My inmate was strange. She was way too excited to meet me, and that set off all my mental alarms. She never really elaborated on how I could repay her, which left me feeling uneasy about this whole situation.

I rolled over in bed, it's hard to keep track of the time when you rarely see the sunlight. It's some ungodly hour that, any other day, I'd be knocked the hell out. I heard Lil shift her weight above me.

I let her take the top bunk, mostly because I have a better chance at surviving if she decided to attack me one day. I was taller than her, but she was older. And looks can be very deceiving.

"Jenny." I looked up and saw Lil's head poking out.

"What." I groaned. After a million tries to get her to stop using that name, I gave up and let only her call me that. I don't have to be happy about it, though.

"Are you up?" She asked, her voice barely audible.

"If I wasn't, I wouldn't have answered the first time." I spat.

I could feel bad about how rude I've been to this chick. Since the moment we met, I treated her with nothing but shit. She's been nice to me through all of it, too. I can't blame myself for her being a pushover, she needs to learn how to stick up for herself. I'm just training her for what she's gonna get for the rest of her life. Especially, if this is where she'll be.

Lil's head disappeared and she jumped down from the top bunk. I sat up instantly, bracing myself for anything. She saw this and laughed. "Chill out, I wanna talk to you."

"It's like," I paused. "I don't know, late."

"I'm aware. Listen, you can't tell a single person here what I'm about to tell you." She warned.
"And if I do?"

She ignored me. "We both want out, am I right?"

I nodded slowly and she continued. "What if I told you-"

She cut herself off, ran to the door and put her ear up against it. She sat there for a moment, then looked at me. She slowly stood up straight and walked back to me, putting herself as close to me as possible. I leaned way back and widened my eyes. "Hey! I-"

She grabbed my shoulders and shushed me. "Shut the hell up!" She whispered viciously.
Lil looked me dead in the eyes, as if she was debating telling me or not. "What if I told you we could get out of here?"

"You mean like..?" I trailed off.

"Yep."

I sat there for a moment. She wants to bust out of here, and she wants me to come with?
"You, some crazy chick I met a week and a half ago, want me to risk my fucking life...so we can get out of here together?" I asked her in a condescending tone.

Her face fell and she stared at me with a cold expression, "Yeah."

"Well..I guess we just became best friends. Let's get the fuck out of here."

She squealed and hugged me as tight as she could, and I quickly pried her off of me.
"I swear to god if you do that again, you're losing your two front teeth." I warned and she giggled.

"This is great!" She squeaked, ignoring me again. "We have two weeks to plan this."

"You're joking!" I hissed. "Only two weeks?!"

"It's okay, I have the basics down. There's an older woman here, Carla, we met the day I got here. She's got two weeks left to live, then she gets the chair; and she told me her dying wish was for me to be free. She knew I was truly innocent, and she didn't want to see my life ruined because of a corrupt legal system. She swore to me she'd do whatever she could to get me out, and you as well."

"Oh, wow."

"Yeah, we only have two weeks because if we wait even a day longer, our best bet is gone. She's gonna start a riot, and that'll be our window to escape. I don't know where we're gonna go after that, but at least we won't be here."

"I have an idea. Before all of this shit, I had these really shady friends. They were in business with the worst of the worst. And I mean bad, bad people." Lil nodded. "Anyways, a couple of them are heading of to some festival. It's in Nevada, I believe. If we can get in, and get to them, we'll be in the clear. They'll set us up for victory."

"When we get out, maybe you can call them and give them a heads up?" Lil proposed.

"No can do, they change phones every week. Like I said, they're shady."

"So, we're gonna put our freedom in the hands of some fucked up strangers who don't even know we're coming?" Lil raised her eyebrows at me.

"Do you have any better ideas?" I pushed. She shook her head and shrugged. "Then get ready, we're Vegas bound."

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There wasn't very much planning to do from there. Lil had a way out of here for us, we just have to find a way to get from Texas to Nevada in two days. I suggested a bus but had no clue if it would work.

Getting onto that bus had to be the very first thing we did. We have about two hours from the moment we leave the prison grounds before they realize we're gone. If we play our cards right, they won't release an alert to the public until the next morning. The next day, it'll be known statewide, but after a week the whole nation would know. This is good for us. By the time everyone here knew, we would be out of state. We could be seen by security without being recognized at the festival.

Tonight was the night of the breakout, and Lil seemed confident this would work. She told me that there was someone who worked here that was going to help us. They left a change of clothes not too far away from here, and would give us money to buy the bus tickets.

"Dinnertime." Lil grinned.

Our door opened and we walked out of the cell, into the hallway. She lead me down the stairs and into the cafeteria. We walked over to where we get our food and a big prison guard pulled us aside.

"This one's special for you." He hissed, shoving two trays towards us.

Lil took her tray out of his hands and looked at me as I held mine. She motioned for me to follow her, so I did.

We walked back to our cell and sat down on my bed. Lil grabbed her sandwich and pulled it apart, exposing a small key. "Open yours."

I did as I was told and pulled out a ziploc baggy from in between the two slices of bread. There was a bundle of cash inside it, '1G' was written on the bag. I looked up at Lil and couldn't help but smile.

"It's so close, I can almost taste it." She quipped.

"I'm so fucking ready for this."

"Let's do this, Jenny."

I shoved the money into my sports bra and waited for Lil to go and give Carla the signal. As soon as she did, I watched an older woman stand up onto the table and start screaming.

"What the hell are we even doing?" She barked. "There's thousands of us and only a few of them! We could overthrow this place and take our fucking freedom back!"

She was rallying the inmates up against the guards, what a fucking genius. The inmates started shouting back in agreement, and chaos quickly commenced. Everyone started rioting.

"Go! It's now or never!" Lil shouted at me and we both took off running.

I ran as fast as my feet could take me, taking care to not be seen by anyone and to be out of the camera's view. Lil passed me and ran up to some door, pulling out the key she hid. She unlocked the door and we ran out.

It was dark outside, darker than I'd ever experienced. The cold winter air whirled passed me as I ran through the night. I followed the directions Lil was giving me and came up to a huge fence, with a huge hole at the bottom. We both crawled through and ran as fast as we could down the road.

Lil stopped me at some oddly shaped rock and pulled me behind it. There were two pairs of jeans, tank tops, and two different colored jackets. We quickly stripped down to our underwear, and threw the new clothes on.

I could hear Lil start to laugh, slowly getting louder. I looked back at her and she was grinning ear to ear. "We did it."

I hugged her, "Yes, we did."

Then with no second to spare, we took off in the direction of Transfer Plaza, with the thought of Nevada in our heads.

Notes

They made it out! Yay!
Will they be able to make it to Nevada?
Will they find Jen's shady friends?
Will they be caught before they can?
Stay tuned and enjoy! <3

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