I just keep moving forward

Chapter 11: Locked Up

As the footsteps come to a stop, I see a figure outside my cell

Dylan, slightly curly, dirty blonde hair that rests in a fringe coming just above his eyes, with the back and side coming just below his ears

He has dark eyes, dark brown, possibly black eyes and they have a youthful roundness to them

His skin has a pinkish tone to it and he looks to be pretty slender

He smiles and I see that he has perfectly straight teeth except the front two, they have a gap between them. You could probably slot a pound coin between the gap

As I get up to go and greet him, I realise that he's a few inches taller than me, maybe 2 or 3 and his limbs are extremely long for someone of his size

A gust of wind could blow this kid over

I walk up to him and offer my hand, he grabs it and we exchange a firm but friendly handshake

Dylan: "You must be Eren, I'm Dylan nice to meet you. The guard must've opened this door using the security system" (his voice doesn't break or crack but I can tell that it could. I assume he's a couple of years older than me as his voice sounds like it's already changing)

Eren: "Hi, yeah I'm Eren. How long you been here for?"

Dylan: "Oh, I got here about 3 months ago. I know your new, Officer Drakeford told me so. What you in for?"

Eren: "Assault, battery and weapon usage, what about you?"

Dylan: "Well, I sorta was running a drug circle in my school. Mainly weed and cocaine but I got busted so I was given 6 months here and my house got raided, they didn't find anything though"

Eren: "Jesus. So we'll probably be leaving around the same time then?"

Dylan: "Well, I got my sentence reduced by a month for good behaviour so probably not, no"

Eren: "Oh that's cool, still a month"

Dylan: "Yeah it's gonna be cool, so tell me about yourself" (there was a mix of curiosity and excitement in his voice)

I hated this question because I never have anything interesting to say

Hi my names Eren and I'm 11, that's about it

Eren: "What do you want to know?"

Dylan: "Well tell me the story of your charges"

I told him the story and he gasped and ooo'd in all the right places. This is the first time I've relived what happened and I realised how truly dramatic and gruesome it was

Dylan: "Damn, you're a badass. How tall did you say he was?"

Eren: "Well I'm guessing 5'5 but I'm not sure because there's that much of a height difference"

Dylan: "Well I'm 5'1 so he's much bigger than me. How old is he?"

Eren: "We're both 11"

Dylan: "That's a crazy fight for two 11 year olds to have"

Eren: "Yeah I know, I'm 12 in March though"

Dylan: "Oh same, what date?"

Eren: "30th"

Dylan: "I'm the 2nd"

Eren: "Oh cool, what year?"

Dylan: "97'"

Eren: "Oh so you're only a year older than me"

Dylan: "Yeah, they usually keep a minimum of two years in age gap between people who share a cell"