Survival

Chapter 1: Jail Break

This is my life, I'm Artemis. I know it's a weird name, but I deal with it. My brother and I live with our mom. We're poor, but not like "we live under a bridge" poor. My mom tries her hardest to support the both of us and I give her credit for that. We don't have a lot of money for things but that's okay because we have each other. We're kind of "The Wanted" family of the neighborhood. The reason being is that my brother doesn't know how to stop getting in trouble. That means we have to keep bailing him out of jail, which is one of the reasons why we don't have a lot of money. So on the days he gets in trouble and we don't have a lot of money, we end up having to break him out of jail, which is why we are wanted. Before we begin with all of the challenges that come in the future, I just wanted to give you some background on our family. My dad died when I was seven. And my mom,well let's just say she's on the older side so I'm basically the head of the family. My brother is 3 years younger than me. Meaning I'm 19 and he's 16. My brother's name is Brandon, after my father. I'm the responsible one out of the whole family. I do the chores, get the food, and make sure we don't get sick. Because of course we don't have the money to pay for medicine. Now before I start rambling on about stuff I don't need to talk about yet let's get on to the present time. Here's the beginning of the adventure I never thought would come.
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"Hey Mom I just got back from the market", I yelled loud enough so that she could hear me." How's your day been?" " My day sucks, thanks for asking.", she replied with a snarky attitude. " Whoa whoa whoa chill your tits. I just asked a question" I said with an attempt to calm her down, but I don't think she got the message as she replied" Your brother got sent to prison. And not just any prison, the most guarded prison in this town, and  we won't be able to bail or break him out this time." " Yes we will." I stated trying to give her some confidence, "I have an idea." I'm listening." She says pointing an ear up to me." But, I don't think you'll like it."
                LATER THAT NIGHT
"Okay. What's the plan again?" My mom asks ,making sure her coat is straight." We go in, get Brandon, and get out." I say trying to assure myself as much as her. "And if something goes wrong?" She asks worriedly. " We wing it." "Okay." She says as she sits back against the car seat and takes a deep breath in through her nose and out through her mouth. Whenever she does that I know she means business. I better not mess up. Or, my brother will be stuck in there forever. As we drive up we see all sorts of weird things,like the people. They all look pale in emotionless, I hope Brandon isn't like that when we get him back. We park are car outside the gates. Then the plan gets set into action."State your name", a man behind the counter says." Artemis Blaze" "And who are you here to see?" The man asks not looking up from his computer."Brandon Blaze." As soon as those words left my lips the man started laughing. What he was laughing about, I had no idea. But whatever it was it had to be pretty funny. "All right first door to your left." The man says in mid laugh. Right as we were walking up to the door we get tackled by two men behind us  ,and then the next thing we know we're waking up in a dirty jail cell. "What the hell is going on." I ask the guard outside the cell. But when he turns around I see something that I didn't expect. It was Brandon. Standing there and the guards uniform. I stood there baffled by what I just saw. I mean how could he be a guard when the people in the prison told us that he was arrested. Or was this all just a plan. How am I supposed to wing it at this point. We are totally screwed. Brandon starts unlocking the door. " Here's what we're going to do " he says ", there's an exit door right out back in the break room that leads to the waterfall behind the prison."  "Okay and?" I asked losing all of my patients."We are going to jump." He says. "On the count of three start running." I grabbed a hold of his hand and my mom's hand to make sure we don't break apart or get split up. Then he says,"One.....Two......Three." and we took off. Through door after door we finally make it to the break room. Brandon kicks open the exit door and I look down to see what I'm about to jump in. I mean it looks survivable to me so I guess it's okay. At this point it's our only choice. I see all the guards running towards the door and so out of pure panic I yell "Now!!" And down the waterfall we went.