Jonny stopped and thought about what he had just heard. He didn’t know what to think of it, is it good, Jonny had always wondered what they were talking about, or is it bad. Jonny sat down and started plugging away at breakfast.
There was one thought going through Jonny’s head all day “what are they going to tell me.”
Days felt so much longer in jail. They seemed to drag on and on. Each passing minute felt like an hour. Most of the time Jonny just sat there reading his latest book from the book cart, they had very few books. Jonny had read all books in the cart but one. It was titled “Surviving in the wilderness.”
Jonny closed the last flap of the book just as the lights went out signaling bed time. He started to crawl in to be but George was sitting at the end of the bed blocking him from lying down. George leaned in right next to Jonny’s ear. Jonny could feel George’s warm breath in his ear. It took a while before George spoke. George seemed nervous, Jonny couldn’t figure why. Finally George spoke “Were breaking out, are you in.”
Jonny new well the consequences of breaking out. There were explained to him by the warden his very first day in jail. Jonny could almost remember it word for word. “When we catch you, you are punished, then you are put in solitary confinement and no one will ever see you again.”
Jonny leaned back and whispered “I’m in.”