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Molly spread the blueprints across the kitchen table revealing a bouncy castle fortress surrounded by juice boxes. "Okay, Bill, we hit the Johnson kid's birthday at fourteen hundred hours." Bill squinted at the crayon-drawn map, his face scrunched like he'd been asked to solve quantum physics. "Remind me again why we're robbing a six-year-old?" Molly tapped the pile of presents in the center with a laser pointer she stole from a cat. "Because last year that pile was worth four hundred bucks in Paw Patrol merchandise alone." Bill poured himself more cereal, missing the bowl entirely. "Right, but there's going to be parents, clowns, and, god help us, children." "We go in as entertainers, Bill. Classic Trojan horse." "Last time you said Trojan horse you actually tried to bring a horse into the library." Molly produced two crumpled costumes from a duffel bag that smelled faintly of old glitter. "You will be Mr. Wiggles the clown, I will be Princess Sparkle-Butt the Magnificent." Bill held up the tiny tutu that was clearly meant for a child. "Molly, this won't fit. My butt is not sparkly nor magnificent." "Fine, you be Princess, I'll be the clown. Focus on the presents, not fashion." The plan was simple, which meant it would certainly go terribly wrong before anyone got cake. "So we walk in, distract them with balloon animals, grab the loot, and vanish?" "Exactly. While you make a poodle, I back the van up to the present table." Bill attempted to inflate a balloon and immediately turned purple and dizzy. "Molly, what if they want us to actually entertain? I don't know any kids songs." "Just sing whatever, they won't notice. They're hopped up on sugar and screaming." Molly checked her watch, a plastic one with dinosaurs on it she'd taken from evidence. "We have twenty minutes before the piñata breaks and chaos reigns. That's our window." Bill finally got the balloon inflated, then let it go with a squeal. "I still think the Antwerp diamond heist would have been less humiliating." "Less humiliating, Bill, but did Antwerp have unlimited pizza rolls? I think not." Molly unrolled a second sheet showing laser tripwires made of crepe paper and a guard dog that was actually a very judgmental chihuahua. "The chihuahua is the real security. My cousin lost an ankle that way." Bill nodded solemnly, because he too respected the ancient power of small angry dogs. The kitchen smelled of coffee and desperation, the official perfume of all great criminal masterminds. "Do we at least get cake after we steal everything?" Molly stared at him as if he had asked whether water was wet. "Bill, we get all the cake. That is the secondary objective." Outside, a minivan full of screaming children drove past, a terrifying omen of what awaited them. "I was against the clown shoes from the start." Both of them looked at the tiny shoes, which squeaked ominously even without anyone wearing them. Molly sighed and folded the blueprints into a pizza box.