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Prison Life
In the morning, during the inspection, the guards found my cellmate lying on the floor. I was taken to a detention cell since I couldn’t answer what had happened to my cellmate. Also, I was awaited by my gang to account for what I did. Something I wasn’t going to do.
As I was in that small cell for 8hours, they gave me all the time to think about everything. When I came out of the cell, I had made up my mind. That gang won`t beat me for protecting myself, I rather have no gang if that`s the case.
I went straight to my cell to rest on my bed, a few minutes later, the Black Jesus came in.
“Mastermind, how are you?”
“Exhausted, and yourself?”
“Worried about you.” He asked, “What happened last night?”
“That son of a bitch tried to rape me!” I sighed, “Was I wrong to fight back? Was I expected to sleep with another man to be part of this group? You didn’t tell me that. And if that`s how it works here, I`d rather not belong to a gang.”
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