[vinnies pov]
the guard is hitting my cell again, early in the morning, waking me up.
i should just be used to it by now, but i'm still tired. i remember it's kyras birthday.
i stand up and walk out my cell, the guard puts handcuffs on me and walks me to the visiting area. i hope this is my last time having to do this.
the guard takes my handcuffs off and i go sit down in front of brady, i pick up the phone, "here" he slides over the chocolate donuts i asked for.
"thank you" i reply, "well goodbye vinnie, maybe i'll see you in the future a couple of years or so" brady says. "goodbye brady" i get up and walk to the guard.
"what is that?" he looks at me in suspicious. "they're just chocolate donuts, they're not a weapon" i roll my eyes.
he nods and puts the handcuffs back onto me. he walks me back to my cell. i get in there and wait for him to leave like usual. once he does i run over to the hole to see kyra.
she's still asleep, i'm gonna let her sleep since it's her birthday and not wake her.
i lay down, looking up at the ceiling. i play with my chain, thinking of my dad, and how my grandma passed. i hate how i'm hiding my emotions and not letting them out, but it's hard to let them out when i'm on my pill.
i would tell kyra, but i can't ruin her day today. my mind is wandering too much. i roll my eyes and groan at how annoying thinking can be. i try to forget about it.
i look over and see kyra stretching slowly waking up, "happy birthday" i tell her as she opens her eyes.
she smiles and looks at me rubbing her eyes. i can't help but smile at how beautiful she is. "thank you vinnie" she laughs. "how does 19 feel so far" i ask knowing what she'll probabaly say. "feels normal" she smiles.
i love her smile.
"well i have a gift for you, but you cant have it until after dinner" i decide to tell her. "so your gonna make me wait all day" she whines. "yes pretty lady" i smile. she rolls her eyes playfully.
"come on just tell me" she begs, "i cant it's a surprise" i tease. "come on,please" she begs once more, "i cant ruin the surprise" i say laughing.
i see a prison guard walk by knowing he's about to open her up her cell for breakfast. "come on" he says. "i'll talk to you later" she whispers before getting up and walking away.
i roll my eyes, i wish we weren't in prison, so i can talk to her all day.
[kyras pov]
i wonder what vinnie got me, or how he even got it. it's sweet how he even tried to get me something, i smile cheekily at the thought.
"HEYYYY" elizabeth shouts jumping, and wrapping her arms around me. "happy birthday" she screams.
she making a scene, but it's still sweet. "thank you" i yell, hugging her back.
"no hugging" the prison guard shouts. i roll my eyes and him and she does the same, "please he can't stop us" she laughs.
we get in line and wait for food. "maybe the food will be better today because it's your birthday" she assumes, "i don't think anyone else cares about my birthday being today, so i doubt it" i laugh.
we get up to the front of the line and get our food, "yea i was wrong the food still looks disgusting how it is everyday" she makes a disgusted face at her food, as i do the same. "you will still eat it though" i comment, "shutup i don't want to die of starvation" she says.
"yea me neither i guess i'll eat it" we go sit down at a table, i take a bite of the food.
"this still is very disgusting" i gag, "yea" she replies still eating it.
"so your 19 now how does it feel?" she asks, i remember vinnie asking a similar question earlier, "it feels the same, just changing the number i guess" i answer her. "that's how i felt about my birthday every year after the age 15" she laughs.
"i wish i could've gotten you something still, i feel bad you have to spend it in this shitty prison" she tells me, "it's fine really, even if i wasn't in here i wouldn't get a gift either way" i try not to make her feel bad about it.
"time to go" an officer shouts at all of us to leave. "ugh why is it only like 30 minutes, i hate going back to that cell, at least you have that guy to talk to" she states. "yea it does get a little boring sometimes for me as well" i reassure her.
i walk over to the guard, he puts hand cuffs on me and walk me back to my cell, like every fucking day. i groan walking back into my cell. the days keep repeating and repeating its so fucking hard to stay sane.
i hear vinnie leave to breakfast.
i go sit on the edge of my bed and wait for vinnie to come back. i think this is probably the worst birthday i've ever had. all my other birthdays were pretty bad, but this one feels worse for some reason, probably cause it feels like the some repetitive day for the past two months.
thirteen year old me would have never imagine my nineteen year old self spending my birthday in a prison cell.
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i finally hear the prison guard open up vinnies cell. i go to the hole excited.
"okay finally breakfast is over and i can talk to you" i exclaim. "yess finally, so how was breakfast?" vinnie asks, he's probably waiting for day i say the food is good.
"disgusting why do they even call it breakfast, that was not oatmeal is all i know" he laughs at what i said.
"i'm being serious i was hoping for at least something normal" he laughs again. i make a pouty face.
"what it's adorable seeing you complain" i feel my cheeks get hot, of course i blush at that.
i look away trying not to show. "i know your blushing that's why i said it" i look back at him.
he smiles really big, at seeing my face. i smile back knowing i just blushed even more.
"soo what did you give me for my birthday?" changing the subject cause i'm a little embarrassed.
maybe i sorta like him? elizabeth said let my feelings go, and like him if i want to, maybe i should start taking her advice. i then start thinking of all the bad things that could happen, and now my feelings disappear for him once more.
"uhmm well it's a surprise and it's for later, but i can tell you your gonna love what it is" i smile at his response.
"how did you get it?" i hope i didn't sound rude asking that. it's not really any of my business but i would like to know.
"well um i actually had a visitor and i asked them to bring me it for today and they brought it this morning" he explains to me. "wait you got a visitor" i ignore the whole part about how he asked him or her but he got a visitor im happy for him.
"yea i did it was unexpected, actually i didn't want to see this person they just brought me some news" news? maybe i shouldn't ask him what it was about.
"oh" i want to ask but if it's not good news i don't want to remind him of it.
"i'll tell you what it was about tomorrow or some other day, don't want to fill your day with all my problems" i nod and say nothing else.
