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Penny tiptoed toward the mezzanine. Reaching the railing, she lowered her head and checked over the stair railing. When she was certain no one was around and that only the dim lights were on, she quietly carried on while tiptoeing.

However, instead of using the main entrance, Penny used the backdoor.

The problem she had was not sneaking out undetected at that point, but the long walk she had to make to make it through the high fences around the mansion. Good thing she knew there was a secret route out of the mansion without going through the main gates.

That was the garden.

"I think it's in here..." she muttered as she went on her knees, pushing the bushes out of her way. "It should be here."

Penny took off her bag and, in a matter of seconds, a flashlight was already in her hand. Lighting up the bush, she moved it away with the other. Her lips stretched as soon as she saw some broken metal bars of the fence behind the bushes.

The hole was small, but it could fit a child.

Penny wore her bag securely once more and was about to crawl her way inside, only to stop when a hand grabbed her bag. She froze instantly as her breathing hitched.

She was found.

"Penny, are you... sneaking out?"

Penny closed her eyes as her heart sank to the pits of her body. Of all the people she expected to find her out, the person to find out was no one but her father. Slowly, Penny looked back and smiled awkwardly. "Papa?"

"Penny" Charles sighed faintly, cocking his head to the side. "Where do you think you're going?"

"He he he."

Would it be too late for her to act like she was sleepwalking now?

"You're worried about the girl and her mother from earlier today, are you?" Charles guessed, watching her pursed her lips. "It's okay, Penny. I'm not angry

If Penny was more agile a little bit more, she would've crawled as fast as she could to leave. Her father might get angry, but she also didn't want to be stopped. Hence, she crawled her way back: and stood in front of him, wearing her most adorable and pitiful expression.

pitifully expressed while looking up at

to reassure her.

She nodded.

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her head low as if she was being scolded. He hadn't even scolded her yet, but with the sight of her, even if he had

friend of mine to help, he said, watching her look up at him. "We

the top of her head. "That friend of mine has a position higher than the officer we met today. He reassured me that they'd look

her inner bottom

of justice, Penny wasn't so trustful of the people in power's words. It wasn't like she was assuming Charles was lying, but what

Charles nodded, watching her slide her eyes to the corner. "If you

"Huh?"

on your own, especially in

blinked in surprise before

her hair mildly. "Then,

said that, Penny followed her father to one of the mansion's

at her father, who was behind the wheel. Her lips were drawn into

ago, she was certain she would sneak out on her own and commute to District 10. Who would have thought the ending would

are you outside?" she blurted

smiled. "I was taking a

"A night walk?"

a lot of things," he summarized. "One

"Oh.

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you knew about it and that's the reason you

her lips. "I'm sorry for

just did what you think is right, and I'm ashamed that I knew