Chapter 6: Green, Blondie, Chilly, and Bambi

Ste looks down at Brendan trying to clean the red wine off his pristine white carpet. He laughs at him and relaxes his legs right on top of Brendan's back as if he is an ottoman. Brendan gets on his knees and throws the bleach covered rag at Stes face.

"Oi that could have blinded me."

"That was the point." He gets up and walks over to the restroom and Ste follows right behind him. "I probably burned my fingerprints off with all that bleach."

"That's a good thing. You'll never get caught." Ste shuffles over to his side and wraps his arms around him as Brendan washes his hands. "So you know you don't have to do this?"

"Do what exactly?"

"This heist. You can stay out of it. I can see you don't want to be a part of it."

Brendan in fact doesn't want to be a part of it. The chance of either of them getting away with isn't good.

"I don't. But it's too late I'm in."

"No it's not. Look let's just go back out there and we'll tell Warren you have other things you have to do and can't be in this one." Ste starts to walk away but Brendan grabs him around the waist. He places his chin on his shoulder.

"No Steven. I don't see you all making it out without me."

And it's true. Warren and Walker are unstable. They lose their focus within a blink of an eye. If one thing goes wrong they would both just end up shooting away like maniacs. Ste on the other hand isn't an experienced robber. He's been caught so many times its ridiculous. Brendan is the one that uses his brains instead of his fists. They need everyone on board if they plan to make it out alive.

"And I'm not leaving you to be by yourself."

"Bren I can look after myself."

"Maybe. But I rather be there just to make sure. Now come on I think I hear them out there."

They both walk out the restroom and see Warren and Walker on one couch not speaking to each other.

"About time. We gotta start planning." Warren places a couple sheets of paper in the table. "So look I was thinking we should all have code names."

Everyone stares at him like he's a moron. Then Walker shrugs his shoulders and says ok.

"Great so let's start with you Brady. What should we name him?"

They all stare straight at him and Brendan gets uncomfortable with all the eyes on him.

"I got it!" Ste says all excited. "Mustache!"

"Steven everyone would know that would be me."

"Oh right never mind."

Warren stares at the two of them and shakes his head. "How about green?" He feels the need to explain when everyone looks confused. "You know cause he's the richest one here and money is green."

"I guess." Brendan takes on the name. "What about Walker over here. I say druggie."

"You're funny Brendan. You better watch that mouth of yours. It can get you into a lot of trouble."

Brendan studies him for a second and can see that Ste is also looking at him with some concern.

"Alright boys lets settle down."

"Goldilocks! No no Blondie!" Ste jumps in there and so Walker takes the name Blondie.

"Fine I'll take Blondie. Warren you're up next."

All 4 of them stay in silence for a while and can't think of anything to call him. Brendan randomly throws out the name "Puffa" cause of his jacket but it gets a big NO from Warren.

"How about Chilly since you always wear a jacket?"

"That works." Warren takes the name of Chilly and they all turn to Ste next. "Rat boy?"

"Shut up. We should change your name to fatso how about that!"

"Can we stop?" Brendan says in annoyance. "This bickering is giving me a headache. We're calling you Bambi."

"Bambi? I don't want that name."

"Too bad it's been picked already."

"Fine." Ste crosses his arms and takes the name of Bambi. "So what next?"

"Glad you asked. So we need to figure out how we are going to get into the building first off."

"So me and Warren have been sort of spying in the place."

"Oh without us then."

"Well you two were occupied. Look anyway we been taking note of the people working there and we were able to figure out who the manager of the place is."

Ste moves closer to Brendan and leans his head on his shoulder. He gets a small smile from Brendan as he focuses back on the 2 guys in front of him. "Ok so what does that have to do with anything?"

"Well there's no way we are just gonna be able to walk in there. But the manager will have free access to it at any time and staff wouldn't even question it."

"So now were putting kidnapping on our record as well. Is that it?"

"Might as well. We just gotta figure out how."

Stes eyes light up as he gets an idea. "How about this we follow him at one point and kidnap him at gun point."

"How exactly?"

"Well why do you usually pull over when you're driving?"

"Police." Brendan laughs and looks at Warren as they remember last week when they sped off and ignored all the police sirens in the background. "Wait you're not saying we pretend to be cops? So now we are robbing, kidnapping, and impersonating an officer. Do I have that right?"

"If we are robbing millions we might as well go all the way. Anyway look so we get a car and put those blue lights on to make it appear like a cop car. Then one of us follows him home, pulls him over, and then handcuffs him and puts him in the car."

"Ok but what are we doing with him?"

"Well were gonna use him as our entrance. What else?"

"Oh yeah I'm gonna be expecting to see us on one of those shows. You know the ones where they show the worlds dumbest criminals. The other prisoners watching it around me will have a great big laugh at that." Brendan gets up to get himself a whiskey and everyone else follows. They get a couple snacks and more alcohol before they go back to planning. Then something pops into Brendan's head.

"Warren you bastard green isn't for money at all is it?"

"Sure it is Brady. What else would I be talking about?"

"Well isn't green the color of jealousy?"

"Fits you perfectly."