"I'm going to jail."
"No you're not."
"Oh, yeah, I'm going to jail," Alyssa Wingate muttered as she readjusted her crooked name tag again. "I guess I can always plead temporary insanity. Yeah, that's it. I'm sure the courts will be lenient with me. After all, this is my first real offense, if you don't count that bat incident a few years back."
"Shh…"
"I've always played by the rules, never broken any laws… well, except for that mattress tag thing, but that wasn't my fault. I was only trying to see the price. And besides, I bought it anyway, even though I didn't really want a fourteen hundred dollar king size mattress. Oh, who am I kidding? I'm getting tossed out of here and then I'm going to jail."
"Shh… You're not going to jail," Nina Hall whispered, as she stood beside Alyssa.
"Yep, I'm going to jail," Alyssa repeated with certainty as she glanced around, ready to be handcuffed and taken away.
"Would you please stop saying that? Th ...
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