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She gestured
to Chelsa.
    Chelsa swung herself through the gap and
offered Kristi a hand up. Using Chelsa’s hand as a grip, Kristi
landed much less gracefully inside.
    “ That wasn’t too hard,”
Chelsa said. “Now we need to find cell three.”
    Kristi looked around the corridor they were
in. It was lined with cells, all of them empty. The door closest to
them had the number “ten” engraved on it. There were five cells
total in this hall.
    “ Cell number three is in a
different hall. Are there any alarms or cameras we have to watch
out for?”
    “ I don’t see any cameras,
wires, lasers or heat sensors either, but you can never be too
careful,” said Chelsa.
    They entered the main hall and turned right.
All the overhead lights were off, which made keeping a sense of
direction difficult.
    “ It’s this hall,” Kristi
said, spotting the plaque that read: cells
one through five .
    She took lead and turned
the corner, almost running into a guard. If she had taken one more
step, she would’ve walked straight into him. Luckily, the guard was
dozing in his chair, so he didn’t notice the close encounter. A
large, empty bottle of booze was loosely held in his right
hand. Thank you, maker of that bottle of
alcohol, for putting the guard to sleep, Kristi thought. She supposed that even with the advancements
made in science, science could only do so much. While Perfects were
genetically perfect, they still succumbed to certain
pleasures.
    Chelsa feigned wiping sweat off her brow.
Then she moved forward to lead the way, not trusting Kristi not to
lead them into any other guards.
    They skirted a wide turn and moved on past a
couple more cells until they reached a door with the number three.
Kristi took a peek inside through the tiny glass window on the
metal door.
    “ He’s there,” she
whispered to Chelsa. “And asleep.”
    Chelsa came over and examined the lock.
“Quietly wake Jaiden up so once I have this lock figured out, we
can leave as quickly as possible.”
    Kristi gently tapped on the window. Jaiden
bolted upright, blinking in confusion. Then he saw her and furrowed
his eyebrows as he processed why she was in the jailhouse at 2:17
in the morning. As soon as he came to the conclusion Kristi was
trying to break him out of here, his expression turned
murderous.
    He came up to the window
and mouthed, “What in the world do you
think you are doing?”
    That wasn’t quite the reaction she was
hoping to get.
    Click! The door swung open when Chelsa broke the lock. She hastily
stashed away her lock pick into her boots, taking care to move out
of the way when the steel door swung open.
    Jaiden stepped into the corridor. “Kristi,
what are you doing here? You’re going to be in so much trouble if
you’re discovered. Do you know what you just did?”
    “ Run now, talk later,”
Chelsa cut in.
    Jaiden turned on his heels and looked at
Chelsa. “Who are you?”
    “ Chelsa, Kristi’s friend.
And like I said, we can talk more once we’re out of
here.”
    CLANG!
    “ What the heck?” yelled a
man’s voice.
    They jolted in surprise.
    The guard was talking to himself now, loud
enough for everyone to hear. “Must’ve dropped my bottle. Scared the
crap out of me. Ugh, I knew I shouldn’t have accepted the dare to
finish the beer.”
    They waited for the guard
to fall back asleep, but that didn’t happen. After a few minutes,
Kristi gave Chelsa a look: “Now,
what?”
    She mouthed back, “We wait.”
    A few more minutes passed and the guard
stood up from his folding chair. He let out a belch and flipped on
his flashlight. The artificial light penetrated the darkness and
the guard ambled away to the general direction of the bathroom.
    All sighed in relief before dashing down the
hallway. The window was still open at the end of the hall. Chelsa
gestured for Kristi to climb out first, reminding her to stick
close to the walls. Jaiden came out next and plastered himself
against the wall beside Kristi. Finally,