Nichole's Backstory... Part 1

The wind was blowing strongly when Nichole snuck into her parents office. She was usually a calm person, but the wind caused the 12 year old to shiver. This was the moment she had been waiting for: her parents were on a "business trip", meaning Nichole had the mansion to herself for a couple of days, minus the servants. She tiptoed to the desk, where she knew her parents kept the finance records. She slowly pulled out the first drawer (careful to wait the required 5 seconds to bypass the security alarm), and exhaled the breath she didn't know she was holding. It was very important to her that she find out what her parents did for a living; she suspected their "business" wasn't exactly on the up-and-up. As she lifted the first set of folders onto the desk, she knew she had found something... She just didn't know what it was. On the cover of the folder were the words "Change APR for Dannie Mason" and "Santa Anita on Saturday". Nichole stuffed the folder in her sidebag, shut the drawer, and ran from the room. Her parents wouldn't be back for a couple of days... She could figure out what those notes meant later.

While she slept, her parents pulled into their massive driveway. It had been a successful trip; All four horses that Nichole's dad bet on won, though he had known they would in advance. Nichole's mother was pleased too, for she had a particularly lucrative week at the bank that she owned. It was this mood that the two parents made their way through the front door and around the leather sofa in the living room... It was this mood that almost made them miss the obvious signs of intrusion in their office. As their pleased moods quickly wore off, they noticed the door slightly ajar, and inside they saw a drawer askew. They panicked; all their most intimate and damning paperwork was in that desk. Immeadiately they sent orders to summon everyone in the household, and this included Nichole.

Her heart pounded. "Mom and Dad aren't supposed to be back yet! Oh God, how could I have left the door open? They'll figure out it's me..." She tried to compose her thoughts, because she knew that if her parents even suspected she was involved, it would mean her life. Her parents had no loyalty except to money, and she knew that lately, she had been costing her parents more money than she had been making. As her parents motioned her over, she resolved that she wouldn't let them figure out what she had done. "I'm going to fool them until I can figure out what they're doing. I won't let them catch me." Her resolve, rather mature for a 12 year old, was due to the fact that she knew her parents couldn't prove it was her. She had always wanted to be an actress, and she knew that if she didn't succeed in her first role as an innocent preteen, it could be her last role. Ever.

Part two will be coming later lol :)