Too risky
If Dylan asked his mom for money now, she would have to look in her wallet. She would have to count her money to see if she could spare ten dollars. If she did this then she would surely notice that she was missing quite a bit of cash. Dylan couldn’t take the risk.
Now that his other options were gone, there was just one thing left to do. The only way to get cash on such a short notice to go to the movies was to take it out of his mom’s wallet. But he had promised himself he would never do it again.
Dylan had a difficult choice to make…