Experiment #5: In Medias Res

Her heart is pounding as her feet hit the floor with a thump.  On Charlie’s flushed face salty beads of

sweat mixed with fresh water from the stormy sky as she peers back at the fence she climbed over

only to find that the young man chasing her had the same idea to her annoyance.  This guy is so

persistent it is honestly so irritating.  So, Charlie runs as fast as her feet can carry making sure she

doesn’t slip on the slick abandoned road near the city.  She makes a quick decision to dive into a

bush while he runs past her.  She breathes a sigh of relief as she collapses on the sodden grass

beneath her in pure exhaustion.

The chase all started how it typically does for Charlie.  To put it simply she is a thief, but by

necessity.  She is kind of homeless kind of not, meaning that she has a car to live in.  The car is

actually fairly nice too; it has great gas mileage and she has never had any mechanical problems

with her black Volkswagen Jetta.  Just looking at the car, a person would not think it would be the

type of a car that a person would live in, but that is the situation.  The car had been a gift from her

dad, or the guy who was her dad.  She does have a job and tries to make ends meet that way, but

being a high school student working in the local coffee shop only gets a girl so far.  So she began

stealing in order to get by on her own because again, it is a necessity for her.  The funny thing is is

that whenever she did steal something from someone the process is consistently quite easy.

 Charlie’s never even that discrete or careful while doing it.  It’s not even that she is really tiny and

easily unnoticed; she in fact is just over five foot nine.  Everytime she stole she became less

cautious because stealing the product or money was so easy every time.  She was not sure how

people even got arrested for doing it when it came to her with such ease.  For some reason though,

every time in about one minute’s time, like clockwork, they would realize that Charlie had stolen their

things and would angrily bolt after her or call the police.  She knows this doesn’t make any sense,

but if the system works why question it?  She has always been a good runner so it really was not a

problem when they realized she stole their possessions or money from them because she outran

them every single time.