chicanery

"where do we start?"

Silence was a common occurrence at this time during 2am no-one was really out after all. Obviously, there'd be a few people who were around, but not many. Although that isn't what we need to be focusing on, not yet.

Instead, we're focusing on the group that were on a rooftop at 2am seemingly talking about something rather important. The conversation itself was too hard to make out from a low position like down in the streets or alleyways below that were nearby.

Reader's POV
There were several people all collectively involved in the conversation on the rooftop. Words being thrown around comfortably, they all seemed so relaxed with one another.

"If I jumped right now do you think I'd live?" The question was asked by a male who had a smile on his face who seemed somewhat close to the edge.

"Klas, if you jump, emphasis on 'if' I would most likely ask you to do a flip on the way down. You've gotta look stylish you know." Another male replied a hint of amusement obvious in his voice.

A quiet chuckle ran through the air cutting all conversations short."As much as I'd love to continue all these little chats at the moment, however funny they are, we have something else to talk about don't we?"

The question was asked by a female, the only one there in fact the other six were male, yet she held no worry to that at all. An aura of authority leaked from her; she seemed like the leader of the small congregation.

A chorus of sighs rang out across the group "I was hoping you'd forget about that." "Case she never forgets things like this you know that." "Well I'm sorry if I just wanted a break for a bit Josh, it's hard enough at the moment with all these other matters anyhow."

"Calm down all of you. I know it's been hard the past few weeks and I'm sorry about it, but if we stayed we would've died, and we haven't come all this way for nothing." The female seemed stressed about the entire situation.

Nods quickly followed her words from the other males, "We know Matte, just no-one knows what the goal your trying to get at is." "Yeah, we're sorry Chief we're just trying to keep the happiness you know, things have been tense for the past few weeks now."

"It's fine, I understand how your feeling so don't worry about it too much. You're all here aren't you; Josh, Simeone(1), Case, Jacob, Edward and Klas, I've seen you all talking so I know none of you have snuck off." The aura felt rather serious now, instead of the laidback, relaxed one that it held before.

The girl kicked off of the wall she was leaning against; moving to stand in front of them now, the bandana she was wearing providing a layer of protection over her eyes(2). She let out a sigh, before her hidden eyes skimmed over the group in front of her. A small smile came over her face but just as quickly as it arrived, it soon left. A serious look then went over her face, they all knew it was time to find out what was going on, and where they were heading to next.

"Might as well get this over and done with now so I can get on to explaining what I think we should be doing next. I'm sure you all remember what took place a few weeks back now, everything seemed fine before I suddenly asked you to pack up your things before telling everyone to leave right? I can tell you all want an explanation so I'll tell you, but you don't mention anything to anyone about this, you all know the rules." She sighed before mumbling something along the words of "Everyone's been here long enough to understand now anyhow."

"The reason we had to leave all those weeks ago is because someone found out who we were, and the fact that we were the ones who were behind the robbery at the mansion a few months back, turns out someone notified the police and the police ended up searching for us eventually finding where we were living at for the moment in time. A few weeks back one of our connections tipped me off that the police found out and weren't far off from finding where we were so when they finally showed up that's when I asked everyone to pack up their things as we were leaving.