The Perfect Robbery

This is something I have been thinking of doing for a while…writing short stories. After Apeksha shared her story with me, another friend of mine had expressed her willingness to do a story with me and I was more than ready. And this one was to have a happy ending. Though she started with writing (and very well I must say), I guess she got a little too busy with her life and the story never worked out. Since then, I have been thinking of writing some short stories.....no reality stuff, just my imagination. But never got the time and opportunity to sit through and think of something. Today turned out to be the perfect day to start with it. Somebody was to come with me for a movie, but she had to drop out due to some reasons at the last moment and I decided to devote my time to write this…My first attempt at writing a story. Pls lemme know how this goes…….

The Perfect Robbery:

“So are we going ahead with this?” questioned Jack.
“Why the question at this point of time? You want to back out?” I responded.
“Nopes. But I was just wondering. Do we have to include Jenny in this? I don’t trust her 1 bit”
“Don’t worry about her. She loves me and will stand by me”
“Well, in that case, I would insist lets include Julie as well”
“You know we cant take that chance. Jenny and Julie cant see each other eye to eye. And moreover,her brother is in the police”
“Don’t worry about her. She loves me, as much as she hates her brother, and will stand by me”
He continued “Anyways we need 4 people to execute the plan. And she is perfect for this”
I could sense an aggression in his voice and I knew this time he wouldn’t listen to me and if I refused to side along with him, he might just back out.
“Well, if you insist. So we 4 meet tonight for the final discussion and our last supper together” Saying that, I headed towards Jenny’s place.
Jenny opened the door trying hard to keep herself awake after a long night. She looked so dazzling in her white night gown with her long hair falling over her shoulders. I knew I was doing all this just for her. Though its been only couple of months since we met, I knew I could even go to the end of the world just to see her smile. I kissed her cheek and stepped in.
As she was preparing tea for me, I was searching for the appropriate words to update her with the change in plans.
“Honey, I need to tell you something. There is a small change in our plan. Jack wants Julie to be a part of it”
“Joe!!” she screamed, “have u gone crazy? Her brother is an inspector. And he is always on the look out to nab you. And you know I just cant stand that bitch.”
“I understand all that dear, but we cannot do this without Jack and if Julie is not a part of this then even Jack wont be”
“Well Joe, I just know we cant trust her and we need to have an alternate plan in place, just in case….”
“Hmm…we will think through this. Now get some sleep. We will be meeting them at the camp tonight for the final discussion before we execute the biggest robbery in town”

I had planned it meticulously taking care of even the finest of the details as I laid out the final plan in front of all,
“At sharp 12.30 p.m, 1 guard would go out for lunch. Jenny will engage into a conversation with the only guard present there and keep him distracted while I and Jack will slip inside so that the guard never recognizes us. Jack will get into the control room where everybody would be out for lunch and deactivate the systems. After that, he will come to the lobby and after going across few antiques, will drop down unconscious. The few visitors coming to the place on a Tuesday afternoon would rush to help him and I will slide in the duplicate jewels in the box and steal the real ones, hand it over to Jenny who will move out and towards the car in which Julie would be waiting for her. I will rush to Jack and under the pretext of taking him to hospital, will get him into the car and from there all 4 of us take off. We will sell the jewels, divide the proceeds equally and by the time the theft is discovered we would be far away from this place and maybe from each other as well.We would be millionaires!!!!can u imagine that. But just keep in mind if anybody tries to double cross then all of us would be in trouble including the one who tries to backstab”. As I was saying this, mine and Jenny’s gaze went straight towards Julie who was quick to spot it and retorted, “You guys can trust me”. And we left the camp.

“But bro, you have to promise me, Jack wont get into trouble because of this” said Julie
“Don’t worry kid sis, you just play along their plan, I will take care of the rest- Jack and the money” said Inspector John holding his gun tight.

I crashed into bed as soon as I reached back home but I couldn’t sleep. I kept dreaming about me and Jenny in an island far away in each others arms. All our problems would come to an end tomorrow and we would start our lives afresh. All that we had to do was stick to our plans.

It was a big day and I was confident the plan would be executed successfully. I trusted Jack and Jenny to carry it through but was a little concerned about Julie.
The clock struck 12.30 and things started moving as planned. I handed the jewels to Jenny and rushed towards Jack. Jenny walked out and then all of a sudden instead of getting into Julies car, she jumped into a speeding jeep which stopped for second and then just took off. And from nowhere came 2 policemen who handcuffed me and Jack.

After traveling a safe distance, the jeep driver took off his police cap, smiled at Jenny and gave her a long kiss. “ I had tipped off couple of my colleagues. Jack and Joe would be arrested under suspicion and once it is verified that the jewels lying in there are duplicate, they will file a case against them and then a trial. The police might not be able to prove them guilty depending on evidences but we will have sufficient time to escape with all the money and they would never be able to reach us.”
“And what about Julie?”
“I did not want to cheat her, but she was getting a little too close to Jack which would have spoiled our plans. I am sure she will be alright and will forgive her brother”
“I love You and the devilish grin on your face” said Jenny kissing him again.

In the jail,
“Joe what do we do now? We have been cheated. We will have to suffer in the jail for the good part of rest of our lives.”
“Why do we have to be in jail? What crime have we committed?” I smiled.
“Oh nothing much….we just stole jewels and replaced it with duplicate stuff at the place from where we got arrested. I guess that isn’t a big enough crime for you”
I continued smiling “Have we?”
"You mean to say......but.....how did you....?"
"Well, Jenny happened to warn me that Inspector John was looking to nab me which was for an earlier case which only I and John knew about and I had always hidden it from her..."

“Sorry madam, these jewels are fake. I cant pay you more than 100 bucks for these.”
Jenny and John looked at each other in despair and disbelief!!!!!!!!!!!!