Leo Blue POV
I always feel like a sip of sweet champagne can take you places, whether it be to happiness, to a land of hallucinations, to a world of misery, or just simple drunkness, but being sober felt like there was this emptiness, like a black hole was inside of me, eating me alive.
All I did was grow my hair extremely long, and read books untill I was allowed to go socialize with the other men.
There was this big boss who was the ruler of all of us, or so he believes. I couldn't figure out why us prisoners needed to act like he was above us. As far as I can see, there was no reason to. My boring prison room has a door that I can easily slide open, so I went to the prison soup kitchen because I'm freaking hungry.
So this is where I run into this freaking boss man. He was aimlessly pacing the floor, I swear. He has his hands on his hips while he was singing. Singing to himself! "Just feed it! Feed it! Feed it! Feed it! Noah wanted me to feed it!" He sang.
I went to the refrigerator, and I bet he's gonna try to stop me.
And he does.
"What- hey! Leo Blue! Why aren't you in your cell!?" He screeches.
"It's boring!" I tell him honestly.
"How is it-"
"Oh, don't act so blind! You always make me sit around and do nothing!" I explain, "I should be allowed to go in the library more! I should be allowed to go outside, and feel the nature!"
"You can't do that-"
"Ohhhhhh yeah? Why should I listen to you?"
"Because Leo, I'm legally in charge of all of you. You think I like seeing sh*tty adult men walk around prison at the same time? No!"
"Screw you, I'm eating f*cking soup because I'm so f*cking hungry, you mean b*tch." I tell him as I open the refrigerator.
"Alright, just don't make a mess." He sighs.
"Ohhhhh trust me! I am sober as f*ck. I could walk in a straight line and everything!"
"Why are you swearing so much?"
"I'm not too sure." I say as I take these old fish fries out of the refrigerator because that was how hungry I was. I took the whole milk container because I think I deserve it. I head into the prison cell in a straight line.
I crawled onto the stiff bed and open up the freaking novel that I'm reading.
I slipped into the intense story for a good minute, untill I hear this strange purring. I put the book down and think to myself, My imagination is too vivid now, isn't it?
But how is that so? I'm sober!
Sober enough to be hearing meow from the corner behind the bookshelf.
I quickly look behind my door just to make sure I wasn't being watched. There wasn't a person in sight. This was good, this was fantastic! My younger innocent self busted through my vains as I took the book shelf and pushed it to the side.
There seemed to be this hole in the wall. A complete circular hole. It was also filled some of the way with water. There was a scrawny, gray female Abyssinian. She was crying for help. I scoop her out of the hole into my cell, only to notice that also in the hole was a whole six pack of baby kittens. They must be drowning!
I crawled through the dirty water and scoop each individual cat right back to their Mother. I wrapped the cats in my blanket and pour the dry fish into a bowl, and the milk in another bowl. I knew that I would have to use those bowls at some point, right?
I gently stroke each cat and tell them, "You cats were so hungry weren't you? Well, good thing I have ears and I heard you." I sang them A Dream Is A Wish from Cinderella to sooth their agonizing pain of near death horror.
I then run to the kitchen to get more milk and drop them off for the hungry cats before I go off to socialize with more people.
"So, who's running on the tredmil today?" I ask one of the guys as I head to the wellness center.
"Oh, just Maverick." He tells me while simply eating a sandwich against the wall.
So I open the wooden door into the wellness center and say loudly, "Oh, if it isn't just Maverick. The coolest cat in the whole prison!"
Maverick turns around grumpily, "You're not allowed to be in the wellness center at 10:00."
"Why not?"
"The rules, Leo! Those are the rules! It's freaking June, and you still can't figure out the rules! We have a prison boss who tells us when we're allowed to leave our cells..... but whatever.... I'll hide you if he comes around here."
"Oh thanks Maverick! You are so sweet!"
Maverick gives me a sharp glare and says, "Don't call me that! Now, you see, I'm pissed because I'm not allowed to hang out in the library for very long. Some people are privileged, and I'm not!"
"Why do you care? If everyone was privileged, the privileged people wouldn't feel special. "
"It depends on how good you are, I guess. It makes me so freaking jealous!" He complains loudly with his arms up in frustration.
"Wow. You remind me of a book I read when I was in Eighth grade." I tell him, "It's about Jews, and opposition to racial and religious bigotry." I explain, just realizing how clear my memory is when I'm sober.
"What are you talking about?" He says with a squint.
"It's a true story!" I tell him, "Do you ever read books? It's by one of my favorite authors. A guy called Dr Suess. Ever heard of him?"
"Maybe?"
"So these Sneetches on beaches, right, they get envious of these other sneetches who have stars on their bellies. One day this guy tells them to go through the machine that gives them a star belly. It's all about how it doesn't matter what you look like. So don't give your money to people, they take advantage of you-"
"Leo, didn't you take advantage of your cult members when they payed you to get drugged, or whatever you were doing?" He suddenly asks sharply.
"Um... I'll get back to you on that." I quipped, only to hear the door fly open.
"LEO BLUE!"
Oh, sh*t. It's the prison boss man who hates me. How does he know I'm here?
"Hi." I tell him cheerfully.
"Leo, I want to you explain to me why the hell there's a whole bunch of cats eating in your cell?!" He says with his left arm gesturing towards where my cells is, I guess. He was absolutely incensed.
For a quick second, I fell into this silent panic. I didn't think he'd find out that I saved a few cats. At first, I expected not a person to look inside my cell when I wasn't even there.
"They were dying!" I eventually tell him, "They were trapped and couldn't get out, but who freaking cares? It was my food anyway!'
"But that cost money!"
"Yeah, yeah, whatever! You don't have to be a b*tch about it! I like saving animals sometimes!"
"And you like animals more than other humans? What are you, a child?"
"No," I look down at the cats and back at him, "I think I'm just a pathetic princess from an old Disney movie."
He just stalks away afterwards, but I didn't exactly care too much.
A cat may be at risk for being trapped in the hole with water, but a human wouldn't. A human would be just okay, infact, with the size of that hole, I should be able to get through it and outside.
Maybe I could escape, and get my son, and kill him as he deserves.
Maybe.....
Just maybe.
Author's note: And THAT is how Leo Blue escapes prison in California. I legitimately have no clue how he did it in Utah to be honest. Anyway, stay tuned!
