WHO: Ian Gallagher and Dagny Malikov WHAT: Stealing camping equipment WHEN: Saturday Morning WHERE: Walmart WARNINGS: TBD STATUS: Closed, Ongoing
Ian was having second thoughts about this whole thing. Sure, it sounded exciting and fun, but he didn't usually make a habit of stealing things unless he needed to. And if he was honest, he really didn't need to in this case. This wasn't like stealing food or clothes, or the time they stole a hot water heater from an abandoned house. Camping equipment was a luxury he could do without. And frankly he could afford to pay for it too. He still had quite a bit of the thousand dollars they had given him when he'd arrived. It went against his instincts to spend it on luxuries, but he could have. All his instincts said that he needed to put it in the Squirrel Fund to help see the family through the lean times in the winter when heat was expensive and school kept the kids from making much money. But there was no way to send the money home from here, and no Squirrel Fund at the farmhouse.
So he could have spent it, but he didn't. Instead he was here to steal camping equipment with a teenage girl he hadn't even met before who claimed to be an expert. What could possibly go wrong?
It was too late to back out now without looking like a pussy, and one thing a Gallagher never did was back down. He parked the truck, walked up to the front of the store and waited for Dagny.