Alexa and Alexis: New age Hansel and Gretel

My rewrite of Hansel and Gretel

Twin 17 year olds named Alexa and Alexis living in the Petworth neighborhood in DC are the children of a elementary school teacher name Mrs. Carmen Abrams and the stepchildren of Dr. Jason E. Elms, who since he met the children has held a strong dislike for them. He told Carmen that he felt they were too smart for their own age and they often got away with too much. He told Carmen that he felt they should be sent away to a military boot camp in VA for the summer. Carmen didn’t like the idea and every time the idea was put on the table she would refuse. But one day Carmen went to work like any other day at 7:00 am but by 8:15 she had been called into the Principals office and given a pink slip. She had been fired after 20 years of working at the school. She knew that there were teachers being fired because the budget was just not able to pay them anymore, but she thought because of her high accolades from the parents and students she was secure with her job and for 4 years she had been but today she was fired. She went home and after 3 months of being asked to send Alexa and Alexis to boot camp by Jason. By the time May got there, she finally was at a wits end and thus coaxed into sending her daughters to boot camp. However, what Jason didn’t know was that Alexis had heard the whole plan when she was walking pass the study from the kitchen back to the stairs to her room. She ran to tell Alexa and they devised a plan of their own, they would put together all the money they had saved and use it to get back home. They researched the boot camp and found that the parents didn’t have to check them in they just had to drop them off. And when the day came they got out the car with their back packs and suitcases and waited for their parents to leave as soon as the parents left they trekked through the nearby woods and found the road that lead to the crystal city train station. It took them 5 hours of walking to get there but they made it. They caught the train back to Petworth station and knowing that Jason would take their mother out in celebration of getting rid of them they would have time to set up a trap. They knew Jason had 2 secrets and they knew that his secret would cause their mother to get all his money and him to be sent to jail. He had signed a marital contract stating that if he cheated all his saved money would go to his wife. He had not only cheated by he had drove drunk and hit someone and killed them and the person turned out to be the Iowa senator who was on vacation with his family in DC undercover. When Jason and Carmen came back the police were waiting and they arrested Jason who was sent to trial and within a year Carmen had a new job and was rich and the girls were graduating high school and going off to Clark Atlanta University in Georgia with full scholarships for all four years and bank accounts that would set them straight during and after college thanks to Jason that is. He however would be in jail for 20 years to life.