Robert Robber

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Later that night after Robbie had gone to her room, I brought out the locket from my pocket and examined it.

It was made of authentic gold and there was a small latch on the front. I looked at it more closely and noticed an engraving on the latch,the letter "B" on it.

Intrigued, I opened it and I saw two oval shaped passport photographs that were cut to fit the locket.

One was that of a little boy and the other was of a beautiful woman. The woman and the boy both had red hair and the same eyes, so It was safe to say the boy is her son.

As I clicked the latch of the locket shut Robbie barged in and I quickly hid it in my trouser pocket again,

"Robert,they called from Bumble Bass," Bumble Bass is the name of the party hall I perfomed in earlier, "a theif robbed a lady tonight, he took her hand bag and all her jewellery. However they caught the theif but they can't find one item so they assumed he dropped it somewhere. Rob,did you find anything valuable?", she asked,her arms folded in front of her. She was accusing me of stealing it.

"What do you mean?, oh I get it, Robert the thief", I scoffed.

Her face fell, "you're not a thief, I was only asking if you saw anything that looked valuable", she said.

I don't know why but I found myself saying, "no, I didn't steal anything from anyone. Now leave me alone".

I turned my back to her and started to unbutton my shirt.

"You know what I meant Rob,you always seem to...", then she sighed, "I'm sorry. Good night", I heard her leave the room.

I took off all my clothes and sat on the persian rug that lay at the foot of my bed.

I had indeed found something and I would have given it back but I couldn't bring myself to give it to Robin because the boy in the locket looks too much like me.

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Saturday morning I was out jogging, thinking about discreet ways to find who the owner of the locket is when I tripped over a rock that wasn't there yesterday, so I staggered as I tried to gain my balance and I pushed a passerby to the ground by accident.

"You should jog with your eyes o-", she started to say before she squealed

"OMFG its Robert Clayton!"

And she enveloped me in a big hug.

The lady smelled like strawberries, maybe her shampoo or soap or something like that.

After three seconds I began to pry her off me.

"I'm pleased to see you too but I need to complete my excercise", I said and started to run again. She was beside me,"please let me just run beside you for like two minutes,you're my idol. I mean your songs touch my soul, so deep".

I really wasn't enjoying her talk so I stopped and looked her in the eye and said, "I'm in a really bad mood and I can't tolerate a starstruck woman right now, do you mind?" , as calmly as I said it, her face still showed that her feelings were hurt but she stopped, "bye", she turned and started running back the other way. I let out a sigh of relief and continued to run.

While I continued my own race,I couldn't help but feel bad because of the way I snapped at the woman. I shrugged it off and went back home.

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Robin was busy at her computer when I got back. "Hi,Rob",she said without looking up from her computer. I wanted to answer her but I thought about her accusations last night and the fact that she was right made me feel stupid, "still mad at me?", she was hugging me from the back,"nah,can't stay mad at you", I said and I meant it. I can't be angry with Robbie for longer than 24 hours. I always need her.

"Great!, I invited one of my friends over to lunch and she'll be here soon", that took me aback.

"Wait,what!?, you never have visitors over at this house because of my condition and didn't all your friends go to Paris? ", Robbie's friends went on a two-week vacation but she stayed back to help with my concerts.

"Yeah. Well, I made a new friend yesterday and I need you to stay away just incase she's a fan of yours. I don't want her to be nervous or anything",she said but I knew she meant that I should stay away so that I don't steal things from her friend. I decided to play along,

"Yeah,of course, I need to wash up anyway", I said and started going up to my room.

Just as I was about to open the door I heard an annoyingly familiar voice saying,"heyyy,I thought I'll come by early so that we could make lunch together, OMFG, your house is so beautiful".

The lady I ran into this morning.