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Molly had cased the suburban backyard for three days, disguised as a jogger who kept stopping to admire other people's hedges. Bill had cased it too, but from inside a minivan with the engine running and a playlist called Getaway Mix. Neither had found a truck, a laser grid, or a single adult who looked suspicious to be them. The party, however, was perfect. Balloons sagged over a table. A bouncy castle wheezed like an asthmatic hippo. Twenty children in dinosaur shirts were busy worshipping a cake shaped like a volcano, while their parents argued about milk near the barbecue. In the middle, wrapped in paper and dangerous amounts of tape, sat the presents. Molly: "We are not robbing a bank, Bill." Bill: "Technically, a bank does not have a bouncy castle." Molly: "The birthday boy is turning seven. His loot is guarded by six-year-olds." Bill: "Even better. They trade cake for stickers." Molly: "We need a plan, not optimism and juice boxes." Bill: "I brought disguises. I look like a responsible father." Molly: "You look like you escaped from a dad convention." Bill: "Thanks. You are the suspicious babysitter." Molly adjusted her fake moustache, which was a sock from Bill's novelty drawer, and tried not to cry. She had imagined a sophisticated operation involving ropes, grappling hooks, and a getaway goat. Instead she was crouching behind a plastic flamingo while a magician in a waistcoat attempted to pull a rabbit from a hat that was stuffed with sandwiches. Bill nodded toward the bouncy castle entrance, where a father was handing out socks like tickets to another dimension. Somewhere, a Bluetooth speaker was playing rhymes at a volume that could peel paint. All they needed was nerve, timing, and an utter complete lack of shame. Molly: "Fine. We go in through the garden, grab the presents, and leave before pin the tail." Bill: "What about the piñata? It is full of candy and regret." Molly: "Do not touch the piñata. Last time you cried for an hour." Bill: "I was method acting. Anyway, we need a getaway car." Molly: "We have a shopping trolley. That is our getaway car." Bill: "Perfect. No one suspects a trolley full of stolen LEGO." Molly: "That is literally what we will look like." Bill: "Then we are truly doomed." They crept forward on hands and knees, which made them look less like master thieves and more like gardeners. Molly reached the tower of presents and began sliding them into a bag that read Live Laugh Laundry. Bill, meanwhile, was stuck in the bouncy castle net, whispering apologies to a dinosaur that had impaled his dignity. A child spotted them, pointed, and announced in the tone of a documentary narrator that the babysitter and the dad were stealing the volcano cake's presents. Parents turned. The magician produced a whistle from absolutely nowhere. Molly stood, smiled with the confidence of a woman who had never rehearsed a story, and shouted that this was a surprise audit.