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A year later, Ian woke up in a bittersweet mood. On one hand today was his second anniversary of coming to the jail so that meant he only had one year left to go, but on the other hand, today was the day his friend, Randy, was leaving. Randy had met the full length of his required sentence and was now being permitted to go home, back to his family. In the past year Ian's little group of friends that he had made in the jail had pretty much split up. Jared and Karl had both met their sentences too and had left. They had been replaced by two new guys, Eric and Evan who, weren't too terribly bad, but, just weren't the same as the other guys. Kyle had a ten year sentence so, he was going to be there for a while, he would still have several years left to complete after Ian left.

Ian looked around and saw that Randy was finishing up packing up his suitcase.

"Hey." Ian said, hoping that he could fit in at least one more conversation with his old buddy before having to say goodbye to him for good.

Randy looked over at him and gave him a smug smile.

"Hey." He said smiling. Ian noticed that he did not have on the bright orange coverall anymore, he didn't look half bad out of that horrendous outfit, Ian looked forward to a year from now when he would get to be the one that was ditching the orange outfit for good.

"Need any help?" Ian asked as he stood up from his bed and walked over to where his pal was standing. Ian had changed a lot in the past year thanks to Amber, and he was quite pleased with what had become of him.

"Nah, it's alright man. I'm almost done, anyways." Randy said with a smile and a shake of his head. He seemed a bit touched that his friend wanted to help him like that, but, it was his last day there, and he was bound to get some sort of special treatment.

"Can't believe you're leaving today, man." Ian said sympathetically as he gave Randy a pat on the back. Randy was packing up some cards that some of the other guys had given him the night before at his 'going away' party. Some had been bought with good behavior coins, some had been handmade, either way, it was a nice way to send someone off and all the men enjoyed doing something to congratulate their fellow inmates whenever one of them met their sentence length.

"Yeah, I know. But it'll be great seeing my wife and my sons again." Randy said, smiling as he thought about them. Ian smiled too, he didn't really have a family like Randy did but, he was looking forward to getting to spend more time with Amber once he got out of jail. The two of them were still dating but, due to the rules that Amber had made up, had not kissed in a year. It was driving the two of them insane, and Ian was not very sure how much longer he was going to be able to withstand it. They did manage to meet with each other once a week for an afternoon, where they could talk with each other and things like that, but, even then; Amber did not allow showings of affection.

"People are sure gonna miss you." Ian said, helping his pal put some of the cards up in the suitcase.

"Y'know. I'm really gonna miss the people here too." Randy said as he picked up his suitcase and began to head towards the door of the cell. "But, once we all get out of here, we can get back in touch, that should be fun!"

"Yeah." Ian said smiling "We're definitely going to have to remember to do that."

"We oughta have a cookout or something like that once we all get out of here." Randy said thoughtfully.

"A cookout?" Ian asked.

"Yeah, c'mon! It'd be fun! We'd all sit around, sharing stories, laughing about our days in here, showing off our girls or kids or whatever we have at that point in our lives." Randy said excitedly, ever since he had begun to prepare to leave this place, he had been thinking about all kinds of get togethers that the group could do once they were all out of jail.

"Ehh, maybe." Ian said, "It really depends on where each of us ends up and whether or not we all are available."

"Yeah." Randy said "But it'd be SO fun! All the kids could play with each other and stuff."

'Randy, you know that you're the only one of us with kids, right?" Ian asked him.

"Well, yeah but, maybe by that time some of you guys mighta had some." Randy replied "I mean, you and Amber are doing good right?"

"We're fine, but we're not having any kids!" Ian said, laughing. "That's crazy! Besides, I can't stand kids."

"Oh yeah, I forgot." Randy said, smiling to himself.

The two men continued their conversation for a little while, talking about their girls, and Randy's kids and the possibility of Ian having kids, which Ian of course continued to say that there was no chance of that happening at all, and other things. Finally it was time for Randy to leave, Ian and Randy walked out into the hallway and were not very surprised to see Kyle, Eric and Evan all standing there waiting to join Ian in sending off their pal. They walked down the hallway just a little bit until they were stopped by none other than Amber Hoboken.

"Hey guys." She said with a smile on her face, making a note to especially look at Ian. "Randy, you better hurry up; I think there's a few people in the waiting room over there anxious to see you again!" She then led the group into a room where the men who were leaving the jail would go and meet up with their family or whoever was coming to pick them up or take them home. Ian had to smile at Randy's beaming face when he saw the woman sitting in one of the chairs in the room, and the two boys, one twelve and one nine that were sitting on either side of her.

"Daddy!" the two young boys screamed as they ran up to Randy and jumped into his arms. Randy smiled and spun his sons around.

"Bryan! James! I haven't seen you two for so long! Ya'll are gonna have to tell me everything you've been up to!" Randy said as he put the two boys down. He then looked over and his attention was brought to something else.

The woman who had been sitting in between the two boys began walking up to him. She had a small smile of her face, but Ian could tell that she was feeling ecstatic. Randy immediately ran over to her, and pulled the woman into a huge hug.

"Amanda..." He whispered, as he buried his face in her hair.

"Randy, you have no idea how happy I am right now." Amanda said back, almost starting to tear up as she returned the hug.

Randy gave her a quick kiss on the lips. "I missed you."

"I missed you too." Amanda said smiling, "You better not get into any more trouble. I don't think I can take another five years without you!"

Randy chuckled. "I don't think I could either, I promise that I will try my hardest to be better now."

"So, Randy." Kyle asked playfully "You're finally out of jail now, what are you gonna do next?" Ian, Amber, Eric and Evan all groaned. Kyle did this EVERY time one of the members of their group left, and it tended to get quite annoying.

"I'm going to Disneyland!" Randy said back smiling, causing his family and friends to laugh along, not really believing him.

"No, I'm serious." Randy said, looking at his family "That's what we're doing for the next five days, I got us four tickets to Disney, figured I might as well, get to know my boys better in a fun place!"

"Randy!" Amanda said excitedly as she gave him a hug, Bryan and James began screaming and jumping up and down. They both grabbed their dad's hand and began pulling him towards the door.

"Let's GO dad!" Bryan said excitedly "C'mon!"

"Yeah!" James replied "We gotta get there before the lines get long!"

It was in this fashion that Randy left the jail for good, heading off with his family for a fun filled day at Disneyland, leaving his friends behind laughing at the antics of his two sons.

Once the laughter had died down, Ian sighed. His closest friend was now gone. He walked up to Amber, who was smiling and talking to Eric about his therapy treatments he was going through. She gently dismissed Eric and turned her attention to Ian when he came over.

"You're gonna miss him, aren't you." She said quietly, gesturing towards the door that Randy had left through a few minutes before.

"Yeah, I will." Ian said, thinking about how different it was going to be without hearing all that snoring every night. He had begun to get used to it.

"It's okay, I'll miss him too. I'm certainly going to miss all the stories that he would tell me whenever we had meetings." Amber said smiling "It's funny, you hear this same story from the same person so many times, and you get sick of it, but once that person leaves, and you know you won't see them again, the only thing you feel like doing… Is hearing that same story just one more time."

"You're going soft on me, aren't you?" Ian asked her slyly. Amber had softened up just a little bit around Ian ever since the two of them started dating, she never let anyone but Ian see this new softer side of her, but it was there. She was still the same Amber though.

"I am not!" Amber said laughing as she gave Ian a playful swat on the arm. "You should head off." she said smiling at him. "I have to get back to work. I'll see you around ok?"

"Ok." Ian said smiling back at her, then exited the waiting room.

Ian took a deep breath, that had been hard, saying goodbye to one of his good friends but, now came yet another hard part of the day. He still had to meet his new roommate, the guy that was going to replace Randy. Ian took a deep breath walked straight back to his cell, where his new roommate was going to be waiting for him, since he had been brought over earlier that morning. Ian opened the door to his cell and walked in and was taken a bit aback at the man that was currently sitting on the top bunk. He was an older man, at least in his eighties, and Ian wasn't sure just yet if he was friendly or not.

The older man looked at him with a disgruntled look on his face, he did not seem to appreciate that he had to share this room with Ian. In fact, this man had already spread many of his items over onto Ian's bed, and desk.

"Hey." The man said, while flipping through the rule manual, obviously not really paying attention to the text that was on the pages. It seemed that this man did not have a real care for following the rules of this place at all.

"You must be the new guy." Ian said as he picked up his new roomate's suitcase and put it back down on the floor.

"Hey!" the old man said, "what'd you do that for!"

"Umm, it was kinda on my bed, I'm gonna need that space tonight…. Y'know, for sleeping?" Ian told him trying to be as a matter of fact as possible. The older man simply climbed down from the top bunk, and picked his suitcase back up and put it back on Ian's bed.

"It'll be gone by then." He stated "you really need to respect your elders boy! The name's Thomas. And you are..."

"Ian, Ian Hawke." Ian replied worriedly, it didn't seem like he was going to get along with this new roommate very well. He was starting to wish that this was not his real new roommate, perhaps Amber could give him advice next time he met with her.

"Nice to meet ya Ian, glad to see that I'm not gonna be in this room alone, I used to live alone before I came here, it's not fun living a lonely life, it's probably going to end up being the end of me." Thomas said, emptying out the remaining items in the suitcase on Ian's bed and then stuffing it under the bed.

"Uh, thanks for that advice, I'll be sure to keep that in mind." Ian said cautiously. He sat down on the chair that came with his desk. He had recently gotten a new laptop by acquiring a bunch of coins for good behavior. He opened up his laptop and began working on one of his more recent reviews; he was surprisingly good at this business which greatly pleased him. He had not been so sure about it when Amber had gotten him the job but, now that he had been working at it for a while, he really enjoyed it. It definitely suited him more than being an agent had. "So, how'd you get into this jail?"

Thomas gave him a weird look. He crossed his arms and shrugged.

"Can't really tell ya much. But let's just say that I was at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and did the wrong thing." He said, then pulled out a book from under the covers and began to read it.

Not knowing what had caused his roommate to be in this jail made Ian a bit uncomfortable. But he just nodded.

"Oh, okay." He said, turning his attention to the review he had to write. He already knew that he was going to be writing reviews for his job once he got out of this jail, and already he was getting a lot of money back from what he had lost thanks to DJBEATS. While he probably would never be as rich as he had been before, he would probably get pretty close, which pleased Ian to no end.

Ian sighed, he could already tell that he would not enjoy Thomas' company as much as he had enjoyed Randy's. The only thing that kept Ian going now in this jail were the few friends in his group that were still there, Amber, and the fact that he only had one year left before he would be let out again.