Chapter 2

9.30 am – Tina and Shane’s Apartment Los Angeles

Tina slept peacfully until she was woke up by the deep but gentle voice of Shane.

‘Hey Tina. You have to get up’

‘Just one more minute’

‘You said that 10 minutes ago…come on…we have to be at work in 30 minutes or Julie will kick our asses…again!’

‘That bitch can go to hell’

Shane chuckled. Tina was not a morning person but since they were late for work all the time because of Tinas wake up problems, their boss Julie was making trouble.

They worked together for almost 3 years. Shane worked for the bike courier-service for nearly 8 years without making many close friends. She got on well with everyone but was a mystery for most of them. Then one day this blonde girl came in and asked her where she could find the boss because she was looking for a job. To make a long story short…Shane was the one to show Tina everything and after a week of working together and talking they found so many similarities that they became friends. It took Shane almost a month to find out, that Tina didn’t have a home so she offered her to move in with her. That way they would both save money and had company.

Now, 3 years later they lived and worked together. They were best friends, talked about everything and had no secrets from each other. Except of one thing…Tinas nightly activitys. During the day Tina got access to every building in the city because of her job. That gave her the freedom to locate places where she was able to break in at night. Not every night but when she found a house or arpartment worth the risk she did it.

Through hard training every day she was in shape to run, climb and jump like an athlete. When Shane wasn’t at home she tried different possibillities to open doors and windows without noise and leaving traces, maneuver silently through rooms and to short-out alarm systems.

She knew if Shane would find out about it, she would be disappointed. Shane always thought that Tina was very sensible, naive and fragile. That revelation would question their whole friendship because Shane saw Tina other than she really was.