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Molly: “Okay, Bill, eyes up. The nursery wing is this way, and I swear if one more security camera has a sticker shaped like a cloud, I’m suing the concept of joy.” Bill: “Relax. We’re professional. Besides, cloud cameras can’t testify. They just record guilt and dreams.” Molly: “You’re talking like a man who still thinks burglar alarms are just very loud suggestions.” Bill: “They are. I tried talking to one once. It didn’t listen, but I felt heard.” Molly: “Tonight we’re stealing the presents. Not the cake. Not the weird glitter slime. Presents.” Bill: “Presents, presents, presents. Like a song. Like a carol. Like—” Molly: “Like you shutting up and moving faster.” Bill: “Fine, fine. But before we break in, we need a plan that respects the emotional atmosphere of the children.” Molly: “Bill, it’s a crime. No one respects anything.” Bill: “Right, but we can at least be… considerate criminals.” Molly: “Considerate? The last time you said considerate, you tried to ‘borrow’ a mascot costume and accidentally wore it yourself for three hours.” Bill: “It was a good costume!” Molly: “You looked like a walking banana with trust issues.” Bill: “I looked like a snack-themed hero.” Molly: “Whatever. Here’s the plan: we enter through the side gate, wait for the magician’s big moment, and then we grab all the wrapped presents from the “Happy Birthday!” table.” Bill: “What about the children?” Molly: “We do not interact with them.” Bill: “No eye contact?” Molly: “No eye contact. No talking. No high-fives. Absolutely no compliments on anyone’s dinosaur hat.” Bill: “But the dinosaur hat is—” Molly: “Bill.” Bill: “Okay, no comments. We just glide. Like… stealthy ghosts of the gift table.” Molly: “Ghosts of the gift table. Great. You always pick the least practical metaphors.” Bill: “They’re practical. Metaphors are mental rehearsal. Mental rehearsal equals readiness.” Molly: “Rehearsal is fine. Just don’t rehearse tripping.” Bill: “I won’t trip. I’m wearing special shoes.” Molly: “Your special shoes are just socks.” Bill: “Socks with traction. Like a poor man’s ninja.” Molly: “They’re gray. Ninjas are black, Bill.” Bill: “My ninja era is evolving.” Molly: “Listen. I’ve got the bag.” Bill: “That’s not a bag. That’s a collapsible beach cooler.” Molly: “It’s a bag.” Bill: “It’s shaped like a sadness.” Molly: “It’s for carrying items discreetly. Presents. Not emotions.” Bill: “How discreet can we be when we’re dragging a cooler through party-goers?” Molly: “We won’t drag. We’ll roll. Like we’re transporting snacks.” Bill: “Do we have snacks?” Molly: “We are the snacks.” Bill: “That’s not how nutrition works.” Molly: “Shh. The door.” Bill: “Is it locked?” Molly: “Mostly. The caretaker forgot to remove the sticky note that says ‘Door is finicky, be gentle!’” Bill: “That note is practically an invitation.” Molly: “Exactly. We’ll be gentle. Like surgeons. Like burglars with manners.” Bill: “You really think children will forgive manners after we steal their presents?” Molly: “Forgiveness is irrelevant. We’re not stealing their hearts. We’re stealing their paper and ribbon.” Bill: “Ribbon is basically joy made edible.” Molly: “Don’t get poetic. Take the screwdriver.” Bill: “Screwdriver? Molly, last time you said screwdriver and handed me a butter knife.” Molly: “That was a different job. This is precision.” Bill: “If the butter knife can open a safe, the butter knife can open anything.” Molly: “This is not a safe. This is a kid’s party door.” Bill: “Doors are doors. They all have hinges and secrets.” Molly: “Fine. Butter knife doors. I’ll use the real tool.” Bill: “How romantic. Two thieves, one party door, infinite consequences.” Molly: “Stop narrating like you’re auditioning for a documentary called ‘The Worst People at Crime.’” Bill: “But documentaries pay well.” Molly: “Only if we don’t end up on the local news doing interviews from inside a clown car.” Bill: “I could rock a clown car.” Molly: “You could rock a couch if it weren’t attached to a jail cell.” Bill: “Okay. I’m ready. One question.” Molly: “One question. Make it quick.” Bill: “When do we stop being ourselves and start being professionals?” Molly: “Now. After we get inside.” Bill: “So… after we do the illegal part, we become professional?” Molly: “Bill!” Bill: “Sorry. Sorry. Focus. We glide, we grab, we vanish, and we leave behind… what? A decoy?” Molly: “A decoy. Yes. I have a decoy present.” Bill: “Is it real?” Molly: “Real enough. It’s a box full of light-up keychains.” Bill: “That’ll keep them busy.” Molly: “It’ll distract them while we escape with actual presents.” Bill: “Like the big one with the shiny wrapping.” Molly: “Exactly. The one that screams ‘expensive’.” Bill: “And the parents will pretend they’re not devastated.” Molly: “They’ll be too busy thanking the magician for levitating doves.” Bill: “Doves are suspicious.” Molly: “Everything here is suspicious. Even the frosting smells like alibis.” Bill: “So we go in when the magician starts.” Molly: “We go in when the magician starts. You watch the table. I’ll secure the gifts.” Bill: “Secure them how? Like with duct tape?” Molly: “With speed.” Bill: “Speed I can do.” Molly: “No heroics.” Bill: “No heroics.” Molly: “No souvenirs.” Bill: “No souvenirs.” Molly: “If a child offers us juice, we decline.” Bill: “What if it’s strawberry?” Molly: “We decline even harder.” Bill: “Fine. I’m basically a professional at declining juice.” Molly: “Then let’s do this.” Bill: “Molly?” Molly: “Yes?” Bill: “Promise me we don’t get caught by the cloud camera stickers.” Molly: “Bill, if the clouds get evidence, we’ll blame the weather.” Bill: “Weather always has an alibi.” Molly: “Move.”