Free The Three Sisters by Bryan Taylor Page A

the church, making sure each step she took was dignified and befitting the behavior of a Christian. Mrs. Worthington had come to practice the organ for the Wednesday night prayer meeting, but when she got closer to the church, she heard sounds emanating from the organ Regina was playing with that were quite different from the organ Mrs. Worthington had come to play. Hearing this, Mrs. Worthington stopped, turned around, said a quick prayer, and walked straight back to her car, doing her best to ignore the salacious sounds filling the church.
    After receiving Mrs. Worthington’s phone call, Sheriff Kazan and his two deputies coordinated their activities so they would converge on the Second First Baptist Church’s parking lot simultaneously. Minutes after Tony had left the church to get some food, the entire Lewisville Sheriff’s Department arrived. They took out their guns and slowly approached God’s house. They went inside. Upon reaching the children’s Sunday School room, the sheriff was more shocked at what he saw than the six at what they were doing, for there the sheriff discovered Regina in flagrante delicto with his fornix fornicating son atop her. Coito was making obscene drawings on the chalkboard while Theodora and the sheriff’s other son were discussing things his mother had never told him.
    The three sisters were immediately taken into custody. Arrested, fingerprinted, and booked for trespassing, the terrific trinity were deposited in the city jail next to the cell with Jeremy who was serving his third day in jail for a DUI. The sheriff’s two sons and their friend, being members of the Second First Baptist Church of Lewisville, were not guilty of trespassing, were charged with no crimes, and were set free. After all, it had taken the sheriff’s two sons over a year after graduating from high school to find a job, and the sheriff wanted to make sure they didn’t lose their one opportunity to earn a minimum wage.
    Normally, sexual escapades such as this would not have provoked such a strong reaction, but Sheriff Kazan had made big plans for his prisoners. There was an election coming up in July, and the sheriff needed favorable headlines in the local newspaper, now published three times a week, to ensure his re-election. The sheriff had hoped that by obtaining the conviction of the three for their sexual excesses, he would get the voters so entranced by the scurrilous stories told during the trial, that the townspeople would forget Sheriff Kazan’s public record and vote for him again. The only problem with this plan was how to convict the three without involving his two children and turning these events into a political debacle. Fearing that his plan might backfire, the sheriff had begun to seriously consider letting the three go free, and started praying that some other fortuitous crime might occur to keep him from having to run for office on his record alone.
    Sheriff Kazan never had to decide whether to release the three sisters since they made the decision for him. Around three-fifteen on the afternoon of the three’s escape, Sheriff Kazan received a call from Bill Oakes at one of the town’s two 7 -Elevens. A band of gypsies had driven up to the store and had tried to rob it, but when the gypsies had left the store, the hearse had disappeared. In the meantime, Bill Oakes, excited by the chance of finally getting to use one of the firearms he kept at the store, had removed a shotgun from the back and ran outside where he trained the gun on the confused gypsies hoping one of them might try to run away. After Sheriff Kazan and one of his deputies arrived, all six gypsies, including a ten-year-old boy and a twelve-year-old-girl, were arrested and put in the two squad cars which had come to take the accused into custody. With the gypsies arrested, Sheriff Kazan knew he could use the failed robbers for publicity and release the three sisters to protect his two sons.
    Twenty minutes after the three