The next morning Elwood was well awake before Jake was. Not that this was anything new due to Jake''s stay up late attempt to sleep late routine. Anyway Elwood climbed down off the top bunk quietly, as to not wake Jake up , and stretched his lanky form. Yawning he looked at his watch and shook his head. It was 5:35 in the morning. Sighing Elwood pulled one of the two chairs in the cell over to the cell door and sat down. And there he sat for another whole hour.

XXX

""Up Blues. Now. It''s 7 a.m. Breakfast"" Officer McDaniel said to Jake.

Doing as he was told Jake sat up and hit his head on the top bunk. Muttering obscene profanities he got off the bed and followed Officer McDaniel and Elwood to the mess hall.

Now let me tell you, Joliet Penitetiary''s food ain''t the greatest in the world. To tell the truth it''s downright blah but it was food and that is all that mattered to Jake. So once he and Elwood went through the line they brought their food over to a table where the rest of the band was already sitting.

Once Jake was settled on the hard bench he began to dig into the food much to the amusement of the other inmates at their table.The other inmates began to laugh and make fun of Jake.Sensing that he was being stared at Jake looked up at the three inmates doing the staring and muttering.

Raising his trademark eyebrow and his expressive brown eyes reflecting the words he was about to speak Jake spoke.

""You gotta problem, buddy,"" he said intimidatingly to the inmate nearest him.

""Uh n-n-no uh no p-problem,"" he stuttered.

""That''s what I thought,"" Jake replied going back to his oatmeal.

Elwood knew that there was something wrong with Jake because he usually would ignore andthing the other inmates did like making fun of him but today, yeah something was botherin Jake.

""Jake whatsa matter? Somethin wrong,"" Elwood asked?

"Something wrong? Nah man nothin except we''re gonna be in this fricken hell-hole for another year or so atleast,"" he paused motioned towards Tom and the others, ""These guys get out in another two weeks Elwood. The food is fricken horrible yet I""m eating it. This is the second time I've been in this place, the world is passing us by out there Elwood.And you ask me if there''s somethin wrong? Nope Elwood I''m just fine. Peachy keen.""

Deciding it was best to be silent Elwood kept it that way and started to eat his toast.

""Jake does it really bother you that we''re gettin'' out in two weeks,"" Matt asked?

""No, it''s not that. You guys are gonna be free, well almost, and your gonna get straight jobs and the band will be like it was almost three years ago when I was in the can and Elwood was on the outside. Then when Elwood and Ido get out of jail we''ll have to go through the whole ficken mess again!""

""Yeah and hopefully without a band of Illinois Nazi''s on our butts ,"" Mr. Fabulous said.

Jake gave him the evil eye and told him he was number one.

"Jake you will not have to go through it again. We'll all keep in touch with you and Elwood this ti-," Willie started to say before Jake cut him off

""I don''t wanna talk about it. Ok? Hey McDaniel, can you take me back to my cell I don''t feel to well. Must be the oatmeal.""

Officer McDaniel just nodded and escorted Jake back to Cell Block number 9.

""See Elwood all you have to do is keep on their good side and you''ll get paroled earlier,"" Murph said again.

""Yeah. I can but I don''t know about Jake. He''ll probably start a riot in cell block 9 before it's all said and done,"" Elwood replied forlornly stuffing the last bit of toast in his mouth and followed Jake.