"Shoplifter, you'll never learn
When you commit the crime
Shoplifter, you're getting burned
And now you gotta do the time
It's a one, two, three on the felony
Well, not everything is free
Now that you served the community
It's the life of a petty thief
It's not considered stealing
Unless you're getting caught
But it isn't called stealing
Tryin' to take something you haven't got.
Shoplifter you'll never learn
What lies behind your back
Not a burglar or a bank robber
Just a kleptomaniac
It's not considered stealing
Unless you're getting caught
But Jimmy caught stealing
Tryin' to take something you haven't got
Shoplifter, you'll never learn
When you commit the crime
Shoplifter, you're gettin' burned
And now you gotta do the time
Oh, now you gotta do the time
Oh, now you gotta do some time"
-Shoplifter, Green Day.
If there is one lesson that we all should learn, it's that there is another side to everything. Every city has a vibrant side, filled with clean buildings and bustling offices and restaurants. Every city has an run down side, with dinghy worn buildings, cracked roads and alleyways where sketchy goings on occur. It was on this side that Kaius was reborn, recast, and reinvented. The police tend to have a larger presence on the rough side of the city, they stop hundreds of crimes. You see it in the news everyday, but only the police's side of the story. So here we ask ourselves, when does the thief get a word? When is his side of the story told? That is where our story begins.
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Shoplifter: E.O.W Series, Book 1
ActionGuns, gangs, thieves, junkyards. This life isn't what Kaius had in mind when he left behind his small town home. He finds himself living in an abandoned factory on the edge of Philadelphia with a gang of lovable yet reclusive miscreants. These trai...
