Lisa's eyes widened and she turned her head to see her big brother, Brian.

"Brian!" Lisa exclaimed and ran over to him, giving him a hug, he returned it, picking her up. "I'm so glad to see you! What are you doing here?!"

"I came to visit you," Brian laughed. "And to tell you that we're getting money together to bail you out of here."

Lisa smiled and hugged him tighter. "I hate it here."

"I can tell," he replied, putting her down and nodding to the guy who hit the brick wall and had blood pouring from a wound on his forehead. "And why do you have grazes on your face?"

"Uh... a few fights, maybe..."

"Lisa."

"I got into a fight on my first day, okay," Lisa shrugged. "Just a mouthful of blood and a black eye and a cheek graze. Nothing serious."

Brian sighed. "I knew you'd get into at least one fight in the first couple of days."

"Uh, Lisa? Who's this guy?" Shaun asked.

"This is my older brother, Brian," Lisa replied, casting a glance at the professional killers with a smirk. "He's also a street racer, and he knows how to fight. Well, not as good as me, but-"

"Hey!" Brian said and messed her hair up. "I could so win a fight against you!"

"Yeah right!" Lisa laughed, lightly punching him in the shoulder. "You couldn't lay a hand on me!"

Brian put a hand on her shoulder.

"That's not what I meant," Lisa sighed. "You'd never hurt me."

"I know," Brian said. "But anyway, how have you been? Have you provoked those 'professional killers' yet?"

"Of course I have!" Lisa smiled and pointed to the injured guy she sent into the wall. "Him and his group are the losers who have tried to kill me three times already but killed a guy today without any trouble. And I fought two of them on my first day here."

"They killed a guy today?!" Brian exclaimed. "Oh geez, we have to get you out of here as soon as possible!"

"I can handle them!" Lisa replied. "But if Shaun hadn't stopped me, you would have turned up to see me fighting the whole group. Or getting gang bashed, however you'd like to put it."

Brian sighed. "Why isn't that a surprise?"

"Shut up!" Lisa laughed. "Just because I'm not scared of them."

"Most of the time," Brian added quietly. "You were pretty scared to be seeing them when you had to come here."

Lisa took a deep breath and whispered back. "Okay, they scare the hell out of me. Give me a break they're trying to kill me for crying out loud!"

"You need to get out of here!" Brian murmured.

"Well what do you want me to do until you get the money to bail me out?!" Lisa growled. "Try and break out?!"

"Do you have any other ideas?"

"Ummm..... no."

"Well then at least give it a try."

"Brian you know it's not possible without getting caught!"

"It's worth a try. Even if you do get caught what's gonna happen? Nothing but maybe put your time longer. But we'll get the bailing money and you'll be out in no time if you do get caught."

"You know something?"

"What?"

"Sometimes you're as bad as me."

"You're a bad influence."

"I am not, thank you very much!" Lisa turned around and crossed her arms.

"Stubborn kid," Brian laughed, hugged her from behind and picked her up off the ground.

"Hey! Put me down!" Lisa growled at him, kicking her feet, trying not to hit Brian though.

Brian didn't put her down, he just laughed. But then Lisa kicked him. "Oooooowwww........"

Lisa froze. "Sorry! I didn't mean it!"

"Don't...... worry..... about it," Brian said, putting her down. Lisa turned around with clouded eyes.

"I'm really sorry. I didn't mean to kick you," Lisa exclaimed.

"No, forget it," Brian said and stood up straight, trying not to show his pain.

Lisa hugged him. "When can you get the money to get me out of here?" she whispered.

"We don't know," Brian murmured. "Sometimes we may win or lose races, that's how we're getting the money."

"I hope its soon."

"Me to."

"O'Conner, time to go!" a policeman said and Brian hugged Lisa a little tighter for a few more seconds.

"I'll come and visit you soon," Brian said. "And I'll bring one of the others."

"Thanks for coming," Lisa said and they broke apart. Brian nodded and turned around. Lisa watched him walk away and leave.

When Brian was gone she felt a tap on her shoulder. She turned around and saw Alice and her gang. "Do you still want that fight?"

"Do you?" Lisa replied.

Alice nodded. "Stupid kid. But you're not getting out of it this time."

Lisa shrugged. "I'll take you on."

"Bad move kid," one of the guys said. "We're dangerous when we fight together."

"Oh, is that why you're crappy fighters when you're not together?" Lisa smirked.

Alice cracked her knuckles, Lisa copied and spat on the ground. But then she remembered that to try and break out, she would need a lot of energy. And getting into a fight wasn't going to help. But how was she going to get out of this fight when she couldn't back down?

"Lisa don't fight them!" Shaun growled. "Are you that thickheaded?!"

"I guess I am," Lisa sighed. "Otherwise I would have stayed out of here."

"Then you should have had the sense to stay away," Alice smirked.

"I might have wanted to come back," Lisa said and put her arm around the guy she punched and sent into a brick wall. "I might have wanted to visit a few old friends."

When the guy turned to punch her, she ducked down and head butted him in the stomach, throwing him away. She stood up straight and looked at the others. "You should be able to tell, that by now, I have gotten stronger and more skilled in the art of fighting. I can take on all of you."

"Keep dreaming shorty," Alice snorted.

Lisa shrugged. "It's what keeps me on my feet. You should try it some time."

"Stop provoking us!" one of the guys growled. "Let's fight."

Lisa got ready but Shaun and Josephine jumped beside her. "What are you guys doing?" she asked her two friends.

"We'll help you," Josephine said.

"Considering you're too thickheaded to back down," Shaun added.

Lisa smiled and nodded.

Alice threw the first punch but Lisa caught it and threw her back. All of the kids got into a fight, punches and kicks were thrown. In moments every kid had even the smallest amount of blood somewhere on their faces.

Lisa caught a punch to the jaw by Alice and she gave as good as she got. She smashed Alice in the face with her fist and sent her flying away.

Lisa was suddenly grabbed by the back of the shirt. "Everybody stop!"

They all stopped and looked at the police officer holding Lisa. He shook her roughly. "You've been causing a lot of trouble for us lately!"

"So?" Lisa growled.

"If you don't behave we'll kick you out of juvie and make you do community service."

"NO! No anything but community service! I'll be good! I won't cause any more trouble!" Lisa exclaimed, she hated community service.

"That's what I thought," the policeman said. "Now get to your cells, all of you."

All the kids in the courtyard went inside and to their cells and Lisa dragged her feet.

Stupid cops! She thought. Blackmailing me, saying they'll make me do community service. I'll die before I do!

"Lisa, why do you hate community service?" Josephine asked her.

"Don't start," Lisa sighed, spitting some blood out of her mouth.

"Tell me."

"I don't do community service!" Lisa said. "It's some stupid legal law thing. I'm not the legal sort. I go illegal all the way, my way every time. I hate the law."

"Wow, you sound worse than Alice and her friends."

"I'm not. Alice and her friends are killers. All I ever did was street race and rob a hardware store."

Lisa and Josephine went into their cell and lay on their beds.

"Lisa?"

Lisa looked at her friend. "What?"

"Why do you street race?"

"Because it's my way of life. Street racing is more than challenging others. It's about..... oh never mind. Unless you experience it for yourself you'll never understand."

"Could you show me one day?"

Lisa looked at Josephine again. "Street racing isn't the safest thing in the world. People can die. I nearly died when I pushed noss after stealing a car that wasn't properly built and the car blew up in the middle of the race. It's not something you want as a living. You're parents wouldn't approve. Mine don't, that's why I ran away."

"I want to know what it's like!" Josephine said. "All my life my parents have wanted me to be a goody-to-shoes but I don't want to be!"

Lisa smiled. "Well if you want to prove to your parents that you're not a goody-to-shoes I know the perfect way to go."

"I'm listening."

Lisa got up and walked over to her friend and whispered in her ear. "We're going to try and sneak out tonight."

Josephine jumped up. "That's not possible! You can't just sneak out!"

"There's no harm in trying."

"How do we sneak out?"

"In the middle of the night."

"How do we do that when the cells are locked at night?!"

Lisa sighed. "It's called an air vent," she said, pointing to an air vent in the roof.

"And how do we find our way out?" Josephine asked.

"The air vents all lead to the courtyard. We can make it there, stay in the shadows and climb over the fence."

"I'm afraid of heights."

"Okay, then I shouldn't tell you the fences are electric at night."

"Are you crazy?!?!?! Electric fences shock you really bad!"

"I am aware of that," Lisa rolled her eyes. "I've been here twice before and I've tried escaping both times. More than once."

"Does the electricity hurt?"

"Depends how you feel about 70 volts going through your body," Lisa smiled.

"I think you've taken too many punches to the head."

"The electricity doesn't hurt that bad."

"That bad. Is that supposed to make me feel better!?"

"No."

"You're extremely crazy. What if we get caught?"

"Then we get into trouble and your parents will see how bad you really are. But think of it this way; if we escape, I can show you what it's like to be a street racer."

"Promise?"

Lisa smiled. She needed Josephine to help her escape, the least she could do is make the promise. "Yes, I promise."

Lisa and Josephine shook hands and rested on their beds.

Night came and the cells were locked. The lights were out and everyone was asleep. Everyone but Lisa and Josephine.

Lisa got up and went to open the air vent.

"Can't we put this off until tomorrow night?" Josephine complained. "I'm tired."

"Me to, so don't complain," Lisa said and tried pulling the gate to the air vent off, but it was bolted down. "Fuck!"

"What?"

"The air vents are locked!"

"Now what?"

Lisa walked over to the bars, they needed to get out. Lisa didn't want Brian and her friends wasting their money on bailing her out if there was even a slight chance of escaping.

"Lisa, what do we do-"

"Let me think, okay!" Lisa snapped, then sighed. "Look I'm sorry. I just need to work things out."

Josephine stayed quiet and Lisa thought.

Okay, there are a bunch of security cameras in the hallway to the courtyard and there is a chance that we could wake up other kids in the cells and they would be really noisy and alert the guards. But the air vent is closed so this is our only way out. Maybe I can fit through the bars. She thought and put her left leg and left arm through the bars, then she tried to squeeze through.

"What are you doing?!" Josephine hissed.

Lisa let all her air out and she fell to the floor on the other side of the bars. "Josephine, come on."

Josephine walked up to the bars and tried to squeeze through. She got halfway but became stuck.

"Breathe out!" Lisa whispered.

Josephine did as she was told and let her air out. She got out.

Lisa stood up and they crept down the hall, trying not to wake up the kids in the cells.

"We're bound to get caught," Josephine whispered. "We shouldn't be doing this-"

"You don't have to tag along!" Lisa whispered back. "If you really want to show your parents how bad you are, then come. It doesn't matter if you get caught or not. But if you're deciding to turn chicken then go back!"

"I'm not turning chicken!"

"Good."

Lisa pushed Josephine against the wall and they had their backs to it, hidden in the shadows so they wouldn't be seen by a surveillance camera.

They snuck passed it, and all the other ones in the hallway, and came to the door to the courtyard.

"Are you sure you've done this before?" Josephine asked as Lisa pulled out a paperclip and started picking the lock.

"Yeah I'm sure. Only last time the cops didn't lock the air vent! They knew I'd try getting away again."

"I hope we don't get caught."

"Well very soon a guard is going to pass our cell and find us gone and alert the whole damn place. Now shut your trap and focus on escaping rather than getting caught!"

Lisa opened the door and prepared for the alarms to turn on, but they didn't. Big spot lights were everywhere, watching in case kids tried escaping.

Lisa ran ahead but had to turn back, grab Josephine and drag her through the shadows.

Lisa looked around on the lookout posts and tried to find one with a sleeping guard, there was always at least one.

Yes! She thought, they were all asleep!

She picked a fence and took a deep breath. "Okay, Josephine. This is the hard part. You have to endure the electric shocks and get to the top, then climb down on the other side after you pass over the barbed wire."

"And you didn't tell me of the barbed wire before because....?" Josephine glared at Lisa.

"I thought you knew it was up there!" Lisa bit back. "After all, we were out here today!"

"You go first," Josephine said.

Lisa jumped as the alarm sounded across the whole building.

"Go!" Josephine urged and Lisa grabbed the fence.

She grinded her teeth so that she wouldn't cry out because of the electric shock. She ignored the electricity and started to climb up. She continued climbing but looked down and saw Josephine just starting to grab the fence. But she also saw guards coming out of the door and running at them.

"Josephine hurry up!" Lisa said.

Josephine started climbing, trying to ignore the pain but the guards were getting closer and closer.

Lisa kept going and she got to the barbed wire at the top. She looked down and saw Josephine being pulled off of the fence.

Lisa was about to go back down but she felt something in her pocket. She pulled it out. "Wire cutters? Brian, you really are the best brother in the world."

Lisa cut the barbed wire, jumping a little from the electric shocks. When she had cut a decent amount of barbed wire she threw it down and it landed over the guards.

"Josephine, come on!" Lisa yelled.

Josephine broke free of the struggling guards and grabbed the fence again, this time drawing back from the shock.

"Josephine you can do it! Come on! Just ignore the shocks!"

Josephine looked up and shook her head. "I can't. Go without me!"

"I'll get you out one day!" Lisa said.

"No, I'll get out when my time comes. Just go-"

Her voice was drowned out by the sound of a gun shooting a bullet and the shout of Lisa as it struck her shoulder.

"Lisa!" Josephine yelled.

"I'm fine!" Lisa said and climbed over the other side. "Josephine, I'll see you soon. And then I'll show you what it's like to be a street racer."

Josephine nodded. "Go!"

Blood poured out of Lisa's left shoulder and the electric shocks weren't helping her pain. More bullets were shot, but they missed Lisa as she jumped the final distance down.

"Get back here!" one of the guards yelled at Lisa. "You will never escape the police."

"I'm never going back to juvie. I'll make sure I'm never caught!" Lisa said and, despite her immense pain, she ran through the trees and to the road. She pulled something else out from her pocket, she didn't know it was there because she had pulled out the wire cutters first. She smiled and dialed Brian's number on her phone. He had slipped her mobile, and the wire cutters, into her pocket whilst he was visiting.

"Lisa, what's up?" Brian's voice came.

"Brian, I got out of juvie, but the cops are everywhere," Lisa replied. "And I got shot."

"Are you okay?!"

"Yeah I'm fine. Can you come get me?"

"I'll bring the others, they can distract the cops. Stay hidden and we'll be there soon."

"Okay." Lisa hung up the phone but kept walking. The cops were bound to find her in the trees. She needed to get a proper distance away from juvie. They would expect her not to get far with a wounded shoulder. She came to the road but stayed a safe distance away. Cops shot passed and then it was silent. She waited patiently until she heard the motors of street racing cars.

She walked out onto the side of the road and the cars stopped.

Brian and the others got out of their cars and Lisa hugged them.

"Lisa, your shoulder!" Micheal exclaimed.

"I'm okay," Lisa said. "Can we just get out of here..... uh..."

Lisa started to fall over but Jessie caught her, she was really dizzy. "You've lost way too much blood," Jessie said.

Brian took Lisa and put her into his car. He got into the drivers seat and Jessie, Micheal, Dominic and Sara got into their cars.

Lisa heard sirens in the background and Brian picked up his walkie-talkie. "Okay guys, let's break. Don't let the cops catch you. Distract them while I get Lisa out of here."

"Are you going to take her to the hospital?" Sara asked.

"I can't," Brian replied. "They'll recognize her and call the police. We have to take care of her."

"Okay. Be careful you two," Sara said.

"Let's do this," Dominic laughed and his car shot forward, hitting a police car head on. More police cars came and Lisa's friends were ramming them.

"Go, go, go!" Micheal yelled into the walkie-talkie to Brian.

Brian revved up the car and sped off, leaving the others to deal with the cops.

"Brian."

"Yeah?"

"Thank you. The wire cutters gave me the chance to help a friend to get out. But she couldn't handle the electric shock from the fence, she got caught."

"Sorry to hear it."

"Me to. But when she gets out, I want to show her the ways of a street racer. She made me promise."

"Why?"

"Because she wants to be free."

"That seems fair. But you know. If you stay in LA for much longer, you're going to get caught."

"So.... what, I have to leave LA?"

"Yep."

"And what about you? What about the others?"

"You know I'll come with you. I'm not leaving my little sister on her own."

"And the others?"

"I don't know."

"What, so we're just going to leave them?!"

"Lisa, they might choose to come. But some of them, like Jessie and Micheal will have to stay."

"Why?"

"Jessie's dad is in jail. Micheal's mum is in hospital from a car crash that happened a short time ago."

"Will Dom and Sara come?"

"You know Sara will, most likely. But Dom and Mia might not. Even though the cops have a bounty on Dom's head."

"I wish I didn't have to leave LA," Lisa sighed.

"It's not your fault. These things happen as a street racer. You'll see them again, whoever stays here."

"This is fucked up."

"I know. But the sooner we get out of here, the better."

"But...... Josephine. I promised her-"

"And you always keep your word?" Brian asked her. "Forget about her. When is she getting out?"

"Three months."

"We have to leave before then."

"But....."

"Lisa I know it's hard to learn that you have to leave people behind, and I know how hard it is to accept that. But this is what you have to do. The cops are going to have a bounty on your head."

Lisa looked out into the night sky. This was going to be hard for her. If she had of just waited to be bailed out then this wouldn't have happened. "Why couldn't this all just be a dream?" she murmured, a tear falling from her eye.

Brian put out his hand and Lisa took it. "It'll be okay, Lisa."

"How can you be so sure?"

"I'm not, but you know I'll always be there for you."

"You're the greatest brother ever," Lisa tried to smile, but more tears fell and eventually, she rested her head on the window and fell unconscious by the loss of blood.

Brian took his hand out of Lisa's to change the gears and he picked up the walkie-talkie. "Guys, Lisa's unconscious."

"Is she okay?" Sara asked.

"She's unconscious," Brian repeated. "What do you think?"

"I meant, how bad is the wound?" Sara said. "Idiot."

"Well the wound looks like it was a far away shot, so it's not deep. But she's lost a lot of blood. But guys, we gotta talk later."

"About what?" Dominic asked.

"Get out of there now," Brian said. "I think you've pissed the cops off enough. But lose them before you get to my house."

"Okay, see you later man," Jessie said.

Brian put down the walkie-talkie and looked at Lisa, her tears had dried up. But more was to come when she eventually had to face reality and leave her hometown.