Monday Blues
“He’s kinda hot.”
Sally gave Lightning a look.
“Not this.” She got up to move away from Lightning.
They were waiting for Cruz. The car was parked behind some small restaurant that had delicious smells coming out of there, it made Lightning hungry.
It was finally Monday.
“You know I look kinda cute with a white wig, I might make this my permanent look.” Sally was admiring herself from the car window. She was wearing a white short wig, as Lightning would like to say very cliché of her to do that. She looked good though, the black dress she was wearing fit her well.
“You’re acting as if we’re in some heist movie.”
“Are we not?” Lightning rolled his eyes at that. Sally didn’t take this serious enough but knowing her it was to keep herself calm. Pulling a heist off isn’t an easy thing.
“Oh my god is that Diego from The Umbrella Academy?”
“Very funny Cruz.” Cruz gave the pair a small hug and flashed them her famous smile. It was like the sun, bright and filled you with joy. Wouldn’t expect someone like her to take part in such a thing Lightning thought.
“We all set? Is Jackson ready? Oh, by the way, why didn’t you tell me he’s my girlfriend’s BROTHER?”
“Jesus calm down I had no idea.”
“Montgomery you don’t pay attention to anything at all.”
“Don’t use my legal name with me.” Lightning got into his car to get away from the girls. He loved them, but they were too much for him sometimes. Especially calling him Montgomery or Monty. His birth name. He didn’t let everyone call him that, it was a special name for only special people to use.
Cruz got into the seat next to him and Sally sat in the back with her tech.
This was it, Lightning would finally get his painting back.
“Quick call to Stormy boy, and we’re all ready.”
“Stormy boy? Jesus are you into him already? That’s so gross.” Lightning gave Cruz a slight punch on the shoulder.
He took out his phone to call Storm but the other got ahead of him.
“You guys all ready?”
“Yeah, we’re ready, you?”
“Yup, in my position.”
“Alright, let’s do it then.”
“You guys stay safe, if anything happens to Cruz I’ll get killed by Nat.” Lightning laughed at that. He said his byes and closed the phone, focusing now on his car. His hands were shaking. Terribly shaking.
“Monty?”
“Yeah?”
“Are you alright?”
“I will be.” With that, he started the car and made his way to the museum.
It took about fifteen minutes for them to arrive. It was silent there, not a lot of people visited the museum on Mondays, especially now that schools were open again.
“Well, this is it.” Lightning turned in his seat and looked at the girls.
“Now or never.”
Sally got her equipment ready while Cruz got out of the car. Lightning gave her a small nod showing that she was good to go.
“You think we’ll pull it off?” Lightning could tell Sally was nervous, she kept fidgeting in her seat.
“I know we can pull it off because you’re the mastermind behind all of this Sal, you can do it, okay?”
“Okay.”
Lightning drove the car further away from the museum and left Sally to do her part. He carefully avoided all the cameras and made his way inside through the backdoor.
His heart was beating rapidly, Lightning felt like he could pass out.
Now or never he thought to himself and closed the door behind him.