National Treasure

The Weird Scottish Thief.

Mercedes' pov
I ran through the extremely old and dirty streets keeping an eye out for the officer that was just chasing me, or maybe some of his buddies, cause I didn't want to get caught especially now that I have enough money for her I was also keeping an eye out for the one building I have a love hate relationship with. Then after a long ass time of nothing but running and hiding I see the very old extremely run down building I am forced to call home for now I will get enough money one day to get us out of here.

"MOM! I'M HOME!" I yelled when I opened the door. I close the door as I hear footsteps walking down the stairs. I look and see my slightly sick mother on the stairs after a few seconds of silence and staring she went into a coughing fit which I frowned at as I ran over to help her so she didn't fall down the stairs. I dug into my pocket and gave her the small pouch of coins, that I spent the afternoon stealing for her, she looks at the pouch with a suspicious glance.

"Where did you get this much money?" She asked with a frown cause even though we are extremely poor she doesn't believe that stealing is ever an option she believes if we just do what's right then it'll fix itself and yea that's true but...desperate times call for desperate measures.

"I've been saving up for a while" I say, half lying so she would take it, walking over to her coat that she's had for a while I believe...I think it's as old as me to be honest.

"Oh honey I can't ta-" she started but I shook my head cutting her off she needed this if she wanted to get better without using sketchy methods.

"No it's ok I saved it up for you anyway if you wanna get better you gotta get going mom" I say, only half lying again, but it's enough for her to believe me but she nods at what I had added. She smiles and puts the coat on opening the door she held the coin pouch close to her chest.

"Ok if you say so sweetie I'll be back as soon as I can" she says while her smile turns into a small smile on her face as she leaves closing the door behind her I sigh and turn to the radio and hear one of the know-it-alls talking. I'm glad my American friend isn't like them even if she works with them.

"Yes the Declaration of Independence would be extremely expensive and if someone stole it I do feel that the government would pay any amount to get it back but it would be extremely difficult to steal due to how guarded it is" a female voice says droning on but I only focus on the expensive part. I could use the money to get me and my mom out of here maybe move somewhere away from here! It's perfect but now I gotta find a way over to America which makes me look over at the business card. Someone offered to send me or my mom over to America to find work awhile ago I smile and after a few moments mom comes back with a small brown bag.

"Hey mom I think that I'm gonna take up that persons offer to go to America. We need money and you need the medicine" I say and she stops in shock and smiles at me cause we've been talking about this and I always said no since she needed someone here...or that's what I always said she isn't to bad but the other people here would gladly target some sick lady walking down the street if she had even the slightest amount of money. 

"Are you sure? I mean it's ok I'll agree with it but you were so adamite to stay here with me" she says and even though I didn't really want to leave her alone...I knew I had to in order to get us out of here.

"Yea as much as I want to stay here you need money for your meds and anything else that you might need mom" I say as she smiles sadly and walked over to me and kissed the top of my head while hugging me I hug her back for a moment. I quickly said goodbye and left before I cried or changed my mind on leaving. I walked towards the persons place where they said to go if we ever changed our minds when I saw one of my...friends...well he's not really a friend but oh well close enough in this damn town.

"Oi Mercedes!" He calls out so I stop and he runs over to me so I force a smile as I'm kind of in a rush but ok he's one of the only people here I can stand.

"Yeah?" I ask while fixing/messing with my hoodie's sleeve something I found myself doing a lot which I need to stop as it makes me look guilty.

"Where you going lass you seem to be in a hurry?" He asked me I thought about telling him to watch my mother while I was gone but I couldn't risk her safety like that...besides she could find out what I was really doing all this time. That and no-one knows about my personal life and I want it to stay like that cause once again some people here won't hesitate to target a sick lady if she had so much as a single dollar.

"I'm hopefully going to America to find work to get easy money" I say bouncing on my heels, hoping he would drop it, he nods giving me a smile and a quick laugh before wishing me luck and going on his way to wherever he was going originally.

'Don't worry mom I'll get you the money you need' I thought before heading to the persons house again.