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CHAPTER 1 (JOANNE'S POV)

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Laying on the cold dirty floor breathing heavily
My body ache from all the beating and cold from the ground...

'They must all believe they've won. What a shallow mindset, using me as an example to other Inmates' I laugh hilariously before grunting in pain...

'Ignorant fools. They've only made me stronger and more determined.

This is just the beginning...

'They just made my job easier.'

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A FEW WEEKS AGO

If anyone would tell me that I'll end up in hell, I probably would have cursed that person...

There should be a law against imprisoning someone like me...

I had no idea who I was, what I was doing before I was condemned to hell, if my parent were still alive, if I had any siblings...

What were my favorite colors were..?

What meal do I love to eat...

If I was a vegetarian or not...

If I was married or had a boyfriend...

If I was a lover girl or I've always been mischievous...

Do I own a car or have I rented an apartment...

What's my occupation?..

Most importantly what crime did I commit..??

All those questions have no sweetness...
My memory is blank...

I have no answer only those who brought me here know that...

How did I even get convicted, .? Who testify against me?.?

Was I found guilty or I was truly framed...

Could I be innocent of the charges laid against me..??

Those questions keep making me restless and heartbroken...
I sit straight as I stare outside my cell...
I wish for a life outside this hell...
I wish to live too...
Life here isn't the regular prison...
Its name depicts its identity...

We have the worse kind of criminals here...
A lady from cell 15 kidnapped her husband's mistress, butcher her, and took the corpse to her husband...
She watched as he mourned his pregnant mistress, how she cut open the mistress's stomach...
Then she set him ablaze...

Before arresting herself...
That's how crazy she is...
Some said she was a butcher before the whole incident...

Hearsay also has it that there's an inmate, who broke into the president's residence and assassinated the president's guards but failed to kill the president, so she tried to take her own life by drinking poison which she failed because she's right here amongst us...
No one knows her identity...

Everyone here has committed some sort of murder or arson...
Most of us here, we're trailed for first-degree murder...

Some were thugs for a politician but dumped her when their service was not needed...

There's also a rumor of an inmate who tried to kill millions of people with an automatic bomb...

"Are you okay..?" Astra asked me...
"Yeah!!! I'm still alive, I wasn't murdered in my sleep..." I replied her
"You're safe here..." she assures me but I know better than anyone that's a lie...
A big fat lie...
"Nowhere is safe for us...." I paused...
"Only death can give us comfort and safety..." I summed up
"I'm gonna be a hopeful girl... I hope you'll try to be optimistic and not be swayed by your mentality."
Astra said wearing her pant...