Life Sentence

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Theo swiped the ring of old silver keys off the warden's desk. "Cooper! Coast clear!" The 19 year old ran swiftly into the room.

"Ready?" Cooper asked.

"Let's do this!" Theo whisper-shouted, not wanting to wake the sleeping inmates. They locked in the snoozing warden and prison guard in the office. Cooper led the way to cell number 178.

"Dude, do you think she'd let you get her out?" Cooper asked.

"I don't think she would approve, but we have to try anyways, she's innocent." Theo explained.

When they arrived at the 170's they started looking around at the starving inmates. They all had the same bodily figure-pale, abnormal, bone thin. Their orange clothes didn't compliment the skin nicely. Long or bitten down nails and greased hair from uncleanliness and lack of showering. They ran, giving each other the signal to hurry up and get out. Cooper clenched on to the keys, so they don't wake the inmates and get caught.

"There she is, Theo!" In cell number 178 was a thin and pale teen like the rest, her face swollen and red and purple.

"Hanna!" Theo cried. "Hanna James! Get up!"

Slowly but surely, the girl in the cell sat up and pried open her eyes. She bolted up excitedly. "I'm dreaming. Theo, Cooper?"

"Hanna!" Theo said. "We're here to break you out." Cooper, who was on guard watch, tossed Theo the ring of silver keys, who then started to fumble and try each key in the lock.

"Theo, hurry up! They could come around the corner any minute!" Cooper sighed. The inmate was now shaking from being nervous. The police would surely put them in jail too, but they would also give her a much longer sentence too.

Theo tried the final key in the lock which did in fact unlock the cell in which the girl was in. Hanna ran to Theo and hugged him tightly.

"I didn't really think you would come." She sniffled. A single tear rolled down her cheek, then she went over to give Cooper a squeeze too.

"I missed you little sis." Cooper said. She nodded, in her way of saying I missed you too big brother.

"We have to go. The guard will be here anytime soon." She looked around for a clock. "Fifteen minutes, give or take a few. What's your plan?"

Theo pointed down the hall. "That storage closet. We get in those airvents which Hanna will lead to outside. Then we can run and go home."

"Is there anyone there?" The three turned to see a once sleeping inmate up to the bars looking around. He then spotted Hanna, who was out of her cell. "Naughty children. The warden always has room for new inmates..."

"Run." The three sprinted to the janitors closet. Hanna pried open the air duct and slipped in, Cooper and Theo following close behind. They crawled as silent as possible through the airvents, trying not to slip.

Once they reached the dead end, Hanna tried kicking and shoving and head bumps and everything to kick out the vent, but it was screwed on.

"I can't get it open!" She yelled.

"SHHHHH." Cooper sighed. "We'll just go with Plan B."

Hanna flipped around to face her somewhat deranged brother. "And what would this marvelous Plan B be?"

Cooper then whisper-shouted at his sister. "WE GET THE HELL OUTTA HERE!"

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"Was this apart of your plan, Cooper?" Theo yelled at his girlfriend's brother. The two teens that broke in the prison somehow missed the barking K-9 dog at the entrance.

"That doesn't matter now, just run!" Hanna yelled. The gates weren't carefully guarded at night, and the K-9 units barking wouldn't give them much time to react. The escapee and the the two boys started to climb over the fence when they heard a voice shout in the background.

"Stop right now, or I'll shoot!"

"Shit, run!" Theo said to Cooper and Hanna.

"What about you man?" Cooper asked worriedly.

"I'll keep them held up, you guys go. If I'm alive after this, I'll look you up. Both of you, run, now!" Theo pushed Hanna over the fence and she hit the the ground hip first. Cooper then climbed over, and hopped off, grabbed his sister and ran off in the moonlight.

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One shot, 3 escape in a Prison Breakout.

Theodore Williams, 19, and Cooper James, 19, were involved in a Copperfield Prison breakout late Saturday night. Williams and James broke out Hanna James, 18, from the Copperfield Prison at nearly midnight last night. Hanna James has been charged guilty of murder to her ex boyfriend, Garret Roth, 18. Police report that no one else got hurt or had escaped, but if you see any of the suspects please call the Crimestoppers hot line listed below.

"So, Theo wasn't found?" Hanna's blood shot eyes had said it all. The gun shots had missed her boyfriend by inches the first few aims, but he was shot in the shoulder when he stumbled on the other side of the fence. He was safe for now. But he was presumed dead until Cooper and Hanna heard a rapping on the door.

"I'll get it." Hanna said, and walked towards the door. Was it the police? Had they found them?

But when she opened the door she saw only a blurr of the person before there was another set of lips on hers. When the person pulled away and she saw who it was, Hanna gasped and started to cry.

"Theo?"