dollars. Not much. She thought, frowning.
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Luke walked down the road a little, and came to a playground. Well, he thought, maybe I can pickpocket someone here. Walking into the playground, he saw a girl, only a few years younger than him, sitting on a swing. He noticed something, a small, green rectangle, in her sweatshirt pocket.
Money!
He snuck around behind her, circling around the swing set. Once he got there, Luke reached towards her pocket, he had a grip on the ten dollar bill, when suddenly , the girl grabbed his arm, and stood up, turning around to face him.
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"What the **** do you think your doing with my money?" yelled Thalia.
Luke winced. He had never been caught stealing before. "Can you be any louder?" he asked, gesturing to the woman pushing her kid on th swing, who was now staring at him. If that woman calls the cops, thought Luke, I could be sent to jail for stealing, or worse, they could make me go home.
"So who are you anyway?"asked Thalia as she snatched the ten dollar bill out of Luke's hand.
"Luke Castellan"
"Thalia Grace"
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