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Consequences PT 2
Grace didn't sleep during the night, she couldn't. All she did was reflect on her past decisions. Of all her friends, she was the one who people referred to as the bad egg. Parents in their neighborhood were always making her out as a bad example to their children and anytime she and her friends got in trouble for anything, it was a result of her actions and behavior. But she was okay with it then. She would tell herself it was everyone else's fault. It was everyone else's fault that her parents died. She came to realize that night that she acted as a bad child so people would notice her so that people would give her attention so that she wouldn't feel alone. But she never felt more alone than she felt that night.
Morning soon came and Grace started dozing off. With each nod came a silent whisper that jolted her back up.
Murderer!
It wasn't enough to stop her from snoozing until the noisy sound of Patricia's baton clanging against her cell finally ended her slum
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