Lets rob a bank!

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"So Jess, when you planning on getting your own place?" Dean said with a wink, this must be the 50th time he has said this to me in the past week, yeah I get it I'm staying in his house but it was Beth's idea to let me stay for as long as it takes until I get my own place.
"Trust me dean, as soon as I have the money I will be out of your hair, well whatever's left of it that is" ooh I know I can be mean at times but since growing up with three older brothers you learn how to have a sharp tongue.
"Funny Jess, now I'm off to work, you should do the same" dean says whilst grabbing his keys and walking out, I just show him a smug smile, great house to myself.

I have been in America for about a month now staying with my cousin Beth, we were never really close as kids as I was living in England but on occasions we would have holidays where I could spend time with her along with my other cousin Annie. I always wanted to live in America so i decided when things got really bad back home that I'd move out here, but the problem is I have no money, so my current plan is to stay with Beth until I can afford to rent a flat, unfortunately that means I have to be in the same presents at dean who is a complete dick head, but apart from that I love spending time with the children, which reminds me I have to pick them up from school.
Hoping into my cheap scrap of metal I call my car I drive the short distance to the school where I do my daily activity of picking the kids up, I always end up taking them somewhere fun afterwards as I am an adult child myself at the age of 23, today we just got ice cream before going straight home.

"The gang has returned!" I shout as We walk through the door, I swear I get more hyped than the kids with the amount of sugar I just consumed. Beth walks out from the kitchen and greats us "wow where have you been now? Wait a minute is that Ice cream I see all around your faces she says whilst picking Emma and spinning her around, Beth is such a good mum, maybe if I had a mum like her I wouldn't have ended up the way I am or done the things I have done.

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Later that evening when all the children are asleep us ladies decided to have a little woman's night, which basically just included a bunch of wine and snacks, we were all talking about our money struggles which were all very apparent.
" I just don't know how I'm going to afford my baby's new medication" ruby said taking a sip of her wine,
" and how will I afford the custody battle for Sadie" Annie said.
"Maybe we should just rob a bank" I say Half joking Half serious
"If only if was that simple" Beth says with a chuckle
"Well maybe it can be... look maybe a bank is a bit extra but what about a supermarket? Even the one Annie works at, there is easily a few thousand in the registers and if we get someone to unlock the safe then id say there's at least going to be 20, 30 grand in there if not more"
"That's crazy Jess, we're not about to get a criminal record" ruby says
" you know what Jess that crazy plan might not actually be that crazy, you see the supermarket I work at has very minimal security cameras and the security, well that's even worse, I recon if we plan this right, we could actually get away with it" Annie says perking up to the idea.
"Well there is no harm in planning, what do you guys think?" I say looking hopeful,
And even without a word they all just nod.
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The rest of the night was spent actually planning what we were going to do next, and we were planning to do it sooner than expected...

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