There wasn’t much left to steal in this place. Once upon a time, people had left all sorts of crap in their desks—CDs, earrings, sometimes even money. He had like the office a lot more in those days.

            Now, when he went from one desk to the next, he found nothing but office supplies and old snack food. Not that he was complaining about the snack food. People didn’t realize how much better Doritos get with age.

      But the tall kid sometimes left things, and he was starting to think that it was on purpose. Like that one time, he found a couple of old sandwiches from the corner shop. And sometimes there was a magazine, something that claimed to be about sports but only had pictures of girls in bikinis.

   Tonight he found a couple of rolls of pennies. Now he was convinced—the kid was messing with him. No one would leave rolls of coins in their desk unless they were trying to annoy a thief.