Chapter one: Oops
Ok, so maybe that wasn't one of my brilliant ideas, I thought as I sat in a cell in the police station. I sat on the rock hard bed and was swinging my legs and staring at the ceiling and some drawings, my drawings to be exact. Last time I was here I had a pencil in my pocket so I had decorated the cell roof. I bet your thinking 'You've been here before?' Well yes, yes I have. Hell, I'd been here so many times this might as well be my permanent house. I had only been in this cell for three hours and I was getting let out soon, I hope. Like usual they made me wait an hour or so to calm me down, then sent me to the captain's office where he would yell at me and threaten me to be good or else. Sometimes if it was a smallish offence then they'd let me go home, or sometimes if it was big or I was in a bad mood I'd have to stay in the cell over night. I heard the lock click and the heavy metal door swung open. "Hey Josh" I said, amused as the 22 year old with dirty blonde hair and a cute smile walked in. "Hey Lexi. You been a bad girl again?" He grinned walking over and handcuffing my hands together behind me. "Nah, they're all over reacting" I said standing up. Josh was the guard here and I came here so much, he was my friend, my only friend. "I doubt it. I hear the cap is sure pissed this time" he told me, walking me down the hall and I yelled out "Hey Rosy" to the cleaning lady and she waved at me. "Aww man" I sighed, the captain is not fun when he's angry. Though he still makes me laugh because he goes as red as a tomato. "Yep. I reckon you've done it this time. Hope you like prison food" he said and I gave a small grin. "You'd come bust me out though wouldn't ya?" I asked and he chuckled. "Well I'm kinda busy now that Jen is pregnant so I don't think she'd let me do a prison break" he said and I frowned. Jen was his girlfriend, soon to be fiancé so Josh tells me. "Great. First she gets in the way of 'us' and now she won't even let you come break me out of prison. She's to controlling, dump her" I said and he laughed. "One: once again, there is no 'us' and I'm pretty sure its illegal seems your only 16, two, I think its pretty mean to dump someone your engaged to" he said. "Ohh, so you finally asked her to marry you? Go as planned?" I asked. "Even better" he said undoing my cuffs and opened the door into the captain's office. I peered in and the Captain was sitting there glaring at me and I glared back at him. "Lexi get in here now" he growled. "Well I'm happy for you. Give Jen my best and if I don't out alive name the baby after me" I told Josh and he grinned. "Hey Cap. How's the wife, and the kids? All five of them" I mumbled the last bit. I jumped down in chair and looked at him. "Lexi you've taken it to far this time" he growled. "You said that last time" I yawned. "I'm serious this time. You stole a car and ran it into a shopping mall, then fled and refused to be arrested and it took six officers to take you down, three of which you injured" he read off a sheet of paper. "Well I have been saying shopping is dangerous for years" I argued and he slammed his fist on the table, going red in the face. "Your offence list is a mile long. We have no choice but to send you to jail" he said softly. "Well I don't wanna go" I said crossing my arms. "Well there's one more thing" he trailed off. "Yeah?" I asked. "You can either go to jail, or you can go to a juvenile delinquent reform camp. Your choice" he said. I thought about it. "I'll go to jail please" I said. "Juvenile delinquent reform camp it is" he said. "What! You said it was my choice!" I yelled. "I was patronizing you. You don't get a choice anymore" he said. "This is bull! I'm not going!" I yelled standing up and storming out and for once he let me go instead of calling the guards to tackle me. "The bus will pick you up tomorrow at 9:00am on the dot" he called after me and I mumbled swear words under my breath. I got home and slammed the door behind me. "About time you got home. You should have got out ages ago. Captain Smitter called us and told us what had happened" Dad said as I walked through the kitchen to get to my room. "Sorry I stopped to rob a bank" I said and their eyes widened. "Kidding" I sighed grabbing an apple before storming up to my room and slamming the door. It turned out my parents were the ones who thought of this. My parents were evil. They ignored me, only acknowledging me when I did something wrong or just because they could. I also had an annoying younger brother Bobby who was 14. I stayed in my room for the rest of the day and didn't come out of my room until about midnight to grab a snack.