{Red Roses} ~Rafe Cameron~

2: make a run for it

The children get separated by their gender. The boys in a different building and the girls in another. Unfortunately her best friend Dean Gallagher happens to be a boy so they rarely see each other. They have both decided to escape together. Tonight they will get the plan set up and the next morning they'll begin.

Ophelia's plan is to break the circuit box which powers the electric fence. Then she has to wait until 11:00 am the next morning because that's when the gate opens. But when the sisters see that the electric fence is broken, they will go look at it, which means there is no one keeping watch on the children in the room and that's when she makes a run for it.

Dean has his own plan which is to fake being sick and pretend like he can't breathe so then they'll have to call the ambulance and when it gets here, he'll pretend to get into the vehicle but. makes a run for it instead

Now these plans do sound pretty stupid, but they're so desperate that they would do anything to get out of there. If this plan doesn't work they'll probably get
Murdered by the people working at the orphanage. So they're going to get out some way or another.

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It is 12:54 am and the children have to wake up at 5, so they have about five hours to get there plans set up.

Ophelia tip toed through the corridor making sure not to wake up the guards. She held her flashlight tightly in her hand and a small pocket knife she always carried tightly in the other.

She walked all the way towards the back of the building where the circuit box is hanging on the wall and screwed the lid open with her knife. She then slowly cut each one of the wires in half so they couldn't be fixed again. She closed it shut and screwed the nails back on and slowly crept towards her bedroom.

Ophelia couldn't sleep at all last night. She had to much adrenaline rushing through her. She slowly tapped her fingers on the cold bedsheets and waited until the sun rose.

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Ophelia peeled her eyes open and saw the sun slowly rising into the sky above. She swiftly stood up and made her bed. The clock chimed. Which meant the kids would be up soon.

Ophelia sat on her bed and played with her fingers while she waited for the sisters to arrive.

Once the sisters finally showed up they lead the children into the front yard like usual. Ophelia's head was buzzing with questions and regret already. But she wants to get out. She needs to.

All of the children started doing their jobs. Some watering plants, some cutting the grass and some scrubbing the porch.

Suddenly all the sisters ran out of the area and behind the building.
"It's broken" ophelia heard one of the sisters talk. She smiled to her self. The adrenaline rushing all through her body.